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Lee Elci, Voice of Freedom | Another Thursday in Paradise · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: Very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: And very passionately in some cases to the left. And
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  Speaker 2: the America that we inherited, the constitutional republic forged by
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  Speaker 2: free men and free women who risked everything for liberty,
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  Speaker 2: is under this coordinated assault.
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  Speaker 1: Not by accident, not by coincidence, it's by design.
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  Speaker 2: Throughout history, the communists, the way to seize and keep
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  Speaker 2: power has been clear. They would steal elections, lock out systems,
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  Speaker 2: lie to people.
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  Speaker 1: And we've watched that pattern play out right before our eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Question the integrity of our elections and you get smeared, censored, investigated.
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  Speaker 1: This huge push.
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  Speaker 2: To socialism slash communism is part of that plan. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: when you want to demand me, everyone listening, demand the
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  Speaker 2: most basic of safeguards for our elections, voter IDs, clean rolls,
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  Speaker 2: paper ballots in most cases, I'm labeled a threat to democracy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm labeled a right-wing lunatic, yet almost every day there
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  Speaker 2: is another case of either Thousands of people on rolls
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  Speaker 2: that shouldn't be there.
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  Speaker 1: People who shouldn't be voting, voting.
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  Speaker 2: Yet we're the ones that, we're the lunatics. Oh, there's
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  Speaker 2: never been anything proven. No widespread fraud. Well, every day
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  Speaker 2: there's a story. What's technically widespread?
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  Speaker 1: 50% fraud? 40% fraud? When does it become widespread?
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  Speaker 2: And this organized displacement of people in certain areas of
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  Speaker 2: this country has worked magnificently for the socialists of America,
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  Speaker 2: magnificently for the Muslims of America.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they run the.
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  Speaker 2: Show in many, many towns and in certain cities. You
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  Speaker 2: have to demand these safeguards. That's how free nations protect
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  Speaker 2: The integrity of elections. That's how regimes that fear the
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  Speaker 2: people protect the power. When one side treats every election
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  Speaker 2: challenge as illegitimate, yet whenever there's a contested outcome that
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  Speaker 2: favors them, then it's sacred.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: The more I get into this, the more I just
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  Speaker 2: feel like the whole system is filled with hypocrites. And
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  Speaker 2: if you really take a closer look, think about what
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  Speaker 2: is influencing Americans right now. Academia, the media, corporations. It's
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  Speaker 2: beginning to change the mindset, in particular of young Americans,
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  Speaker 2: folks who haven't been here very long, folks who haven't
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  Speaker 2: had maybe the same opportunities as me and you. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's certainly a difference in a couple of generations as
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  Speaker 2: far as wealth disbursement, how much things cost. Clearly, there's problems.
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  Speaker 2: No question about that.
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  Speaker 3: But a lot of those problems have been caused by
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  Speaker 3: policies that were put in place by either corrupt organizations,
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  Speaker 3: corrupt administrations, or.
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  Speaker 2: Administrations and people who wanted things to turn out a
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  Speaker 2: certain way, and it has turned out a certain way.
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  Speaker 2: Mass migration without assimilation, without vetting, for compatibility with the
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  Speaker 2: Western norms and without reinforcement of our laws and what
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  Speaker 2: we would consider consequences has consequences.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, 15 million, let's just be fair. 15 million
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  Speaker 1: people came in.
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  Speaker 2: Here during the Joe Biden regime. 15 million unvetted people.
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  Speaker 2: 15 million people who didn't want to assimilate to the culture.
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  Speaker 2: 15 million people to flood the housing market, the job market,
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  Speaker 2: to go to hospitals when they get sick. And these
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  Speaker 2: are people who are coming here from nations that are
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  Speaker 2: very impoverished, so they're coming here sick. And that has,
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  Speaker 2: in record speed, it has radically changed.
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  Speaker 1: How we do business every single day. And you don't
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  Speaker 1: see that, and you're not looking. You're not looking.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we got Jewish students now harassed on campuses
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  Speaker 2: once dedicated to free exchange.
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  Speaker 1: Of thought and idea. Death to America. Death to Jews
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  Speaker 1: is being chanted in America. This is not diversity.
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  Speaker 2: It's a demographic and ideological transformation that... essentially rejects the
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  Speaker 2: very idea of our individualism.
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: You don't believe that?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're witnessing a tactical merger of communism and
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  Speaker 2: of Islamic extremists united in one shared goal, the destruction
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  Speaker 2: of America as a free, sovereign, Judeo-Christian republic. Let me
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  Speaker 2: say that again, because that's probably the most important thing
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  Speaker 2: I've said tonight. It is a tactical merger of communists.
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  Speaker 2: Let me rephrase that. It's a tactical merger of communists
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  Speaker 2: disguised as socialists and Islamic extremists uniting under a shared umbrella,
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  Speaker 2: a shared goal, the destruction of America as a free, sovereign,
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  Speaker 2: Judeo-Christian republic. Pocket by pocket, town by town, city by city,
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  Speaker 2: it's slowly happening.
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  Speaker 1: Prove me wrong. Naysayers will shrug their shoulders and say, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not happening.
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  Speaker 2: And all I got to do is point to Europe
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  Speaker 2: and say, well, it's already happened there. So either we
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  Speaker 2: can sit here on our hands and just let it
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  Speaker 2: happen here and.
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  Speaker 1: Accept the consequences.
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  Speaker 2: See, there are people out there that will just be
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  Speaker 2: willing because they It is what it is to accept
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  Speaker 2: those consequences.
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  Speaker 1: You understand that, right? That's a mindset. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if more Muslims are coming, then so be it. That's
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  Speaker 1: the way it's destined to be. Really?
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  Speaker 2: So the land that your forefathers fought for and built,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to throw in the toilet because of bad
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  Speaker 2: political policies that have allowed millions of people to come
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  Speaker 2: in and not want.
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  Speaker 1: To join in your cultural mindset.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, they want to bring theirs to you and demand
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  Speaker 2: that you be absorbed into theirs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to go for that.
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  Speaker 2: Sanctuary policies, lawbreakers, like bad lawbreakers being let out.
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  Speaker 1: Police being demonized.
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  Speaker 2: Judges inventing novel rights to block deportation. ICE being vilified. Politicians,
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  Speaker 2: strong stand-up politicians being lectured about compassion while American communities
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  Speaker 2: absorb the cost of crime, education, hospitals, wages.
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  Speaker 1: All these kids that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you play the little tiny violin for that
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  Speaker 2: are coming in are going to the schools and soaking
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  Speaker 2: up resources that your kids should be having, using. Multiple
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  Speaker 2: language people have to be brought in. These classes move
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  Speaker 2: at a snail's pace because these kids can't speak the
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  Speaker 2: same language as your kids. And instead of removing them
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  Speaker 2: from the class and putting them in a special location,
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  Speaker 2: they keep them there and everybody else falls behind.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not about compassion.
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  Speaker 2: We're a melting pot, but we're a melting pot under
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  Speaker 2: the umbrella of the Judeo-Christian melting pot. We're not a
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  Speaker 2: melting pot where you come here and you bring your
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  Speaker 2: experience your ways and your beliefs along and expect the
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  Speaker 2: rest of us to be absorbed by you. No, you
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  Speaker 2: get absorbed by us. It's not bigotry. Borders aren't bigotry.
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  Speaker 2: Enforcing law is not extremism. I mean, it's the minimum
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  Speaker 2: requirement for any functioning state.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I know I've talked about this a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But anti-Semitism is out of control. And anti-American exceptionalism is
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  Speaker 2: out of control.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look around, man. Take a look around. It's already here.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I know it was all over the place, but I
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  Speaker 2: tell you what, we'll probably, the best way for us
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  Speaker 2: to end this segment is probably to be saved by
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  Speaker 2: the president.
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  Speaker 1: The brilliance of.
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  Speaker 4: The 45th president of the United States, Donald J.
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  Speaker 5: Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when Michigan used to be one of our
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  Speaker 2: great states, a great Trump state.
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  Speaker 6: By the way.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on.
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  Speaker 2: You may not be able to hear from the president
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  Speaker 2: because nothing works in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 7: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: I'm literally like Fonzie with the jukebox banging on.
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  Speaker 1: The board to try to get it to work.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We won't be able to hear any music apparently today.
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  Speaker 1: Good Thursday morning, everyone. Our first check out in the roads.
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  Speaker 2: when you're wandering around today looking for... to purchase some
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  Speaker 1: Over in Waterford.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we have a very special guest joining us
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  Speaker 2: right now. He's running for Congress. And we'll get to
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  Speaker 2: know him first, Dr. Stephen Scully.
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  Speaker 1: Doc, good morning. How are you?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning. Thank you very much for having me.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on. So, you know, usually.
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  Speaker 2: When our first conversations, first time we get a chance
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  Speaker 2: to talk, we just want to get to know you.
