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

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Speaker 2: Common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 4: Today we begin our two part series on the South

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Speaker 4: Carolina Governor's race. Lieutenant Governor Pam Yvett joins us, one

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Speaker 4: of two finalists in the GOP runoff, and Attorney General

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Speaker 4: Alan Wilson joins us tomorrow. We have complete coverage of

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Speaker 4: American elections always here on The Scott Jenning Show. Fallout

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Speaker 4: continues from the President's memorandum of understanding with Iran. I'll

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Speaker 4: bring you the latest, including my opinion, in just a

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Speaker 4: few moments. And you know, the World Cup has brought

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Speaker 4: a bunch of foreigners to America, and newsflash, they think

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Speaker 4: the United States is pretty awesome. Our friend Yael bar

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Speaker 4: Urr has a good column on loving America. We'll discuss

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Speaker 4: it with her today. Today is Thursday, June the eighteenth.

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Speaker 4: I'm Scott Jennings coming to you live from Birmingham, Michigan

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Speaker 4: for Salem and for the next couple of days. One

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Speaker 4: programming note for today. On the show, we interview the

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Speaker 4: Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Magic Mike just poked

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Speaker 4: his head in the door We're going to talk to

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Speaker 4: him in about an hour. You don't want to miss

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Speaker 4: that conversation. On this day in history, an era came

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Speaker 4: to an end. For twenty three years, Europe had lived

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Speaker 4: under the shadow of one extraordinary man. Kings feared him,

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Speaker 4: generals studied him, entire nations rose up against him, and

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Speaker 4: they had tried to stop him before, and they had

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Speaker 4: defeated him, exiled him, sent him away to an island,

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Speaker 4: and assumed that history had finally turned the page. But

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Speaker 4: history had other ideas. He came back, and somehow, almost unbelievably,

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Speaker 4: thousands flocked to his side. Government's panicked armies mobilized, and

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Speaker 4: for one last season, Europe wondered if the man who

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Speaker 4: had already conquered so so much of it before might somehow.

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Speaker 1: Do it all again.

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Speaker 4: Then, on a rainy sunday in Belgium eighteen fifteen, the

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Speaker 4: waiting ended, and the little village where it happened would

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Speaker 4: give the English language a new expression. Even today, when

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Speaker 4: someone meets their ultimate defeat, we say they have met

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Speaker 4: their waterloo. And the man who met his waterloo in

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Speaker 4: Waterloo that day, of course, was Napoleon. As for today's news,

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Speaker 4: some are wondering if President Trump has met his own

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Speaker 4: waterloo in France, where he signed a memorandum of understanding

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Speaker 4: to end hostilities with Iran at the Palace at Versailles.

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Speaker 4: No less, presidents being met with criticism from many quarters.

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Speaker 1: On the right and on the left. One thing is clear.

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Speaker 4: The President was weighing economic concerns as much as any others,

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Speaker 4: specifically having to do with the world's oil. I want

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Speaker 4: you to take a listen to this and cut number one.

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Speaker 5: Also, we run out of reserves in about four weeks.

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Speaker 6: You know, there are reserves all over the world, and

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Speaker 6: we would really run out, and there'll be a time

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Speaker 5: And you want to see bedlam. So for all those

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Speaker 5: so called geniuses that want to show me how smart

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Speaker 5: they are, ask them, why didn't they blow up?

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Speaker 6: General Salomoni asked that of the general and a couple

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Speaker 6: of other people that I like very much, but boy

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Speaker 6: are they wrong?

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, how about you?

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 4: The President has always been tough on Iran, as he

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Speaker 4: alluded to there, but he did feel obviously that he

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Speaker 4: was on the clock in this conflict, that he was

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Speaker 4: weeks away from a global energy catastrophe.

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Speaker 1: So the President faced two choices.

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Speaker 4: Negotiate the best deal he could get with a clock ticking,

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Speaker 4: or well, listen to the alternative and cut number two.

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Speaker 7: The alternative would be a worldwide depression. You know, the

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Speaker 7: stupid people want to have a worldwide depression. And the

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Speaker 7: stupid people, so he can only go so far, drive

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Speaker 7: Number one, the Straight would never open because they don't

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Speaker 5: So we.

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Speaker 7: Have a very hot stock market and we have a

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Speaker 4: I don't view this as American surrender, as some have

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Speaker 4: economic reality. This conflict obviously lasted longer than he had hoped,

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Speaker 1: Of economic calamity loomed.

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Speaker 4: This is fundamentally a peace plan built on two things

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Speaker 4: the Vice President JD. Vance, who briefed the press a

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Speaker 4: few minutes ago. Cut twelve.

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Speaker 8: On the military side, a couple of things that are

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Speaker 8: still true and will be true whether the Iranians comply

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Speaker 2: Of the deal or not.

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Speaker 8: Number One, their nuclear program has been completely destroyed. Their

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Speaker 8: capacity for enrichment the facilities at which they were using

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Speaker 2: Those facilities are still destroyed.

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Speaker 8: Their conventional military is still destroyed, their capacity to threaten

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Speaker 8: their neighbors is still largely gone, and now we see

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Speaker 8: of the president's piece plan.

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Speaker 4: The sub on the right are criticizing and attacking the

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Speaker 4: president and the Vice president, and as I say after

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Speaker 4: every major decision, criticizing the president is every American's right.

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Speaker 4: But if you voted for him, remember that you voted

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Speaker 4: for him because you trusted his judgment on matters such

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Speaker 4: not happy, and some on the extreme left seem unhappy

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Speaker 4: as well, despite claiming for weeks they wanted this war

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Speaker 4: to come to an end. Some of this criticism is

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Speaker 4: not grounded in deep thinking, but rather in shallow politics.

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Speaker 4: Now I'm worried the Iranians can't be trusted. I'm worried

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Speaker 4: rebuild instruments and networks of terrorism. And I'm worried about

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Speaker 4: allowing them to keep any ballistic missile capacity, which was

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Speaker 4: one of the reasons that we went to war in

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Speaker 4: the first place, the idea of Iran putting a nuclear

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Speaker 4: or someday even further. I think the President shares those

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Speaker 4: concerns as well, and I also think he considers the

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Speaker 4: memorandum of understanding to be well, not a handcuff. Shall

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Speaker 4: we say on further military action, listen to cut.

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Speaker 9: Three, tactically agree with my al file or are you

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Speaker 2: It's a memorandum of understanding.

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Speaker 7: If I don't like it, we'll go back to shooting

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Speaker 4: Now the clock has started on this sixty day window

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Speaker 4: to negotiate the final deals and details. The President reserves

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Speaker 4: the right to use the US military again, obviously, and

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Speaker 4: he reserves the right to determine if he ran as

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Speaker 4: latter may be true, and will know soon enough. The

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Speaker 4: hope is that they change their ways, and the reality

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Speaker 4: vigilance must persist. What are the politics of this back

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Speaker 4: home for the president. Well, there seems to be some

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Speaker 4: certainty in political quarters that this deal will be unpopular.

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Speaker 1: I'm not so sure.

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Speaker 4: Polling on the war has been underwater for some time,

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Speaker 4: and now Trump and Vance have ended it, and presumably

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Speaker 4: the economic benefits will follow, chiefly in the form of

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Speaker 4: lower oil prices. Oil trading around seventy five dollars a

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Speaker 4: barrel today, Nationally, gas prices are below four dollars gall

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Speaker 4: much lower than that in many places in America, and.

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Speaker 1: They are likely to go lower very quickly.

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Speaker 4: Last night, twelve and a half million barrels of oil

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Speaker 4: the plan to open that up appears to be working.

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Speaker 4: For many Trump critics, he is of course damned if

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Speaker 4: he does or if he doesn't. Nothing will satisfy many

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Speaker 4: of them. And despite the lies of many on the

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Speaker 4: left and many in the media, Iran isn't getting a

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Speaker 4: penny of American money. They only get financial benefits if

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Speaker 4: they fully comply with the deal and if they change

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Speaker 4: their behavior, and if they don't, well, their ability to

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Speaker 4: be a menace in the region, in the world has been,

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Speaker 4: without a doubt, greatly diminished. So politically, lowering energy prices

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Speaker 4: and writing the good tidings of a strong job market

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Speaker 4: and a strong stock market will be welcome news for

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Speaker 4: most Americans. Ending a conflict will be welcome news for some,

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Speaker 4: and ending it with a weakened Iran is a win,

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Speaker 4: no matter what the president's critics are calling it. One

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Speaker 4: I want to talk a little further about the Iran deal.

