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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show. Tom Homan gets results

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Speaker 2: Major medical groups finally admit that mutilating children is a

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Speaker 2: bad idea, and Michigan Senate candidate John James joins US Live.

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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, February fourth. This is the Scott Jennings Show,

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Speaker 2: Common Sense for the American People. We are back of

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Speaker 2: the Big Apple today and on the birthday of a

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Speaker 2: man who understood common sense, Ronald Wilson Reagan, born on

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Speaker 2: this day in nineteen eleven. Breaking news to start the show,

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Speaker 2: and this just end to the Scott Jennings Show. It

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Speaker 2: appears the talks between the United States and Iran that

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Speaker 2: we're scheduled for Friday have been canceled. This comes as

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Speaker 3: We'll track this story throughout the show.

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Speaker 2: We have other news in Minnesota where the President's borders

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Speaker 2: are held a press conference this morning, and once again

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Speaker 2: the Man gets results. Tom Homan announced he has secured

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Speaker 2: ICE agents remain in Minnesota, and Tom Homan made clear

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Speaker 2: More breaking news for you today, and it is a

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the Scott Jettings Show.

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Speaker 11: Hey, Scott, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Good to see you, my friend.

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Speaker 2: I want to get your reaction as we start this

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Speaker 3: About the Save Act.

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Speaker 2: This is the idea that we need to insure citizenship

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Speaker 2: and check IDs when people vote. It's not terribly controversial

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Speaker 2: to me, but let's hear from Chuck Schumer. Here's cut thirteen.

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Speaker 12: We've got to get this done, and we've got to

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Speaker 12: get it done very quickly. The Save Act is an abomination.

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Speaker 12: It's Jim Crow two point zero across the country. We

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Speaker 2: Congressman James, what is your reaction to Chuck Schumer's ridiculous

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Speaker 11: Shame on him. Shame on him for his bigotry and

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Speaker 11: Chuck Schumer, especially given his background, should no better than

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Speaker 2: That's Congressman John James of Michigan running for governor. Congressman,

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Speaker 11: Thanks for asking. Well, we're just getting started, but we're

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Speaker 11: The first thing I'm going to do and I'm going

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Speaker 11: Absolutely not. You have states with lower taxes run by

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Speaker 2: Congressman, your plan also calls for reviewing and correcting mistakes

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Speaker 11: But people talk about being Monday morning quarterbacks and hindsight

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Speaker 11: Now is not time for experimentation. I'm a combat veteran.

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Speaker 2: That voice you're hearing Congressman John James of Michigan. He's

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Speaker 2: I want to shift gears to talk about education. There

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Speaker 2: What is your general view on this? What should schools

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Speaker 11: No, and I want everyone to hear me very clearly.

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Speaker 11: Kids cannot consent and parents have a right to know.

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Speaker 11: the government. The government is intended to guarantee these rights,

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Speaker 11: to protect these rights. And then when you have any entity,

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Speaker 11: whether it be big tech or big government at any level,

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Speaker 11: infringing upon those rights, the leaders are duty bound to

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Speaker 11: protect those rights, to protect the people. And there's nothing

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Speaker 11: more sacred, nothing more sacred than the relationship between a

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Speaker 11: parent and a child. I will absolutely protect that. And

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Speaker 11: as a father of three children myself a twelve year old,

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Speaker 11: will absolutely lay across the train tracks for your child

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Speaker 11: as well.

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Speaker 2: More generally, on the issue of education, what are you

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Speaker 2: focusing on as you campaign to improve Michigan schools?

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Speaker 11: Guys, it's basic. It's really not rocket science. It's actually

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Speaker 11: just reading, writing, and arithmetic. Is focusing on the fundamentals,

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Speaker 11: is focusing more on academics than activism, is actually getting

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Speaker 11: back to things that work. Everyone wants to talk about

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Speaker 11: the Mississippi miracle, But my father left Mississippi for better

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Speaker 11: opportunities and now within a generation living in Michigan, my children,

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Speaker 11: his grandchildren may have to leave to find it because

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Speaker 11: people are focusing on all the wrong things. Why are

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Speaker 11: we talking about social emotional learning instead of ABC's. We

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Speaker 11: need to be focusing on the things that will give

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Speaker 11: children the skill sets that that they can achieve so

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Speaker 11: they can read. Adult literacy rate in Detroit is fifty percent,

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Speaker 11: and that directly ties to the fact that one in

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Speaker 11: two children in Detroit are in poverty. Thirteen percent of

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Speaker 11: third graders can read at grade level. To Michigan as

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Speaker 11: a whole forty four out of fifty in terms of

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Speaker 11: literacy and academic payment, we deserve much much better. So

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Speaker 11: we're going to be focusing on the fundamentals. We're going

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Speaker 11: to be training our teachers, We're going to be compensating

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Speaker 11: our teachers, We're going to be bringing accountability and competition,

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Speaker 11: and we're going to be getting more resources into the classroom.

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Speaker 11: There are more school districts in the city of Detroit

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Speaker 11: and surrounding areas than there are in the entire state

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Speaker 11: of Florida. The amount of overhead that is being wasted

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Speaker 11: that's not even getting into the classrooms is astronomical, and

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Speaker 11: so just by focusing on the fundamentals, using the same

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Speaker 11: business practices that help make my business successful, and really

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Speaker 11: talking to parents and getting to understand what they need.

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Speaker 11: But this is also big Scott, this is important. Gretchen

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Speaker 11: Whitmer has not opted into what we passed last year

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Speaker 11: in the One Big, Beautiful Bill. These are scholarships that

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Speaker 11: are doing for parents. Parents can opt in if if

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Speaker 11: a governor opts in. If Gretchen Wimer does not opt

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Speaker 11: in to these federal scholarships for parents to choose where

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Speaker 11: they will send their child to be safest and most successful,

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Speaker 11: then I will opt into this program day one, so

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Speaker 11: you can choose where to send your child.

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Speaker 2: That's Congressman John James of Michigan. He is running in

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Speaker 2: the Republican primary for governor of Michigan. Gretchen Whitmer is

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Speaker 2: on her way out and Republicans are trying to take

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Speaker 2: over the beautiful bi I was just there the other day.