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  Speaker 2: So people out there listening who maybe don't have access
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  Speaker 2: to your bio or that kind of stuff, tell everybody
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about you, where you practiced, where you
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  Speaker 2: went to school, all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: I actually grew up in, was born in Rockville, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 4: After high school, my undergraduate education was at Assumption University
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  Speaker 4: in Worcester, where I currently sit on the board. I
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  Speaker 4: was listening to your segment about UConn. I went to
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  Speaker 4: medical school at UConn in Farmington. And then from there,
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  Speaker 4: I trained and did my postdoc. And I worked at
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  Speaker 4: America's first level one trauma center in Chicago, Illinois, at
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  Speaker 4: Cook County Hospital. I relocated back to New England in 1987.
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  Speaker 4: Always been a part of southern New England. When we
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  Speaker 4: grew up, we were at the Rhode Island Beaches. all
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  Speaker 4: the time. I love the Ocean State, and I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to come back here. I've been practicing oral and maxillofacial
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  Speaker 4: surgeon here since 1987. Worked at most of the hospitals
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  Speaker 4: in Central Rhode Island. Been a part of some of
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  Speaker 4: the state institutions, Eleanor Slater, Zamberano, even the White Detention Center,
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  Speaker 4: the Adult Correctional Institute, and even did some consulting for
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  Speaker 4: the State of Rhode Island Medical Examiner's Office. I love
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  Speaker 4: the Ocean State. And I'm running for Congress because I
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  Speaker 4: think Rhode Island needs new representation and better representation for
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  Speaker 4: the constituents that I will represent in the second congressional district.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have what appears to be a great life,
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  Speaker 2: great career, all of that stuff, and you've decided to
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  Speaker 2: step out of the comfort zone. Now, have you ever
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  Speaker 2: run for anything before, or is this your first go?
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  Speaker 4: I have never run for a public office. I've been
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  Speaker 4: involved in public policy, though, for a long, long time.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 4: In a strange, ironic twist, I was even in Washington
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  Speaker 4: under the guidance of Senator John Chafee many, many years
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  Speaker 4: ago in the early 90s when health care reform was beginning.
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  Speaker 4: They would start to work on what would eventually morph
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  Speaker 4: into the Affordable Care Act with HillaryCare. And I was
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  Speaker 4: a guest of, like I said, Senator John Chafee in
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  Speaker 4: the Durson office building. That's when I kind of began
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  Speaker 4: looking at public policy issues. especially as it related to
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  Speaker 4: health care. And the Affordable Care Act was actually kind
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  Speaker 4: of an arm of HillaryCare, and one of the correspondents
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  Speaker 4: on that, believe it or not, like I said, in
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  Speaker 4: an ironic twist, was Seth Magaziner's father, Ira. So I've
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  Speaker 4: been involved in health care policy for a long, long time.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad you brought that up first because this
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  Speaker 2: has been a theme, de facto theme of the show today.
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  Speaker 2: aside from our championing of law enforcement early on, we've
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  Speaker 2: sort of morphed into this idea of socialized medicine with socialism.
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  Speaker 1: Being everywhere now.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere you look, every race has a socialist candidate in it. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've been talking about socialized medicine. And right now, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: what we have, I think, in this country, people are
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  Speaker 2: paying in exorbitant amounts for insurance premiums. Their deductibles in
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  Speaker 2: some cases are thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 2: on top of what they already pay, and maybe they
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  Speaker 2: don't get a chance to see the people that they
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  Speaker 2: want to see. It's not really set up for the
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  Speaker 2: everyday man. So, Doc, how can we fix this?
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  Speaker 1: What's up?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's certainly a loaded question. We don't have enough
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  Speaker 4: time for that, but I will give you my Reader's
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  Speaker 4: Digest version. First of all, that's part of why I'm
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  Speaker 4: running the– Congressional delegation here includes all our congressional delegation.
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  Speaker 4: They're morphing more towards socialism. Socialism and socialized medicine, it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't work. I'm for democracy and capitalism versus communism and socialism.
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  Speaker 4: The more I see this morph towards socialism, our congressional
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  Speaker 4: delegation is letting the DSA, that new DSA component, which
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  Speaker 4: wants socialized everything... you know, have a head start in advance.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it doesn't work. Getting back to the expense
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  Speaker 4: of healthcare, I'm actually working on a digital platform with
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  Speaker 4: some of my sophisticated colleagues overseeing what is driving the
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  Speaker 4: high cost of healthcare. And the National Institute of Health
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  Speaker 4: recently projected that 20 to almost 40% of healthcare premium
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  Speaker 4: costs are due to unnecessary care in our healthcare system.
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  Speaker 4: That's generated by the lack of primary care, and it's
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  Speaker 4: also generated by the overuse of our emergency rooms. Now,
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  Speaker 4: that's happened because we have some policies for years and
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  Speaker 4: years and years. The unfettered immigration is taxing not only
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  Speaker 4: the healthcare system, but housing and things like that. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the challenge is And I say to everybody, I'm certainly
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  Speaker 4: not going to fix health care in America overnight. That's
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  Speaker 4: way too big a task by one individual. But we
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  Speaker 4: have to start challenging some of these big components that
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  Speaker 4: take such a bite out of the American taxpayer and
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  Speaker 4: the family's budget, health care being one. The challenge in
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  Speaker 4: health care is a lot of the big insurance companies,
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  Speaker 4: and I can even throw the biopharmaceuticals into that, They're
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  Speaker 4: making a lot of money right now. Those companies are
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  Speaker 4: very successful. They're reluctant to change. The system works for them.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't work for the average American family. It doesn't
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  Speaker 4: work for the taxpayer. It doesn't work for the businesses
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  Speaker 4: that are paying those premiums. It's going to take, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 4: a bipartisan approach to really solve some of these big
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  Speaker 4: problems in America. It's not going to happen on a
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  Speaker 4: partisan basis, and it's not going to happen overnight. That's
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  Speaker 4: where I think I offer an advantage. I want to
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  Speaker 4: be the reasonable, practical, pragmatic adult in the room with
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  Speaker 4: common sense, making some of these decisions. And when I
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  Speaker 4: make these decisions, quite honestly, they're going to be based
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  Speaker 4: on the people that I represent. Every decision, every policy
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  Speaker 4: I look at is going to be predicated on what
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  Speaker 4: is in the best interest of the people that I represent,
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  Speaker 4: what's in the best interest of Rhode Island families, businesses,
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  Speaker 4: and the taxpayers. It's going to be a formidable task,
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  Speaker 4: and it's not going to happen overnight, but we have
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  Speaker 4: to address that. There are some big ticket items facing
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  Speaker 4: America going forward. Health care is one of them. Our
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  Speaker 4: big national debt is another one. The unfunded liabilities of Medicare,
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  Speaker 4: Social Security, and the medical benefits for our military are
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  Speaker 4: Those are huge issues. They're not going to be addressed overnight.
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  Speaker 4: They need to be addressed once and for all. We
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  Speaker 4: can't kick the can down any further on some of
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  Speaker 4: these big issues.
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  Speaker 2: All the things you just mentioned are obviously very serious issues.
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  Speaker 2: With socialism being one of the things that's in the
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  Speaker 2: sites of conversation that we're all having, everyone's talking about
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  Speaker 2: these socialized candidates across the country. It started with Mondami
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  Speaker 2: and now It's spreading like wildfire in these different races. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some people are saying they're not serious candidates
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  Speaker 2: when they go toe to toe against either a regular
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  Speaker 2: Democrat or a Republican and a general.
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  Speaker 1: But they just keep seemingly they keep winning.
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  Speaker 2: And the conversations that I always have is that we're
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  Speaker 2: already partially a hybrid socialized nation with whether it's Medicare
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  Speaker 2: or Medicaid. So Medicare. As a general thought, though, in
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  Speaker 2: your mind, does it work? Because, I mean, if one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that when you're out there on the
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  Speaker 2: stump talking to people and they ask you about socialized X, Y,
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  Speaker 2: and Z, you can just point to Medicare and say, well,
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  Speaker 2: it really doesn't work as well as it's supposed to,
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  Speaker 2: or does it work?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you have different feelings about that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Medicare works to a certain component, and you're right.
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  Speaker 4: It is a hybrid already. Medicare is a little different.
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  Speaker 4: Medicare is not a government entitlement. Those who have worked
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  Speaker 4: in the system have already contributed to their Medicare through
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  Speaker 4: their earnings over time. The same goes with Social Security.
