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Senator Pete Ricketts and the Save ACT · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: And we're going to get right to it today because
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Speaker 1: I have a very special guest, a US Senator Pete
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Speaker 1: Ricketts is with us today. As you all know, Senator
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Speaker 1: Ricketts served as the governor of the Great State of Nebraska.
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Speaker 1: He was a fortieth governor from twenty fifteen to twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, and now he is serving us in the
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Speaker 1: US Senate. Senator Ricketts, welcome.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Mayor.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate the opportunity on Well, we have so much
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Speaker 3: that we want to talk to you about, and I
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Speaker 3: know your time is precious and limited, but I'm going
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Speaker 3: to start out with Iran because I know the President
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Speaker 3: is speaking tonight in prime time.
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Speaker 1: We're entering our second month of the conflict I will
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Speaker 1: call it in Iran, and I think I'm just going
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Speaker 1: to ask you to start out and tell us what
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Speaker 1: we need to know. I mean, why is the US
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Speaker 1: in this conflict with Iran? And you know, what are
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Speaker 1: our goals? And also when are we going to know
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Speaker 1: that magic question when we're done? And we really just
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Speaker 1: want to hear your take on all of it.
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Speaker 2: This Well, the President just posted on true Socials that
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Speaker 2: Iran has asked for a cease fire, And obviously there's
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Speaker 2: a lot that goes between the President making that announcement
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Speaker 2: and actually getting to the point where ships are going
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Speaker 2: through the Straits of Hormuz again, but let me start
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Speaker 2: with what the administration has said from the get go,
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Speaker 2: which is the goal of this operation is to degrade
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Speaker 2: Iran's missile capabilities. So one of the things that we
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Speaker 2: know is that they were producing a lot of missiles
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Speaker 2: very inexpensively, and at some point that was going to
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Speaker 2: overwhelm our ability and our allies abilities to defend against them.
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Speaker 2: And we also now know, after they've launched a missile
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Speaker 2: at Diego Garcia, that they've got intermediate range missiles that
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Speaker 2: can reach London in Paris, which means reaching the United
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Speaker 2: States would not be far behind, perhaps only months away.
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Speaker 2: And a country that chance dut to America and has
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Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon and a missile that can reach the
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Speaker 2: United States is very dangerous. It can never be allowed
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Speaker 2: to happen. We can never allow rod to have a
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Speaker 2: nuclear or bomb, and they've alrea admitted they've got enough
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Speaker 2: nuclear material for ten bombs. We can't let them produce one,
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Speaker 2: and we can't let them have a missile that could
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Speaker 2: reach the United States. So degrading those missile facilities, the
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Speaker 2: storage side, the production facilities are launchers is a big
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Speaker 2: part of this operation. Continuing to grade their nuclear facilities,
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Speaker 2: sinking their navy, destroying your air force. Really, that's what
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Speaker 2: this operation is about. And when the Administration field they've
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Speaker 2: done it to the point where we've checked iron at
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Speaker 2: least for this point in time, that's what I expect
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Speaker 2: they'll draw us to close. It really is about making
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Speaker 2: sure that Iran cannot do this. And again, if you're wondering,
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Speaker 2: well why now, and you go back to how much
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Speaker 2: they've been producing missiles and the fact that actually they
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Speaker 2: can get one to Europe, it really does present this
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Speaker 2: as an imminent threat because if they could reach the
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Speaker 2: United States. Remember, this is a theocracy, and there are
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Speaker 2: officials in Iran who believe that they can triger armourgain
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Speaker 2: and they go to heaven. So this is a this
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Speaker 2: is a problem for us that we're dealing with this
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Speaker 2: kind of regime and we cannot allow them to have
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Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon that could reach the United States.
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Speaker 1: Is there no longer a nuclear program in Iran as
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Speaker 1: far as we know then, I mean they were saying
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Speaker 1: ten over ten thousand targets have been decimated. Is that
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Speaker 1: program been eliminated as far as we know.
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Speaker 2: Well, we have destroyed their nuclear facilities and buried a
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Speaker 2: lot of what they've done. You know, what they had
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Speaker 2: on the ground has been buried by our bombs and
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Speaker 2: so forth. But what we have to do is continue
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Speaker 2: to make sure that they don't try to re resurrect that,
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Speaker 2: because that's exactly what they've been doing since we first
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Speaker 2: took the constructure nuclear facilities. They have been very stubborn
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Speaker 2: about going back and trying to do it. And really
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Speaker 2: we need to put this in perspective as well as
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Speaker 2: the fact that think they're putting all their resources into
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Speaker 2: things like a nuclear program in missiles and allowing their
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Speaker 2: people to suffer. Right what those protests that we saw previously,
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Speaker 2: where you know, Iran had killed thirty thousand, perhaps thirty
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Speaker 2: thousand their own people, were sparked by the fact that
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Speaker 2: they have forty percent inflation, they're running out of water
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Speaker 2: in place like tron where radio officials suggest that they
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Speaker 2: move the capitol. I mean, they are really forcing their
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Speaker 2: people to suffer by not investing in the things that
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Speaker 2: will create a quality of life with the Ranian people
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Speaker 2: and putting it into a missile program and a nuclear program.
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Speaker 2: And so that's what we have to continually do is
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Speaker 2: make sure they cannot get that done.
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Speaker 1: It's really known that they know they are not only
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Speaker 1: killing their own people, but they hate the United States
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Speaker 1: and they hate Israel, they hate the Jewish people. And
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Speaker 1: that's something that I think people got to understand when
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Speaker 1: they're questioning, why are we over there, what's the purpose
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Speaker 1: of this? I mean, with these no kings rallies that
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Speaker 1: we were hearing all over the United States this weekend,
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Speaker 1: it was just baffling to me why these people were saying,
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Speaker 1: we don't need to be over there. And Senator also
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Speaker 1: it became an issue also besides the nuclear power of
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Speaker 1: gasoline and oil. Correct, And that's what's going on on
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Speaker 1: with the straight of horror moves.
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Speaker 2: Well. One of the things that we have seen is
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Speaker 2: that Iran, when they are allowed to profit from their
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Speaker 2: oil money, they fund state terrorism. The largest state sponsor
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Speaker 2: of terrorism. They funded Almas, the Hoho Thies, Hesba Lap
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Speaker 2: and under President Trump's first term, he cut that money off.