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Speaker 4: Vice President Vance wrapped up just a little while ago

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Speaker 4: First thing is, how are the markets and the oil

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Speaker 4: here right now, crude oil trading at about seventy five

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Speaker 4: twenty seven a barrel. That's a down about two percent today.

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Speaker 9: Without the bluster. When you've thought so Tim Blake need

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Speaker 4: Sometimes people ask me, Scott, when you're not fighting with

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Speaker 4: And often I just think about things like this, What

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Speaker 4: Let's take a look. The other night Washington d c

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Speaker 5: That one struck to left field and what a dive.

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Speaker 2: Amazing catch down the left field. The Redbirds would be

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Speaker 4: Amazing diving catch in the Congressional Baseball game made by

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Speaker 4: Senator, First of all, congratulations on living out every adult

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Speaker 11: You know it's soon, okay. I didn't know I was

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Speaker 11: then you know, basically a further negotiation about what the

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Speaker 11: protocols are, what are the verifications to ensure that they're

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Speaker 11: not getting a nuclear weapon, and that was the goal

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Speaker 11: all along.

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Speaker 4: The former national security official KT McFarland, who comes on

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Speaker 4: the show from time to time, said this this morning.

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Speaker 4: I know it's not popular to say this, but Trump's

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Speaker 4: Iran deal is brilliant. No nukes, straight reopen US economy, soars.

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Speaker 4: Iran has a path forward and if they behave they

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Speaker 4: have a path forward. If not, boom, we resume military

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Speaker 4: and economic punishment. Pretty simple take. You're not hearing that

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Speaker 4: from many people, but sounds like you may agree with that.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, he has all the leverage, the reason why the

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Speaker 11: conditions were created to have leverage to get to this point,

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Speaker 11: and still maintains that leverage. It wants to go mow

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Speaker 11: the lawn or whatever. But if look, if they behave

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Speaker 11: and don't pursue this, I think you could see again

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Speaker 11: this is best case scenario. But these Gulf Arab states

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Speaker 11: support this. They didn't support the Obama deal. They support

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Speaker 11: this because they see a path where, you know, maybe

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Speaker 11: there's a future in that region where it's not constant conflict. Right,

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Speaker 11: And you know, we'll have to see the proofers in

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Speaker 11: the pudding, but I think the result here is no

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Speaker 11: nuclear weapon. Straight has opened up and the President I

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Speaker 11: think created the space for that kind of diplomacy, and

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Speaker 11: that was the goal all along.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about domestic priorities for a moment.

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Speaker 4: I've got to Speaker Johnson coming on the show here

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Speaker 4: in about a half an hour, and I'm going to

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Speaker 4: ask him about this issue.

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Speaker 1: But I'll ask you, and that is.

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Speaker 4: The prospects for the Republicans in Congress to pass a

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Speaker 4: reconciliation bill this summer. A lot of House Republicans want

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Speaker 4: to do it. They're calling it Reconciliation three point zero.

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Speaker 4: And we've seen a little bit of cold water out

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Speaker 4: of a handful of Senate Republicans, which calls into question

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Speaker 4: whether it can get done over in your chamber. Where

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Speaker 4: do you think we stand on the possibility of another

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Speaker 4: domestic policy bill, call it reconciliation between now and the

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Speaker 4: midterm election.

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Speaker 11: I think we should do it. I mean we're not

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Speaker 11: look what we had to do. We had to use

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Speaker 11: a reconciliation process just to fund federal law enforcements. And

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Speaker 11: that's how deranged they've become on these issues of law

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Speaker 11: and order. And we were able to do it, including

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Speaker 11: a fund by the way, I got in three hundred

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Speaker 11: fifty million dollars to make sure that we're picking up

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Speaker 11: criminal illegal aliens being re released from prison in sanctuary jurisdictions.

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Speaker 11: He would think that's something that's not controversial, but there

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Speaker 11: were eighteen thousand people last year scott criminal illegals released

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Speaker 11: from prison because they didn't want to have them deported

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Speaker 11: to these blue areas. They would rather have people released

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Speaker 11: So we were able to do that, But I think

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Speaker 11: there are some priorities that we ought to give it

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Speaker 11: a shot here, and whether it's on defense or whatever

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Speaker 11: the other issues are, and we have that procedural tool

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Speaker 11: just Republican votes, and we should do it while we

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Speaker 11: I think we're going to hold the Senate, but you know,

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Speaker 11: you never know, and so you have to do what

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Speaker 11: you can get done when you can get it done.

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Speaker 11: And I think that's what this next phase is all

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Speaker 11: about with reconciliation.

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Speaker 4: Senator Eric Schmid of Missouri is our special guest conversation today,

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Speaker 4: and Senator you're chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on

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Speaker 4: the Constitution, and the other day you held a hearing

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Speaker 4: called Protecting American Citizenship, Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits. Now

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Speaker 4: you've been talking about one of the issues in our

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Speaker 4: immigration system that's a crisis is that we have a

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Speaker 4: bunch of people in the country who become naturalized citizens

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Speaker 4: and then commit heinous crimes and we don't really do

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Speaker 4: anything about it. We leave them here and sometimes they're

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Speaker 4: led out of jail to commit other crimes. You've got

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Speaker 4: legislation on this, and you're trying to rally some conversations

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Speaker 4: in the capital on it. Give us your overview of

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Speaker 4: why we need to denaturalize more people.

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Speaker 11: Well, right now it's really difficult to do that. None

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Speaker 11: the Trump administration is doing it. But my feeling is,

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Speaker 11: you know, citizenship shouldn't just be a piece of paper.

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Speaker 11: It's a commitment, right, I mean, this is a you

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Speaker 11: take an oath and the idea that you would come

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Speaker 11: here and take advantage of the American people. You come

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Speaker 11: here for the purposes of committing the fraud that we've

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Speaker 11: seen in Minneapolis, or you join a terrorist organization, or

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Speaker 11: you commit a violent felony. We ought to have a

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Speaker 11: category toward denaturalization that gets you denaturalized and sent back home.

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Speaker 11: And so this is really kind of the first push

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Speaker 11: to expand that category. It's called a Scam Act. I

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Speaker 11: think it's especially timely given what we've seen in Minneapolis.

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Speaker 11: But I think that's just a tip of the iceberg,

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Speaker 11: this fraud issue, and what's you know, Assimilation is something

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Speaker 11: that we should just sort of talk about and take

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Speaker 11: for granted, honestly, but it's become a four letter word

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Speaker 11: to the left, and I think as we approach America

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Speaker 11: to fifty, focusing on what it means to be a citizen,

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Speaker 11: what a gift that is, and the responsibilities that come

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Speaker 11: with it. I think this denaturalization conversation's part and Parcela

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Speaker 11: all of that.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad you brought up America two fifty because I

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Speaker 4: wanted to talk to you about some polling that has

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Speaker 4: come out recently NBC News, the Gallup Poll. Now they're

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Speaker 4: asking people, are you proud to be an American? Do

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Speaker 4: you like living in America? You know, basic patriotism questions,

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Speaker 4: And what we're finding a Senator is a massive split

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Speaker 4: between Republicans and Democrats on the issue. Ninety percent of

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Speaker 4: Republicans say they're extremely proud to be an American, less

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Speaker 4: than thirty percent of Democrats. In one survey, fifty five

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Speaker 4: percent of Democrats said they would prefer to live in

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Speaker 4: another country right now, What do you make of this

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Speaker 4: divide between conservatives and liberals on who loves and who

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Speaker 4: hates America?

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Speaker 11: I mean, I take no pleasure in those numbers as

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Speaker 11: an American, right like, I think it's shocking, and that

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Speaker 11: number in ninety percent has been pretty steady for conservatives

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Speaker 11: or Republicans no matter who is in office, right, but

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Speaker 11: the Democrats. This has been a trend, it's accelerated recently.

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Speaker 11: I think there's also some data points that should also

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Speaker 11: some concern. The number of liberal men who want to

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Speaker 11: be a father has plummeted. The number of those on

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Speaker 11: the left who believe political violence is acceptable has risen.

