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Congressman David Taylor joins the program this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Congressman David Taylor, thank you for indulging me. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I got that out of my system and let my
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  Speaker 1: listeners know. Welcome back in Happy New Year, sir. It's
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  Speaker 1: a pleasure to have you on as always.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be with you, Brian. I hope you had
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  Speaker 2: a great Christmas in New Year's you know.
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  Speaker 1: I did, And I was so optimistic and hopeful that
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six was just going to start off, you know,
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  Speaker 1: great and smiles and grins and Lord almighty, we've had
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  Speaker 1: like six months worth of a news cycle in the
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  Speaker 1: first couple or first week and a half. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: with the most recent news cycle story dominating the headlines,
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  Speaker 1: the ice shooting in Minneapolis. I mean, I guess the idea,
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  Speaker 1: listen to what law enforcement has to say. Even if
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  Speaker 1: you disagree with the concept of law enforcement, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't screw around and try to run them over, nothing
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  Speaker 1: bad will happen to you. Boiling it down to its
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  Speaker 1: minimum terms there, Congressman, what's your reaction to what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with this one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a falling situation, and the reaction to
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  Speaker 2: the situation maybe even worse than the incident. In the
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  Speaker 2: long run. Obviously, the Left has been emboldening their lunatic
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  Speaker 2: base from for months now to take to the streets
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  Speaker 2: and in many different regards, but especially when when ice
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  Speaker 2: or ICE agents are there, you know, making care of
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  Speaker 2: their their mandated constitutional duties, and our people like the
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  Speaker 2: mayor of Minneapolis and the governor of Minnesota are out
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  Speaker 2: there saying, you know, we're going to resist you. And
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  Speaker 2: and what they said in the wake of this was
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  Speaker 2: unbelievably appalling. The mayor saying that he instantly says it's
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  Speaker 2: it's not self defense when the video certainly makes it
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  Speaker 2: look to me like, uh, it very much was self defense.
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  Speaker 2: And then the governor follows that up with we're going
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  Speaker 2: to call in our National guardsmen to oppose federal officers
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  Speaker 2: who are there to perform their duties. It was actually
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  Speaker 2: made me sick to my stomach. Uh to hear those comments. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just I'd like to say I'm shocked. I
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  Speaker 2: guess I'm not shocked because since the day I got
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  Speaker 2: to Congress, which is all that many days ago, every
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  Speaker 2: Democratic leader that approached a microphone has suggested some form
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  Speaker 2: of violence in the streets over this or that issue.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they got what I think they were looking for.
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  Speaker 1: They got the martyr they wanted. It's the George Floyd
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  Speaker 1: in connection with the ICE situation, much in the same
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  Speaker 1: way it was, you know, George Floyd to start this
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  Speaker 1: whole Black Lives Matter and anti defund the police process,
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  Speaker 1: storm the streets. Ignore some of the underlying facts, most
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  Speaker 1: notably that this woman was ignoring the direction directives of
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  Speaker 1: authorized law enforcement and did exactly it did, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: gunner car and toward an ICE agent. I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: an intentional act.
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  Speaker 2: I don't anyway, No, absolutely, well, you know two things
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  Speaker 2: on that these ICE agents have heard these constant calls
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  Speaker 2: for violence. In fact, apparently the officer, one of the
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  Speaker 2: officers involved in the shooting had previously been dragged by
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  Speaker 2: a car. They know that these folks that are coming
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  Speaker 2: to the streets are feel fully justified and do them
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  Speaker 2: whatever they can to stop ICE from doing their duties.
