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Republicans unite behind Paxton, Trump requests $1.5T in Pentagon spending · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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  Speaker 1: iTunes and Hillsdale America. I'm you Hewett, Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday aditionally you uit show. I will be traveling you
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  Speaker 1: mar to the West coast. Mark Davis will be in
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  Speaker 1: from me. So I'm glad the President held his Cabinet
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  Speaker 1: meeting today because there was a lot of news there,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll play you a lot of clips. I was
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  Speaker 1: watching it live with my friends from Fox News and
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  Speaker 1: I gave my analysis. I play that later in the show.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go first to the most important thing that the
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  Speaker 1: President had to say. There were many and varied cut
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  Speaker 1: number eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think we're doing very well. They are starting
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  Speaker 2: to give us the things that they have to give us.
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  Speaker 3: And if they do, that's great, and if they won't,
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  Speaker 3: then the men on my left is going to finish
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  Speaker 3: them off.
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  Speaker 4: Is there a high frame in your mind? Is there
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  Speaker 4: a mind frame, in your mind.
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  Speaker 2: For I mean, it happens quickly.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is every time I mentioned a time frame,
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  Speaker 3: for instance, I see, you know, we've been doing this
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  Speaker 3: for a few months. Viet Latnam lasted nineteen years, Korea
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  Speaker 3: lasted eight years, Afghanistan had leasted many years. There were
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  Speaker 3: are many many years. And we're into it for a
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  Speaker 3: few months. And I read about you, people like you.
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  Speaker 5: What's taken so long?
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  Speaker 3: But we're in you know, we lost between two wars,
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  Speaker 3: two big wars, Venezuela and Iran, we lost thirteen souls.
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  Speaker 3: Thirteen great people met the Paris great people, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 2: But thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at the war casualties and the deaths
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  Speaker 3: and wars or Vietnamino, that they lost hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 3: of people and numbers of these wars. We're very cognizant
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  Speaker 3: that we want to lose very few, we want very.
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  Speaker 2: Few to be injured. We're very we're very careful.
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  Speaker 3: But war's war, war's dangers. But we've lost thirteen, you know,
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  Speaker 3: So the Democrats took an end putting in the thirteen
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  Speaker 3: people that were lost.
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  Speaker 2: And when you look at.
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  Speaker 3: Hundreds of thousands of people that were lost in the
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  Speaker 3: Middle East, Iraq, all the different wars we were in,
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  Speaker 3: we have done an amazing jeb. With that being said,
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  Speaker 3: I hate to lose thirteen. I hate to lose one.
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  Speaker 3: But we've been very We've been very We've been very capable.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when you think of it, we took over
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  Speaker 3: Venezuela and one day we have done a similar job.
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  Speaker 2: But we said, well, give them a little chance.
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  Speaker 3: At the request of somebody that we greatly respect from Pakistan,
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  Speaker 3: the Field Marshall and the Prime Minister, they had been
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  Speaker 3: great They asked us would we pause the war for
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  Speaker 3: a little while because they'd like to think so, we
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  Speaker 3: will do that, but we had them beat there, you
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  Speaker 3: know no better.
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  Speaker 2: Now we could close that out very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: If we can do it in a different way, that'd
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  Speaker 3: be good.
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  Speaker 2: If we get everything we want. But we could.
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  Speaker 3: Close that out very very quickly, and we may have to.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so, but we may have to, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's very we're suring reassuring. It got even more
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  Speaker 1: so cutt number twelve.
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  Speaker 6: So the Iran deal might be a contingent on more countries.
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  Speaker 3: Joining a I don't want to say that I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to give you you know, what's contingent, what's not.
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  Speaker 3: I can say that we can make a good deal
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  Speaker 3: right now, but maybe not a great deal. And if
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  Speaker 3: it's not a great deal when I'm making it, it's
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  Speaker 3: because we can make a great deal with this guy
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  Speaker 3: right here, and but it's you know, it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: last year probably wouldn't go as quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And then we wouldn't be Did you hear that. If
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  Speaker 1: it's not a great deal, we're not making it. That's
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  Speaker 1: the most If it's not a great deal, we're not
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  Speaker 1: making it. CUTT number thirteen.
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  Speaker 6: I am for the only option you want.
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  Speaker 3: I would prove some of it, you know, because it's
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  Speaker 3: a memorandum of understanding, Festie. And one of the things
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  Speaker 3: that will happen is the straight of open immediately immediately.
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  Speaker 2: But it's got to be perfect. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: do that. I didn't you this to get that crummy agreement.
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  Speaker 3: The worst agreement ever signed was by Barack Hussein Obama.
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  Speaker 1: Why am I getting into the jacent But the thing is,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get into this to do a crummy agreement.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be a great deal. What's that look like?
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  Speaker 1: Cutt number seven.
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  Speaker 3: The street's going to be open to everybody, international waters.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's going to control it. We're going to watch over it.
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  Speaker 3: We'll watch over it, but nobody's.
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  Speaker 2: Going to control it.
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  Speaker 3: That's part of the negotiation that we have. They would
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  Speaker 3: like to control. Nobody's going to control it's international waters.
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  Speaker 3: And Oman will behave just like everybody else that will
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  Speaker 3: have to blow them up. They understand that they'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll be fine. I'm sure I came into kind
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  Speaker 1: of a shock to the shape there, but because we
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  Speaker 1: get along well with them. Nevertheless, they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: make a deal with Iran to you know, have a
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  Speaker 1: toll booth on both sides of the strait. Not happening, then,
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  Speaker 1: Cut number nine.
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  Speaker 7: Are you less considering easy as sanctions on Oran to
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  Speaker 7: allow Oran to sell its crew to market.
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  Speaker 3: We're not talking about any easing of sanctums, giving money,
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  Speaker 3: no sanctions, no money, no nothing. We have control of
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  Speaker 3: money that they claim is theirs. We'll keep control of
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  Speaker 3: that money, and when they behave properly and when they
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  Speaker 3: do what's right, we'll let them have their money. But
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  Speaker 3: right now we're not doing that. And it's one thing
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  Speaker 3: is not contingent on the other.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So it was a great bit of focus
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  Speaker 1: on Iran and what he had to say was very reassuring.
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  Speaker 1: A few other things I want to cover, but first
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  Speaker 1: I want to take congratulations to Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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  Speaker 1: He won last night in Texas. I'm very disappointed for
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  Speaker 1: a Friends of the program, John Cornyan, whom I endorsed.
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  Speaker 1: But trust the people, as Winston Churchill said, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: John Cornon is very gracious last night when he conceded
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  Speaker 1: to Ken Paxton. Public polling shows Taller Rico, who is
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  Speaker 1: very weird. He's a very weird guy, as I had
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  Speaker 1: of John Cornyan. But that's because they've been beating each
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  Speaker 1: other up Cornyon in Paxton, and now all of the
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  Speaker 1: GOP has to swing around. You know. I was all
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  Speaker 1: in for it Romney in two thousand and eight, and
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  Speaker 1: John McCain beat him in the next day. I said,
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  Speaker 1: okay mcain, John nominee, let's go for it. Same thing
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  Speaker 1: you always. It's a two party system. The parties pick
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  Speaker 1: their candidates, You abide by their candidate. You can say
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  Speaker 1: what you want to say up until that point, but
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  Speaker 1: after that you get behind them because what matters the
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  Speaker 1: most is the control of the Senate. There's a fifty
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  Speaker 1: three forty seven Republican majority, but there are seven states
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  Speaker 1: in play, including Texas now, so from the north, Maine
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  Speaker 1: is in play with Senator Collinson. Later we'll talk about appropriations,
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  Speaker 1: not politics. Today, she should win and go anyway. Cram
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  Speaker 1: Plant is a nut, I mean, he's just a nut.
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  Speaker 1: Then New Hampshire could be a pickup. Not sure if
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be Scott Brown or Johnson in New Junior,
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  Speaker 1: but one way or the other, that could be a pickup.
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  Speaker 1: Then we look down in North Carolina. It's an open seat.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Tillis is retiring. Michael Wattley's our nominees up against
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  Speaker 1: Roy Cooper. That's tough. That's tough, student, Colin, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think is that tough. You got to pay attention to
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  Speaker 1: it not, but you gotta beat him. Tom Tillis is
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  Speaker 1: a very popular senator. It's going to be tough for
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  Speaker 1: Michael Whiler to hold on to it. But he's raising
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  Speaker 1: the money. He's looking very good. Georgia Democrats are vulnerable, right,
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  Speaker 1: John ass Up. He's a bit of a weird guy too,
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  Speaker 1: and sort of an accidental Senator, but we don't have
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  Speaker 1: a nominee down there yet. We don't have a nominee
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  Speaker 1: in Michigan. Michigan is going to be Mike Rodgers, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't have a formal nominee yet. Mike Rodgers should
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  Speaker 1: win in Michigan, so the Republicans should pick up. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have a nominee in Minnesota. Might beat Michelle Tafoya,
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  Speaker 1: who's been on might be Tom Wyler is going to
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  Speaker 1: be on today, might be any of it who's running.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make a run through before they on
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  Speaker 1: August eleventh. So I'm going to get through all the
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  Speaker 1: candidates again that want to come on. Sometimes they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to come on. In Minnesota, Texas is now competitive.
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  Speaker 1: That's seven races, all right. Republicans have to win four
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  Speaker 1: of them, four of seven, and they hold on to
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  Speaker 1: the Senate. If they win seven of seven, they pick
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  Speaker 1: up three seats. If they lose seven of seven, they're
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  Speaker 1: down three them will never see another judge. So it's
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  Speaker 1: important that people play ball on the Republican team. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to what the President had
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  Speaker 1: to say today, because he talked about the fountains. I
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  Speaker 1: found this stuff, fascinating it. Later I'll play my analysis
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  Speaker 1: for Fox, but I love this part. Cuttnumber eight, cutnumber eight.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm very proud of DC because when we came
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  Speaker 3: here a little more than a year ago, it was
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  Speaker 3: a very dangerous place.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's a very safe place. It's been incredible.
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  Speaker 3: What's happened is if you see the crime numbers, we
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  Speaker 3: had restaurants closing up, and nobody wanted to go to
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  Speaker 3: a restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: They were afraid to walk to work.
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  Speaker 3: It's very to a dangerous place, very unsafe, and now
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  Speaker 3: it's a very safe place. We got into National Good
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  Speaker 3: We worked with Cash and the FBI, and Janine is
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  Speaker 3: doing fantastically and Todd and everybody, and it's now a
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  Speaker 3: very safe city. People are pouring in and you see
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  Speaker 3: the grasses all beautiful. We put a lot of new
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  Speaker 3: grass in because you know, like people, grass has a
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  Speaker 3: life too, and this grass.
