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Speaker 2: And I want to specifically thank.

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Speaker 1: The chairman of the Republican Study Committee in the US House,

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Speaker 1: Congressman August Fluger. He's an incredible member of the Republican

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Speaker 1: very special episode of this Scott Chenning Show. We'll have

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: Scott Jennings here on Salem on Wednesday, January of the seventh,

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Speaker 1: broadcasting live from the United States Capitol.

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Speaker 2: Here's what I thought I would do today.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a wild show today because

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Speaker 1: we have a bunch of members of Congress that want

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Speaker 1: to come by. I mentioned August Fluger, He's going to

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Speaker 1: is stopping by here now. Representative Mary Miller of Illinois

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Speaker 2: Just outside of Chicago. Welcome to the Scott Jeting Show.

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Speaker 3: Well, actually I'm two hundred miles south of Chicago. Illinois

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Speaker 2: You're two ud miles south.

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Speaker 3: Yes, my husband and I are farmers down there. I

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Speaker 3: about the opportunities. And before we get off the Illinois subject,

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Speaker 3: I want to remind the listeners that President Trump got

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Speaker 3: two hundred thousand more votes than JB.

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Speaker 4: Britzker no kidding.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you've got one of the What is it

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Speaker 3: It's super frustrating. Actually, my husband is in the House

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Speaker 3: in Illinois, so he is the chairman of the Freedom Caucus,

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Speaker 3: And about all they can do is message and target seats,

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Speaker 3: try to increase they're in the super minority, but they're

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Speaker 3: completely left out. It is a clown show they have.

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Speaker 3: In light of transparency, Illinois is avoiding every opportunity to

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Speaker 3: of the purse. So if Illinois is not going to cooperate,

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Speaker 3: I support cutting off the funding. Make them reveal the

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Speaker 4: If they aren't going to cooperate, cut off the funding.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this issue of welfare fraud, medicaid fraud, all this

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Speaker 1: fraudulent activity that we've seen. I mean, most people are

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Speaker 1: talking about it in Minnesota. My expectation is you're going

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Speaker 2: Sounds like you think that about Illinois.

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Speaker 3: Oh, well, we have a reputation for being corrupt, and

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Speaker 3: I'm very excited about the opportunity we have to force

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Speaker 2: Fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is Mary Miller from Illinois, by the way,

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Speaker 1: member of the United States Congress. We're broadcasting just off

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Speaker 1: the House floor here in Washington, d C. You were

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Speaker 1: this week. He came and spoke to the House Republicans,

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Speaker 2: We have a fairly thin.

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Speaker 1: Right now, maybe we can just talk to us a

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Speaker 2: I mean, politics is a team sport, after all.

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Speaker 4: Well, and it's a numbers game. So here we are.

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Speaker 3: But we have a strong leader in President Trump, and

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Speaker 3: And I want to remind people that President Trump did

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Speaker 3: And that's what the Democrats did under Joe Biden is

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Speaker 1: One of the topics that a lot of conservatives in

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Speaker 2: Is election integrity. Here I go all over, I hear

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Speaker 1: We have a piece of legislation moving through called the

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Speaker 1: Save Act, which would require nationally documentation of proof of

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Speaker 3: We've passed it twice. We've got to get the Senate

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Speaker 3: We're not going to be a first world nation if

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Speaker 4: This is ground zero for what we have to accomplish.

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Speaker 1: I had to Vice President Jade Vance on the show

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Speaker 2: He brought up a number of different issues.

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Speaker 1: They're instant housing, the interested in healthcare still, the President's

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Speaker 1: View that we can and should use reconciliation again to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and I believe it will be used and

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Speaker 4: So I'm excited.

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Speaker 3: I think the controversy right now is what's going to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, if you had your druthers and you could

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Speaker 3: Well, we'd start with election reform and you know, cutting

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Speaker 3: And you brought up housing. If we can deport and

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Speaker 3: incentivize these people by cutting off their money and get

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Speaker 3: emergency room space, more classroom time for our children. Twenty

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Speaker 1: Something that Vice President Advance did an effective job on

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Speaker 2: Issues that you all are worried about.

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Speaker 1: If you let twenty or thirty million people into the country,

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Speaker 2: Jobs, it depresses wages.

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Speaker 1: And so I think one of the issues this year

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: I kind of had a back and forth with a

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Speaker 3: we deport them all. First of all, we have all

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Speaker 2: That's Representative Mary Miller of Illinois.

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Speaker 6: And now obviously you see the.