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  Speaker 2: And from a coldly political calculus, as you were referring to,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats know that the American public wants ICE to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do its job. We want we got the
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  Speaker 2: border sealed, but they know there's more work to be
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  Speaker 2: done to get the illegal criminal aliens terrorists out of
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  Speaker 2: our country. They're hoping that some violence in the streets
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  Speaker 2: were somebody that they can at least portray as an
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  Speaker 2: innocent victim, might change those numbers and help them obtain power.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the real motivation behind the nonsense they
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  Speaker 2: stew into every microphone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, it just troubles me that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: behind the veero all this screaming and yelling and anger
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  Speaker 1: is they're ultimately streaming and yelling and angry over us
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  Speaker 1: getting rid of demonstrably horrific human beings. This has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with the color of their skin, has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with their country of origin, other than the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they're not American citizens and they violated our
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  Speaker 1: American law by coming here. Don't care what color of
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  Speaker 1: their skin is, black, brown, and yellow. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: if they want to do harm to us, if they
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  Speaker 1: are child molesters, rapists, terrorists, I think I want them
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  Speaker 1: out of the country. And they're arguing that they should
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  Speaker 1: be left in our country. They're ignoring the fraud perpetrated
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  Speaker 1: on the State of Minnesota, the American taxpayers, because well,
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  Speaker 1: it was done by the Somali community. If we criticize
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  Speaker 1: them for doing this. We're racist for that. No, we
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  Speaker 1: apply the law equally to all people right there. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: I just find it impossible to believe that there is
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  Speaker 1: an out loud defense of or for keeping these people
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  Speaker 1: in the country when they are are notably, demonstrably and
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  Speaker 1: have been convicted of multiple crimes. I just can't understand it.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman, Well, I think the bulk of the public agrees
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  Speaker 2: with you. And again that's what causes the coron of
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous rhetoric that we're hearing from the left to try
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  Speaker 2: to just anything that's to change the narrative around that.
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  Speaker 2: And they have hearing, yes today with some of the
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota fraud that you were just referring to, and I
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  Speaker 2: mean an excellent point was made in that hearing where
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  Speaker 2: we don't care about the color of the skin. All
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  Speaker 2: we care about here is the green. That the fraud
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  Speaker 2: is all green. That's you know, billions of dollars that
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  Speaker 2: could be helping Americans being funneled Somalia to al Shabab
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  Speaker 2: or just kept here and squandered by people who have
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  Speaker 2: in a business here in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was a little I was taken aback when
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  Speaker 1: I heard the top of the our news before the
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  Speaker 1: show started this morning at five o'clock that Minneapolis was
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  Speaker 1: shutting their schools down maybe Minnesota generally speaking, and out
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  Speaker 1: of an abundance of caution because of the organized protest
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  Speaker 1: that popped up instantaneously. Congressman Davidson earlier in the program,
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  Speaker 1: in a student observation, well, that so the teachers can
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  Speaker 1: go out and protest. That's so the young people, the
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  Speaker 1: teenagers in high school can get out there and join
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  Speaker 1: the protests. And I think that's probably an accurate assessment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, we know what's being taught in some
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  Speaker 2: of our schools, probably especially those around Minneapolis. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that the kids and the teachers for sure were very
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  Speaker 2: anxious to be a part of that mass that started
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  Speaker 2: right after the irresponsible remarks from Walls and Fry and
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  Speaker 2: Dan Goldman out here, just you know, ridiculous things that
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  Speaker 2: have been said about this officer. They're going to put
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  Speaker 2: his life in danger. It's really sad to see, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not unexpected.
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  Speaker 1: It is sad to see. And then the organizations that have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, have quickly organized these process are just they
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  Speaker 1: vary from like different political ideologies. They are the Green
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  Speaker 1: New Deal folks out there, they are pro Palestinian out there,
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  Speaker 1: the anti Israeli folks, the defund the police folks. Then
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  Speaker 1: you have all these Marxist organizations again collectively joining to
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  Speaker 1: stoke the fire of these protests. You know, folks like
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  Speaker 1: the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, the organization
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  Speaker 1: called Individual, which is a far left wing organization. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the list is endless, the causes are disparate and varied,
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  Speaker 1: but they are all far left organizations collectively I think,
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  Speaker 1: joining together to undermine America generally speaking. That's the only
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  Speaker 1: conclusion I can reach. Including the Palestinian youth movement. What
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  Speaker 1: do they have to do with ice agents?
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well, it's kind of funny, but it's not funny.
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  Speaker 2: But something I've seen here in watching DC. You'll see
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  Speaker 2: a group of protesters in front of a building that
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  Speaker 2: say protesting, you know, maybe in front of the Embassy
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  Speaker 2: for Israel or or a place like that. Now have
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  Speaker 2: three or four other issue signs or flags weligh by
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  Speaker 2: their feet for where they're going next. They're just professional
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  Speaker 2: protesters that the cause is less important than the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they're out there let's stirred crap up.