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  Speaker 4: Social Security is equally as important. I mean, I remember
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  Speaker 4: when I was young, I started working young. I was
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  Speaker 4: always a hard worker, and I'd get a Social Security statement,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: and it literally would say, your Social Security benefits are
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: guaranteed until the year 2085. That's when they would send
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: you a statement.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Then, you know, I got a statement like 10 years later,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: and it said Social Security benefits are guaranteed to the year.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: I'm going to make the number of it. It might
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: have said 2060. And then it was 2050, then 45,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: then 38. Well, you saw the most recent numbers. Your
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Social Security benefits, and these are benefits that people have
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: already paid for. They are only guaranteed to the year
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: 2032 at best. And then some of your benefit might
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: be reduced by up to like 20%.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: That's a socialism system that is beginning to fail. Again,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: socialism around the world, there's no good country that has
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: 100% socialism that isn't communism or some type of tyranny.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: I think it's very troubling and challenging and disturbing to
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: look at the city of Providence right now in the
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: mayoral race, where one of the candidates is advocating for
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: the city of Providence to be a municipal... laboratory for socialism.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: That is scary. And that's what's occurring in some of
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: the municipalities and communities around the country. And if that
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: type of DSA has a very strong, you know, ground
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: game and they get into some of these primaries and win,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: that mentality is starting to get a foothold. That needs
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: to be addressed. And that's certainly one of the things
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I'm going to challenge everybody on capitalism and democracy works.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Capitalism is what made this country so great. When this
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: country does well, quite honestly, the rest of the world
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: does well, and capitalism leads to the highest quality of
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: life that we've ever had. We really don't want to
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: reject that notion at all.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, is this all– in your opinion, is this
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: being born from this– This feeling in particular with the
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: younger generation of kids who can't buy their own home,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: like they can't afford it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: It's too expensive.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: It's half a million dollars for the average house now.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Kids coming out of college are saddled with $ 100, 000 in
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: debt from just a student loan. So it's compiled on
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: top of all that. It's something that our parents didn't
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: have to deal with, right? I mean, one house, one
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: income households could own a house. Is that something that
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: you think is feeding into this idea of this romantic
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: idea of socialism?
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Sure. Some of the younger generation. And, you know, that's
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: happened with maybe some of the indoctrination and some of
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: our educational system over the years. Certainly, you know, the
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: COVID pandemic. That didn't help any of this. There was
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: a sense of, well, you know, we didn't do anything
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: for six months and we all still lived. and maybe
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: we can survive on government benefits and entitlement as well.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: You can survive on it, but you don't flourish and
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: prosper like that. And we have to bring our young
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: population back into the fold about what made America great,
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: and it wasn't socialism. It was the freedoms generated by
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: our Constitution and capitalism. But I understand their frustration. When
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: you look at, and I think there's got to be
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: some big momentum to address that problem for young people.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: We're looking at another concept. Many, many years ago, when
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: the big banks in America were bailed out in the
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: banking crisis, we saved them. The government saved them. Well,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: maybe it's time for some of the big banks to
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: have a more affordable initial package for young people to
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: buy housing. That's complicated as well by the fact that
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Certainly in Rhode Island and Connecticut, there's a supply and
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: demand issue with the housing component. Well, some of that's
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: generated by just the immigration that we've had. Some of
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: it legal, some of it, a lot of it illegal.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: The immigration that we've had into southern Rhode Island, as
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: we represent somewhat of a sanctuary-type state, when you have
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: all that immigration, people need housing. They challenge the housing market,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: that supply and demand. They challenge the public school system.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: You know, the more students you have, legal or illegal,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: the more the tax burden goes on the municipality. And
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: it's certainly challenging, you know, the hospitals and the emergency rooms.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: You know, they're mandated by federal law to see patients
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: that enter the emergency room when they get federal funds.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: It's very complicated, and it's not going to be fixed. overnight,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: but the long-term continuity of our republic depends on doing
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: the right thing.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: We're talking to, again, Dr. Stephen Scully, who's joining us.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of time left. I just
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: wanted to ask you one more, just a general thought.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: By the way, you can go on his website, and
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: we'll give that again one more time before we go,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: with scullyforcongress.com. And How about just the general thought of
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: restoring some accountability in Washington?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: To me, I mean, I know your.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Campaign centers on limited government, common sense, all of that.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: It seems like, though, we're talking about 11%, 12% approval
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: rating for some of these folks in Congress, which to
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: me is unacceptable. I mean, you have to be accountable
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: for what you've done and what you haven't done.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: So where are you on that?
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's a huge challenge. The deep administrative state
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: that controls a lot of what goes on in Washington–
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, I was down in Washington a couple weeks ago.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: It's a huge complex. The deep administrative state, no matter
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: what department you're looking at, they're there to protect themselves.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: I don't think they want accountability. We do, the taxpayer,
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: those that are represented by them. But even our congressional
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: delegation– They're talking about accountability. I guess I couldn't be
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: more pleased to see somewhat of the vindication of the
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: CDC and Dr. Fauci last week. But will we really
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: have accountability there? I don't think we're ever going to
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: really know what truly went on. And I don't know
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: if anybody's ever going to be held accountable for that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: that's a challenge.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we talk about this all the time, Doc, until
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: people are showing on national TV and nightly news and,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you know, belly chains of the perp walk. You know,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: all of us out here feel like nothing's getting done.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: We can scream and yell at the wind, but, you know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: the powerful just stay powerful, right?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's just the way I feel about it.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, some of our delegation, there's a big
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: push for the Stock Act, you know, stop trading on
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: congressional knowledge.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's capitalism. I think that's Smoke and mirrors.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: We have an SEC. We have a Securities and Exchange Commission.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: That's their function. We also have House and Senate oversight.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: So if somebody has done something illegal, you don't need
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: another act. You do just what you said. You have
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: some accountability. You have some transparency. And you take those
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: people to task for it. You either remove them from office.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: You expose it. They need to be exposed for their
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: bad public policy. They're not elected again. Or, like you said,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: they do the perp walk. That has to start happening. Otherwise,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: you get this cycle of complacency that's existing in America
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: in the elections right now where people feel so oppressed.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: What can I really do about it? That's not me
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: right now. Maybe I'm not going to be successful in
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: this endeavor, but I'm certainly going to try. And I'm
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: going to challenge all bad policy. I'm going to do
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: whatever is in the best interest of the people that
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: I'm going to represent in the state of Rhode Island.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: So, Doc, give everybody a place where they can find
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: you again. And if you're going to be out and about,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: and we've got a lot of folks who listen in
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Rhode Island, where would they go to see you, maybe
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: shake a hand, all that good stuff?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: What do they do?
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Sure. Follow me at doc at scoleyforcongress.com. We're out and
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: about all the time, all across southern Rhode Island, all
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: across my congressional district. In fact, we've even put a
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: plane up. go for congress.com on the weekends going up
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: and down the beaches. I'll be at the beaches. I'll
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: be at all the town events. I'll be wherever I
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: can to get some input from those and see what's
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: resonating out there and see what's most important for them.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: And that's what I'm going to address. And I appreciate
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: all the follow-up. I feel like at this point that
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I'm not running for Congress. I feel like we are
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: running for Congress. just to bring that common sense, practical
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: approach to Washington.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Gotcha. Hey, it was great. Actually, it was great talking
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to you. I appreciate it. Maybe we can do it
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: again down the road for sure.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I know there's a couple months left until the election,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: but I'm sure we can squeeze in another call or two.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I would love the opportunity.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: You were very easy and kind with me today. I
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: appreciate it very much. You can ask me anything you want.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Sounds good.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: And I'll be as forthcoming.
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: As I can.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: All right, brother. Have a good one. I'll talk to
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you soon.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: You got it. All right, we've got to go.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: We're out of time, running late as always. So enjoy
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: the rest of your hump day. We'll do it all
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: over again tomorrow. Gallagher hits the airwaves next. Until then,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: we'll see you.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, officially. And our very good friend, Red Janky,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: joins us at the same bad time each and every week.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: So we'll remind everybody that you can find Red online
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: at the-red-line.com. That's the-red-line.com. A fantastic columnist, a writer, extraordinaire.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: And you can find his work in places like the
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal, Real Clear Politics, of course, local papers
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Red, good morning. How are you, sir?
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: Hey, I'm good, Lee.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: How are you?
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I'm doing good.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: So I know I got a lot of stuff for
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: you to talk about, but I wanted to ask you
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: one question before we dove into some of the economics
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: of this stuff. We had on a former state trooper,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: and he's a regular as well, and a former union president,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: and he says that you pick on state employees. And
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I tried to defend the fact that I don't think
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: you're picking on the employees so much as you're picking
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: on the system.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I just wanted you to clarify that.
• 33:50
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think he's being a little bit sensitive and
• 33:55
  Speaker 12: defensive because what I've been citing is just pure data.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: The data is that state.
• 34:01
  Speaker 12: Employees, all state employees, are the second highest paid state
• 34:07
  Speaker 12: employees in all 50 states.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: I think the state police.
• 34:14
  Speaker 12: are something like this third or fourth highest paid state
• 34:19
  Speaker 12: police of all 50 states.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: The point is that state police in.
• 34:26
  Speaker 12: The 46 states where they're paid less do the same work.