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Speaker 11: Twenty five percent of those who describe themselves as liberal

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Speaker 11: very liberal believe that political violence can be justified. Over

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Speaker 11: half believe that the assassination of President Trump would be

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Speaker 11: at least somewhat justified. There's something dark that's happening on

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Speaker 11: the left that's very anti human, very anti American. And

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Speaker 11: I just don't think you can teach over and over

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Speaker 11: our kids in schools to hate our country or be

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Speaker 11: ashamed of the flag and expect a different result. I mean,

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Speaker 11: thank god that the numbers are still holding on our side,

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Speaker 11: but the overall number is less than sixty percent now,

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Speaker 11: and this, yeah, brand.

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Speaker 1: Ex fact, it is troubling. And the age split.

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Speaker 4: You know, yet older Americans love the country, but the

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Speaker 4: younger you get that eighteen to thirty four, Cohort. What's

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Speaker 4: obvious to me is what you said that these young

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Speaker 4: people have been taught by somebody to hate America. I

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Speaker 4: suspect some of it has to do with social media,

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Speaker 4: and some of it has to do with foreign countries

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Speaker 4: injecting this poison into our national conversation through some of

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Speaker 4: these social media apps.

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Speaker 1: But it is concerning, nonetheless.

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Speaker 4: Senator congratulations again on an amazing catch in the congressional

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Speaker 4: baseball game. Congratulations on being a conservative warrior. And we

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Speaker 4: appreciate your time as always, and hopefully we'll see in

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Speaker 4: Saint Louis's summer.

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Speaker 11: Yep, thanks Roding Scott.

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Speaker 4: We'll see it all right, Senator Eric Schmidt from Missouri,

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Speaker 4: Special conversation today here on the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 1: We're going to take a break when we come back.

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Speaker 4: Have you seen these stories of all these people from

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Speaker 4: Europe who are traveling around America and shock of shocks,

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Speaker 4: they say America is awesome. They love America. It's kind

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Speaker 4: of captivated the internet. Yale Bartur has a column about it.

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Speaker 4: We'll talk to her next on The Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 9: In fighting for free speech at Western Civilization. This is

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Speaker 9: the Scott Jenny Show.

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Speaker 4: Thursday June the eighteenth, broadcasting live from Michigan.

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Speaker 1: We're on the road again. Here at the Scott Chenning Show.

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Speaker 4: I am sure that many of you out there have

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Speaker 4: been with great amusement, been following some of these foreigners

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Speaker 4: who are in our country for the World Cup, and

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Speaker 4: they're driving around America and they are amazed at what

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Speaker 4: they found in America. They've been to Bucky's and waffle

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Speaker 4: House and Bass Pro Shop and a Mexican restaurant that

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Speaker 4: has all you can eat chips and salsa, and they

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Speaker 4: are astonished at how they're being treated, how well they're

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Speaker 4: being treated by Americans. And I was catching up on

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Speaker 4: the clips and I saw a headline in the New

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Speaker 4: York Post. The headline was World Cup tourists swoon over

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Speaker 4: the real America and they're making us fall in love too.

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Speaker 4: The author is Yale bar Turr, one of our favorites

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Speaker 4: here at the Scott Jennings Show. She joins us now

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Speaker 4: to discuss her piece. Thanks for coming on, Yale, and

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Speaker 4: we're glad to hear your voice again. I see that

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Speaker 4: you were captivated by some of these folks out there

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Speaker 4: who are documenting their journeys across America. What are some

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Speaker 4: of your favorite moments so far?

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Speaker 12: Scott, I have three words for you. Yellow school buses.

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Speaker 12: I know that might not mean a lot to you

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Speaker 12: and two Americans, but I remember so clearly my first time,

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Speaker 12: one of my first times visiting here as a tourist

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Speaker 12: and seeing one of those buses that we saw on

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Speaker 12: all the movies and all the TV shows and all

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Speaker 12: the video clips and freaking out. So when I see

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Speaker 12: some of these tourists from Sweden and Germany talking about

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Speaker 12: how they're freaking out about some of the day to

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Speaker 12: day things we see here in America, I totally get

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Speaker 12: it because I came here from another country too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I see.

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Speaker 4: As I was reading your piece, one of the linked

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Speaker 4: observations was from a tourist who said, why are the

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Speaker 4: fire trucks so beautiful here? And they just posted a

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Speaker 4: little video of one of these beautiful red fire trucks

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Speaker 4: that you see in every American town. It's been kind

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Speaker 4: of amazing because at the same time these tourists have

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Speaker 4: been commenting on how great America is, we've seen all

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Speaker 4: this polling coming out. People on the left in this

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Speaker 4: country seem to think they're living in a hellscape here

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Speaker 4: in America. But that's not many opinion of all these

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Speaker 4: people from Germany and France and Japan and other places,

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Speaker 4: is it No.

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Speaker 12: I mean, it's a great reminder for us about how

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Speaker 12: amazing this country is, and all we need to do

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Speaker 12: sometimes is look at it from fresh eyes. You know,

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Speaker 12: I'm going through the naturalization process right now. And if

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Speaker 12: you're born here, you want the lottery. I mean, there's

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Speaker 12: a reason so many people want to come to America,

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Speaker 12: and there's so much abundance and there's so much to

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Speaker 12: do when the landscapes are beautiful, the people are great,

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Speaker 12: and you know, it can't hurt to look at it

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Speaker 12: through a foreigner's eyes sometimes and remember.

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Speaker 4: That, Yeah, it truly is a blessing to be born here.

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Speaker 4: But it's interesting to me that a lot of people

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Speaker 4: who occupy frankly prominent spaces in our politics comment upon

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Speaker 4: being born in America as though it were some sort

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Speaker 4: of great burden.

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Speaker 1: I saw a survey recently.

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Speaker 4: I think fifty five percent of Democrats said they wouldn't

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Speaker 4: mind living in a different country. And I just and

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Speaker 4: when you look at these tourists that have come here

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Speaker 4: for the soccer and say, you know, could you see

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Speaker 4: yourself living here?

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Speaker 1: My guess is a fair number of them would say absolutely.

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Speaker 4: One of the guys, Freddie from Germany that we've all

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Speaker 4: been following, and he posted some video of a neighborhood

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Speaker 4: I think it was in Alabama, and the comment was,

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Speaker 4: I could definitely see myself living here. I mean, they

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Speaker 4: recognize that being in America is the most special place

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Speaker 4: on earth. And you are trying to become an American

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Speaker 4: citizen right now, you're going through the process.

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Speaker 1: Tell us what's that, what that's like?

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 4: You're an Israeli citizen. You're trying to become an American citizen.

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Speaker 4: Tell us about the process, and you know what you've

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Speaker 4: observed and experienced so far.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, I'm an Israeli citizen. I love my

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Speaker 12: home country. It's still my home. But I've been living

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Speaker 12: in the US for almost twenty years, and you know,

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Speaker 12: it was really hard to come here. I had to

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Speaker 12: work really hard to have to prove that I could

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Speaker 12: be part of the society.

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Speaker 13: And I'm proud to do that.

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Speaker 12: And I go to the immigration offices and you see

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Speaker 12: all these people and they're all like me. They're all

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Speaker 12: excited and giddy, and everybody is like studying their little

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Speaker 12: flash cards with the American presidents. Because a lot of

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Speaker 12: people want to come here and want to be part

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Speaker 12: of the society. So when I see that, you know,

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Speaker 12: forty one percent of gen Z say they're not proud

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Speaker 12: to be Americans, I'm like, are you guys crazy? You

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Speaker 12: don't have rockets falling here, you have all the food

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Speaker 12: you could eat. You don't have to stand in line

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Speaker 12: for groceries unless you're going to you know, very busy

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Speaker 12: one here in Manhattan. But it's you know, we're so

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Speaker 12: blessed to live here. And of course it's not perfect,

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Speaker 12: but no place is.

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Speaker 4: No place is. But I got to tell you, we

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Speaker 4: get pretty darn close. You can say what you want

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Speaker 4: to say. You can go where you want to go.

