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Speaker 1: for the American people. Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom says the most racist thing to a group

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Speaker 2: of African American voters. We have the audio a man

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Speaker 2: is shot and killed breaking into mar al Lago in Florida.

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Speaker 2: We'll get the latest aun I ran from Rebecca Heinrix,

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Speaker 2: and we'll also explore where Trump is headed next on

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Speaker 2: his tariff policy. It is Monday, February twenty third, the

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Speaker 2: day before the State of the Union address. I'm Scott

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Speaker 2: Jennings broadcasting live from Louisville, Kentucky. Today. This is common

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Speaker 2: sense for the American people here on Salem. Quick word

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Speaker 2: of thanks to my friends in Colin County, Texas. I

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Speaker 2: keynoted the Republican Lincoln dinner there on Saturday night at

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Speaker 2: the famous South Fork Ranch, home to the Dallas television show.

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Speaker 2: Signed a lot of books in the JR ewing room.

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Speaker 2: It was great fun and really appreciate the Republicans in

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Speaker 2: Texas for having me down for the weekend. Let's get

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Speaker 2: to the news today. And although it went without much

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Speaker 2: killed breaking into mar A Lago this weekend. This happened

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Speaker 2: early Sunday morning, around one point thirty, when the suspect

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Speaker 2: made an unauthorized entry through the north gate of the

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Speaker 2: President's resort as another vehicle was exiting. The man is

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Speaker 2: identified twenty one year old Austin Tucker Martin of North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: He was carrying a shotgun and a fuel can. President

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Speaker 2: was not there this weekend, but the incident is a

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Speaker 2: The major snowstorm is lashing the Northeast today. Over forty

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Speaker 2: The storm dumping nearly two feet of snow in some

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Speaker 2: Newark Airport. Politics rough weekend for California. Let's start with

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Speaker 2: this absolutely brutal reporting from CNN. Yes, CNN, on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: Fared Zacaria ran in absolutely damning report on homelessness in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles and all the money that has been spent

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Speaker 2: listen to that cut eleven.

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Speaker 3: Take Los Angeles, another one party metropolis wrestling with affordability

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Speaker 3: and disorder. The city's homelessness budget for fiscal year twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, homelessness was up nine percent county wide

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Speaker 3: account noted that homelessness has searched seventy percent county wide

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Speaker 3: the submit public frustration despite billions spent and ordered review

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Speaker 3: that officials could not reliably track where it went or

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Speaker 3: approval rating is deep underwater, where the pension promises are

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Speaker 3: so large that they will surely bankrupt the city at

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Speaker 1: What is the theory of good government here?

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Speaker 3: If the answers keep adding programs, the city will keep

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Speaker 3: producing unaffordability, Because unaffordability is what happens when government becomes

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Speaker 2: For Los Angeles, the hits just keep on coming. Homeless crisis,

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Speaker 2: billions wasted, can't rebuild homes after the Palisades fire. Just

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Speaker 2: an abt salute failed city. And this bombshell came on

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Speaker 2: Sunday night. California Governor Gavin Newsom, furiously trying out new

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Speaker 2: So we have a rich white guy here, career politician

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Speaker 2: This is about the most racist thing you could possibly say.

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom telling a group of black voters in a slow,

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Speaker 2: am as dumb as you are. Please like me.

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Speaker 2: If this were a Republican the news media would be

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Speaker 2: The trouble is if you literally google get my California

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Speaker 2: the state of California, where Gavin Newsom, at last check,

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Speaker 2: It is Monday, February twenty third, and the United States

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Speaker 1: Bad things will happen.

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Speaker 8: Thanks Scott, good to be here. Well, as you just noted,

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Speaker 8: So I think the way I'm kind of thinking through

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Speaker 1: No for America's favorite punditent.

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Speaker 2: It's scotched as it is Monday, February, common sense for

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Speaker 10: Scott, my pleasure. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, EJ. You and I have digested the ruling, we

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Speaker 10: Well, Scott, as was outlined in Kavanaugh's descent very articulately.

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Speaker 2: One of those limitations, I believe in one of these

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Speaker 10: Well, Scott, there's nothing in the statute that would prevent

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Speaker 11: We have the Supreme Court that has basically jumped the

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Speaker 11: So we've got a Supreme Court that is actively undermining

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Speaker 2: Ej. It seems like Elizabeth Warren's view of whether the

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Speaker 10: Just more hypocrisy, Scott, This is this is more of

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Speaker 10: She was trying to destroy the fed's political independence in

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Speaker 10: twenty twenty four, pressuring them to do not just a

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Speaker 10: quarter basis point cut or excuse me, a quarter percentage

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Speaker 10: point twenty five basis points, not just a half a

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Speaker 10: point or fifty basis points, but a full three quarters

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Speaker 10: seventy five basis points. That's what she wanted, because she

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Speaker 10: wanted to try to goose the economy right before the election.

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Speaker 10: Fast forward to today and all of a sudden, rate

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Speaker 10: cuts are off the table. Why because the guy in

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Speaker 10: the White House has an R after his name. She

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Speaker 10: is an absolute hypocrite on just about everything I can

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Speaker 10: think of.

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Speaker 2: My voice you're hearing today ej. Antoni's the chief economist

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Speaker 2: at the Heritage Foundation. We're discussing the president's tariff policy. Ej.

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Speaker 2: I want to shift gears and talk macro economics a

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Speaker 2: little bit. Give us your current analysis of the US

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Speaker 2: economy ahead of the President's speech to the nation tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: What would you like to hear him say and how

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Speaker 2: would you describe our economic situation if you were in

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Speaker 2: his shoes?