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  Speaker 2: And it was about a long time.
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  Speaker 3: But we the waterfalls we talked about in the fountains there,
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  Speaker 3: most of them are in the final stages or fixed.
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  Speaker 3: People are writing me letters, people are talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: They're all we have some of the most beautiful fountains
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  Speaker 3: in the world, and there wasn't one, not one that work.
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  Speaker 3: We're twenty nine does this for.
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  Speaker 1: A long time. I love this bit. I learned the
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  Speaker 1: reflecting pool is as long as the tallest building in
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  Speaker 1: the world is tallest longer. Actually didn't know that. He
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  Speaker 1: talked about repairing that. But they're twenty nine fountains in DC.
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  Speaker 1: None of them worked. I've lived off and on Deceas
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty one and never works. Welcome back to America.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewittt. Joined now by President Trump's favorite journalists.
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  Speaker 1: I like to say that every week Selena Zito. You
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  Speaker 1: can read Selena in the Washington Examiner, the Washington Post,
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  Speaker 1: the New York Post, the Pittsburgh Post, Gazette, The Gazette,
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Post, Washington whatever. She's everywhere. And Selena, you're the
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  Speaker 1: only one I saw who wrote up the Pennsylvania election results.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not going to start there. We're gonna start
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  Speaker 1: with Texas. My friend John Cornyn lost last night. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sad about that, but as Winston Gentill said, trust the people.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Paxson is the nominee. I'll support him. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I would support their Republican nominee. What did you make
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  Speaker 1: of John Cornyn losing to Ken Paxton and decisively, I
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  Speaker 1: mean really decisively.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it wasn't even close. I thought maybe it would
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  Speaker 7: be close, but it wasn't. And you know, he got
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  Speaker 7: swept up in the political movement. I think Trump understood
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  Speaker 7: that there was just a way of movement Conservatives behind Paxton, don't.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think he particularly had any distaste for Corbyn.
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  Speaker 7: I think, if anything, it's kind of John Souon who
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  Speaker 7: put him in that position.
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  Speaker 8: But you know, when there is a movement of.
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  Speaker 7: The old goes out and the new comes in, and
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  Speaker 7: we shall see what happens in November. I struggle with
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  Speaker 7: the idea that how do you say.
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  Speaker 1: His lest name, Ulrico? Yeah, the weird guy, as President
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  Speaker 1: Trump calls him, the weird guy.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's something off there. I haven't figured put my
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  Speaker 7: finger on it. I'm gonna go down Texas.
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  Speaker 8: And figure out what it is. I did not come
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  Speaker 8: cover this primary.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will tell you right now. Public polling show
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  Speaker 1: tall Rico has aired by six points, but that's only
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  Speaker 1: because the Republicans have been slugging each other NonStop on
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  Speaker 1: the air for three months. That will go away, John Cornan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll do. He's a party man, like I'm
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  Speaker 1: a party man. He will get behind a Trade General Baxton.
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  Speaker 1: But it's going to be a lot closer than what
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  Speaker 1: had been had John quinnam in the nummy.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely, it is going to be.
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  Speaker 7: It's probably going to mimic what happened with Ted Cruz
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  Speaker 7: and what's his name, Betos.
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  Speaker 8: Whatever?
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  Speaker 1: Beta?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, the guy with the roller plates or skateboard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's not a furry. Let's make that clear.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a furry. All right, Selena, Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania results. You wrote a column about it. Would
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  Speaker 1: you break it down for those of us what it
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  Speaker 1: means for the country Pennsylvania. As Pennsylvania goes, so goes
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  Speaker 1: the country. Now what happened in Pennsylvania?
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  Speaker 7: So that was really really interesting. I wasn't quite sure
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  Speaker 7: what the well. I was sure on the Republican side.
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  Speaker 8: I knew that the sort of activists, the far right
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  Speaker 8: activist and.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I use that that phrase with discretion, they
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  Speaker 7: were hungering to take people down, and they fell flat.
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  Speaker 7: The candidates that they tried to take down one by
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  Speaker 7: anywhere from seven to ten percentage points.
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  Speaker 8: They were mostly state senators.
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  Speaker 7: They had a lot of gambling money, these far right activists.
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  Speaker 7: I find that a very very interesting phenomenon in my state.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if it's happening in other states.
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  Speaker 5: And so the right, the.
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  Speaker 8: Republicans sort of centered themselves.
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  Speaker 7: I don't mean they were you know, they moderated, they
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  Speaker 7: were they stabilized right.
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  Speaker 6: The Democrats, whoa.
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  Speaker 8: They went far left, in particular with PA three.
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  Speaker 7: With the win of Rab for the congressional seat that
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  Speaker 7: was held by Dwight Evans.
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  Speaker 1: Is that in Philadelphia? Is that the Philadelphia seat? Says
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  Speaker 1: he the DSA guy. There's a DSA guy out in
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia who's off the map. He's going to make the
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  Speaker 1: squad look conservative.
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  Speaker 8: It's really interesting.
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  Speaker 7: So I think this is interesting to me because you've
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  Speaker 7: got now Pennsylvania booked bookend by their two congressmen in
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  Speaker 7: both cities Pittsburgh and in Philadelphia with d A s
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  Speaker 7: DSA members or former DSA members, with Lee and Rab
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  Speaker 7: and they are going to cause such a headache, not
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  Speaker 7: for Republicans but for Democrats. They feel very empowered. They
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  Speaker 7: believe they are in the canbird seat. They're going to
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  Speaker 7: make Shapiro's life miserable and.
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  Speaker 8: And it's it's just gonna it's just going to be.
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  Speaker 7: Fascinating to watch how they govern UH after January next year,
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  Speaker 7: but also how they will set the stage for the
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  Speaker 7: midterm elections. They are going to demand and my profession
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  Speaker 7: is going to push the Democrats to line up with
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  Speaker 7: everything they say. And it's really going to make it
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  Speaker 7: tough for the other three Democrats who are trying to
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  Speaker 7: unseat Republicans in these midterms in the Lehigh Valley, in
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  Speaker 7: Scranton and in Cumberland County.
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  Speaker 8: To be able to have to answer for.
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  Speaker 7: What they're saying when they're running shoulder to shoulder with
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  Speaker 7: them in these midterms.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the key question to me is well Governor Shapiro
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  Speaker 1: uppear with these two radicals because he doesn't really need
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  Speaker 1: to be a radical. He needs to be a center
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  Speaker 1: left moderate if he wants to run for president, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't need to have the DSA flank him. What's he
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  Speaker 1: going to do?
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  Speaker 7: Look two weeks ago, I would have said no way
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  Speaker 7: after and I think it was on your show.
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  Speaker 8: We talked about this.
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  Speaker 7: He was with the Working Parties Family or Working Families Party.
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  Speaker 7: That's what they call Working Families Party, which is an
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  Speaker 7: offshoot of the Soros Group, which is a far left
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  Speaker 7: activist group who put Clary Krasner in office summer week
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  Speaker 7: on office and rab But he was also at an
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  Speaker 7: event with Brooks, who is bub Brooks, who was running
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  Speaker 7: in Lehigh Valley, and he's seen embracing and shaking hands
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  Speaker 7: with the Working Families Party leadership, So it seems like
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  Speaker 7: he doesn't have a problem embracing them, and it really
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  Speaker 7: kind of surprised me to see him take that step left.
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  Speaker 1: Selena. Last question, this came up yesterday. Four out of
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  Speaker 1: ten Democrats believe that Butler was staged. Four out of ten. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: When you hear that, what do you think. You wrote
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  Speaker 1: the book Butler, you were standing next to the president,
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  Speaker 1: You talk to the president a half dozen times or
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  Speaker 1: more the next day in the week thereafter. But when
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  Speaker 1: you hear people say it was staged, what do you think?
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  Speaker 8: I can't say on air would I really think?
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  Speaker 7: But I will tell you I find it vulgar that
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  Speaker 7: people allowed themselves to be persuaded that way.
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  Speaker 2: And by the.
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  Speaker 7: Way, I will tell you many times when I was
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  Speaker 7: talking about the book Butler, the amount of cable news
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  Speaker 7: hosts who asked me, did it really happen?
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  Speaker 8: Was absolutely horrendous.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: So in many ways, I blame my profession for creating
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: this vacuum, creating this this this, this this opening to
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: fill in with theories. I saw someone die right in
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: front of me. Okay, there was blood everywhere.
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: There's no way that.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: You could turn your head at the exact same moment
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: that he fires that shot and only get nicked.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: In the ear.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I just I have to ask you that again
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and again because it keeps coming up again and again,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: and I think you know a third of the country nuts.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Selena Zito always going to talk to you. Follow Selena
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: at her website Selenazito dot com or on x at
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Zito Selena. Thank you, Selena. I'll be right back to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: America Station. You please to welcome now the leader of
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the United States Senate Majority Leader John toone of South
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Dakota leader Thune. Welcome. I began the show by saying,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I'm sad that my radio friend and great Senator from Texas,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: John Cornyn lost last night, but of course they got
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to get behind Ken Paxson now and get him elected.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: What's your reaction to the last night in Texas.
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: Well, that's right, you you know, I'll just like you,
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: John Corny, and I believe it has been a great
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: partner for us in the Senate and done a great
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: job for Texas and for our country. But you know,
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: the voters, Republican voters in Texas spoke last night. Ken
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: Paxton is our nominee heading into November, and we've got
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: a pivot and go all in to make sure that
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: we keep Texas red, that he wins, and that we
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: keep a far less liberal out of the United States Senate.
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: And obviously that seat is going to be very key
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: to our majority, which will determine the future of this country.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Now, Texas a big place, it costs a lot of money,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: and that was a bruising battle. Some public polls have
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the fellow President Trump calls weird, mister Talla Rico I
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: had right now. Is that just the result of a
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: bruising primary.
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think so. And obviously sometimes it's there they're
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: you know, some of these polls early on in election,
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: before the candidates are clearly defined, might reflect factors other
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: than what I think that you know, the qualifications the
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: candidates bring to the table. But I think when people
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: understand who.
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: James Taller Rico is, how far.
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: Left he is on the spectrum on pretty much every issue,
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: it's going to be a clear choice. And in elections, frankly,
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: as you know you, they are about differences, and this
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: is a this is going to be a choice for
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: the people of Texas.
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: And I think when they have a clear understanding.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: Of the differences between the two candidates and what they
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: stand for, it's going to be an easily easy call
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: for the for the people of Texas. So it's it's
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: time to get in that general election footing and do
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: the hard work that's.
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: Necessary to make sure that Paction.
