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Speaker 2: to the nation tonight. We are going to start the show, however,

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Speaker 2: with Capitol Hill. There's news on Capitol Hill. Welcome into

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Speaker 2: the show. Tom Emmer, the Republican Whip, a member of

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Speaker 2: the leadership team for the Majority Republican Party. He's from Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: Congressman Emmer. There's been all sorts of activity on the

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Speaker 2: like Mike Lawler of New York who have sided with

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Speaker 2: I want to get your response to this, and then

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Speaker 3: I am hosked for the American people. This is absolute

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Speaker 2: Here's Tom Emmer from Minnesota, Congressman. Thanks for joining us today.

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Speaker 2: What's going on up there? Today, just give us the report.

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Speaker 4: Well, first off, we've got the lower health premiums for

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Speaker 4: all acts, Scott, and by the way, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 4: I was listening to you right. There's a whole bunch

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Speaker 4: of activity. We got the speed Act that we're working on,

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Speaker 4: which is NIPA Reforms Environmental Permitting that is thirty years overdue.

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Speaker 4: That will streamline projects, still protecting the environment, but allow

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Speaker 4: And you know now that the President has signed the

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Speaker 4: Working Families Tax Cut Act into law. Those permanent tax

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Speaker 4: policies going to effect on January. And if you don't

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Speaker 4: have a permitting process that works where for instance, in

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Speaker 4: my state, Polly met mine up in the northern part

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Speaker 4: years and the other one is over twenty Scott. We've

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Speaker 4: So that speed Act is one of the things that's

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Speaker 4: You know, Democrats just want the issue, they want a

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Speaker 4: campaign issue. They're talking about these subsidies as if they're

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Speaker 4: going to solve the problem. You know what's got. Three

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Speaker 4: hundred million Americans got a twenty percent minimum increase in

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Speaker 4: their premiums this year. The enhanced premium tax credits they're

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Speaker 4: talking about would only apply to seven percent of Americans,

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Speaker 4: about twenty one of the three hundred million people. And

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Speaker 4: by the way, it would only reduce even if it

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Speaker 4: about five percent. So the answer is what Republicans are doing.

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Speaker 4: Republicans have this, are looking at the the Unaffordable Care Act,

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Speaker 4: and this is what we got to remind people of.

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Speaker 4: Democrats passed this fifteen years ago. They called it the

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Speaker 4: three things. One you can keep your doctor, Two you'll

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Speaker 4: have more choices, and three it's going to lower your premium. Scott,

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Speaker 4: They're O for three. They broke the healthcare system. So

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Speaker 4: Republicans want to lower cost, give patients a choice, and

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Speaker 4: get to the root cause of the healthcare crisis. It's

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Speaker 4: really not a crisis in our healthcare system. It's a

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Speaker 4: crisis with our healthcare insurance. The co conspirators in writing

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Speaker 4: this bill, it is the health insurers that have been

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Speaker 4: The bill that we're going to be voting on here

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, the middleman. Give you transparency so the consumer

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Speaker 4: addition to allowing small businesses to offer employees more tailored

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Speaker 2: So let's just separate these issues out because I want

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Speaker 2: our audience to understand the news of the day. The

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Speaker 2: House Republicans are going to put a bill on the floor,

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Speaker 2: is it this afternoon that will address all of these

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Speaker 2: the Congressional Budget Office, the CBO has scored this and

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Speaker 2: the Republican plan will reduce health insurance premiums by I

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Speaker 2: think eleven or twelve percent, which is more than they

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Speaker 2: scored the Democrat plan. Is that correct?

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Speaker 4: That is correct?

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's number one.

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Speaker 4: I believe the bills being I believe the healthcare bill

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Speaker 2: It'll be tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 4: I believe it's this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, so that'll be here within the next twenty

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Speaker 2: other issue. Some Republicans signed a discharge petition today, I guess,

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Speaker 2: We saw that news this morning. Is that actually going

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Speaker 4: Yeah? And by the way, I was just corrected. Apparently

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Speaker 4: The idea that if we can get if we get

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Speaker 4: So on the issue of discharge petitions, the answer is,

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Speaker 4: I think what you saw was just frustration. Unfortunately, now

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Speaker 2: It will do a number of things, and the CBO

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Speaker 2: which are failing the American people. We'll see that tonight.