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Speaker 10: Scott, I think I'd like to hear the president acknowledge

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Speaker 10: two different things which sometimes are viewed as opposites, but

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Speaker 10: they're really not. It's just I think I think it's

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Speaker 10: more so a statement of how far we fell under

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Speaker 10: Joe Biden. In other words, I want to hear the

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Speaker 10: president say, Number one, we were on the wrong track,

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Speaker 10: but now we're on the right track. So wrong direction,

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Speaker 10: we course corrected. We're heading in the right direction. That's

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Speaker 10: a good thing. But the second thing I think is

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Speaker 10: recognizing the fact that a lot of people are still

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Speaker 10: hurting today. And a couple of real quick data points

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Speaker 10: illustrate that. Number One, if you look at what the

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Speaker 10: average Americans weekly paycheck could actually buy, so not just

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Speaker 10: the size of the paycheck, but what they could buy

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Speaker 10: with that paycheck, it shrunk about four percent under Biden

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Speaker 10: because prices rose so much faster than wages that those

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Speaker 10: higher incomes actually turned into lower standards of living. So

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Speaker 10: that's the first one. Now under Trump, what has happened. Again,

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Speaker 10: We've course corrected. Your paycheck goes about two percent further

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Speaker 10: after one year of the Trump presidency, so we've gotten

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Speaker 10: back half of the lost ground in terms of real

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Speaker 10: or inflation adjusted incomes. But again that tells you you

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Speaker 10: have not yet regained all of the lost ground, so

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Speaker 10: a lot of people, yes, still hurting today. Another quick point,

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Speaker 10: Scott is the fact that under Biden, the monthly mortgage

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Speaker 10: payment on a median price home in this country literally doubled.

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Speaker 10: It rose a little more than one hundred percent I

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Speaker 10: think about one hundred and five percent under Biden in

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Speaker 10: just four years. That's insane. Now under Trump it's come

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Speaker 10: down about eight percent or so. Once again, you were

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Speaker 10: heading in the wrong direction previously. You're now heading in

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Speaker 10: the right direction today, but you have not yet regained

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Speaker 10: all that lost ground. Home Ownership affordability is still a

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Speaker 10: problem today because we are still trying to clean up

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Speaker 10: the mess from Biden.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think one of the things plaguing the president

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Speaker 2: on describing economics generally is the deepness of the whole

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Speaker 2: that he was left by Joe Biden. It was monumental.

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Speaker 2: And when you talk about the inflation rates, you talk

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Speaker 2: about the cost of home ownership, the spike in health

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Speaker 2: insurance cost, whatever it is that's driving a regular person

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Speaker 2: crazy in their own life when it comes to affordability.

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Speaker 2: And these things got so bad ad under Biden, and

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Speaker 2: now the things are moving back in the correct direction

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Speaker 2: under Trump. But you're not seeing, and you won't see, frankly,

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Speaker 2: the kinds of dramatic move back in the correct direction.

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Speaker 2: You're going to see incremental or you know, decent progress,

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Speaker 2: but it's going to take some time. Should the president

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Speaker 2: just beg the American people for some more patients and

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Speaker 2: continue to describe just how bad things got under Biden?

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Speaker 10: Well, I'm not sure if asking for patients is necessarily

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Speaker 10: the right tact here. Now, look, take this with a

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Speaker 10: grain of salt. I'm a monetary scientist, not a political scientist,

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Speaker 10: so I'll leave it to the actual experts in the field.

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Speaker 10: But the reason I hesitate to say please have patience

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Speaker 10: is because the American people have had patients not just

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Speaker 10: for the first twelve months under Trump, but they had

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Speaker 10: patients for four whole years under Biden, and that was

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Speaker 10: an absolute disaster. So if you're talking to people today

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Speaker 10: and saying just have patience for another year, it's not

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Speaker 10: on top of one year, it's on top of five years,

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Speaker 10: if we really want to think of it that way.

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Speaker 10: So exactly what the messaging is I'm not entirely sure.

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Speaker 10: Hammering on all of the failures of Joe Biden might

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Speaker 10: be very, very productive insofar as it explains to people

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Speaker 10: who is to blame for their hardships that they are

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Speaker 10: facing today, which again is obviously Biden, but just Scott

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Speaker 10: real quick by the same token that it's going to

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Speaker 10: take Trump time to clean up the mess. I think

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Speaker 10: it's also worth pointing out it took Biden time to

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Speaker 10: make the mess. You know, he signed his first multi

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Speaker 10: trillion dollar spending bill that set off all of this

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Speaker 10: inflation and the huge rise in interest rates. He signed

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Speaker 10: the first bill a month after taking office, but it

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Speaker 10: took eighteen months, a year and a half into his

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Speaker 10: term before inflation actually hit a forty year high. So

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Speaker 10: it's not as if as soon as you do something

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Speaker 10: in terms of public policy the effects are going to

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Speaker 10: be felt everywhere by everybody. These things do take time.

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Speaker 10: It took time on the way down. It's going to

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Speaker 10: take time on the way out.

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Speaker 2: EJ. I had a Boston politics years ago, used to

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Speaker 2: say instant coffee ruined the world. People expect results, and

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Speaker 2: they expect them now. And heavy is the head that

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Speaker 2: where's the crown? That's EJ ANDTONI. He's the chief economist

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Speaker 2: at the Heritage Foundation.

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Speaker 10: EJ.

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Speaker 2: We really appreciate you coming on. We'll check back with

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Speaker 2: you in the weeks ahead as more economic data flows

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Speaker 2: quote do the job. I had some questions for Justin Pearson,

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Speaker 2: It's insane. It's a minute in forty one seconds of

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Speaker 2: the distillation of the insane policy position of the Democratic

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Speaker 2: Party today. Let's listen to it.

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Speaker 12: Cut number one, we have to abolish ice.

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Speaker 13: We have to abolish the customers and Border patrol in

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Speaker 13: the way that they currently exist and replace them with

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Speaker 13: something that actually does the work that we need for

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Speaker 13: them to and that is at holding at holding these

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Speaker 13: people in this administration accountable.

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Speaker 12: I'll tell you what the work is not.

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Speaker 13: The work is not killing an American says the work

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Speaker 13: in our conduty.

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Speaker 10: I'm interested in your opinion.

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Speaker 12: What is the work that we need them to do? Absolutely,

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Speaker 12: the work is not killing American citizens.

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Speaker 1: What's going to work we need them to do?

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Speaker 10: Well.

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Speaker 12: First, let's look at what they don't need to do.

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Speaker 12: They don't need to go into community, is like memphididacy

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Speaker 12: there where they're currently terrorizing and traumatizing our communities. What

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Speaker 12: we also need to make sure is that we have

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Speaker 12: elected officials, say creating a pathway of opportunity for people

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Speaker 12: who currently undocumented.

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Speaker 2: We need law enforcement agency to deport illegal aliens.

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Speaker 1: Yes or no, we do.

