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Speaker 1: The voice of free speech, the truth delivered, common sense

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

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Speaker 1: It's a pivotal day for Iran.

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Speaker 2: We'll have the latest on talks between the Americans and

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Speaker 2: the regime. Vice President jd Vance tackling fraud, starting with

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Speaker 2: Minnesota Mayor Mom Donnie says no charges for the mob

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Speaker 2: that attack the New York City police officers. And John

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Speaker 2: James of Michigan joins the show. It is Thursday, February

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Speaker 2: twenty six. This is common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings is reporting to you from your nation's capital.

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 2: There were three hours of talks between US and Iranian officials.

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Speaker 2: These are indirect talks that have ended in Geneva today.

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Speaker 2: The results of the talks are unclear. This is the

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Speaker 2: third time they have spoken, and today's round scene is

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Speaker 2: crucial to averting war in the Middle East, as President

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Speaker 2: Trump has ordered a massive buildup of military firepower in

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Speaker 2: the region. It's Witkoff and Kushner engaging in talks. For

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Speaker 2: the American side. The case for war revolves around a

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Speaker 2: few issues. The Iranian regimes continued pursuit of nuclear weapons,

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Speaker 2: the regimes, build up of intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the

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Speaker 2: regimes mass murder of protesters in the streets. Now of

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Speaker 2: particular note these ICBMs, these missiles. This is a major

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Speaker 2: issue for the Israelis and also for the Americans. But

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Speaker 2: will the Iranians give them up? We'll see, But if

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Speaker 2: they will not, this is probably something the Allies cannot

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Speaker 2: live with. There is some reporting out there this morning

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Speaker 2: that the Americans want the Israelis to strike first if

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Speaker 1: No deal to be had. We'll keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: all of this today.

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Speaker 2: And while this is going on, US negotiators are meeting

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Speaker 2: with Ukrainian officials today discussing a quote prosperity package for

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Speaker 2: the reconstruction of Ukraine. At the State of the Union

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday, President Trump announced that Vice President JD. Vance

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Speaker 2: is spearheading a new fraud task force, and Vance has

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Speaker 2: hit the ground running tackling the issues in Minnesota. Here's

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Speaker 2: the Vice President making some news at cut number three.

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Speaker 3: So we're announcing today that we have decided to temp

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Speaker 3: temporarily halt certain amounts of medicaid funding that are going

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Speaker 3: to the state of Minnesota. In order to ensure that

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Speaker 3: the State of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be

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Speaker 3: good stewards of the American people's tax money. Now, what

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Speaker 3: is this going to mean. What this means is that,

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Speaker 3: first of all, the providers on the ground in Minnesota

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Speaker 3: have actually already been paid. The state has paid those

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Speaker 3: until the state government takes its obligations seriously to stop

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Speaker 3: the fraud that's being perpetrated against the American tax.

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Speaker 1: The amount of money in play here nearly two hundred

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Speaker 1: Vance is on the road today speaking in Plover, Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: still banging this fraud drum. Here's the Vice president just

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Speaker 1: a few minutes ago and cut number nine.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'm here to tell you that the job of

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Speaker 3: your government is not to open your borders and allow

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Speaker 3: fraudsters to come in.

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Speaker 4: And take advantage of you.

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Speaker 3: The job of your government is to shut the border

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Speaker 3: and shut.

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Speaker 1: Off the fraud. And that's exactly what.

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Speaker 3: We're doing in the Trump administration.

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Speaker 2: Vice President Vance in Wisconsin today, New York City. Did

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Speaker 2: you see the video of the angry mob pelting police

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Speaker 2: officers with snowballs. I'm sure you did. A few officers

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Speaker 6: He was one that got out of hand.

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Speaker 2: But that's what it was, snowball fight, mister Mayor, he

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Speaker 2: Tell that to the cops who wound up in the hospital.

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Speaker 2: Members of the House Oversight Committee will be in Chappaqua,

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Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton goes today. Bill Clinton is deposed tomorrow. And

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Speaker 2: This afternoon. Let's go out to Los Angeles. Everyone there

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Speaker 2: talking about the FBI raid on the superintendent of schools.

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Speaker 2: This happened yesterday at the home of Superintendent Alberto Carver Hollow.

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Speaker 2: The Board of Education in LA has responded by calling

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Speaker 2: This appears to be a wide, sprawling investigation now. Carba

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Speaker 2: Hollow has led the LA school system, the nation's second largest,

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Speaker 2: Feds are being rather tight lipped about the nature of

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Speaker 2: Another example by the way of Democrats and their allegiance

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Speaker 2: to illegal aliens, this time in Oregon, where the state

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Speaker 2: Senate held to vote yesterday on whether the state should

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Speaker 2: notify federal authorities if an illegal imaigrant is convicted of murder, rape,

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Speaker 2: All eighteen Senate Democrats and the Oregon Legislature voted no.

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Speaker 2: seems Democrats want violent illegal aliens released into Oregon's communities

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Speaker 2: instead of released into federal custody. Now, ICE does remain

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Speaker 2: and incredibly incredibly, in one city, ten thousand, eight hundred

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Speaker 2: it seems, maybe whistling past the graveyard on the politics

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Speaker 2: Let's look at the latest data. Here's CNN's polling director

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Speaker 2: Harry Anton in cut number four.

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Speaker 7: This, I think is so important to note. After all

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Speaker 7: on immigration, can Democrats actually take advantage on this issue?

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Speaker 7: And a look at the polling suggests actually no, They're

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Speaker 7: Democrats had an edge of about six points.

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Speaker 8: Now look at that Republicans are the ones who have

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Speaker 6: So this whole idea that.

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Speaker 8: the immigration group of the immigration issue actually does empaar

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Speaker 2: Friend of the show, Harrietton from CNN going over the

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Speaker 2: latest immigration polling. You should remember that, by the way,

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Speaker 2: the next time a Democratic pundit or a media person

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday, February twenty sixth, Common Sense for the

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much, great, great to be here.

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday, February twenty sixth Scott Jennings here common

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Speaker 2: sense for the American people. As you may know, I

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Speaker 2: coming back to the Scott Jenny Show, mister James, welcome back, sir,

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Speaker 5: Hey Scott, thanks for having me back on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so fun to be up in Michigan

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Speaker 5: Sure, we know that Michigan is going to be the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you were in the audience obviously for the State

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Speaker 2: Announcements about what they're doing in Minnesota. You know, based

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Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you what. As governor, this is the

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Speaker 5: Well, I took a constituent who's hard working. She has

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Speaker 5: You see these heartwarming pictures of heroes, people who've persevered,

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Speaker 5: people who've shown what the American condition is. And many

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Speaker 5: of them who President Trump was highlighting, they weren't born

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Speaker 5: in this country. They're people who we were welcomed in,

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Speaker 5: who assimilated, people who've had their loved ones murdered. And

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Speaker 5: when President Trump took the opportunity to reach across the

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Speaker 5: aisle to give everyone, regardless of party, the opportunity to

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Speaker 5: stand in solidarity with them, mayor people asking do you

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Speaker 5: stand with the American people or do you stand with

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Speaker 5: the illegal immigrants who broke our laws? Democrats did nothing.

