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Brian talks to Senator Jon Husted · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Eight forty one fifty five kre C DE talk station. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I recognize the federal gunment to shutdown. Someone who's intimately
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  Speaker 1: familiar with the problem we're facing right now, Senator John Houston,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, to the fifty five KRCY Morning Show. It's
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  Speaker 1: a real pleasure to have you on today.
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  Speaker 3: Great to be with you, Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: I note that the American Federation of Government Employees is
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  Speaker 1: on the Republicans side of the ledger telling the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: basically because this has got to be levy that the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: normally Democratic allies this union. They're saying, pass the continuing resolution.
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  Speaker 1: You got a clean funding bills sitting there, put us
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  Speaker 1: all back to work. Gosh darn it Is this going
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  Speaker 1: to change the dynamic, Senator? Or are we going to
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  Speaker 1: wait for even more pain to come, which might include
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  Speaker 1: the end of SNAP for some people with nutrition assistance
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  Speaker 1: being impacted, head start of the problems we're already having
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  Speaker 1: with the air traffic controllers not showing up to work
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  Speaker 1: even though they're critical employees. The problems are mounting. But
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  Speaker 1: when is the breaking point, I presume, for the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: or will the Republicans end up capitulating.
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  Speaker 3: The Republicans are united in this because we are not
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  Speaker 3: playing games. We're just saying, hey, open the government, keep
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  Speaker 3: it at its current funding levels, sir, the American people.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, it costs US four hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 3: a week and salaries, and many of those salaries ultimately
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  Speaker 3: will be paid, but we will not get the work
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  Speaker 3: in return for that salary from all of these hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of thousands of people. And just let's go. Let's stop
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  Speaker 3: playing games. Chuck Schumer thirteen times when Joe Biden was president,
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  Speaker 3: passed clean continuing resolutions Republicans. You know, Republicans helped. But
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  Speaker 3: now they hate Donald Trump so much that they're not
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  Speaker 3: willing to They're willing to make the American people suffer
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  Speaker 3: to try to embarrass the president. But it's not working
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  Speaker 3: and I don't see, unfortunately, any break in sight. Democrats
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  Speaker 3: seem to be dug in in their position because their
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  Speaker 3: left flank will not let them do otherwise. At a
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  Speaker 3: point in time, well, I mean, frankly, they made a decision.
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  Speaker 3: They can't they can't wiggle their way out of right now.
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  Speaker 3: They're having a hard time figuring out how to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the only solution and seems to be continuing at
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  Speaker 1: the Biden era funding levels, which we can't emphasize enough.
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  Speaker 1: And this was the prudent, smart political move by Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: much of the chagrin of congressom massing I understand his
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  Speaker 1: point on this, we need to cut government, not keep
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  Speaker 1: things a status quo. But you took all the wind
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  Speaker 1: of the Democrats' sales and saying no, these are your
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  Speaker 1: funding levels and parenthetically, it's your deadline in December, and
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  Speaker 1: these supplements, this is something one hundred percent owned by you.
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  Speaker 3: That's just it's made.
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  Speaker 1: It's put the Democrats in an a possible position.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can. It's easy to start a fight, it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to get out of one, and political fights especially
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  Speaker 3: because you know, you have to say, well, what did
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  Speaker 3: I get for all of this? What did I you know,
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  Speaker 3: twenty eight days of shutting the government down and causing
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  Speaker 3: all kinds of challenges for working you know, families from
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  Speaker 3: military air traffic controllers, Homeland security TS agents, all those people. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we put them through all of this, didn't pay them,
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  Speaker 3: made them work. But now we're just gonna do what Like,
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  Speaker 3: what's what's their exit strategy? They don't have an ex
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  Speaker 3: strategy and they're in a pickle.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't expect this to happen to Congressman John Houston,
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  Speaker 1: but I have to. My guess is there are more Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: say leaning Fetterman and at what point in time did
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  Speaker 1: you and I ever think that we would be pointing
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  Speaker 1: to Fetterman as the example of common sense and reason
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  Speaker 1: of the Democrat Party. But the Alexander or Casio Cortes socialist,
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  Speaker 1: far leftist winner the party has totally dominated the conversation
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  Speaker 1: and the narrative and the political moves by the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Is there still a will to maybe say these are
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  Speaker 1: all loser issues, the AOC's of the world, and that
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  Speaker 1: winer the party are on the wrong side of all
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  Speaker 1: these eighty twenty issues. If we're going to never get
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  Speaker 1: our party back, we need to change gears.
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  Speaker 3: I think that you're onto something right there, because I
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  Speaker 3: do sense that there are a number of Democrats who
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  Speaker 3: who don't like this left leaning lurch that's happened, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: extreme left leaning lurch that's happened in their party. And
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  Speaker 3: there when they see because remember they like they they're
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  Speaker 3: going to see real people suffer. Who are their constituents
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  Speaker 3: that they said they should be fighting for, who are
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  Speaker 3: going to lose as a result and really have hardships
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  Speaker 3: as a result of their decisions. And I think that
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  Speaker 3: there's a growing sentiment among some Democrats at least five
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  Speaker 3: or remember three of them evoated with us. We need
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  Speaker 3: five more. There's at least five more Democrats who agree
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  Speaker 3: that we should do a continuing resolution and get back
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  Speaker 3: to work. But right now Chuck Schumer is so scared
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  Speaker 3: of his left flank that he must continue the shoot.