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Speaker 12: Need a federal law enforcement agency that deals with immigration

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Speaker 12: that doesn't kill people illegal alien. We do also need

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Speaker 12: is laws that make sure that people alien.

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Speaker 2: That you would deport.

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Speaker 12: You know, there's this is what I want you to

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Speaker 12: focus on. Is there I want you to focus on.

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Speaker 12: There are a lot of people in this country and

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Speaker 12: what is community in our community? Is there one that

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Speaker 12: have done so much to make them better? And we

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Speaker 12: need to be prioritizing the answers opportunities.

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Speaker 2: Is it's a democratic position to be aliens should be?

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Speaker 12: Democratic position in twenty six is that we don't terroise

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Speaker 12: American citizens, We don't terrorize on.

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Speaker 2: Advising immograts in twenty six. Would youize they did that.

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Speaker 2: You can't say there is a single illegal alien that

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Speaker 2: should be deported by the federal government.

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Speaker 12: What is shocking to me is that you think you

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Speaker 12: can and narrow the challenges of you can challenge the

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Speaker 12: issues of immigration into one yes or no question, when

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Speaker 12: the reality is the policies and practice should follow the

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Speaker 12: laws and the administration have led to the deaths of

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Speaker 12: American citizens and has not produced.

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Speaker 1: Democratic position.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that was CNN Friday night, and as you can hear,

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Speaker 2: the democratic position for twenty twenty six was made very clear.

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Speaker 2: It was an honest debate. Abolish ice, abolish customs and

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Speaker 2: border patrol, and we can't articulate a single person that

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Speaker 2: we want to deport. He could have said anything. He

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Speaker 2: could have said, Yes, anyone who murders, we should deport,

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Speaker 2: anyone who rapes, anyone who steals, anyone who terrorizes children.

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Speaker 2: You know, he could have said anything about who should

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Speaker 2: get deported, But he couldn't name a single person that

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Speaker 2: they want to deport. Because the true answer is, and

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Speaker 2: the truth of all, there is no one that Democrats

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Speaker 2: want to deport. They let twenty million people into this

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Speaker 2: country during the Biden administration, and they want to keep

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Speaker 2: them all here. They will pull out all the stops.

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Speaker 2: And that man Pearson is running in a Democratic primary.

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Speaker 2: The radical Democratic base demands, demands that they spend more

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Speaker 2: energy on keeping illegal aliens in this country at all

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Speaker 2: costs than on any other issue. Do they care about

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Speaker 2: making your life more affordable?

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Speaker 14: No?

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Speaker 2: Do they care about fixing health insurance that they broke.

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Speaker 14: No?

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Speaker 2: Do they care about reducing crime rates?

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Speaker 15: No?

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Speaker 2: Do they care about our national security?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: They care about one thing, and one thing only, keeping

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Speaker 2: illegal aliens in this country. That Joe Biden. Let in,

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Speaker 2: that's what they will do if Democrats regain power in

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Speaker 2: twenty six or twenty eight. You heard it. Abolish ice,

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Speaker 2: Abolish customs and border patrol, deport no one. That is

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Speaker 2: the Democratic position. Don't take it from me, Take it

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Speaker 2: to talk about the Mississippi Miracle with Governor Tate Reeves.

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Speaker 2: That's after this. It's common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 2: I'm Scott Jennings. Stay with us here on Salem, the voice.

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Speaker 1: Of free speech, the truth delivered, common sense for the

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Speaker 1: American people. Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 2: It is Monday, February twenty third. Scott Jennings broadcasting from Louisville, Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Today Tomorrow will be in Saginaw, Michigan. I'm being dispatched

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Speaker 2: by CNN with Van Jones to a bar in Saginaw, Michigan,

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Speaker 2: where we'll be talking to voters about the President's State

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Speaker 2: of the Union. So tune in tomorrow night for my

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Speaker 2: State of the Union coverage on CNN, and then on

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Speaker 2: Wednesday on this program, we'll have our breakdown of the

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Speaker 2: President's speech. This hour, we're going to talk about education.

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Speaker 2: When national education scores and achievement metro were released every year,

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Speaker 2: it used to be that the folks in Mississippi could

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Speaker 2: always know where to go to find theirs. They would

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Speaker 2: go to the bottom. For decades, Mississippi routinely ranked the

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Speaker 2: lowest in many of the nation's testing rankings. The National

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Speaker 2: Assessment of Educational Progress or NAYEP scores that came out

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Speaker 2: of Mississippi were often so poor that the satirical term

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Speaker 2: thank God for Mississippi became widely used in other state capitals.

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Speaker 2: The phrase was a reminder that, no matter how bad

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Speaker 2: your state had done, you could always count on at

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Speaker 2: least beating Mississippi. But then everything changed. In the last decade,

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Speaker 2: through a series of policy and curriculum changes, Mississippi started

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Speaker 2: to climb in the rankings. No longer was the state

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Speaker 2: a laughing stock, but rather it became a model for

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Speaker 2: the entire nation. Test scores increased, graduation rates increased. Mississippi

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Speaker 2: students went from performing a full grade level below their

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Speaker 2: peers around the country to performing nearly a half a

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Speaker 2: grade level above the average US student. This all happened

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Speaker 2: between twenty thirteen and twenty twenty four, and after adjusting

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Speaker 2: for demographics, in twenty twenty four, Mississippi was the nation's

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Speaker 2: number one state in reading as well as in mathematics.

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Speaker 2: Literally number one in the nation in reading and math.

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Speaker 2: We call it the Mississippi Miracle. And joining us to

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Speaker 2: discuss this miracle today is the governor behind this incredible turnaround.

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Speaker 2: His name is Tate Reeves, the governor of Mississippi. Governor Reeves,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Scott Jtting show.

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Speaker 5: Well, hello, Scott, thanks so much for having me on today.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're really proud to have this conversation and proud

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Speaker 2: of what you have accomplished on behalf of school children

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Speaker 2: in Mississippi. So I'll just start here. How did you

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Speaker 2: do it?

