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

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Speaker 2: We have the biggest deregulation in American history happening during

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Speaker 2: the show today we'll have the details with EPA Administrator

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Speaker 2: Lee Zelden and President Trump making a huge announcement. White

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Speaker 2: House Borders Are. Tom Homan says mission accomplished in Minneapolis

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Speaker 2: as he ends the Metro Surge and the Save America

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Speaker 2: Act has passed the United States House. Will it get

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Speaker 2: through the Senate? We ask Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee

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Speaker 2: in just a few minutes. Today is Thursday, February twelfth,

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Speaker 2: the birthday of our beloved President Abraham Lincoln. You are

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Speaker 2: listening to common sense for the American people. This is

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings reporting to you here on Salem topping the.

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Speaker 3: News this hour. White House Borders Are.

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Speaker 2: Tom Holman announced this morning in Minneapolis that Operation Metro

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Speaker 2: Surge has ended there and that it is mission accomplished

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Speaker 3: Over four thousand.

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Speaker 2: Violent illegal aliens were taken off the streets, plus thousands

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Speaker 3: Here's Tom Homan Cut thirteen.

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Speaker 4: In addition to taking public safety threats off the street,

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Speaker 4: ICE here in this state have located three thousand, three

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Speaker 4: hundred and sixty four missing on accompanying alien children. Children

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Speaker 4: That's because the leadership or President Trump these children were located.

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Speaker 2: Homan also spent time debunking the myths that are floating

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Speaker 2: around out there about ICE enforcement. Let's listen to that.

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Speaker 4: Want to say something about the various unfounded complaints I'm

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Speaker 4: have not arrested anybody inside the church. As a matter

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Speaker 4: of fact, the anyones a disrespect to the sanctuary of

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Speaker 4: and so far we have nine of them. However, those

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Speaker 4: There's no sanctuary for a significant public safety threat or

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Speaker 4: into churches arresting people in hospitals. This simply has not happened.

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Speaker 4: And if you have a case where happened, do you

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Speaker 2: A lot of propaganda, but there's the truth from Tom Homan.

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Speaker 2: So why is he able to end the surge in Minnesota? Well, ultimately,

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Speaker 2: it's operations agreements with local sheriffs and jails. Home and

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Speaker 3: The vote was two eighteen to two thirteen.

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Speaker 2: All the Republicans and one Democrat, Henry Quaar of Texas,

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Speaker 2: on CNN last night over this bottom line. What I've

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Speaker 2: learned this week is that Democrats the American left think

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Speaker 2: that if you are black, married, female, or rural, you

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Speaker 5: Many Americans don't have access to their birth certificate. Many women,

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Speaker 5: a majority of women who changed their names for marriage.

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Speaker 6: I have heard this.

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Speaker 5: Why does sactually respond to this substance of what I'm

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Speaker 3: And rural people are too stupid to figure out how to.

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Speaker 2: Democrats losing their minds on this issue, making one specious

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Speaker 2: argument after another. Sometimes it's just best to let them

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Speaker 8: Republicans are invoking historical policies intended, Let's be clear, to

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Speaker 8: disenfranchise Americans, especially working people, women, students, Indigenous people, and

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Speaker 7: Yet another Republican attempt to intimidate and suppress the votes

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Speaker 2: Here's another Democrat, Catherine Clark. Now she's in their party leadership.

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Speaker 2: In the house women women, especially, listen up. She says,

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Speaker 10: They're trying to say, this is a voter id bill.

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Speaker 10: That's not what's happening here. Let's just look at a

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Speaker 10: typical mom. You guys must know some working mothers, the

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Speaker 10: nobody in the family gets sick because I can't afford

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Speaker 10: a doctor either. And now you're going to say to

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Speaker 3: The Davids do this in person.

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Speaker 10: This is a minefield of red tape that you have

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Speaker 2: And here's another one still. Georgia Democrat Nikima Williams says,

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Speaker 2: black voters are simply too lazy to figure out how

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Speaker 2: to show ID to vote.

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Speaker 3: Here's Cut eight.

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Speaker 11: The Save Act will make it harder for millions of

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Speaker 11: This is a burden for caregivers and any hardworking American

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Speaker 11: with a nine to five job, y'all. The Save Acted

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Speaker 11: this bill is voter suppression, plain and simple. I urge

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Speaker 2: Working people, working, rural people, black voters, listen up. This

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Speaker 2: is what the Democratic Party thinks of you. But Republicans

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Speaker 2: Steve Scalis of Louisiana erupted on these outlandish arguments.

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Speaker 12: It's led by Republicans came together tonight and said we

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Speaker 12: you know, you think about the military veteran who risked

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Speaker 12: let me tell you, and it's been brought up. Try

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Speaker 12: Try getting into the Democrat National convention without showing an ID.

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Speaker 3: All right, what happens to the Save America Act? Now?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's on to the Senate, and Senate Majority Leader

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Speaker 2: John Thoon is now co sponsoring the legislation. He was

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Speaker 13: They can cry and lament this actually being voted on,

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Speaker 2: That makes forty four Senate Republicans co sponsoring out of

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Speaker 2: fifty three in the chamber. Now, Senator Marsha Blackburn of

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Speaker 2: of this hour, thirty three minutes past the hour, we'll

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Speaker 2: ask her what are the chances of passage in the Senate.

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Speaker 2: But I ask you, dear listener, to ask yourself a

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Speaker 2: There is no constituency for the Democratic position here, well

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Speaker 6: But we rarely talk about the why. People want to

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Speaker 3: Very Christian. But these Democrats have figured out something very cynical.

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Speaker 2: If you wrap up these radical policy ideas in religious language,

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Speaker 3: What's going on in the first place.

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Speaker 2: Look at the policies they're trying to sanctify here, late

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Speaker 2: Tell Rico says that God ask Mary if she wanted

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Speaker 15: Let me ask you some questions that you may be

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Speaker 3: Ma'am?

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Speaker 5: Yes, okay, Well, how do you think judgment day will

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Speaker 16: Mister Lyons, I'm not going to ender how many general

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 16: While vigorous disagreement is part of the legislative process, members

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Speaker 16: decorman debate. The witnesses are here voluntarily, all right, continu

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Speaker 2: Three more Republican Senators have signed on as co sponsors

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Speaker 2: and one of the champions of Save America, Senator Marsha

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Speaker 2: we'll find out what the chances of passage are in

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Speaker 2: the Senate. First, a quick word on America's two hundred

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Speaker 2: Our founders envisioned a country where you have the freedom

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday, February twelfth. It is Abraham Lincoln's birthday,

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Speaker 2: the greatest Kentuckian from where I broadcast this show today,

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Speaker 2: Happy birthday to honest Ad. We have big doings in

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Speaker 2: Washington and here to discuss. Senator Marcia Blackburn of the

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Speaker 2: great State of Tennessee. Senator, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Let me start with the breaking news. The Save America

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Speaker 2: Act passed the House last night and it is now

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Speaker 2: thanks for being here.