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Speaker 2: In fact, he brought their foreign reserves down to under
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Speaker 2: fourteen billion dollars and sadly what both President Obama and
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Speaker 2: President Biden is I mean President Obamas shippedhim by one
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Speaker 2: point seven billion dollars in cash in palates, I mean
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Speaker 2: just like said him the cash, and then President Biden
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Speaker 2: released the sanctions and allowed billions of dollars to flow
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Speaker 2: to Iran. And both times what we saw when they
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Speaker 2: got the money, they just continue to fund the terrorism
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Speaker 2: and ramp that up. So to your point about hating Israel,
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Speaker 2: absolutely the target has been Israel, but we also know
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Speaker 2: that the Iranians and a lot of the improvised explosive
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Speaker 2: devices were targeted Americans. They've killed hundreds, if not thousands
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Speaker 2: of Americans specifically through what Iran has done to find
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Speaker 2: to attack Americans. So this is a regime that is very,
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Speaker 2: very dangerous, which is why we have to continually make
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Speaker 2: sure that they do not have the capability to harm us,
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Speaker 2: whether it's cutting off their oil supply, money, making sure
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Speaker 2: they don't have a nuclear program, making sure they don't
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Speaker 2: have missiles they can reach the United States. All those
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Speaker 2: are things that will make sure that we keep Americans safe.
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Speaker 1: And has there been a regime change in your opinion, it.
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Speaker 2: Is difficult to say at this point. Obviously, both the
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Speaker 2: United States and Israel have work to be able to
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Speaker 2: grade their capabilities, and a lot of their leaders have
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Speaker 2: been killed as part of the air campaign, but it's
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Speaker 2: not clear where they are. Obviously, if the President's tweaked
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Speaker 2: can be followed up on and Iran does ask for
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Speaker 2: a ceasefire and we can get a more modern regime there,
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Speaker 2: similar to what President Trump has done in Venezuela, you
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Speaker 2: know somebody that we can work with that would be
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Speaker 2: really really good news for not only the region but for.
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Speaker 1: Our country, and speak a little bit to the President
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Speaker 1: has expressed his frustration quite often about our allies, particularly France, Spain,
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Speaker 1: Italy not helping and not helping as far as opening
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Speaker 1: up the straight of Hormuos in the Persian Gulf too.
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Speaker 1: Can you speak a little bit about our allies and
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Speaker 1: them not joining the US like the President would like
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Speaker 1: them to, because obviously this is a big threat to
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Speaker 1: them too.
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Speaker 2: Well. One of the big things that we have that
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Speaker 2: our adversaries like China and Russia don't have his allies.
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Speaker 2: And it is puzzling that the European nations who get
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Speaker 2: a lot of their oil from the least, where as
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Speaker 2: we really don't. And now that Iran has demonstrated they've
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Speaker 2: got missiles can reach Paris in London, you would think
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Speaker 2: that they'd be more interested in getting involved. And we
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Speaker 2: have seen, for example, the UK doing a better job
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Speaker 2: of getting engaged in this. I would like to see
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Speaker 2: more participation. I would like to see countries like Spain
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Speaker 2: that have banned their to US reverse their policy. So
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Speaker 2: I do think there's more work we need to do
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Speaker 2: with our European allies to get them engaged, because I
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Speaker 2: do think they've got invested interest in making sure this
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Speaker 2: is a peaceful regional world.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you know I want to switch gears. Well
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Speaker 1: we got you just for a few seconds. Can you
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Speaker 1: speak a little bit on I just continue to question
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Speaker 1: why the Democrats do not want to pass the Save Act.
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Speaker 1: I mean the reports and the articles I have written.
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Speaker 1: At least seventy to eighty percent of Americans support this.
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Speaker 1: Why won't the Senate pass that bill to secure elections?
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Speaker 1: It's about voter ID and it just I think it
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Speaker 1: baffles everybody that I have talked to why this can't
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Speaker 1: be passed. Can we have your your thoughts on that too?
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Speaker 2: I believe the Senate Democrats are just so in control
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Speaker 2: by their far left wing base. To your point, this
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Speaker 2: is a majority issue on just about anybody you poll,
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Speaker 2: whether it's Republicans, Democrats, you know, pick your group of people. Look,
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Speaker 2: having voter ID is just common sense, right. We passed
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Speaker 2: it here Nebraska sixty five thirty five, but it was
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Speaker 2: on the ballot. And I don't know anybody who's arguing
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Speaker 2: that we should allow non citizens to vote in elections.
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Speaker 2: But sadly, we actually have communities in places like Maryland
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Speaker 2: and Vermont in California where they actually do allow non
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Speaker 2: citizens to vote in municipal elections, illegal in federal elections.
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Speaker 2: But that begs the question is, well, what are you
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Speaker 2: doing to stop those people you're allowing to vote that
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Speaker 2: are here illegally to vote in municipal elections to vote
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Speaker 2: in federal elections. It's yeah, so, and one of the
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Speaker 2: other things that you know, the Democrats have said they're
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Speaker 2: for voter ID, but when we've given the opportunity to
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Speaker 2: vote for it, they've voted against it. In fact, they say, well,
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Speaker 2: we don't mean voter ID like a picture, we mean
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Speaker 2: voter ID like an envelope. Like from your utility bill.
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Speaker 2: It's got your name on it, and of course everybody
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Speaker 2: knows you can't take a utility bill and get on
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Speaker 2: airplane and fly anywhere in this country. Well, it really
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Speaker 2: is disingenuous when the Democrats stated or four O voter ID,
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Speaker 2: because they're really not. And that's really what's driving this.
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Speaker 2: And to your point, you know, in the Senate, we
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Speaker 2: need sixty votes to pass just about everything, and that
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Speaker 2: means we need Democrat help to do it. And while
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Speaker 2: the Democrats have been saying they're for voter ID and
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Speaker 2: so forth, they have not been willing to vote for
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Speaker 2: any of the measures we put up to be able
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Speaker 2: to give them opportunity to show that real voter ID
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Speaker 2: to protect our election in Jegory is something that they're
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Speaker 2: willing to support.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. It's just a way for the state to keep
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Speaker 1: the voter rolls clean. People that have moved, people that
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Speaker 1: have died, people that are illegal. One last question, I
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Speaker 1: want to go back to Iran, and then I know
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Speaker 1: you're busy, I'll let you go. But do you think
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Speaker 1: that we will ever be able to achieve peace or
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Speaker 1: stability in the Middle East?