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Speaker 2: We'll see permitting reform. So a flurry of legislative activity

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Speaker 2: all of it when he addresses the nation. Congressman Tom Emmer,

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Speaker 7: That's right.

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Speaker 2: If you're a small business and you think you might

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Speaker 7: Thank you. Scott.

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Speaker 2: All right, coming up at the bottom of the hour're here.

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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, December the seventeenth, Scott Jennings Common Sense

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Speaker 7: do about it, and wages are gonna people are their

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Speaker 7: wages are stagnant, real wages are declining. People are worse

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Speaker 7: off because that's the new normal. That's the way the

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Speaker 7: world is. And the President's like, no, it's not, that's

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Speaker 7: not the way the world is. What you know, Let's

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Speaker 7: go in and change some policies and then deliver for

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Speaker 7: the American people. And so we came out after talking

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Speaker 7: with the President and picking out he picked out the

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Speaker 7: best policies, and I came out and starting to go

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Speaker 7: on TV. You remember, and I said, we're gonna have

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Speaker 7: three percent growth, yep. And the President said, we're going

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Speaker 7: to have three percent growth, and wages are going to

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Speaker 7: go up by four thousand dollars actually ended up being

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Speaker 7: sixty five hundred. But when we did that, When we

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Speaker 7: did that, you might recall the amount of abuse we got.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, those Obama people. And my favorite one from

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Speaker 7: a person who's a little bit on the ropes right now,

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Speaker 7: Larry Soemmers a little bit, but he said this about me.

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Speaker 7: He said that I'm either a liar or stupid or

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Speaker 7: both because I said we could have three percent growth,

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Speaker 7: that we could be you know, great again. And so

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Speaker 7: the thing I want to say is that we were

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Speaker 7: ridiculed for three percent yep, and we'll be ridiculed for

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Speaker 7: what a Secretary Besset and I and the President are

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Speaker 7: saying now because we're highly confident we're going to be

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Speaker 7: above four next year and for the years to come.

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Speaker 7: And if you'd like, we could talk about the nuances

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Speaker 7: of why that's true. But we're just as bullish as

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Speaker 7: we could be because of what we've seen, the promises

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Speaker 7: that have been made, the groundbreakings that we're looking at,

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Speaker 7: the power that we're generating, all of that stuff is

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Speaker 7: going to make really, uh, next year, what are the

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Speaker 7: best years you've ever seen?

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Speaker 2: So I go on seeing in a lot, as you know,

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Speaker 2: and have to fight four or five people at.

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Speaker 7: The Stace contributor. I see, I know, I know, you

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Speaker 7: know you know why I quit because they would never

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Speaker 7: put beyond. So they hired me as a contributor so

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Speaker 7: that I couldn't go out other places. But then they

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Speaker 7: did not ever use me. And so it's like it's

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Speaker 7: it's money, but this and now they have to use you,

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Speaker 7: but they don't pay me. They pay you.

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Speaker 2: So so I here's what I hear.

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Speaker 7: Uh you know uh.

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Speaker 2: And in these these liberals, they sort of forget what

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Speaker 2: happened during the Biden years. They forget the inflation spike,

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Speaker 2: they forget the affordability. They love the word affordability, but

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Speaker 2: they sort of forget what happened during the Biden years.

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Speaker 2: And what they really want everybody to forget is the deep,

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Speaker 2: deep hole and really being on the brink in our

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Speaker 2: economy that you and the President and Secretary Bessent inherited

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Speaker 2: back in January. Maybe sort of take us back to

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Speaker 2: that moment when you got here, were we on the

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Speaker 2: brink and then the immediate moves that were made. Are

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Speaker 2: you surprised that the President's been able to sort of

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Speaker 2: begin to build a ladder out of this hole as

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Speaker 7: Yeah, things are moving fast in the right direction. But

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Speaker 7: the president won clearly for lots of reasons. But One

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Speaker 7: of the main reasons was that Americans saw their lives

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Speaker 7: fallowing up, their economic lives falling apart under Joe Biden.