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Speaker 4: You have all the economic opportunity and freedom that you

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Speaker 4: could ever possibly imagine. You have all the amenities that

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Speaker 4: you could ever possibly imagine, And we have a system

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Speaker 4: that allows everybody to flourish based on their own talent

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Speaker 4: and work ethic. It is the greatest nation ever devised

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Speaker 4: on the face of the earth, and we're celebrating two

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Speaker 4: hundred and fifty years of it this summer. And I

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Speaker 4: encourage everyone to go to the New York Post and

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Speaker 4: type in World Cup tourists swoon over the real America,

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Speaker 4: and they're making us fall in love too. The author

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Speaker 4: is Jail bartur Yell. Thanks for joining us and we'll

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Speaker 4: see you in New York very soon.

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Speaker 12: All right, thanks Scott.

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Speaker 4: All right, we're going to take a break, and when

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Speaker 4: we come back, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson

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Speaker 4: here for a special conversation.

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Speaker 1: It's Scott Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 4: Stay with us, Thursday, June the eighteenth, Scott Jennings broadcasting

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Speaker 4: on location today in Birmingham, Michigan. Thanks for coming along

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Speaker 4: for common sense for the American people. Going to forego

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Speaker 4: the headlines because we have a special guest conversation I

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Speaker 4: want to get right too, and it is the Speaker

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Speaker 4: of the House, Mike Johnson. Mister Speaker, we've crossed paths

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Speaker 4: in Michigan today.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you a little bit earlier. You're out

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Speaker 1: on the road doing a.

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Speaker 4: Little politics ahead of the midterm election. You were here

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Speaker 4: campaigning today for Tom Barrett, one of the most targeted

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Speaker 4: members of the Republican Conference. I know you've been in

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Speaker 4: Ohio as well. Thanks for joining us. Give us an

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Speaker 4: eye idea. What are you picking up out on the

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Speaker 4: road as you seek to defy history and hold a

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Speaker 4: Republican majority this November.

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Speaker 3: Scott, thanks so much. It was great to see you today,

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Speaker 3: great to be with you. I'm so grateful for your voice,

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Speaker 3: my friend. I'll tell you that all the time. It's

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Speaker 3: for such a time as this, So thanks for all

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Speaker 3: you do. Look, I am very encouraged, very encouraged as

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Speaker 3: I'm out on the field. I mean, we are in

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Speaker 3: a critical midterm election, right on the verge of it,

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Speaker 3: and as you know, we have to defy history to

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Speaker 3: hold the majority, grow the majority for the House. Republicans

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Speaker 3: only twice in ninety years as the sitting president picked

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Speaker 3: up seats for his party. But I'm telling you, brother,

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Speaker 3: this one is going to be different than any in

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Speaker 3: the past. This is a mid term unlike any other

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Speaker 3: because of all the many factors. We've got great candidates,

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Speaker 3: an extraordinary record to run on a great environment. And

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Speaker 3: meanwhile the Democrats are going stock raving met As you

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Speaker 3: can see, there's an insurgent left has taken over the

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Speaker 3: Democrat Party. The Marxists are taking control. They're openly running

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Speaker 3: as socialists and anti Semites and everything else. And I

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Speaker 3: really really like our chances in the fall. I'm convinced

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Speaker 3: we're going to win.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're both here in Michigan today.

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Speaker 4: One of those crazy Democrats you've referenced, really a radical socialist,

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Speaker 4: is a guy named Abdul l Sayed. He is currently

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Speaker 4: leading the primary for US Senate on the Democrat side

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Speaker 4: in Michigan. It's an open race here in Michigan. I

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Speaker 4: want to play a comment from him. They just came

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Speaker 4: out and get your comment on this, mister speaker.

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Speaker 1: Let's play cut fourteen.

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Speaker 2: They'll finish here. I got two little girls at home,

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Speaker 2: eight and.

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Speaker 14: Three, ethnically half Egyptian like me, ethnically half Indian like

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Speaker 14: their mom.

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Speaker 2: Where they get their looks.

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Speaker 14: They got one hundred percent America growing up in America

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Speaker 14: where they have fewer rights in their immigrant grandparents had

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Speaker 14: when they took a bet on this place and moved here.

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Speaker 14: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men,

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Speaker 14: we should say, people are created equal government of the people,

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Speaker 14: and by the people, and for the people. And I

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Speaker 14: know we've never quite gotten there, but we've also never

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Speaker 14: moved backwards.

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Speaker 11: As fast.

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Speaker 1: Now, mister speaker.

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Speaker 4: Abdul l Sied's family, I believe comes from Egypt, and

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Speaker 4: he's arguing that his grandparents had more rights than his

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Speaker 4: children here in America. Do This goes along with some

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Speaker 4: new polling that's come out where more than half of

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Speaker 4: Democrats say they'd like to live in another country. Only

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Speaker 4: twenty seven percent say they'll fly the American flag on

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Speaker 4: the fourth of July. Only twenty nine percent say they

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Speaker 4: are extremely proud to be an American. My question for

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Speaker 4: you is as a mid term strategy, is part of

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Speaker 4: the question here very simple, who loves this country and

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Speaker 4: who hates it?

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Speaker 3: Well, the way we've counted thus far is that this

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Speaker 3: is not a contract with America. Here, this is a

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Speaker 3: contrast for America. And what is both down to, in

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Speaker 3: it's simplest terms, is it's a contrast between common sense

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Speaker 3: Republicans and crazy and these people give us new illustrations

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Speaker 3: and exhibits every day, Scott to show how crazy they've become.

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Speaker 3: That statement, he said, is nonsense. That polling is indicative

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Speaker 3: that you just cited. It shows where they are. These

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Speaker 3: people do not appreciate the life that we have and

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Speaker 3: the greatest nation in the history of the world, the

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Speaker 3: most free, most successful, most powerful, most benevolent nation, that's

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Speaker 3: ever been. They want to trade us in for something.

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Speaker 3: I say this when I'm out with big crowds in

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Speaker 3: the campaign trail. You know, thirty five forty years ago,

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Speaker 3: the Republicans and Democrats in Washington we're arguing over shades

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Speaker 3: of tax policy or regulation. Right now, it's a very

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Speaker 3: different contest. We are trying to determine what you and

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Speaker 3: I are trying to hold. Republicans in Congress, trying to

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Speaker 3: hold the Republic the constitutional republic we have. The Democrats

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Speaker 3: want to trade us in for some sort of communist

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Speaker 3: utopian quest. We cannot go down that road. It never

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Speaker 3: ends well in history. And the people that are cheering

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Speaker 3: for that and advocating for it are those that we

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Speaker 3: must crush in the election cycle.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little news of the day.

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Speaker 4: Over in the House Republican Conference, several of your members

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Speaker 4: and committee chairs are working on what's being called Reconciliation

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Speaker 4: three point zero. This is the legislative vehicle where you

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Speaker 4: can pass policies that would not necessarily have to get

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Speaker 4: sixty votes in the US Senate. A lot of folks

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Speaker 4: in the House want to do it. I'm seeing a

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Speaker 4: little cold water coming from some Senate Republicans. Are you

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Speaker 4: in touch with Senator Foon and do you have an

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Speaker 4: expectation about whether if the House can pass a reconciliation bill,

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Speaker 4: it'll get fair consideration over in the Senate.

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Speaker 3: I do. I'm absolutely bullish on that as well. You know,

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Speaker 3: we've used the reconciliation process twice already to advance key

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Speaker 3: priorities in this Congress for the very reason that you said,

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Speaker 3: because you can do it with just a fair fifty

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Speaker 3: one votes in the Senate, it avoids the sixty vote necessity.

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Speaker 3: And as you know, the Democrats, they don't want to

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Speaker 3: help the President or the Republicans, so we got to

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Speaker 3: do it on our own. So we're going to continue

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Speaker 3: demonstrating to the American people that there's really only one

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Speaker 3: team in Congress focused on the issues they care about.