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Speaker 2: The capital there in Michigan is absolutely gorgeous. And we'll

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Speaker 2: see what happens in Michigan this year. Congressman James, thank

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Speaker 2: you for joining us. We're going to take a break.

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Speaker 2: When we come back a little bit more immigration news

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Speaker 2: that you don't want to miss.

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Speaker 3: Stay with us. It's Scott Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 10: The one thing you can count on it Here on

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Speaker 10: this show, we tell the truth. If you count on it,

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Speaker 10: it's the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, we do. Thank you for listening to common sense

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Speaker 2: for the American people. It is Scott Jennings here with Salem.

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Speaker 2: Rounding out the hour with some news on immigration. A

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Speaker 2: federal judge stop me if you've heard this one before,

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Speaker 2: has now blocked the Trump administration's move to end Temporary

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Speaker 2: Protected status also called TPS for more than three hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty thousand Haitians, including many currently living in Ohio.

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Speaker 2: This is another attempt by the courts to stop the

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Speaker 2: administration from doing its most basic job, which is controlling

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Speaker 2: who comes in and out of the United States. Let's

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Speaker 2: remind everyone what TPS actually is. It stands for Temporary

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Speaker 2: Protected status, emphasis on the temporary. It was granted to

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Speaker 2: Haitians after the twenty ten earthquake that was sixteen years ago.

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Speaker 2: At some point, any rational person would say temporary has

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Speaker 2: to mean temporary. Tricia McLoughlin of the Department of Homeland

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Speaker 2: Security made exactly that point yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Here's cut number two.

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Speaker 13: I think it's a whole lot of word solid. I

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Speaker 13: think it is a lawless and naked activism from the bench,

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Speaker 13: it looks like we will be bringing this to the

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Speaker 13: Supreme Court. We believe we will be vindicated data. This

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Speaker 13: is a temporary protected status that is designed to be temporary.

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Speaker 13: Paitians were given temporary protected status fifteen years ago because

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Speaker 13: of an earthquake that shouldn't be happening. This can't be

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Speaker 13: de facto amnesty in this program.

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Speaker 2: That's not what it was designed to be, de facto amnesty.

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Speaker 3: Tricia has it right.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, Tricia McLoughlin will be on this

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Speaker 2: show tomorrow, make sure you tune in for that. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, this isn't really just a one off decision.

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Speaker 2: Under President Trump's direction, Christy Noam has already revoked temporary

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Speaker 2: status for six hundred thousand Venezuelans, sixty thousand Hondurans, Nicaraguans

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Speaker 2: and Nepalese, one hundred and sixty thousand Ukrainians, and thousands

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Speaker 2: of others. What this is about is restoring the rule

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Speaker 2: of law. But like clockwork, here comes the federal judiciary.

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Speaker 2: The judge in this case is Anna C. Reis of

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Speaker 2: the US District Court in Washington. Hey, Joe Biden appointee,

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Speaker 2: of course. And here is the key part. She didn't

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Speaker 2: block what Trump wants to do here because the law

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Speaker 2: forbids it. The law very clearly allows the president to

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Speaker 2: end to temporary protected status. Judge Reyis blocked it because

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Speaker 2: she didn't like the language used by Christy Noam, who

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Speaker 2: referred to some migrants as leeches and killers, which is true.

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Speaker 3: I'm not exaggerating here.

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Speaker 2: The judge literally cited her personal offense at this language.

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Speaker 2: Then in the order she went on to list individual

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Speaker 2: migrants and their jobs as proof that she's right, because

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Speaker 2: apparently that's how we do immigration law now in the

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Speaker 2: United States, based on vibes and feelings. It's not just

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Speaker 2: the judge who is upset, by the way about all

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Speaker 2: of this temporary protected status business for Haitian. There's a

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Speaker 2: woman in Boston who is very relieved none of these

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Speaker 2: Haitians are being deported. Let's take a listen to her

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Speaker 2: cut number one.

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Speaker 14: And it's really fun having them.

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Speaker 12: What I realized is there's so much prejudice against refugees,

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Speaker 12: mostly because people don't know them.

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Speaker 9: Lisa says.

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Speaker 6: She feels like she has her own personal chef as well.

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Speaker 8: Donde loves cooking.

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Speaker 2: So a woman in Boston took in a Haitian family

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Speaker 2: and says, boy, I really am glad they're staying. It's

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Speaker 2: like having our own personal chef here. You know. I

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Speaker 2: think there is a word for this. I feel it's

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Speaker 2: on the tip of my tongue.

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Speaker 3: What is the word? Maybe it'll come to me in

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Speaker 3: just a second.

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Speaker 2: It's immigration madness out there, whether it's in Minnesota or

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Speaker 2: on the federal bench. Right now, there's a bunch of

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Speaker 2: people in this country who are trying to stop the

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Speaker 2: President of the United States from enforcing legitimate immigration law,

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Speaker 2: and they are working overtime to keep millions of people

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Speaker 2: in your country who should not be here. It's Scott

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Speaker 2: Jennings on Salem. We are rounding out the first out

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Speaker 2: eight second hour coming up. Before I go, I do

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Speaker 2: Stay with us here on Salem.

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Speaker 1: The voice of free speech, the truth delivered, Common sense

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Speaker 1: for the American People.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show. Okay, it's Wednesday, February fourth,

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Speaker 2: Another hour of the Scott Jennings Show here on Salem,

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Speaker 2: Common Sense for the American People. Quick check of the

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Speaker 2: news here before our next interview. The President's borders are

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Speaker 2: Tom Homan announced in Minneapolis this morning that he was

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Speaker 2: withdrawing seven hundred federal agents because of increased cooperation from

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Speaker 2: county jails. In the state. Homan made it clear that

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Speaker 2: enforcement priorities are targeted to violent criminals, but he said

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Speaker 2: no illegal alien is off the table and that mass

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Speaker 2: deportations will continue.

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Speaker 3: This just end of the Scott Jennings show.

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Speaker 2: The talks between the United States and Iran that were

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Speaker 2: set for Friday have been canceled. The Iranians only wanted

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Speaker 2: to discuss nuclear issues. They're obviously not serious, so the

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Speaker 2: United States says.

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Speaker 3: No talks on Friday.