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Speaker 5: Oh, what happens in New York City is going to

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Speaker 6: Look at he is.

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Speaker 5: This is your Democratic Party of twenty twenty six. If

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Speaker 6: Eviscerated by this guy.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, Pray successful.

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Speaker 1: A patriot, a freedom fighter, and one of the most

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Speaker 1: when we come back. The Dean of the House of

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Speaker 1: We're broadcasting live from Washington in the US capital today

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Speaker 2: Congressman Rogers, welcome to the show. Scott.

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Speaker 8: We're so proud of you. You've made the big time

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for your kind words, and thanks for

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Speaker 8: Well, that's probably true. He is very popular in my district.

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Speaker 2: So you have forgotten more.

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Speaker 2: Uh, they're they're fighting these things every day.

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Speaker 8: Well, for for so long, it was only opioid abuse

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Speaker 2: We're sinking these boats.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, and anyone with common sense would say, way to go.

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Speaker 8: The fact in the past under Biden left the cartels

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Speaker 1: That's Congressman Hal Rogers of Kentucky's fifth district. He's the

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Speaker 1: you might have seen him because one of your duties

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Speaker 1: is the dean. When we elect a new speaker, you

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Speaker 1: stand up on the floor of the House and you

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Speaker 1: swear them in.

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Speaker 2: How many speakers have you sworn in now?

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Speaker 4: If you?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 7: Two?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two speakers? Uh and one twice right? Right and

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Speaker 1: You're part of the Republican majority, and you've you've been

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Speaker 1: through thick and thin up here, and right now the

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Speaker 1: majority is a little thin because of some retirements and

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Speaker 1: some other things. We've got effectively down to about a

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Speaker 1: one seat majority. You've been through a lot of iterations

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Speaker 1: of governing coalitions up here as a Republican, as the

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Speaker 1: dean of the House, how do you feel about Republican

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Speaker 1: unity right now? Because without unity, it seems like the

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Speaker 1: House floor could could grind.

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Speaker 2: To a halt.

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Speaker 8: It reminds me of a little bit. I came here

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Speaker 8: with Reagan in nineteen eighty one, and he was short

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Speaker 8: on a majority in the House. So he worked with

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Speaker 8: what they call bull weavils, conservative Democrat.

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Speaker 2: Members back when they had those.

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Speaker 8: Back when they had those. Anyway, he put together a coalition,

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Speaker 8: getting a squadron of democratic conservative Democrats to pass his legislation.

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Speaker 8: And you know that could be a solution.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that there are I mean, I see

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Speaker 1: to me like common sense. That's John Fetterman, a Senator

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Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania. And then I see when he does that,

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Speaker 1: how they treat him. I just wonder in the House

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Speaker 1: if there'd be any tolerance at all from the more

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Speaker 1: liberal or progressive wing of the Democrats for anybody who

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Speaker 1: might want to pop their head up and say, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute.

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Speaker 2: You know, we don't have to take.

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Speaker 1: The most liberal, radical progressive line all the time, do we.

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Speaker 8: Well, it means that you've got to have quite a

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Speaker 8: few to join you, and who knows what may happen.

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Speaker 8: This president is very innovative and powerful and strong and confident,

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Speaker 8: and that's all has all the ingredients of Reagan esque

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Speaker 8: type Paris struggle.

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Speaker 1: So you came here with Reagan, you live through that.

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Speaker 1: You live through both Bushes, Clinton Obama and Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Is Donald Trump the best president you've served with? The

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Speaker 1: most unusual, the most interesting? How would you describe the

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Speaker 8: Well, it's different, that's it is. That's what I would

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Speaker 8: call it. But I think this president probably it's more

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Speaker 8: like President Roosevelt.

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Speaker 2: Which one the first one Okay, Teddy.

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Speaker 8: Teddy, I think he has that kind of power and

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Speaker 8: activity and pressure.

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Speaker 1: You know, when I was writing my book this year,

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Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Vessant told me the same thing. He

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Speaker 1: thought that the historical analog to Trump was Teddy Roosevelt.

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Speaker 1: That voice you've been hearing is Hal Rogers of Kentucky's

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Speaker 1: fifth District. He's the Dean of the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 1: More to come here on the Scott Sheenning Show on Salem. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, January seventh, broadcasting live from the US Capitol

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Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. Scott Sheennings here. By the way,

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Speaker 1: we're keeping an eye. I've got the CNN up in here.

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Speaker 2: I see.