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Speaker 3: And so look, the last administration left this country with

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Speaker 3: a mess in every area of public policy. We addressed

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Speaker 3: a whole lot of it in the first reconciliation bill,

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Speaker 3: the Working Family's Tax Cuts, big beautiful bill. We did

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Speaker 3: reconciliation two point zero to make sure that we can

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Speaker 3: fund border security and immigration enforcement. Shockingly, Democrats don't want

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Speaker 3: to give a time to that anymore. And now we're

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Speaker 3: on three point zero reconciliation. Three point zero it's going

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Speaker 3: to be geared to continuing to get our country back

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Speaker 3: on the right track with addressing affordability and national defense

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Speaker 3: and this brought crisis that we're seeing in Democrat blue

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Speaker 3: states and also election integrity, and Scott, I'll tell you

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Speaker 3: this is the vehicle that we can use to get

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Speaker 3: the Save America Act finally passed into the President's test.

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Speaker 3: We passed it three times in the House. If we

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Speaker 3: put it on a reconciliation bill, and we have a

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Speaker 3: way to do that, we can get it through the Senate,

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Speaker 3: get it to the President, and pass one of the

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Speaker 3: most landmark pieces of legislation that we can be working off.

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Speaker 4: Well, I know the President that will be welcome news

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Speaker 4: to his ears. He's out there talking about it every day.

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Speaker 4: Another area of policy making, a lot of American parents

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Speaker 4: worried about how their children are interacting with social media

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Speaker 4: and what's going on online. You've done some policy making

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Speaker 4: and some legislating and committee over in the House. There's

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Speaker 4: a couple of bills lined out there, the App Store

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Speaker 4: Accountability Act and the Child Online Safety Act. Some of

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Speaker 4: your members have been quite bullish on getting these pass.

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Speaker 4: Do you anticipate that coming up this summer or fall?

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Speaker 3: I am I'm bullish on that as well. I do

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Speaker 3: think and hope that that is a bipartisan concern. The

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Speaker 3: safety of children online. Now you've got to threat the

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Speaker 3: needle and do it the right way because the reflex

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Speaker 3: of government is always to get into the censorship business.

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Speaker 3: And you want to make sure that disavored viewpoints unquote

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Speaker 3: quote unquote or not what is left on the table,

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Speaker 3: because you and I know from history it's always the

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Speaker 3: conservative more specifically the Christian viewpoints that get targeted when

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Speaker 3: that becomes a law. So you got to be careful.

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Speaker 3: But at the same time, you've got to protect children.

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Speaker 3: So there's some great ideas on the table, some of

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Speaker 3: those you mentioned in others. The House is working on

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Speaker 3: a package, the Senate is. I think we'll get everybody

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Speaker 3: together and get that done, and we really need to

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Speaker 3: do it for the country.

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Speaker 4: Final question, mister speaker, I'm wondering if you're following the

882
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Speaker 4: story of this Major League Baseball and the hats. You

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Speaker 4: had some players that were wearing the Pride hats out

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Speaker 4: in San Francisco, they wrote Bible verses from Genesis on

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Speaker 4: their hats.

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Speaker 1: They got a warning from Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 4: We've seen some members of Congress raise questions about that,

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Speaker 4: and including at least one state attorney general down in Florida.

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Speaker 4: You're one of the strongest Christians in Congress. You stand

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Speaker 4: up for people who practice the Christian faith. Are you

891
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Speaker 4: concerned that baseball is cracking down on players who simply

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Speaker 4: want to show a small gesture of their values out

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Speaker 4: there when they're being forced to wear these Pride markings

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Speaker 4: on their uniforms.

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Speaker 3: I'm very concerned about it. It's America's pastime. Baseball is

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Speaker 3: a great American game, and the idea that they would

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Speaker 3: be centurying religious viewpoints when we know in the past

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Speaker 3: they have allowed their messages on caps and all of that.

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Speaker 3: These guys stood up for their conviction. Scott, you know this,

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Speaker 3: but my previous life I was a constitutional law litigator

901
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Speaker 3: for twenty years, was in the course if any religious liberty,

902
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Speaker 3: we must protect the first freedom. We called that because

903
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Speaker 3: it's the first listed in the First Amendment. They're freer

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Speaker 3: the size of religion. And then for these guys to

905
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Speaker 3: be able to stand by their conviction I think is

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Speaker 3: something that we ought to applaud and not try to

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Speaker 3: stamp out. So everybody should be talking about this. It's

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Speaker 3: an important story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big story out there. Seen a lot

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Speaker 1: in my circles.

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Speaker 4: I can see grassroots conservatives are concerned about these players

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Speaker 4: being having the League come down on them. Glad to

913
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Speaker 4: hear it's on your desk as well, mister speaker. Mike

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Speaker 4: Johnson from Louisiana, thanks for your time today.

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Speaker 1: You're out in Michigan.

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Speaker 4: You've been in Ohio a lot of travels to protect

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Speaker 4: the House majority, so we'll look forward to hearing how

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Speaker 4: you took it out on the road when you get

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Speaker 4: back to Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: We're grateful for your time.

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Speaker 3: As always, coast to coast, we'll get it done. Thanks Scott,

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Speaker 3: appreciate your brother.

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Speaker 4: God, but thank you, mister speaker. And I want to

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Speaker 4: come back. It's Scott Jennings on Salem. Stay with us,

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Speaker 4: one man.

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Speaker 9: I'm standing tall against the left mob. Here's Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 1: Okay back.

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Speaker 4: On June the ninth, the Republicans down in South Carolina

949
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Speaker 4: held a primary. They need a new governor open seat

950
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Speaker 4: down there and it was a big field and two

951
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Speaker 4: candidates made the runoff. One was the state Attorney General,

952
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Speaker 4: Alan Wilson. He came in at twenty six percent. The

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Speaker 4: other is the setting lieutenant governor of South Carolina. And

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Speaker 4: she's our guest today, Pamela Yvette, at nearly twenty nine

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Speaker 4: percent of the vote. She got over one hundred and

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Speaker 4: thirty six thousand votes. She is a business leader in

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Speaker 4: South Carolina. She founded a company called Quality Business Solutions

958
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Speaker 4: and she grew that into a national enterprise with over

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Speaker 4: one billion dollars in revenue. In twenty eighteen, Governor Henry

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Speaker 4: McMaster chose Yvette as his running mate and they made

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Speaker 4: history in twenty nineteen when she became the first lieutenant

962
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Speaker 4: governor elected on the same ticket as a governor in

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Speaker 4: South Carolina and the first Republican woman to hold the

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Speaker 4: office Lieutenant governor. Pamela Yvette, Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 4: The runoff is it's Tuesday. It's a quick turnaround from

966
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Speaker 4: the primary to the runoff. You're on the ballot again

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Speaker 4: on Tuesday. Give us the pitch. What makes you the

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Speaker 4: best person to run South Carolina? For the next four years.

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Speaker 10: Well, Scott, thank you for having me on. Well, it's

970
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Speaker 10: now an easy comparison. You can pick a Trump and

971
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Speaker 10: Doors businesswoman or a career politician, and that's what it

972
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Speaker 10: comes down to. You know, somebody that can bring their

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Speaker 10: business sends some business know how into government. That's where

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Speaker 10: I've done my whole life. I'm an accountant by trade.

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Speaker 10: I'm an entrepreneur at heart, but I love serving the

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Speaker 10: people of South Carolina. It's been an honor to be

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Speaker 10: their lieutenant governor for eight years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and as Lieutenant governor, you have focused on small

979
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Speaker 4: business development issues, school choice, early childhood education, and infrastructure.

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Speaker 4: That's been your sort of policy areas of interest. Are

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Speaker 4: you running on a platform here? Do you have you know, one, two,

982
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Speaker 4: or three priorities? If you elect me, I will do

983
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Speaker 4: the following. You know what is that pitch like to

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Speaker 4: the Republicans in South Carolina?

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Speaker 10: Well, Scott, it is one that I created because of

986
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Speaker 10: what I heard from them. In July of twenty five,

987
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Speaker 10: I threw my hat in the ring. By December sixteenth

988
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Speaker 10: of last year, I had visited all forty six counties. Obviously,

989
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Speaker 10: I've been to forty forty six counties before. But this

990
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Speaker 10: was just to listen to people and what was important

991
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Speaker 10: to them and everybody from our rural communities to our

992
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Speaker 10: urban suburban communities.

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Speaker 13: They want more money back in their own pockets.

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Speaker 10: And so the very top my number one priority is

995
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Speaker 10: to eliminate state income tax. Finish the job that the

996
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Speaker 10: governor and I have started during our tenure. We've given

997
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Speaker 10: the largest state income tax cuts in our state's history.