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Speaker 5: And I think right then that was the microcosm that

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Speaker 5: captured the entire scene in the Nier state of the

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Speaker 5: United States of America. Democrats stand for nothing. They didn't

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Speaker 5: stand in that chamber that day, and they do not

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Speaker 5: stand for the American people in each every day since

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Speaker 5: then and afterward. And so now we have the remarkable

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Speaker 5: opportunity to stand for the American people. And President Trump

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Speaker 5: gave us the opportunity to see that it was laid bare.

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Speaker 5: And now we have the opportunity to go in and

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Speaker 5: show people of who really stands for them, and I

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Speaker 5: believe it's conservatives across the country.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, truly a stunning moment when Democrats wouldn't stand up

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Speaker 2: and affirm that their highest duty is to protect the

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Speaker 2: American people. I suspect we're going to see that in

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Speaker 2: campaign ads across the country. Maybe we'll even see a

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Speaker 2: few of those in Michigan, because I just you know,

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Speaker 2: I would I would call it in eighty twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's one hundred to nothing issue.

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Speaker 2: I think most Americans would think your highest duty is

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Speaker 2: an elected official, is to American citizens. The President talked

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Speaker 2: a little bit about his administration's effort to stop this

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Speaker 2: public funding of all of this transgender mutilation of children,

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Speaker 2: this surgery going on on minors. In fact, he also

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Speaker 2: had someone in the audience who had undergone, you know,

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Speaker 2: every time I hear the story, you know, this crazy

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Speaker 2: situation where the school tried to transition the girl and

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Speaker 2: they didn't tell the parents, and then she was taken

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Speaker 2: away from the parents and they had to try to

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Speaker 2: use the proper pronouns to get her back.

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Speaker 1: It was a crazy story.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the girl was ultimately rescued and her life

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Speaker 2: I think is going to turn out okay. But that's

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Speaker 2: not true for everybody. I'm going to connect this to Michigan.

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Speaker 2: This just end of the show. Governor Whitmer is apparently

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Speaker 2: vowing to block any legislation targeting she says the LGBTQ

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Speaker 2: community directly challenging President Trump State of the Union call

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Speaker 2: to ban minor's gender transitions without parental consent. Do you

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Speaker 2: care to comment on the governor here taking on the

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Speaker 2: president over you know, these childhood transition surgeries. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, congressmen, most of the major medical associations are

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Speaker 2: even now saying we got to put a stop to this.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so we heard no kings from Democrats, but apparently

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Speaker 5: queens are.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 5: Apparently no one's above the law until you don't agree

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Speaker 5: with the law, and you're a Democrat, and you can

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Speaker 5: just ignore that. I believe very, very firmly, and we

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Speaker 5: have constitutional precedent that establishes that our rights are endowed

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Speaker 5: to us by our creator and they're guaranteed by the government.

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Speaker 5: The very first relationship that the Good Lord established was

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Speaker 5: a relationship between himself and man. The second was between

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Speaker 5: man and woman. The third was between parents and children.

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Speaker 5: Scott hear me. Clearly, children cannot consent. Two parents have

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Speaker 5: a right to know.

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Speaker 6: Three.

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Speaker 5: If adults cannot confront adults or approach adults about sex

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Speaker 5: at work, then why is it that it's okay for

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Speaker 5: Gretchen Whitmer to say that it's okay for adults to

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Speaker 5: approach children about sex at school. We need to protect

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Speaker 5: the innocence of children, which is why I released my

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Speaker 5: Parental Bill of Rights in the State of Michigan to

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Speaker 5: reaffirm that the government's role is essentially to respect the

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Speaker 5: relationship and to protect the relationship between parents and children.

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Speaker 5: And under no circumstances do state laws or anything trump frankly,

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Speaker 5: constitutional law, common sense, and natural order. I absolutely will

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Speaker 5: protect every person, man, woman, boy and girl. But above all,

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Speaker 5: nobody is in a better position to protect our children

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Speaker 5: than their parents themselves. I will stand with parents, I

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Speaker 5: will stand with children and making sure they get the

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Speaker 5: help that they require. But under no circumstances should we

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Speaker 5: be putting our children in situations where they can be

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Speaker 5: targeted by predators or exploited by people who would use

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Speaker 5: this for their political game.

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Speaker 2: You were in the room for the State of the Union.

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Speaker 2: The President talked a lot about the economy, talked a

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Speaker 2: lot about his tax cuts, which you voted for last

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Speaker 2: summer in the Working Family tax cuts bill, the one

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Speaker 2: big beautiful bill. Did you hear enough from the president

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Speaker 2: and give us a little update from Michigan. How are

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Speaker 2: the new policies, this transition from the horrible Biden economy

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Speaker 2: to the new Trump plan? How's it working out for

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Speaker 2: Michigan in your opinion?

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Speaker 5: Well, the best thing that I heard out of President Trump,

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Speaker 5: and there were a lot of great things. I'm a

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Speaker 5: little bit biased, but I actually have a bill that

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Speaker 5: I'm working through in Congress, Patients Deserve Price Tax, which

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Speaker 5: is going to increase transparency, which is going to hold

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Speaker 5: hospitals and insurance companies accountable who they are, astronomical prices

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Speaker 5: and the fact that they cover these things up. And

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Speaker 5: it's going to do a couple of things. It's going

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Speaker 5: to give patients the control of what they do with

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Speaker 5: their money and make the decisions but what they do

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Speaker 5: with their lives. This is going to lower health care debt,

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Speaker 5: This is going to increase quality of care, this is

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Speaker 5: going to decrease prices, and it's going to hold these

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Speaker 5: multi billion dollar conglomerates accountable for what they say they're

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Speaker 5: going to do, and hopefully move toward a healthier society.

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Speaker 5: And President Trump talked about price transparency in his State

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Speaker 5: of the Union address, and I think that's just so important.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to be working with my colleagues in Congress

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Speaker 5: to get that done, and pushing that forward as well

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Speaker 5: in Michigan will be increasingly important because health care costs

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Speaker 5: are something that another Democrat lie when Obama got out

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Speaker 5: there and said, if you like your doctor, you can

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Speaker 5: keep them. If you like your health care, you can

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Speaker 5: keep it, and that ended up being the biggest lie

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Speaker 5: of twenty twelve. Well, we can do better, and we

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Speaker 5: will do better. We've already cut fraud, waste and abuse,

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Speaker 5: where where criminals essentially we're stealing money from the sickest

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Speaker 5: and neediest Americans, folks who are struggling. These are programs

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Speaker 5: that were meant for poor people and for sick people.

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Speaker 5: And by cutting fraud, waste and abuse, we're guaranteeing Medicaid,

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Speaker 5: We're guaranteeing Medicare, We're guaranteeing Social Security and SNAP. We're

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Speaker 5: guaranteeing those benefits for Americas who need them the most.