• 34:35
  Speaker 12: Why aren't state police doing the very same work? being
• 34:40
  Speaker 12: paid so much more i think in the case of
• 34:42
  Speaker 12: state state police they're paid thirty five thousand dollars more
• 34:47
  Speaker 12: than the national average well.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you one question on top of that
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: just uh and then we can get to what you
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: wanted to talk about because this is a question i've
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: been asking everybody state police here in connecticut it's almost
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: at a historic low i mean they're supposed to be
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: 1200 i think 43 or 1285 maybe it's the number
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: it's 12 something And we're probably in the 700s, and
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: they can't fill those ranks. And coming up in two years,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: there is going to be a mass exodus in state
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: police officers.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: The folks don't know that, but it's coming. So, Red,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, despite the.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Fact that you're saying they're the third most well-compensated group
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: in the country, how are you going to bring these
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: cops back in after, you know, all the animosity that
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: has come from Democrats pointed directly at police officers in
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: this state.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: How are you going to fill those ranks again?
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Exactly what you just referred to.
• 35:42
  Speaker 12: We repeal all the anti-police legislation that the Democrats have passed.
• 35:49
  Speaker 12: The Police Accountability Act, which puts policemen personally on the hook.
• 35:57
  Speaker 12: Their net worth on the hook in case they're found
• 36:04
  Speaker 12: not to have followed every.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: Rule exactly as it.
• 36:12
  Speaker 12: Is printed on paper. We don't hold the perks to that.
• 36:18
  Speaker 12: You know, there's all kinds of forgiveness for criminals, and
• 36:25
  Speaker 12: everything's rehabilitation, everything's slanted in their way. It's time to
• 36:29
  Speaker 12: give the police their jobs back. That's number one. Number two, if.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: You need to hire.
• 36:36
  Speaker 12: You don't need to pay the in-ranks police officers who
• 36:41
  Speaker 12: are there now.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Pay a signing bonus. That's targeted.
• 36:48
  Speaker 12: That pays the people you need, specifically new officers. And
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: it doesn't further feather the bed. of the existing ranks
• 36:58
  Speaker 12: who is, I just rattled off, it's pure fact, it
• 37:01
  Speaker 12: comes from the U.S.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: Census Bureau, and the U.S.
• 37:04
  Speaker 12: Census Bureau gets its data directly from the state comptroller's office.
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: This is not survey data.
• 37:12
  Speaker 12: Where they ask, you know, five out of 100,000 people,
• 37:17
  Speaker 12: what do you think? This is the actual payroll data
• 37:20
  Speaker 12: from the Connecticut state comptroller's office.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: All right, Red Janky with us.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can pick this up next time or down
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: the road for sure with a little bit more detail
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: from my end, and I'll ask you some more detailed
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: questions about some of this stuff.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: But I do like your idea.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: About a signing bonus, too. I think that's something we
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: can cultivate. But let's talk about the September effect. I
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: know you wanted to talk about that. The stock market
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: is as high as it's ever been, Red, you know,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: higher than it's ever been. So what's going on with
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: the September effect?
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 37:51
  Speaker 12: The September effect is, on average, the stock market corrects
• 37:56
  Speaker 12: in September more than in any other month. It's proven
• 38:01
  Speaker 12: out by the data. It has seat of the pants
• 38:07
  Speaker 12: plausibility to it. Everybody goes off in the summer and
• 38:11
  Speaker 12: whether it's the beginning of July, mid-July, beginning of August,
• 38:16
  Speaker 12: they would float off into summer wonderland and kind of
• 38:20
  Speaker 12: lose track of.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Where things are. The stock market has floated up.
• 38:26
  Speaker 12: I think all three averages have hit all-time highs over
• 38:31
  Speaker 12: the last– sometime over the last 30 days. There's plenty
• 38:37
  Speaker 12: of documentation that the stock market is– valuation is as
• 38:42
  Speaker 12: high as it has ever been in financial history. So
• 38:48
  Speaker 12: it's kind of ripe for a fall. The seasonality suggests
• 38:52
  Speaker 12: that it makes sense. And then you have some pretty
• 38:58
  Speaker 12: major figures who are talking in some pretty concerned fashion.
• 39:06
  Speaker 12: We can roll through this if you'd like.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead. Let me hear what they have to say.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: What are they talking about?
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: Well, the former U.S.
• 39:17
  Speaker 12: Secretary of the Treasury, Hank Paulson, back in April on
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: TV said that we need a break the glass. emergency
• 39:31
  Speaker 12: plan ready to go into effect if the market for U.S.
• 39:38
  Speaker 12: Treasuries freezes up, there's no buying interest to buy Treasuries,
• 39:44
  Speaker 12: and the only buyer will be the Federal Reserve Bank,
• 39:47
  Speaker 12: which is basically printing money. That's not a fringe doomsday.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Voice. That's a former U.S.
• 40:00
  Speaker 12: Treasury secretary. Two weeks ago, Jamie Dimon, CEO of the
• 40:06
  Speaker 12: largest bank in the nation, JPMorgan Chase, said, I would
• 40:11
  Speaker 12: not buy 10-year treasuries at their current yield.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: What was the reason behind that? Why did he say that?
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: Insufficient compensation for the risk involved.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 40:25
  Speaker 12: Primarily, inflation outlook. You've got Michael Burry, who was, you know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 12: the short seller in the big short. If you recall
• 40:42
  Speaker 12: the movie about the 2007-2008 financial collapse. Right.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: Caused by the housing market.
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: Michael Burry became a billionaire because he saw that coming
• 40:56
  Speaker 12: and he invested accordingly.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: He has said we're in for a fall right now.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Would that self-correct happen then? Is that what you're sort
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: of focusing on? We're going to get a sort of,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: not a collapse, but a correction in September. I mean,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: we're at 54 and change today. I mean, just the
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: other day it was 50. I mean, you know, are
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: we going to go back down to the mid-40s, 40,000?
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: What's coming, Red, in your mind?
• 41:29
  Speaker 12: Yeah, again, these pretty prominent names would not be stepping
• 41:35
  Speaker 12: forward if there were not real concern underlying all of this.
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: You know, another phrase.
• 41:43
  Speaker 12: That could be applicable here is irrational exuberance. That's another
• 41:49
  Speaker 12: Treasury secretary from the, quote, aughts, right? Greenspan, just before
• 41:58
  Speaker 12: the dot-com bubble burst back in 2000, said, this is
• 42:05
  Speaker 12: all irrational exuberance.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: That was dot-com. Maybe that's AI today.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Red Janky is our guest. You can find him, the-red-line.com.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: That's the-red-line.com. Great stuff on his website. He joins us
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: once a week to chat. It's either about money. In
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: some cases, we talk about the news of the day
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: and the Middle East and things of that nature. Today,
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: we're talking about the stock market and the potential self-correct
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: in September.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: All right, what else are we missing? Anything else out
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: there we need to know?
• 42:41
  Speaker 12: Well, it's a drum I've been beating on, which is
• 42:46
  Speaker 12: in so far as the national debt, U.S. Treasuries, the
• 42:49
  Speaker 12: principal amount is inconceivable. No one can really wrap their
• 42:55
  Speaker 12: mind around numbers in the trillions. We're up at $ 32 trillion.
• 43:01
  Speaker 12: In less than four years, we've gone from $ 24 to
• 43:04
  Speaker 12: $ 32 trillion. which is a one-third increase again in less
• 43:09
  Speaker 12: than four years. But that's just somehow impossible to wrap
• 43:17
  Speaker 12: your mind around. What is possible is the interest cost
• 43:21
  Speaker 12: on that.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: And in the last.
• 43:23
  Speaker 12: Four years, that has doubled. We've gone from less than
• 43:26
  Speaker 12: a half trillion to over a trillion.
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: That has doubled. to be paid.
• 43:33
  Speaker 12: That's a trillion dollars out of $ 7 trillion of spending.
• 43:38
  Speaker 12: That's our federal budget. One-seventh of spending is now just
• 43:43
  Speaker 12: to pay interest. And that is not a number that's
• 43:48
  Speaker 12: going to go down because the outstanding Treasury debt, most
• 43:55
  Speaker 12: of it, was issued in the low interest rate teens' decades.
• 44:02
  Speaker 12: under quantitative easing, and then you have the zero interest
• 44:06
  Speaker 12: rate that was issued during the COVID era. All of
• 44:11
  Speaker 12: that is repricing substantially higher, just on a rollover basis.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: You know, obviously, this is something me and you have
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: been talking about for as long as.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: We've been talking. We've been talking about the national debt forever.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: And, you know, I can remember us having conversations yesterday
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: where it was a half a trillion dollars, even lower
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: than that, having concerns about it then.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: And here we are now at a trillion-plus.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: And, you know, I can't stress enough to the people
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: that are listening, that's a trillion dollars in just the interest.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: That's a trillion dollars. People talk about, hey, how can
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: we help the health care system? How can we, you know,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: make the roads and bridges better? How can we keep
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: homeless folks off the street? Well, a trillion dollars a
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: year thrown at that would do a lot for all
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: of that and then some. And yet all we're doing
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: is basically funding this insanity that we have. This is
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: all comes down to these programs and this waste. And
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: this abuse of taxpayer dollars, which it's not even taxpayer dollars.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: They're just printing money. I don't even think they think
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: they're going to get this money back, Red.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: No, I mean, you're very close to it.
• 45:22
  Speaker 12: You maybe have been reaching for it in your short-term memory.
• 45:26
  Speaker 12: But the term was helicopter money, right? There are flying
• 45:31
  Speaker 12: helicopters across the nation and dropping dollar bills out the
• 45:36
  Speaker 12: door to stimulate the economy. Talk about printing money. That's
• 45:43
  Speaker 12: printing and distributing it. That was the term of the
• 45:48
  Speaker 12: art five years ago. So craziness, sure. Absolutely complete craziness.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: But the concern is when there's this kind of an issue, right,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: you always want to think of a solution. We're smart.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: We're intelligent human beings. We can try to figure our
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: way out.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: We can navigate our way out of this.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: But it's like that– diabolical credit card debt that somebody
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: might have. Like if you're, if you, if your salary
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: is $ 50, 000 a year and somehow you've accumulated $ 35, 000 in
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: credit card debt.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: You're never paying it back. It's not happening.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: So, you know, you're going to have to file bankruptcy
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: somewhere along the line.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: We really can't do that as a nation.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: So the problem that I have, and I'm sure you
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: have the same, you know, same feelings is that what
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: do we do?
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: How do you fix this?
• 46:40
  Speaker 12: Well, I think there are some broad strokes things that, that,
• 46:44
  Speaker 12: Most of the audience, maybe not on your broadcast, but
• 46:49
  Speaker 12: certainly in the state of Connecticut, don't embrace. But Donald
• 46:57
  Speaker 12: Trump is doing some things to address this. First thing
• 47:00
  Speaker 12: is immigration. There is a crazy notion abroad in the land.
• 47:06
  Speaker 12: It's been embedded into the national psyche that you know,
• 47:13
  Speaker 12: immigration strengthens us.
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: Well, sorry, folks.
• 47:18
  Speaker 12: When somebody comes across the border as a refugee, either
• 47:24
  Speaker 12: political or economic, they're coming with nothing. So it is absolutely,
• 47:30
  Speaker 12: you know, you cannot deny that we are supporting them.
• 47:44
  Speaker 12: We are subsidizing people who come with nothing. So shutting
• 47:49
  Speaker 12: the borders cuts down on that expense.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I agree with that.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I just think somewhere along the line, we've got to
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: figure out a way to put dents in this, and
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: it just doesn't seem like it's eventually or it's ever
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: going to be possible. So Red Janky with us. Red,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: we're running short on time. The-Red-Line.com. Anything new coming out
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: we need to know about?
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: Same old, same old.
• 48:14
  Speaker 12: I'm banging the drum that I've been banging for years,
• 48:19
  Speaker 12: as you just acknowledged.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: That's okay.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to see if we got some new
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: column we got to have our eyes out for so
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: we can repost it for everybody.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy. Have a good one.
• 48:32
  Speaker 12: We can't talk to you, so we can't get off
• 48:35
  Speaker 12: of the dire stuff and talk about the fun stuff.
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: That'll have to wait another month and a half.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy. Have a good one. Thank you, Red.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Red Janky joins us once a week. All right, we've
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: got to take a break. We'll come back top of
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: the hour next.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Stick around.
• 48:55
  Speaker 10: U.S.
• 48:55
  Speaker 7: Congressman.
• 48:56
  Speaker 10: He earned two bronze star medals in Vietnam and later
• 48:59
  Speaker 10: joined the CIA.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: He is the one guest who.
• 49:02
  Speaker 13: Can actually kill you with the flick of his finger.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Can I get a hoorah?
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: You can't handle the truth.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Rob Simms. All righty, man. He is here. He is
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: fired up. He is ready to go. So much to
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: talk about. So let's just dive into it. Everything okay?
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: You good?
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: Am I good?
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're good. No, I'm not. What's the matter?
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: Hey, you know, if you got drafted when you were
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: graduating from college.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right.
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: And you get drafted, and you didn't get drafted to
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: play ball.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: No.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: No.
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: I mean, that would be great.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: You say, hey, guess what? Mom, Dad, guess what? I
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: just got drafted. I'm going to be in, what do
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: you think, the American League?
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Sure, that's fine.
• 49:48
  Speaker 8: Which team?
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: The Yankees? Okay. Yeah, I got.
• 49:51
  Speaker 8: Drafted by the Yankees.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: All right, that's great.
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: They're paying me money.
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 49:55
  Speaker 8: I'm going to play ball.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Fabulous.
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: Exciting.
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:58
  Speaker 8: Well, what happened to me?
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Well, you got drafted.
• 50:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I did.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but not by the Yankees.
• 50:03
  Speaker 8: No, I don't play balls. I don't play baseball.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: No.
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: Or basketball or football.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: No.
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: I play the sport that nobody pays for.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:11
  Speaker 8: I mean, I'm a runner.
• 50:13
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: A runner, marathons. Who pays for a runner?
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Not really.
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: Have you ever gone to, it's like the guys riding
• 50:20
  Speaker 8: the bikes in France. They're riding the bikes in France.
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: These little skinny guys on the bikes are going 50
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: miles an hour. They're going straight up a mountain, you know,
• 50:29
  Speaker 8: and they're making millions of dollars riding a bike. Yeah.
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: But what if I was running around France?
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: I was running with my shoes and my skivvies.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Not quite as exciting.
• 50:39
  Speaker 8: You think if I was running up and down the
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: mountains in France, they'd give me millions of dollars?
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: No, nobody pays runners anything.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: But I didn't get drafted by a running club. I
• 50:49
  Speaker 8: was a member of a running club, but I didn't
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: get drafted. I got drafted by the Army.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay? Okay.
• 50:54
  Speaker 8: And here I am at a Quaker college, anti-war.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Anti-war.
• 50:57
  Speaker 8: We're against the war. Fight the war.
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 50:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah. And what did they do when they drafted me?
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: They sent you somewhere.
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: They sent me to the war.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: And who were we fighting?
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Fighting against the Vietnamese.
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, what kind of Vietnamese?
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Well, the bad ones. The bad ones. The commies. Yeah,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: the commies.
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: We were fighting the commies, Lee.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: And the Korean War, who did we fight?
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: Commies.
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: Commies.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:19
  Speaker 8: And who are we fighting now? The Chinese?
• 51:21
  Speaker 12: Commies.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Commies.
• 51:22
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: We're fighting the commies.
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: Always.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: All over the place.
• 51:25
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 51:25
  Speaker 8: And now, I'm waking up.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:29
  Speaker 8: And it can't get worse than this.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: Not only do we have this guy, El Saeed. From Egypt. Egypt.
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: Where's Egypt?
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: You know where Egypt is? Middle East.
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: Somewhere over there. Yeah. Muslim.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Muslim. That's right.
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: Not only have the Democrats elected a Muslim.
• 51:49
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: These are the people that blew up the World Trade Center.
• 51:52
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: Remember? 3,000 people dead.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: Including 12 from my district. Josh Piver from my town. 3,000
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: people dead. He's yucking it up with his buddies saying, hey,
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: that was good.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: That was cool. That was good. So he's a Muslim.
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: I guess he believes in killing Americans.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I guess, yeah.
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: Because he's celebrating 9-11, right?
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: So not only have we elected a Muslim, the Democrats have,
• 52:19
  Speaker 8: to run for the Senate in Michigan, but he's also
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: a commie.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a commie.
• 52:24
  Speaker 8: So, hello. First of all, I'm drafted to fight the commies.
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 52:30
  Speaker 8: And then we had the global war on terrorism after 9-11. Yeah.
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: And we're all fighting, you know, the terrorists.
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 52:38
  Speaker 8: We're Muslim terrorists.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:39
  Speaker 8: Jihadists.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:41
  Speaker 8: And now essentially we have a commie jihadist running for
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: the U.S.
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: Senate.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:46
  Speaker 8: Against who? Who's he running? Now who is the Republican candidate?
• 52:50
  Speaker 8: Who's a Republican candidate?
• 52:51
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Who is it?
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: Mike Rogers.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 52:53
  Speaker 8: Who's Mike Rogers?
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 52:55
  Speaker 8: You don't know? You don't know.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Nobody knows him.
• 52:57
  Speaker 8: He's an FBI agent.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:59
  Speaker 8: Former FBI agent.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 53:01
  Speaker 8: He's former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. And he
• 53:04
  Speaker 8: and I were classmates.
• 53:06
  Speaker 12: Oh, wow.
• 53:07
  Speaker 8: In my first term in Congress.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 53:09
  Speaker 8: 2000, the year 2001. Okay.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 53:13
  Speaker 8: George Dubia. Dubia. Remember Dubya?
