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Speaker 1: It was announced yesterday that Speaker of the House Mike

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Speaker 1: Johnson and Leader John Thun of the Senate have come

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Speaker 1: up with a compromise measure to get the Department of

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security funded and open. They are going to take

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Speaker 1: that original bill that the Senate had sent over to

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Speaker 1: the House that funds Department of Homeland Security except for

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Speaker 1: ICE and the Border Patrol. They'll pass it in the House,

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Speaker 1: and then the House will immediately go through the process

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Speaker 1: of reconciliation. They'll have a reconciliation bill that funds the

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Speaker 1: ICE and Border Patrol through the end of this Trump term.

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Speaker 1: And also they've announced that there will be another reconciliation

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Speaker 1: built later in the year for some of the other

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Speaker 1: things that they wanted to get done. So that's the

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Speaker 1: plan right now. And it appears that the thaw of

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Speaker 1: the ice between the Senate and the House was affected

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Speaker 1: by the efforts of President Donald Trump. He picked up

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Speaker 1: the phone, he said, yeah, I know this is a

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Speaker 1: turd sandwich, but I need you to go ahead and

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Speaker 1: do it, because that's the only way we can get

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Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security funded, and that's the only

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Speaker 1: way that we can move forward. And so the president

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Speaker 1: utilized his influence and his charisma to get it done.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this morning, Chuck Schumer on CNN was asked about

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Speaker 1: the president's involvement in getting the department funded. Here's what

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Speaker 1: he said, and we're gonna get to that story in

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Speaker 1: just one minute. But first, you know, we talk about

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Speaker 1: government fraud and waste a lot here on the program,

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Speaker 1: and for Medicare enrollees, well, they become a prime target

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Speaker 1: of fraudulent activity. You probably saw in the news recently

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Speaker 1: that Trump's doj went after some of the largest Medicare

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Speaker 1: brokers in the country for claiming they were unbiased all

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Speaker 1: the while they were secretly steering people into the plans

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Speaker 1: that paid them the most. And the part that people

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Speaker 1: need to understand is in a lot of cases that

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Speaker 1: behavior is legal, but it doesn't mean it's in your

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Speaker 1: best interest. A lot of agents aren't really working for you.

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Speaker 1: They're working for the insurance company. And that's why I

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Speaker 1: point people, including my own mother, to chapter Chapter does

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Speaker 1: medicare differently. Their advisors are SUD so they're not pushing

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Speaker 1: plans based on commissions. In fact, they're the only Medicare

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Speaker 1: advisor that actually compares every plan available nationwide, not just

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Speaker 1: the select few. There's no cost to talk to them,

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Speaker 1: and in most cases they can review your options in

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Speaker 1: about twenty minutes. So if you're turning sixty five or

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Speaker 1: already on medicare called chapter the numbers five eight zero

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Speaker 1: watching this show, I can't think of a better use

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Speaker 1: of twenty minutes. Now back to the video.

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Speaker 3: President Trump's new order, as you know, to pay all

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Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security employees will provide welcome relief for

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Speaker 3: these workers, especially the TSA workers. Do you give him

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Speaker 3: any credit for that, Senator.

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Speaker 4: No, We've been trying to do it for three weeks.

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Speaker 1: No, I won't give him any credit, no credit at all.

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Speaker 3: What do you say to those critics who argue that

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Speaker 3: both ICE and Border Patrol are already set with funding

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Speaker 3: millions and millions of dollars because of President Trump's so

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Speaker 3: called big beautiful bill that passed months ago. So Democrats

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Speaker 3: just held up this legislation for what for political posturing?

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 4: Well, that's not fair at all. We held it up

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Speaker 4: because we wanted, as I mentioned before, to reform ICE

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Speaker 4: and CPB, which are lawless. The American people are totally

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Speaker 4: on our side. I think by two to one or

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Speaker 4: close to that. They want it reformed, and that's what

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Speaker 4: we're pushing for.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to.

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Speaker 4: Fund a lawless ICE and a lawless CPB, and the

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Speaker 4: American people are overwhelmingly on our side on that.

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Speaker 1: Oh God, if only I were Wolf Blitzer. God, what

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Speaker 1: a waste of teleprompter talent is Wolf Blitzer? Wolf? Set

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Speaker 1: aside for a minute, Can I jump in? Tag me in?

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Speaker 1: Tag me in? Wolf? Can I take this? Oh? Good?

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. So you held up DHS funding

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Speaker 1: because you wanted reforms, and now the DHAS funding is

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Speaker 1: going through after you shut it down for over forty days.

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Speaker 1: So tell me, Senator Schumer, what reforms did you get?

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Speaker 1: He got nothing? He got nothing, So so you shut

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Speaker 1: it down for nothing? No, no, no, we did it

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Speaker 1: because we wanted reforms. Okay, what reforms did you get?

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Speaker 1: We got nothing? So you shut it down for nothing?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: We want Yes, we can go on and on like this.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you another thing you just said, Senator Schumer.

