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The Iranian Conflict Is Getting The U.S. Senate's Eyes Off The Ball · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the third hour. It is Show fifty five
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  Speaker 1: eighty two, the Morning Show with Preston Scott, and that
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  Speaker 1: wa in my twenty fifth year of doing this radio program.
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  Speaker 1: We celebrated our twenty fourth anniversary last month, and so
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  Speaker 1: here we are now firmly into year twenty five and
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  Speaker 1: joining us on the program. And I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: many how many years have we had Justin Haskins with us? Justin,
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  Speaker 1: is it been what six? Seven? How many years?
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  Speaker 2: Is it? Oh? Boy, you know, I don't know the
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  Speaker 2: exact number, but I can tell you this. It feels
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  Speaker 2: like an eternity that is so good, that has let
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  Speaker 2: me up perfectly. Oh, you can only blame yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Fastball down the middle of the plate. Justin's latest book,
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  Speaker 1: The Next Big Crash, available on Amazon, the website Haskins
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  Speaker 1: dot com. He, of course, vice president Policy with the
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  Speaker 1: Heartland Institute. I want to get your take on what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in the Middle East? What are you what
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts on the conflict. I won't call it
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  Speaker 1: a war. I don't care what anyone else says. Justin there,
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  Speaker 1: we're not getting shot at per se, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: have boots on the ground so.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I think there's a lot of different angles that
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  Speaker 2: you can you can take on this one. The thing
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  Speaker 2: that concerns me the most right now, actually, it's the
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  Speaker 2: thing that I'm not sure that it concerns enough people
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  Speaker 2: on the right. I'm worried that this is becoming a
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  Speaker 2: huge distraction from some key issues that absolutely need to
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  Speaker 2: be dealt with, And the biggest one for me is
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  Speaker 2: the Save Act and getting voter integrity, voting integrity and
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  Speaker 2: all of that squared away. That was the big fight
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  Speaker 2: up until the war broke out. Now, regardless of whether
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  Speaker 2: you think the conflict is a good thing or a
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  Speaker 2: bad thing, or that Trump was justified or not justified
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, the thing is cast to pass, no one
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  Speaker 2: is and no one is really talking about it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And this thing, the thing that bothers me so much,
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  Speaker 2: is not just that people aren't talking about it and
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  Speaker 2: therefore the pressure to get it passed is not as
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  Speaker 2: high as it once was. The thing that really bothers
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  Speaker 2: me is what about the leverage that the president had
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  Speaker 2: going into negotiations with Congress over legislation. If he had
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  Speaker 2: said I'm not passing anything until you guys get to
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  Speaker 2: say Act pass, and he had a hard stance on that.
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  Speaker 2: Is he going to be able to do that going
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  Speaker 2: forward because of the conflict in the Middle East when
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  Speaker 2: he needs money for that and every I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if that's I'm worried that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: key priorities, that one being one of the biggest for me,
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  Speaker 2: is now going to become a back burner issue because
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  Speaker 2: of what's going on. And really I blame Congress more
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  Speaker 2: than anybody else, but Congress full of a bunch of weasels,
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  Speaker 2: and you need to be you need to have someone
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  Speaker 2: using the bully pulpit to hold those people accountable. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm worried now that the political capital is being spent
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  Speaker 2: on a conflict overseas rather than on voter integrity, which
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  Speaker 2: to me is the key issue, because if you don't
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  Speaker 2: have free and fair elections for you know, for the
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  Speaker 2: next election, or the election after that, or forever in
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  Speaker 2: the future, them, what's the point of this whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: We can't trust the outcome of any of it if
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  Speaker 2: you don't.
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  Speaker 1: If we don't get the Save Act pass now, we
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  Speaker 1: may never have another fair election again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I one hundred percent believe that. Yes, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: the problems could get a whole lot worse, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that people really understand how bad the current
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  Speaker 2: system is. It is very very easy, contrary to what
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Democrats are saying, it is very very
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  Speaker 2: easy to commit voter fraud. It is not hard at
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  Speaker 2: all in most states. The let's state you're in, But
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  Speaker 2: in most states, it's very easy to commit voter fraud.
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  Speaker 2: And it's very easy to register to vote as a
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  Speaker 2: non citizen and then to vote as a non citizen.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know how pervasive that particular problem is,
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  Speaker 2: but in a way it doesn't really matter, because if
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  Speaker 2: a non citizen can register to vote and then vote,
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  Speaker 2: it's easy for that person to do it, then anyone
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  Speaker 2: can commit so fraud easily, and the laws of the
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  Speaker 2: books need to be changed desperately.