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Speaker 18: Yes, we think that we can pull together the vote.

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Speaker 18: As you said, the co sponsor list is growing.

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Speaker 18: Us that have worked on the Save Act and have

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Speaker 2: Senator Fuon, our Republican leader in the Senate, signed on

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Speaker 3: To the floor.

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Speaker 18: I think that when we come back after a week,

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Speaker 8: The rule of law.

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Speaker 2: Senator Blackburn, we're hearing a lot of arguments from Democrats

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Speaker 2: Senator BlackBerry, you have switching gears to healthcare topics. You

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Speaker 18: provision called any willing provider. What we have seen is

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Speaker 18: the consolidation in these PBM markets where they restrict certain

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Speaker 18: pharmaceuticals and maybe your doctor tells you you need a

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Speaker 18: certain pharmaceuticals and they won't give it to you. They

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Speaker 18: only give you what they want you to have, and

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Speaker 18: they tell only go to one of the big pharmacies

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Speaker 18: to get it. You can't use the pharmacy in your

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Speaker 18: local homes town, the independent pharmacy. So this is an

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Speaker 18: any willing provider provision, which means if you live in

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Speaker 18: rural America, you can go to the pharmacy in your

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Speaker 18: hometown and do business with them. And if the doctor

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Speaker 18: says you need a certain thing, that pharmacy can get

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Speaker 18: that certain thing for you. So this is a big

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Speaker 18: win for healthcare freedom for individuals to be able to

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Speaker 18: get the pharmaceuticals they need, when they need them where

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Speaker 18: it is most convenient for them to get them.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for that information on PBM reform.

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Speaker 2: I think this was undercovered, frankly, and it is a

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Speaker 2: huge deal, as you mentioned, especially for rural America. Shifting

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Speaker 2: gears and revisiting an old topic, the Arctic Frost situation.

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Speaker 3: You remember Arctic Frost.

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Speaker 2: This was the uncovering of the Biden administration spying on

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Speaker 2: Republicans across Washington, including many members of Congress and the

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Speaker 2: United States Senate Senator Blackburn. There was a hearing on

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Speaker 2: Arctic Frost an update on this week? Can you give

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Speaker 2: us an update on what we have found out?

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Speaker 19: Additionally, Oh, yes, you know I chaired this hearing. It

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Speaker 19: is the first of the hearings we are doing to

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Speaker 19: look at what happened with Arctic frost. And we had

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Speaker 19: the telcom companies, the wireless companies Verizon, the Mobile and

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Speaker 19: AT and T in front of us, and as your

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Speaker 19: audience knows, they turned over phone records of several members

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Speaker 19: of Congress plus four hundred and thirty individuals and organizations,

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Speaker 19: all conservatives, and the one thing of the people that

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Speaker 19: Arctic Frost went after. All of us were conservatives and

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Speaker 19: all supported President Donald Trump. This was all part of

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Speaker 19: the phishing expedition on President Trump. So we were able

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Speaker 19: to move forward with the hearing to find out why

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Speaker 19: they did it. Jack Smith actually went to court and

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Speaker 19: got a court order a subpoena for our telephone records,

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Speaker 19: the tolling records. This is the information of who we

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Speaker 19: called or who we received a call from, how long

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Speaker 19: the call lasted, and where we were physically located when

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Speaker 19: we took the call. Now, we still do not know

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Speaker 19: if they ever turned over information on text and emails,

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Speaker 19: and that is information that we are still requesting, and

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Speaker 19: we don't know how far reaching some of those subpoenas

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Speaker 19: could have been.

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Speaker 18: We do know they did go after banking records, turning

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Speaker 18: point USA and for Citizens United, and what we want

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Speaker 18: to do is make certain that the federal government is

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Speaker 18: never ever weaponized against the US citizen again like it

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Speaker 18: was weaponized against President Trump and conservatives. And we also

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Speaker 18: know that Judge Boseburg gave a subpoena to get our records.

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Speaker 18: DOJ Legal told Jack Smith there were problems with abridging

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Speaker 18: the Speech and Debate clause in doing this. He did

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Speaker 18: it anyway, and to make certain we never found out

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Speaker 18: about it, he had Judge Boseburg slap a non disclosure

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Speaker 18: order on top of the subpoena, which meant that the

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Speaker 18: telecom companies could never tell us. And of course here

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Speaker 18: we are, and we've had whistleblowers who have brought us

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Speaker 18: information forward, and now we know what they did. It

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Speaker 18: was not only unethical, it was illegal. It infringed on

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Speaker 18: our privacy on the Stored Communications Act, It abridged the

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Speaker 18: Speech and Debate clause, and we intend to get to

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Speaker 18: the bottom of it. I had a good hearing. I

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Speaker 18: was pleased to chair that hearing. And you know there's

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Speaker 18: going to be more to come.

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Speaker 2: Senator, we have about thirty seconds. Do you believe you

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Speaker 2: were personally spied on by the Biden administration?

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Speaker 19: Oh, yes, we know we were, because we know they

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Speaker 19: got those records. They got my phone records. We don't

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Speaker 19: know if they got banking records, and we don't know

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Speaker 19: if they got email content. But yes, we do know

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Speaker 19: they got our telephone records. So they know everybody that

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Speaker 19: I talked to, and they if I called my children,

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Speaker 19: they had that. They if I called a member.

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Speaker 18: Of my team, I had that.

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Senator Marcia Blackburn of the Great State of Tennessee, thank

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Speaker 2: you for joining us with all these breaking news updates

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Speaker 2: from Washington. And Senator Blackburn, you're also a candidate for

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Speaker 2: governor in Tennessee. We'll mention that as well. We look

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Speaker 2: forward to having you back. This is Scott Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 2: When we come back. We are still tracking these awful

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Speaker 2: instances of illegal aliens getting commercial drivers' licenses and then

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Speaker 2: killing people and terrible accidents in semi tractor trailers on

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Speaker 3: We have a new report on this. You need to

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Speaker 3: hear it. Stay with us. It's common sense for the

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Speaker 3: American people. We'll be right back. The hostage is at back.

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Speaker 3: The hostages are fact.