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Speaker 2: Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a statement earlier today

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Speaker 2: saying that the US was willing to talk, but obviously

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Speaker 2: the Iranians are not as serious. The United States is

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Speaker 2: building up military might in the region. There are sources

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Speaker 2: in the government telling some news outlets that President Trump

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Speaker 2: is now more inclined to do a military strike against Iran.

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Speaker 2: These are unconfirmed, blind quotes in some news articles. We

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Speaker 2: don't have anything hard or specific, but obviously the situation

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Speaker 2: between the United States and Iran is deteriorating. Ryan Wesley

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Speaker 2: Ralph or Ruth, who was convicted of attempting to assassinate

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Speaker 2: President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course, has been

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Speaker 2: sentenced today to life in prison. I believe plus eighty

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Speaker 2: four months he'll never see the light of day again.

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Speaker 2: And as much of the country continues to dig out

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Speaker 2: from severe winter weather over the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 2: we are all taking stock of the US electrical grid

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Speaker 2: and exactly how did we keep the lights and the

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Speaker 2: heat on in this country which was under a deep freeze.

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Speaker 2: And that is why we have our first guest today.

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Speaker 2: He is the director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security,

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Speaker 2: and Emergency Response at the Department of Energy. He is

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Speaker 2: a Trump appointee. His name is Alex Fitzsimmons. Alex, welcome

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Speaker 2: into the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 5: God, it's great to be with you. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, really glad you were able to hop on with

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Speaker 3: us today.

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Speaker 2: So this winter weather strained the United States and it's

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Speaker 2: electrical grid. My understanding is you were one of the

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Speaker 2: people at the Department of Energy who was working feverishly

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Speaker 2: to keep the grid online, to keep it from failing

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Speaker 2: after years of democratic management.

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Speaker 3: So my first question, Alex, is how did you do it?

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Speaker 5: It's a great question, Scott. It's a tough job, but

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Speaker 5: somebody's got to do it. We're firing on all cylinders

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Speaker 5: here in the Trump administration. Winter Storm Fern was an

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Speaker 5: historic storm that impacted more than two hundred million Americans

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Speaker 5: across two hundred states. First and foremost, we have to

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Speaker 5: thank all of the frontline workers, the linemen, the police,

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Speaker 5: the firefighters who have been working around the clock under

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Speaker 5: the leadership of Trump and Secretary Wright. We've been coordinating

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Speaker 5: closely with the energy sector, who deployed more than sixty

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Speaker 5: four thousand personnel to rapidly restore power to almost one

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Speaker 5: million people who were impacted by the storm. Still work

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Speaker 5: to do, We're surging resources into areas to finish the job.

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Speaker 5: Most of the power outages that were a result of

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Speaker 5: Fern were due to ice falling on power lines that

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Speaker 5: run to people's homes. The bulk power system, the generation

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Speaker 5: and transmission to and that's the backbone of our country

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Speaker 5: that stood up, that held up. And there's a few

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Speaker 5: reasons for that. One of them is that Secretary Right

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Speaker 5: issued a series of emergency orders over the last year

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Speaker 5: after President Trump declared a national Energy emergency on day

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Speaker 5: one of the second term. Those orders prevented the premature

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Speaker 5: retirement of more than seventeen gigawatts of reliable dispatchable generation

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Speaker 5: that helped keep the lights on during Winter Storm Fern.

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Speaker 5: Secretary Right also issued a series of orders to leverage

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Speaker 5: more than thirty five gigawatts of backup power at data

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Speaker 5: centers and other large industrial sites to stabilize the grid.

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Speaker 5: And then, third, the last point, the most important is

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Speaker 5: that the most reliable sources of energy that we have

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Speaker 5: showed up when the American people needed the most. Eighty

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Speaker 5: five percent of the power that was delivered during Winterstorm

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Speaker 5: Fern came from three sources, natural gas, coal, and nuclear

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Speaker 5: in that order. Those are the resources that kept the

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Speaker 5: lights on, It kept people warmth, and those are the

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Speaker 5: common sense policies that you see from the Trump administration.

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Speaker 2: Alex I want to focus on that last point you

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Speaker 2: made about the sources of energy that kept the lights

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Speaker 2: on and kept the heat on for millions of Americans.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't solar, and it wasn't wind. It was natural gas, coal,

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Speaker 2: and nuclear. Now, the previous administration had downgraded those resources,

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Speaker 2: had shifted focus to these renewables. But the Trump administration

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Speaker 2: and the Department of Energy now we're focused on fossil fuels,

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Speaker 2: We're focused on things that work. We're focused on things

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Speaker 2: that are dispatchable, and we're focused on things here that

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Speaker 2: are cost efficient. Tell us if Trump had not been

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Speaker 2: in office, if the previous administration's policies had continued, what

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Speaker 2: would have happened to the electrical grid in the United States?

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Speaker 5: The great question, Scott. The American people were burdened by

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Speaker 5: four years of disastrous energies subtraction policies that result in

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Speaker 5: skyrocketing electricity costs by twenty to thirty percent and much

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Speaker 5: more in many areas. And this is simply because they

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Speaker 5: invested in systematically de industrializing the United States, prematurely retiring

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Speaker 5: the reliable, dispatchable, always on sources of generation that we

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Speaker 5: need to meet a demand. The energy system is built

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Speaker 5: to meet peaks in the summer and the winter, as

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Speaker 5: we just saw. If we don't do that, people die,

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Speaker 5: and the grid operators have been warning us for years

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Speaker 5: that resource adequacy and deserved margins have been shrinking because

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Speaker 5: of the disastrous energy subtraction policies of the previous administration.

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Speaker 5: So we have replaced that energy subtraction agenda under President

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Speaker 5: Trump and Secretary Rights leadership with an agenda that's focused

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Speaker 5: on energy addition and unleashing all of the most affordable, reliable,

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Speaker 5: and secure energy resources that we have. Everything I mentioned

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Speaker 5: from natural gas, coal, nuclear, hydropower, geothermal. This is the

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Speaker 5: resource mix that we need to keep the lights on.

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Speaker 5: As I mentioned, eighty five percent of the electricity across

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Speaker 5: the country during Starring came from those resources. Those were

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Speaker 5: the ones that stepped up to deliver power when people

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Speaker 2: That's Alex Fitzsimmons, a senior executive at the US Department

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Speaker 2: of Energy, a senior appointee of President Trump. Alex, we've

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Speaker 2: been hearing for years about grid reliability problems. How worried

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Speaker 2: should Americans be that we could have blackouts or brown outs?