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: Wins and we keep Texas.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Rit have you had a chance to talk to training
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: General Packson yet or has Tim Scott or both of you.
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: I have spoken with him, spoke with John Cornyn as well,
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: and yes, obviously we're we're making the pivot, and you
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: know he's he's all in, ready to go for the
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: fall election and not taking any time off already on
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: the phone, raise in mind and all the things you're
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: going to have to do to be successful. But we've
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: got to do everything we can, you you know, as
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: a party to make sure that we win this race,
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: because you know, losing is not an option when it
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: comes to the state of Texas and what it means
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: for our majority in the Senate.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: You know, I have a column coming out. I found
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: it already. We have seven seats up Maine, New Hampshire,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: North Carolina, and Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, and Texas. They can
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: go either way, and you've got a three vote lead
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: right now, so they got to win four to take control.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: But that's not really ideal. You'd like to win all seven, right.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: Correct, And you know, obviously we have seats where we're
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: playing some defense, but we're also on offense on a
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: few seats, and we just got to execute. But it
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: takes a lot of resources to do that. And you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: clearly I'm hoping that the donors around the country and
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: and the donors in Texas will step up big to
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: make sure that we have the resources to run the
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: race we need to run in the state of Texas.
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: But we've also got to keep our eye on a
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: lot of these other places like Maine and North Carolina
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: and Ohio and Iowa and Alaska, and then of course
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: some pickup opportunities in place well, places like Michigan and
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: New Hampshire and depending.
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: You know on Georgia right now where they've got a run.
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: Off election going, but it's gonna be wide open.
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: You.
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: I think the Senate is a it's just critical that
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: we keep that majority. And when it comes to being
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: able to work with President Trump the last two years
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: of his administration, when it comes to the court is
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: you know, very well and cover extremely well, critical that
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: we have a majority of the United States Senate to
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: continue to confirm conservative constitutionalist judges to the federal bench.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Now today at the cabinet meeting, President Trump said, I'm
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: not worried about the midterms. I'm worried about the Warrior
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: ran clearly talking about gas prices. Obviously, we'd like to
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a war in Iran to succeed and quickly so that
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: gas prices can come down. But what do you make
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: when the President said national security comes first. I agree
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: with that, But do you think the voters will agree
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: with that?
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm a you know, we have a thing in
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: my office that if you don't get national security right,
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: the rest is conversation. You've got to be able to
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: defend the country and American interests.
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: And so it's important that.
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: We get this right, we get this straight opened up,
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: and once that happens, I think you'll see start to
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: see some moderation and these energy prices. But clearly these
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: the economic issues tend to be the issues that the
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: American people vote on. Pocketbook issues always tend to win
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: the day, and so we've got to keep our eye
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: on that ball at the same time that we win
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: and make sure that in Iran at least we don't
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: leave them on the field with the capability that they
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: could use to threaten not only that region but the
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: rest of the world, including the United States. So it's
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: a big priority, and I know the presence clearly focused
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: on it. We need to ensure that we succeed there
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: and then also at the same time prove that we
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: can do two things at one time and focus clearly
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: on the economic issues that I think are going to
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: be front and center for a lot of the American
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: people when they vote.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Let me close by talking about Texas. I think it's
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: going to help it turning Gerald Paxson that that governor
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: abbots up again because he's such a great vote getter.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Does it work that way on a federal state. It
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: does work that way down ticket for the governor, but
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: does it crossover when you got a really strong governor
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to the Senate candidate as well.
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: Absolutely, And I think anytime your ticket is strong that
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: it has that derivic effect on a lot of those
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: other races. So if people are turning out, Governor Abbott
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: has a great organization, a great turnout operation that benefits
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: all of the Republican candidates on the ticket. So you know,
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: you can't take that for granted or assume that you're
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: going to win because somebody else runs.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: A great race.
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: You have to run your own race and do everything
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: you need to do to win. But when you've got
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: a strong Republican ticket, Hugh, everybody benefits. And so we're
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: going to make sure that we're doing in every race
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: down in Texas, we're doing what we need to do
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: to win majority.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Later, then, thank you for calling in on short notes.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the update, glad to hear about the pivot.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I am very glad to hear everyone's on the same page,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate you taking the time you.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: Had to be with you as always.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you Leader morning, Laura and Eveanngrace America.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Welcome to our two of today's shoot Hewitt Show, which
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I begin with Danny Pleka. Daniel Pleck a senior Fellow
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: at the American Enterprise Institute. She is, of course a
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: maven on all things national security and defense, co host
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: of What the Hell Is going On with my friend
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Mark Tisan over at the Washington Post, a great podcast. Danny,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: welcome back. Did you have a chance to watch the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: President's press conference today?
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: Nope, I didn't. I just got back and I did
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: not see it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Let me summarize, he said, repeatedly, as he has for
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: many months now, Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. But
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: what I liked is, he said, I want a great deal,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: not a good deal. If we don't get a great deal,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: there's not going to be any deal at all. And
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: a great deal starts with the immediate and complete opening
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of the straight o word moves. And he added, if
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: it doesn't get done, my friend on my left here
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: is going to have to fix pointing at Secretary of warheadset.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: What do you make of that messaging?
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: You know, I'm not too impressed by it, actually, because
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: the Strait of Hormuz is a term that has been
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: set by Iran. And one of the things that has
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: really disappointed me about the President and how he has
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: handled Iran is that he started this with his own priorities,
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: and slowly, but surely, we have substituted Iranian priorities. In
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: other words, we started talking about Iran's treatment of its
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: own people, Iran's nuclear weapons program, Iran's missile program, Iran's
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: support for terrorism.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: And now what are we talking about.
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: We're talking about the trait of Hormuz and not only that,
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: you we're talking about the trait of Hormuz in a
• 26:52
  Speaker 11: temporary way, in other words, not recontrol it and you.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Get to ask us permission. You control, and at a
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: time of your choosing, you can close it again.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, then I've done a bad job of describing it,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: because what he said repeatedly was no nuclear weapon, non
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: nuclear He did not talk about the people of Iran.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: He did not and so we're in agreement on that.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: He didn't talk about missiles or support for proxies, although
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: he has with me before, but he said repeatedly, no
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: nuclear weapon. But the key I took away from that
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: is exactly I think what you're saying is the world
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: owns the Strait of War moves, it's not up to
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: them to decide who goes through it. I don't think
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: we're claiming the right to decide who goes. It's an
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: international waterway, right. The law the sea, going back to Grocius,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: is that international waterways are open to all comers who
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: are not pirates. Isn't that correct?
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah? One percent correct.
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: And the Iranians have no standing either under what some
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: people like to call international law. They have no standing
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: under what we understand as.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: The history of this. And you know, the problem for
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: us is very straightforward.
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: The Iranians think that whenever they want, when they want
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: to change the conversation, they're going to be able to
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: close the straight.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: They were if they've been very afraid to do that historically. Hugh,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: you know, you know that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: And I think you've brought up some of these issues
• 28:20
  Speaker 11: yourself with not only other guests, but with the President.
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: The problem for us now is I think the Iranians
• 28:27
  Speaker 11: think that this isn't actually the nuclear option they once
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: thought it was. This is actually just a piece of
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: leverage that they have, and we need to change the
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: terms of that conversation with them again and make clear
• 28:41
  Speaker 11: to them they are the losers here, not us them.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Well, this week we did kind of send that message,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: that kind of we said that they sent a couple
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: of boats out and they're gone and the people who
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: were on them are dead. And then they locked onto
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: one of our airplanes and we destroyed what we used
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to call samsite. I don't know if it's a sam
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: It could have been a man pat, I don't know
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: what it was, but we destroyed whatever they were aiming
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: at our aircraft. I like the fact that either they
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: get with the program, which is freedom of navigation, or
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I'm going to turn to the Secretary of War Pete
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Hegsett and say you fix this. Doesn't that intimate to
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you return to combat operations, which is where I think
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: we're headed anyway.
• 29:25
  Speaker 11: Well, you know, from your mouth to the president's ears,
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: I hope that's where we're headed, because he needs to
• 29:30
  Speaker 11: finish the job. I think the Iranians have decided that
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: the president is very, very reluctant to return to military operations.
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: I think the Iranians have decided that they can do
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: anything they want to violate the ceasefire, that we will
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: strike them back, and that we will then go on
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: to pretend that this ceasefire still holds. They have attacked
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: our allies, they've attacked the United Arab Emirates, they've attacked
• 29:56
  Speaker 11: other countries in the Gulf, they've attacked us, and yet
• 30:00
  Speaker 11: persist in saying that this ceasefire holds. For me, you know,
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: for me, there's a there's not just the battle that's
• 30:08
  Speaker 11: going on in the closed doors with Steve Whitcoffchard Kushner
• 30:12
  Speaker 11: and the Iranian negotiators. There's also the battle for public opinion,
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: and there I think the President really does need to
• 30:19
  Speaker 11: establish his dominance because otherwise we are going to come
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: out of this having to go back again and again
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: and again, and we just don't have the money to
• 30:28
  Speaker 11: do that.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: No, I agree with that. In fact, I would like
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the Iranian people to be free and have them back
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: as our ally again. Danny, I got to switch to you.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Senator Collins is coming up, I think in the next segment,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and they've got a request for trillion and a half
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: dollars on their desk from the White House. What do
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: you make of the request? What do you think she
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and her committee had to do with it? Because she's
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: share with appropriations.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: Hugh, you know this better than I do.
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: For the last few decades, we have been disinvesting in defense.
• 31:01
  Speaker 11: We have been coasting on, frankly, investments that were made
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: during the Reagan administration. It's not just that we don't
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: have enough of what we need to fight the kind
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: of conflicts that we see in the future, whether it's
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: with the people Republic of China.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Whether it's with the Irans, whether it's with Russia.
• 31:21
  Speaker 11: It is that we don't have the necessary defense industrial base.
• 31:26
  Speaker 11: We need to start thinking seriously in terms of rebuilding.
• 31:29
  Speaker 11: And this kind of money, which in the scope of
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: what the United States spends every year is very small,
• 31:37
  Speaker 11: is the kind of investment that Donald Trump could leave
• 31:40
  Speaker 11: as a legacy, could really pay off for him in
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: the way that the investments of the Reagan years actually
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: changed our future.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Now, one of the objections that has come up from
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the committee, and this is from some committee chair Mitch McConnell,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: is he wants the money in the regular budget. He
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: doesn't want an inter reconciliation budget because that way it
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: doesn't get big into the baseline budget. I am of
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the opinion get while you can, while you have the majority,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and bank it. What do you think, Danny Podka.