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Speaker 20: Thanks to President Trump, every single hostage is now free

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Speaker 20: from Hamas Israeli's Americans, all of them. President Trump stood

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Speaker 20: firm with our ally and never gave an inch to terroris.

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Speaker 20: Now we look ahead to a future of peace that

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Speaker 20: means it is armed Tomas unable to terrorize its own

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Speaker 20: people or its neighbors. Ever again, Peace through strength. Thank

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Speaker 20: you President Trump.

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Speaker 15: Paid for by APAK and he's done.

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Speaker 1: The Oval Office are owning the lebs.

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Speaker 6: On CNN, he's here with us.

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Speaker 1: It's the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 3: More breaking news into the show.

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Speaker 2: As we speak, EPA administrator Lee Zelden is speaking with

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Speaker 2: President Trump. They are ending the Obama era climate endangerment finding.

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Speaker 2: This is a huge story. We'll bring you live audio

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Speaker 2: and video from this announcement in the next hour of

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Speaker 2: the show. Big story in Washington today. We're also still

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Speaker 2: tracking these issues of illegal aliens who are somehow getting

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Speaker 2: commercial driver's licenses, driving semi tractor trailers and killing people

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Speaker 2: on American highways. My next guest is journalist Jenny Tare.

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Speaker 2: She's from the Daily Wire. She's the Daily Wires immigration

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Speaker 2: reporter and she has a new piece of reporting. The

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Speaker 2: headline is illegal immigrant truckers hauling Amazon trailers tied to

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Speaker 2: major crashes. Jenny, Welcome into the Scott Jetting Show. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for being here and tell us what is your

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Speaker 2: story today.

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Speaker 21: Thank you for having me and thank you for covering

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Speaker 21: this really important issue. You know, we've seen over the

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Speaker 21: last few months, time and time again, these illegal immigrant

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Speaker 21: truck drivers getting into these really devastating crashes, some that

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Speaker 21: have tragically turned fatal. I've been tracking this for that

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Speaker 21: length of time since we started learning about it, from

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Speaker 21: the Hargender Sincase in Florida to now when we've just

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Speaker 21: seen this continue to mount. But this is the latest

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Speaker 21: case is involving Amazon trailers. So I was contacted by

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Speaker 21: a woman in Georgia. She had been hit actually a

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Speaker 21: couple years ago by a truck driver and he was

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Speaker 21: hauling an Amazon trailer at the time. She didn't really

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Speaker 21: think anything about the case until it was later discovered

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Speaker 21: that he didn't have the proper insurance.

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Speaker 15: He didn't have insurance at all at the time.

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Speaker 21: And then it later came to light through some surveillance

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Speaker 21: video from those officers that had issued him a citation

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Speaker 21: for crashing into her, that he was speaking a foreign

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Speaker 21: language on the phone when he was trying to communicate.

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Speaker 15: With those officers.

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Speaker 21: We were reviewing that footage, we were able to get

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Speaker 21: it translated and see that he was speaking Uzbek, and

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Speaker 21: he was speaking Russian, and so that had all of

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Speaker 21: the signs that we see in these cases, and started

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Speaker 21: to go into it a little bit more, and we

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Speaker 21: found that, you know, this guy came across the border

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Speaker 21: illegally under.

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Speaker 15: The Biden administration. He is from Uzbekistan.

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Speaker 21: But he's not the only one who was caught up

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Speaker 21: in stories like this where he's contracted.

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Speaker 15: His company is contracted by Amazon.

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Speaker 21: And he's hauling you know, our deliveries across the country

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Speaker 21: that you and I all consume pretty much every day

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Speaker 21: for a lot of people. There was a crash back

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Speaker 21: in March that we also looked into. This was an

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Speaker 21: Eritrean national who allegedly killed five people in Austin, Texas,

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Speaker 21: including a child and an infant. This person is under

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Speaker 21: investigation for this, and Amazon has also been caught up

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Speaker 21: in a lawsuit from some of the victims. So these stories,

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Speaker 21: this person came actually as a refugee, tried to apply

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Speaker 21: for a green card, was denied. This person did not

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Speaker 21: have status anymore. So he's here illegally and he was

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Speaker 21: still driving one of these commercial trucks. Now, in the

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Speaker 21: first case, I mentioned that guy had a Pennsylvania issued

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Speaker 21: commercial driver's license, so he was legitimized by a blue state.

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Speaker 2: In that case, Jenny, you're connecting Amazon to this and

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of Amazon trucks on the road.

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Speaker 2: Help me understand something. Are the truck drivers who are

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Speaker 2: driving the trucks are they employees of Amazon or are

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Speaker 2: they contractors or how does that work?

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Speaker 21: No, so they're not employees of Amazon. Amazon is contracting

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Speaker 21: work through private trucking companies and they do this with

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Speaker 21: everyday deliveries too that they're you know, contracting just civilians

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Speaker 21: to use their cars to go drop something off at

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Speaker 21: your house. In this case, they were picking up a

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Speaker 21: trailer that had Amazon products in it and we're moving

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Speaker 21: it across the country. So they see in a lot

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Speaker 21: of cases that everything checks out on paper that this

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Speaker 21: person has a commercial driver's license, that they were vetted

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Speaker 21: by a state to be issued that in a lot

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Speaker 21: of cases, we haven't seen a lot of red flags

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Speaker 21: So this is a case where Amazon may unknowingly be

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Speaker 21: doing this, but they are contracting out so much work

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Speaker 21: that there has to be questions about all these stories

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Speaker 21: coming to light and what is their role in this

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Speaker 21: and are they starting to look into this like the

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Speaker 21: Trump administration has been.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like there are a lot of loopholes

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Speaker 2: and breakdowns at the state level. These states that are

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Speaker 2: issuing these CDLs to illegal aliens, people in those states,

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Speaker 2: people all over the country need to be worried about this.

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Speaker 2: Jenny Tair, the immigration reporter for the Daily wire Finder

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Speaker 2: on x at Jenny s Tear and that's tae r.

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Speaker 2: Not a traditional pronunciation, but not traditional spelling. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining us today. That's it for this hour. More breaking news.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, it's Scott Jenning's on Salem, the.

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Speaker 1: Voice of free speech, the truth delivered, Common Sense for

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

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday, February twelfth, Common Sense for the American People.

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings broadcasting from Louisville, Kentucky. Today here on Salem.