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Speaker 2: A lot of these warnings and reports that we've seen

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Speaker 2: on this were all written before the rise of AI

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Speaker 2: data centers. Should the average American be saying to themselves, Well,

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Speaker 2: we might be in a world where brown outs and

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Speaker 2: blackouts are going to become the norm if certain changes

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Speaker 5: I think that was shirt only the direction we were

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Speaker 5: heading under the previous administration's policies. D We published a

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Speaker 5: report early last year that said, under the direction that

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Speaker 5: we were heading, we were set to lose one hundred

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Speaker 5: gigawatts worth of reliable, dispatchable generation by twenty thirty. At

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Speaker 5: the same time, we might have to build an additional

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Speaker 5: one hundred gigawatts of new generation and supporting infrastructure to

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Speaker 5: accommodate load growth within the AI race, onshore manufacturing, and

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Speaker 5: restore American competitiveness. That would have resulted in one hundred

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Speaker 5: times more power outages for the American people, not one

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Speaker 5: hundred percent more. One hundred times more power outages by

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Speaker 5: twenty thirty. That was the course we're on. We have

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Speaker 5: dramatically reversed courses. I mentioned Secretary Rights orders last year

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Speaker 5: alone prevent the premature retirement of seventeen giga lots of power,

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Speaker 5: mostly coal fired power, that would have otherwise left the

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Speaker 5: Bull Power system and would have been unavailable to run

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Speaker 5: some of those units. Coll plants Michigan was operating at

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Speaker 5: six hundred and fifty megawalk every day during the winter

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Speaker 5: storm would not have been available to run if the

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Speaker 5: previous administration was allowed to shut down that and other

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Speaker 5: resources like that. And so what we're focused on now,

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Speaker 5: as President sump has said, is restore energy dominance, and

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Speaker 5: it's a department that's a three prong strategy to stabilize, optimize,

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Speaker 5: and grow the energy system.

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Speaker 15: We're the American people.

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Speaker 3: That's Alex Fitzsimmons.

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Speaker 2: He is the director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy

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Speaker 2: Security and Emergency Response at the Department of Energy, and

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Speaker 2: he is working hard to keep their lights on and

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Speaker 2: keep the heater going as we all face this winter

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Speaker 2: whether Alex, thanks for joining us. We're going to take

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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, February fourth, common sense for the American people,

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Speaker 2: and it is Super Bowl Week. A record breaking amount

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Speaker 2: of money is expected to be wagered on Super Bowl Sunday,

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Speaker 2: with the American Gaming Association projecting over one point seven

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Speaker 2: to six billion dollars will be legally bet by roughly

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Speaker 2: sixty seven million American adults on this year's game. Joining

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Speaker 2: me to discuss, Jonathan Cohen is back on the show.

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Speaker 3: He's the author of Losing.

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Speaker 2: Big, America's reckless bet on sports gambling, Jonathan, Welcome back

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Speaker 2: to the show. A lot of money will be bet,

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Speaker 2: a lot of money will be lost. What are you

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Speaker 2: seeing out there on the sports gambling front this week.

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Speaker 15: Well, a lot of money will be lost. Not from me,

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Speaker 15: but I will be one of the sixty seven million

789
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Speaker 15: Americans placing a bet. I happen to like Kenneth Walker

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Speaker 15: under for rushing yards in case you're asking, got it

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Speaker 15: all right?

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Speaker 2: Thanks? Thanks for the TI tell us about the nature

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Speaker 2: of gaming this year, the explosion of sports gambling access.

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Speaker 2: And I also want to get in with you a

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Speaker 2: little bit on this prediction markets because they're kind of

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Speaker 2: encroaching in on the sports gaming market, aren't they.

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Speaker 15: Right, so on the sports betting front. So this all

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Speaker 15: folks may remember, was unleashed by a Supreme Court decision

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Speaker 15: now eight years ago, in twenty eighteen, and I think

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Speaker 15: we've sort of settled into a bit of an arresting

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Speaker 15: holding pattern, so to speak. What people, You know, half

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Speaker 15: of American men between the ages of eighteen two forty

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Speaker 15: nine have a DraftKings or a FanDuel character or some

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Speaker 15: other sports betting account. And as you said, the number

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Speaker 15: we've gone from five billion dollars bet on sports per

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Speaker 15: year to one point seven six billion dollars bet on

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Speaker 15: a single weekend at about one hundred and fifty billion

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Speaker 15: bet over the course of the year. But not included

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Speaker 15: in that number in that one point seven six billion

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Speaker 15: bet on the Super Bowl is prediction markets, which is

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Speaker 15: its relatively new backdoor basically semi legal, probably legal, weirdly

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Speaker 15: regulated backdoor that will people who are first of all

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Speaker 15: under the age of twenty one, and then who leave

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Speaker 15: in states that do not have legal, licensed sports scambling

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Speaker 15: to bet on sports.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, these prediction markets tell us the difference between putting

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Speaker 2: money into a prediction market on the Super Bowl versus

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Speaker 2: just opening up DraftKings or FanDuel or whatever your app

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Speaker 2: happens to be. There is a difference, and there's a

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Speaker 2: dispute right now right about whether these things are actually

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Speaker 2: legal in certain place. There's a lot of legal back and.

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Speaker 15: Forth going on, right and I'm not going to bore

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Speaker 15: folks with buyber counting all thirty five ongoing lawsuits for

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Speaker 15: these companies. But so technically, I mean, really from a

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Speaker 15: user standpoint, there actually isn't as much of a difference

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Speaker 15: as you would think. If you want to bet on

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Speaker 15: Plashi or poly Market as being the largest providers on

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Speaker 15: the Super Bowl. Really there's some differences on the user

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Speaker 15: interface side, but really functionally it's the same thing. And

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Speaker 15: of course the companies have to claim that they're investment platforms,

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Speaker 15: not gambling platforms, so they'll, you know, if I wind

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Speaker 15: up with a broken leg tomorrow because I call them

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Speaker 15: gambling not investing. But they really are just gambling platforms,

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Speaker 15: and they are. There's some differences. You know, technically you

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Speaker 15: are gambling against other users rather than gambling against the house,

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Speaker 15: and that is impart. How, as you said, they've gotten

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Speaker 15: this legal question where they claim they are financial platforms.