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Speaker 15: Well, first of all, Scott, I think you have to

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Speaker 15: go back to the twenty eleven election, because people like

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Speaker 15: you and me know that elections have consequences. And in

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Speaker 15: twenty eleven, for the first time since reconstruction, Mississippi elected

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Speaker 15: a majority of the state Senate was Republicans, a majority

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Speaker 15: of the state House of Representatives were elected as Republicans,

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Speaker 15: and we had a Republican governor, and we had you know,

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Speaker 15: I grew up and went to public schools at Florence

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Speaker 15: High School, and I got a great education. So while

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Speaker 15: I certainly never believed that we had the worst educational

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Speaker 15: system in America before that, there were certainly, as you

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Speaker 15: point out, statistics that would prove otherwise. Well, we went

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Speaker 15: in and we instituted a series of conservative reforms, primarily

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Speaker 15: in twenty twelve and twenty thirteen in our legislature. We

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Speaker 15: then worked with our state Department of Education to ensure

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Speaker 15: that they implemented those reforms in an appropriate manner, and

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Speaker 15: here we find ourselves ten years later. And it was

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Speaker 15: even the New York Times called it the Mississippi Miracle.

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Speaker 5: But I'll be honest, he's got it. Really.

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Speaker 15: I use that term a lot, that phrase a lot

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Speaker 15: because it gets people's attention, But I will be honest,

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Speaker 15: it really wasn't a miracle at all. We just put

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Speaker 15: in good, strong, conservative reforms and they've made a huge

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Speaker 15: difference for all of our kids in all of our

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Speaker 15: school districts.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the reading scores. The turnaround in literacy

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Speaker 2: and reading has been nothing short of remarkable, and it

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Speaker 2: seems like phonics education has been the key. Can you

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Speaker 2: talk about that. Implementing a return to studying phonics was

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Speaker 2: that the trick to this whole thing.

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Speaker 5: It played a significant role.

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Speaker 15: We at the time we called it the third grade

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Speaker 15: Reading Gate.

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Speaker 5: Now it's the you know.

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Speaker 15: It ended up having an official name of the Literacy

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Speaker 15: Based Promotion Act.

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Speaker 5: And yes, we did go back to the basics. We

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Speaker 5: started teaching.

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Speaker 15: Reading the way folks that are my age and older

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Speaker 15: learned how to read, and that was to go back

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Speaker 15: to phonics. There was this long standing feud within the

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Speaker 15: academical world about how the best way was to teach reading,

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Speaker 15: and clearly that debate is no longer. Phonics is the

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Speaker 15: best way for kids to learn how to read, and

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Speaker 15: we did that in Mississippi.

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Speaker 5: But we didn't just go back and start teaching phoenix.

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Speaker 15: We also implemented what was then called the third grade gate,

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Speaker 15: which is in essence, we test our kids for reading

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Speaker 15: abilities at the end of the third grade, and if

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Speaker 15: you cannot tell if you cannot read at a certain

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Speaker 15: level by the end of the third grade, in Mississippi,

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Speaker 15: there is no such thing as social promotion. You do

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Speaker 15: not get promoted to the fourth grade if you cannot

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Speaker 15: read at a certain level. That is I think critical

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Speaker 15: because what gets measured gets done. It ensures that there's

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Speaker 15: accountability in place for those individual students and for their parents.

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Speaker 15: We ensured that we had accountability in place for our

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Speaker 15: great teachers, and it's just made all the difference in

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Speaker 15: the world. We also didn't stop there, and this I

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Speaker 15: was actually with, as you know, a large number of

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Speaker 15: Republican governors over this past weekend, and we spent a

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Speaker 15: lot of time talking about this. The thing that we

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Speaker 15: also did that doesn't get as much publicity, but it should.

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Speaker 5: We set a cut.

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Speaker 15: Score in twenty thirteen once the legislation passed, and we've

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Speaker 15: raised that cut score four different times, so that every

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Speaker 15: time we get comfortable, every time we get to a

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Speaker 15: point where ninety six, ninety seven, ninety eight percent of

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Speaker 15: our kids are reading at a certain level, well then

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Speaker 15: we've raised what it takes to be able to pass

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Speaker 15: on to the fourth grade again, raising those accountability measures.

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Speaker 15: So many states in this country have tried to reduce

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Speaker 15: accountability and.

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Speaker 5: Reduced what it takes to move on.

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Speaker 15: We've done the exact opposite, which seems like common sense

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Speaker 15: to me, because whether you're playing basketball or football or reading,

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Speaker 15: you've got to keep raising the bar, and you've got

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Speaker 15: to keep working and getting better, and the better you get,

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Speaker 15: the harder you got to work to get better.

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Speaker 5: From there, that.

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Speaker 2: Voice you're hearing on the show to Governor Tate Reeves

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Speaker 2: of the state of Mississippi, we're talking about the remarkable

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Speaker 2: and dramatic turnaround and improvement in education scores in Mississippi. Now,

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Speaker 2: Governor Reeves, you said that you elected a bunch of

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Speaker 2: reform minded Republicans to the state legislature and you had

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Speaker 2: a Republican governor. But I know you ran into some

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Speaker 2: resistance as you were trying to do these reforms on education.

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Speaker 2: Talk about the resistance, who resisted you, What hurdles did

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Speaker 2: you have to overcome? Because there are other Republican states

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Speaker 2: sitting out there who simply haven't been able to go

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Speaker 2: as far as Mississippi. In fact, I'm sitting in one

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Speaker 2: of them today here in Kentucky. Tell us about the resistance,

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Speaker 2: how you overcame it, and your advice for Republicans in

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Speaker 2: policy making positions around the country.

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Speaker 15: Well, we refer to those that resisted us and quite

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Speaker 15: frankly resist all change as the coalition of the status quo,

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Speaker 15: the people who have been doing it for so long

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Speaker 15: and are absolutely convinced that they have to be doing

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Speaker 15: it right because after all, they've been doing it the same.

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Speaker 5: Way for so long.

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Speaker 15: The reality is that you can look at your numbers

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Speaker 15: and if you're not moving up, then you're getting passed up.

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Speaker 15: I remind folks in Mississippi across the country, all the time,

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Speaker 15: we've gone on an absolute basis, from forty ninth in

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Speaker 15: the nation in fourth grade reading to number nine in

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Speaker 15: America overall in fourth grade reading. Yes, when adjusted for

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Speaker 15: our demographics, we go up to number one, but if

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Speaker 15: you don't adjust for demographics, we're number nine in the nation.