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  Speaker 3: Schumer shut down as a way to protect himself, because
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  Speaker 3: what's he going to say if he if he said, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: twenty eight days is enough, the radical left would skewer him.
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  Speaker 1: They would be an acknowledgment. That was a terrible strategy,
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  Speaker 1: which you and I have pointed out here in this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: It's a terrible strategy.
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  Speaker 3: I think. I think that sometimes leaders need the troops
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  Speaker 3: to save them from themselves. If he could get I
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  Speaker 3: think if you just hold his nose and allow five
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  Speaker 3: of the more moderate leaning Democrats to join us, get
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  Speaker 3: the government open, they could do a reset and then
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  Speaker 3: begin a negotiation over the next few weeks. Because remember
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  Speaker 3: a clean cr only keeps the government open until November
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  Speaker 3: twenty one, they don't lose any leverage. They can will
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  Speaker 3: be right back where we are. It's just that right
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  Speaker 3: now there's no discussions going on because they won't open
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  Speaker 3: the government so that we can fund things and move
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  Speaker 3: on from that debate. Every day they wait, the things
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  Speaker 3: that they want are less likely to happen. And I
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  Speaker 3: have to tell you that there's something's really rich that's
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  Speaker 3: happening where the Democrats are saying the President should just
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  Speaker 3: fund snap right the food program. They held a rally
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  Speaker 3: last week and that a weekend too, casogo. So it's
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  Speaker 3: no kings. But now they want him to act like
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  Speaker 3: a king and just just fund the things that they want,
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  Speaker 3: even though they are refusing to fulfill their responsibility. You
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  Speaker 3: want kings, then Congress act fun things that you want
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  Speaker 3: and don't force him to have to act like a king.
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  Speaker 3: For goodness sakes, this is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And of course they passed up a couple of opportunities
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  Speaker 1: to do just that, getting the American military paid, for example,
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  Speaker 1: the air traffic controllers paid. No, we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: do a piece mail. They're just going to put too
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  Speaker 1: much power in the hands of Donald Trump, a man
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  Speaker 1: who I guess they wish had more power so he
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  Speaker 1: could get things paid for that they want to get
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  Speaker 1: paid for. Senator John Mums.
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  Speaker 3: Literally empowering him more and more every day that they
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  Speaker 3: do this, and then they claim that they don't want
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  Speaker 3: to empower him, but that's exactly what they're doing. It's
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  Speaker 3: just such hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: Not that it changes the political landscape if they change
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  Speaker 1: their minds and open the government backup, Senator Houston before
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  Speaker 1: we part company, do you think part of them just
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  Speaker 1: wants to wait till the election next week to see
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  Speaker 1: how things go. The elections that have some sort of
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  Speaker 1: that are closely watched that are kind of cliffhangers for
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  Speaker 1: whether a state's gone blue or red. Is that part
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  Speaker 1: of the game plan you think at all.
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  Speaker 3: Be could be part of it. Look, they're looking for
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  Speaker 3: an exit strategy, and you know, look they're running in
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  Speaker 3: the mayor of New York, like Geeah, Democrats going to
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  Speaker 3: win that. You know, it's likely that in the blue
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  Speaker 3: states where all the elections are that they will do well.
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  Speaker 3: But then they're going to try to claim some kind
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  Speaker 3: of victory over that well. I mean hardly. That's like
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  Speaker 3: saying that if if a Republican wins the governorship of
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  Speaker 3: Indiana that that's a big deal. I mean, come on, now,
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  Speaker 3: I think that they're looking for any excuse that they
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  Speaker 3: can to get out of a pickle that they've created
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  Speaker 3: for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's say Mandami lost. Let's see some of the
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  Speaker 1: other governor races that are closely watched the Darkouts lose.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be a golden opportunity for Chucky Schumer to
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  Speaker 1: stand up and say, all right, all right, the people
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  Speaker 1: have spoken us. Shifting so far to the left has
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  Speaker 1: lost our voters. We need to right the ship and
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  Speaker 1: head on the right direction. Here's what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do on a going forward basis, beginning with opening the
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  Speaker 1: government up possible political strategy to get things going in
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  Speaker 1: the direction. Senator Houston.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, there is no chance no tamer will conclude.
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  Speaker 1: I had to throw it out there, John God.
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  Speaker 3: Bless you, even though it makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: No chance he's gonna use Uh, you know, if I
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  Speaker 1: was king of the world anyhow, Senator johnnyst thank you
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  Speaker 1: for your time today, Sir, Keep fighting the good fight
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of the American people, and we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: All of our collective popcorn is out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks Brian, take care pleasure man.
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