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: So one of the reasons that I love and respect
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: Mitch McConnell is because he is a regular order kind
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: of a guy. He is a creach of that body
• 32:19
  Speaker 11: of the Senate and of its rules, and he understands
• 32:22
  Speaker 11: that what it takes to sustain ideas, to sustain budgets,
• 32:28
  Speaker 11: to sustain growth is actually to do things under regular orders.
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: So I'm on the one hand, I'm with you, which is,
• 32:37
  Speaker 11: you know, get well the getting's good because we men
• 32:41
  Speaker 11: don't have other chances of this once we have a
• 32:43
  Speaker 11: midterm election.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: On the other hand.
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: Mitch McConnell looks at this and says, you know, if
• 32:49
  Speaker 11: this is going to be a one off, we're making.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: A huge mistake.
• 32:53
  Speaker 11: So you know, on balance, Hugh hewittt, my vote goes
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: with you.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: But for posterity, I do think McConnell is right.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I take the I would like to try you
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and a half as the base budget, but if we
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: can't get it, I'll take it. Let me close with this.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I heard an astonishing thing this week. I've not been
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: to Ukraine, but I heard that they are going to
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: produce two million drones this year, Ukraine two million drones.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: That's from a standing start, not just a standing start,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: but from an invasion. Why can't we do something like that?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: If they can under fire come up with two million drones,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: why can't we?
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: Well, I mean that is that's the right question to ask,
• 33:33
  Speaker 11: And that's the defense industrial based problem I was talking about.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: But I'll say this.
• 33:38
  Speaker 11: You know, the sword of Damocles when it hangs above
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: you or you know, or to use a different cliche,
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: you know, a hanging concentrates the mines. The Ukrainians have
• 33:52
  Speaker 11: reached in and become extraordinarily innovative, extraordinarily productive, much as
• 33:59
  Speaker 11: we did World War Two. The problem for us is
• 34:03
  Speaker 11: we still believe that we can do that. We still
• 34:06
  Speaker 11: believe that in you know, bad times come, we can
• 34:09
  Speaker 11: flip a switch and we can restart those cold those
• 34:12
  Speaker 11: cold lines. We can build those planes, we can build
• 34:15
  Speaker 11: those musciles. And the answer, sadly is that's not true.
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: That's why we need to spend Now.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do think you've just nailed it. We have
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: a false memory of a productivity that you and I
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: never saw. We just read about, you know, Arthur Hermann's book,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: and many other people have read about it. Oh, all
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: of Detroit began turning out a bomber an hour, and
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: we were doing a liberty ship a day. We can't
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: do that now. We have to really start now. In fact,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I've heard from defense people the hardest thing is to
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: get the money that is actually appropriated and sent to
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the Pentagon out the door of the Pentagon. Do you
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: think we're making progress there? We got one minute, Danny Pledgin.
• 34:59
  Speaker 11: I think we are making progress. I think we're making changes.
• 35:02
  Speaker 11: But the bottom line is, you know, somebody once said
• 35:05
  Speaker 11: to me that.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: In fact, it was my.
• 35:07
  Speaker 11: Colleague Mackenzie Eaglan who said, you know, the Secretary of
• 35:11
  Speaker 11: Defense only really has discretion over about ten percent of
• 35:15
  Speaker 11: his budget. I think it's probably even less than that.
• 35:19
  Speaker 11: And what we need to do.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: Is we need to change the systems. We need to
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: change acquisition.
• 35:25
  Speaker 11: We need to change how we buy things, how we
• 35:28
  Speaker 11: incentivize things, because we don't build planes and ships and
• 35:31
  Speaker 11: missiles like we used to.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: In World War Two.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: We need to get into the twenty first century.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Nanny Podka, thank you. Follow Danny on x at d
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Pladka and like and subscribe to what the hell is
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: going on with Danny and Mark Teson. I'll be right back.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I hope Senator Collins is here when we get back.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Stay two, Pasey, you here at show. Welcome Back America.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewett, so please to welcome back to the
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: program United States Center or Susan Colin from the great
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: state of Maine. Senator, welcome back. I'm going to begin
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: by congratulating you. A week ago in the Wall Street Journal,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I saw the headline. I had to read it twice
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: because I couldn't quite believe it. Susan Collins hit ten
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: thousand votes in a row. The main Republican has never
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: missed a roll call in her Senate career. That's remarkable.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Did you intend that when you started your career?
• 36:25
  Speaker 12: Well, in many ways, I was inspired by former Senator
• 36:29
  Speaker 12: Mark and Chase Smith, who went thirteen years without missing
• 36:34
  Speaker 12: a vote. And at first when I started out, there
• 36:39
  Speaker 12: were a lot of senior members who said, miss the vote,
• 36:42
  Speaker 12: miss the vote. But as you know, I grew up
• 36:45
  Speaker 12: in Northern Maine, and with that main work ethic, I
• 36:50
  Speaker 12: picked potatoes at age ten.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: I've always worked.
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: And I've wanted to make sure that Main was always
• 36:57
  Speaker 12: represented on the Center floor. So we've had a little
• 37:01
  Speaker 12: delay in getting to the ten thousand mark because we
• 37:05
  Speaker 12: a journed a bit earlier than we.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: Expected last week. But I'll hit it next week or
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: the week after.
• 37:11
  Speaker 12: And it is a record that never missed a single
• 37:15
  Speaker 12: vote and have that many.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: That is remarkable and congratulations to you. I just want
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: to tip my hat. I don't work that hard. I
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: hope they never expect that at the Salem the news channel,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: because that's really hard. Singer. I want to talk about appropriations,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: and I don't want people to fall asleep. This is
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: so important. Your share of the Appropriations Committee, that's the
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: most powerful committee in the Senate. You've had to work
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: decades to get there. You've got the gattle. Now President
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Trump has asked for a trillion and a half dollars
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: in defense spending for the Pentagon. Is that even doable?
• 37:50
  Speaker 12: Well, the President is certainly correct that defense has been
• 37:55
  Speaker 12: underfunded in the Biden administration year after year.
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: After a year.
• 38:01
  Speaker 12: And you've only look at our navy and compare it
• 38:05
  Speaker 12: to the Chinese fleet to see the huge difference, where
• 38:10
  Speaker 12: we have under three hundred ships and China's approaching four hundred.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 38:17
  Speaker 12: It did not used to be that way, and that
• 38:20
  Speaker 12: is a major problem. I don't think we can get
• 38:25
  Speaker 12: a twenty eight percent to increase that the President's budget
• 38:29
  Speaker 12: would propose in the Defense appropriations fill, but I am
• 38:34
  Speaker 12: going to push for a substantial, meaningful increase. We face
• 38:41
  Speaker 12: so many global threats and we cannot afford to have
• 38:47
  Speaker 12: a defense that is underfunded for our national security, whether
• 38:52
  Speaker 12: it's the size of our navy, or lack of munitions,
• 38:56
  Speaker 12: or the need to adapt to have more drones, which
• 39:01
  Speaker 12: we've learned from looking at both Israel.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: And Ukraine's experiences center.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I thought of Bath Iron Works and the Kennebec River.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Last week when the United States ran three destroyers to
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the Straits of Hormuz, they took incoming fire. They returned
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: that they were not injured. I don't know if one, two,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: or three were made in Bath, but will the budget
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: continue to fund destroyers in Bath? And I also think
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: they're made Mississippi as well, but both places we need
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: those destroyers.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: We absolutely do. They are the work horse of the fleet.
• 39:37
  Speaker 12: They accompany the air Force, they accompanied the aircraft that
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: carried the planes, and we need them in all sorts
• 39:48
  Speaker 12: of situations.
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: I was very proud that a Bath built destroyer.
• 39:52
  Speaker 12: Had one hundred percent record in shooting down the hoalthy
• 39:57
  Speaker 12: missiles that were aimed at commercial vessels as well as.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: Our military vessels.
• 40:04
  Speaker 12: And it is important to note that there are only
• 40:08
  Speaker 12: two surface combatant shipyards as you mentioned Mississippia, Maine, and
• 40:15
  Speaker 12: I am disappointed that the President's budget only proposes to
• 40:20
  Speaker 12: have one destroyer built.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: That doesn't make any sense because.
• 40:26
  Speaker 12: You disrupt the industrial base if you don't keep a
• 40:31
  Speaker 12: steady flow of work going through the Bold shipyards, and
• 40:36
  Speaker 12: we know that the need is there. I had the
• 40:40
  Speaker 12: chief of Vanful Operations come to me recently and come
• 40:45
  Speaker 12: to that I works that that's making tremendous progress and
• 40:49
  Speaker 12: speeding up its production. It has a great retention rate
• 40:54
  Speaker 12: now for its workforce, and we need those ships. So
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: I'm going to be working with my colleagues on both
• 41:01
  Speaker 12: sides of the isle to try to do what we
• 41:04
  Speaker 12: normally do, which is always to have at least two
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: destroyers in the budgets.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: Some years we've had three. So that's something that does
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: need to be changed.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Sarah Collins, I also want to ask you about from
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: your job as chair of the Appropriations Committee, when I
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: was in the government a thousand years ago. Appropriations writers
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: used to show up to tell us in the agencies
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: what to do and what not to do. Is that
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: something you can do for the lobstermen and the fishing
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: industry up here. Make sure that the craziest of the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: regulatory burdens are removed. Has happened with Loper.
• 41:42
  Speaker 12: Bright absolutely and in fact, a few years ago I've
• 41:50
  Speaker 12: worked to include in the appropriations field that was passed.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: At the end of the year language.
• 41:57
  Speaker 12: That's specifically invalid, dated and delayed. Some Biden administration regulations
• 42:04
  Speaker 12: said pose an existential threat to our lobster industry, despite
• 42:11
  Speaker 12: the fact that our lobster men and women are excellent
• 42:15
  Speaker 12: sewards of the resource, so you can't find any better
• 42:19
  Speaker 12: stewards of the resource. But these misguided regulations were ultimately
• 42:25
  Speaker 12: also struck down by the courts at the appellate level,
• 42:31
  Speaker 12: and that ban goes away in twenty twenty eight, and
• 42:38
  Speaker 12: I will be working with my colleagues to make sure
• 42:42
  Speaker 12: that it is extended.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: Everyone's for reasonable regulation.
• 42:47
  Speaker 12: But this was not scientifically based and would have literally
• 42:53
  Speaker 12: shut down much of the lobster industry, which as you know,
• 42:57
  Speaker 12: is iconic and main Again, I would emphasize what good
• 43:02
  Speaker 12: stewards of the resource, our loves for men and women are.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Last question, Senator I have pointed out to many people
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: that only one state has two senators on the Intel Committee,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: you and Senator King, because that's a committee where you
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: have to have high trust of all your colleagues, and
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: it's not one to which you are appointed via seniority,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: have to be selected by your colleagues and the leader
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: to be put on there. So your busiest share of
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: appropriations you're on the Intel Committee. When someone comes to
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: you with a little project like Eagle Island they need
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: to save Admiral Perry's house, Do you have time for
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: that when you're running the two major committees or being
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: on both of them.