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Speaker 15: And we just had to have enough politicians with guts

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Speaker 15: to stand up and say to those who were fighting us,

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Speaker 15: to the coalition of the status quo, in large measure,

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Speaker 15: to the very school superintendents that claim that they are

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Speaker 15: focused on doing what's best for children, that did not

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Speaker 15: want to change the way they do it, that did

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Speaker 15: not want increased accountability standards, we just stood up and said,

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Speaker 15: we're gonna do more. We're gonna give our teachers the

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Speaker 15: tools that they need to do the great things that

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Speaker 15: they've done. And oh, by the way, in my first

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Speaker 15: term as governor, we passed the largest teacher pay raise

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Speaker 15: because as a conservative, I believe in rewarding success, and

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Speaker 15: that's exactly what we've done in Mississippi.

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Speaker 2: That's Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi. They have had a

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Speaker 2: dramatic and frankly miraculous turnaround in education that has paid

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Speaker 2: dividends for the state of Mississippi. Is reading in mass

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Speaker 2: scores and high school graduation rates have gone up. It

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Speaker 2: has led to business investment opportunity. There are businesses now

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Speaker 2: even leaving California and moving to Mississippi, and Governor Reeves

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Speaker 2: put his state in a position to take advantage of

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Speaker 2: all of that. Governor Reeves really appreciate your time. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us on the show today.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Scott, have a great afternoon.

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Speaker 6: Us, ready for some common sense and a little Kentucky

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Speaker 6: Wendage hears.

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Speaker 2: Jenny's really grateful for Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi coming

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Speaker 2: on the show today. The turnaround in Mississippi just absolutely

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Speaker 2: a game changer for the students there, for the state.

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Speaker 2: The connection between the improvement and education and the state's

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Speaker 2: business climate is undeniable. It's red states that are leading

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Speaker 2: America right now in education reform and blue states that

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Speaker 2: are still being strangled by these teachers' unions. They adhere

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Speaker 2: to the old ways. They don't care about children, They

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Speaker 2: only care about themselves and about political power. But people

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Speaker 2: like Tate Reeves and Mississippi and some other red states,

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Speaker 2: they are cutting through all the crap and getting to

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Speaker 2: the core of what's happening, reforming what needs to be reformed,

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Speaker 2: and it is to the benefit of all these kids.

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Speaker 2: So thank you. Governor reeves for coming on the show today.

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Speaker 2: By the way, here's something every parent needs to hear.

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Speaker 2: More kids are being targeted online through gaming platforms. These

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Speaker 2: These kids are being groomed, manipulated, or threatened by adults

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Speaker 2: child Help's hotline terrified and ashamed. An adult that he

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Speaker 2: to lie to his parents. Excuse me, threatening to lie

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Speaker 2: to his parents if he didn't comply. That chat that

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Speaker 2: he had with child Help may have saved his life.

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Speaker 2: or visit childhelp dot org. Slash Scott Scott Jennings here

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Speaker 2: on Salem. Gearing up for a big week. We've got

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Speaker 2: the State of the Union this week. As I mentioned,

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Speaker 2: I'll be broadcasting from Saginaw, Michigan tomorrow as I go

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Speaker 2: up there for some CNN State of the Union coverage.

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Speaker 2: We'll be talking to some voters in Saginaw. And on Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: I'll be back in Washington. We'll be broadcasting live from

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Speaker 2: the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Office the Ronald Reagan Building.

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Speaker 2: Will have a number of US Senators coming through the show.

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Speaker 2: I also want to highlight something else big that's going

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Speaker 2: on this week, something coming from our good friend Dennis Prager.

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Speaker 2: Dennis's latest book is called If there Is No God?

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Speaker 2: The Battle over who Defines Good and Evil?

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Speaker 14: Now.

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Speaker 2: As many of you know, in November of twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four or it was announced that Dennis suffered a severe

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Speaker 2: spinal injury which affected his diaphragm and movement below his shoulders.

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Speaker 2: Dennis is obviously a legend here at Salem and in

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Speaker 2: this business and in politics and in policy. And to

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Speaker 2: watch Dennis Prager fight all this and fight through all

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Speaker 2: this despite his injury has been inspirational and incredible. And

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Speaker 2: now he has this book coming out, and I don't

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Speaker 2: think Dennis is going to be able to do as

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Speaker 2: much promotion on his book as he would normally be

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Speaker 2: able to do. And I want to do some for him,

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Speaker 2: because anything Dennis Prager writes, I'm going to read. Here's

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Speaker 2: a little bit of the book description. For fifty years,

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Speaker 2: Dennis Praguer, one of the best known public intellectuals in

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Speaker 2: the Western world, has explored the vital role Judeo Christian

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Speaker 2: values play in shaping individual lives and entire societies and

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Speaker 2: if there is no God. He engages in provocative and

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Speaker 2: sometimes heated exchange with questioners who offer some of the

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Speaker 2: greatest challenges he has faced, concerning how one determines good

942
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Speaker 2: and evil, and why one's feelings can be life enhancing

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Speaker 2: yet morally unimportant. If God exists, why doesn't he punish

944
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Speaker 2: the unjust? Why does he allow the innocent to suffer?

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Speaker 2: How can religion better the human condition? When so many

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Speaker 2: of the religious are so often immoral, These timeless questions

947
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Speaker 2: are in urgent need of answers. The reader need not

948
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Speaker 2: be religious or even believe in God to find the

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Speaker 2: arguments and debates in this book compelling and meaningful. All

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Speaker 2: you need to do is appreciate the ideas of Dennis

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Speaker 2: Prager and the reasoning that he brings to these conversations.

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Speaker 2: This book is thought provoking, it is important. It is

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Speaker 2: accessible for the devout and the skeptic. And if there

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Speaker 2: Is No God you'll find a guide for anyone seeking

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Speaker 2: clarity in a morally troubled age. Again, coming out tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: You can buy it tomorrow, the latest book from our

957
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Speaker 2: friend here at Salem, Dennis Prague. It is called If

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Speaker 2: there Is No God. You can get it anywhere that

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Speaker 2: you purchase your books. We're gonna take a break when

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Speaker 2: we come back. Last week, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Speaker 2: has announced they are no longer offering gender affirming surgeries.