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Speaker 1: If I remember it, that two out of three Americans

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Speaker 1: support you in the reforms, right, that's correct? Two out

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Speaker 1: of three. Well, did you know that four out of

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Speaker 1: five Americans support Republicans on the Save Act? So, if

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Speaker 1: that's the game we're playing, and you think you should

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Speaker 1: have your way because a poll shows two out of

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Speaker 1: three support your reforms to ice, why aren't you moving

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Speaker 1: forward with the Save Act to ensure that only citizens

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Speaker 1: can vote. Huh, I'm sorry, Senator Schumer. Did we lose

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Speaker 1: a connection here?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Shoot, all right, Wolf, come on back. We lost him.

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Speaker 1: Schumer's counterpart, John Thune, was doing I guess a victory

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Speaker 1: lap on Fox News, but I got a hand it

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Speaker 1: to Dana Perino held his feet to the fire on

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Speaker 2: Well. I never speak for the White House or for

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Speaker 2: the my colleagues in the House. I try to focus

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Speaker 2: on our working here in the Senate data. But there

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Speaker 2: have been lots of conversations that have gone on the

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Speaker 2: last few days. I've been in touch, spoken with the

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Speaker 2: White House and with the Speaker multiple times, and I

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Speaker 2: think what everybody realizes that you know, we have to

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Speaker 2: do this now without Democrat votes, and the way to

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Speaker 2: do that, obviously is to do it through the budget reconciliation.

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Speaker 2: But because everything is funded until the end of the

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Speaker 2: fiscal year. All that does is make sure that in

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Speaker 2: future years those agencies also have funding. So it's a

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Speaker 2: you know, it's a complicated, as you point out process,

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Speaker 2: And certainly in the Senate, where we have procedures that

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Speaker 2: require supermajorities, you have to have some Democrats, and in

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Speaker 2: this case, the Democrats, after we negotiated with them for

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Speaker 2: forty days on reforms, made it very clear they didn't

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Speaker 2: really want reforms, and as Bill pointed out in the

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Speaker 2: lead up to this, they got zero of that. So

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Speaker 2: they wanted all these restrictions on law enforcement agencies, on

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Speaker 2: ICE and CBP, they got none of that. They walked

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Speaker 2: beginning that they didn't want to do anything to fund

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Speaker 2: either one of these agencies because that is what their

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Speaker 2: left wing base is demanding. They own a party now,

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Speaker 2: a party of open borders and defund law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but Chuck Schumer is running around town saying that

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Speaker 1: John Thune caved by the way, I just wonder you

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Speaker 1: have respectful and how kindly John Thune is, well, my kid,

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Speaker 1: looks like we're gonna have to do this without Democrat votes,

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Speaker 1: you know, But he doesn't have a darn nasty thing

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Speaker 1: to say about his friends over on that side of

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Speaker 1: the aisle. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer's running around town saying, Foon caved.

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Speaker 1: I own Foon. I got Foon's family jewels right here

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Speaker 1: in my hand. I'm just gonna squeeze and he'll do

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Speaker 1: whatever I want. That's what Chuck Schumer's doing right now.

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Speaker 1: So how does fun respond.

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Speaker 2: A party of open borders and defund law enforcement.

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Speaker 3: Schumer said, you caved, did you?

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Speaker 1: No, we didn't cave.

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Speaker 2: I mean, ultimately, what the Democrats did. They you can

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Speaker 2: say this was all about for forty days, and I

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Speaker 2: was a part of a lot of those meetings. For

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Speaker 2: forty days. It was all about quote reforms, restrictions on

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Speaker 2: couldn't do. They got none of that. They got zero

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Speaker 2: of the reforms that they were advocating for. In the end,

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Speaker 2: this was all about their left wing base demanding that

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Speaker 2: no funding be provided. The good news for US is

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Speaker 2: we saw this coming and we pre funded this last summer.

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Speaker 2: So ICE and CBP are funded and will be funded

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Speaker 2: at the end of the fiscal year, and then we'll

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Speaker 2: we'll plus up and add to those accounts to make

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Speaker 2: sure they're funded in future years.

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Speaker 1: Oh, everybody, they're going to plus up. I fine, I

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Speaker 1: mean he's right. Schumer didn't get anything that he wanted,

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Speaker 1: but he also put the country through pain and misery

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Speaker 1: for a month and a half and we're kind of

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Speaker 1: right where we would have been at the beginning of this.

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Speaker 1: I mean when Senator Thune says we saw this coming.

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Speaker 1: If you saw this coming, then why didn't we just

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Speaker 1: passed the Modified Homeland Security Authorization or Appropriations Bill like

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Speaker 1: in the first week, since you knew you were never

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Speaker 1: going to get Democrat votes and just be done with it.

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Speaker 1: It's a good question. I can't answer it. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a senator, certainly not a leader. Kelly Johnson