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Speaker 2: Let's give you a quick check of the most important

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Speaker 2: headlines of the day. We'll start in Washington. As we speak,

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Speaker 2: the President of the United States, Donald Trump and the

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Speaker 2: Administrator of the EPA Lee Zelden are speaking because they

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Speaker 2: are rolling back ending cutting couput the Obama era EPA

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Speaker 2: endangerment finding. This is a huge deal, the biggest deregulation

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Speaker 2: in American history.

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Speaker 3: Let's hear from the president.

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Speaker 22: Under the process just completed by the EPA, we are

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Speaker 22: officially terminating the so called Endangerment Finding, a disastrous Obama

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Speaker 22: era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and

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Speaker 22: massively drove up prices for American consumers.

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Speaker 2: At twenty two minutes past the hour, we are going

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Speaker 2: to bring you more information on this huge story. We'll

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Speaker 2: have more audio and video, including comments from EPA Administrator Zelden.

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Speaker 2: This ultimately is a one point three trillion dollars savings

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Speaker 2: to the American people. They are ending all vehicle greenhouse

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Speaker 2: gas emission standards, and they are getting rid of the much.

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Speaker 3: Despised start stop.

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Speaker 2: Feature in vehicles where your car turns off when you

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Speaker 2: pull up at the light. More on this big story

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Speaker 2: in just a few minutes here on the Scott Shetting Show.

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Speaker 3: In other news, white.

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Speaker 2: House borders are Tom Homan was in Minneapolis this morning.

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Speaker 3: He held a press conference.

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Speaker 2: He made an announcement that the federal government is ending

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Speaker 2: Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. Why because they are now

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Speaker 2: getting cooperation from most of the county and city jails

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: That's a good thing. That's what the president wanted.

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Speaker 2: It's making it easier to get rid of illegal alien

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Speaker 2: in that state. Homan says they have taken down over

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Speaker 2: four thousand violent illegal aliens out of the state, and

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Speaker 2: they also found this is a huge number. They also

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Speaker 2: found three thousand lost migrant children just in the state

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Speaker 2: of Minnesota alone. Sort of makes you wonder how many

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Speaker 2: more kids are out there in states with much larger populations.

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Speaker 3: Also, Washington is continuing.

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Speaker 2: To digest yesterday's blockbuster economic data. There was a big

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Speaker 2: jobs report that beat expectations. We got data showing wage

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Speaker 2: growth outstripping the inflation rate. That's critical. And now we

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Speaker 2: find out we have the smallest federal government workforce since

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant had this

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Speaker 2: to say about all of it, taking a bit of

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Speaker 2: a victory lap, Here's Bessent and cut nineteen.

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Speaker 23: This is what we've been setting the able for for

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Speaker 23: all of twenty twenty five. I've said that repeatedly. We

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Speaker 23: put the necessary ingredients policies into place, and now they're

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Speaker 23: starting to pay off. And what's more impressive here is

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Speaker 23: the number you just gave is the total jobs. There

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Speaker 23: were more than one hundred and seventy thousand private sector jobs,

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Speaker 23: and there were about there was about a forty thousand

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Speaker 23: decrease in government jobs. So, as I've been saying since

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Speaker 23: this administration came into office, we are reprivatizing the economy.

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Speaker 2: That was the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett. Another area

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Speaker 2: where we're learning more information about the health of the

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Speaker 2: US economy is in the housing market. Right now, median

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Speaker 2: rents in this country, according to new data, are at a.

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Speaker 3: Four year low.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's any coincidence that as we exit

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Speaker 2: illegal populations from the country to the tune of two

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Speaker 2: point seven million so far, that you're seeing rents down

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Speaker 2: in this country. We have audio of the Director of

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Speaker 2: Housing for the United States, Bill Poulty. Let's hear from

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Speaker 2: him and cut twenty well.

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Speaker 24: I characterize us as having good momentum thanks to President Trump.

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Speaker 24: You know, Biden destroyed the housing market for four years, Sandra,

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Speaker 24: if you can think about it, mortgage rates went up

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Speaker 24: almost eight percent. Now we recently saw a five percent,

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Speaker 24: a five handle on mortgage rates. That's a huge victory.

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Speaker 24: We're headed the right direction. We still have work to do,

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Speaker 24: but obviously with these slam dunk economic numbers and everything

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Speaker 24: else that we're doing in the housing market. I'm very

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Speaker 24: confident that we're going to get the American dream back.

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Speaker 24: It's just a darn shame what happened these last four years,

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Speaker 24: and boy knows, we have our work cut out for us.

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Speaker 3: More on the US economy in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: The breaking news right now in the United State Senate

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Speaker 2: in Washington is that the Save America Act, this is

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Speaker 2: the bill that would require citizenship proof to register to

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Speaker 2: vote and also voter ID in federal elections now has

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Speaker 2: forty eight Republican co sponsors in the United States Senate.

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Speaker 2: Senate Majority Leader John Thune joined on to this this morning.

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Speaker 2: He appeared on Fox News. In fact, why don't we

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Speaker 2: hear from Senator Thune? This is cut sixteen. Here's what

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Speaker 2: he had to say.

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Speaker 13: They can cry and lament this actually being voted on,

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Speaker 13: but I'd be part pressed to have to defend a

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Speaker 13: position that doesn't believe that you have to be an

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Speaker 13: American citizen to vote in American election.

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Speaker 2: Now, we spoke to Tennessee Senator Marcia Blackburn in the

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Speaker 2: last hour on this program.

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Speaker 3: She's been a strong supporter of the.

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Speaker 2: Save America Act, and she says she believes when the

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Speaker 2: Senate comes in that leadership will bring this to the

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Speaker 2: floor of the United States Senate. The breaking news is

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Speaker 2: forty eight Republicans are co sponsoring the Save America Act.

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Speaker 2: There are fifty three Republicans in the Senate conference, so

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Speaker 2: we will continue.

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Speaker 3: To track that story.

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Speaker 2: This is Scott Jennings too common sense for the American

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Speaker 2: people here on Salem. More news out of Washington, looking

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Speaker 2: at on our friend Senator John Fetterman out of Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: Really fascinating conversation that he had yesterday on CNN with

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Speaker 2: Dana Bash. He was asked about what's going on with

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Speaker 2: the federal government right now? Is Donald Trump engaged in retribution?

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Speaker 2: Who is actually worse? Who is actually worse? In Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. You will want to hear Senator John Fetterman's

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Speaker 2: answer to this question.

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Speaker 3: Let's hear that.

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Speaker 9: You said, quote, I've drunk deeply of the venom of

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Speaker 9: vote the left and the right. As a connoisseur, I

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Speaker 9: can confirm that the most poisonous, the bitterest is from

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Speaker 9: the far left. That is pretty remarkable to hear you

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Speaker 9: say that as an elected Democrat.

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Speaker 25: Why, yeah, you know, it's been it's just been my

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Speaker 25: personal experience on this thing. And when I asked my

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Speaker 25: digital team, I said, you know, you're were on all

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Speaker 25: the platforms, you know, really, what's what's kind of the harshest,

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Speaker 25: what's kind of the most personal? And the answer was immediate.

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Speaker 25: He said, oh, blue sky, It's blue sky. And the

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Speaker 25: difference is, I mean the right would say really rough

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Speaker 25: things and names, you know, some names I won't I

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Speaker 25: won't repeat on TV. But but but the the on

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Speaker 25: the left, it was like they want me to die,

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Speaker 25: or that we're cheering for your next stroke, or that's terrible,

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Speaker 25: that depression wants why couldn't it depression one? And and

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Speaker 25: I hope your kids find you.

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Speaker 2: That was Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania talking about the

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Speaker 2: climate in Washington, d C. His opinion, and he's a Democrat,

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Speaker 2: is that it's far nastier on the American left right now.

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Speaker 2: And what are John Fetterman sins He broke party orthodoxy

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Speaker 2: on supporting Israel. He has said that idea is common sense.

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Speaker 2: He's asked for common sense words and policies on immigration

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Speaker 2: and for that, for that, you hear how he is

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Speaker 2: personally treated. There's some late polling coming in from CNN.

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Speaker 2: This was reported this morning on CNN by their polling

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Speaker 2: director data guru, Harry Enton.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to read it to you.

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Speaker 2: The question put to the American people was is the

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Speaker 2: Democratic Party too liberal? Is it too liberal? In nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety six, forty two percent of Americans said yes. In

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Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, forty eight percent of Americans said yes, it

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Speaker 2: right now, as we begin twenty twenty six, fifty eight

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Speaker 2: is too liberal. And as we just heard from John Fetterman,

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Speaker 2: it's Scott Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 22: He's the author of the best selling book A Revolution

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Speaker 22: of Common Sense.

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Speaker 1: Pears Scott Jennings breaking.

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Speaker 2: News into the show and a massive victory for common

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Speaker 2: sense energy policy in the United States of America. In

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Speaker 2: the last few minutes, EPA Administrator Lee Zelden formally ended

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Speaker 2: the Obama era Climate Endangerment finding. This is the ruling

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Speaker 2: that declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare,

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Speaker 2: and that rule has been used ever since as the

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Speaker 2: legal backbone for sweeping federal climate regulations that have materially

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Speaker 2: made your life worse if you don't follow the regulatory weeds.

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Speaker 2: Let me translate, this was the legal weapon that empowered

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Speaker 2: Washington bureaucrats to regulate virtually every corner of the American

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Speaker 2: economy in the name of climate policy, cars, trucks, power plants, manufacturing,

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Speaker 2: energy production. For fifteen years, that finding has been the

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Speaker 2: regulatory foundation for rule after rule after rule, and today

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Speaker 2: that ridiculous, wrong headed foundation was obliterated by President Trump

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Speaker 2: and EPA Administrator Zelden.

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Speaker 3: So what does this mean.

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Speaker 2: It means that unelected regulators don't get to unilaterally restructure

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Speaker 2: the American econom without Congress. It means that the regulatory

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Speaker 2: straight jacket on coal and natural gas and American manufacturing

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Speaker 2: just got looser.

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Speaker 3: And it means that we.

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Speaker 2: Start making energy decisions based on reliability, affordability, and national

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Speaker 2: security instead of on climate ideology drafted by progressives.

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Speaker 3: In conference rooms.

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Speaker 2: This is about restoring balance for the American people, because

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Speaker 2: here is the absolute truth. You cannot run the greatest

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Speaker 2: economy in the world on hope and windmills.

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Speaker 3: You need baseload power.

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Speaker 2: You need energy that you can count on at two

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Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning on a cold January day. You

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Speaker 2: need energy that keeps hospitals running and factories humming in

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Speaker 2: data centers online. Now, some people think the damage has

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Speaker 2: already been done. The Obama Biden legacy is one of

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Speaker 2: shutting down coal plants and driving up while endangering grid reliability.

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Speaker 2: They closed forty percent of all US coal capacity, two

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Speaker 2: hundred and ninety power plants closed. And folks, if you're

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Speaker 2: wondering why your electric bill went up, that's why. But

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Speaker 2: that brings me to yesterday, where at the White House

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Speaker 2: President Trump hosted a major event celebrating the return of

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Speaker 2: American coal and energy workers. Let me tell you something.

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Speaker 2: Coal is not dead. Let's hear from.

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Speaker 3: Peabody CEO Jim Gretch. He was there.

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Speaker 2: He spoke about the importance of coal to grid stability

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Speaker 2: and energy security. Cut twenty two.

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Speaker 26: Mister President, we stand here today representing the thousands of

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Speaker 26: coal miners across the country to express our deep gratitude you, sir,

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Speaker 26: for the actions you've taken to support our industry. Your

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Speaker 26: leadership and decisive actions have sent a powerful message.

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Speaker 6: We have a.

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Speaker 26: President who more than any other, deeply understands the importance

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Speaker 26: of coal in supporting a few of this nation.

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Speaker 2: It's the part that climate activists never want to talk

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Speaker 2: about when demands spikes, as it has recently, when the

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Speaker 2: wind isn't blowing, when the solar output drops, coal and

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Speaker 2: natural gas and nuclear and other things, they keep the

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Speaker 2: lights on. That's not politics, folks, that is just physics.

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Speaker 2: And that brings me back to today, where Administrator Lee's

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Speaker 2: elden of the EPA made this clear moments ago about

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Speaker 2: restoring some rational behavior in our national policy making. Here

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Speaker 2: is cut twenty four.

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Speaker 27: Under President Trump's leadership, today, the Trump EPA has finalized

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Speaker 27: the holy Grail of federal regulatory overreach. The two thousand

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Speaker 3: Grid fragility is not leadership.

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Speaker 2: What Trump and Zelden have done just in the last

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Speaker 2: few minutes was common sense. It was pro working class America,

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Speaker 2: President Donald Trump as he has fixed, absolutely fixed, one

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Speaker 2: of Obama and Biden's most destructive legacies. When we come back,

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Speaker 2: more on healthcare specifically, more on PBM reform and how

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Speaker 2: It's Thursday, February twelfth, and this just end of the

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings Show. It looks like the Department of Homeland

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Speaker 2: Now ICE will remain open. Democrats don't appear to know

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Speaker 2: tomorrow night thanks to Democrats. We will keep an eye

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Speaker 2: on this. President Trump signed a major healthcare reform issue

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Speaker 2: in a law the other day. It's called PBM reform.