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Speaker 2: This news continues to cascade. We'll have a guest who

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Speaker 2: has some comments on all of this. By the way,

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Speaker 2: none of this would be happening if Donald Trump had

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Speaker 2: not won election in twenty twenty four. It's common sense

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Speaker 2: for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: us on Salem. Stay with us.

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Speaker 6: The man who made CNN safe for conservatives again, Dear

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Speaker 6: Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: Is Monday, February twenty third, common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings broadcasting today from Louisville, Kentucky. If you're up

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Speaker 2: in the Northeast in this bomb cyclone, we hope you're

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Speaker 2: staying safe and warm.

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Speaker 10: Ian.

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Speaker 2: What's the snow total up to in New York? Now?

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Speaker 2: Twenty inches in Central Park, maybe getting up to thirty

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Speaker 2: in New York. I know LaGuardia had a massive amount.

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Speaker 2: Newark Airport, Boston has covered up, So keep an eye

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Speaker 2: on the weather up there in the Northeast. It is

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Speaker 2: the most snow that New York has had, I think

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Speaker 2: in over five years. So fortunately they have a very

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Speaker 2: experienced and hands on mayor who's out recruiting people to

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Speaker 2: bring their identification in order to shovel the snow. So

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Speaker 2: it seems like things are going to go well for

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Speaker 2: the Big Apple. Last week, patients at the Vanderbilt University

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Speaker 2: Medical Center received a notification saying their healthcare system will

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Speaker 2: no longer offer gender affirming surgeries, not just for miners,

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Speaker 2: but for everyone. This new position continues a major cultural

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Speaker 2: shift in gender affirming care across the country. Since President

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Speaker 2: Trump returned to the White House in December of last year,

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Speaker 2: Health Secretary RFK Junior and doctor Oz, who leads Medicaid

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Speaker 2: Medicare Services, announced major policy changes around hospitals that provide

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Speaker 2: trans surgeries for miners, all in an effort to end

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Speaker 2: these procedures, and hospitals across the country are in fact

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Speaker 2: ending the procedures. Just last month, a detransitioner won a

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Speaker 2: two million dollar lawsuit against New York doctors who pushed

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Speaker 2: her to get a double mastectomy. All of this comes

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Speaker 2: as the American Medical Association, the nation's largest organization representing doctors,

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Speaker 2: now says these transgender procedures generally should be deferred until adulthood,

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Speaker 2: and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons has said that

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Speaker 2: gender related surgery should be delayed until at least age nineteen.

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Speaker 2: From boys and girls sports to schools hiding gender identity

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Speaker 2: from parents, the Trump administration is taking an axe to

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Speaker 2: all of this nonsense, and people follow leadership, it seems.

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Speaker 2: With US. Now to discuss all of this is Jim Campbell,

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Speaker 2: the head of us LEABE mitigation for the Alliance for

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Speaker 2: Defending Freedom. It is the largest legal organization focused on

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Speaker 2: protecting children from gender ideology in the country. Jim has

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Speaker 2: personally argued several cases in front of the Supreme Court,

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Speaker 2: including last month's Title nine case. Jim Campbell, Welcome into

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Speaker 2: the Scott Jitting Show. Great to be with you. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: thanks for your time today. I want to start this

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Speaker 2: interview by playing a short clip from the weekend. I

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Speaker 2: get your reaction to this. It is the governor of Kentucky,

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Speaker 2: Andy Basher. He's launching his presidential campaign and he has

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Speaker 2: appeared to make the central plank of his campaign defending

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Speaker 2: child mutilation. Here's Andy Basheer in cut number ten.

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Speaker 16: I'm going to stand up against discrimination in any form,

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Speaker 16: regardless of how it polls in Kentucky or anywhere else,

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Speaker 16: because it's the right thing to do.

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Speaker 10: So.

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Speaker 16: I've vetoted every anti LGBTQ bill that's come across my

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Speaker 16: desk in Kentucky. I've veed out every anti DEI bill

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Speaker 16: that's come across my desk in Kentucky. And I've done

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Speaker 16: that because it's the right thing to do, and you

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Speaker 16: only get so much time in this job. You ought

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Speaker 16: to be doing the right thing every time.

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Speaker 2: Jim, it seems like our culture is going one direction,

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Speaker 2: turning away from these transgender surgeries, at least for miners.

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Speaker 2: And Andy Basheer is running headlong into the issue anyway

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Speaker 2: as he launches a presidential campaign. Why do you think

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Speaker 2: politicians like Andy Basheer continue to do this despite all

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Speaker 2: of the increased warnings from medical associations and other people.

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Speaker 14: I think people like the governor haven't gotten the message

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Speaker 14: of the common sense message that biological reality is what

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Speaker 14: we should be operating consistent with the science shows us

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Speaker 14: that kids do best when they're struggling with these issues

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Speaker 14: of gender confusion, when they're allowed to talk through it

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Speaker 14: and they're explore their feelings, not when they're pumped full

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Speaker 14: of drugs and exposed to surgeries that are wholly unnecessary.

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Speaker 8: Jim.

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Speaker 2: During the Bydenay administration, medical professionals and government officials acted

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Speaker 2: as though all the science behind this so called gender

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Speaker 2: affirming care was settled. But now we're shifting away from that.

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Speaker 2: People are saying what folks like you always knew to

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Speaker 2: be true. What do you think is behind this dramatic

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Speaker 2: shift away from the trans cult, the trans ideology.

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Speaker 14: The science is getting so strong on our side that

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Speaker 14: they can't ignore it anymore. And so if you look

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Speaker 14: in twenty twenty four, the CAST Review came out of

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Speaker 14: the UK, and the CAST Review recognize that there are

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Speaker 14: no good studies showing that leading kids down a path

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Speaker 14: of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones actually helps them.

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Speaker 14: In fact, what it does is it leads them into

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Speaker 14: permanent physical changes that are wholly necessary. It leads them

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Speaker 14: down a path that exposes them to lots of physical

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Speaker 14: changes that are harmful for their bodies. And what kids

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Speaker 14: need instead is an opportunity, need to talk about their feelings,

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Speaker 14: explore these issues. And what we know from the science

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Speaker 14: is that nearly ninety percent of kids that struggle with

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Speaker 14: these issues before puberty will work their way through it

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Speaker 14: if they're just given the opportunity. And what they don't

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Speaker 14: need are politicians pushing them down the path of so

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Speaker 14: called gender transition.