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Speaker 2: As Congressman John James of Michigan, the leading candidate for

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Speaker 2: governor of Michigan. According to the latest polling averages, Congressman

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Speaker 2: will have you back. We're paying close attention to Michigan

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Speaker 2: this year. Thanks for your time today. We will take

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Speaker 2: a break when we come back. I've got somebody who

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Speaker 2: signed up to be a snowshoveler in New York. We'll

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Speaker 2: hear about that next.

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Speaker 1: You know something.

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Speaker 2: Universities are kind of a bad deal. Six figures of

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Speaker 2: debt for a bachelor's degree. That signals less every year,

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Speaker 2: four years spent navigating ideological rules instead of learning how

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Speaker 2: to think. Grades inflated standards, lowered, dissent punished. We call

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Speaker 2: it higher education, but it's mostly expensive daycare with a

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Speaker 2: credential attached. The University of Austin, also known as uat X,

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Speaker 2: is different, however. Admissions at UATX are based on test

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Speaker 2: scores alone, no essays, no resumes, nobody cares who your

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Speaker 2: parents know.

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Speaker 1: If you're smart enough, you're in UATX. Students turned down

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Speaker 1: U Chicago and fled Barnard to complete a demanding great

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Speaker 1: books core, including Aristotle, Shakespeare to Tokville, alongside real math, science, economics,

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Speaker 1: and AI classes are small Professors actually know your name.

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Speaker 1: Grades aren't padded. Excellence is measured and rewarded from day one.

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Speaker 1: Students work directly with top founders, investors, and institutions, building companies,

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Speaker 1: doing serious research, and landing real internships.

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Speaker 2: Then here's the part that changes everything. There is no tuition.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to private donors, every UATX student graduates debt free.

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Speaker 2: You're free to take risks, free to start companies, and

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Speaker 2: free to build a life instead of paying off loans.

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Speaker 2: If you want an empty credential, look elsewhere. If you

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Speaker 2: want a serious education that actually prepares you to lead,

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Speaker 2: apply to the University of Austin. Visit Ustin dot org.

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Speaker 2: That's you, Austin dot org.

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Speaker 9: When he's done in the Oval office, are owning the

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Speaker 9: libs On CNN, he's here with us.

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Speaker 6: It's the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 2: Thursday, February twenty six, Common Sense for the American people

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Speaker 2: home stretch of the first hour here. So this week

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Speaker 2: New York City Mayor Mom Donnie put out a call

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Speaker 2: for New Yorkers to come help shovel snow in the

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Speaker 2: next big snow blizzard they had. The program seemed relatively

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Speaker 2: mundane until folks began reading the fine print. Anyone wanting

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Speaker 2: to shovel snow had to show up with two forms

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Speaker 2: of ID. It seems you need more ID to shovel

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Speaker 2: snow than you do to vote, according to some Democrats.

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Speaker 2: After hearing about all of this, our next guest decided

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Speaker 2: he should put on his snow gear and see what

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Speaker 2: the hype was all about. Josh Code is the assistant

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Speaker 2: editor of the Free Press, here to discuss the snow

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Speaker 2: removal efforts in New York City.

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Speaker 1: Josh, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: Tell us what was it like to sign up to

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Speaker 2: be one of Mom Donnie's citizen snow shovelers.

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Speaker 11: Scott, thank you so much for having me, and the

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Speaker 11: experience was what I can only describe as a bizarre

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Speaker 11: yet heartwarming journey through the city of bureaucracy. I was

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Speaker 11: one of the thousands of snow shovelers who showed up

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Speaker 11: eager to serve on Tuesday, the day after we received

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Speaker 11: sixteen inches of snow, and I showed up bright and

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Speaker 11: early around eight thirty am. I had my two forms

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Speaker 11: of idea in my Social security guard and I wondered,

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Speaker 11: because website originally said that you needed two small passport

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Speaker 11: photos that I would maybe have to go get those,

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Speaker 11: but Department of Sentation Press guide told me no, no,

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Speaker 11: we've waive the requirement for the photos. And Mamdani himself

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Speaker 11: only he said, only bring two forms of idea and

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Speaker 11: you'll get paid. So I thought it was all good,

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Speaker 11: and I waited around for about half an hour. Is

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Speaker 11: one of the first guys there. I was ready to go.

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Speaker 11: There was about a couple dozen other guys there with me,

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Speaker 11: and I give my paperwork to one of the workers

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Speaker 11: and she says, oh, no, we need those photos. And

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Speaker 11: so I basically went on this wild goose chase where

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Speaker 11: I went to CBS another CBS, got my photos, brought

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Speaker 11: him back. Waited for another hour, and by the time

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Speaker 11: I touched his shovel, I had been there waiting or

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Speaker 11: running around for two hours or no, it was actually

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Speaker 11: three hours, my mistake. But I got out there and

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Speaker 11: I shoveled. It was a good crew guys, lots of

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Speaker 11: different people, not just the Mamdani supporters, but just people

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Speaker 11: looking for a good job. You know, the market's not

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Speaker 11: great out there, and people made some honest work that day.

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Speaker 11: It was overall a great crew and a great time.

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Speaker 2: Did a bunch of people show up to do this.

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Speaker 2: Was it a large group that came down to city Hall.

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Speaker 11: So it was a large group. And there were actually

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Speaker 11: a different sanitation outposts that you could show up at.

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Speaker 11: I think that they were about a dozen or more.

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Speaker 11: I went to the one that was closest to my apartment,

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Speaker 11: and over the course of the day they sent out

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Speaker 11: multiple groups of guys to shovel It was sally guys.

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Speaker 11: There were I think a handful of women I saw

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Speaker 11: that day, but I would say that there were probably

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Speaker 11: about one hundred that went through the sanitation garage that

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Speaker 11: I showed up at and across the city that day.

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Speaker 11: According to the department's sanitation there were seventeen hundred.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen hundred people And what was the Remind me what

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Speaker 1: was the hourly rate for snowshoveling on the blizzard?

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Speaker 11: The hourly rate was thirty dollars an hour of starting,

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Speaker 11: and after forty hours of shoveling, you could make up

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Speaker 11: to forty five dollars an hour.

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Speaker 2: No kidding, Okay, so lots of people showed up, but

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Speaker 2: not an insignificant amount of money. Maybe Josh, just give

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Speaker 2: us your overall impression of dealing with the city of bureaucracy.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like they might have been a little unprepared

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Speaker 2: for what they were trying to do. But after your experience,

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Speaker 2: do you regard the thing as a positive experience a

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Speaker 2: negative experience? Kind of give us a give us a

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Speaker 2: distillation after you've had a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: To think about it.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, of course, I think it was at first frustrating

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Speaker 11: to get the wrong information and then have to go

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Speaker 11: out and get passport photos to work. But you know,

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Speaker 11: I waited at the DMV. I was in New York

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Speaker 11: City for four years, so I'm not naive about fibureoucracy.