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  Speaker 1: We got John Thune. Why is he not just getting
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  Speaker 1: this done, Whether it's just okay, talk yourself out, filibuster
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  Speaker 1: till you turn blue, but we're going to vote on this,
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  Speaker 1: or just kill the filibuster and get it done.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I think the Senate is in many ways a
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  Speaker 2: horribly corrupt institution. I don't mean corrupt in the sense
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  Speaker 2: that people are buying them off from outside the institution.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's internally corrupt in the sense that it's
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  Speaker 2: essentially an old boys club that include women too, that
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  Speaker 2: just essentially, you know, they do whatever. They have these
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  Speaker 2: internal rules that they live by, these codes, they don't
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  Speaker 2: ever violate them. It's a way for all of these
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  Speaker 2: politicians to ensure that they each get a turn standing
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  Speaker 2: on the stage with the bright light shining on them.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not about getting things done. That is not
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  Speaker 2: the priority in the Senate, and it hasn't been the
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  Speaker 2: priority in the Senate for a very very long time.
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  Speaker 2: They're all buddies with each other in the Senate. They
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  Speaker 2: don't They just they just don't care about getting stuff done.
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  Speaker 2: That's the bottom line. And we've seen it over and
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  Speaker 2: over and over again. In fairness to Johnthone, who you know,
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  Speaker 2: I really don't want to give him the benefit of
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  Speaker 2: the doubt in a lot of ways, but in fairness
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  Speaker 2: to him, I don't think it's possible to get the
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  Speaker 2: filibuster under the current situation. To kill the filibuster in
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  Speaker 2: order to get this through. So you have to have
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  Speaker 2: sixty votes in the Senate to end debate and get
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  Speaker 2: anything through the Senate under normal rules, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that he has enough Republicans on his side to
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  Speaker 2: do it. He's come out and said that, and I
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  Speaker 2: totally believe it because people like Lisa Murkowski, for example,
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  Speaker 2: from Alaska, Susan Collins from Maine, and others have said
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  Speaker 2: that they will never support that, and so I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he has any Democrats willing to cross the aisle
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  Speaker 2: to do it. So the bottom line is he can't
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  Speaker 2: change the rules in the Senate in order to only
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  Speaker 2: get a simple majority to pass the bill, and so
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  Speaker 2: you have to have at least, you know, fifty Republicans
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  Speaker 2: to change the rule, and I don't think he even
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  Speaker 2: has that.
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  Speaker 1: But so I mean, John Fetterman said he would vote
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  Speaker 1: for the Save Act, and and Fetterman has gone on
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  Speaker 1: record to support that that legislation. So even if you
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  Speaker 1: lose Murkowski and Collins, you can still push it back
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  Speaker 1: to fifty and then JD. Vance's your tiebreaker.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think he would vote to change the rules,
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  Speaker 2: which is the key thing. He's not going to vote
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  Speaker 2: to change the rules so that we can, okay, have
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  Speaker 2: to say that. He just says he'll vote for the
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  Speaker 2: bill when it gets to the floor, but it'll never
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  Speaker 2: get to the floor because they won't end the debate.
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  Speaker 2: And in order to end the debate, you need to
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  Speaker 2: have sixty votes, and he's not going to he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: support that.
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  Speaker 1: What about the strategy justin of just hanging this around
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats next, who are running for reelection in the Senate,
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  Speaker 1: pointing out that eighty three percent of this country favors
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  Speaker 1: the Save Act in its various forms, and just let them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hang around, you know, let that hang around
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  Speaker 1: their neck.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what that. I think that's where the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: were until the conflict broke out in Iran. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that that's my whole point is I actually think
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  Speaker 2: we were moving in the right direction. I think that
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  Speaker 2: the President was saying, I'm going to die out in
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  Speaker 2: the hill, and then suddenly the war broke out, and
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  Speaker 2: now it's not about that anymore, and it's really hard
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  Speaker 2: to use the bully pulpit for trying to get to
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  Speaker 2: save that through, which is going to take all of
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  Speaker 2: the energy and political capital that you can muster when
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  Speaker 2: you have a conflict that's already a dividing issue in
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  Speaker 2: your own party. That now you're dealing with and you're
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  Speaker 2: going to need to go to Congress to get budgets
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  Speaker 2: passed and other things. And Congress isn't willing to get
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  Speaker 2: things through on a whole bunch of other topics, including
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  Speaker 2: you know, I Department of Homeland Security funding and all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of other things. So that's the whole problem. And
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  Speaker 2: this issue is it is absolutely vital because of how
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  Speaker 2: easy it is to register to vote as a nonsense
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  Speaker 2: and to register to vote illegally or from modulantly claim
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  Speaker 2: your one person when you're not another person. It has to.
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  Speaker 1: Change back with Justin Haskins of the Harland Institute again
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  Speaker 1: his books. He's written a ton with Glenn Beck, but
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  Speaker 1: his book The Next Big Crash is available on Amazon
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  Speaker 1: justin remind everybody what that book's about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, The Next Big Crash is the culmination of years
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  Speaker 2: of research that I've done on this absolutely wild, incredible topic.
