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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: Cheers Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 3: It is Tuesday, December the sixteenth, Scott Shennings. Here in

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Speaker 3: your nation's capital, well right outside of it. We're over

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Speaker 3: in Alexandria, Virginia. The Revolution of Common Sense book tour continues.

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Speaker 3: Sign some books this morning up on Capitol Hill over

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Speaker 3: By the way, we've got Senator Todd Young of Indiana

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Speaker 3: coming up at thirty three minutes past the hour. We'll

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Speaker 3: ask him about what's going to happen with healthcare. Also,

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Speaker 2: We'll ask Todd Young about that as well. A little

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Speaker 2: bit of scoop.

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Speaker 3: Here on the Scott Chenning Show. I do want to

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Speaker 3: talk about healthcare for a second. Democrats are fear mongering again,

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Speaker 3: blaming all of this healthcare debate on Republicans. But here's

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Speaker 3: what's going to happen. Here's the scoop from the Scott

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Speaker 3: Jenning Show. The Republicans are going to put forward a

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Speaker 3: bill in the House this week that lowers Obamacare premiums

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Speaker 3: by more than double what the Democrats are proposing, more

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Speaker 3: than double. So yes, the Democrats created this mess with

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Speaker 3: Obamacare and the sunset on the subsidies. It's Republicans who've

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Speaker 3: come along with the brooms and the pans. This is

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Speaker 3: from the Congressional Budget Office. The Republican plan lowers healthcare

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Speaker 3: premiums by eleven percent, the Democrat plan only five percent.

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Speaker 3: Spare me, spare me the talking points about Republicans making

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Speaker 3: healthcare more expensive. This proposal is being led by Chairman

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Speaker 3: Brett Guthrie of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He's

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Speaker 3: out of Kentucky. They're going to lower premiums. There's also

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Speaker 3: other stuff in here about association health plans, PBM transparency

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Speaker 3: is Republicans are coming to the table. They've got a

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Speaker 3: plan to lower insurance rates. The Democrats are carping. If

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Speaker 3: they were serious about solving a problem, they'd get on

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Speaker 3: board with the Republican solutions. Now joining me live from

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Speaker 3: Capitol Hill, also of Kentucky, Congressman Jamie Comber, chairman of

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Speaker 3: the House Oversight Committee. Jamie, your committee released a bombshell

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Speaker 3: report yesterday on crime statistics in Washington, d C. They

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Speaker 3: are cooking the books in Washington to downplay the violence

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Speaker 3: in the streets. Congressman Comber, what is the story and

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Speaker 3: welcome to the show.

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Speaker 4: Well, thanks for having me, Scott. You know, we were

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Speaker 4: blessed in this investigation. We had a lot of whistleblowers

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Speaker 4: come forward. The whistle blowers were Metro Washington, D C.

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Speaker 4: Police officers. They came forward because they were sick and

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Speaker 4: tired of lying. They were sick and tired of the

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Speaker 4: police chief who was going on the camera saying that

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Speaker 4: the crime statistics were going down in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 4: When they knew, in fact, they were going up. They

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Speaker 4: knew Washington, d C was a crime infested city. Yet

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Speaker 4: they were sick and tired of Democrats taking in the

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Speaker 4: liberal media taking their talking points from these falsified statistics

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Speaker 4: saying that crime in fact put down. We saw when

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Speaker 4: President Trump put the National Guard in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 4: The Democrats and their friends in the left wing media,

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Speaker 4: they all immediately start citing these crime statistics, saying crime

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Speaker 4: actually gone down, when we all knew it hadn't. But

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Speaker 4: thanks to the brave police officers who were brave enough

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Speaker 4: to step forward and we gave him whistle for status

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Speaker 4: protection status. They all said this was a complete lie,

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Speaker 4: that crime has actually gone up. It just shows that

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Speaker 4: the Democrat activist in Washington, DC, whether they work for

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Speaker 4: the Washington d C Metro government or where they work

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Speaker 4: in some bureaucracy here in Washington, they just lie all

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Speaker 4: the time to create false narratives to hurt Republicans.