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Speaker 11: It takes to run a place like this, and it

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Speaker 11: was funny. There was even a sanitation worker who told

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Speaker 11: me directly. She said, then there's not giving us the

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Speaker 11: right info. And I think that, you know, in good faith,

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Speaker 11: mister Mamdani wanted to create a program where people could

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Speaker 11: help out there make some money. And at the end

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Speaker 11: of the day, the people I met in the community

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Speaker 11: of folks that I shruggled with, there was a great

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Speaker 11: camaraderie in that, so I would say unbalanced, the program

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Speaker 11: was a net good to the city. You'll see that

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Speaker 11: a lot of the streets are pretty clear. I think

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Speaker 11: part of that might be some about freezing temperatures. But

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Speaker 11: I'm grateful for the people I met and the chance

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Speaker 11: to serve my city, and I feel like I've earned

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Speaker 11: the right to complain about the poop covered sidewalks that

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Speaker 11: have revealed themselves as the snow melted.

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Speaker 1: That voice you're hearing today Josh code.

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Speaker 2: He is assistant editor of The Free Press, a website

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Speaker 2: I consult almost every day to see what's going on

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Speaker 2: in our world. Josh, thanks for the report on the

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Speaker 2: mom Donnie snow shoveling Core in New York City. Appreciate

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Speaker 2: your time.

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Speaker 11: Of course. Thank you, Scott, and you can read my

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Speaker 11: full story at DFP dot com.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's where you find it. Our number one

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Speaker 2: is in the books. Our number two coming up. It's

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings on Salem. We're breaking news after this. If

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Speaker 2: the leftists haven't had enough yet, there's more. This is

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Speaker 2: the Scott Jennings Show. All right, It's Thursday, February twenty six,

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Speaker 2: Common Sense for the American people. Scott Jennings joining you

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Speaker 2: here on the Salem Network. Coast to coast. You can

706
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Speaker 2: also pick up this show every single day. We have

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Speaker 2: a podcast version of it. Pick that up on Apple

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Speaker 2: or Spotify, and if you are so inclined to watch

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Speaker 2: the video, you can go to SNC dot tv stands

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Speaker 2: for Salemnews Channel dot tv, and we broadcast it live

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Speaker 2: and archive it there every single day. So a lot

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Speaker 2: of ways to get common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 2: Let's do a quick check of the headlines here. The

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Speaker 2: House Oversight Committee is deposing Hillary Clinton today in Chappaqua,

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Speaker 2: New York, and they will depose former President Bill Clinton tomorrow. Now,

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Speaker 2: the deposition was briefly paused when an unauthorized photo of

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Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton was leaked out on the internet, so there

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Speaker 2: was a stoppage. But I think they are back to

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Speaker 2: talking to Hillary Clinton again. She said in her testimony

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Speaker 2: today she does not personally have any recollection of ever

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Speaker 2: having met Jeffrey Epstein. Will see what Bill Clinton has

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Speaker 2: to say tomorrow. US mortgage rates are dropping. They are

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Speaker 2: now below six percent for the first time since twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two. That's good news for home buyers. And NASA

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Speaker 2: unfortunately is hauling their moon rocket off the launchpad to

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Speaker 2: fix another malfunction. So it looks like we're going to

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Speaker 2: have another delay in the Artemis Moon mission that we've

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Speaker 2: been talking about a little bit on the show. But

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Speaker 2: hopefully NASA can get the rocket put back together and

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Speaker 2: back up on the launchpad soon. And a quick update

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Speaker 2: on a story that we brought you in the first hour.

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Speaker 2: We gave you some sound in the first hour. New

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Speaker 2: York City Mayor Mom Donnie had said that he does

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Speaker 2: not want to see anybody face any charges in this

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Speaker 2: angry mob snowball assault on New York City police officers.

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Speaker 2: He said, hey, it was just a snowball fight. Well,

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Speaker 2: he and the Police Commissioner Tish James, not Tis James,

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Speaker 2: Jessica Tish, Sorry, that is the police commissioner. They are

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Speaker 2: having a disagreement about this. And it sounds like, and

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Speaker 2: this is late breaking news that the police in fact

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Speaker 2: have arrested someone in the snowball assault in New York City.

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Speaker 2: This is from the New York Times. Police arresting a

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Speaker 2: twenty seven year old man. The man's name is Guzmain Kulabali.

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Speaker 2: He was taken into custody just a little while ago,

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Speaker 2: actually at his home in the Bronx, and he was

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Speaker 2: charged with assaulting a police officer. Obstructing governmental administration, and

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Speaker 2: disorderly conduct. This is all according to the police. The

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Speaker 2: police department is still seeking three other men, two of

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Speaker 2: them believed to be between the ages of eighteen and twenty.

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Speaker 2: They are also wanted for assault. This is interesting. This

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Speaker 2: is sort of divided to the people in New York City.

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Speaker 2: Many people were outraged and if you're watching the video feed,

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Speaker 2: you see it right now, people pelting the police with

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Speaker 2: these snowballs, hitting them in the face. People were outraged

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Speaker 2: by this, and then the mayor said, hey, nobody should

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Speaker 2: face charges, but at least one person is possibly a

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Speaker 2: couple more. You're listening to the Scott Jenning Show on Salem.

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Speaker 2: It's common Sense for the American people. Special guests now

759
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Speaker 2: coming on the show. He is the chairman of the

760
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Speaker 2: Commodity Futures Trading Commission. You may have heard of this thing.

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Speaker 2: It's called the CFTC. It is a federal agency. I

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Speaker 2: ran into him at an event the other day and

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Speaker 2: I thought we got to have this guy on. He's

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Speaker 2: got a really important job. And then lo and behold,

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Speaker 2: the next day he had a piece in the Wall

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Speaker 2: Street Journal about these prediction markets. And so this is

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Speaker 2: a timely interview. His name is Mike Selig, mister chairman.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 5: Glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for doing this.

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Speaker 2: You are and your role as chairman of the CFTC

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Speaker 2: heavily engaged in the regulation of what we call these

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Speaker 2: prediction markets.

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Speaker 1: Talk to us about the prediction markets.

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Speaker 2: What are they and what is the CFTC's job here

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Speaker 2: in regulating the operation of these things. It's polymarket, it's calcy.

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Speaker 2: People are seeing these things all over the place. Now

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Speaker 2: give us a little insight into it.

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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 12: After years of regulation by enforcement and prosecution of different

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Speaker 12: industries and the targeting of different individuals, we're going back

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Speaker 12: to common sense, very much in line with with this

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Speaker 12: radio program, and we're taking control over these markets. We're

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Speaker 12: making sure that we're putting rules and regulations in place

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Speaker 12: because these markets aren't new, They've been.

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Speaker 1: Around for a long time.

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Speaker 12: These are markets that allow individuals to place predictions on

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Speaker 12: a wide range of events. Most recently we've seen a

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Speaker 12: lot of interests in the sports markets, but these really

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Speaker 12: started out as political prediction markets. Predict it was one

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Speaker 12: of the very first where individuals could place a prediction

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Speaker 12: on the winner of an election. And we've seen we

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Speaker 12: saw it with twenty twenty four, we've seen it with

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Speaker 12: many years that the political polls oftentimes get it very

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Speaker 12: wrong and the prediction markets have gotten it completely right.