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  Speaker 2: The sort of the short version of it is that
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  Speaker 2: because of this crazy conspiracy between massive institutions and some
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  Speaker 2: of America's wealthiest families that took basically decades to take form,
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  Speaker 2: most Americans do not own, at least not in the
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  Speaker 2: purest sense their investments. And as a result of that,
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  Speaker 2: Wall Street firms, and by investments, I mean your stocks,
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  Speaker 2: your bonds, your retirement accounts, all of those things. And
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  Speaker 2: as a result of that, you don't have the same
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  Speaker 2: kind of property rights to those investments. And one singular
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  Speaker 2: institution called DTC has become the owner of the vast
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  Speaker 2: majority of these investments in the United States to date,
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  Speaker 2: one institution owns almost all of the stocks and bonds
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  Speaker 2: and other securities investments. When you think of Wall Street,
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  Speaker 2: one institution owns almost all of it. And as the
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  Speaker 2: direct registered owner, now you own a contractual right that's
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  Speaker 2: related to those investments, which you don't actually own the
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  Speaker 2: investments themselves. And so Wall Street's taken advantage of this.
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  Speaker 2: They've convinced states to pass all these other laws that
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  Speaker 2: have effectively given big institutions the ability to take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of the fact that you're not the direct registered owner
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  Speaker 2: of it. And when the next big crash occurs, you
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  Speaker 2: could lose everything. It's possible, depending on how they handle things,
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  Speaker 2: you could lose everything as the result of the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you're not the direct registered owner of all of
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  Speaker 2: these investments. And the conspiracy and how it all came
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  Speaker 2: together is a story that is one of the craziest
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  Speaker 2: stories you're ever going to hear, and it's all laid
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  Speaker 2: out in the book The Next Big Crash. So please,
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  Speaker 2: if you have the ability to buy the book, buy
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  Speaker 2: the book on Amazon. I don't get any profit of
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  Speaker 2: the book. It all goes to nonprofit organizations that are
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  Speaker 2: trying to get these laws changed, and they're doing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of other good things in the world. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: not trying to get rich off of this. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: trying to spread the word about it. It's really important
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  Speaker 2: issue and I hope more people learn about it.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Are there any inside the book or since the
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  Speaker 1: book has been published, are there strategies that people can
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  Speaker 1: employ that makes sense to protect and hedge against this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the biggest thing, and it sounds really simple,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of people don't actually do it. The
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing is you have to diversify where your wealth
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  Speaker 2: is in a real way. When people talk about diverse
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  Speaker 2: find your investments, they usually mean don't put all of
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  Speaker 2: your money in the one stock right exact And what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying is, don't put all of your money into stocks.
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  Speaker 2: Put your money in all sorts of other areas, including
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  Speaker 2: things that are not part of that security system where
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  Speaker 2: you're not the direct owner of it. So buy precious metals,
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  Speaker 2: invest in real estate, make sure that you don't have
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  Speaker 2: any debt, you know, as little bet as possible, so
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  Speaker 2: that you're as financial security as you could possibly be.
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  Speaker 2: If there is a big crash that occurs, don't look
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  Speaker 2: at your retirement account and think, well, that's the end
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  Speaker 2: all be all of my financial existence in the future,
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  Speaker 2: because it really isn't your horse. And I think it's
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  Speaker 2: hard for people to wrap their minds around that. But
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  Speaker 2: if we got into a big enough crash that really
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  Speaker 2: could be taken away from people in order to prop
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  Speaker 2: up too big to fail institutions, it really could. It
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  Speaker 2: could happen, and it may never happen. I hope it doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: but it could happen, and so people have to be
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  Speaker 2: prepared for that, and I think the easiest way is
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  Speaker 2: to diversify. There's also some ways to direct register your
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  Speaker 2: investments so that you can actually become the owner of
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  Speaker 2: the investments, the direct registered owner of your securities investments,
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  Speaker 2: but that's a little bit expensive and complicated, and people
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  Speaker 2: have to look into doing that, and so they should
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  Speaker 2: talk to a financial advisor. That's something they're really interested
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  Speaker 2: in doing.
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  Speaker 1: Are financial advisors aware, you know.
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  Speaker 2: A growing number of them are aware. I've had many
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  Speaker 2: of them reach out to me who are completely unaware
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  Speaker 2: before and are blown away by all of this. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of state lawmakers are now aware who weren't aware
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  Speaker 2: of it before, and so there has been a lot
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  Speaker 2: of progress that's been made, but we still have not
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  Speaker 2: gotten a law passed in any state in America that
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  Speaker 2: puts some common sense protections in place so that people
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  Speaker 2: won't lose everything when the next big crash happens as
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  Speaker 2: a result of this ownership system. So we still we'll
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of work to do on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff as always, justin thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: the time, and hopefully we'll get a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: again next month.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir,