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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: Cheers.

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Speaker 3: It's Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 4: All right, It's Tuesday, December the ninth, Live from the

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Speaker 4: City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia. It's Scott Jennings Common Sense

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Speaker 4: for the American people here on the Salem Radio Network.

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Speaker 4: Common Since book tour rolls through Philly tonight, Columbus, Ohio tomorrow,

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Speaker 4: and then the next couple of days in Michigan. Looking

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Speaker 4: We have a great show today. At twenty two minutes

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Speaker 4: after the hour, Kevin Brady from Americans for Free Markets

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Speaker 4: stops by to discuss pro growth policies that his organization

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Speaker 4: is interested in. Thirty three minutes, Congressman Darren Lehood of

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Speaker 4: Illinois is our big conversation today. We'll get the latest

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Speaker 4: from Washington. I want to get his take on something

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Speaker 4: that Congressman Hank Johnson of Georgia said he called America

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Speaker 4: the great Satan. I'm going to play that for Darren

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Speaker 4: Lohood and see what he has to say about it. First,

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Speaker 4: let's get to the news. The President of the United

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Speaker 4: States conducted a wide ranging interview last night with Politico,

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Speaker 4: cover the waterfront, really, affordability, healthcare, foreign affairs, you name it.

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Speaker 4: The President had thought, you know, you get accused Donald

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Speaker 4: Trump of a lot of things, but you cannot ever

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Speaker 4: accuse him of not telling us what's on his mind.

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Speaker 3: Let's start with affordability.

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Speaker 4: The President, touting his successes on lower energy prices, did she.

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Speaker 5: Has come down incredibly. When energy comes down everything because

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Speaker 5: it's so much bigger than any other subject. What energy

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Speaker 5: has come down incredibly. Prices are all coming down. It's

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Speaker 5: been ten months.

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Speaker 3: Trump is right.

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Speaker 4: According to TRIPLEA average, US gas prices have fallen to

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Speaker 4: under three dollars a gallon, the lowest in four years.

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Speaker 4: You know, when energy prices fall, other things tend to follow.

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Speaker 4: On healthcare, that's the big debate in Washington this week,

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Speaker 4: and we'll ask Darren Lohood about that. At thirty three

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Speaker 4: minutes past the hour. The President weighing in on what

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Speaker 4: to do about these Obamacare subsidies that expire at the

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Speaker 4: end of the year. The President took a sledgehammer to

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Speaker 4: the failures of Obamacare and to the insurance industry.

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Speaker 5: Obamacare was set up for insurance companies to become rich. Okay,

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Speaker 5: that was why they in my opinion, I think the

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Speaker 5: Democrats did it.

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Speaker 2: For that reason.

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Speaker 5: Do you know that insurance company stocks have gone up sixteen, seventeen,

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Speaker 5: eighteen hundred percent over a short period of time. They've

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Speaker 5: been paid trillions, treatment opinion, trillions of dollars. And what

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Speaker 5: I'm saying is very simple. I don't want to pay

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Speaker 5: him anything. No money for the insurance company. Sorry fellas,

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Speaker 5: I know them all. No money for the insurance companies.

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Speaker 5: I want to pay the money directly to the people

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Speaker 5: and let the people get their own health care. In

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Speaker 5: that the Democrats.

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Speaker 4: Now, we're going to see how this shakes out this

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Speaker 4: week in the Congress. You've got competing ideas even among

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Speaker 4: the Republicans, and so we'll see by the end of

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Speaker 4: the week what the President's party wants to do. Finally,

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Speaker 4: on the issue of Venezuela, a sharp warning from the

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Speaker 4: commander in chief for the drug Warlord Maduro in Venezuela.

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Speaker 6: How far would you go to take Maduro out of office?

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Speaker 5: I don't want to say that, but.

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Speaker 7: But you want to see him out.

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Speaker 5: His day's are numbered.

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Speaker 4: Now, this interview comes as President Trump is hitting the

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Speaker 4: road to rebut democratic attacks on his economic record. Trump

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Speaker 4: in fact is in eastern Pennsylvania today in the Poconos,

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Speaker 4: so we'll be tracking what the President has to say.

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Speaker 4: This is the Scott Jennings Show on the Salem Radio Network,

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Speaker 4: and I have a question for you. What makes America

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Speaker 4: special wealth power? I don't think so. We think it's

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Speaker 4: our principles and our people. Our founders launched the Great

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Speaker 4: American Experiment, and they did unleash freedom and opportunity like

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Speaker 4: the world has never seen. From the beginning, it has

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Speaker 4: been everyday Americans like you who have taken small steps,

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Speaker 4: one at a time, to move our country forward. You know,

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Speaker 4: every moment in our history, from the Revolution to our

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Speaker 4: greatest inventions to landing on the moon, began with one

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Speaker 4: person taking one small step. Now, in the run up

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Speaker 4: to America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, Americans for Prosperity

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Speaker 3: Breaking news an Epstein update.

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Speaker 4: A federal judge in Manhattan has granted the Justice Department's

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Speaker 4: motion to unseal the grand jury records from the Gallain

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Speaker 4: Maxwell investigation. She was the longtime Epstein companion who is

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Speaker 4: serving a twenty year prison sentence for sex trafficking a minor,

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Speaker 4: among other things. And in the ruling, the judge cited

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Speaker 4: the new law that Donald Trump just signed into law,

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Speaker 4: which requires the Justice Department to release all of its

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Speaker 4: Epstein files. We're still expecting all that by December the nineteenth.

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Speaker 4: The Supreme Court is looking at a major campaign finance

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Speaker 4: case today hearing oral arguments. It's called the NRSC versus FEC.

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Speaker 4: That's National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee and FEC is the

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Speaker 4: Federal Election Commission. What they're looking at here is a

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Speaker 4: decade's old law that essentially prohibits large scale coordination between

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Speaker 4: party committees and individual candidates. These days, party campaign groups

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Speaker 4: like the NRSC have relatively low limits on how much

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Speaker 4: they can spend on races in direct coordination with candidates.

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Speaker 4: The Republicans here are arguing that this runs a foul

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Speaker 4: of free speech rights. So we'll see what the Court

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Speaker 4: wants to do. But it seems to me, it seems

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Speaker 4: to me there's a strong possibility the Supreme Court may

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Speaker 4: strike yet another blow for free speech and against artificial

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Speaker 4: campaign finance, so called reform. Something going on in Australia,

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Speaker 4: something interesting down Under today. A new ban on all

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Speaker 4: takes effect all of it. Instagram, Facebook, threads, x, Snapchat, kick, Twitch, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube,

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Speaker 4: under the age of sixteen, your account will be deactivated today. Now,

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Speaker 4: Commissioner is predicting that this is going to be the

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Speaker 4: There is a lawsuit litigation in Australia over this, but

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Speaker 4: it's an interesting experiment in Australia turning off, turning off

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Speaker 4: of sixteen. It's Scott Jennings here on the Salem Radio Network.

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Speaker 4: His name is Kevin Brady. He represented the eighth Congressional

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Speaker 4: the House Ways and Means Committee. And here's why Kevin

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Speaker 4: Brady should be special to you. He was the principal

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Speaker 4: architect of the Trump tax cuts in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 3: A lot of folks talk about doing things in Washington, Kevin.

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Speaker 4: Brady did one of the most monumental things that's happened

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Speaker 3: Congressman, thanks for being.

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Speaker 2: With us, Scott, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, So we're talking a lot about affordability, the economy,

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Speaker 4: what's the president going to do, and what's he going

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Speaker 4: to argue in the twenty twenty six mid term. It

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Speaker 3: How we're going to grow the economy and grow wages.

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Speaker 4: I got ten seconds. I need a yes or no.

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Speaker 4: However you do it, I would recommend you do it today.

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Speaker 6: Well, Scott, thanks so much for having me on and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you very much. I've got a couple of

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Speaker 6: Well, Scott, the President is not wrong in terms of

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Speaker 4: change hands here, But you think there is a decent

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Speaker 4: chance they bypass the insurance companies on.

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Speaker 6: This, well, I think that's a last resort. Now, if

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Speaker 6: we cannot pass anything, I think we got to do something.

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Speaker 6: But what I've said on the subsidies, Scott is if

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Speaker 6: we can put some reforms in there, if we can

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Speaker 6: revise those, if we can do some means testing. I mean,

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Speaker 6: there's a number of proposals that have been put out

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Speaker 6: there to do that, and I'm willing to look at

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Speaker 6: those things. But what we've seen in just extending year

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Speaker 6: is completely inefficient. It doesn't save tax payer money. But

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Speaker 6: as a last resort, I think, you know, looking at

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Speaker 6: serious reforms to the subsidies and maybe extending them for

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Speaker 6: one or two years, I think can be a last resort.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's switch gears to Venezuela.

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Speaker 4: The President and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseith are bombing

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Speaker 4: narco terrorists off the coast of Venezuela. Democrats are up

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Speaker 4: in arms about this. I want to play you a

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Speaker 4: clip from your colleague, Democrat Congressman Hank Johnson. Let's hear

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Speaker 4: what he has to say about the projection of American power.

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Speaker 8: And we're doing it with impunity, and this sends a

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Speaker 8: shocking message to the world that America is Indeed, what

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Speaker 8: did they used to call the Great Hand of Satan

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Speaker 8: or something like that. I mean, America under the Trump

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Speaker 8: regime is demonstrating that that moniker was uh was entirely accurate.

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Speaker 4: Great Hand of Satan. What say you to Hank Johnson,

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Speaker 4: congress Minlahood.

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Speaker 6: Well, you may also remember Hank Johnson was famous for

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Speaker 6: saying that Guam may tip over a few years ago

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Speaker 6: in a congressional hearing. So I think it needs to

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Speaker 6: put in the context of who is who is saying this. No,

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Speaker 6: I don't agree with Hank Johnson. I think most people

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Speaker 6: don't agree with Hank Johnson. Let's remember the Manduro regime

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Speaker 6: that is in Venezuela. This guy is a thug, he

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Speaker 6: is a dictator, he is a He is there because

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Speaker 6: of regimes like Russia and Iran and Cuba. He is

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Speaker 6: a narco dictator. I have looked at the I serve

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Speaker 6: on the House Intelligence Committee, I'm also a former federal prosecutor.

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Speaker 6: I've looked extensively at the legal justicification for what we're

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Speaker 6: doing in and around Venezuela and going after these narco terrorists.

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Speaker 6: I am satisfied on what we're doing in many ways, Scott,

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Speaker 6: this is kind of what we do or have done

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Speaker 6: in the past on the war and terrorism throughout the

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Speaker 6: Middle East. When you're taking out a ISIS or Al

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Speaker 6: Qaeda member that's in a truck in the middle of Yemen,

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Speaker 6: there's many similarities to what we're doing now, and you

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Speaker 6: know these are terrorists entities that are involved in these cartels.

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Speaker 6: So I am satisfied with the legal justification. Today on

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Speaker 6: Capitol here, Defense Secretary hesseg, CIA Director Ratcliffe, Marco Rubio,

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Speaker 6: and General Kine are all on Capitol Hill briefing the

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Speaker 6: eight members of the Intelligence Committee and the leadership on

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Speaker 6: this exact thing. I'll be interested to see the results

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Speaker 6: of that, but I think we're completely justified in what

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Speaker 6: President Trump is doing at this point.

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Speaker 4: Are you hearing much about this from back in pr

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Speaker 4: My senses, politically, the American people are behind the president.

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Speaker 4: They don't think we've ever taken these narco traffickers seriously enough,

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Speaker 4: he promised to eradicate them. In fact, it's a plank

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Speaker 4: in the Republican national platform to obliterate these narco terrorists.

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Speaker 4: The President's doing it. Are you hearing from folks back

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Speaker 4: home about it.

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Speaker 6: I'll tell you what I'm hearing, Scott. When you look

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Speaker 6: at the scourge that fentanyl, cocaine drugs have done to

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Speaker 6: this country and devastated families and people in the United States,

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Speaker 6: When you hear that you're taking out these bad guys

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Speaker 6: and these cartels that are trying to ship these drugs

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Speaker 6: he's doing to take them out. No, most people are

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Speaker 6: supportive of that and think that's better for our country

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Speaker 6: and protecting our American citizens, and are glad that President

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Speaker 6: Trump is engaged in that.

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Speaker 4: That's Congressman Darren Lehood of the Great State of Illinois. Congressmen,

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Speaker 4: hang on, We're going to take a quick break. When

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Speaker 4: First of all, I want to get your thoughts on

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Speaker 4: his viability as a presidential candidate, but more specifically under Pritzker,

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Speaker 4: they have released over seventeen hundred criminal illegal aliens since

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Speaker 4: January the twentieth. These people have been murderers, they've assaulted people, burglaries, robberies,

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Speaker 4: We'll ask Congressman Darren Lehood about it here in just

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Speaker 4: Lehood from Illinois is our special conversation your governor. Congressman

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Speaker 4: is a piece of work.

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Speaker 3: JB.

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Speaker 4: Pritzker wants to be president. But it has been revealed

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Speaker 6: Well, Scott, I'll start off by saying that I think

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Speaker 6: Governor Pritzker's delusional if he thinks he's going to be

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Speaker 6: president of the United States. But in Illinois, unfortunately, we

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Speaker 6: lead in so many of the wrong categories. A couple

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Speaker 6: We have the second highest combined state and federal tax

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Speaker 6: dollars in unfunded pension liability, the crime rate this year,

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Speaker 6: even though New York City is three times bigger than Chicago,

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Speaker 6: we are out pacing them on murders and shootings this year.

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Speaker 6: You mentioned it. We are the leading non border state

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Speaker 6: Pritzker under his administration the last four years and under Biden,

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Speaker 6: they spent two point five billion on illegal immigrants healthcare,

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Speaker 6: free housing, financial aid to prioritize illegal immigrants over Illinoian's

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Speaker 6: And the last statistic I will tell you, Scott is

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Speaker 6: it's no wonder that we lead the nation in hemorrhaging

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Speaker 6: citizens out of our state because of all those factors.

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Speaker 6: Now you won't hear that, but that's the legacy in

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Speaker 6: many ways of JB. Pritzker is we're hemorrhaging people to

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Speaker 6: Florida and Texas and Tennessee, but also the Indiana in Wisconsin.

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Speaker 4: Quick pivot to something you've been working on. Maybe folks

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Speaker 4: don't think a lot about it, but you do drone security,

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Speaker 4: specifically for the FIFA World Cup. I know you were

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Speaker 4: with the President the other day. We're hosting a World Cup.

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Speaker 4: He's very proud of this. You're looking into this issue

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Speaker 4: of drone security. These things are an emerging threat at

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Speaker 4: big gatherings. Are we going to have a safe World Cup?

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Speaker 4: And what was it like to be with the President

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Speaker 4: and the FIFA guys the other day.

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Speaker 6: Well, we are going to have a safe and secure

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Speaker 6: World Cup. Remember during President Trump's first administration, we secured

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Speaker 6: the World Cup for twenty twenty six Scott. Next summer,

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Speaker 6: the World Cup will be the largest sporting event in

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Speaker 6: the history of the world, history of the world. We'll

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Speaker 6: have three countries hosting, the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

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Speaker 6: I tell my colleagues we're going to have one hundred

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Speaker 6: and four Super Bowls in thirty nine days. Simultaneously thirty

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Speaker 6: his team got the World Cup to come here, so

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Speaker 6: he is all in on this. We are focused in

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Speaker 6: eleven host cities so that we make sure that these

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Speaker 6: are the safest and most secure games. But if you

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Speaker 6: think about the next eight years in the United States,

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Speaker 6: we're going to have the Olympics. In two years, we're

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Speaker 6: going to have the Rugby World Cup, the Women's World

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Speaker 6: So the drone technology we're putting in place is going

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Speaker 6: to be beneficial for sports diplomacy over the next decade

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Speaker 6: in the United States. And so the President is all

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Speaker 6: in on this, and I'm part of the White House

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Speaker 6: task force on the World Cup to help make sure

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Speaker 6: this is a huge event next summer.

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Speaker 4: That's Congressman Darren the Hood from Central Illinois, one of

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Speaker 4: the hardest working members of Congress. Darren, thanks for joining

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Speaker 4: us on the Scott Jennings Show. Thanks for your service

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Speaker 4: to our nation. We're wrapping up the show today. I

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Speaker 4: Look it up if you want to come out doing

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Speaker 4: a book signing for a Revolution of common sense tomorrow

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Speaker 4: in Columbus, Ohio. And we have a great conversation coming

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Speaker 4: to you tomorrow. By the way, it's gonna be about

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Speaker 4: baseball and whether we need a salary cap in baseball.

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Speaker 3: You want to hear this conversation. It's common sense for

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Speaker 3: the American people. Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Once again, I'm Scott Jennings here on the Salem Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: Common sense for the American people. This is the Scott

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Speaker 1: Jenning Show.

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Speaker 6: Can do it? Please, please

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Speaker 3: Don't