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Speaker 12: And so it's very important that we protect these markets

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Speaker 12: here in the United States. I wrote an op ed

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Speaker 12: that you mentioned a few weeks ago in the Wall

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Speaker 12: Street Journal, and we also filed a amicus brief Friends

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Speaker 12: of the Court brief in some litigation to make sure

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Speaker 12: that we continue to defend our jurisdiction over these markets.

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Speaker 2: So the issue here is there have been individual states

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Speaker 2: that are trying to regulate the prediction markets, and you're

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Speaker 2: arguing in your Wall Street Journal piece that it is

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Speaker 2: the federal government, that is the CFTC, that has the

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Speaker 2: sole jurisdiction over these regulations.

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Speaker 1: Is that correct?

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Speaker 12: That's right, And for very long we've had this federal

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Speaker 12: regime for derivatives contracts. And derivatives contracts can be on

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Speaker 12: any underlying asset. They can be on an event like

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Speaker 12: the outcome of a sports event. They can be on

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Speaker 12: a political contract, the outcome of an election. They can

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Speaker 12: be based on a securities price or wheat corn soybeans,

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Speaker 12: really virtually any The definition of commodity under our statutes

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Speaker 12: is very broad, so it's not limited just to agriculture

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Speaker 12: or metals or something like this. And so we've had

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Speaker 12: authority here since the seventies. We've been the exclusive regulator

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Speaker 12: of derivatives markets, whether they're on political events, sports events,

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Speaker 12: or anything else, and we have to defend that jurisdiction.

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Speaker 12: When I came into office as Chairman of the CFTC,

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Speaker 12: I noticed that a number of the states were suing

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Speaker 12: our registaurants and these lawsuits were very politically motivated. They

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Speaker 12: were going after lawful businesses really for concern around gambling

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Speaker 12: and a crossover of jurisdiction. And for very long these

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Speaker 12: states have had gambling regimes. Actually, at the turn of

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Speaker 12: the century, gambling and grain was a national pastime. We've

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Speaker 12: butted up against each other for very long, but really

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Speaker 12: it's time to put these fights to bed. The CFTC

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Speaker 12: is the exclusive regulator when it comes to derivatives instruments,

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Speaker 12: and it's really important that we maintain that.

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Speaker 2: Chairman, Sea League talk to me a little bit about

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Speaker 2: sports betting. We have seen, obviously in the wake a

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Speaker 2: few years ago of the Supreme Court ruling and explosion

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Speaker 2: in sports gambling. It is part of all sports coverage.

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Speaker 2: You see it in the arenas, you see it in

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Speaker 2: the stadiums. It's on virtually everyone's phone if they want

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Speaker 2: it to be on there. What is the role of

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Speaker 2: the CFTC and dealing with sports gambling? Should it be

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Speaker 2: regulated by the CFTC? And maybe just give me a

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Speaker 2: little bit of person personal opinion here. Has this explosion

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Speaker 2: in sports gambling led to some unforeseen problems in our society?

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Speaker 12: Well, the gambling aspect is really a state level issue,

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Speaker 12: and we're not waiting into that. I know there's a

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Speaker 12: lot of similarity between certain of our products because they

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Speaker 12: can get into virtually any underlying asset, including a sporting event,

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Speaker 12: but these are different products. At the state level, you've

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Speaker 12: got gambling associations and state level gaming regulators that are

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Speaker 12: really focused on the entertainment business on these casinos, making

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Speaker 12: sure that they have certain protections and that they have

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Speaker 12: certain licenses in place, so each state collects a lot

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Speaker 12: of tax revenue from these operations. They allow them to

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Speaker 12: effectively operate a quasi monopolistic type business where you need

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Speaker 12: the license to operate within the state. It's an intrast

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Speaker 12: state business and you're placing bets with a bookie. It's

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Speaker 12: not the same thing as what we regulate, which is

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Speaker 12: a federal regime for drivens contracts. So these are structured

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Speaker 12: products with a sporting event as the underlying assets. But

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Speaker 12: they can be entered into and exited out like any

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Speaker 12: other contract, any other position on a derivatives exchange. They

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Speaker 12: go through a clearinghouse, which means that the clearinghouse stands

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Speaker 12: in between each purchaser and seller of a contract, and

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Speaker 12: there's a lot of investor protection regulation. There's a lot

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Speaker 12: of marketing requirements and so on and so forth.

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Speaker 5: So this is a very robust regime. These are regulated the.

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Speaker 12: Same way as any of our other exchanges, and it's

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Speaker 12: a five hundred trillion notional derivatives market in the US.

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Speaker 12: This isn't really a small operation. We do a ton

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Speaker 12: of surveillance and protecting of our markets, so what we're

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Speaker 12: looking at is very different than what of state operations

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Speaker 12: looking at. We're really concerned about protecting our investors and

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Speaker 12: what products people should be trading. That's really been this

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Speaker 12: paternalistic democrat view of merit based regulation where they've gone

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Speaker 2: As Chairman Mike Seelig, head of the CFTC in the

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Speaker 2: us today, appreciate your time. We'll check back with you

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Speaker 2: relief factor. All right, another story you may have seen

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Speaker 2: on your television in the last few weeks, students across

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Speaker 2: the country staging walkouts from their school around these ICE protests.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure a lot of people looked at this and said, well,

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Speaker 2: maybe this is just kids being kids. As it turns out,

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Speaker 2: there is something more sinister brewing underneath all of these protests.

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Speaker 2: And there is a new piece in the Washington Free

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Speaker 2: Beacon entitled Marxist Leninist group that organized anti Israel encampments

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Speaker 2: is now teaching high school students to walk out of

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Speaker 2: class and protest ICE. Joining us to discuss this new reporting,

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Speaker 2: our friend here at the show, Alana Goodman, a senior

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Speaker 2: investigative reporter for the Washington Free Beacon.

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Speaker 1: Alana, welcome back to the show. You're keeping tabs on

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Speaker 1: all of this what's the story today, I am.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, thanks for having me. So, the Party for Socialism

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Speaker 13: and Liberation, which is a Marxist Leninist group. They've been

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Speaker 13: a key player in the anti Israel movement that we've

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Speaker 13: seen in college campuses, helping to organize these illegal encampments.

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Speaker 13: Well now there we found out that they're also behind

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Speaker 13: these anti ice protests, particularly trying to organize high school

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Speaker 13: students into coming out, staging walkouts at their schools, and

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Speaker 13: doing other types of activism on this. So this is

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Speaker 13: very interesting that they've kind of pivoted now from the

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Speaker 13: Israel stuff to now focusing on ice.

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Speaker 2: Well it's been my contention that it's really all the

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Speaker 2: same people and the same tactics, just wearing a different costume.

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Speaker 2: You know, a while back, it was Black Lives Matter,

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Speaker 2: then it became Free Palestine.

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Speaker 1: Now it's this anti ice protest.

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Speaker 2: This group that you're talking about, the Party for Socialism

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Speaker 2: and Liberation, the PSL. I thought it was interesting in

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Speaker 2: your story there's this person named Elias Rodriguez, if you

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Speaker 2: remember that name, that was the sick murderer who killed

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Speaker 2: that young couple at the Israeli embassy last year. He

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Speaker 2: was part of this PSL group that is now trying

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Speaker 2: to get these high school kids involved in these radical

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Speaker 2: protests against Dice.