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Speaker 3: So this is a fascinating report because when you go

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Speaker 3: on CNN like I have to, and you debate these

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Speaker 3: The first thing you always hear an anchor or some

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Speaker 3: Democrat pundit say, is, well, you know, Scott, the crime

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Speaker 3: has been going down for years. You know there really

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Speaker 3: is no violent crime. And of course, anybody with eyes

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Speaker 3: the Oversight Committee. They're cooking the books, they're falsifying the statistics.

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Speaker 3: So is it just they want to mislead the American

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Speaker 2: Why in the world, Why in the world.

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Speaker 3: Would they be doing this other than just out of

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Speaker 3: sheer politics and trying to mislead people who have to

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Speaker 4: It's one hundred percent political, Scott, you know this better

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Speaker 4: than anyone. When you asked about the major issues in

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Speaker 4: any presidential election, one of the biggest issues here lately

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Speaker 4: has been crime, especially in the cities, and it's an

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Speaker 4: issue that Democrats do poorly on. I would argue there's

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Speaker 4: no issue in America that the Democrats pull worse on

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Speaker 4: than crime. So what's their solution to eliminate crime, cooking

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Speaker 4: the books, lying about crime statistics to create false narrative

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Speaker 4: that crime's actually going down when we all know what's

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Speaker 4: going to going up. So again, the Democrats don't have

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Speaker 4: a plan on crime. You can't be for this liberal

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Speaker 4: woke criminal justice reform and be lenient on criminals and

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Speaker 4: expect crime to go down. You can't be fund the

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Speaker 4: police and expect crime to go down. So what's the answer.

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Speaker 4: Their answer is to lie on the crime statistics. I

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Speaker 4: don't think Washington, d C. Is an isolated incident. I

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Speaker 4: think we're seeing this in other cities, and we're welcoming

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Speaker 4: w's the blowers in other cities. If there's evidence of

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Speaker 4: this in Chicago or New York or Boston, please feel

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Speaker 4: free to reach out to the House Oversight Committee. We

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Speaker 4: would love to sit down and talk with you, because

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Speaker 4: again we think that this is a pattern of lying

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Speaker 4: about crime statistics in a lot of cities that are

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Speaker 4: interested with crime.

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Speaker 2: Well, then the issue is you nailed it.

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Speaker 3: The Democrats have for years advocated for these policies where

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Speaker 3: they let violent criminals out of jail to roam the

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Speaker 3: streets of America. They then recommit. Violent crimes happens everywhere.

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Speaker 3: The only way to cover this up is to lie

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Speaker 3: about the statistics. And then you raised the next great question,

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Speaker 3: is it happening in other cities? My bet is yes.

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Speaker 3: And then the final question I'll put to you on

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Speaker 3: this topic is have any laws been broken? I mean, essentially,

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Speaker 3: you have people holding positions of public trust who are

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Speaker 3: falsifying official government reports, sending that out to the taxpayers,

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Speaker 3: to the citizens of Washington and all of America. Are

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Speaker 3: they breaking laws? Will there be any criminal referrals here

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Speaker 3: for this absolute line that's gone on in Washington and

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Speaker 3: probably in other cities.

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Speaker 4: We sent this report to the Attorney General Bondy. We

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Speaker 4: would like to get her input on this. I would

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Speaker 4: love to give a criminal referral on the police chief.

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Speaker 4: We know the police chief's resigning. She announced her resignation

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Speaker 4: shortly before my report came out because she knew what

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Speaker 4: we were going to report. But I don't think that's enough.

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Speaker 4: I don't think losing your job is enough. But again, Scott,

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Speaker 4: we send a lot of criminal referrals to the Department

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Speaker 4: of Justice that are just sitting over there collecting dusts.

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Speaker 4: So I'm not in the that mood on doing criminal

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Speaker 4: move on them. But again, you know, the one win

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Speaker 4: I will say is that the police chief's no longer

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Speaker 4: be employed by the hard working taxpayers. That's a partial win.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I think most people listening to your

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Speaker 4: accountability because if people aren't held accountable, then you know

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Speaker 4: this is going to repeat itself, and we need to

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Speaker 4: know the true statistics. It's not hard to keep up

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Speaker 4: with how many murders, it's not hard to keep up

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Speaker 4: with how many carjackings there are in a week's period.

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Speaker 4: But when you have situations where they're just blatantly lying,

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Speaker 4: the report, do not put that down. I think that's

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Speaker 5: do when they're engaged in military operations of any kind.

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Speaker 5: And this is what they did today. They each offered

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Speaker 5: a presentation about our strategy, our operations, the legal dimensions

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Speaker 5: to the operations. There's been a lot of good questions

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Speaker 5: about this, why we are taking a military approach as

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Speaker 5: opposed to to a law enforcement approach. Here that they

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Speaker 5: explained how this is an extension of the president's border

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Speaker 5: security efforts. So this is really important to me as

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Speaker 5: someone who not only wore the uniform as a US Marine,

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Speaker 5: but has really emphasized the importance of congressional involvement in

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Speaker 5: decisions about when we make peace, when we make war.

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Speaker 5: We of course have ongoing resourcing decisions, and we're members

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Speaker 5: of the country's boarded of Directors and boards of directors.

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Speaker 5: They ask a lot of hard questions. Uh, they try

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Speaker 5: and get command of the subject matter, and they work

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Speaker 5: with whomever the executive is, in this case our country's

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Speaker 5: chief executive, President Trump, so that he can make better decisions.

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Speaker 5: And so today this process was you know, just really

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Speaker 5: flourishing and and and and I think everyone of the

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Speaker 5: prereciated the briefing. As you indicated, they're going over to

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Speaker 5: the House. There will be follow up meetings and oversight

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Speaker 5: is a function of this briefing that the House Armed

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Speaker 5: Services Senate Armed Services Committee will get visibility into certain

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Speaker 5: videos about which they, at least some members have an interest.

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Speaker 5: And I know this. I know when I go back

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Speaker 5: to the Greater Indianapolis area where I live. My constituents

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Speaker 5: want this administration to do take every reasonable and responsible

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Speaker 5: measure to carry out this war on drugs, and we

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Speaker 5: have not done enough ever. And this president's to be

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Speaker 5: commended for taking this seriously.

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Speaker 3: As someone who wore the uniform, and thank you, sir

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Speaker 3: for serving our country both in the military and now

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Speaker 3: in your political service. When you saw some of your

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Speaker 3: colleagues like Mark Kelly and Slatkin and some of these

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Speaker 3: other Democratic members who were raising the specter that the

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Speaker 3: commander in chief was giving illegal orders and therefore these

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Speaker 3: orders shouldn't.

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Speaker 2: Be followed, how did that hit you?

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Speaker 3: As both a former marine, but of course as someone

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Speaker 3: who holds the high responsibility of being a US senator.

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Speaker 5: Right now, you know, if they had something to say,

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Speaker 5: they should just say it, right. If they regarded any

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Speaker 5: of the orders that are given by the President or

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Speaker 5: one of his cabinet members as something other than legal,

478
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Speaker 5: they should have identified what that order was, but just

479
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Speaker 5: to vaguely restate what every service member knows, which is

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Speaker 5: that they take an oath to uphold and defend the

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Speaker 5: Constitution of the United States, that that is their charge,

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Speaker 5: that's understood. For them to restate it in such a

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Speaker 5: provocative fashion struck me as not just peculiar, but maybe

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Speaker 5: even inviting some sort of misbehavior. And so I think

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Speaker 5: that's the point that Secretary Hegsath in particular has made.

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Speaker 5: I know members of the administration have made that time

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Speaker 5: and again. Look, it's one thing to take very seriously

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Speaker 5: our war powers. You know, I've certainly done that during

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Speaker 5: my time here. Senator Kine and myself have just authored

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Speaker 5: provisions that will go into this year's National Defense Bill

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Speaker 5: that would repeal the nineteen ninety one in two thousand

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Speaker 5: and two AUMFS the Golf in Iraq Wars, officially bringing

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Speaker 5: to an end those forever wars. Presidents one hundred percent

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Speaker 5: on board. So you know, that just demonstrates that I

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Speaker 5: take these sorts of things seriously. But you've got to

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Speaker 5: be specific. If you have problems with the ways we're

497
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Speaker 5: carrying out these attacks with our broader strategy, we owe

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Speaker 5: it to the American people to make that known. We

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Speaker 5: should not encourage misbehavior in the rank. I would not

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Speaker 5: ever contemplate doing that.

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Speaker 2: Is it your anticipation?

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Speaker 3: I see the House pass the National Defense Authorization Act

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Speaker 3: last week and looks like the Senate will take it

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Speaker 3: up this week. You think you'll get it done and

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Speaker 3: off to the President's desk before Christmas?

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Speaker 5: Here, Well, I do. There are a lot of important

507
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Speaker 5: things in there between supporting the defense companies that outfit

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Speaker 5: our war fighters. They're located in every congressional district around

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Speaker 5: the country, every state around the country. There will be

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Speaker 5: a lot of member or interest in that, but more importantly,

511
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Speaker 5: providing the certainty that our war fighters need to know

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Speaker 5: that we will spare nothing to make sure that they

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Speaker 5: are safe and secure and have reliable programming so that

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Speaker 5: they can go out and defend our way of life

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Speaker 5: and do all that we ask of them. So this

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Speaker 5: is consistently a bill that we pass every year without

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Speaker 5: high drama. There hasn't been a lot of high drama

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Speaker 5: this year, even amidst you know, sometimes a highly divided

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Speaker 5: political atmosphere, and you know, the White House deserves a

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Speaker 5: lot of credit for that. They made enormous changes culturally

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Speaker 5: in terms of procurement and even in terms of their

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Speaker 5: point of emphasis over at a DoD But even amidst

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Speaker 5: all that, they have worked with Congress to usher this

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Speaker 5: piece of legislation through the process, and I think it's

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Speaker 5: really it's going to pay dividends before the week is out.

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Speaker 5: I think on Thursday, we'll wrap up business here in Washington.

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Speaker 5: We can go home and wake up another day, fight

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Speaker 5: about issues we disagree on, and hopefully, you know, rally

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Speaker 5: around some issues we can agree on. So feeling good

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Speaker 5: about it, but you know, there is more work to do.

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Speaker 5: There's always more work to do. There's more savings to

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Speaker 5: be wrung out of the Pentagon. There are are some

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Speaker 5: threats that remain, I think on a dressed and we

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Speaker 5: need to take those more seriously. But this has been

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Speaker 5: a major improvement under the Trump administration on some of

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Speaker 5: the ndaa's national defense bills that we see in recent years.

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Speaker 3: And I want to talk to you, Senator after we

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Speaker 3: take this break, about the effort that you are leading

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Speaker 3: to help the United States build more ships ships and

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Speaker 3: keep up with the Chinese military on the other side.

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Speaker 3: We'll ask you about that first first, a quick word

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Speaker 3: somebody else. It's all really up to you, the consumer.

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Speaker 3: And at pure Talk, which is my wireless company, we

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Speaker 3: want to say thank you for everybody who chose pure

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Speaker 3: Talk this year for your wireless needs. Because of you,

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Speaker 3: When you support them, they do good things. So the

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Speaker 3: message right now from me, thank you from the pure

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Speaker 3: Talk family. Thank you for your trust in the company,

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Speaker 3: and God bless America. More with Todd Young when we

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Speaker 3: come back. It's Scott Jennings on the Salem Radio.

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Speaker 2: Network the.

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Speaker 3: Tuesday, December the sixteenth. More with Indiana Senator Todd Young

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Speaker 3: in just a second. But first a quick word from

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Speaker 3: our friends at Americans for Free Markets and we're still

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Speaker 3: talking about it. D banking, you know, when these regulators

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Speaker 3: take away your bank account and restrict you from having

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Speaker 3: financial services because they don't like your politics.

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Speaker 2: Happens more than you think.

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Speaker 3: In fact, they did it to the Trump family after

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Speaker 3: in the last administration. So President Trump comes back and

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Speaker 3: he signs an executive order out, you know, kind of

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Speaker 3: trying to do away with this d banking. But there's

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Speaker 3: only one real way to fix this permanently, and that's

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Speaker 3: for Congress to codify the president's executive order, work with

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Speaker 3: the administration to fix these outdated laws and to increase

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Speaker 3: transparency and accountability and financial regulations so that future administrations

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Speaker 3: can never ever again weaponize our financial system. We need

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Speaker 3: lawmakers here to get on this and work with the

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Speaker 3: Trump administration to stop dbanking and update these laws. We

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Speaker 3: need a national standard prohibiting any financial institution from denying

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Speaker 3: services based on politics or religion. Get involved in this fight.