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Speaker 7: And you know, we could talk about immigration later, but

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Speaker 7: the point is just on the economics. They mailed chucks

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Speaker 7: to people and the Fed printed money, and so it

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Speaker 7: was like what we economists call a helicopter drop. And

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Speaker 7: everybody knows that helicopter drops cause inflation because all of

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Speaker 7: a sudden, everybody has at extra thousand dollars in their

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Speaker 7: pocket that fell out of the sky. Then wherever they

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Speaker 7: go they want to buy stuff, but everybody shows up

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Speaker 7: all it was, and so the price goes up. And

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Speaker 7: that's what happened. And the official statistics really are misleading

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Speaker 7: on this too. It is way worse for people's lives.

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Speaker 7: Then it looks like if you just look at the

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Speaker 7: consumer price Index, which is always what people talk about

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Speaker 7: of the news, and here's why, it doesn't include interest rates.

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Speaker 7: So when they're measuring inflation, they don't include interest rates.

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Speaker 7: And so think of this for a typical person, middle

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Speaker 7: class person buying a home in a sort of starter home,

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Speaker 7: then the annual I won't do monthly, I'll do annual.

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Speaker 7: The annual mortgage payment for the person buying that home

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Speaker 7: went up because of Joe Biden's policies from when President

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Speaker 7: Trump left office until just now, say, last January, by

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Speaker 7: fourteen thousand dollars. Wow, that's an annual payment went up

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Speaker 7: by fourteen thousand dollars. If you look at gasoline and

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Speaker 7: food and everything else that went up twenty percent, then

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Speaker 7: you're basically looking at you know, to be like round numbers.

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Speaker 7: The typical family had to spend twenty or twenty five

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Speaker 7: thousand dollars more to tread water because of Biden's inflation.

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Speaker 7: And when you buy stuff, you might recall that's money

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Speaker 7: that's after tax, right, and so if you're gonna have

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Speaker 7: twenty five thousand dollars for to spend and tread water,

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Speaker 7: you actually got to make like forty thousand dollars because

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Speaker 7: the government takes so much. And so if your income

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Speaker 7: didn't go up by thirty or forty thousand dollars in

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Speaker 7: the Biden years, you're hurting. And so there are a

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Speaker 7: lot of people that genuinely were harmed, and we're fixing

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Speaker 7: it fast, but we're also aware of the depth of

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Speaker 7: the gravity of the problem that Joe Biden created.

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Speaker 2: So we've cut taxes here. The big beautiful bill locked

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Speaker 2: in the President's tax cuts and added new tax cuts

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Speaker 2: for working families. Energy prices, gas prices are at a

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Speaker 2: four or five year low. Right now, that's a good

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Speaker 2: thing for people to drive around.

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Speaker 7: And remember eggs and eggs. Eggs.

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Speaker 2: I know that I had to fight about and not

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Speaker 2: by the way, I'm a chicken farmer. I had to

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Speaker 2: fight about eggs all year long. Now they don't want

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Speaker 2: to bring up the egg.

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Speaker 7: I got to tell you this though, that said you're

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Speaker 7: a chicken fiber. So I go into the first meeting

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Speaker 7: with all the careers they're talking about eggs, and said, well,

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Speaker 7: why egg price so high? They said, well, we got

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Speaker 7: the Avian flu, and so we've been culling a lot

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Speaker 7: of chickens. And they say, we would go and we'd

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Speaker 7: find the chicken that had the Avian flu, and we'd

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Speaker 7: kill every chicken with twenty miles. They killed millions and

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Speaker 7: millions of chickens. And so I said to the staff,

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Speaker 7: these are career people that were advised of the Democrats.

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Speaker 7: And I said, so if a chicken is sick over here,

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Speaker 7: then you go twenty miles away, you kill the other chicken.