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Speaker 1: Is that right, Yes, he was.

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Speaker 13: He was a former member at that time. And you know,

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Speaker 13: it is really disturbing that you have these groups like

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Speaker 13: this that are holding webinars for these high school students.

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Speaker 13: You know a lot of high schoolers are still minors,

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Speaker 13: telling them to knowingly do things that could get them suspended,

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Speaker 13: potentially get them arrested, and really encouraging it and encouraging

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Speaker 13: them also to have conflict with their parents and their teachers.

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Speaker 13: During one of these webinars, which was held last week,

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Speaker 13: we got some footage from it that was obtained by

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Speaker 13: the North American Values Institute, which is a watchdog group.

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Speaker 13: They sent us some footage from this webinar, and the

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Speaker 13: adult activists with the PSL were instructing the high school

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Speaker 13: students on protests methods, telling them that, you know, their

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Speaker 13: parents were if their parents opposed them participating in these walkouts,

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Speaker 13: then they were supporting terrorists murdering people, and that they

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Speaker 13: were on the wrong side of history. So really trying

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Speaker 13: to create this divide between children and their parents and

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Speaker 13: children and their teachers. People who have these kids' best

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Speaker 13: interests at heart. So yeah, that is definitely a disturbing

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Speaker 13: part of this.

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Speaker 2: One thing that has become clear, whether it's these protesters

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Speaker 2: on the streets of Minneapolis, these kids who are being

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Speaker 2: organized to walk out of their schools. Based on your reporting, Alana,

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Speaker 2: and reporting of others, it is very clear there are

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Speaker 2: interests out there, well funded and well organized, interests who

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Speaker 2: were organizing people to try to destabilize communities and frankly,

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Speaker 2: I think destabilize the United States of America. Read all

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Speaker 2: about it in the Washington Free Beacon and reporter Alana

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Speaker 2: Goodman if you want to know what's going on in

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Speaker 2: this space, Salona is one of the best. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining us on the show today. We're going to take

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Speaker 2: a break. When we come back. US Senator John Cornin

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Speaker 2: of Texas has a blistering new ad out in the

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Speaker 2: Senate down there.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a look at it.

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Speaker 9: Quilly and leftist arguments with truth and common sense.

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Speaker 6: They hate that this is a Scott Chetting show.

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Speaker 2: All right, we need to talk about the state of Texas.

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Speaker 2: We have a major Senate race going on there. Both

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Speaker 2: parties are having primaries, getting a lot of attention. Early

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Speaker 2: voting is underway. Election Day is coming up on March third.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the Democratic side. The fight is between

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Speaker 2: Jasmine Crockett, a member of the House, and James tallerco.

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Speaker 2: Crockett appears to be the candidate of the grassroots, progressive

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Speaker 2: radical wing of the Democratic Party, while tall Rico is

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Speaker 2: the favorite of the Washington establishment Democrats. The latest independent

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Speaker 2: poll on that side of the race showed Crockett with

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Speaker 2: a twelve point lead. Now, the tall Rico campaign has

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Speaker 2: released a survey showing him up by a couple of points.

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Speaker 2: It's a close race, but a lot of folks think

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Speaker 2: Crockett is the slight favorite. Now let's talk about the

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Speaker 2: Republican side. The incumbent is Senator John Cornyn and he

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Speaker 2: faces the sitting Attorney General Ken Paxton and Congressman Wesley

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Speaker 2: Hunt in a primary, and the latest polling there shows

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Speaker 2: a very close race that may well lead to a

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Speaker 2: runoff if nobody gets above fifty percent of the vote.

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Speaker 1: Joining us now to.

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Speaker 2: Discuss the Texas Senate race and other issues is Senator

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Speaker 2: John Cornan of Texas. Senator Cornyan, Welcome back to the

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Speaker 2: Scott Shetting Show.

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Speaker 14: Great to be with you, Scott, Thanks.

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Speaker 2: For spending some time with us today. I want to

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Speaker 2: start this interview by playing a brand new television ad

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Speaker 2: that you have released in this campaign, attacking your opponent

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Speaker 2: Ken Paxton. Here, let's take a listen to cut number eight.

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Speaker 15: It's voting time, so let's cut through the bullsh Crooked

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Speaker 15: Ken Paxton cheated on his wife. She's divorcing him on

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Speaker 15: biblical grounds. So now Paxton's wrecking another home, sleeping around with.

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Speaker 1: A married mother of seven.

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Speaker 15: And remember this, Crooked Ken has increased his network by

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Speaker 15: as much as seven thousand percent since taking office, and

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Speaker 15: his actions in office even more troubling. Paxton gave millions

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Speaker 15: of Texas tax dollars to left wing organizations, including the

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Speaker 15: Montrose Center that hosts drag queen shows and performs gender

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Speaker 15: affirming services to kids as young as seven. Now, think

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Speaker 15: of the Paxton dirty deeds we don't know about yet,

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Speaker 15: the wife cheater and fraud, or the Texas workhorse. Senator

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Speaker 15: John Cordon is endorsed by the Border Control and he

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Speaker 15: voted with President Trump ninety nine percent of the time.

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Speaker 15: Cornyan got the money to finish the damn war. Texans

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Speaker 15: know what to do.

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Speaker 14: I'm John Cornyn and I approved this message to join

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Speaker 14: my team and give today.

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Speaker 2: One of the most blistering attack ads I have ever heard.

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Speaker 2: How do you think Texans are going to respond to

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Speaker 2: this message?

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Speaker 14: Well, it's all true, Scott, and you know, I've had

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Speaker 14: a lot of my constituents in Texas say they can't

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Speaker 14: believe this is actually a race. Given the baggage that

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Speaker 14: Ken Paxton brings into this race, the chance that he

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Speaker 14: would actually lose a red Senate seat in a state

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Speaker 14: like Texas in the first crack in the red wall,

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Speaker 14: and at very minimum, it would cost hundreds of millions

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Speaker 14: of dollars to try to salvage him before he the nominee,

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Speaker 14: and chances are he would end up hurting the overall ticket,

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Speaker 14: including the five new Congressionals seats that were drawn during redistricting.

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Speaker 14: So I think I can help the president in the

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Speaker 14: last two years of his term of office. I think

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Speaker 14: I can help the down ballot, and we spend money

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Speaker 14: picking up Senate seats in Georgia, Michigan, and New Hampshire.

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Speaker 2: Is it your view that if Paxton is the nominee

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Speaker 2: of the Republican Party that it would become favored for

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Speaker 2: the Democrats to win the Senate seat in Texas.

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Speaker 14: That's the only reason why Jasmine Crockett and James Tallerico

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Speaker 14: are running, because they see it once enough, actually thirty

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Speaker 14: it's been since nineteen ninety four that we have not

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Speaker 14: elected a Democrat statewide, so this would be the first chance.