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Speaker 3: Go to for free markets fr free markets dot org.

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Speaker 3: It's Scott Jennings on Salem Radio Network, coming down the

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Speaker 3: home stretch here with Indiana Senator Todd Young. Senator, you

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Speaker 3: are leading the effort in Congress to build more ships.

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Speaker 3: We need more ships to keep up with China. President

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Speaker 3: Trump signaled his intent to end our shipbuilding decline.

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Speaker 2: You're working on this.

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Speaker 3: You've got the Ships for America Act, comprehensive legislation meant

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Speaker 3: to revitalize you as shipbuilding. Where are we in this

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Speaker 3: fight to get America ship building back on track?

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Speaker 5: Well, we are far down the road in terms of

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Speaker 5: addressing what has become an acute national security challenge has

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Speaker 5: become an issue of economic security, meaning our supply chains

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Speaker 5: can be interrupted any day or threatened of interruption by

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Speaker 5: our leading adversary, China, and we just can't continue to

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Speaker 5: depend on other countries to make all the vessels we

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Speaker 5: need to run a modern economy. Certainly we can't depend

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Speaker 5: on other countries to produce many of our US Navy

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Speaker 5: vessels and to help us with key components. So I've

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Speaker 5: worked together working with the White House, working with colleagues

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Speaker 5: on both sides of the aisle, working with our labor

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Speaker 5: unions and members of the private sector, and even foreign

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Speaker 5: governments who want to invest in this project, friendly governments

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Speaker 5: like South Korea and Japan, to revitalize our entire shipbuilding industry,

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Speaker 5: to train the requisite workforce so that we could build

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Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty merchant vessels over the next ten

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Speaker 5: years in this country, as we rebuild the United States Navy,

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Speaker 5: and to train the next generation of merchant mariners so

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Speaker 5: that they can work on the vessels. And here again,

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Speaker 5: we are not depending on foreign nationals to carry out

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Speaker 5: this critical activity, especially in time of war scott We

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Speaker 5: depend on our merchant marine. We depend on our merchant

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Speaker 5: vessels to move our men and materiel into harm's way

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Speaker 5: whenever conflicts happen. It's not primarily through airlift capacity, it's

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Speaker 5: instead on the sea. We also depend on the sea

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Speaker 5: for so much of our commercial activity. In fact, that's

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Speaker 5: the leading and most efficient way for us to move

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Speaker 5: our fiber to market, for us to move inputs into

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Speaker 5: this country so that we can assemble them into manufactured

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Speaker 5: goods and move our goods out into the world, and

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Speaker 5: this is very much at threat. We have. We have

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Speaker 5: the capacity to manufacture one merchant vessel a year. In fact,

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Speaker 5: last year we manufactured just one whole vessel in the

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Speaker 5: United States. We have the capacity and I'm sorry, did

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Speaker 5: you ask me why or why?

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Speaker 3: I said, wow, honestly, I can't believe it. One vessels.

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Speaker 5: It's really pretty remarkable that we've lost this ability. It

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Speaker 5: goes back a number of decades. There are a lot

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Speaker 5: of reasons for this. But first the Japanese started subsidizing

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Speaker 5: their shipbuilding capacities, and they did it for issues of

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Speaker 5: national and economic security. Then the Japanese started to lose

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Speaker 5: business to our friends in South Koreans who also subsidized

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Speaker 5: their shipping industry. We need to reshore much of that.

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Speaker 5: China has a remarkable capacity to make ships. They can

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Speaker 5: produce over one thousand vessels a year. They have fifty

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Speaker 5: five hundred vessels in ocean going traffic. We have eighty,

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Speaker 5: so by producing another two fifty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well, I hate to cut you off. The

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Speaker 3: show is coming to an end. What you have just

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Speaker 3: laid out is shocking to me. But I'm glad you're

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Speaker 3: on it because we got to make more ships. That's

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Speaker 3: Todd Young from Indiana. Come back tomorrow. We're broadcasting from

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Speaker 3: the White House Scott Jennings here on the Salem Radio

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