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Speaker 10: I want to eliminate it. Florida, Texas Tennessee has done it.

999
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Speaker 10: We can do it by raining and spending, by leaning

1000
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Speaker 10: on technology to work smart, not hard, be efficient, and

1001
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Speaker 10: make sure we root out any waste, frauder abuse, and

1002
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Speaker 10: we can get it done. And it's just going to

1003
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Speaker 10: take a business person to do it. Cutting down on regulations.

1004
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Speaker 10: We have over eighty thousand and regulations in this bright.

1005
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Speaker 13: Red conservative state. That's way too many.

1006
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Speaker 10: Regulations just hurt business and drive up price. So my

1007
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Speaker 10: platform says we should sunset all those regulations, bring them

1008
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Speaker 10: back up in front of the general Assembly, get rid

1009
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Speaker 10: of what's not good.

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Speaker 13: If we should keep it if we need.

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Speaker 10: It, Let's make sure it's not written so broad that

1012
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Speaker 10: bureaucrats can put their own spin on it and the

1013
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Speaker 10: way we elect our judges. We've seen by what's happened

1014
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Speaker 10: to President Trump and other conservatives across the country, we

1015
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Speaker 10: need to be really focused on our judges, and so

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Speaker 10: here in South Carolina we're only one to two states

1017
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Speaker 10: where the General Assembly chooses our judges for us. The

1018
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Speaker 10: governor and I for years have said that's not the

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Speaker 10: right way to do it.

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Speaker 13: We need to change that.

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Speaker 10: We believe the governor should appoint, the General Assembly can confirm,

1022
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Speaker 10: but it should be based on merit. Do you have

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Speaker 10: the qualification to the best person to be on the bench.

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Speaker 13: And the bench is a very powerful place. We should

1025
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Speaker 13: term limit it and we.

1026
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Speaker 10: Should have a review process in case we have a

1027
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Speaker 10: judge that starts letting career criminals out. The people of

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Speaker 10: South Carolina want to know there's a mechanism to get

1029
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Speaker 10: them off the bunch, and with me as their next governor,

1030
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Speaker 10: that's something I will focus on.

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Speaker 1: Final issue here is political.

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Speaker 4: You have the endorsement of President Trump that came in

1033
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Speaker 4: and I think was part of the reason you won

1034
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Speaker 4: at least as a plurality matter the primary and probably

1035
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Speaker 4: lead this runoff heading into Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: My question is this.

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Speaker 4: When you're out talking to voters about running for governor

1038
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Speaker 4: a state office, what comes up most often federal issues

1039
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Speaker 4: or state issues like the ones you were just describing.

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Speaker 13: Really state issues.

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Speaker 10: You know, when I'm talking to them, they know that

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Speaker 10: a big part of my platform is eliminating state income

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Speaker 10: tax and so that's a big thing. And it's property

1044
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Speaker 10: taxes too. How do we lower it? People are tired

1045
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 10: of paying way too much to government. But one other

1046
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Speaker 10: thing that's really come up here in South Carolina is

1047
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Speaker 10: not allowing state institution is to start silencing conservative speech.

1048
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Speaker 13: And there was a big to do here.

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Speaker 10: Just a few months ago, South Carolina State rescinded my

1050
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Speaker 10: invitation to speak as their commencement speaker.

1051
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Speaker 13: And the reason the students.

1052
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Speaker 10: Cited was because I was pro life and pro Trump

1053
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Speaker 10: and anti DEI and pro law enforcement. And I made

1054
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Speaker 10: a promise to the people of South Carolina that one

1055
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Speaker 10: of my main objectives will be that if any state

1056
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Speaker 10: institution tries to silence conservative speech, we will take away

1057
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Speaker 10: their state funding. Because if our conservative ideals, our Christian ideals,

1058
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Speaker 10: are not welcome, then neither our tax dollars. And people

1059
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Speaker 10: have really rallied around that because as a parent myself

1060
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Speaker 10: with my youngest on a college campus, parents are tired

1061
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Speaker 10: of the indoctrination that goes on and they wanted to stop.

1062
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Speaker 10: And they want a leader who has a steel spine

1063
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Speaker 10: that'll say enough is enough and bring consequences to this

1064
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Speaker 10: bad behavior.

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Speaker 4: All right, that voice you're hearing Pamela Yvette. She is

1066
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Speaker 4: an American businesswoman and she is the ninety third Lieutenant

1067
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Speaker 4: governor of South Carolina, the first Republican woman to hold

1068
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Speaker 4: that position. She won the top slot in the primary

1069
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Speaker 4: on June the ninth. She is on the ballot in

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Speaker 4: the runoff this coming Tuesday down in South Carolina. Governor Yvette,

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Speaker 4: thank you for your time today, five seconds. If people

1072
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Speaker 4: want to look you up on the line. What's your website?

1073
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Speaker 10: Go to Pamela Evatt dot com and see where I am.

1074
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,399
Speaker 10: I'll be on the road all the way until election day.

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Speaker 10: Come out, let me shake your hand. If you supported

1076
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,399
Speaker 10: one of my opponents, I'd love.

1077
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Speaker 13: You to be the team.

1078
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Speaker 12: Evatt.

1079
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Speaker 4: Thanks, thanks for the time today. We got to take

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Speaker 4: a break more after this.

1081
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Speaker 2: If the leftist haven't had enough yet, there's more. This

1082
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Speaker 2: is the Scott Jetty.

1083
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Speaker 4: Show Thursday, June the eighteenth, Common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 4: We're on location in Michigan today. Beautiful up here at Michigan. Yesterday,

1085
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Speaker 4: by the way, was honored to be out at Shinnecock

1086
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Speaker 4: Hills on Long Island, and my oldest son Everett, and

1087
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Speaker 4: I were out there checking out the practice round at

1088
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Speaker 4: the US Open.

1089
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Speaker 1: Beautiful day, amazing golf course.

1090
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Speaker 4: I haven't looked at the scoreboard ev, but I'm assuming

1091
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Speaker 4: the players are having issues with the wind out there

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Speaker 4: today because it's wild out there.

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Speaker 1: I will see what the scores are actually.

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Speaker 4: Last night spoke at a dinner and got to interview

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Speaker 4: Jim Furick, who is the captain of the Ryder Cup

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Speaker 4: team and one of the broadcasters for NBC. So big

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Speaker 4: golf day for the Jennings Boys yesterday, and we were

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Speaker 4: glad to be out at Shinnecock Hills. In sixty seconds,

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Speaker 4: James Danley, the Deputy Secretary of Energy, is along. Got

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Speaker 4: a few big topics to want to discuss. First, I

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Speaker 4: want to talk to you about Medicare. If you're dealing

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Speaker 4: with it because you're on it or because you're helping

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Speaker 4: your family member use it, you know it is designed

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Speaker 4: to be confusing.

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Speaker 1: I know this because my mom and dad are on.

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Speaker 4: Medicare you get all these mailers, you get the robo calls,

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Speaker 4: you get a lot of half truth. I am partnering

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Speaker 4: with a company that cuts through the clutter. They simplify

1109
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Speaker 4: everything and they really help you understand are we making

1110
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Speaker 4: the right decisions. The name of the company is Chapter.

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00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 4: What they do is they offer a consultation. They don't

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Speaker 4: work for the insurance companies. They work for you. So

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Speaker 4: we signed up for Chapter and it takes about twenty minutes.

1114
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Speaker 4: You answer a few questions and they help you understand

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Speaker 4: am I on the right plan or not. For my dad,

1116
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 4: he was on the right plan. But you know what

1117
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 4: he needed was a new primary care physician. And they

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Speaker 4: served as a bit of a concierge, and they got

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00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:36,880
Speaker 4: my dad a new doctor.

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Speaker 1: He had moved. He needed a new doctor. They figured

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Speaker 1: that out for him. That worked on his plan.

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Speaker 4: For my mom, they figured out how she could save

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Speaker 4: six hundred dollars a year on her plan. G So

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Speaker 4: for my mom and dad, a few minutes, save some

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Speaker 4: money and found a new doctor. What could it do

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Speaker 4: for you, Well, they'll help you figure out if you're

1127
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Speaker 4: on the right plan or not. If you're not, they

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Speaker 4: can get you switched to the correct plan. They could

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Speaker 4: save you hundreds or thousands of dollars. Don't gamble with

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Speaker 4: Medicare if that's your healthcare system.