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Speaker 2: Well, if you look what President Trump is done with
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Speaker 2: the Abraham Accords, and especially I do think that this
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Speaker 2: conflict gives us a real opportunity because the Gulf States
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Speaker 2: have seen the real danger iron presents and it's going
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Speaker 2: to hopefully be up to the people of Iran to
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Speaker 2: overthrow this tyrannical regime that they have. But if we
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Speaker 2: can get that step done, or at least a more
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Speaker 2: moderate regime in Iran that is going to start looking
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Speaker 2: out for the good of its people rather than pursuing
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Speaker 2: these charitable policies of having a nuclear weapon in a
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Speaker 2: missile look at region the United States. I do believe
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Speaker 2: that we are a point where we can start bringing
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Speaker 2: together some of the Gulf nations with Israel like some
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Speaker 2: of them already have, and that we can really get
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Speaker 2: to a place where we can start focusing on the
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Speaker 2: prosperity the people in the region and not some of
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Speaker 2: the conflicts we've got in the past.
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Speaker 1: Senator, thanks so much for being with us today. How's
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Speaker 1: the campaign going good?
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Speaker 2: Yep. We're just continuing to work hard, get out across
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Speaker 2: the state, talk to folks about the things we're doing.
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Speaker 2: The Working Families tax cut is putting more money back
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Speaker 2: in people's pockets. We've secured the borders to keep our
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Speaker 2: streets safer. And of course we're working on defending our
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Speaker 2: country by investing in our military and deterring our adversaries
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Speaker 2: like China Russia strike. So we're going to keep our
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Speaker 2: country safe in our nationally as well well.
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Speaker 1: We certainly appreciate your service. I certainly appreciate your service
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Speaker 1: as governor and now as US Senator. Good luck. Thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for being on the show today. We
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Speaker 1: really appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: All right, Thanks Verry, you have a good one.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. So now we want to hear from you,
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Speaker 1: you know about what what Senator Ricketts has said. It's
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Speaker 1: your chance to speak up, sound off. Send your emails
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Speaker 1: to comment at kfab dot com, or you could call
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Speaker 1: us at four oh two five five, eight eleven ten.
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Speaker 1: Very good Gene, Good morning, Good morning, April Fool's Day,
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Speaker 1: April Fools Day. Okay, I have a joke for you.
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Speaker 1: I'm bad at jokes. Let's hear it. Not who's there? Noah?
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Speaker 4: Noah?
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Speaker 1: Who Noah? Any good April Fools jokes. That's pretty bad.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember a joke. I'm really bad. I have
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Speaker 1: one more. Okay, I have one more. If April showers
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Speaker 1: bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring June sun pilgrims?
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Speaker 1: Ha ha. We need that laugh thing that you could
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Speaker 1: put in here. Those are my jokes for today. I'm done.
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Speaker 1: I'm done with April fools now.
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Speaker 5: I know there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm bad at jokes, and I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: bring up why why you know if six is afraid
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Speaker 1: of seven wise whatever that joke is. My grandson tells
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Speaker 1: me that joke all the time. Seven eight nine. I
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Speaker 1: know that's it. But thank you all for being with
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Speaker 1: us today. And I really want to thank Senator Ricketts too, because, boy,
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Speaker 1: I tell you, I watch the news every day. I
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Speaker 1: read the Wall Street Journal every single day to try
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Speaker 1: to keep up with what is going on in the
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Speaker 1: world and what is going on in DC. And DC
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Speaker 1: can be crazy town, and it is today. I mean
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Speaker 1: that the President is at the at the at the
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Speaker 1: he's hearing right now in the in the Supreme Court,
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Speaker 1: and there is a huge he's at the hearing in
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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court and they're hearing a citizenship case and
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Speaker 1: Trump is in attendance, and there are protesters outside the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court building, like crazy protesting no kings and everything else. So,
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Speaker 1: like I said, it can be really crazy town down there.
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Speaker 1: But it's very interesting to me to hear are different
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Speaker 1: elected officials and in their support of what is going on,
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Speaker 1: because their knowledge is so broad about what is going on,
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Speaker 1: especially in the Middle East, and we're there to try
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Speaker 1: to protect us. I mean, the threat of Iran having
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Speaker 1: nuclear weapons and nuclear powers that can get to the
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Speaker 1: United States is all the reason in the entire world
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Speaker 1: for us to be in this conflict that we are
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Speaker 1: in now. And I do call it a conflict, not
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Speaker 1: a war because Congress declares a war. That's where we're
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Speaker 1: at right now.
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Speaker 6: I have Pete on the phone line, and like miss
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Speaker 6: Jane said earlier, you can reach out to us four
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Speaker 6: oh two, five five, eight eleven ten or email us
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Speaker 6: comment at KFAP dot com. Pete, thanks for calling the
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Speaker 6: Genes' author show.
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Speaker 1: You are live.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning, Marria. Jeane.
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Speaker 4: My name is also Pete. But I have a lot
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Speaker 4: more hair and a lot less money than the last.
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Speaker 1: He'd appreciate that, I'm sure.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I like the hair.
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Speaker 4: Hey, so this actually relates to Senator but then Governor
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Speaker 4: Ricketts and the Save Act. So I think it was
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Speaker 4: like twenty fifteen. Senator Ricketts was then Governor Ricketts, and
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Speaker 4: he vetoted a bill in the legislature which granted the
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Speaker 4: driver's licenses to certain legal immigrants, a lot of them
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Speaker 4: I think were eligible, you know for the DACA program.
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Speaker 7: Yes, And you know I've only ever.
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Speaker 4: Reached her devote through the DMB when I got my
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Speaker 4: driver's license, like that was the only way.
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Speaker 7: So now use the sport the Stave Act.
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Speaker 4: But you also very much, very publicly and very vocally
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Speaker 4: supported giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Do you know,
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Speaker 4: first what do we do to make sure that these
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Speaker 4: illegal aliens who get driver's licenses by law that you supported,
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Speaker 4: How do we know they're not registering the vote? And
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Speaker 4: what are we doing there? Maybe you know, maybe you don't,
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Speaker 4: but also have your thoughts on that the whole thing
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Speaker 4: changed at all.