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Speaker 15: They claim these are investment investment interests that you are

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Speaker 15: not buying a sports bet. You are buying an event

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Speaker 15: contract where you're wagering on the outcome, or not wagering,

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Speaker 15: you're investing in the outcome of an event in this

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Speaker 15: case happens to be sports, and that is different somehow,

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Speaker 15: they claim from gambling and from betting on sports.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you name two of the biggest prediction markets out there,

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Speaker 2: Polymarket and Calci. I'm sure many of our listeners have

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Speaker 2: seen commercials for them. I read, by the way that

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Speaker 2: they are opening dueling free grocery stores in New York City.

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Speaker 2: So we got free grocery stores from the prediction markets

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Speaker 2: before we got them from Momdani. Here what is the

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Speaker 2: angle for these prediction markets and opening up free grocery

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Speaker 2: stores to people in New York.

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Speaker 15: So, of course it's the publicity's done, and it's silly

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Speaker 15: and it doesn't make any difference. We shouldn't pay attention

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Speaker 15: to it. But also it sort of speaks to I

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Speaker 15: think the sort of childish nature of these companies. I

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Speaker 15: think poly Market was the first to announce that it

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Speaker 15: was going to sort of launch something like this, and

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Speaker 15: then Calghi, of course, not to be one up, has

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Speaker 15: to announce that it's doing the same thing, and candidly,

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Speaker 15: if you look at their advertising, if you look at

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Speaker 15: the way they're run, if you look at their social

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Speaker 15: media teams which are in the replies and sort of

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Speaker 15: really small accounts arguing over very small details of how

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Speaker 15: prediction markets work and their legality, these are not companies

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Speaker 15: that are taking themselves seriously in my estimation, and so

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Speaker 15: I think that the grocery store thing, yes, of course

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Speaker 15: it's silly, but it actually is sort of indicative of

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Speaker 15: how juvenile in many ways, these companies have chosen to

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Speaker 15: behave that.

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Speaker 2: Voice you're hearing today, Jonathan Cohen, author of the book

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Speaker 2: called Losing Big, America's reckless bet on sports gambling. Jonathan,

872
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Speaker 2: you've become the official sports gambling correspondent of the Scott

873
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Speaker 2: Jettings Show, making your second appearance on the topic. We

874
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Speaker 2: will check back with you after the Super Bowl, and

875
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Speaker 2: as this story continues to unfold throughout the year.

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Speaker 3: We're going to take a break.

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Speaker 2: But when we come back, Oklahoma Senator James Langford is here.

878
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Speaker 2: I really want to focus on the news of these

879
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Speaker 2: medical organizations finally turning against surgery trans surgery for kids.

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Speaker 3: More on that when we come back here on sale.

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Speaker 10: He's the author of the best selling book A Revolution

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Speaker 10: of Common Sense Tears Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, February fourth, common Sense for the American people.

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Speaker 3: Scott Jennings is here.

885
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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of breaking news going on today,

886
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Speaker 2: and to comment on all of it, my next guest

887
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Speaker 2: is here from the great state of Oklahoma, a fierce

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Speaker 2: fighter for ending government waste. Welcome Senator James Lankfort. Back

889
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Speaker 2: to the Scott Jennings Show. Thank you for being.

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Speaker 14: Here, sir, you bet Scott glad to be able to do.

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Speaker 3: It all right, let's start with this.

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Speaker 2: I know you've been a big advocate on this topic.

893
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Speaker 2: What did you think last night and again today when

894
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Speaker 2: we got the news that the American Society for Plastic

895
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Speaker 2: Surgeons and the American Medical Association made statements finally admitting

896
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Speaker 2: that there is no good reason to be putting children

897
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Speaker 2: through transgender surgeries. This was tectonic news in the medical community.

898
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Speaker 2: How did it land for you, sir?

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Speaker 14: Oh, it landed extremely well. And it's a very odd

900
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Speaker 14: thing when I have to say we finally caught up

901
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Speaker 14: with Europe. The European physicians have noted this for a

902
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Speaker 14: long time to say you should not do surgeries to

903
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Speaker 14: be able to transition the sex of an individual, especially

904
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Speaker 14: as a minor. We have no idea how to affect

905
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Speaker 14: that future bone development, their oregon to their lifespan. This

906
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Speaker 14: is totally experimenting on them as if they're a laborat

907
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Speaker 14: to be able to note what to do on this.

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Speaker 14: And so finally the AMA and plastic surgeons are finally

909
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Speaker 14: catching up to where Europe has been for a long time.

910
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Speaker 14: And we're basic common sense has been for a long

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Speaker 14: time on it.

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Speaker 2: There was a lawsuit announced this week. A girl in

913
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Speaker 2: New York won two million dollars in a judgment after

914
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Speaker 2: suing the people who I guess talked her into getting

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Speaker 2: a transgender surgery when she was a minor. Do you

916
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Speaker 2: think that lawsuit is what forced the hand of the

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Speaker 2: plastic surgeons in the AMA or do you think this

918
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Speaker 2: was brewing or do you think there was something else

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Speaker 2: going on in the background.

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Speaker 14: You know, it is hard to tell. I would tell you.

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Speaker 14: I was with secretor RFK Junior, Robert F. Kennedy Junior,

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Speaker 14: I don't know, a month ago at the HHS headquarters

923
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Speaker 14: where he announced the change in policy that the United

924
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Speaker 14: States is going to no longer have any funding for

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Speaker 14: any transgender surgeries from miners and and the bigger issue

926
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Speaker 14: for them was any hospital that performs those surgeries would

927
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Speaker 14: lose their Medicare and Medicaid funding. I mean, he made it,

928
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Speaker 14: he laid down the marker on it. What I assume

929
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Speaker 14: is AMA finally woke up to the reality and said

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Speaker 14: we're going to go ahead and say the quiet part

931
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Speaker 14: out loud, that there is no medical Council on this.

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Speaker 14: We have no idea where things go on it and

933
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Speaker 14: when people start being held to account, which has happened

934
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Speaker 14: to several positions now to say, you didn't tell me

935
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Speaker 14: anything about any of the side effects, what would happen?