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Speaker 2: That stands for Pharmacy Benefit Managers. It's been a long

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Speaker 2: time coming, and it will make drugs cheaper and more

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Speaker 2: accessible for you. In just a moment, we'll chat with

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Speaker 2: Lori Riley, the chief operating officer for Pharma that is

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Speaker 2: the national trade association for America's biopharmaceutical research and manufactures,

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Speaker 2: who just yesterday, I should add, testified before Congress. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk to her in just a moment. First, a quick

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Speaker 2: Now I'm excited to have with me on the show.

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Speaker 2: Lourie Riley the chief operating officer from Pharma, the Pharmaceutical

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Speaker 2: Research and Manufactures of America. She's been with Pharma for

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Speaker 2: over two decades. She is one of the two hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty most influential people in Washington, d C. There's

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Speaker 2: been a lot of news in the healthcare space this

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Speaker 2: past week, particularly as it pertains to the insurance marketplace

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Speaker 2: PBMs and how Americans are able to access medication. President

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Speaker 2: Trump just launched his new direct to consumer platform called

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Speaker 2: Trump Rx. Congress finally passed a reform package dealing with

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Speaker 2: these pharmacy benefit managers the PBMs, and the Trump Administration's

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Speaker 2: Federal Trade Commission just announced a major settlement with a

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Speaker 2: PBM called Express Scripts. All of these things have major

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Speaker 2: implications across the American healthcare landscape, and Lori Riley is

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Speaker 2: one of the few people that I think can help

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Speaker 2: unravel it for you all. She testified before Congress yesterday. Laurie,

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Speaker 2: thanks for being here on the Scott Jetting Show.

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Speaker 28: Scott, thanks so much for having me today.

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Speaker 3: Really glad to have this conversation. Let's start here.

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Speaker 2: Congress finally passed and President Trump signed into law a

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Speaker 2: legislative package that contains PBM reform pharmacy benefit managers. You

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Speaker 2: had pushed for this, many people in Washington had been

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Speaker 2: championing this for years. It was a lot long fight,

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Speaker 2: but it finally was completed. Why don't you tell the

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Speaker 2: American people how PBM reform is going to benefit their lives.

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Speaker 28: Yeah, thanks so much for the question. As you noted,

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Speaker 28: this is a long time coming. We've been working on

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Speaker 28: this legislation with bipartisan members of Congress for seven or

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Speaker 28: eight years, and the goal really was to do just

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Speaker 28: what you said, lower costs for the American patient when

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Speaker 28: they get to the pharmacy counter. I think a lot

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Speaker 28: of people do not realize just how much control insurance

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Speaker 28: companies and pharmacy benefit managers have over whether or not

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Speaker 28: they get the medicine their doctor prescribes what they pay

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Speaker 28: when they show up to the pharmacy counter. You know,

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Speaker 28: PBMs and their insurance companies. They negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies.

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Speaker 28: That's a good thing, but the discounts and rebates they

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Speaker 28: receive that lower the prices we take home. A lot

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Speaker 28: of that money was not going back to the patient,

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Speaker 28: and it wasn't going back to the employers who often

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Speaker 28: pay for the insurance. This bill is going to help

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Speaker 28: change that. It brings much needed trans parency, so employers

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Speaker 28: are going to have a much clearer idea of where

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Speaker 28: the dollars that are being negotiated on their behalf and

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Speaker 28: on behalf of patients where the money goes. And it

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Speaker 28: also says PBMs can't be self dealing anymore right as

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Speaker 28: it is right now, they often prefer higher price medicines

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Speaker 28: when lower price medicines are available, because they make more

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Speaker 28: money when they do that. This bill helps change that,

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Speaker 28: and it says, you know what, We're going to pay

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Speaker 28: you a bona fide feed for what you do, but

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Speaker 28: no longer are you You're going to be able to

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Speaker 28: make fees that are attached to the list price of

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Speaker 28: a medicine, which not surprisingly means that they prefer medicines

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Speaker 28: with a higher price than those with a lower price,

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Speaker 28: which is not in the best interest of patients.

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Speaker 2: Lorie, for the record, will this PBM reform lower prices

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Speaker 2: for the American people and will it improve access to medications?

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Speaker 28: Yes, I think this is a really really strong step.

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Speaker 28: More work to be done. I'm going to be honest

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Speaker 28: with that. This is the beginning I think of a

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Speaker 28: much needed work. But as you noted, both the Department

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Speaker 28: of Labor under the Trump administration recently announced a proposed

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Speaker 28: rule that's going to take this even further. And for

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Speaker 28: the first time ever, the Federal Trade Commission entered into

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Speaker 28: a very large consent decry with one of the largest

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Speaker 28: insurance PBM companies that require them to do a whole

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Speaker 28: host of things, all with an eye towards lowering what

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Speaker 28: patients pay at the pharmacy counter.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you're referencing the Federal Trade Commission announcing a settlement

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Speaker 2: with one of the big three PBMs. It's called express Scripts.

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Speaker 2: As you noted, this will have a big impact on

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Speaker 2: the healthcare sector. Tell us a little more about that.

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Speaker 2: Why should people pay more attention to this? I feel

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Speaker 2: like this is one of those things that we discussed

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Speaker 2: and maybe folks don't deeply understand it, but this is

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Speaker 2: part of the machinations of government that really make an

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Speaker 2: impact on what people are paying for their health care.

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Speaker 28: Totally agree. You know, today, half of every prescription drug

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Speaker 28: dollar spent in the US goes to someone other than

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Speaker 28: the companies that invent the drug and manufacture the drug.

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Speaker 28: So think about that, we take home about half of

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Speaker 28: every dollar sold. The other half goes to someone in

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Speaker 28: this convoluted supply chain that is taking money out of

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Speaker 28: the system.

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Speaker 3: One of those.

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Speaker 28: Big players is pharmacy benefit managers and their insurance companies. Today,

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Speaker 28: one out of every four dollars of a branded medicine

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Speaker 28: that is sold in the US goes back in the

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Speaker 28: pocket of a pharmacy benefit manager and their insurance company.

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Speaker 28: And that's one hundred and seventy billion dollars a year.

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Speaker 28: If we take that money and instead of it going

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Speaker 28: back in the pockets of a PBM and insurance company

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Speaker 28: and instead goes into the pockets of the American patient,

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Speaker 28: we can lower what people pay for their medicines in

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Speaker 28: the US. These kinds of reforms are really really necessary

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Speaker 28: right now to address some of the affordability issues that

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Speaker 28: American patients are facing.