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Speaker 1: No, you know that's not quite accurate what you're saying,
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Speaker 1: because what I said I supported was the DACA, especially
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Speaker 1: the students, to be able to get driver's licenses because
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Speaker 1: you know that so many of them, they're not really
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Speaker 1: considered DACA of being here illegally, they do have legal
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Speaker 1: status to be in school, and what I said is,
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Speaker 1: you know, we had some of these DACA students in
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Speaker 1: our universities that were in studying architecture and in studying law,
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Speaker 1: and they weren't able to drive a car. And that's
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Speaker 1: what concerned me. And I thought, if they had that status,
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Speaker 1: I would support them having driver's license too, But there
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Speaker 1: was a lot of caveats that went along with that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they had to prove that they were a
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Speaker 1: DACA individual. Now I didn't say that I supported all
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Speaker 1: illegals having driver's license. I never said that, and I
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Speaker 1: never came out and said that. So the thing with
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Speaker 1: the Save Act, you know, it's baffling to me. Like
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Speaker 1: I said, all the national polls show that at least
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Speaker 1: eighty percent of Republicans and seventy percent of Democrats support
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Speaker 1: the Save Act, which is just supplying some sort of
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Speaker 1: id like Senator Rickett said, it doesn't have to be
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Speaker 1: a drive like a birth certificate. Although it baffled me
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Speaker 1: too when somebody like Bernie Sanders was out there saying
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Speaker 1: on national News, I don't know where my birth certificate is.
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Speaker 1: I don't know where to get it. And I'm thinking,
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Speaker 1: what I mean, I think everybody knows if you lose
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Speaker 1: your birth certificate, if you lose your marriage license, you
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Speaker 1: go to the county where you are married or born,
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Speaker 1: and you have asked for a duplicate. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: pretty darn easy to get id. But as Senator Ricketts said,
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Speaker 1: they're just asking, you know, I mean, can you show
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Speaker 1: a utility bill something to show that you are a
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Speaker 1: US citizen and you should be legally able to vote.
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Speaker 1: It's to keep those voter rolls clean. I mean, there
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Speaker 1: are people that have moved, there are people that are dead,
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Speaker 1: there are people that are illegal, and why wouldn't people
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Speaker 1: want to support keeping the integrity of our election system
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Speaker 1: and to secure it. That's why I don't understand why
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Speaker 1: there's this opposition to the Save Act. They're saying, we're
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Speaker 1: trying to enfranchise voters to decrease the number of voters.
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Speaker 1: That's what a lot of the Democrats are saying, and
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Speaker 1: that just is not accurate.
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Speaker 6: I got an email here from Doug. He's given you
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Speaker 6: a few good questions in the past, and this is
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Speaker 6: what he has to say abou voter id Gene. I
18:57
Speaker 6: believe the biggest reason the Democratic Party is always going
19:00
Speaker 6: to resist voter id is because they depend heavily on
19:03
Speaker 6: voting harvesting. They want the ability to harvest nursing home,
19:06
Speaker 6: prison school, homeless shelters under the disguise of we're just
19:10
Speaker 6: here to help. This is the greater This is the
19:12
Speaker 6: greatest voter frog that goes unchecked, absolutely and I agree
19:17
Speaker 6: with that. So agree with that caller right there.
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Speaker 1: Love it.
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Speaker 6: Thank you for the email, Doug. You can reach us
19:22
Speaker 6: too at comment at kfab dot com. Let's get to
19:25
Speaker 6: one more phone call. We got John on the line,
19:27
Speaker 6: John your Live with Jean's author here on news radio
19:29
Speaker 6: eleven to ten KFAB.
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Speaker 5: Mayor. I like to differ with you and the Senator
19:36
Speaker 5: on I think the misinformation that you guys be putting
19:39
Speaker 5: out about what Democrats believe and what Democrats don't believe.
19:44
Speaker 5: I have no problem and I'm a two Democrat and
19:47
Speaker 5: I want to just say one thing. I did vote
19:49
Speaker 5: for you when your first term because I like what
19:51
Speaker 5: you were saying, just like you just got through saying
19:54
Speaker 5: about the doctor. If you don't come up with something
19:57
Speaker 5: that's realistic to try to get people into this country,
20:01
Speaker 5: which we need them, and you know it, I know
20:03
Speaker 5: it and recognore it. But to keep using these people,
20:07
Speaker 5: all the people that maybe not be legit as y'all
20:11
Speaker 5: would call it. We need to get them on the
20:14
Speaker 5: road some kind of way. And I don't know why
20:16
Speaker 5: no one is trying to put forth a path for
20:20
Speaker 5: that and work on that. And one other thing here.
20:23
Speaker 5: I don't care about the idea. I show my driver
20:27
Speaker 5: license every day, but that's not the thing. You know
20:30
Speaker 5: it and recognore it. They are talking about birth certificate
20:35
Speaker 5: that not only the birth of it. They're talking about passport,
20:39
Speaker 5: all of these kind of things. And then you and
20:42
Speaker 5: being a married woman, you can have a name change.
20:44
Speaker 5: It's a lot more to it. And I wish you
20:47
Speaker 5: guys would put all the information out there other than
20:50
Speaker 5: dropping these little Republican talking point to try to make
20:54
Speaker 5: someone stay on Donald Trump's side, which I totally disagree with.
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Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. Do you believe then
21:02
Speaker 1: in open borders? Do you believe that anybody should be
21:05
Speaker 1: able to come into the country that wants to legal
21:08
Speaker 1: or not? Do you support that?
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Speaker 5: I have never said anything like that. I don't think
21:13
Speaker 5: any Democrats say anything.
21:15
Speaker 1: I'm just asking the questions.
21:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a question. But only thing that I'm saying
21:19
Speaker 5: about that is this anybody who is leaving an oppressed
21:23
Speaker 5: government and trying to get into this country, and if
21:26
Speaker 5: they can pull that, then they should go through a
21:29
Speaker 5: system like we already have said. Up. I agree, that's
21:32
Speaker 5: the way it should be.
21:33
Speaker 1: I agree because you know, there is a lot of
21:35
Speaker 1: people in this United States that have immigrated from other
21:39
Speaker 1: countries on all of our coast that went through the
21:43
Speaker 1: proper process. They don't like the idea of people just
21:47
Speaker 1: being able to come in here illegally and be able
21:50
Speaker 1: to do things like vote. They don't agree with it either.