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Speaker 4: Jim.

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Speaker 2: There were a lot of people in American life. Some

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Speaker 2: were doctors, some were politicians, people with fancy titles who

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Speaker 2: were pushing this ideology pushing children to get these surgeries.

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Speaker 2: Do you think there is going to be more accountability,

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Speaker 2: any accountability for the people who push this on the

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Speaker 2: children of the United States of America.

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Speaker 14: Absolutely, and we're already seeing it. You mentioned at the

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Speaker 14: outset that there was a verdict out of New York

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Speaker 14: late in January, and that verdict found that there needed

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Speaker 14: to be two million dollars paid by a psychologist and

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Speaker 14: a surgeon that led a sixteen year old down the

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Speaker 14: path of surgery that was unnecessary, that disfigured her body

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Speaker 14: when what she needed was someone to listen to her,

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Speaker 14: someone to talk to her, and someone to explore the

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Speaker 14: confusion that she was experiencing.

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Speaker 2: On the Vanderbilt decision, what do you think ultimately push

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Speaker 2: them over the edge? Is it just the weight of

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Speaker 2: the science, as you mentioned, is it people contacting them?

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Speaker 2: Is it a combination of things what got a university

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Speaker 2: hospital like Vanderbilt to the major announcement they made last week.

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Speaker 14: I think it's a number of things. You recognize that

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Speaker 14: many professional associations came out in the last few weeks

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Speaker 14: and clarified that they don't think it's consistent with the

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Speaker 14: standard of care to perform these kinds of surgeries on

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Speaker 14: young people. But in addition to that, you have the

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Speaker 14: current administration that's made clear federal dollars are no longer

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Speaker 14: going to go to these kinds of procedures and drugs.

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Speaker 14: And I think that that's quite significant because whether we

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Speaker 14: want to recognize it or not, the bottom line matters

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Speaker 14: to a lot of people in the healthcare industry, and

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Speaker 14: if they know that the money won't flow to these

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Speaker 14: kinds of drugs and procedures, then they're going to be

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Speaker 14: less interested in going down that road.

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Speaker 2: Talking with Jim Campbell from the Alliance for Defending Freedom

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Speaker 2: here on the Scott Jennings Show, Jim, I want to

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Speaker 2: play another clip for you. This is a state representative

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Speaker 2: from Minnesota. Where else but Minnesota. The state representative is

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Speaker 2: named Lee Think. Lee Think is transgender, and Lee Fink

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Speaker 2: is making an argument that children must have access to

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Speaker 2: pornography for educational purposes. Let's hear cut number eight.

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Speaker 17: Mentioned the Paxton case, and the ags in many states

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Speaker 17: are very clear about that. They're almost jubilant about being

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Speaker 17: able to use these laws to ban young people from

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Speaker 17: accessing content that could be educational if they are queer

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Speaker 17: and you're a principal, you have LGBT students in your school,

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Speaker 17: and we also know that they're not receiving sex education

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Speaker 17: for queer kids. We know that purient interest could be

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Speaker 17: for many people the very existence of transgender kids. More

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Speaker 17: and more people are saying there simply are no transgender kids.

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Speaker 2: Jim. When you hear a statement like this from a

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Speaker 2: state rep arguing for children to have access to pornographic websites,

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Speaker 2: how shocked are you by this?

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Speaker 14: I am shocked. I can't believe that these are the

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Speaker 14: types of things that politicians are worried about. What we

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Speaker 14: need is our kids to be educated. Well, we need

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Speaker 14: our kids to be helped when they're struggling with issues,

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Speaker 14: But to lead them down the path of dangerous and

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Speaker 14: destructive materials is not something that they need to be

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Speaker 14: exposed to. The fact that this is the path forward

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Speaker 14: for some politicians, it really does make me worry about

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Speaker 14: the future of our country. But again, the good news

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Speaker 14: is that the tide is turning on a lot of

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Speaker 14: these things. The everyday average American sees that what kids

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Speaker 14: need is good education, not this kind of side show

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Speaker 14: in in public discussion and doctrine.

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Speaker 2: Jim you're with an organization called the Alliance for Defending Freedom,

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Speaker 2: and you're currently waiting to see if the Supreme Court

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Speaker 2: will pick up your case regarding preventing schools from hiding

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Speaker 2: students transitioning from their parents. Do you think they will

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Speaker 2: take up the case and if they do, what do

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Speaker 2: you expect that outcome to be.

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Speaker 14: We're very confident that the Supreme Court will take up

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Speaker 14: this issue. Four of the Supreme Court justices have already

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Speaker 14: recognized that this is an important question that the Court

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Speaker 14: needs to decide. We can't have public schools around the

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Speaker 14: country that are leading kids on the path of transition

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Speaker 14: and not even telling their parents what's going on. That's unacceptable.

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Speaker 14: What we need is for the Supreme Court to look

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Speaker 14: at this issue to uphold the rights of parents to

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Speaker 14: direct their kids upbringing and to make sure that they're

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Speaker 14: not cut out of important parts of their lives.

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Speaker 2: Jim, it strikes me that based on all the news

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Speaker 2: we're getting from University of Vanderbilt Hospital, for instance, in

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Speaker 2: other systems, the news we're getting on litigation, the news

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Speaker 2: we're getting from medical associations, it seems to me right

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Speaker 2: now that if you've been worried in this country about

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Speaker 2: the direction of pushing children into these trans ideologies. If

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Speaker 2: you've been worried about what's going on in schools, you

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Speaker 2: actually have momentum to do something about it. What would

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Speaker 2: you recommend to the average parent, the average person out there,

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Speaker 2: How can they get involved if this is something that

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Speaker 2: they have been worried about, What would you say to them?

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Speaker 2: What should they do? What can an average person how

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Speaker 2: can they lend their voice to this debate?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, I would say speak up and show up. So

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Speaker 14: speak up in just everyday average conversations. Let people know

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Speaker 14: what your views are on these issues. Show up at

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Speaker 14: school board meetings when these kinds of topics are discussed,

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Speaker 14: and make sure people know what your views are. And

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Speaker 14: then I would also say support organizations that are engaged

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Speaker 14: on this issue, organizations like ours at Alliance Defending Freedom.