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Speaker 7: Have you ever seen a chicken fly?

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Speaker 2: Barely?

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Speaker 7: Barely? Well, if the dog goes after the chicken, take

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Speaker 7: it to the ceiling for about a minute.

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Speaker 2: But when this was all going on, you know, the

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Speaker 2: Biden and the Democrats last year during the campaign, they

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Speaker 2: were always using the word blood bath, blood bath. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: the only blood bath that happened in America was all

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Speaker 2: the great chicken slaughter of twenty twenty four that Joe

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Speaker 2: Biden foisted upon the American people.

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Speaker 7: I could go on about avian flu forever because one

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Speaker 7: of the things that was the number one talking point

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Speaker 7: of the fire left. What we got it is egg prices,

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Speaker 7: egg prices, It's all our fault. Then we just stopped

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Speaker 7: killing the chickens, and then the egg prices kind of.

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you something, though, are you telling

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Speaker 2: me if you leave chickens alive, they will lay egg,

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Speaker 2: They will lay eg.

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Speaker 7: Oh but but I got to tell you the worst thing.

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Speaker 7: It's it's actually somewhat tragic, but fairy tragic for one person.

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Speaker 7: But there were about sixty cases of avian flu in humans. Uh,

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Speaker 7: and one person sadly passed away. We went back and

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Speaker 7: looked at You know what caused the avian food have

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Speaker 7: spread to the chickens. It was mostly caught by the

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Speaker 7: people who are paid by Biden to kill the chickens.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, so Biden sent people out to kill the chickens.

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Speaker 2: They catch avian flu egg prices.

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Speaker 7: If you try to kill a chicken and you're not careful,

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Speaker 7: he's going to scratch you or something.

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Speaker 2: Right, Oh, I know about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.

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Speaker 2: We got about a minute left. And I don't want

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Speaker 2: to be labor this and I don't want to put

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Speaker 2: you on the spot, but a lot of folks are

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Speaker 2: talking about you. We're going to see the fed chair

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Speaker 2: job come open, pals out. A lot of folks are

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Speaker 2: talking about you as a candidate. Do you want to

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Speaker 2: have a comment on it? What can you say about ay?

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Speaker 2: What can you say about it? Up yourself and be

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Speaker 2: How soon will we see the president make a decision?

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Speaker 7: The President will make the decision very soon, probably by

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Speaker 7: the first of the year, maybe a little bit after.

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Speaker 7: He's interviewing a bunch of candidates. I'm honored to be

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Speaker 7: in that group. I've worked closely with the president since

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Speaker 7: twenty seventeen as one of his top advisors. I of

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Speaker 7: course talked to him about everything, including monetary policy, almost

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Speaker 7: every day, and I think that I'd be very good

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Speaker 7: at the job. But I love the job that I

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Speaker 7: have here, and I think that the President and I

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Speaker 7: will work together to think about whether the best place

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Speaker 7: for me is here or there. But if the President

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Speaker 7: decides to send me there, then I'll be honored and

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Speaker 7: I'll serve. But the thing I got to say is

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Speaker 7: that there are a lot of really, really great candidates

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Speaker 7: the presidents interviewing, and you could go to like Chris Waller,

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Speaker 7: who's already at the FED, who's a Notre dame, a

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Speaker 7: professor who wrote a lot about monetary policy, and so

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Speaker 7: he and the other candid that it's are really qualified.

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Speaker 7: Uh at So I think I want everybody. What I

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Speaker 7: want everybody to know is that don't worry about the

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Speaker 7: decision because the President isn't making a tough choice. He's

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Speaker 7: got nothing but good choices.

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Speaker 2: Good choices, and you would be one of them. Were

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Speaker 2: honored that you took some time out to talk to

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Speaker 2: us here at the White House today. That voice you're

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Speaker 2: hearing is Kevin Hassett, the President's top economic advisor, maybe

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Speaker 2: he's getting a new job title in the new year.