21:54
Speaker 5: But ma'aw, here's what I'm saying to you, though, you
21:57
Speaker 5: have to change the system because the way the Constitution reads,
22:01
Speaker 5: any one reaches American soul can ask for asylum.
22:04
Speaker 1: You know that for a period of time.
22:08
Speaker 5: Well I know that, But you have to then increase
22:11
Speaker 5: the judgeship that would look at those cases. And I
22:14
Speaker 5: know it's a back law, but that's not those people's fault.
22:18
Speaker 5: But vote as America.
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Speaker 1: Do you think they should be able to vote? Do
22:22
Speaker 1: you think illegal should be all?
22:24
Speaker 5: That's see, that's that's water under the bridge. Now. I
22:27
Speaker 5: don't think no one that's not legal here should be
22:29
Speaker 5: able to vote. I don't have a problem with ID,
22:32
Speaker 5: but you just have two miny. Donald Trump has put
22:35
Speaker 5: two many caveats on top of that ID that thirty
22:39
Speaker 5: six states in the United States right now that you
22:42
Speaker 5: have to have an ID to vote. A picture I
22:44
Speaker 5: d so we got. Now he want to give a
22:47
Speaker 5: birth certificate, all this stuff here to prove that you're officien. Look, man,
22:51
Speaker 5: this man married someone from out of the country. Have
22:54
Speaker 5: everybody any check to see if she was legal? How
22:57
Speaker 5: did she give you? What did she do? Well?
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Speaker 1: You know what, I appreciate. I appreciate your Colin. I
23:03
Speaker 1: appreciate your passion, I really do. And I thank you
23:07
Speaker 1: for calling today. I know, and that's why we're here.
23:10
Speaker 1: I mean, we want to hear what you have to
23:12
Speaker 1: say about these issues. That's why I had Senator Ricketts
23:14
Speaker 1: on too. I want to know what do you agree?
23:16
Speaker 1: Do you disagree? And it's fine to disagree with me too,
23:20
Speaker 1: But so thank you for Colin. But I wanted to
23:22
Speaker 1: bring up, just for a second, when I said mentioned
23:25
Speaker 1: DACA before, explain what it is in case you don't remember,
23:29
Speaker 1: But DACA stance or DACA for Deferred Action for childhood arrivals,
23:34
Speaker 1: and this is a US immigration policy, and it allows
23:38
Speaker 1: some individuals who were physically present in the United States
23:42
Speaker 1: with no lawful immigration status after entered the country as
23:46
Speaker 1: children and after at least five years to receive a
23:50
Speaker 1: renewable two year period of deferred action for deportation. That's
23:55
Speaker 1: what DACA is. And they could be eligible for employment
24:00
Speaker 1: with an authorized document, and they could be eligible to
24:02
Speaker 1: go to school. And so I'm saying that they have
24:05
Speaker 1: received this renewable deferred action from deportation. And my point was,
24:12
Speaker 1: if they are here and they are working, are they're
24:14
Speaker 1: here in going to school, why not allow them to
24:18
Speaker 1: have a driver's license while they are here under that status? Peyton,
24:22
Speaker 1: were you listening to that crazy Scott Vorhees earlier this
24:26
Speaker 1: morning when he was talking like he was on public
24:28
Speaker 1: radio NPR. Scott wasn't here this morning, vot spore, he's
24:33
Speaker 1: here and juicy, that was so funny. I was listening
24:39
Speaker 1: to him driving in here today and it was hilarious.
24:41
Speaker 1: But before we take our next calls, we're going to
24:44
Speaker 1: the moon. I think that's so exciting. You know, I
24:47
Speaker 1: used to live I moved here to Omaha from Texas.
24:52
Speaker 1: I think people don't know that because they think I
24:55
Speaker 1: moved here from Saint Louis, But I had lived down
24:57
Speaker 1: in Texas Galveston, which is an island in the Gulf,
25:00
Speaker 1: for nine years. But I took my kids to the
25:03
Speaker 1: Johnson Space Center it was called then NASA numerous times.
25:08
Speaker 1: In fact, that's where my son, he was really little,
25:10
Speaker 1: discovered dippin' dots. You know what dippin' dots are? I
25:13
Speaker 1: know he loves dippin' dots to this day. But anyway,
25:16
Speaker 1: we're going to the Moon tonight, hopefully if weather holes out.
25:19
Speaker 1: It looks like the weather is good down at NASA.
25:22
Speaker 1: Artemis two is set to go around the Moon, and
25:25
Speaker 1: I think this is so exciting. You know, the last
25:28
Speaker 1: time we had a lunar spaceflight was in nineteen seventy two. Now, Peyton,
25:36
Speaker 1: that is the year. Wait to hear this, I graduated
25:38
Speaker 1: from high school. You were not born, your parents were
25:41
Speaker 1: probably not born, just about I know it. But nineteen
25:45
Speaker 1: seventy two is the last time that we had they
25:48
Speaker 1: had high school. Yeah, yeah, they did, ha ha, Yes,
25:52
Speaker 1: that little schoolhouse that I went to. But it's the
25:56
Speaker 1: was the deepest human spaceflight it will be since the
25:59
Speaker 1: fine Apollo lunar landing in nineteen seventy two. So it's
26:04
Speaker 1: the ship is going to go up. It's going up
26:06
Speaker 1: with a crew of four, and they're not going to
26:09
Speaker 1: orbit the Moon. They're just going to take a loop
26:12
Speaker 1: around the Moon. And they're testing out a lot of
26:16
Speaker 1: issues and things that are on that ship, from the
26:20
Speaker 1: ship itself to just doing a lot of different tests
26:24
Speaker 1: while they're up there. And it's really I think the
26:28
Speaker 1: astronauts are going to evaluate how Orion will fly, they're
26:32
Speaker 1: going to practice emergency procedures, they're going to capture images
26:36
Speaker 1: of the far side of the Moon. I just think
26:38
Speaker 1: it's really exciting. It's a ten day trip and they
26:41
Speaker 1: should be launching off sometime this evening six o'clock Eastern time.
26:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, we were looking about into it a little bit yesterday.