• 43:42
  Speaker 12: Absolutely, And my first application is to make sure that
• 43:47
  Speaker 12: the people of Maine are well represented and whenever they
• 43:51
  Speaker 12: come to us with problems with projects, we take care
• 43:56
  Speaker 12: of them to the extent that we possibly can. And
• 44:02
  Speaker 12: the best sevidence of that is in the past five years,
• 44:06
  Speaker 12: I've been able to secure one point five billion dollars
• 44:10
  Speaker 12: for six hundred and seventy four projects all over.
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: The state of Maine.
• 44:15
  Speaker 12: From st agad in the north to Sanford in the South,
• 44:20
  Speaker 12: and I'm really proud of that record.
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: We also do a great constituent for it.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Ten thousand roll call votes. We'll do something for a
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: state Chairwoman Collins, thank you so much, is the chair
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: of the Appropriations Committe in the United States Senate representing Maine.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Senator Collins. I'll be right back, America. Stay two.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewittt joined by Sarah C.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Bedford to The Washington Examiner. Sarah, we were scheduled earlier
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: today when Majority Leader soon called in, and so I
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: was talked to the leader when I can. Are you
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: surprised by how quickly the GOP is swinging behind Ken Paxton.
• 45:00
  Speaker 13: I'm not sure they really ever had a choice. I mean,
• 45:02
  Speaker 13: this is a very winnable seat for Republicans. In fact,
• 45:05
  Speaker 13: even though Senator Cornyn the Covet is not going to
• 45:08
  Speaker 13: be running in that seat, I think Republicans have a
• 45:10
  Speaker 13: really good chance of holding on to it.
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: They didn't really seem to have much of a choice.
• 45:14
  Speaker 13: I mean, it's politics is a rough game. But THEUNE
• 45:17
  Speaker 13: I listened to that interview that you just did seem
• 45:19
  Speaker 13: to let it roll off his back. He said, you know,
• 45:21
  Speaker 13: it's time to go all in and pivot to Ken Paxson,
• 45:24
  Speaker 13: because the voters have spoken, and that's what the party's
• 45:26
  Speaker 13: going to have to do. Even though Republicans who really
• 45:29
  Speaker 13: think he might be a toxic candidate, they're.
• 45:31
  Speaker 14: Stuck with him now, so they don't have a lot
• 45:33
  Speaker 14: of choice.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: And it is the way of politics. It's not bean bag,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: as the old saying goes, and when you lose, you
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: dust yourself off and you get back with the party. Now.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I just had Senator Collins on and you covered nil
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: for a long time. She has not missed a vote
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: in ten thousand roll call votes. I guess it's ten
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: thousand next week. They had to resess, so she missed
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: the mark. How unusual is that. I've never heard of
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: that before.
• 46:00
  Speaker 13: That's a crazy statistic. I didn't know that either, but
• 46:03
  Speaker 13: it's a great one to have in her pocket. She
• 46:05
  Speaker 13: faces what could potentially be a more competitive race in Maine.
• 46:09
  Speaker 14: She has a.
• 46:09
  Speaker 13: Great bipartisan reputation and that's part of why she's been
• 46:12
  Speaker 13: such a good fit for Maine all of these years.
• 46:15
  Speaker 13: Maine is a really independent state with a lot of
• 46:18
  Speaker 13: independent voters.
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: I mean, the other senator from Maine.
• 46:22
  Speaker 13: Is technically an independent, has it I after his name,
• 46:25
  Speaker 13: So she's someone who has that great reputation. I didn't
• 46:28
  Speaker 13: know that statistic about her attendance, but it doesn't surprise
• 46:31
  Speaker 13: me at all. Like you mentioned at the end of
• 46:32
  Speaker 13: your interview with her, she's a very busy woman with
• 46:34
  Speaker 13: her chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee and membership on the
• 46:37
  Speaker 13: Intelligence Committee.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: So about her opponent, Graham Plattner, I think the word
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: toxic needs to have his picture next to it in
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: the dictionary. Another story every day about him, whether it's
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: making a mocking a wounded veteran, whether it's shy throwing
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: shade on America sniper hero, whether it's the sexist, racist,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: bigoted stuff. Do you think he's actually viable? Given and
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: by the way, there's more coming. I've been told quite
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: reliably there's more coming.
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: I absolutely believe that. I mean it's only May.
• 47:17
  Speaker 13: There's six months to go almost in this race, and
• 47:20
  Speaker 13: surely Republicans are keeping their powder dry until we get closer.
• 47:25
  Speaker 13: Graham Plattner is someone who might have looked good on paper,
• 47:28
  Speaker 13: but the more that he's introduced to voters and he's
• 47:30
  Speaker 13: not someone who came with the high level of name
• 47:33
  Speaker 13: id in the main race like Susan Collins did. The
• 47:37
  Speaker 13: more that voters learn about him, the more they're going
• 47:39
  Speaker 13: to learn that he actually came from a fairly affluent background,
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: went to prep school. Is not necessarily the blue collar
• 47:45
  Speaker 13: every man that he claims to me. Let alone the
• 47:47
  Speaker 13: fact that he has set all of these highly controversial things.
• 47:50
  Speaker 13: All of that adds up to be someone that's just
• 47:52
  Speaker 13: not that relatable to your average blue collar main voter.
• 47:56
  Speaker 13: And that was his only draw in the first place.
• 47:59
  Speaker 13: It's like, oh, here among the Democrats is someone who
• 48:01
  Speaker 13: could appeal to the everyman voter. That key appeal is
• 48:06
  Speaker 13: being undercut by the things that are coming out about him,
• 48:08
  Speaker 13: and that's part of why so damaging.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Now. I'm told the New York Times are working on
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: a blockbuster. That's why I'm talking. I won't talk about
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: what it is, but it's the kind of blockbuster you
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: don't want for anyone in your party, or anyone who's
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: your friend, or anyone who is a candidate. Have you
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: picked up that at all.
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: I hadn't heard that.
• 48:27
  Speaker 13: I mean, given all of the turt that was seen
• 48:29
  Speaker 13: so far, it's not totally surprising, But yeah, it wouldn't
• 48:32
  Speaker 13: take more than one or two more bombshells, I think,
• 48:35
  Speaker 13: to totally rewrite the narrative around him, which was that
• 48:37
  Speaker 13: he was this media darling's golden boy, the potential.
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: Future of the Democrats.
• 48:42
  Speaker 13: You don't hear that kind of talk about Graham Platner
• 48:44
  Speaker 13: these days.
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: And the narrative could completely shift here in the next
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: couple of months.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: So my question is a journalism question. If The New
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: York Times has the story that I'm told they have,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: shouldn't they run it? Stat because the election of June nine,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: don't Maine and there are by the way, they're David
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Costello and Janet Mills is still on the ballot. If
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: they've got a blockbuster, don't they owe it to the
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: voters in Maine to run it?
• 49:13
  Speaker 13: Well, presumably they're checking all of their boxes right, especially
• 49:16
  Speaker 13: when you have opposition research that's personal in nature. Something
• 49:20
  Speaker 13: like this takes a lot of legwork in fact fighting
• 49:23
  Speaker 13: if you're doing it right. And so I don't know
• 49:26
  Speaker 13: what it is The New York Times has. The fact
• 49:28
  Speaker 13: that they haven't released it yet doesn't suggest anything nefarious,
• 49:31
  Speaker 13: But I mean, if they were to wait to release
• 49:33
  Speaker 13: it until you know, June twelfth, June thirteenth, then perhaps
• 49:36
  Speaker 13: there should be some questions about the timing.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I'm afraid that's what's going to happen. And
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: there's early voting, I'm sure going on right now. And
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: I've always been uneasy when members of our profession are
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: taking notes anywhere and know about something and they're even
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: if they've only got three sources checked and not for it.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: You go with the three. Oh, you go with the
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: two sas Bedford, he's good to talk to you. Follow
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: her on x at Sarah C. Bedford at Sarah C.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Bedford from the Washington Examiner. I'll be right back in America.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Stay chucked.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: The street's going to be open to everybody's international waters.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Nobody's going to control it. We're going to watch over well,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: watch over it, but nobody's going to control it.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: That's part of the negotiation that we have. They would
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: like to control.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Nobody's going to control it's international waters, and oman will
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: behave just like everybody else that.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Will have to blow them up. They understand that they'll
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: be fun.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Welcome back in America. I'm here here. That was President
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Trump at the Cabinet meeting today. I'm joined by former
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: United States Senator Jim Talent, defence man on the Rigging
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Institute Board of Leadership. Centator Talent President was pretty blunt today,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: it's going to be open or he'll blow up. I'm
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: on if they get in the way, and if he
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: has to, he said, I'll turn the man on my
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: left pointing at Secretary of warheadset to finish the job. Uh.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: I'm happy with that message, are you?
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah?
• 51:04
  Speaker 15: And I heard the interview with Danny Pletkat, and I
• 51:07
  Speaker 15: understand why Danny is worried. Okay, but we are responding
• 51:11
  Speaker 15: to their attempts to close the Straight by throttling their economy.
• 51:16
  Speaker 15: And we would have forced the Straight open using our
• 51:19
  Speaker 15: naval power, except the Saudis didn't want us to do
• 51:23
  Speaker 15: it because they're afraid that the Iranians might be able
• 51:25
  Speaker 15: to hit their desalinization plants. So we're negotiating, and those
• 51:30
  Speaker 15: negotiations will result in a minimum, at a minimum if
• 51:34
  Speaker 15: we get a deal in no nukes, No you don't
• 51:37
  Speaker 15: control the Strait, and no you don't get any sanctions
• 51:40
  Speaker 15: relief until you perform the obligations that we demand.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: You perform.
• 51:45
  Speaker 15: As I've said on the show before you, I mean,
• 51:48
  Speaker 15: Donald Trump is not the kind of guy to split
• 51:51
  Speaker 15: the pot when he's holding four races. So I'm comfortable
• 51:55
  Speaker 15: with where we're at. Where we're at at this point,
• 51:57
  Speaker 15: and I'm waiting, like everybody is, to see whether we
• 52:00
  Speaker 15: get a deal or whether we take some other steps.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Let me play for you as well. Cut number nine
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: from today's cabinet meeting. It's a short one.