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Speaker 2: We'll find out from the President. Uh when we come

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Speaker 2: back from the Christmas break, quick word from our friends

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Speaker 2: at Relief Factor. I'm just gonna boil it down for you.

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Speaker 2: If you have aches and pains, which Kevin, you do

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Speaker 2: from the attacks that you suffer on cable news all

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Speaker 2: the time. When you have eggs and pains, there's only

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Speaker 2: one thing to do about it. Do something. Get relief

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Speaker 2: Factor relief factor dot com. Why I'd hudred four relief

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Speaker 2: You don't have to live with it. I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: if relief Factor would solve your problems, Kevin, not be honest.

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Speaker 2: I mean what they're doing to you, this would not

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Speaker 2: solve But OK, if your joints are sore and things

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Speaker 2: like that, it would solve your problem. Maybe go to

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Speaker 2: relief Factor dot We use it.

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Speaker 7: We like it.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, the president's top political advisor just

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Speaker 2: walked in. James Blair is here. It's common sense for

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Speaker 2: the American people. Scott on the Salem Radio Network.

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Speaker 5: He's the author of the best selling book A Revolution

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Speaker 5: of Common Sense.

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Speaker 1: Pierson Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: Wednesday, December of the seventeenth live from the White House.

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Speaker 2: It's Scott Jennings on the Salem Radio Network. Tonight, President

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Speaker 2: Trump speaks to the nation at nine o'clock and with

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Speaker 2: me right now. Is the President's top political advisor. He

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Speaker 2: is Deputy White House Chief of Staff. He is in

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Speaker 2: charge of the legislative and political strategy here at the

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Speaker 2: White House. His name is James Blair. James, thanks for

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Speaker 2: coming on the show, Scott.

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Speaker 7: Jennings show, Thanks for having me. Glad to be here.

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Speaker 2: Okay, first question tonight the President speaks to the nation.

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Speaker 2: What are we going to hear from the president? What's

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Speaker 2: the framework of the speech. It's really about what we

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Speaker 2: have done in the first year with the President has

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Speaker 2: accomplished and also where we're going. The President has made

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Speaker 2: progress in a lot of the areas that are important

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Speaker 2: to voters that everybody is talking about, things like the economy, affordability,

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Speaker 2: and he will highlight the successes that we have that

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Speaker 2: we have had, and I think he will also talk

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Speaker 2: about going forward. The President really wants to make the

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Speaker 2: American people whole after Joe Biden and the Democrats for

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Speaker 2: the last four years really stole from them through terrible policy,

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Speaker 2: through inflation, the highest in our country's history. You know,

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Speaker 2: people were hurting, Wages were not outpacing inflation they are now. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: prices were rising, all of these things, and so it

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Speaker 2: was a big hole that they dug us into. The

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Speaker 2: President is trying to get us out. We're making progress,

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Speaker 2: but there's still more work to be done, and that's

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Speaker 2: what this speech will be about. Yeah, it seems to me,

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Speaker 2: heading into the election year, drawing a bright line between

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Speaker 2: what they the Democrats did to the country and what

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Speaker 2: Trump the Republicans are trying to do to fix that

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Speaker 2: is critical. I'm not sure that was. You know, folks

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Speaker 2: weren't really thinking about that. And of course, you know,

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Speaker 2: you turn on your cable TV and you got every

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Speaker 2: Democrat out there who sort of has amnesia about what

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Speaker 2: happened during Biden. But you all inherited an economy in

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Speaker 2: a country in many ways on the brink, and so

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Speaker 2: the policies that you had to implement were drastic because

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Speaker 2: we were on the brink of some even worse outcomes

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Speaker 2: than people had already suffered.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely true. And look, the Democrats, I don't think, have

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Speaker 9: a lot of credibility on this topic. Ultimately, and once

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Speaker 9: we get really into campaign season, I think they are

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Speaker 9: going to find it hard to stick the landing with voters.