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Speaker 3: That Voisher hearing is Lori Riley.

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Speaker 2: She is the chief operating officer from Pharma, which is

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Speaker 2: the pharmaceutical research and Manufactures of the America. One of

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Speaker 2: the most important policy people in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 3: Lori.

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Speaker 2: The FTC settlement with express Scripts is just the first

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Speaker 2: potential stone to fall on this issue. As I understand it,

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Speaker 2: they also have pending investigations with other large PBMs as well. Notably,

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Speaker 2: I think the express Script settlement also required these PBMs

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Speaker 2: to bring back to America some of these operations that

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Speaker 2: they had set up offshore. These things are called group

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Speaker 2: purchasing organizations. We heard a lot about this during congressional hearings.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about this issue, kind of an under the

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Speaker 2: radar thing, but give us some insights on how this

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Speaker 2: is going to benefit American consumers.

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Speaker 28: Yeah, great question. So you know, these PBMs negotiate with

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Speaker 28: pharmaceutical manufacturers and in exchange, we provide discounts or rebates

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Speaker 28: back to the PBM, again with the goal of lowering

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Speaker 28: the costs that patients pay for their medicine. Over the

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Speaker 28: last couple of years, more and more people have become

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Speaker 28: wise to the fact that they were getting billions and

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Speaker 28: billions of dollars in rebates and discounts that were going

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Speaker 28: back in their coffers, but not all of that money

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Speaker 28: was getting shared back with the employers that were paying

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Speaker 28: for the health insurance or with the patients that needed

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Speaker 28: the money. So what they did is set up these

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Speaker 28: offshore operations. They're in Dublin, Ireland and Switzerland, out of

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Speaker 28: sight from the employers, out of site from the regulators,

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Speaker 28: and started collecting fees from companies. They said, Hey, people

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Speaker 28: know about the rebates, Let's move our money making operation

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Speaker 28: to instead ask companies for fees. And these fees that

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Speaker 28: we then now have to pay to these pbmgpos are

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Speaker 28: again out of sight of the regulator, out of side

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Speaker 28: of patients and employers. Those were going back into their

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Speaker 28: coffers and not being used to reduce the cost of

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Speaker 28: what they pay at the pharmacy account or what their

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Speaker 28: premiums were, et cetera. So the Federal Trade Commission said, hey,

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Speaker 28: time to move those back to the United States and

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Speaker 28: have them be under the applical rules regulations that any

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Speaker 28: company that operates in the US would have to abide by.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Laurie, I'm just gonna tell you, as a lay

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Speaker 2: person and on behalf of the American people, there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of acronyms here. Yeah, there's a lot of terminology

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Speaker 2: that most people aren't using on.

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Speaker 3: A daily basis.

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Speaker 2: It sounds to me, and I hope this is true.

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Speaker 2: It sounds to me like what President Trump and the

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Speaker 2: Congress has done here is begin to unravel something that's

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Speaker 2: extremely complex, something that's completely opaque to most consumers. And

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Speaker 2: this unraveling is going to lead to lower prices and

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Speaker 2: more access for the American people.

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Speaker 3: Is that how you would describe it.

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Speaker 28: That's exactly how I would describe it, you know. I

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Speaker 28: think over time this system has gotten intentionally complex, intentionally opaque,

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Speaker 28: and that is being done again so that most people

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Speaker 28: give up. They say, I can't understand this system.

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Speaker 15: I don't know why my.

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Speaker 28: Medicine isn't covered. I don't know why I'm paying what

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Speaker 28: I'm doing. So these initial steps are steps in the

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Speaker 28: direction of saying, we're going to get rid of the

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Speaker 28: opaqueness in the system. We're going to add transparency and

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Speaker 28: disinfectant to open up this system so that people actually

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Speaker 28: understand what they're paying for and what they're getting for

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Speaker 28: when they pay their insurance premium.

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Speaker 2: Lori Riley is the chief operating officer with Pharma. We've

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Speaker 2: got about a minute to goo.

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Speaker 3: Lourie.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you about trump RX, this new

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Speaker 2: government website. It is a big initiative of the White

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Speaker 2: House to lower drug prices for consumers.

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Speaker 3: What's the industry's take on trump RX.

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Speaker 28: I think this is a response to what we're seeing

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Speaker 28: in America today, where you have an increasing number of

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Speaker 28: people who are being told they can't get access to

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Speaker 28: the medicine they need, it's not available on their formulary,

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Speaker 28: or they're being asked to pay a lot of money

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Speaker 28: for it. Today, eighty million people have a high deductible

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Speaker 28: health plan. Twenty seven million people are uninsured. These options

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Speaker 28: like trump Orex and other direct to consumer platforms are

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Speaker 28: an option for those patients to be able to shop

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Speaker 28: around and get a price, even people with insurance that

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Speaker 28: may be lower than what their insurance company got for them.

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Speaker 2: Lori Riley the chief operating officer from Pharma. Maybe you've

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Speaker 2: not heard of Lorii, but if you're in and around Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. She is one of the most important people

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Speaker 2: in Washington when it comes to dealing with and setting

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Speaker 2: healthcare policy. Laurie, really honored to have you on the

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Speaker 2: show today. We appreciate your perspective and we'll hopefully have

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Speaker 2: you back in the near future.

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Speaker 28: Awesome. Thank you, Scott so much.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Louri, thank you. This is the Scott Sheennings Show.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to us on Salem. I'm going to give

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Speaker 2: you a word about some new friends of mine. They

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Speaker 2: wireless service, here's what you may not know. You can

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Speaker 2: actually choose a wireless company that shares your values. In fact,

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Speaker 2: they invest in your values. It's called Patriot Mobile. They

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Speaker 2: are a wireless provider, but they're more than that. They're

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Speaker 2: an activist organization that funds their conservative activism by selling

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Speaker 2: top tier cell phone. They'll do what other companies are

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Speaker 2: afraid to do, and that's actually invest in their own values.

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Speaker 2: I know the executives of this company. I've met with them.

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Speaker 2: I trust them. They put their money where their mouth is.

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Speaker 2: They are Christian Conservatives. They believe in what you believe in.