936
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Speaker 14: You gave me no counsel. You just immediately went in

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Speaker 14: and started removing parts of my body, as if that

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Speaker 14: was nothing. No, those positions should be held to account.

939
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Speaker 14: So I think the combination of RK. Junior's announcement HHS,

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Speaker 14: the consequences on the hospitals that do Medicare and Medicaid,

941
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Speaker 14: and the litigation are all coming to a head now.

942
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Speaker 14: Quite frankly, it's where the American people have been for

943
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Speaker 14: a long time.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I also think there's one more issue, and that is

946
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Speaker 2: I think the medical community, you know, they take their

947
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Speaker 2: cues from what will happen to them if they do

948
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Speaker 2: certain things under a Biden administration. If they had said

949
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Speaker 2: any of this, they would have been hammerd by the

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Speaker 2: President of the United States himself. Donald Trump wins in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, and all of a sudden, we all

952
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Speaker 2: now have permission to engage in common sense, tell the truth,

953
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Speaker 2: and do things that make sense.

954
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Speaker 3: For the American people.

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Speaker 2: My view is, if Trump had won the election, these

956
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Speaker 2: statements from the plastic surgeons and the AMA don't come out.

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Speaker 14: You agree with that, Yeah, I do agree with that,

958
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Speaker 14: because obviously HHS would have been pushing the new feature

959
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Speaker 14: that they're going to have for transgender minor surgeries and

960
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Speaker 14: how they're going to try to fund it. Even more,

961
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Speaker 14: the last year of the Biden administration, National Institute for

962
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Speaker 14: Health spent a quarter billion dollars doing research on labra,

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Speaker 14: mice and monkeys on trying to develop better, more effective

964
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Speaker 14: transgender method surgery, methods and medications. A quarter billion dollars

965
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Speaker 14: of our tax dollars were spent during the last year

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Speaker 14: of the Biden administration by NIH on this, all of

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Speaker 14: that has stopped, all of it based on the Trump

968
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Speaker 14: administration coming in and saying this is ridiculous. So yes,

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Speaker 14: I do think that makes a significant difference.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to Iran. The latest news

971
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Speaker 2: there is that the talks between the United States and

972
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Speaker 2: Iran that were to have occurred on Friday have collapsed.

973
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Speaker 2: They are not going to occur. There are senior government

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Speaker 2: officials telling Reuters and other news outlets that the President

975
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Speaker 2: is now more inclined to do a military strike against

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Speaker 2: the Iranian regime. What do you think about this breaking news?

977
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Speaker 2: Is it time for the United States to engage here

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Speaker 2: on behalf of the protesters who are being slaughtered in

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Speaker 2: the streets.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, it's not just the protesters in the streets that

981
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 14: are definitely being slaughtered by this regime. It's the regime

982
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Speaker 14: threatening every nation around them, and the regime determined that

983
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Speaker 14: they're going to go back to developing a nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 14: President Trump made it extremely clear that we are not

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Speaker 14: going to allow them to develop a nuclear weapon. By

986
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Speaker 14: putting the massive ordnance penetrators, those bombs straight down the

987
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Speaker 14: chimney shaft to be able to set back their program

988
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Speaker 14: by months to years on it, Iran has turned around

989
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Speaker 14: and said nope, We're going to continue to be able

990
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Speaker 14: to work on it anyway and start the process of rebuilding.

991
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Speaker 14: The President said, we'll sit down with you, we'll negotiate,

992
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Speaker 14: we'll talk about ending the nuclear program, what it takes

993
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Speaker 14: to be able to do that. But if Iran walks away,

994
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Speaker 14: they know extremely well, we know their address, and we're

995
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Speaker 14: determined we are not going to allow the largest nation

996
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Speaker 14: state in the world that sponsors terrorism to also have

997
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Speaker 14: a nuclear weapon. That's a very bad recipe for the

998
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Speaker 14: entire world. We understand full well after nine to eleven,

999
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Speaker 14: two thousand and one, when a group says we want

1000
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Speaker 14: to kill Americans and destroy Americans, we take them seriously

1001
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Speaker 14: and we're not going to allow that to happen again.

1002
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Speaker 2: It does feel like we are on the brink of

1003
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Speaker 2: military conflict. Yesterday in f thirty five from the USS,

1004
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Speaker 2: Abraham Lincoln had to shoot down an Iranian drone. You

1005
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Speaker 2: had Iranian gunships approaching an oil tanker in the golf there.

1006
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Speaker 2: Do you feel like it's more likely than not that

1007
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Speaker 2: we are going to see military action here or are

1008
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Speaker 2: you unsure at the moment?

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Speaker 14: You know, we can always step away from the brink

1010
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Speaker 14: at this point, but we have all the military assets

1011
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 14: necessary in that region right now to be able to

1012
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Speaker 14: stop the regime from advancing their nuclear weapons. We have

1013
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Speaker 14: naval power, we have air power, We have all the

1014
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Speaker 14: assets in place that we need to be able to

1015
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Speaker 14: defend our allies in the region as well as to

1016
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Speaker 14: be able to defend our own nation from a future

1017
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Speaker 14: plant attack by Iran. So our beef has been very

1018
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 14: very clear. Our problem is not with the Iranian people,

1019
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Speaker 14: it's with the Iranian regime. They're the problem. They are

1020
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 14: the sponsors s to terrorism. They fund the Huthis and

1021
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Speaker 14: Hamas and Hezbollah, they kill their own people. They are

1022
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Speaker 14: the issue on this, and every administration for the last

1023
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Speaker 14: twenty five years has said this can't be allowed. President

1024
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Speaker 14: Trump is the only one to actually say no, We're

1025
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Speaker 14: going to make sure it's not actually allowed for you

1026
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Speaker 14: to advance to a nuclear weapon.

1027
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Speaker 3: Let's talk immigration.

1028
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 2: This morning, Tom Homan said they're getting some more cooperation

1029
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:07,919
Speaker 2: from the jails in Minnesota, so he's able to pull

1030
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Speaker 2: out seven hundred ICE agents. There's still about two thousand

1031
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 2: federal law enforcement in Minnesota. And we have this comment

1032
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 2: just in from the President himself. I want to play

1033
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 2: it and get your reaction. Cut twenty one.