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: I mean, let's considering easing sanctions on Uran to allow
• 52:12
  Speaker 7: Oran to sell its crew to your.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: Get No, we're not talking about any easing of sanctions
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: giving money.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: No sanctions, so money, no nothing. We have control of.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: Money that they claim as theirs, will keep control of
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: that money, and when they behave properly and when they
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: do what's right, we'll let them have their money. But
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: right now we're not doing that, and it's one thing
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: is not contingent on the other.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Again, Jim Tallent music to my ears. What do you think?
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 52:42
  Speaker 15: In total contrast to pass deals with Iran, including the
• 52:49
  Speaker 15: Obama administration, where we gave them enormous amounts of sanctions
• 52:53
  Speaker 15: relief in return for what they promised to do in
• 52:56
  Speaker 15: the future, and then of course didn't do and no,
• 52:59
  Speaker 15: that's not going to be the order this time around.
• 53:02
  Speaker 15: It sounds like we will free up some of their
• 53:04
  Speaker 15: assets that are frozen, but we're going to get performance
• 53:07
  Speaker 15: first on the issues that are most important to us,
• 53:10
  Speaker 15: beginning with the nukes, but also including the straight.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: I like the no dust, no dollars formulation that cuts
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: right through to it. No dust meaning we got to
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: get in there and dig it up, or somebody that
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: we trust has got to get in there and dig
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: it up. It can be the IAEA. I suppose I
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: don't see a ron agreeing to this.
• 53:29
  Speaker 15: To you, no, I mean, well, if I had to guess,
• 53:34
  Speaker 15: i'd say no you. And in that event, the question
• 53:37
  Speaker 15: is what are we going to do now? I believe
• 53:41
  Speaker 15: it's likely we will hit something more kinetically. I would
• 53:44
  Speaker 15: like to see us open up the straight, and of
• 53:47
  Speaker 15: course we started to do that a couple of weeks ago,
• 53:49
  Speaker 15: and it's pretty clear that for coalition management purposes, the
• 53:53
  Speaker 15: president has delayed that. I'd like to see us just
• 53:56
  Speaker 15: open up the straight. Then oil prices will go down
• 54:00
  Speaker 15: and we can continue throttling their economy until they say uncle,
• 54:03
  Speaker 15: because they're going to have to at some point. I mean,
• 54:06
  Speaker 15: they get most of their revenue through their exports, and
• 54:08
  Speaker 15: right now they're not exporting anything.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: So Jim Twant, I know that there's a concern about munitions,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: but I also understand we got a whopping big pile
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: of jay dams. Those are smart bombs and they're pretty
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: cheap to produce. What we don't have are the that
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: at high altitude interceptors. Is it possible to win the
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: war just using the jay dams and whatever ground defense
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: we have around various targets.
• 54:38
  Speaker 15: Well, well, we need interceptors because they still have some capabilities.
• 54:43
  Speaker 15: Now it depends on what you're talking about. If you're
• 54:45
  Speaker 15: talking about drones, we have other means of taking them out.
• 54:49
  Speaker 15: And yeah, I mean the missile defense is multi layered.
• 54:53
  Speaker 15: But I don't believe you that interceptors or magazine depth
• 54:59
  Speaker 15: is a problem in this conflict. I think the issue
• 55:03
  Speaker 15: is we're having to use a lot of our stockpile.
• 55:06
  Speaker 15: We don't have a big enough stockpile, and if the
• 55:09
  Speaker 15: balloon goes up someplace else, we may be in trouble,
• 55:11
  Speaker 15: which is why we need the defense budget and we
• 55:15
  Speaker 15: need to continue with these plans so that we can
• 55:17
  Speaker 15: actually take the money and produce what the armed forces need.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Okay. Last question for you, Jim Tallent Susan Collins was
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: just do I know you served with her and she
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: said there's only one destroyer in the budget and that
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: she's going to work for her colleague to change that.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: How much power does the chair of the Appropriations have
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: over that line that kind of line item. I would
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: guess it would be great.
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: You.
• 55:43
  Speaker 15: I'll answer that question by saying this, I am certain
• 55:47
  Speaker 15: with Susan Collins running the Appropriations Committee of two things.
• 55:50
  Speaker 15: Number One, we will get all the money for defense
• 55:53
  Speaker 15: that you can possibly get through the Senate, which probably,
• 55:56
  Speaker 15: as she said, won't be the thirty percent the President's
• 55:59
  Speaker 15: asked for, but which is going to be a big
• 56:00
  Speaker 15: whopping increase. And number two is that there will be
• 56:04
  Speaker 15: more than one destroyer in this budget. You can take
• 56:07
  Speaker 15: that to the bank. If Las Vegas has a line
• 56:11
  Speaker 15: on it, bety over Okay, Because she's going to put
• 56:16
  Speaker 15: those destroyers in the budget. They're not going to be
• 56:18
  Speaker 15: a defense bill if there aren't at least two destroyers.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: That's what I guess, and I think I mean, is
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: there any rational way that other than an ultra leftist
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: votes for Graham Plattner over at Susan Collins, who's the
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: chair of the appropriation.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: She's going to win.
• 56:36
  Speaker 15: And when the people of Texas find out who James
• 56:39
  Speaker 15: Tallerco really is, and they're going to find out who
• 56:42
  Speaker 15: James tall Rico really is, I think Ken Paxson is
• 56:45
  Speaker 15: going to win in Texas as well. I mean, look,
• 56:47
  Speaker 15: you can never take anything for granted. I mean, Susan
• 56:50
  Speaker 15: is an excellent politician for Maine and, by the way,
• 56:54
  Speaker 15: an excellent senator. I'll tell you I'd love to sit
• 56:58
  Speaker 15: I love to sit next to Susan at the at
• 57:01
  Speaker 15: the sask hearings because I love trying to break her up.
• 57:04
  Speaker 15: But it also put me to shame because she would
• 57:08
  Speaker 15: come in with these binders and this background material, and
• 57:10
  Speaker 15: Susan would have read them, read.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Everything in those things.
• 57:14
  Speaker 15: She is just an outstanding senator and Maine knows that,
• 57:18
  Speaker 15: and they're going to send her back to the Senate.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Ten thousand roll call votes, that's a Wall Street Journal ahead.
• 57:24
  Speaker 15: It's unbelievable.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Did you get close to ten thousand in a row?
• 57:28
  Speaker 15: No, Well, if you added up my entire career, the
• 57:32
  Speaker 15: state legislature of.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: The House and the Senate.
• 57:35
  Speaker 15: Oh, I never got that many in a row.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: No, I mean, I mean that put Joe DiMaggio to shame.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Jim tallant column x at Jim Talent Bank, you, Senator
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: all a good to talk to you. Stay tuned in America.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Copy right now. I'm joined now by Mary Katherine Ham,
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: host of Begetting Hammered podcast. Mary Katherine Iron. Did you
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: watch the President's press conference today? Will you buy chance
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: near a TV?
• 57:59
  Speaker 16: I have not because it was the last day of school.
• 58:01
  Speaker 16: And as you know, the last day of school is
• 58:03
  Speaker 16: not a day of school. It is a day of
• 58:04
  Speaker 16: school for me.
• 58:05
  Speaker 14: Where I watch my children get a bunch of awards.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you had a great last day of school.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Did you know the collecting pool is twenty four hundred
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: feet long, which is longer than the tallest building in
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: the world is tall. Did you know that?
• 58:22
  Speaker 14: I did not know it was that tall. And no,
• 58:25
  Speaker 14: that's crazy. That's a crazy stat.
• 58:27
  Speaker 16: By the way, if I assume you're talking about fountains.
• 58:30
  Speaker 16: And I have been really on this because I have
• 58:32
  Speaker 16: been surprised how emotionally affected I have been by the
• 58:37
  Speaker 16: revelation to me that I've been walking around this town
• 58:40
  Speaker 16: for twenty years and it could have had all these
• 58:42
  Speaker 16: beautiful fountains working and it didn't.
• 58:44
  Speaker 6: And now I'm like, what were we missing?
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: You and me? But I've been walking around that town
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty one and DuPont Circle has never worked.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: And so I'm Vick President today said twenty nine out
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: of twenty nine. Now I'm Fox. Sander wanted to talk
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: about the Iran warp coach. I just would love to
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: put those cabinet meetings on the screen in every school
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: in America so that they would learn a little bit.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: They went the President, the Vice president, the Attorney General,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, the Secretary
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: of Treasury, and the small business Administrator, and then you know,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Steve Whitcoff chimed in, it was really Doug Bergham chimed in,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: what do you think about making those good viewing in school.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: I think it's civics.
• 59:29
  Speaker 16: I think you learn a ton because even just going
• 59:31
  Speaker 16: through the cabinet heads and explaining which each one of
• 59:35
  Speaker 16: them them does would be things that a lot of
• 59:38
  Speaker 16: students do not know when it comes to civic education,
• 59:41
  Speaker 16: and just how the government works. There is a huge
• 59:43
  Speaker 16: knowledge gap, and I think it would be fun for
• 59:46
  Speaker 16: them to be informed of what just even each of
• 59:48
  Speaker 16: those people's jobs is.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: I know, let me get to this serious stuff. I
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: listened to the new getting hammered this morning, and I'm
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: amazed that you went to witness ares for like four days.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: So that's a long way to go, even though it's
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: the same time zone. I want to know, did you
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: go to the Metropolitan Cathedral.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 16: I did not make it to the Metropolitan Cathedral. I
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 16: saw a bunch of other stuff, but I did might
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 16: not make it there.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: The reason I bring it up is that's where Pope
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Francis when he was the cardinal was, It's his headquarters,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: and they've got the equivalent of Mount Vernon and the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: tomb of the Unknown Soldier for Argentina inside the cathedral.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: That's kind of a separation of church and state issue,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: isn't it.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 14: I guess so.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: But then I should have I should have put it
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: on my list here.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: Well, you did have a lot of good steak, you
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: did have a lot of good mal back. I'm glad
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: to hear about that. But what what did you make
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: of the poverty? I know We like Malay and we
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: like what he's up to. But were you struck by
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: the poverty along the boulevards?
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 14: Actually not a ton. Most of the places that we
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 14: went felt relatively safe.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 16: There are some sty of breakdown, obviously, but I think
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 16: having seen the country first put the brakes on the hyperinflation,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 16: it can get you to a better spot to dealing
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 16: with poverty, because, Man, one thing I learned very quickly
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 16: there is when you go into stores, and this is
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 16: a hangover from the hyperinflation, a lot of places will
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 16: code the prices by QR code or like a color code,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 16: because back when there was the crazy inflation that has
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 16: come down massively, they changed prices so often that it
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 16: didn't make sense to even put them on products. And
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 16: so that's a real glimpse into how bad things were there.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 16: And to see some free market economics be able to
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 16: improve things to the extent that they have, and for
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 16: Malay to have been able to win over mostly in
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 16: midterms down there, I think has been at is encouraging.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Now, you and your husband went, and you went with Guy,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure his husband went to Guy Ben And
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: I want to know if Guy got on a polo
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: pony or if he called the polo match that you
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: were a part of.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 14: He was on the pony and we played on the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 14: same team.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: So I cannot envision them. Can you put a like
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: up instagram of this was there is there video of
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Mary Catherine in her jod Perns and her polo mallet.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 14: Well, now we didn't have the full outfit.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 6: Let me be clear.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 14: We were playing something I call SloMo polo, which is like.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 16: They're basically they're basically like walking as fast as the
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 16: pony at an elementary school party and we're trying to.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: Hit a ball. Okay, Well that I'm reassured by that. Actually,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: because if you've ever read Winston Churchill's My Early Life,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: he was a polo player. You noted that they have
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: like forty ponies. They don't have like three ponies. They
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: got like forty ponies. And I was laughing because Churchill, Uh,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: they played serious polo in India in the Imperial days,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: and it's not a sport to be taken lightly. I mean,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: people fall off, people get killed. It's a real deal sport.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Were you a little intrepid a little bit?
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 16: But again this is slow mo polo and those ponies
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 16: were really nice, and I did make.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 14: Contact with the ball several times. I will point that
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 14: out again in slow motion.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: I just want I just want the video. I want
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: the video of guy with his job pars. Okay, let
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: me turn to Colbert. I could not agree with you more.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: Terry Pluto, my occasional guest as a sports writer, has said,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: never feel sorry for any athlete who's making thirty million
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: dollars a year, even if they missed the shot. And
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: then he goes on the top. But I don't feel
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: bad for Colbert. I feel bad for the guy who
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: got the internship this summer and now the show is closed.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: That's the man or woman I feel bad for. I
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: don't feel bad for Colbert. I feel bad for Paul McCartney.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: That was a bad career choice to show up on
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: that show, didn't you think?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 16: I mean, I guess it was sort of veiled with
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 16: like we're saying we're bidding farewell to the Ed Sullivan Theater.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 14: But it seemed to me like really, or we're doing
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 14: command performances for.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Oh you just redeemed it for me? Oh you just
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: redeemed it. That's a non police He wasn't making a
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: political statement. He was doing a Beatles thing. Oh thank you, Yes,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: I think it was.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 16: They sort of they coded it that way, which I
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 16: think does give him some cover. But it did seem
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 16: a little weird that Paul McCartney's doing command performances for
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 16: Stephen Colbert.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: For Steven Colbert. I just saw the picture and I said,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: but you've just redeemed it for me. That's why we
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: have Mary Katherine Ham on the program, so she can
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: clarify for the boomers what the millennials are actually seeing.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: That's what she did now, Mary Catherine, as a boomer,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: I want this Yaron War to end. Like the last
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: time they closed the Strait of Hormuz, which was when
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: the boomers were in charge, Reagan just blew them up.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: What do you want to have happen?
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 16: Well, first of all, I'm really glad that we are
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 16: back to striking in some way. I am really wary
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 16: of any administration of American administration that wants a deal
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 16: more than the Iranians too, because the Iranians love to
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 16: negotiate and not honor their deals, as illustrated by the
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 16: fact that the straight Offom News is not fully open
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 16: and the seasfire never happened on that side. So I
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 16: want to go back to some kind of kinetic action
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 16: because I think without the threat of that being credible,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 16: which is what Trump has had going for him, unlike
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 16: a Biden or at Obama, that there's a credible threat.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 16: Without that credible threat of action, you're not getting anything
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 16: out of these people, and you're not getting any closer
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 16: to taming the straight upform news problem, or to changing
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 16: the world order, or to being able to declare a
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 16: sort of victory, which looks they're religious fanatics.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 14: They're not going to admit they're giving up, but don't
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 14: make a deal with them.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 5: That's bad.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: I agree. Now, I want to conclude by talking a
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: little bit about the end of school thing that you
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: went through today. End of school is always an emotional
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: time for kids, but it's an even harder time for
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: parents who are looking at a summer that must look
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: like the Sahara desert. What do you have planned for
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: your four smalls for this summer?
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 14: Oh my gosh, I have so much planned.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 16: My children can't get away from me in the summer.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 16: I love to hang out with them, and I don't.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 16: I tried not to get us too booked up, although
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 16: there's lots of opportunities to do that, and I plan
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 16: to take all four of them on a road trip
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 16: at some point this summer. Not sure exactly where we're going,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 16: but the littles are big enough to travel and endure
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 16: that with their mother now and they shall, so I'm
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 16: an adventures plan.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: That include me.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: Are they pool kids?
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 16: Yes, we're doing a lot of pool. I did forget
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 16: the part of childhood of raising kids where it's so
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 16: nerve wracking before they can really handle themselves in the pools.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 16: I've got two who need a lot of work, and
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 16: that's what we're going to spend a lot of June on.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: That's the excellent choice because don't go near the pool.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: I was a lifeguard for so many years. Lots of
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: parents look away. Never look away. No lifeguards are not
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: that good. Mary Catherine, haam great to have a great
• 1:07:13
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• 1:07:16
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• 1:07:20
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• 1:07:24
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• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back in America. Stay tuned Welcome back
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: in America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. There's a new face in town.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: In Washington, d C. Congressman Brandon gill Is often on
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: television because he often is the most coherent member of
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: whatever panel happens to be sitting. Last time I saw him,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: I said, we got to get this guy on the program,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: and I looked him up. He's a freshman from Texas.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure which part of Texas because the numbers
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: don't meet it. And give a congressman, where is your district.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 17: Or just orth of the DFW metroplugs Flower maryltand Highland
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 17: Village Lootis Bill area?
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: Can we hold you responsible for the fact I get
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: lost every time I land at DFW and try and
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: get anywhere. It's the worst layout ever of any airport
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: in America.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 9: Do you like it?
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: It's funny.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 17: I actually like the DFW airport. I think once you're
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 17: inside of it, it's it's a It ranks up there,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 17: at least.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 18: In the top five in the country.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Oh oh, we agree about that. It's just when you're
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: in a rental car trying to find anything, God to
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: help you if you're not from Texas. So Congressman Gil,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: You've made an impression on me because you know how
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: to ask questions. I thought, for sure you at young
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: in law school, but you haven't. Where did you learn
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: how to actually cross examine a witness to productive end?
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 18: Well, I appreciate that. I think it's two things.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 17: One is that, candidly, we just spend a lot of
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 17: time preparing whenever we have congressional hearings. But second is
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 17: that I think that a lot of politics really boils
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 17: down too simple questions. You know, it's really easy to
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 17: get into the weeds and all of the nuances of
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 17: all kinds of different political issues and and sort of
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 17: lose sight of you know, get too caught up in
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 17: the in the trees and lose sight of the forest.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 18: And I think that that happens oftentimes.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 17: But for example, you know, the transgender debate is really
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 17: just a question of do you want boys and girls sports?
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 18: Yes or no?
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 17: On immigration, do you think taxpayer dollars should be funding
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 17: you know, whatever crazy insane immigration program, yes or no?
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 17: On abortion, we just had a hearing on abortion recently,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 17: and you know that the left likes to promote abortion
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 17: not just as something that is something that's sad but inevitable,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 17: but as something that's a positive good. So I thought
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 17: it made sense to ask an abortion advocate recently, if
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 17: you think that abortion is such a great thing, why
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 17: don't you explain what your favorite method of abortion is?
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 18: Because there's all kinds of different methods, and.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 17: The goal of all of that is just to get
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 17: down to the black and white truth of any given
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 17: political issue. And oftentimes those are answers that the left
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 17: just simply can't answer or don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: So when did you learn that it's remarkably effective? I
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: wish many of your colleagues would learn that you give
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of time to your witness to answer. You
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: don't interrupt them unless they're not answering, and you don't
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: give speeches. It's like, magnificent. Is anyone else picking up
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: on this?
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 18: We will see, you know.
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  Speaker 17: I've always found that you can go into the hearing
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 17: room and I can sit there and yell and scream
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 17: at a witness, and maybe it's cathartic for me, maybe not,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 17: but it's far more insightful to just let especially whenever
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 17: they're radical leftists on the witness stand, just let them
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 17: walk themselves off.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 18: Of a Cliff, because most of them will.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 17: You know, we're at a point also in politics where
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 17: a lot of leftists said some really crazy things during
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 17: the period when woke was ascended between about twenty eighteen
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 17: and twenty twenty four, where the left, every leftist virtually
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 17: was talking about, you know, transgenderism for elementary school kids.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 17: They were talking about how open borders were a really
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 17: good thing. They were talking about how, you know, as
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 17: James Tallerico does, about how our trans community needs abortion,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 17: I mean whatever that means.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 18: So we're at a point where you can just ask
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  Speaker 18: them about the statements that they've made.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 17: I mean, you know, I'd love to question taller Ico,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 17: just say what, why don't you explain to is, what
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 17: does that mean that transgender people should have abortions? And
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 17: then just ask him some follow up questions when he
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 17: tries to explain it, because at the end of the day,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 17: there's no way that he can. And a lot of
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 17: these people, again, they don't want to because they realized
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 17: whenever you ask them questions.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 18: Why don't you explain what you meant by, you know,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 18: by by.
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  Speaker 17: Trans people need abortions? They realize how insane it sounds
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 17: to normal people.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: Now when he says God is non binary, and then
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: his big follow up from a CBS person was he said, well,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: people who disagree with that need to read the letter
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: of Paul. I'd actually like to know what he's talking about.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: I have no idea what he's talking about. He is
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: a weird guy. As the President said, I'm glad you
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: brought him up. I was a John Cornyn fran He's
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: a friend of mine, he's a friend of the program.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: I endorsed him. He lost, and now we got to
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: get behind Attorney General Paxton and have him win. The
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: public polling right now has mister taller Rico up by
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: six points. I can't believe that. Do you believe that?
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 9: No?