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  Speaker 1: And that goes back to my point earlier is like,
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  Speaker 1: where in the hell are the conservatives of the world
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  Speaker 1: organizing and taking to the streets in opposition of all
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  Speaker 1: these left winging IDL or left winging organizations and their
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  Speaker 1: principles and what they're doing to our country. They just aren't.
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  Speaker 1: And a bunch of people were spond everybody has jobs.
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  Speaker 1: The conservatives has had jobs. Now the professional protesters. Your point,
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  Speaker 1: it's which sign am I carrying today? Someone's paying me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just grab the side. We'll continue with Congressman David Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: will find out about what is the concar City Talk station.
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  Speaker 1: It's a new year and it's a new conversation with
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  Speaker 1: Congressman David Taylor, who is kind enough to join the
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  Speaker 1: morning show and inform my listeners and me about what's
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  Speaker 1: going on on a variety of different topics. So moving over,
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  Speaker 1: we've had quite a few really seriously tragic highway accidents
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  Speaker 1: involving commercial driver's licensed drivers. These big semis get behind
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  Speaker 1: the wheel and sadly we find out they can't even
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  Speaker 1: read the road signs. Real problem, and I think I
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  Speaker 1: guess as a response to that is that your motivation
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  Speaker 1: behind launching this what it says right here bi partisan
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  Speaker 1: Congressional Trucking Caucus Congressman Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely plays a role, Brian. For sure, trucking's a big
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  Speaker 2: issue in every district, but you know, at our district,
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  Speaker 2: maybe more so than some. We've the Kenworth factories in
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  Speaker 2: Ross County. They built eighty five percent of their their
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  Speaker 2: big semis but right there in the second district. So
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  Speaker 2: and of course we talked a little bit about Connor's
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  Speaker 2: Law last time I was on with you, which addresses
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  Speaker 2: a CDL issue you were talking about. But meeting with
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  Speaker 2: my staff one day, I said, you know, well, we
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  Speaker 2: should probably join the trucking Caucus. There's a caucus out
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  Speaker 2: here for literally everything, which is great, but come to
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  Speaker 2: find out there is not a trucking caucus. So I
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  Speaker 2: talked to my friend Shamari Figures, represented from Alabama. We're
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  Speaker 2: kicking off the trucking Caucus. Interest has been off the charts.
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  Speaker 2: On a somewhat said note, with one of our original members,
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  Speaker 2: Dougla Malfa of California, unfortunately just passed away, but he
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  Speaker 2: was he was already becoming a very good friend and
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  Speaker 2: very knowledgeable and on the trucking issues, so he'll be
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  Speaker 2: in many ways. We weremiss not to mention that, but
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  Speaker 2: right the CDL issue has been in the forefront of
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  Speaker 2: the news because of all the horrible accidents lately. But
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  Speaker 2: there are all kinds of trucking related issues from EPA
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  Speaker 2: emissions rules that are currently under reviewed. It started to
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  Speaker 2: know seven that were counterproductive and actually made trucking less safe.
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  Speaker 2: We've sponsored two bills regarding the English proficiency and this
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  Speaker 2: is sort of a small trucking issue, but there's a
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  Speaker 2: rule where if you have a semi broke broken down
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  Speaker 2: on the side of the road, it has to be towed.
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  Speaker 2: That tow truck operator has to break that truck down
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  Speaker 2: and toe. You can't toe the whole thing because of
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  Speaker 2: the length requirement linked and weight requirements set everybody's hair
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  Speaker 2: on fire in the trucking business. Have to be very
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  Speaker 2: careful dealing with that. But we just sponsored a bill
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  Speaker 2: that said you can pull it to the next safe exit,
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  Speaker 2: next safe place and then break it down because breaking
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  Speaker 2: it down on the side of the road in that
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  Speaker 2: situation and the driver toe trug driver, police officer, that's
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  Speaker 2: there other drivers on the road. So we're hoping to
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  Speaker 2: get some of those kind of things done and generally
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  Speaker 2: make truckers safer, people are traveling with truckers safer and
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  Speaker 2: ultimately truckers more prosperous.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, before we put it over to the Royal Health
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  Speaker 1: Transfer Transformation Program and some money and love you bring
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  Speaker 1: them back to the state of Ohio, Can I just
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  Speaker 1: ask you out a lot, is there any opposition to
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  Speaker 1: that that that that English language requirement if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to operate one of these multi tone commercial vehicles? Is
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  Speaker 1: someone articulated opposition to that?