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 53:17
  Speaker 8: George Dubya Bush. Remember him? Yeah, he was president.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: Wasn't supposed to be, but his brother got him the
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: votes in Florida.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Read my lips?
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: No, that was his daddy.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, his daddy.
• 53:28
  Speaker 8: This is Dubya.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: This is his son. Okay.
• 53:31
  Speaker 8: This is Poppy Bush.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: Remember Poppy?
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:34
  Speaker 8: George Herbert Walker Bush.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha.
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: You know they're fancy when they got four names.
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 53:40
  Speaker 8: Not just three.
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 53:41
  Speaker 8: Or like Harry Truman. Harry S. Truman. You know what
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: his middle initial was? S. Harry S.
• 53:45
  Speaker 12: Truman.
• 53:45
  Speaker 8: You know what it stood for?
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Stanley.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: No.
• 53:48
  Speaker 8: Keep guessing.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Sylvester.
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: No. S. No.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 53:52
  Speaker 8: It didn't stand for anything.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: It didn't stand for anything?
• 53:55
  Speaker 8: His mother thought it was distinguished to have a middle initial.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: So she gave him, she called it Harry S. Standing
• 54:02
  Speaker 8: for nothing.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 54:04
  Speaker 8: That's pretty good.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Look it up. I will.
• 54:07
  Speaker 8: I don't need you.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: I trust you. Check it out.
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: Look it up in your fucking right nose.
• 54:11
  Speaker 9: Corroborate.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: There he is.
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: There he is.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think they have Funkin' Wagnalls anymore.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: You don't need those.
• 54:17
  Speaker 8: Probably not. So here we are. Mike Rogers, a buddy
• 54:21
  Speaker 8: of mine.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Friend of yours.
• 54:21
  Speaker 8: I actually, when he said he was running for Senate,
• 54:25
  Speaker 8: I sent him a very modest check. Oh, great. Like
• 54:27
  Speaker 8: about $ 30. That's nice, yeah. Well, and now every day,
• 54:28
  Speaker 8: every day, five times a day. Mike reaches out to
• 54:36
  Speaker 8: his good buddy.
• 54:37
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 54:37
  Speaker 8: Hey, Rob.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 54:38
  Speaker 8: Got any more? You know, real personal. He's on the phone. Well, actually,
• 54:42
  Speaker 8: he's on the cell phone.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 54:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
• 54:46
  Speaker 8: It won't stop.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: No.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: It won't stop.
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: It never ends. It never ends. But now that he's
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: running against a Muslim communist.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Got to give him more money.
• 54:54
  Speaker 8: I get it. So how... I mean, was this a
• 54:59
  Speaker 8: landslide victory for him?
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: No, close one.
• 55:01
  Speaker 8: Close. What is close? I mean, I... I lost a
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: race by 83 votes. That's close. That's really close, yeah.
• 55:06
  Speaker 8: I won a race by 1,200 votes.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:08
  Speaker 8: That's close.
• 55:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: Well, he won by 14,000 votes. But that's in 1.5
• 55:14
  Speaker 8: million people voting.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:16
  Speaker 8: So it's less than a percentage point.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Close.
• 55:18
  Speaker 8: It was closer than the pundits, closer than Bernie Saunders
• 55:22
  Speaker 8: thought it was going to be.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 55:24
  Speaker 8: And so now it's him against Mike, who is a
• 55:28
  Speaker 8: former congressman, former FBI agent. Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: Maybe he can find something on his dude, you know?
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: Maybe he can dig something up.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 55:39
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 55:39
  Speaker 8: Maybe he had some problems with women like Platner. You know,
• 55:43
  Speaker 8: we can Platnerize him. But this is a matter of concern.
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Sure it is.
• 55:53
  Speaker 8: I don't know what the Democrats are doing. I'm not
• 55:55
  Speaker 8: sure the Democrats know what they're doing. But when I
• 55:58
  Speaker 8: examine the race, I look at the articles here about it,
• 56:03
  Speaker 8: and I see two things that lead me to believe
• 56:09
  Speaker 8: that this is why this guy won.
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 56:12
  Speaker 8: First of all, his Democrat opponent, who's, I don't know
• 56:16
  Speaker 8: much about her, kind of a standard-looking woman running. I
• 56:23
  Speaker 8: won't go further than that.
• 56:24
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 56:25
  Speaker 8: Heidi's listening. I'll get in trouble.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Wasn't she the actual... Okay.
• 56:30
  Speaker 8: I didn't say anything.
• 56:32
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 56:32
  Speaker 8: Just a standard.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: I got you.
• 56:35
  Speaker 8: She's not a looker.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 56:36
  Speaker 8: Well, you know, she's smart.
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 56:38
  Speaker 8: She's been around.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 56:39
  Speaker 8: All right. But, you know, she was supported by Gretchen Whitmer.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: How does that work for you?
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 56:50
  Speaker 8: She was supported by outgoing Senator Gary Peters.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:54
  Speaker 8: And she was supported by Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: OK.
• 56:58
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Three heavies.
• 56:59
  Speaker 8: Well, these are these kind of exciting people to you.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, no, I don't like it.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: No.
• 57:06
  Speaker 8: But these aren't the people that, you know, are going
• 57:08
  Speaker 8: to fire up, you know, the folks out there. No,
• 57:11
  Speaker 8: probably not. No. So so she's supported by the Democrat establishment.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: OK.
• 57:18
  Speaker 8: Was she support? Was she supported by Bernie Saunders?
• 57:22
  Speaker 12: No.
• 57:22
  Speaker 8: No. Was she supported by Suzy Cortez?
• 57:26
  Speaker 12: No.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: No. No.
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: No.
• 57:28
  Speaker 8: So now Bernie and Suzy, they're out there kind of,
• 57:31
  Speaker 8: you know, stirring the pot.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 57:33
  Speaker 8: And people kind of want to stir the pot these days.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 57:36
  Speaker 8: People are a little bit, you know, ticked off.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 57:40
  Speaker 8: And maybe when people are ticked off, they vote for
• 57:42
  Speaker 8: somebody that they know is, you But then what else
• 57:48
  Speaker 8: did she do, the Democrat candidate do, that probably ticked
• 57:52
  Speaker 8: some people off, especially in Michigan, which has a large
• 57:57
  Speaker 8: population in Detroit, Muslim population in Detroit? What did she
• 58:02
  Speaker 8: do that might have gotten the attention of these young radicals, Muslim,
• 58:08
  Speaker 8: left of center, pro-communist, social Democrats?
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: What did she do?
• 58:13
  Speaker 8: She received money, lots of money.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 58:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, she received about $ 60 million. $ 30 million came from where?
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: From Israel. No.
• 58:23
  Speaker 8: Close.
• 58:23
  Speaker 13: Where?
• 58:24
  Speaker 8: AIPAC.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 58:25
  Speaker 8: American Israeli Political Action Committee.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
• 58:28
  Speaker 8: These are American Jews. I mean, this isn't.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Israel.
• 58:32
  Speaker 8: It's not a foreign country. AIPAC is a PAC, a
• 58:38
  Speaker 8: political action committee that supports people who support the Jewish people.
• 58:41
  Speaker 8: Nothing wrong with that.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 58:43
  Speaker 8: I mean, you've got these other PACs that support abortion.
• 58:49
  Speaker 8: If you support abortion, you're a pro-choice. You get money
• 58:53
  Speaker 8: from the pro-choice people. If you're a big gun nut,
• 58:55
  Speaker 8: you get money from the NRA if you're a gun nut.
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 59:00
  Speaker 8: And if you support your Jewish neighbors, then you get
• 59:04
  Speaker 8: money from AIPAC. But $ 30 million is kind of a lot.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: A lot of money.
• 59:08
  Speaker 8: A lot of money.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: You ever get $ 30 million? in a campaign?
• 59:11
  Speaker 12: No.
• 59:13
  Speaker 8: I was lucky to get $ 30. I ran against Sam Gageson.
• 59:18
  Speaker 8: He's Jewish. What chance did I have? A little Protestant
• 59:24
  Speaker 8: guy from Stonington, Connecticut. No chance at all.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: No.
• 59:28
  Speaker 8: I had to win money. before I could get their support.
• 59:32
  Speaker 8: Because I am pro-Israel and I support Jews. I mean,
• 59:35
  Speaker 8: that's just the way I am. I've actually flown the
• 59:39
  Speaker 8: Israeli flag from my flagpole under the American flag, of course.
• 59:42
  Speaker 8: I've flown it up there. People notice that. But this
• 59:48
  Speaker 8: is something that we have to look at carefully because
• 59:53
  Speaker 8: according to the Wall Street Journal... progressives are flexing their
• 59:58
  Speaker 8: muscles in the primary.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: Now, what is the difference, Lee, between a primary and
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 8: a general election?