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Speaker 14: And I think the reason they are running is because

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Speaker 14: they see this as an opportunity. Where can Paxton be

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Speaker 14: the nominee. But of course we're determined not to let

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Speaker 14: that happen. But as you said, it's likely to be

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Speaker 14: a runoff and the race decided on May the twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about some issues in Washington, Senator Cornyn, including

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Speaker 2: the Save America Act. There appears to be a little

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Speaker 2: bit of news on this today. It doesn't feel like,

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Speaker 2: based on what we're hearing, that there is enough support

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Speaker 2: in the Senate Republican Conference to change the rules of

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Speaker 2: the filibuster in the Senate to advance the Save America Act.

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Speaker 2: Can you tell us anything about what you know today

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Speaker 2: regarding the future of this legislation.

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Speaker 14: Well, in the normal world, which apparently we're not living

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Speaker 14: in now, given the existence to everything President Trump has

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Speaker 14: proposed or Republicans for that matter. Requiring only American citizens

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Speaker 14: to ship to vote and then requiring voter ID would

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Speaker 14: be not controversial. You've seen the public opinion polls showing

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Speaker 14: this is wildly popular. But similar to what happened during

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Speaker 14: the State of the Union when the President challenged Democrats

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Speaker 14: to stand up for law enforcement and against illegal immigration,

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Speaker 14: they sat on their hands. And here I expect the

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Speaker 14: Democrats to uniformly oppose this common sense a measure that

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Speaker 14: would actually protect the integrity of the ballot and make

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Speaker 14: sure only American citizens will the vote.

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Speaker 2: Are we going to see action on this on the

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Speaker 2: Senate floor this week? You think next week? What's the

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Speaker 2: timeline right now?

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Speaker 14: My guess is maybe next week. Senator Thune has been

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Speaker 14: trying to figure out where the conference is and as

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Speaker 14: you know, they're fifty three Republicans and sometimes it's a

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Speaker 14: little hard to herd cats and get everybody on the

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Speaker 14: same page. I think pretty much everybody is on the

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Speaker 14: same page in terms of the policy, but how we

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Speaker 14: actually accomplish it has been debated. This so called talking

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Speaker 14: filibuster idea that hasn't been tried in a long time,

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Speaker 14: has some challenges in it, and of course Senator Thu

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Speaker 14: can only do so much. He could put it on

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Speaker 14: the floor, but obviously he can't direct senators how to vote.

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Speaker 14: So trying to convince senators about how the process would

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Speaker 14: work and that it's likely to result in success has

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Speaker 14: been part of the discussion, and that discussion goes on.

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Speaker 2: I know the calendar is also an issue because you're

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Speaker 2: simultaneously dealing with the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Speaker 2: The Democrats voted to shut down DHS. That's something that

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Speaker 2: has to get dealt with. What's the latest on chats

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Speaker 2: with Democrats here, it seems like they're being rather unreasonable

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Speaker 2: on DHS.

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Speaker 14: Well, I think they've taken the wrong hostage. You know,

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Speaker 14: the hostage they took was TSA, the Transation Security Agency

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Speaker 14: that is responsible for security at the airports. Those folks

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Speaker 14: are not going to be paid, the Federal Emergency Management

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Speaker 14: Agency that deals with natural disasters and the like, and

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Speaker 14: then also the Coastguard. The fact is that in the

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Speaker 14: one big Beautiful bill, the Working Family Tax Cuts Act,

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Speaker 14: we funded ICE, we funded the Department of Homeland Security.

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Speaker 14: So while the Democrats say they're doing this to try

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Speaker 14: to control or pull back ICE and immigration enforcement. This

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Speaker 14: is entirely the wrong way to do it. Vehicle. They

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Speaker 14: can't accomplish what they say they're trying to accomplish. So

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Speaker 14: I don't know how much longer it's going to go on,

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Speaker 14: but I think it's going to go on for a

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Speaker 14: while longer at least.

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Speaker 2: If you're the nominee for Senate here for the November election,

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Speaker 2: do you anticipate being illegal immigration? You know the Democratic

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Speaker 2: position on ICE, which apparently is trending towards just abolish

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Speaker 2: ICE and get rid of all immigration enforcement. Is this

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Speaker 2: going to be the top issue for your campaign? It

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Speaker 2: seems like in Texas it might be.

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Speaker 14: Yeah. I think you know, you called it exactly right.

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Speaker 14: This is really an outgrowth of the defund police, abolish

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Speaker 14: ICE movement that's been with us for a while, with

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Speaker 14: the Democrats found out the hard way that that's not

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Speaker 14: where America was in the twenty twenty four election. And

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Speaker 14: while obviously the tragedies that occurred in Minneapolis had multiple reasons,

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Speaker 14: with Tom Homan in charge, I'm confident that these operations

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Speaker 14: could go a lot smoother and de escalate some of

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Speaker 14: the potential for conflict and violence. I don't think the

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Speaker 14: President can or should give up on enforcing the immigration laws.

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Speaker 14: That's how he was elected in twenty twenty four. And

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Speaker 14: I think the Democrats are on the wrong side of

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Speaker 14: this issue because it's important we stand with our law enforcement.

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Speaker 14: They're enforcing laws, as you know, Scott, that have been

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Speaker 14: passed by the Congress and signed in the law by

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Speaker 14: the President. This is not discretion in their part. They're

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Speaker 14: doing their duty and doing the job we've asked them

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Speaker 14: to do, and it's a dangerous job at that.

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Speaker 2: We're talking to Senator John Cornan of Texas about the

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Speaker 2: upcoming Senate race and key issues going on in Washington.

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Speaker 2: Senator continuing on here discussion about illegal immigration issues. One

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Speaker 2: of the things that has many Americans outraged right now

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Speaker 2: this idea that illegal aliens can obtain commercial driver's licenses CDLs.

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Speaker 2: We've seen a number of accidents on American roadways. People

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Speaker 2: are dying because illegal aliens who can't read road signs,

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Speaker 2: you can't speak English, you can't follow our laws, are

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Speaker 2: behind the wheel. Now you have plans, I think, to

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Speaker 2: introduce legislation that would bar illegal immigrants from getting these CDLs.

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Speaker 2: The President talked about this in the State of the

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Speaker 2: Union on Tuesday night.

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Speaker 1: What can you tell us about that?

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Speaker 14: Well, taking a cue from the President, but this is

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Speaker 14: really something that's been worked on in states like Texas.

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Speaker 14: Governor Abbott's made clear that this would not be permissible,

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Speaker 14: but as you know, in some blue states, they will

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Speaker 14: issue driver's licenses set, including commercial driver's licenses, to illegal

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Speaker 14: aliens and people that can't read basic English, much less

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Speaker 14: the road signs, and this can result in terrible tragedy

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Speaker 14: and even death. The President highlighted this with the Delilah's

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Speaker 14: situation where thankfully she was saved, but she was horribly

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Speaker 14: injured by an illegal alien who couldn't even read the

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Speaker 14: road signs. And this bill is designed to codify that

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Speaker 14: in and to make sure that people can read the

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Speaker 14: road signs and enhance public say safety.

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Speaker 2: All right, Senator John Corn of Texas is our special guest.