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 17: I don't, but I will say it's early on in
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 17: a public opinion polling six months before an election really
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 17: doesn't mean a whole lot because of the reality is
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 17: a lot of people still don't know who James Taller
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 17: Rico is because we haven't had a chance to define him,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 17: and he hasn't really even had a chance to define
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 17: himself for this election cycle. And what's amazing is that
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 17: whenever we start bringing forth all of these crazy statements
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 17: that he's made, you know, whether it's God is non binaria,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 17: we need to welcome mat on our southern border, or
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 17: police and prisons are violence or and create a cycle
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 17: of violence, or there are six sexes. I mean, even
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 17: go on and on and on about all these crazy things,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 17: we're still just sort of scratching the surface. There is
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 17: so much that this guy has said and done. I mean,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 17: he really is a total weirdo, somebody who is not
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 17: a normal person, does not relate to normal people, and
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 17: does not believe things that normal people believe.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 18: And you know, I think that once we're.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 17: Able to define him, we're actually going to be able
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 17: to We're actually going.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 18: To be able to move those numbers quite a bit.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: I think you're right now. I do want to make
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: sure we get the introduction done on the You're now
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: the chairman of a new task force, the Oversight Task
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Force on defending constitutional rights and exposing institutional abuses. I've
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: been teaching constitutional law for thirty years. I'm all for this.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: What is the what's the program? What's the focus?
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 17: Yeah, So the focus is we have a broad mandate
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 17: for this subcommittee, and I can tell you what we're
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 17: starting with right now. We've launched two different investigations. One
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 17: of them is into four different birth tourism companies. So
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 17: these are companies that are facilitating immigration into the United
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 17: States for the sole purpose of the immigrant having birth
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 17: in the United States so that their child can be
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 17: a US citizen. That is a case of immigration fraud,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 17: but I think there are a lot of other issues
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 17: with that as well. So we've launched an investigation into
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 17: four different of those companies. One of them, by the name,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 17: by the way, is called Half My Baby in Miami.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 17: That's the literal same of the business, So we're going
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 17: to be digging into.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: That at least parent yeah, that's transport.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 17: At least at least it's easy for us to identify
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 17: these companies just based on the name. But secondly, we've
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 17: also launched an investigation into the home Health Ohio medicaid
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 17: fraud scandal that was just unearthed a couple of weeks ago.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 17: And this is something we believe that that the federal
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 17: government is losing about a billion dollars a year, perhaps
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 17: more in the home health services sector, which is being
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 17: defrauded at an astounding rate. So we've we've requested documents
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 17: and information and other and communications from the Ohio Medicaid Agency.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 18: So that we can get to the bottom of that.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 18: We're going to be having hearings on that here very shortly.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: That pains me because I'm a buck eye and I
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: hope you get to the bottom ye before before I
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: let you go. What's your website? If you're allowed to
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: say it. I don't know if you're in the Congress
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: or at the local place. Can you tell us your website?
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 17: Yeah, we're at at Real Brand and Gil dive on
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 17: Twitter and you can find me.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 18: On Facebook and Instagram as well.
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  Speaker 1: Congress. Been good to meet you in person via the
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: web here, and I look forward to your coming back anytime,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: but like someone who can ask questions and get answers.
• 1:16:15
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  Speaker 1: had an election last night in Texas, a Republican primary
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Paxton Beach Senator John Cornyn. So Paxton will
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  Speaker 1: be the nominee for the Republicans in the fall. They
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  Speaker 1: haven't had their primary in Minnesota yet. I'm making a
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: second go through with their candidate, Tom Wyler, who is
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: a retired commander in the United States Navy, joins us.
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  Speaker 1: He's on the ballot in the fall. Commander. I don't
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: understand the Minnesota system at all. I don't know why
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: they have a convention because it's not binding. You're running
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: in the primary. Am I right?
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: That is correct to you?
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  Speaker 19: And I'm still trying to figure out the system as well.
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  Speaker 19: But with that said, I am excited to be heading
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 19: up to the Loot this weekend for our GOP convention.
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  Speaker 19: And like I've told people all along, assuming I win
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 19: the convention, then I will definitely abide by it.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: Well, it's Okay, it's okay, you win, tails, I win?
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: How do you lose? I like that? What's the what's
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: the convention supposed to be about? Is it a platform?
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: Is it a nominate?
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 9: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 19: So the convention does a bunch of about twelve hundred
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 19: eighteen hundred delegates from throughout the state. We'll gather up
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 19: unto luth and they'll go through some voting and speeches
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 19: from all the US.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: Senate candidates, and there will be a vote.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 19: If anyone gets sixty percent of that vote, either on
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 19: the first ballot or after a series of ballots, they
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 19: will be become endorsed by the Minnesota GOP. A lot
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 19: of candidates say they will abide by the convention well
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 19: before the convention starts, sort of when they start their campaign.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 19: I have said this time all along that again, I'll
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 19: abide if I win, and if I don't win, I'm
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 19: going to evaluate who does win, and if I think
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 19: they would be, you know, the best senator for Minnesota's
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 19: and the best chance to win November third, I'll evaluate
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 19: supporting that person.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 4: But if not, I intend to run to the primary,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 4: which is August eleven.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: August eleventh, that's what Yeah, I was looking forward. Now
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: Commander Wiler, he retired from the Navy. You've Shane, the
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: President has put in a one and a half trillion
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: dollar budget request. What do you think of that?
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 4: I think it's spot on. I think we're still rebuilding from.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 19: The deficit of the Biden administration and in shipbuilding a
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 19: loan right now. I mean we see the Straits are
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 19: her Moos and the effect that that has on prices
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 19: Americans pay. You know, twenty percent of fuel basically comes
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 19: to the Straits are Hermoves. One third of every product
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 19: moved across this world goes.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 4: Through the South China Sea.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 19: So if that were to get clamped on in a
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 19: similar way that the Straights are Moves is clamped on now,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 19: Americans would feel that when it comes to affordability.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 4: So just a clear present day example of why we.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 19: Need that one point five trillion dollars to one reinvest
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 19: in the Navy and ensure we deter aggression and don't
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 19: have to fight wars.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: Now, you were on both attack submarines and boomers nuclear
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: deterrent submarine. Do you think the attack submarines are of
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: any use in the current battle with Iran? Are they
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: all over in the South China Sea acting as a
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: deterrent on China. Guess I know you don't know, but
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: you guess.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 19: I did not actually operate on boomers. I operated in
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 19: an SSGN, just to clear clear that up. So it
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 19: was on fast tax mostly one GN.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 4: But yeah, there's probably a few either a.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 19: GN or some ss ns in the region of the
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 19: Middle East to help out with some Tomawk strikes if necessary.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 19: But yeah, for the most part, what you know, submarine
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 19: or fest Tag submarines are getting paid for right now
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 19: by the American tax payer is to make sure we
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 19: fully understand and I guess they're in the immediate vicinity
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 19: of both China and Russia at all times to make
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 19: sure we're monitoring any of their preparations for a potential conflict.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: When you saw President Trump sit down with the General
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: Secretary g the Communists kept bringing up Taiwan. What did
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: you take away from his remarks? The President wasn't giving
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: him anything, but why did you make him his emphasis
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: on that.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 19: I think it's the right thing to do. I think
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 19: again it comes down to not we don't want this
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 19: slippery slope to ever become a norm for China. To start,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 19: you know, taking the island by island as ay you know,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 19: theoretically want to move across the South China Sea.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: So I think we do need a hard stance on.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 19: Taiwan, and we need to We're already integrated into the
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 19: defensive Taiwan.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 4: That's sort of how I look at it.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 19: We're defending Taiwan each and every day because of our
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 19: presence in South Korea, in Japan and Australia, because of
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 19: our high operational temple tempo and the South China see
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 19: with both submarines and aircraft carriers. So to me part,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 19: we're already into the defense of Taiwan. If it were
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 19: to go coinnetic the then obviously there's another set of
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 19: decisions that our national leaders need to make, and that
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 19: is one reason I want to be in a position
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 19: to help influence that in the United States Senate.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: So, Tom Wiler, before I go further and talk to
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: you about the Iran Moore and what the President said
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: at the cabinet meeting today, what's your campaign website so
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: that people can follow up on who you are and
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: whether or not you need contributions.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 4: I'll cut to the chase.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 19: I definitely need contributions, and my website is Tom Wiler
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 19: twenty twenty six dot com.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: So t O M W E I L E R
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty six dot com.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so it'll be expensive in the general and
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: we'll come back to that. But the President had the
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: long cabinet meeting today. He said repeatedly he doesn't want
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: a good deal, he wants a great deal or no deal,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: and that the strait of horor moves has to open
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: up first and fast. What did you make of his
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: remarks today.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 19: I think they are the right remarks, and I applaud
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 19: the President for giving negotiations a chance.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 4: And I do think, unfortunately we are we are at
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 4: the end of that that chance. I think we I
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 4: think more.
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  Speaker 19: Likely we're gonna have to start negotiating with tomahawks or
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  Speaker 19: other kinetic strikes or you know, applying more cyber you know,
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  Speaker 19: cyber pressure on Iran. But but I think the Iranian
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  Speaker 19: regime unfortunately has demonstrated that they are not logical, They're
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  Speaker 19: not rational, and I don't think one day will negotiate
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  Speaker 19: a satisfying deal in two We're never gonna be able
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  Speaker 19: to trust that.
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  Speaker 10: I ran in.
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  Speaker 4: So I think at this point.
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  Speaker 19: I applaud giving negotiations a chance, but I think we
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  Speaker 19: need to continue to sort of finish the job militarily
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  Speaker 19: to remove not necessarily remove the regime, but basically eliminate
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  Speaker 19: the ability for our ran to shut the straight sort
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  Speaker 19: removes and to threaten our neighbors in the region.
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  Speaker 1: All right, sorry, we got one minute left. Why are
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  Speaker 1: you the best choice for Minneso Coldian for the Republican
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  Speaker 1: nomination and not any of the other three or four
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  Speaker 1: candidates to run the ballot.
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  Speaker 19: I just think it comes down to experience, integrity, and
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  Speaker 19: the ability to solve problems and lead, lead with that moral.
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  Speaker 4: Compass Minnesota needs.
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  Speaker 19: I've been engineered by training a nuclear nuclear trained operator
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  Speaker 19: with the United States Navy and through submarining engineering, my
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  Speaker 19: time at Harvard Kennedy School and my time at DARPA.
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  Speaker 19: I've solved a lot of problems, and clearly in Minnesota
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  Speaker 19: we have a lot of problems to solve. So I
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  Speaker 19: think that experience, along with my drive to solve and
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  Speaker 19: help out the folks of Minnesota and the things we
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  Speaker 19: need help with, which is stopping fraud, making life more affordable,
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  Speaker 19: getting our jobs, and our growth, and Minnesota turned around.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I'm running.
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  Speaker 19: It comes down to experience, the ability to win in November,
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  Speaker 19: and the ability to solve problems for Minnesota tax payer.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Weiler twenty twenty Chicks, G M W E I
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  Speaker 1: L E R twenty twenty chicks dot Com. Thank you, Tom.
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to hearing how it goes at the convention.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to you again before the election.