26:49
Speaker 6: Five point twenty four is when it opens, and it's
26:52
Speaker 6: about two hour window, but we had sorry we Chris
26:56
Speaker 6: Baker had our very own Nebraska astronaut Layton Anderson on
27:01
Speaker 6: the show last week to talk about this and heat
27:04
Speaker 6: and this is on Chris Baker's podcast page. A trip
27:07
Speaker 6: around the Moon very interesting. He talks all about it.
27:10
Speaker 6: He's a very very cool guy.
27:12
Speaker 1: He was on the space station. He is, but we're
27:14
Speaker 1: going to.
27:14
Speaker 6: Have that pulled up this afternoon. We might see if
27:16
Speaker 6: we can catch it live. It depends though we may
27:19
Speaker 6: you know, it might not happen.
27:20
Speaker 1: And just think about this when it returns to the
27:24
Speaker 1: Earth's atmosphere. Listen to this. This is amazing. Orion is
27:28
Speaker 1: going to be flying at twenty five thousand miles an
27:32
Speaker 1: hour and it will reach temperatures of at least five
27:35
Speaker 1: thousand degrees. Isn't that just amazing? It's just amazing. And
27:40
Speaker 1: they said early this or I was listening to the
27:42
Speaker 1: news early this morning and they said the astronauts weren't
27:45
Speaker 1: going to get up till about nine o'clock. And I thought, man,
27:48
Speaker 1: if I was one of those astronauts, I would have
27:50
Speaker 1: a hard time sleep last night. Oh yeah. And then
27:52
Speaker 1: they said they will have breakfast, and I'm thinking, I
27:54
Speaker 1: don't know how much breakfast I would eat if I
27:57
Speaker 1: was going to be launched up into and with a
28:00
Speaker 1: rocket up into space. But good luck to them. I
28:03
Speaker 1: think it's a fly to many first, and I think
28:06
Speaker 1: everybody will be tuned in to see the incredible pictures
28:09
Speaker 1: are going to be sending that.
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Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to it, and we will definitely keep
28:12
Speaker 6: you updated here on Omaha's news, weather and traffic station,
28:16
Speaker 6: News Radio eleven ten KFAB. Let's jump to the phone lines.
28:19
Speaker 6: We got Brett on the phone line. You're talking to
28:21
Speaker 6: Gene st Author here on news radio eleven tent kfab.
28:24
Speaker 8: Good morning, Good morning, Gene. How's it going?
28:27
Speaker 1: Really good? Thank you.
28:30
Speaker 8: So I just want to push back on Senator Ricketts.
28:33
Speaker 8: I'm a staunch conservative, and there's three bullet points I
28:36
Speaker 8: want to make, and so the first is about to
28:38
Speaker 8: say act they could have passed it. There were mechanisms
28:42
Speaker 8: they could have done. It's obviously an overwhelming issue that
28:48
Speaker 8: most Americans will agree on. So I'm disappointed in that.
28:54
Speaker 1: I am just to add I am too. I am too.
28:57
Speaker 1: That's why I ask it. I don't understand why that
29:01
Speaker 1: bill can't be passed, Why the Senate won't pass that bill.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly to the previous callers point. Not to disparage
29:09
Speaker 8: that gentleman, but I think he should look up some
29:11
Speaker 8: history about the party that he supports, especially in regard
29:16
Speaker 8: to immigration. You can go back to the late sixties
29:19
Speaker 8: Walter Mondale, who would eventually be the Democrat nominee for
29:24
Speaker 8: president and Walter excuse me, Ralph Abernathy, who was mlk's
29:29
Speaker 8: right hand man. Those two gentlemen went to the southern
29:32
Speaker 8: border in the late sixties to protest illegal immigrations. So
29:37
Speaker 8: the party has changed his position. I would just encourage
29:40
Speaker 8: him to do some research about what he's talking about.
29:44
Speaker 8: And then the second bullet points real quick Hr. Seven
29:48
Speaker 8: to one four seven, which was the Homeland Security Bill
29:52
Speaker 8: for continuing appropriations that the Senate kind of skipped town on.
29:57
Speaker 8: You know, it was passed at three o'clock in the morning.
30:01
Speaker 8: Nobody was there to vote, and no Republican senator opposed it.
30:06
Speaker 8: There were four or five of them who showed up.
30:08
Speaker 8: I don't think Senator Ricketts or Senator Fisher was one
30:12
Speaker 8: of them. And basically they discount out and said, okay,
30:15
Speaker 8: well we'll fund TSA, but we're gonna, we're gonna, we're
30:20
Speaker 8: gonna take some money from home, from ICE and from
30:25
Speaker 8: CBP to do so. And I think that's just there's
30:29
Speaker 8: no explanation, there's no statements from any of their offices.
30:32
Speaker 8: And then the last thing, which is most important to
30:34
Speaker 8: me because I have a step daughter, I have a
30:37
Speaker 8: fourteen year old son, and everybody talks about affordability. The
30:43
Speaker 8: Congressional Budget Office came out their annual or semi quarterly
30:48
Speaker 8: report in February shows that our deficit in Washington's going
30:54
Speaker 8: to go from one point nine trillion to three point
30:58
Speaker 8: one trillion by twenty thirty six, and our cumulative deficit
31:02
Speaker 8: we're going to run and add up another twenty three
31:05
Speaker 8: to twenty four trillion dollars in debt over the next decade.
31:10
Speaker 8: Medicare is going to they say, is going to be insolvent.
31:12
Speaker 8: I mean, my feeling is it's insolvent already. The same
31:16
Speaker 8: thing for Social Security. And I don't hear any conservative
31:21
Speaker 8: who claims to be fiscally responsible talk about any of
31:26
Speaker 8: these things, and so it's very, very disappointing. My opinion
31:29
Speaker 8: at this point is they're comfortable being in the minority.
31:33
Speaker 8: They can't lead. I think Leader Thuon is not good.
31:39
Speaker 8: When I called Senator Fisher's office to see who and
31:43
Speaker 8: Ricketts who they're going to support, it wasn't Scott, it
31:45
Speaker 8: wasn't Thune. They couldn't say. But they can't lead. They
31:48
Speaker 8: can't pass bills that matter to informed citizens, and they
31:54
Speaker 8: can't see the mass dislocation with debt that's coming. So
31:58
Speaker 8: I appreciate you letting me making those points, and I
32:01
Speaker 8: hope you have a good Easter weekend.