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  Speaker 2: Generally, Brian, nothing's been articulated. My concern I expected by
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  Speaker 2: partisan support.
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  Speaker 1: For it, but I'm I would hope.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a I'm a chronic optimist. I get blamed for
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  Speaker 2: that all the time, but so I anticipate, you know,
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  Speaker 2: good ideas to get supported by everybody. But my concern
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  Speaker 2: is the keeping illegal immigrants in the United States is
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  Speaker 2: like a central plank of the Democrat platform now, so
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  Speaker 2: somehow this will tangentially affect that and they may just
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  Speaker 2: not say anything about it, but they darn sure may
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  Speaker 2: not vote for it.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, Well, we will keep our hop
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  Speaker 1: card out and anticipation of that one, and finally we
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  Speaker 1: have the money, the two hundred and two million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It was ward of the state of Ohio as a
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  Speaker 1: consequence of your efforts. What's going on with this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it took a lot of people's efforts, Brian, I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate that this was huge just as part of the
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  Speaker 2: Big Beautiful Bill. The second District has the worst health
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  Speaker 2: outcomes in Ohio. You know, most chronic illnesses, shortest lifespan, obesity,
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  Speaker 2: the list goes on and on. And we have great
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  Speaker 2: community hospitals, we don't have nearly enough of them. We
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  Speaker 2: have amazing quality of care, but it's too hard to
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  Speaker 2: get to it, it's too expensive. All those things are
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  Speaker 2: still true, and the situation coming out of the Big
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful Bill is going to threaten the sustainability of our
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  Speaker 2: great community hospitals. And I want to especially thank not
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  Speaker 2: only President Trump, who played a huge role, of course,
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  Speaker 2: but Senator Houston and Senator Marino, because the bills already
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  Speaker 2: in their hands at that point, they did incredible work.
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  Speaker 2: Especially want to tip my hat to Senator Hustad who
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  Speaker 2: really did excellent work to make Ohio's outcome in that
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  Speaker 2: In that bill as good as could possibly be. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to I'm happy to share the information
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  Speaker 2: with your listeners. I don't want to take I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to take all the credit that those guys deserve.
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  Speaker 2: They did a great show. We did everything we could
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  Speaker 2: in our office to help it along, but really the
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  Speaker 2: hard work happened over there. But yeah, we'll get two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and two million dollars a year for five years
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  Speaker 2: to strengthen your rural hospitals and clinics and expand access
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  Speaker 2: to primary care, behavioral health services, modernized healthcare infrastructure, and
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  Speaker 2: you just improve the health outcomes for people in rural
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  Speaker 2: areas like the second district. The one thing I do
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  Speaker 2: want to add is several Ohio reps and myself, including
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  Speaker 2: Chairman Jordan and Mike Rouley, my good friend and my
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  Speaker 2: friend Larn Davidson spoke to earlier. We led a letter
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  Speaker 2: to Governor to Wine to make sure that when we
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  Speaker 2: get these dollars, they go to rural hospitals. There are
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  Speaker 2: dual designation hospitals that are both urban and rural, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm for all the good work all of them do.
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  Speaker 2: Not all of those dual designated ones have the financial
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  Speaker 2: issues that our real rural hospitals have, so I would
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  Speaker 2: like to see them prioritize and hopefully that's what I
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  Speaker 2: know the governor will do the right thing. He has
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  Speaker 2: a soft spot for Appalachia and we love that.
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  Speaker 1: That's wonderful. Congressman, it is pleasure always. As always, they
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  Speaker 1: have you on. Congressman David Taylor. I look forward to
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  Speaker 1: our further conversations and counter your twenty twenty six and
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  Speaker 1: again a very happy new year to you. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the work that you're doing on behalf of the Highlands
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  Speaker 1: and the country generally speaking. Keep up the great work
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  Speaker 1: and until our next conversation, best of health to you
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  Speaker 1: and your family.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend saying to you and yours.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you much. Stay around and I heard me the aviation.
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  Speaker 1: Next for Jay Rattleve it's new year. It's another segment
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  Speaker 1: with Jai