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Speaker 2: We've got about a minute left here. Senator, talk quickly

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Speaker 2: about energy. The President talked a little bit the other

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Speaker 2: night about these AI data centers and possibly a plan

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Speaker 2: where they would have to generate their own energy, kind

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Speaker 2: of a pay as you go plan for data centers.

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Speaker 2: I assume this is to mollify or to assuage concerns

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Speaker 2: of people about data centers driving up their own energy costs.

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Speaker 1: Have you looked into this idea much and any thoughts

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Speaker 1: on it?

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Speaker 14: Yeah. Absolutely. We've got some very large data centers being

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Speaker 14: built in Texas and the Abilene area out in West

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Speaker 14: Texas up at a Gorilla in North Texas, and concerns

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Speaker 14: are that this might drive up utility bills, particularly electricity bills,

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Speaker 14: because they would require huge amounts of electricity, but also

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Speaker 14: water too, which is a concern. So what the President recommended,

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Speaker 14: which I think makes good sense, is that these data

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Speaker 14: centers need an independent and separate energy source so that

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Speaker 14: they can provide for their own resources and it won't

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Speaker 14: harm consumers by raising electricity prices. So I know a

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Speaker 14: number of AI companies, including well a number of them

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Speaker 14: have already do this as a matter of course, but

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Speaker 14: I think this has become a requirement now and I

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Speaker 14: think what the president proposal has made good sense.

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Speaker 2: That voice you're hearing today, Senator John Cornyn of Texas,

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Speaker 2: there's a big Senate race going on in Texas. Election

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Speaker 2: day for the primary is coming up on March the third,

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Speaker 2: and then if there is a runoff in the primary

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Speaker 2: that would happen in May. Senator Cornyn, thanks for your

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Speaker 2: time today. I appreciate your insights.

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Speaker 14: Yep, thanks Scott, Thank.

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Speaker 1: You, sir.

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Speaker 2: Home stretch here on Thursday, February twenty six. Scott Jennings

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Speaker 2: here on Salem, common sense for the American people. Great

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Speaker 2: show today, Thanks to all the guests who made time

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Speaker 2: for us here on the show. In fact, one of

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Speaker 2: them was Anna Kelly, Deputy White House Press Secretary. Earlier

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Speaker 2: in the show, we talked with Anna about many of

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Speaker 2: the incredible and powerful personal stories that President Trump highlighted

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Speaker 2: during the State of the Union. I wanted to close

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Speaker 2: the show today talking about one of those individuals who

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Speaker 2: was honored. I was blown away by this story. On

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Speaker 2: Tuesday night, America was reminded of something very powerful, something

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Speaker 2: that's easy to forget in a noisy and divided world,

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Speaker 2: and that is real heroism still exists. Chief Warrant Officer

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Speaker 2: five Eric Slover stood before the nation and received the

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Speaker 2: Medal of honor, the highest military honor that I our

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Speaker 2: country can bestow, and he earned it the hard way.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about his story.

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Speaker 2: During Operation Absolute Resolve, this was the capture of the

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Speaker 2: Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro, Slover was piloting a CH forty

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Speaker 2: seven Chinook helicopter as the lead aircraft of the operation

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Speaker 2: that was tasked with executing a highly complex infiltration through

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Speaker 2: hostile integrated air defense systems to safely deliver military forces.

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Speaker 2: This guy's flying a chopper in under hostile fire. He's

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Speaker 2: got to get our guys in place and in position

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Speaker 2: to capture Maduro. This was his job. Upon touching down

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Speaker 2: at the designated landing zone, Slover's aircraft was immediately engaged

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Speaker 2: by multiple machine guns, all at very close range. This

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Speaker 2: attack resulted in fifteen armor piercing rounds entering the cockpit

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Speaker 2: and four rounds.

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Speaker 1: Struck Slover in the leg.

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Speaker 2: Four gunshot wounds to the leg as he sits in

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Speaker 2: the cockpit of this helicopter in that moment, wounded and

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Speaker 2: under direct enemy fire. What would he do? Could he

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Speaker 2: pull away and save himself? Maybe that was one choice,

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Speaker 2: but he did something different. Slover stayed at the controls,

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Speaker 2: despite his injuries, despite the danger, despite being under heavy

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Speaker 2: enemy fire, despite knowing that every second in that cockpit

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Speaker 2: made him a target, Slover maintained control of the aircraft.

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Speaker 2: He stabilized the helicopter, He continued the mission, and he

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Speaker 2: ensured that the American soldiers that were depending on him

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Speaker 2: could get out of Venezuela safely. After the force disembarked.

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Speaker 2: And despite his significant injuries that were life threatening. By

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Speaker 2: the way, Chief Warrant Officer five, Slover identified hostile heavy

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Speaker 2: machine gun positions that were engaging his aircraft and targeting

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Speaker 2: the ground forces. And then he maneuvered his aircraft to

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Speaker 2: enable the door gunner to effectively deliver fire and neutralize

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Speaker 2: the threat. So he's injured, he's got gunshot wounds to

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Speaker 2: the leg. He maneuvers his helicopter and puts his gunner

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Speaker 2: in a position to take out the military or to

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Speaker 2: take out rather the machine gun positions of the enemy.

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Speaker 2: It is absolutely remarkably he kept flying, he kept leading,

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Speaker 2: he kept fighting through this pain. He's bleeding profusely, and

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Speaker 2: he brings home his crew and his passengers alive. Remember,

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Speaker 2: not a single American lost their life in this mission.

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Speaker 2: This is real courage, its selflessness. I was so blown

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Speaker 2: away by this story because to me, Slover, this is

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Speaker 2: a Maria America at its best. The Medal of Honor

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Speaker 2: represents valor above and beyond the call of duty. It

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Speaker 2: represents the rare few who run toward danger instead of

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Speaker 2: running away from it. Slover embodies that in every way.

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Speaker 2: And Chief Bourign Officer five, Eric Slover, I think, represents

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Speaker 2: the very best of Norwich University. He's now the tenth

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Speaker 2: Norwich alumni to receive the nation's highest military decoration. That's

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Speaker 2: a small Vermont campus. They're not just educating the students there.

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Speaker 2: It apparently they're shaping America's heroes. So our hats off

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Speaker 2: to mister Slover. We saw you get the Medal of

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Speaker 2: Honor at the State of the Union. This guy is

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Speaker 2: a certified American hero. And by the way you look

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Speaker 2: at the patches and decorations on his uniform, this guy

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Speaker 2: has seen a lot of action. This man protects America.

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Speaker 2: He protects American freedom, He protects every single one of us.

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Speaker 2: If you ever see this man in a bar, just

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Speaker 2: turn your credit card over to the bartender and say

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Speaker 2: anything he wants.

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Speaker 1: It's on me.

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Speaker 2: That's what you should do for Eric Slover. That's going

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Speaker 2: to wrap up the show today. We'll be back tomorrow

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Speaker 2: broadcasting live from Memphis, Tennessee. It's common sense for the

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Speaker 2: American people. Scott Jennings signing off. See you Friday.

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Speaker 6: Common sense for the American people. This is the Scott

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Speaker 6: Jenny Show.