1034
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Speaker 15: Speaking of Minneapolis, what did you learn?

1035
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 10: I learned that.

1036
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 16: Maybe we can use a little bit of a softer touch,

1037
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 16: but you still have to be tough. These are criminal

1038
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 16: We're dealing with really hard criminals. But look, I've called

1039
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 16: the people, I've called the governor, I've called the mayor,

1040
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 16: spoke to him, had great conversations with him, and then

1041
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 16: I see them ranting and raving out there literally as

1042
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Speaker 16: Zoko was in made.

1043
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Speaker 2: What do you think, Senator Lankfort, softer touch warranted here?

1044
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 2: What's your view of the administration's positioning on what I

1045
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 2: think is a nullification crisis going on in Minneapolis right now?

1046
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 14: Yeah, So Minneapolis is as several other sanctuary cities that

1047
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 14: they say, we do not want the federal government to

1048
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 14: remove criminal aliens from our streets. That's not where the

1049
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 14: position is for the American people, nor for the vast

1050
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Speaker 14: majority of the people of Minneapolis. I would assume they

1051
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 14: don't want individuals to say we're going to let criminals

1052
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Speaker 14: run free as long as they illegally cross the border first,

1053
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Speaker 14: that makes no rational sense. None of this would have

1054
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Speaker 14: been an issue if ICE would have been allowed to

1055
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Speaker 14: actually pick up criminal aliens in the jails. So Democrats

1056
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 14: keep saying we don't want roving patrols. Well, roving patrols

1057
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 14: only happen when we can't pick up these individuals from

1058
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Speaker 14: the jails. If you cut them loose, then ICE has

1059
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 14: to go find them and to be able to go

1060
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Speaker 14: pick them up. So I do like what Tom Hollman

1061
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Speaker 14: is doing here. If we don't need those extra seven

1062
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Speaker 14: hundred people because we're getting some cooperation from local law enforcement. Great,

1063
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 14: those seven hundred agents can move to another community and

1064
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 14: they can do arrests in that community. We don't have

1065
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Speaker 14: to have more there. But when local law enforcement wasn't helping,

1066
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Speaker 14: wasn't participating, in fact, was blocking them, then we've got

1067
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Speaker 14: to have the agent force that is needed. But we've

1068
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Speaker 14: got local folks to be able to help us. Great,

1069
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,919
Speaker 14: then federal folks can go do other responsibilities in other

1070
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Speaker 14: areas and continue the work that needs to be done.

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Speaker 2: As Senator James Langford of Oklahoma Senator, the talk of

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Speaker 2: the town for the Senate right now is the Save Act,

1073
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Speaker 2: and there's also some discussion about what Senator Food Leader

1074
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Speaker 2: Foon plans to do with that and what he plans

1075
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Speaker 2: to do with the filibuster. In relation to some of this,

1076
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Speaker 2: what can you tell us what's the latest word on

1077
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Speaker 2: the Save Act, the filibuster and all the rules here.

1078
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Speaker 14: Well, we got to get all of our terms here

1079
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Speaker 14: because it's either the Save Act or the Save America

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Speaker 14: Act or the Citizenship Accountability Actors. There's several versions that

1081
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 14: are out there now on this. The Save Act started

1082
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Speaker 14: with you've got to show proof of citizenship to register,

1083
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Speaker 14: and then there was a comeback to say, well, hold on,

1084
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Speaker 14: let's do the Save America Act. That one is proof

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Speaker 14: of citizenship to register and to vote. That you've got

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Speaker 14: to show a valid ID to be able to vote.

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Speaker 14: There are several versions of that. I am all in.

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Speaker 14: It is already federal law right now that you cannot

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Speaker 14: be illegally president of the United States or a non

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Speaker 14: citizen of any form. You can have a visa whatever

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Speaker 14: it may be, and then vote in federal elections. That's

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Speaker 14: already federal law. But right now the states just say

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Speaker 14: trust but no verify. I don't do trust in, no verify.

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Speaker 14: We got to trust and verify on it. In my

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Speaker 14: great state in Oklahoma, we actually verify. Everybody has to

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Speaker 14: have voter ide when they come in, and somehow millions

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Speaker 14: of people are still able to vote on this. So

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Speaker 14: we think it's a pretty straightforward thing to say, you've

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Speaker 14: got to be able to have We've got to know

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Speaker 14: you're a citizen when you register. You've got to be

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Speaker 14: able to show ID when you actually vote. There are

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Speaker 14: multiple versions floating around on this. Let's settle in on

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Speaker 14: what's the key one. And then actually get that done.

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Speaker 14: As far as for the filibuster, Democrats, as you remember,

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Speaker 14: they wanted to blow up the filibuster over their version

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Speaker 14: of federalizing elections on it. I opposed that then and said, no,

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Speaker 14: I know what Democrats will do with the filibuster when

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Speaker 14: they ever get power. If there is no filibuster. I

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Speaker 14: know what they'll do. They'll make DC a state. They'll

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Speaker 14: make Puerto Rico state. They'll get rid of all right

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Speaker 14: to work laws, They'll go after the Second Amendment. They'll

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Speaker 14: increase transgender surgeries. I mean, you can just the list

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Speaker 14: goes on and on on. They'll destroy all the immigration

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Speaker 14: laws that are out there. That's what they're going to

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Speaker 14: do if they lose a filibuster. Those things didn't happen

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Speaker 14: during the first two years of the Biden administration because

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Speaker 14: we still had the filibuster. I was part of that

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Speaker 14: Senate minority at that time that was able to block

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Speaker 14: the Democrats from doing all the things that they wanted

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Speaker 14: to do. So I say to people, careful what you

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Speaker 14: wish for. It's always fun to say, blow up the

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Speaker 14: filibuster to get what we want. But ten years from now,

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Speaker 14: fifteen years now, whenever it may be when Democrats have

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Speaker 14: the majority. I know what they'll do with it, and

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Speaker 14: it is not good for America. And so that's one

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Speaker 14: we need to go slow on to be able to

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Speaker 14: determine what needs to be done that.

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Speaker 2: Senator James Lankford, Senator, if you I'd like to hold

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Speaker 2: you over through the break because I want to talk

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Speaker 2: to you about some of the federal fumbles or government

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Speaker 2: waste that you have been exposing. If you'll give me

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Speaker 2: just a couple of more minutes, we'll talk about it.