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Speaker 1: And get it right. I mean that's all I'm get

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Speaker 1: it right.

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Speaker 4: It's easy to get wrong, and it's also easy to

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Speaker 4: get right if you use Chapter Dial pound two fifty

1135
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 4: say Medicare plan free call, no pressure, talk to a

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Speaker 4: real person. Call up my friends at Chapter. They know

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Speaker 4: their stuff. All right, let's talk energy. James Danley was

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Speaker 4: sworn in as Deputy Secretary on June ninth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Before arriving at the.

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Speaker 4: Department of Energy to work for President Trump, he was

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Speaker 4: a partner at the Energy Regulatory Group at.

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Speaker 1: Scadden in Washington, DC.

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Speaker 4: He's also had time at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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Speaker 4: You know that as FERK he was general counsel and

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Speaker 4: then as a Commissioner and chairman. He's a graduate of

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Speaker 4: Yale University. He's also an officer in the United States Army. James,

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Speaker 4: thanks for coming on the Scott Jennings Show. You all

1148
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Speaker 4: have been busy over at the Department of Energy. I

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Speaker 4: want to start here. Just the other day, President Trump

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Speaker 4: and the Department of Energy and now a major, major

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Speaker 4: suite of coal related investments to really boost the coal

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Speaker 4: part of our national energy matrix. Tell us about what

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Speaker 4: you're doing for coal, Doe.

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Speaker 15: Yes, so thank you for having me. We are, in fact,

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Speaker 15: as you say, busy here at the Department of Energy.

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Speaker 15: If anybody look into headlines, knows that energy is front

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Speaker 15: and center across all demands of policy. So when it

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Speaker 15: comes to the coal efforts, the first thing to say

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Speaker 15: is that we've done everything we can since the beginning

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Speaker 15: of the Trump administration to preserve the coal fleet as

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Speaker 15: we have it. We are facing unprecedented demand and we've

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Speaker 15: done everything we can to retain the.

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Speaker 11: Existing coal fleet.

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Speaker 15: This recent set of actions, though, is about five hundred

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Speaker 15: million dollars in funding to ensure that over a dozen

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Speaker 15: coal plants with fourteen gigawants of coal fired capacity are

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Speaker 15: going to be able to be maintained and upgraded, and

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Speaker 15: to ensure that the supply chains to make sure that

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Speaker 15: they're operating will continue. And that's going to make sure

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Speaker 15: that people have the most affordable and reliable and secure energy.

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Speaker 1: They can talk to me about coal generally right now.

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Speaker 4: We know it was under assault during Obama, we know

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Speaker 4: it was under assault during Biden. We also know we

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Speaker 4: have a bunch of it, and we also know it

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Speaker 4: produces low cost, reliable energy for the people of the

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Speaker 4: United States of America. Trump is pro coal, but give

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Speaker 4: us an idea how much damage was done to coal

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Speaker 4: during Obama and Biden.

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Speaker 15: There were many tens of giga wants of coal plants

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Speaker 15: that were going to be retired as a result of

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Speaker 15: the previous administration's regulatory burdens, and only a handful of

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Speaker 15: gigawants we're going to replace it of actual dispatchable electricity.

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Speaker 15: And the result of that is that the grid became

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Speaker 15: less reliable and less secure and less affortable. And this

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Speaker 15: was mostly due, as they say, to regulatory burdens. One

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Speaker 15: of the most important things, of course about coal plants

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Speaker 15: is not only are they dispatchable, that is, they can

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Speaker 15: be called upon to operate when needed, but they also

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Speaker 15: have fuel on site in abundance, and so they are

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Speaker 15: what you might call is super reliable in that not

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Speaker 15: only did they run continuously when called upon, but they

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Speaker 15: have plenty of fuel on site. And they're a part

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Speaker 15: of the energy mix. In fact, the transmission system, the

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Speaker 15: electric system we have today was based upon, the original

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Speaker 15: system was mostly coal fired, and coal still makes up

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Speaker 15: a very large percentage of all the electricity produced in

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Speaker 15: the United States, and we want to retain it because

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Speaker 15: we need to have as much dispatchable energy as possible

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Speaker 15: given the rapidly increasing demand.

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Speaker 1: News flash is that fossil fuels still work.

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Speaker 4: Coal works, and the oil and gas industry in the

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Speaker 4: United States also works.

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Speaker 1: I want to play something for you, James.

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Speaker 4: Joe Biden, the former president, was out riding around in

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Speaker 4: a car by the way, a car that gets about

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Speaker 4: nine miles of the gallon. He's riding around with Jay Leno,

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Speaker 4: bragging about his attempts to kill the oil industry in

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Speaker 4: the United States.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear cut ten.

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Speaker 5: Well, the other thing I was there, will padre sure

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Speaker 5: it could be no oil doing.

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Speaker 12: Off the east coast, the West coast, and one hundred

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Speaker 12: and fifty miles off to go from Mexico.

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Speaker 5: He's donated all a lot of detection too.

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Speaker 8: No more wind mills, Yeah, kill birds, I have given

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Speaker 8: me at.

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Speaker 4: So here's Joe Biden bragging about his efforts to restrict

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Speaker 4: oil production and gas production in the United States. He

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Speaker 4: wanted to put more wind mills up. When you hear

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Speaker 4: him talking about that today, what does that tell you

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Speaker 4: about the priorities still of the Democrats and this Republican

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Speaker 4: administration when it comes to reliable energy in the United

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Speaker 4: States of America.

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Speaker 15: Well, it reminds me why it was so wise for

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Speaker 15: President Trump when he first took office to issue his

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Speaker 15: executive order to clearing an energy emergency. The reason he

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Speaker 15: did that was because we were suffering the results of

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Speaker 15: policies like those which were making electricity in particular, but

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Speaker 15: energy of all kinds in America less secure and less affordable.

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Speaker 15: And you were correct, fossil fuels do in facts still work.

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Speaker 15: The reality of physics and chemistry and engineering remain consistent

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Speaker 15: throughout time. And it is a backward regressive policy for

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Speaker 15: you to want to preference unreliable intermittent generation when we

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Speaker 15: have this much demand in place of very high energy

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Speaker 15: density sources of electricity and fuel and the energy excuse me,

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Speaker 15: like oil and coal.

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Speaker 1: And voiser. Hearing is James Danley.

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Speaker 4: He is the Deputy Secretary of Energy in the Trump administration.

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Speaker 4: At the same time, you all are investing in fossil

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Speaker 4: fuels and making sure those are part of our reliable

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Speaker 4: energy matrix. Also, nuclear has been a focus. I'm seeing here, James.

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Speaker 4: On June fourth, as part of the Doe Reactor Pilot program,

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Speaker 4: the Anteras Nuclear Advanced Reactor design, the Mark zero successfully

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Speaker 4: completed a zero power fueled criticality demonstration at the Idaho

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Speaker 4: National Laboratory that you have.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just going to go ahead and tell you

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 4: I have no idea what that means, but I'd like

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Speaker 4: to know, because I'm pro nuclear power. Tell us what's

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Speaker 4: going on with a nuclear power over at Doe.

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Speaker 15: So we have a bunch of different efforts to begin

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Speaker 15: a nuclear renaissance in America, and the President has been

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Speaker 15: very very aggressive and forward thinking about how to include

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Speaker 15: nuclear power as broadly as possible in the energy mix.

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Speaker 15: One thing we're doing, and we're beginning it, we've begun

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Speaker 15: it already, is to take the existing nuclear fleet and

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Speaker 15: have uprates so that each pre existing nuclear power plant

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Speaker 15: can produce more electricity. Another thing we're doing is we

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Speaker 15: are restarting the mothball, the nuclear power plants that are

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Speaker 15: still out there. Yet another is what you just mentioned

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Speaker 15: Antari's criticality. That is the result of a pilot program

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Speaker 15: that was initiated by executive order just about ten months ago,

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Speaker 15: in which the President said that he wanted us to

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Speaker 15: get a whole bunch of prototype reactors to criticality by

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Speaker 15: July fourth, by the tun Or fiftieth anniversary of America.