32:03
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. Happy Easter to you too. And I
32:05
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of what you said, the bullet
32:07
Speaker 1: points you said, I agree with if Senator Ricketts was
32:10
Speaker 1: limited on his time he had with us today. But
32:13
Speaker 1: I had my little list of questions I was gonna address,
32:16
Speaker 1: and one of them was to ask him about why
32:20
Speaker 1: that DHS is not being funded. I mean, I don't
32:24
Speaker 1: understand it either. Homeland Security. Why why the Democrats have
32:28
Speaker 1: been blocking and they have so you know, this to
32:32
Speaker 1: me is another thing that is mind boggling, because ICE
32:36
Speaker 1: is now being not ice, but TSA is now being
32:39
Speaker 1: paid the travel I was going to ask him about
32:42
Speaker 1: that too, Senator Ricketts, but it seems like a lot
32:44
Speaker 1: of that with the long waits has been resolved, but
32:47
Speaker 1: still DHS is still not funded and why is that
32:51
Speaker 1: being blocked? I don't understand that at all either. Your
32:54
Speaker 1: point about the US government the deficit, it is mind boggling.
32:59
Speaker 1: I mean to go up to when you talk about trillions,
33:03
Speaker 1: it's just it's hard to fathom really, the Mayor of
33:08
Speaker 1: Omaha is responsible for the City of Omaha's budget, and
33:11
Speaker 1: I did twelve budgets, and the mayor is responsible for
33:15
Speaker 1: not only doing the budget and getting it approved, but
33:18
Speaker 1: also for managing it throughout the year. And we are
33:21
Speaker 1: not allowed to go into a deficit. We have to
33:24
Speaker 1: have that budget balance to the penny, and it is
33:26
Speaker 1: balanced to the penny January first, and it has to
33:29
Speaker 1: be balanced to the penny December thirty first. We can't
33:33
Speaker 1: let it go into a deficit. And how the US
33:36
Speaker 1: government can continue doing that and threatening programs like Social
33:40
Speaker 1: Security and Medicare is beyond me. And we need to
33:45
Speaker 1: talk to our US senators and our congressman more about
33:48
Speaker 1: that and say, explain to us what is happening and
33:52
Speaker 1: what can government do to make us solvent again? And
33:56
Speaker 1: is it ever possible?
33:58
Speaker 6: Gene, you always got an Omaha World Here edition right
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Speaker 6: in front of in the mornings.
34:02
Speaker 2: I do.
34:02
Speaker 1: I read it, you know, I tell you, I read
34:04
Speaker 1: it every morning, and then I get mad, but then
34:05
Speaker 1: I read it again. I read the Wall Street Journal
34:08
Speaker 1: in the World Herald every day just to keep up
34:10
Speaker 1: with what's going on. Front page today it says headline
34:13
Speaker 1: city investigated sinkhole site months before the collapse. That's the
34:17
Speaker 1: one at sixty seventh in Pacific that two cars were
34:21
Speaker 1: just bam. I mean, that video is amazing to watch.
34:24
Speaker 1: They just disappeared and it's kind of interesting to watch
34:28
Speaker 1: that and you see the two cars right behind them
34:30
Speaker 1: and they just slowly back up like I'm getting out
34:32
Speaker 1: of here. But you know, I just want to say,
34:34
Speaker 1: as a former mayor of Omaha for twelve years, there
34:38
Speaker 1: are crack streets everywhere in Omaha. We have over five
34:43
Speaker 1: thousand lane miles a road in Omaha, and the city
34:47
Speaker 1: Public Works Department does a fantastic job and they're always
34:51
Speaker 1: looking at areas where there are cracks. They are always
34:54
Speaker 1: looking at areas that we have. Like I said, some
34:56
Speaker 1: places in Omaha have sewer lines that are one hundred,
35:00
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty years old that have been there
35:03
Speaker 1: for a long time and need replacing. Mud When I
35:06
Speaker 1: was mayor, told us that their plan was to replace
35:10
Speaker 1: one percent per year, So we're talking one hundred years
35:16
Speaker 1: to replace all of these old sewer lines. Water lines
35:21
Speaker 1: that can do these types of things. But let me
35:25
Speaker 1: tell you one thing, I will never criticize the mayor
35:28
Speaker 1: of Omaha for a sinkhole or a pothole, because these
35:32
Speaker 1: are things that are totally out of the mayor's control.
35:36
Speaker 1: These things are happening underground and there's public works could
35:41
Speaker 1: even put cameras down an old sewer lines to see
35:44
Speaker 1: if they are still competent or if they're leaking, But
35:47
Speaker 1: you gotta know where they're at, and you got to
35:49
Speaker 1: know where the problem is. We just had a water
35:51
Speaker 1: main break not long ago in the city of Omaha,
35:53
Speaker 1: and you couldn't believe how high the water was flairing.
35:56
Speaker 1: But you're not going to ever catch me or hear
35:59
Speaker 1: me size the mayor or the mayor's administration for these
36:03
Speaker 1: sinkholes or potholes. These are things that just happen, and
36:05
Speaker 1: the mayor's responsibility is to take care of them and
36:08
Speaker 1: make sure that you know, we have a good public
36:10
Speaker 1: works department, which we do enough employees that are going
36:13
Speaker 1: to be able to take care of these things.
36:15
Speaker 6: Greg sent us an email it to comment at kfab
36:18
Speaker 6: dot com. Interesting fact that puts things in perspective. One
36:22
Speaker 6: trillion one dollar bills placed end to end would reach
36:28
Speaker 6: further than from the Earth to the sun. I don't
36:32
Speaker 6: know if that's true, Greg, I'm gonna take your word
36:34
Speaker 6: for it.
36:34
Speaker 1: Fun fact, I did not know that that's a long distance.
36:37
Speaker 1: That's a long distance, Thank you, Greg. Can you imagine
36:40
Speaker 1: being in in that spaceship going up towards the Moon?
36:44
Speaker 1: I mean, the Moon on a clear night looks so
36:46
Speaker 1: close you can grab it, but it's not.
36:49
Speaker 6: Would you want to do it? Like if they said, Okay,
36:51
Speaker 6: we're gonna let you go. You don't have to do anything.
36:53
Speaker 6: You're just another passenger. You're just a joy ride for you.
36:55
Speaker 5: You know.