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Speaker 2: Senator James Langford. When we come back, it's Scott Chitting's

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Speaker 2: on Salem. Stay with me.

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Speaker 10: I mean the left with the best weapon. We have

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Speaker 10: common sense. This this is Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: Show, closing out the hour here on Wednesday, February fourth.

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Speaker 2: I want to remind you again that I'd like to

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Speaker 2: see you on a cruise ship in November. How will

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Speaker 2: of a warm vacation. We can give it to you. Guys.

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Speaker 3: Do we have the president?

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Speaker 2: By the way, we do all right, Before we get

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Speaker 2: back to Senator James Langford, this just end of the

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings Show. We were just discussing the pop possibility

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Speaker 2: of military strikes on Iran.

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Speaker 3: Let's hear this just in from the President. Should the

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Speaker 3: Supreme leader in Iran be worried right now?

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Speaker 16: I would say he should be very worried. Yeah, he

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Speaker 16: should be. As you know, they're negotiating with us.

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Speaker 2: I know they are, but the protes as the President

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Speaker 2: talking to NBC News back with us. As Senator James

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Speaker 2: Langford of Oklahoma, Senator, during this Super Bowl week, you

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Speaker 2: have been spending some time highlighting some of what you

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Speaker 2: call the worst federal fumbles, also known as government waste.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about this project of the federal fumbles.

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Speaker 2: Give us some of the most egregious examples that you've uncovered.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, this is my ninth year of doing this is

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Speaker 14: a football theme on it because I love football as well.

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Speaker 14: But every year for the last nine years we go

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Speaker 14: through and be able to highlight areas of waste so

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Speaker 14: we can expose it and try to get rid of it.

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Speaker 14: It's not just to be able to call it out.

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Speaker 14: We find practical wats to be able to solve and

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Speaker 14: get rid of. The biggest waste lifelast year was the

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Speaker 14: government shutdown that Democrats did forty three days, the longest

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Speaker 14: shutdown in history. But everybody says it was no big deal.

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Speaker 14: Actually we lost eighty five billion dollars in waste during

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Speaker 14: that shutdown. Eighty five billion dollars in that forty three

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Speaker 14: day shutdown, so it was very significant to us. I

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Speaker 14: called out something I mentioned to you earlier on that

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Speaker 14: a quarter billion dollars was spent by NIH studying transgender

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Speaker 14: surgeries and procedures and medications on mice, rats, in chimpanzees.

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Speaker 14: There was a COVID study on phish to see how

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Speaker 14: COVID affects fish. We sent more money to a Chinese

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Speaker 14: lab so they could test beagles and do testing and

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Speaker 14: experiments on beagle puppies. On a Chinese lab, we found

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Speaker 14: an area where we worked with administration to be able

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Speaker 14: to solve this past year. The VA was actually still

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Speaker 14: sending out medical records to veterans using a cd ROM.

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Speaker 14: When is the last time you saw a computer that

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Speaker 14: had a CD ROM on it when it could even

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Speaker 14: open the medical records they were sending out on it.

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Speaker 14: So we work with the administration, got that one fixed

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Speaker 14: and changed, and the same thing. We noted that for

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Speaker 14: federal prisons they could block out a cell phone and

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Speaker 14: do cell phone jamming in federal prisons, but if a

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Speaker 14: cell phone got into a state prison, they were not

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Speaker 14: being allowed to jam those and block those. So we

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Speaker 14: work with the administration also to be able to fix

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Speaker 14: that as well. So our focus is to find areas

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Speaker 14: of waste or abuse, or areas where the regulatory stuff

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Speaker 14: makes no sense and to be able to fix it,

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Speaker 14: save us money, and have a more common sense government.

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Speaker 2: Today, Senator, it was announced that Vice President Vance is

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Speaker 2: going to be leading a federal task force looking into

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Speaker 2: waste and corruption. I believe focused on the state of California.

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Speaker 2: We know about the fraud scandals going on in Minnesota.

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Speaker 15: Minnesota, are you.

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Speaker 2: Do you believe that we're going to see just unfathomable

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Speaker 2: amounts of money by the time all this is over

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Speaker 2: with fraud at the state level, federal money just being wasted,

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Speaker 2: fraud stolen, etc.

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Speaker 3: I mean, are we just at the tip of the iceberg.

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Speaker 14: Here we are, but we're already pastist the tip of

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Speaker 14: the iceberg. Remember last summer, Republicans in our Ability Working

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Speaker 14: Families Tax Cut Act, we made a major change in

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Speaker 14: how SNAP funding is done. We had a lot of

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Speaker 14: states say, hey, this is federal dollars, not state dollars,

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Speaker 14: so they don't police it, they don't check for fraud

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Speaker 14: at all. We had some states with a fraud rate

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Speaker 14: as high as sixty percent in their SNAP program because

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Speaker 14: it's not their money, it's somebody else's money. We changed

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Speaker 14: that and said, you know what, if they've got a

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Speaker 14: fraud rate that's up there, the state has to pay

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Speaker 14: for all that. I think suddenly, when the state has

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Speaker 14: to pay rent than the federal taxpayer does, states are

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Speaker 14: going to figure out how to be able to solve fraud.

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Speaker 14: We did the same thing in Medicaid, where we actually

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Speaker 14: prevented people that are not legal in the United States

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Speaker 14: from getting access to medicaid. That's one of many changes

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Speaker 14: that we had to be able to take on the fraud.

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Speaker 14: So we've already been after this issue of fraud, and

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Speaker 14: we've got a president that's willing to be able to

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Speaker 14: take it on as well, well, that voice.

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Speaker 2: You're hearing today, Senator James Langford of Oklahoma, Sir, thank

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Speaker 2: you for joining us. We appreciate your insights as always,

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Speaker 2: and we will have you back soon. We are closing

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Speaker 2: out our number two of the Scott Shetting Show today.

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Speaker 2: The big news, of course, is that the United States

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Speaker 2: talks with Iran have fallen apart, and it seems like

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Speaker 2: military intervention is more likely now than it was a

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Speaker 2: few hours ago. Join us again tomorrow, Scott's out. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us here on Salem