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Speaker 2: When you pay your bill, they take that money and

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Speaker 2: they fund and fuel the Christian Conservative cause. If you

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Speaker 2: switch to Patriot Mobile, you can keep your number, keep

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Speaker 2: your phone, or you can upgrade. My advice, take a

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Speaker 2: stand today. Go to Patriot Mobile dot com slash scott

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Speaker 2: or call nine seven to two Patriot and use promo

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Speaker 2: code Scott and they will give you a free month

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Speaker 2: of service. Patriot Mobile dot com slash Scott or call

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Speaker 2: nine seven to two Patriot.

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Speaker 3: Make the switch today.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is here.

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Speaker 2: It's common sense on Salem. Stay with us the very definition.

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Speaker 1: I've never back down here.

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings home stretch here on Thursday, February twelfth, wrapping

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Speaker 2: up the show today with.

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Speaker 3: A good friend of mine.

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Speaker 2: He's doing terrific work defending children from the dangers that

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Speaker 2: lurk on the internet. Welcome back to the show, Kentucky

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Speaker 2: Attorney General Russell Coleman. Russell, thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 23: Thank you, Scott.

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Speaker 17: I wish I were under better circumstances, a little bit

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Speaker 17: brighter topic, but the threat is what it is, and

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Speaker 17: we have to talk about it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, we really do. And the topic is this.

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Speaker 2: You all are no doubt aware of this mass shooting

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Speaker 2: that happened up in Canada, committed by the transgender shooter.

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Speaker 2: And now thanks to some sleuths on the internet, we

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Speaker 2: have found out that this shooter had a Roadblocks account.

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Speaker 2: Roadblocks is an online game played by hundreds of millions

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Speaker 2: of children, and in that account he made his own

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Speaker 2: game within a game, one of which was called Mall

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Speaker 2: Shooting Simulator, where people were being exposed to on Roadblocks,

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Speaker 2: a simulated mall shooting. I think we can put it

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Speaker 2: up on the screen. It's cut eleven. We're going to

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Speaker 2: mute the audio. So if you're watching on Salem News channel,

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Speaker 2: you can see this mall shooting simulator, very disgusting stuff.

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Speaker 2: If you're listening on the radio, what you're seeing here,

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Speaker 2: essentially is an online game that allows kids to do

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Speaker 2: things and expose children to very violent behavior, very violent

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Speaker 2: ideas such as shooting up a mall. And that transgender

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Speaker 2: shooter in Canada did this, and again the road goes

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Speaker 2: back to Roadblocks, which already has problems. Russell Coleman is

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Speaker 2: the Attorney General of Kentucky. Russell, you're already after Roadblocks

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Speaker 2: because they are not doing enough to protect children from

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Speaker 2: groomers inside the game. When you see this development today,

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Speaker 2: how does it strike you? Is this going to become

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Speaker 2: part of your lawsuit against the company.

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Speaker 17: Let me just start with where I will finish Scott

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Speaker 17: and say, the only safe way to mitigate this threat

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Speaker 17: is to get your kids off Roadblocks. If there's one

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Speaker 17: thing that parents here, grandparents, get your kids off rob Block.

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Speaker 17: What your listeners and viewers are seeing is one of

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Speaker 17: the dual threats. The content that Rollblocks hosts. It calls

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Speaker 17: itself these these experiences you could have just as easily

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Speaker 17: Scott been demonstrating what a Charlie Kirk assassination simulator look

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Speaker 17: like within minutes of losing Charlie, you could have just

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Speaker 17: as easily shown hundreds of exemplars of bathroom experience simulators

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Speaker 17: where an avatar, one of our kids' characters is sexually

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Speaker 17: assaulted right in front of the player. This is filed.

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Speaker 17: It's dangerous, and we've seen what happens if it's not mitigated,

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Speaker 17: how it metastasizes with this loss of life in Canada.

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Speaker 2: Russell, you are one of the leaders in America going

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Speaker 2: after roadblocks.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 2: It's obvious that you don't think they are doing enough

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Speaker 2: to protect children. Give us an idea of scope and scale.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about hundreds of millions of accounts on roadblocks.

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Speaker 17: Correct, it's stunning. Three hundred and eighty million users a month,

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Speaker 17: that is that is an incredible number, and so many

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Speaker 17: of your listeners viewers will recognize that cartoonish, seemingly non

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Speaker 17: threatening image that you've seen your kids and your grandkids.

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Speaker 17: It looks safe, Scott. I even heard one of my

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Speaker 17: colleagues as prosecutor, an attorney general from another state, a

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Speaker 17: mom say when we were being briefed on this. Oh, Roadblocks,

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Speaker 17: that's the safe one, isn't it? And it is not safe. Clearly,

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Speaker 17: it's not safe because of the content like this filth

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Speaker 17: we saw up in Canada that's just emerging. But the

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Speaker 17: other threat, the other threat, Scott is Roadblocks is a

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Speaker 17: playground for predators. It is not only hosting this horrendous

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Speaker 17: content like the mall simulator allegedly, but it's also allowing

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Speaker 17: young people to sign on and appear to be older

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Speaker 17: and more threatening. It's allowing adults to sign on and

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Speaker 17: pretend to be kids. Start talking to our kids and

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Speaker 17: get them off of Roadblocks. To an encrypted platform, it's

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Speaker 17: even harder for law enforcement to engage in. So this

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Speaker 17: is a company that says it's acting safely, and that's

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Speaker 17: what our lawsuit is about in Kentucky and Louisiana and Florida.

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Speaker 17: It's pretty basic. You don't have to understand technology. The

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Speaker 17: lawsuit says, if you say your widget that you make,

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Speaker 17: if you say your platform is safe, which Roadblocks does,

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Speaker 17: but yet we know demonstrably it's not safe, then you

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Speaker 17: are violating our consumer protection statute in Kentucky, and we're

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Speaker 17: going to come after you with everything. We've got that.

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Speaker 2: Voice you're hearing one of the foremost defenders of children

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Speaker 2: in America. He is the Attorney General of the Commonwealth

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Speaker 2: of Kentucky. His name is Russell Coleman. Here in Kentucky

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Speaker 2: we call him the long Arm of the law. Former

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Speaker 2: FBI agent and former US attorney Russell, thank you for

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Speaker 2: joining us. The bottom line is there is violent content

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Speaker 2: on roadblocks.

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Speaker 3: It's despicable and disgusting.

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Speaker 2: There are groomers and predators on roadblocks, and Russell Coleman's

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Speaker 2: advice is get your kids off of it. That is

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Speaker 2: all for me. I'm taking a couple of days off,

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Speaker 2: going off the grid. I'll be back next week. You'll

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Speaker 2: be in good hands here with Jen tomorrow and Monday.

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

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Speaker 3: Scott's out. Thanks for listening.