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Speaker 9: So when the Democrats are out there and say we

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Speaker 9: want to make life more affordable, well, first of all,

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Speaker 9: they are the ones they're spending policies primarily are the

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Speaker 9: ones that drove prices through the roof, through inflation, and

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Speaker 9: then everything President Trump and the Republicans in Congress have

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Speaker 9: done to try to put money back in the American

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Speaker 9: people's pockets. So the big one, obviously is our working

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Speaker 9: families tax cut package passed over the summer. Every single

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Speaker 9: Democrat in Congress voted against that. So as we turn

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Speaker 9: into January and people start to adjust their withholding when

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Speaker 9: they redo their forms for the year if you know

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Speaker 9: you're a wage worker, or when we get to April,

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Speaker 9: where people are going to see some of the biggest

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Speaker 9: returns they've ever had. Every Democrat in Congress voted against

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Speaker 9: all of those things. And you see in a bunch

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Speaker 9: of blue states, actually, which is really remarkable, Scott, A

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Speaker 9: bunch of blue states, states like New York right here

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Speaker 9: in the District of Columbia, Illinois, have started to emergency

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Speaker 9: rewrite their own tax rules to try to capture the

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Speaker 9: tax cuts that were given to them by the federal government.

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Speaker 9: No tax on tips, no tax on social security, no

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Speaker 9: tax on overtime pay. What a lot of those blue states,

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Speaker 9: blue governed states are saying is that our people are

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Speaker 9: not going to get these tax cuts. We're actually gonna

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Speaker 9: put a new tax into state law that captures that

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Speaker 9: money back. I don't think that's going to play well

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Speaker 9: for them in the election cycles. So look, I don't

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Speaker 9: think Democrats have a lot of credibility to stand on,

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Speaker 9: and I think we'll be able to make that very

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Speaker 9: clear throughout the.

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Speaker 2: Next year, and you raise a specter of Democrats arguing

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Speaker 2: this out in the election, the economy will be a top,

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Speaker 2: if not the top issue. I still think immigration is

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Speaker 2: one of the President's greatest successes. I'm still flabbergasted at

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Speaker 2: how Democrats handle this, spending way more time trying to

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Speaker 2: do things for illegal aliens than American citizens. I assume

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Speaker 2: we're going to continue to see aggressive immigration enforcement policies

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Speaker 2: out of the administration in twenty six.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely, look, the flood of illegal immigration competes with Americans

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Speaker 9: for government services, just for things like housing. I mean,

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Speaker 9: there was a report that just came out that said

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Speaker 9: sixty percent of the increased rental costs were driven by

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Speaker 9: illegal immigration. I mean, there's competition, right, and so when

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Speaker 9: you flood the country with twenty million new people, well

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Speaker 9: they're going to live somewhere, They're going to get on

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Speaker 9: government services, and there's only so much to go around.

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Speaker 9: And something that's a great achievement of President Trump in

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Speaker 9: the first year is that all of the net new

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Speaker 9: jobs have gone to American born workers, whereas under the

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Speaker 9: Biden administration, all of the net new jobs went to

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Speaker 9: foreign born workers. This is a great sign, and that's

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Speaker 9: one of the main reasons that wages, real wage growth

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Speaker 9: income is outpacing inflation. That's because cheap foreign labor is

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Speaker 9: not competing as much for the jobs that Americans have

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Speaker 9: in lowering the overall wages for the American people.

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Speaker 2: So gas prices are way down. You've shrunk the size

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Speaker 2: of government. The new jobs that are being created are

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Speaker 2: going to American workers. And in twenty twenty six, because

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Speaker 2: of the policies implemented Bessentt, Hasset, and Blair, I assume

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Speaker 2: predicting economic boom in twenty six.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely, I think economic boom besn't just posted the deficits

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Speaker 9: down twenty percent, interest rates are going out, taxes are down.

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Speaker 9: Things are going to be great next year.

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Speaker 2: That's James Blair, the President's top political advisor. I'm Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: Were live from the White House. The President speaks tonight

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Speaker 2: at nine o'clock. You should watch it. I'll be on

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Speaker 2: CNN analyzing it. After common sense for the American people

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Speaker 2: join us again tomorrow. It's Scott on Salem three