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: Well, the primaries, the Dems are going against each other.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: The Republicans are going against each other.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 8: Right. So a primary doesn't necessarily tell you the whole story,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 8: but it does tell you a story. And the story
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 8: here is that out there in Michigan, they're rejecting— The
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 8: standard candidate.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 8: And they're rejecting the leadership and they're rejecting Jewish. They're anti-Semitic. Absolutely.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 8: They're rejecting the Jews, which is, of course, we expect
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 8: from Muslims. They've been killing Jews for, you know, a
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 8: thousand years. No, not that long. Yeah, but over a
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 8: thousand years.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: Ever since Mohammed showed up. And they continue to kill
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 8: Jews and Christians when they get the chance. So this
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 8: guy is definitely anti-Semitic. He consorts with people that celebrate 9-11.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: And the question that I see on the opinion page
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 8: of the Wall Street Journal is Democrats face a choice.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 8: Democrats face a choice. Denounce this guy for his anti-Semitism.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 8: Or remain silent. Just be quiet about it. What are
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 8: they going to do?
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Democrats are going to be quiet about it.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 8: And how do you think that's going to work out?
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Well, it's not going to work out for them well
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: in the general, I don't think.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 8: Well, there we go. So that's kind of what we're
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 8: looking at, isn't it?
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 8: It's kind of what we're looking at. But here's something
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 8: else that we're looking at. When you look at all
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 8: the things they're for. Bill Stanley did a cute little piece.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was on with me yesterday, the day before yesterday.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah, read the paper today?
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: Today? No, not today.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, letters to the editor.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Are you in there? No.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 8: But the left-wingers have their undies in a knot.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 13: Oh, no.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 8: Poor Bill. Oh, yeah, never seen more. I mean, they
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 8: had two. nasty letters really screaming at him okay yeah
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 8: and and what did he do the title of his
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 8: piece was socialist thinks it's all for free yeah but
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 8: somebody has to pay the bill sure they do whoa
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 8: no lee it's free oh it is okay and and
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 8: the billionaires and the trillionaires will pay it Not the millionaires,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: because that includes Ocasio. That includes Bernie. That includes all
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 8: of the Democrats who are on the take. But so
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 8: the billionaires are going to have to pay for it.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 8: As Bill pointed out, the problem with socialism that you
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 8: eventually run out of other people's money. So the question
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: for the socialists and their cowardly– oh, man, cowardly.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: That's a strong word.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 8: Bill, he's a mild-mannered guy. The cowardly Democrat enablers– enablers.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 8: He uses the term enablers. Very interesting. Then what? Then
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 8: what do you do when you run out of money?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 8: Then what do you do? So he's quoting an interview–
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 8: with Fox News talking to Megan Roman, the co-chair of
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 8: the Democrat Socialists of America. Okay, I want to ask
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: you some questions. Do you want to abolish the Senate? True.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 8: So the DSA, they want to abolish the Senate.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 8: Okay. And replace the presidency in the Supreme Court? Yep.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 8: Abolish ICE? Absolutely.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 12: Sure.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 8: Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the U.S.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 8: As a long-term plan?
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 8: Defund the Pentagon? Absolutely. Abolish prisons?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 8: Okay, so no prisons, government, or public ownership of most
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 8: large corporations. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: It's not a run.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 8: Lee, I'm not making it up.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 8: I'm not making it up.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: I know. It's right there.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 8: Do you own a house?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 8: That's kind of like private property.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 8: Sorry, that'll be public housing with these clowns. Yeah, sure.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 8: With these clowns, it's going to be public. So what
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 8: we have here is what Victor Davis Hanson wrote just
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 8: this week. The socialist monster awakens. This began with Obama.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 8: It carried through Biden. It's here with us today. Black
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 8: Lives Matter, the Steele dossier, the COVID cover-up, the rioting, burning, looting,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: killing in some cases that has been promoted today. by
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 8: the Democrats as a foil, they thought, to Donald Trump
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 8: and the deplorable people that support Donald Trump.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 8: Half of the population of America that voted for him,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 8: the deplorables. If we wreck the system and we get
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 8: these socialists and communists and and Muslim terrorists and all
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 8: these other wackadoodles out there to scream and yell and
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 8: tear the place apart. This will help us defeat the Republicans, right?
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 8: Isn't that the strategy? Right here in Victor Day for Santa.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 8: And then throw out socialism. And the cartoon for the
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 8: article is an ice cream truck with an ice cream
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 8: cone on top. And the Democrats are driving the socialism
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 8: ice cream truck. And who's following the truck?
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: A bunch of kids.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 8: A bunch of kids saying, I want some free ice cream.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 8: I want some free ice cream.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 8: But here's the problem. It's like Frankenstein in the castle.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 8: He's creating this monster.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 8: He's got this huge monster. The Democrats have created this
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 8: huge monster. And now it's woken up. And you know
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 8: what the monster says to Frankenstein? I don't like you
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 8: no more. I kill you. I take hassle. I steal
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 8: food and money. I am in charge now. I'm bigger
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 8: than you. Well, guess what?
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: Guess what?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 8: The monster... is upon us.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 9: COVID controversy returns to the Senate.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: I'm Dave Anthony, Fox News.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 9: The Senate committee gathers this hour to consider holding Dr.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 9: Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress a week after the
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 9: ex-presidential COVID advisor refused to answer questions, saying this over
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 9: 100 times.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 8: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 8: based upon my rights under the.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 9: After Fauci had called the committee chairman unhinged and obsessed
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 9: with putting him in jail, but Republican Senator Rand Paul
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 9: tells Fox, Why would you need the Fifth Amendment if
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 9: all you have to do is come before a committee
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 9: and not lie?
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 13: Fauci was the recipient of a pardon by former President Biden.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 13: Republican lawmakers argue that compels him to testify. Republicans accuse
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 13: Fauci of covering up the origins of the pandemic. Fauci
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 13: denies that. If the committee approves a contempt resolution, Paul
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 13: could refer Fauci to the Justice Department for possible prosecution.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: That's Fox's Jared Halburn.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 9: Iran and Oman are said to be close to an
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 9: agreement on getting shipping flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: The U.S.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 9: Demands a tax on ships and Vice President Vance tells Fox.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 6: Number one, the Iranians are extraordinarily difficult people. Number two,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 6: they have a fractured system. So there are people within
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 6: their system who.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: Want the war to be over.
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  Speaker 6: There are also people within their system who are crazy
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 6: radicals who want the war to continue.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 9: Vance has been directly involved in negotiations, also demanding Iran
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 9: agree to never have nuclear weapons. Another American adversary already
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 9: has them, North Korea. And Fox's Jonathan Savage reports it
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 9: test-fired another missile today.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 14: South Korea's military says its northern neighbor launched a short-range
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 14: ballistic missile out to sea beyond its east coast. The
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 14: South's Joint Chiefs of Staff has bolstered surveillance and is
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 14: closely coordinating with the United States and Japan.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 9: Also in Japan today, a somber ceremony in Hiroshima, where
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 9: yet 81 years ago today, the U.S. dropped the first
• 1:08:27
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• 1:08:30
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 8: If you want to know that things are going great.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 8: Especially in our community, in our little section of southeastern Connecticut.
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  Speaker 8: We are vibrant and we are alive.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 8: Headline today from the New London Day. My favorite paper
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 8: in New London County.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The only one left, I think. Oh, maybe.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 8: That's right. So anyway, Coast Guard says the museum opening
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 8: is set for next August.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 8: In fact, August 2nd, 2027, a date that coincides with
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 8: the branch's 237th birthday celebration.
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  Speaker 2: Fabulous.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: That's great. That's great. Congratulations. How many years did it
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: take to get this thing done?
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 12: 20.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 8: It takes me back to, I guess, 2003 or 2004.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 8: I think it was 2003. I'm on the Transportation Committee,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 8: and I put the idea for a National Coast Guard
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 8: museum into the transportation bill because Coast Guard came under transportation.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 8: And it went to the Senate. It passed the House.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 8: A little bit of difficulty with Lo Biondo in New Jersey.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 8: He wanted it in New Jersey. He was the chairman
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 8: of the subcommittee, but we bribed him.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: That's how we got rid of him.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 8: We gave him money for his own museum.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: He said, okay, fine.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 8: And so then it went to the Senate. And what
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 8: happened in the Senate?