36:55
Speaker 1: I think it would be pretty scary to do something
37:00
Speaker 1: like that, I really do. I mean, I'd have to
37:01
Speaker 1: stop and think about that. But at the same time,
37:04
Speaker 1: what an opportunity. How many human beings all over the
37:08
Speaker 1: planet get the chance to go up and to loop
37:11
Speaker 1: around the Moon? It would be if somebody offered it
37:14
Speaker 1: to me, it would be hard for me to turn
37:16
Speaker 1: it down.
37:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're right. It would take a really
37:20
Speaker 6: long thought out decision. Absolutely, I would consider it.
37:24
Speaker 1: What an opportunity and ask somebody like Clayton Anderson that's
37:27
Speaker 1: actually been up in space for an extended period of time. Boy,
37:31
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that is something Like I said, not
37:33
Speaker 1: too many human beings get to.
37:35
Speaker 6: Do all right, Mike, thank you for your patience on
37:37
Speaker 6: the KFABE comment line with Jean stauth.
37:41
Speaker 7: Hey, thanks for having me. I want to make several
37:43
Speaker 7: quick points. I want to say kudos to the last guy.
37:46
Speaker 7: That's one reason I'm an independent now, because nobody talks
37:50
Speaker 7: about the deficit, and that is what I fear will
37:53
Speaker 7: take us down. I think that the biggest problem with
37:57
Speaker 7: our country is both parties think they're parties as pure
38:00
Speaker 7: as the driven snow, and the other party is evil
38:03
Speaker 7: and doesn't like America. They hate America, and that's that's
38:07
Speaker 7: the problem. The other party is evil. I want to
38:09
Speaker 7: talk about mister Ricketts. You know, I feel like he
38:14
Speaker 7: is a part of the problem in that. You know,
38:17
Speaker 7: if Trump said the sunrises in the north, he'd say yes, yes,
38:22
Speaker 7: dear Leader. As far as like it's easy to say
38:27
Speaker 7: about Iran, Oh boy, we need to go over there.
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Speaker 7: I don't know what the whole story is, but I
38:33
Speaker 7: have some empirical evidence. You know, the person that was
38:37
Speaker 7: was and I do not remember his title, quit in
38:40
Speaker 7: protests that we invaded Iran. His comments were there was
38:44
Speaker 7: nothing imminent. I have a friend who is twenty years
38:47
Speaker 7: on the ground, boots on the ground and intelligence. He
38:51
Speaker 7: was responsible for taking out some warlords and Somaia. He
38:55
Speaker 7: was actually in Iran, which I was stupidly didn't think
38:58
Speaker 7: we had people in Iran ten and fifteen years ago.
39:02
Speaker 7: He voted for Trump twice, but he said Trump had
39:04
Speaker 7: no plan going in there. He said it was a mistake.
39:08
Speaker 7: He told me after three days troops were on the way.
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Speaker 7: I said, how did you know that? And he just smiled.
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Speaker 7: A week later they announced that there was troops on
39:16
Speaker 7: the ground. He said, we are creating more terrorists then
39:19
Speaker 7: we're than we're taken care of. And he said Iran
39:23
Speaker 7: will just be more inclined to be very determined to
39:27
Speaker 7: get a nuclear weapon. They're not gonna let this happen
39:30
Speaker 7: to him again. So you know, we all just you know, well,
39:33
Speaker 7: he says that. And to make my point, I mean,
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Speaker 7: Trump said Iran wants me to be their leader. Oh
39:39
Speaker 7: my god, we I mean, I couldn't stop laughing when
39:41
Speaker 7: I heard that. But nobody calls him out on it.
39:43
Speaker 7: If Trump says it, we just believe it. And if
39:46
Speaker 7: I get asked, I'm just curious your thoughts on this.
39:50
Speaker 7: I believe, you know, no, no big problem as a
39:54
Speaker 7: black and white answer. But I think if we want
39:58
Speaker 7: to solve no one is for open borders. I just
40:00
Speaker 7: don't believe anyone that's for open borders. I've never talked
40:03
Speaker 7: to anybody, even people that you know are pro undocumented workers.
40:10
Speaker 7: But why do we not punish the companies that are
40:13
Speaker 7: employing them. I used to live up by South Sioux
40:16
Speaker 7: City and they had the biggest meetbacking plant in the world.
40:21
Speaker 7: And I never believe this was true, but I knew
40:23
Speaker 7: several people that were in management at IVP, and they
40:26
Speaker 7: kept telling me. And finally I believe that IVP would
40:29
Speaker 7: ticked buses down to the border and haul workers back
40:33
Speaker 7: up there and they'd give them fake IDs. They know
40:37
Speaker 7: this is going on. They know the companies if they
40:40
Speaker 7: find companies or employing undocumented workers and they can't get
40:44
Speaker 7: jobs into problem.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike, we appreciate the call you got. About
40:49
Speaker 1: sixty seconds. I agree with you. And you know, if
40:51
Speaker 1: you look at at companies that are in agriculture, you
40:55
Speaker 1: know a California, the wine countries, how many people that
40:59
Speaker 1: they bring in and employ and the employers have to
41:03
Speaker 1: be held accountable to I agree with that. I will
41:05
Speaker 1: say I agree with what you're saying though about political parties,
41:09
Speaker 1: that the one party thinks the other is just innately evil.
41:13
Speaker 1: Because when I became mayor, everybody knows I am a Republican,
41:17
Speaker 1: I'm a conservative, and I was a Republican in the
41:19
Speaker 1: Blue Dot. But I said I will be the mayor
41:21
Speaker 1: for everybody, including if you're Democrat, independent, if you're black,
41:25
Speaker 1: if you're white, if you're brown. I did, if your male,
41:27
Speaker 1: if you're female, And I got criticized from the far
41:30
Speaker 1: right for saying I will represent Democrats too, And I
41:34
Speaker 1: said I will be the mayor for everybody. I meant it.
41:37
Speaker 1: And you know that's a problem that we have. Immigration
41:41
Speaker 1: is a federal issue, and I think I agree. I
41:44
Speaker 1: think both parties have not done what they could to
41:46
Speaker 1: control the immigration issue. I think we are unfortunately out
41:51
Speaker 1: of time. I hear that music plan, so I think
41:54
Speaker 1: that means wrap it up, Jean. But I want to
41:56
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42:00
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42:02
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42:11
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42:14
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42:17
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42:19
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42:22
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