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Speaker 14: We're committed to making sure that biological truth is proclaimed

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Speaker 14: on these issues and that everyone knows that this gender

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Speaker 14: ideology is a dead end path. What we need are

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Speaker 14: real solutions for kids struggling with issues.

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Speaker 2: We need truth, we need.

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Speaker 14: Biological reality, and that's what we're committed to at Alliance

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Speaker 14: Defending Freedom.

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Speaker 2: God given immutable truth. When it comes to gender. That's

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Speaker 2: what you're going to get out of the Alliance for

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Speaker 2: Defending Freedom. Jim Campbell, thanks for coming on and we

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Speaker 2: look forward to checking in with you in the future

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Speaker 2: as some of these cases move forward. Appreciate your time today, sir,

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Speaker 2: If you have this pressure in your life, you will

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Speaker 2: talking a little hockey and Olympics here on the Scott

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Speaker 2: Jennings Show.

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Speaker 6: Stay with us the very definition I've never backed down.

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Speaker 1: Here's Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you the definition of never back down.

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Speaker 2: The USA hockey teams at the Winter Olympics. That's who

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Speaker 2: would never back down. I have to finish the show

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Speaker 2: today highlighting these incredible wins by the USA men's and

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Speaker 2: women's hockey teams at the Olympics. Now, it wasn't just

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Speaker 2: great to beat Canada at their own national sport, although

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Speaker 2: that is pretty awesome, And it wasn't just great to

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Speaker 2: win the gold medal in hockey for the first time

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Speaker 2: in forty six years, the Miracle on ice. To highlight

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Speaker 2: the incredible reaction from the players afterwards, these guys could

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Speaker 2: not have been more proud to represent the United States

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Speaker 2: of America. You had all these journalists over there trying

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Speaker 2: to get American athletes to crap upon the United States,

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Speaker 2: and by the way, some took the bait shamefully. Not

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Speaker 2: the hockey guys. Here's the hero, Jack Hughes. This is

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Speaker 2: the guy who got his teeth knocked out and scored

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Speaker 2: the game winning goal. Here's what he said about what

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Speaker 2: it meant to play and win for the United States

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Speaker 2: of America. Cut nine.

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Speaker 9: This is all about our country, right know. I love

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Speaker 9: the USA, I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. The US

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Speaker 9: or hockey brotherhood and so strong, and we have so

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Speaker 9: much support and next players. I'm so proud of the Americans.

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Speaker 11: It was such an incredible game to grind out.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you're bleeding right through it just looking.

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Speaker 16: At you right now.

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Speaker 4: Can you just talk about how difficult this gold medal

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Speaker 4: was to win?

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Speaker 9: This unbelievable game by hellibuck, he was our best player

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Speaker 9: tonight by mile. Unbelievable game, unreal game by our team.

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Speaker 9: That's just a ballsy guts you win. That's American hockey

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Speaker 9: right there. That's a great Canadian team, but we're USA.

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Speaker 9: We're so proud to be Americans.

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Speaker 2: Today was all for the country.

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Speaker 4: What does this gold medal mean to USA Hockey?

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Speaker 9: It's everything. Like I said, the USA Hockey brotherhood means

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Speaker 9: so much. Look at these guys where it's such a team.

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Speaker 9: We've been to the Yver two weeks.

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Speaker 2: We're such a team.

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Speaker 9: The USA Hockey brotherhood is so strong, and we're so

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Speaker 9: proud to win.

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Speaker 2: For our country. We're so proud to be American. Amen.

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Speaker 2: Jack Hughes. Jack Hughes got his teeth knocked out, he's bleeding,

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Speaker 2: and he scores the game winning goal in sudden death overtime,

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Speaker 2: taking away the gold medal from Canada. By the way,

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Speaker 2: Jack Hughes has also taking away their hot chicks. He

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Speaker 2: dates Tate McCrae. I'm told who's Canadian? You could look

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Speaker 2: it up. We took their gold, We took their hot chicks.

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Speaker 2: It's a good day to be an American. As evidenced

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Speaker 2: by the words of Jack Hughes, I love these celebrations.

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Speaker 2: I love these interviews. These guys were unabashedly pro America.

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Speaker 2: They talked about wearing our colors and our crest with honor,

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Speaker 2: about playing for that flag on those jerseys. If you

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Speaker 2: watch the ceremony where they were getting their medals and

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Speaker 2: listening to the national anthem, you could see the emotion.

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Speaker 2: They were not embarrassed about their patriotism. They had no

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Speaker 2: hesitation about saying I love my country, I love the

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Speaker 2: United States of America. These young men understood that representing

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Speaker 2: America on the international stage is a privilege, and they

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Speaker 2: played like it, and they acted like it. We live

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Speaker 2: in a country right now full of people who are

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Speaker 2: being unabashed in their hatred of America. They're trying to

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Speaker 2: get other people to join them. They want you to

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Speaker 2: think America's rotten at the core, that America must be

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Speaker 2: apologized for by anyone on the international stage or in politics,

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Speaker 2: or in culture anywhere. They want you to constantly apologize

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Speaker 2: for this or that. These hockey guys apologize for nothing.

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Speaker 2: They say, I'm proud to be an American. Felt like

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Speaker 2: all the athletes were just being goaded and baited. Constantly

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Speaker 2: tell us how bad it is to have to wear

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Speaker 2: the stars and stripes, the red, white and blue here

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Speaker 2: in Italy. Tell us how embarrassed you are. These journalists,

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Speaker 2: these sports journalists, by the way ridiculous. But not Jack Hughes,

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Speaker 2: not the American Hockey team. They wouldn't do it. They

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Speaker 2: stood up for you, they stood up for us. So

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Speaker 2: I just want to say my hat is off. Our

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01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:13,800
Speaker 2: hats here at the Scott Jennings Show are off the

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01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 2: team USA. Gritty win, unapologetic patriotism. It was a great

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01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:25,200
Speaker 2: day for American hockey and a great reminder that sometimes

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Speaker 2: the simplest kind of pride, pride in your country, is

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Speaker 2: still the very best kind. We're done for the day.

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Speaker 2: I'll be broadcasting this show tomorrow from Saginaw, Michigan, and

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Speaker 2: we'll be covering the President's State of the Union. We'll

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Speaker 2: have that tomorrow and reaction on Wednesday. Thanks for joining

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Speaker 2: us common sense for the American people. See you