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Speaker 15: To demonstrate that these reactors, which had previously just been

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Speaker 15: on paper, could be built and then tested, certified as safe,

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Speaker 15: and then go into operation. Is the first step to prototyping,

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Speaker 15: to having a proliferation of different small modular reactors to

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Speaker 15: go online. This is a reclaiming of America's status as

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Speaker 15: the forefront nation of nuclear power. We invented it, we

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Speaker 15: spread it around the world, and even today America runs

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Speaker 15: the largest fleet of civil nuclear power plants, over ninety

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Speaker 15: of them. And here we are at the cutting edge

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Speaker 15: of technological development again. It's kind of like with you know,

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Speaker 15: the recent Moon mission. We are in Artemis reclaiming space again.

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Speaker 15: Here we are reclaiming nuclear power and it is truly

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Speaker 15: an exciting time to be at the Department of Energy.

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Speaker 4: Because of that, we're broadcasting this show today from Michigan.

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Speaker 4: I noted that on June the fifteenth, the DOE Office

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Speaker 4: of Energy Dominance Financing closed a loan to lower Michigan

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Speaker 4: electricity prices and modernize natural gas infrastructure. Tell us, what

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Speaker 4: is DOA doing for people right here in Michigan.

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Speaker 15: So we closed a one point six billion dollar loan

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Speaker 15: to DTE to build and modernize about eight hundred miles

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Speaker 15: of natural gas distribution lines and upgrade a compressor station

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Speaker 15: for storage. And so those are the lines that are

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Speaker 15: that provide a gas directly to people's houses and businesses.

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Speaker 15: And the great thing about this loan, and it's part

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Speaker 15: and parcel of the President's broader agenda of building up

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Speaker 15: infrastructure while at the same time ensuring that the impacts

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Speaker 15: to the right payer are minimal. Right, we don't want

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Speaker 15: hardworking Americans to have to shoulder any of the burden

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Speaker 15: of this buildout. We are going to be passing on

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Speaker 15: seven hundred million dollars in cost savings to the one

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Speaker 15: point four million customers in DT's service territory over the

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Speaker 15: life of this loan. And the reason that's possible is

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Speaker 15: because the financing terms are better than you get to

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Speaker 15: the commercial markets. And we are happy to be able

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Speaker 15: to ensure that there is going to be that cost

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Speaker 15: savings passed on.

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Speaker 4: And to be clear, you're able to make this loan

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Speaker 4: and do this financial deal with Michigan because there was

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Speaker 4: a provision in last summer's Working Families Tax Cut Bill

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Speaker 4: aka the Big Beautiful Bill. Is that where that's come from.

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Speaker 15: That's right, and this, as I say, a part and

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Speaker 15: parcel this larger plan that for example, with data centers,

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Speaker 15: the President signed the ratepayer Protection Pledge so that when

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Speaker 15: new large load comes online, the hyperscalers that's the Googles

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Speaker 15: and the Amazons of the world, are going to bring

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Speaker 15: more electricity than they're going to consume. That is going

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Speaker 15: to put downward pressure on prices and ensure that that

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Speaker 15: none of the none of the retail rate pairs are

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Speaker 15: going to suffer the consequences. Similarly here when we have loans,

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Speaker 15: as we had one that would close in Georgia recently, also,

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Speaker 15: rape freezes were put into effect there to ensure that

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Speaker 15: the rates would remain the same for the retail rate customers.

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Speaker 15: As we're still building out the system to ensure economic

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Speaker 15: progress and prosperity.

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Speaker 4: James Danley is the Deputy Secretary of Energy.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for your time today. We'll have you back soon.

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Speaker 4: A lot going on in the energy space out of

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Speaker 4: the Trump administration.

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Speaker 1: We got to take a break. When we come back.

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Speaker 4: We're going to close out the show with how many

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Speaker 4: times have I said this a crazy story out of

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Speaker 4: California from our friend Chris Ruffo.

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Speaker 1: You won't believe it. Listen to it. Next on the

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Speaker 1: Scott Jeting Show.

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Speaker 9: Fighting the Left with the best weapon, we have common sense.

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Speaker 9: This is the Scott Jetting Show.

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Speaker 4: All right home stretch here on Thursday, June the eighteenth.

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Speaker 4: Common sense for the American people. Checking the headlines last

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Speaker 4: couple of days. You know, sometimes you read things and

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Speaker 4: you know they're from like a credible source, and you

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Speaker 4: see the publication, you see the author, and you read

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Speaker 4: the headline and you do a double or triple take,

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Speaker 4: and you ask yoursel elf, is this real? I had

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Speaker 4: one of these the other day and the publication was

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Speaker 4: the City Journal, and the author is someone we know

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Speaker 4: well here on the show, Christopher Rufo.

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Speaker 1: And the headline was inside.

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Speaker 4: California's gay certification program subhead the state is pressuring utilities

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Speaker 4: to award six hundred and thirty three million dollars in

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Speaker 4: contracts to LGBT businesses. I did a double take, because,

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Speaker 4: of course, my first question was, is the state of

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Speaker 4: California handing out certificates to certify that you're gay?

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Speaker 1: Is that what they're doing?

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Speaker 4: How would you interact with the state government to try.

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Speaker 1: To prove these things?

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Speaker 4: According to RUFO, the scheme operates through the California Public

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Speaker 4: Utilities Commission, and that regulates all the private owned utilities

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Speaker 4: in California. They spent forty three billion dollars on contractors

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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty fours, not an insignificant sized program here,

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Speaker 4: and the supplier clearing house that they use to, I guess,

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Speaker 4: determine who can get these contracts. Well, let's see here

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Speaker 4: they it says that they accept gay certification letters from

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Speaker 4: the National LGBTQ Plus and an Allied Chamber of Commerce.

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Speaker 4: So somewhere out there, if you own a business and

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Speaker 4: you are in the space of utilities, and you say, wow, gosh,

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Speaker 4: g whiz, I'd like to do business with California. They've

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Speaker 4: got a big program. I think I can help them.

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Speaker 4: I think I'm the best person for the job. One

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Speaker 4: of the ways that you get some of the money

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Speaker 4: and some of the work is to go off and

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Speaker 4: get yourself a gay certification letter from the National LGBTQ

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Speaker 4: plus and Allied Chamber of Commerce. It's a paperwork issue,

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Speaker 4: and applicants can secure this certification in order to attest

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Speaker 4: to their sexual preferences. In other ways. It says you

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Speaker 4: can get a newspaper to identify you as LGBT. You

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Speaker 4: can get three letters from personal contacts written on quote

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Speaker 4: company letterhead attesting to your homosexual orientation. So you can

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Speaker 4: call up your friends, I suppose, and ask them all

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Speaker 4: to write letters saying, oh yeah, this guy's gay.

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Speaker 1: Definitely gay.

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Speaker 4: If you can get three people to do that, and

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Speaker 4: you're willing to turn that in and put it on

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Speaker 4: the public record, you too could be a certified contractor

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Speaker 4: here with the utilities people in California. Now, look, I'm

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Speaker 4: no expert on utilities or anything technical like that. I

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Speaker 4: like utilities, I use them every day. But it seems

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Speaker 4: to me that the most valuable qualification for doing work

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Speaker 4: in a highly technical field should be are you qualified

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Speaker 4: to do it? Not who do you like or prefer

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Speaker 4: to have sex with. Fact, that's probably the last question

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Speaker 4: we should be asking the people who are doing work

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Speaker 4: in and around our utilities or frankly, anything else. Honestly,

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Speaker 4: what leads someone a political person, a government of bureaucracy,

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Speaker 4: what leads people to say, we have hundreds of millions

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Speaker 4: of dollars we need to do work on the utilities

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Speaker 4: around here. I know, let's check off whether they're gay

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Speaker 4: or not, and that will be how we decide who

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Speaker 4: works on all of this stuff. Only in Gavin Newsom's

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Speaker 4: California is your sexual orientation more important than say, I

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Speaker 4: don't know whether you know anything at all about how

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Speaker 4: utilities actually work. I think the Feds, by the way,

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Speaker 4: are now looking into this. We're done for the day.

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Speaker 4: Back from Michigan again tomorrow. Common sense for the American peoples.

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Speaker 4: Gott Jennings, thanks you for listening.

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Speaker 1: See it in