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: You had a fight.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 8: We fought.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Well, because, see, Hillary Clinton— She wanted it.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 8: And Schumer, they wanted it in New York.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 8: So they got the governor of New York to pledge
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 8: $ 40 million.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 8: And she changed the bill, and the bill passed the
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 8: Senate with it going to New York.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 12: Uh-oh.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 8: So the House had it for New London, and the
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 8: Senate had it for New York.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 10: Mm-hmm.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 8: So now those— That issue was in disagreement in the
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 8: transportation bill. So what you have to do is you
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 8: have to have a conference to resolve the issues of disagreement.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 8: And the chairman of the conference was John McCain.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, OK.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 8: I knew John McCain when he was head of Navy liaison.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 8: He's still in the Navy. I work for Senator John Chafee.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 8: So I knew him personally. He helped me get elected.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 8: When I was accused by a writer in the day,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 8: my favorite paper, accused me of war crimes and published this.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 8: He didn't, but people did. He wrote about it.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 12: Sure.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 8: Well, you're a war criminal, according to these people. So
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 8: these are these are college kids. They weren't even alive
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  Speaker 8: during the Vietnam War. They know what they're talking about. No, no.
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  Speaker 8: It says it's politics.
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  Speaker 7: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was.
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  Speaker 8: So in any event, John McCain helped me during that
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 8: period and had helped me on my campaigns. And I said, John,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 8: I went to visit him. I said, John, the Coast
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  Speaker 8: Guard has the Academy in New London and has been
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 8: at Fort Trumbull ever since they came ashore from 150
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  Speaker 8: years ago. And this is the only place we should
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  Speaker 8: have them. In fact, there is a museum on the
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 8: Academy grounds. It's just a tiny little museum and people
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 8: can't access it. But the stuff in that museum can
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 8: become part of the National Historic Coast Guard Museum. And
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 8: And he stopped me. He raised his hand. He said, Rob,
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  Speaker 8: when my dad was at the submarine base, I lived
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 8: in New London.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 8: I went to the harbor school where my wife taught.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 8: He said... New London is where it's got to be.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 8: I said, but what about Hillary and Schumer? He said,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 8: don't worry. I can handle that.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 8: That's where it's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 8: So he made the deal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: If it wasn't for John McCain, we wouldn't be talking
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 8: about the museum in New London.
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  Speaker 1: I get that. But if it's not for John McCain,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: but it's not for Rob Simmons.
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  Speaker 8: I know, but so what?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody had to start this ball rolling.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 8: You have to start the ball rolling. But you know what?
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 8: There have been a lot of people involved. And I
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 8: will only take credit for what I did. None of
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 8: the rest, because so many people have done so much.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 8: It's taken so long. But hallelujah, it's going to happen.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you're not there in the beginning, it's
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: in New York.
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  Speaker 10: It is.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Well, true.
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  Speaker 8: I actually got in a in a shouting contest with
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 8: a commandant in Washington, D.C., because he said, I'm going
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 8: with New York.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 8: And I told him, and I had some people with me,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 8: I told him, not your call.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 8: He said, I'm the commandant. I said, so what? It
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 8: takes an act of Congress for the National Historical Museum.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 8: I'm a member of Congress, and it's going to be
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 8: New London, not New York.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 8: And when we left, the people that were with me said...
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 8: I can't believe you talked to the Commodore that way.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 8: I said, well, I can't believe you talked to me
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 8: that way.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. You're a congressman. Who am I?
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 8: Just some skinny pencil neck juggie or goofball from southeastern Connecticut?
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 8: I'm a member of Congress.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 8: My protocol rank is four stars.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 8: Just like his.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 8: So shut up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on that. That's a good story. It's coming.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: It's coming.
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  Speaker 8: It's good. All right.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: And it's going to be completed by then, I hope.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: Furnished and ready to go.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 8: We'll have to check with David Collins.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 12: All right. Yeah.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: We'll see.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 8: He's still plugging for Fort Trumbull.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: All right. So that's the shout out. Shout out.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 8: It was shout down. Now, we spent a lot of
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 8: time last week on. Tony Fauci. I will not refer
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 8: to him as a doctor because as far as I'm concerned,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 8: he's not a doctor. He's a shyster. According to the headlines,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 8: he's a villain. He's contemptible. He pled the Fifth Amendment
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 8: 111 times, which is kind of ironic because here we've
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 8: got the Bumblebee Express. So the man who took the
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 8: nation's constitutional rights claims protection by the constitutional right now
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 8: is pleading the fifth.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: How about that? Yeah.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 8: With regard to the First Amendment, he shut down our churches,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 8: shut down people who spoke against him on COVID issues.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 8: Prevented people from assembling, closed restaurants, et cetera, et cetera,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 8: no jab, no job, took people's jobs away. He violated
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 8: all these elements of the Bill of Rights, and now
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 8: he's using the Fifth Amendment to protect his sorry ass
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 8: from going to jail, which is where he belongs. He
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 8: really belongs in jail. So this is the irony, the irony.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 8: But there's another irony here that irritates me even more
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 8: than him. He's just one guy, one bad guy. He's
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 8: one bad guy who's in love with himself and couldn't
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 8: believe he was getting all this publicity. Put him on
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 8: a TV show, and the next thing you know, it's Hollywood.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 8: But that's just one guy. But the media, the mainstream media,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 8: the establishment media, essentially created this guy.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 8: They created him. They turned him into something special. He
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 8: was not just following the science. He was science.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: They wanted to hear him. Yeah, they wanted to hear him.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 8: So here is just an example of that. From the L.A. Times,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 8: Michael Hiltzik from the L.A.
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  Speaker 2: Times.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 8: He's a columnist for the L.A.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 4: Times.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 8: And he likes Fauci. And he said, Fauci won't play
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 8: the game. The Republicans are running a partisan show, and
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 8: the veteran doctor doesn't want to participate. And so he
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 8: is not going to play their game. And he goes
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 8: through a whole series of things. And then he says this,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 8: as a background for the story. As I have documented
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 8: many times over the last five years, Republicans... And right-wingers
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 8: are fixated on the notion that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 8: causes COVID, escaped from a Chinese lab to infect the
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 8: rest of the world. This is what this guy has
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 8: said for five years. There is not a speck of
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 8: evidence to validate that theory. Lee.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 8: Are you going to buy this guy's crap?
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 8: That there's not a speck of evidence?
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: No, they still look at him as a hero.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 8: Not a speck of evidence. But now, Mr. Michael Hiltzik,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 8: I have a speck of evidence for you, bonehead liar.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 8: Here's my speck of evidence.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: All right, what do you got?
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 8: It's an entry from Fauci's diary.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 8: His diary.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: Whoops.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 12: Oops.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 9: Oops, oops.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 8: It quoted now appears using epi data and genomic data
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 8: that the first infection was in early December and was
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 8: not connected to the market, unquote. Now, now, quote, we
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 8: know the market was not the source, unquote.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: Hey, Mike.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 8: Hey, L.A. Times, Mike.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 8: Did you read the diary, Mike? Because it looks to
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 8: me like there's a speck of evidence in Fauci's handwriting
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 8: on his diary, Mike. So a much bigger shout-down, not
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 8: just for Tony Fauci, a little man who did terrible things,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 8: but for the mainstream media who promoted him and covered
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 8: up his lies. And this guy here, in this paper...
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 8: published in this paper this week, is still lying about it.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: Can they go back, Rob? I mean, you're a Congress guy.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: Can they go back and bring him back in and
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: force him to testify or no?
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 8: Well, I suppose, you know, they could get the, I
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 8: don't know, the FBI to grab him at night instead
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 8: of do a Mar-a-Lago snatch.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 8: But don't go for the papers. Go for Tony.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 8: Put him in a dungeon somewhere.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, I like this idea.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 8: Hang him by his heels.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 8: Whoop him up.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 8: Maybe put his face in one of those beagle masks.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: I like that idea.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 8: And puts a hungry little sand.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: Some hungry sand, please. Yeah.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 8: So they're fighting on his nose.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: Piece of garbage.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 8: The way he did with the beagles. Remember the beagles?
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 8: But, you know, he told me with regards to the beagles. And, Lee,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 8: you probably sympathetic to the little dogs. But you don't
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 8: understand the importance of science. And see, Tony said that
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 8: that whole experiment was peer-reviewed.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 8: His peers. That means other scientists like him, you know,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 8: other mad scientists like Tony, who believe that, you know,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 8: a beagle's just a little dog. And if we can
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 8: satisfy some scientific question by... putting sand fleas in a
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 8: mask on its muzzle and then euthanizing it later because
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 8: it's lived in terrible pain. That's for science. That's for science.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 8: This is what science is all about.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: You have to understand.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 8: You've got to follow the science.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: Follow the science. Exactly.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 8: So when it's peer-reviewed, it means there's more than one
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 8: nutcase scientist. I mean, Adolf Hitler had a whole bunch
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 8: of them.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he did.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 8: Oh, he had Jews and ice water. Oh, yeah, Adolf,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 8: he was a big scientist.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: Anything else over there for the checks and balances?
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 8: We can take a break.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 7: Let's take a break.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 8: I've got plenty of stuff here.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: We'll come back. We'll hit the ground running.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 8: Bernie the commie.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: Bernie the commie. Are you saying he's a communist?
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 8: He is a communist.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 8: He is a communist.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: We'll find out about that. We'll take your calls as
• 1:22:05
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• 1:22:10
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• 1:22:16
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