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Speaker 1: I don't know much about this. There has been a

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Speaker 1: shooting in Minneapolis. One woman is dead. This involves ICE officers. Again,

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Speaker 1: I don't have any of the details. I'm not prepared

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Speaker 1: to give you a report. I'm just kind of keeping

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Speaker 1: an eye on it here. But obviously have been clashes

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Speaker 1: with ICE agents across the country and protesters and so

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Speaker 1: and so on and so forth.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of details coming in.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to try to get to that in the

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Speaker 1: next hour and make sure we're up to date on it.

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Speaker 1: Our next guest, By the way, we have a lot

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Speaker 1: of congressmen coming in today. We've had several already, and

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Speaker 1: my next guest is Congressman Richard Hudson of the ninth

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Speaker 1: District of North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: He is here and Richard.

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Speaker 1: From the Tarhell State, Welcome into the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 1: Your job is head of the NRCC, the National Republican

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Speaker 1: Congressional Committee. That means you are the Republican in the

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Speaker 1: House that the other Republicans depend on to get a

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Speaker 1: majority re elected.

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Speaker 2: And right now that's no small.

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Speaker 1: Thing because the majority has gotten pretty thin, and your

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Speaker 1: job is under the spotlight.

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Speaker 2: How we doing right now?

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Speaker 9: Well, we're doing great, Scott. Great to be with you.

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Speaker 9: Appreciate you having me on the show. You Republicans are

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Speaker 9: on a role. You know, we had an incredible twenty

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Speaker 9: twenty five If you look at the legislative agenda, the

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Speaker 9: accomplishments we were able to to put on the board

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Speaker 9: despite a very slim majority. It's remarkable. And you know

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Speaker 9: President Trump campaigned on some very specific policies. Seventy seven

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Speaker 9: million Americans said we want him back in office.

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Speaker 7: We agree with what he's selling.

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Speaker 9: And House Republic was able to work with that president

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Speaker 9: and deliver almost all of his promises in the Working

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Speaker 9: Families Tax Cut Reconciliation Bill. And so, you know, I'm

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Speaker 9: excited to see what more we can do. You know,

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Speaker 9: we're on a rescue mission right now. The American people

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Speaker 9: are hurting and we're very focused on their needs.

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Speaker 1: It seems to me that the reconciliation process that you

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Speaker 1: used last year was highly successful. I mean, it was

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Speaker 1: the president's domestic policy agenda wrapped into one piece of legislation.

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Speaker 1: You cut taxes, you had generational welfare reform, historic energy

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Speaker 1: to regulation. A lot of people think Republicans need to

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Speaker 1: go back to the reconciliation Well, and this is the

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Speaker 1: process by which you can effectively pass over the filibuster

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Speaker 1: rules in the Senate.

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Speaker 2: Is that in the offing for the House here in

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Speaker 2: the first quarter.

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Speaker 9: Well, we're trying to figure out what's possible. You know,

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Speaker 9: you alluded to the slim majority. You know, with the

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Speaker 9: tragic passing of my dear friend douglam Molfa, our majority

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Speaker 9: is even slimmer. And uh, and so you know, to

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Speaker 9: to do reconciliation, we basically have to get every Republican

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Speaker 9: to agree.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: It's a tough process, you know.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 9: Tom Emmer was once told that his job as whip

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Speaker 9: is like hurting cats. He said, no, these are more

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Speaker 9: like exotic animals. They're not cats.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 9: Republicans have minds of our own and and we all

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Speaker 9: are very determined to save this country. And uh, getting

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Speaker 9: us all on the same page as is a process.

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Speaker 9: And uh, so we'll see what's possible. I would like

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Speaker 9: to see us do another reconciliation bill. I think there

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Speaker 9: are a number of of our policies that are really

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Speaker 9: important that would benefit the American people that that were

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Speaker 9: unlikely to get the Democrats to agree with. And so

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Speaker 9: reconciliation may be the only path. And so I hope

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Speaker 9: we can do it. But it's going to require all

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Speaker 1: So you're running all these house races around the country.

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Speaker 1: We still don't know a lot, right, We've got some

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Speaker 1: maps that are still outstanding. We don't know what the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court is going to do on the Voting Rights Act, which.

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Speaker 2: Could change maps in the South. So tell us what

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Speaker 2: we do know.

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Speaker 1: Give us an idea how the fundraising is going, and

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Speaker 1: how candidate recruitment is going.

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Speaker 2: For your efforts, well, I'm.

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Speaker 9: Very bullish about republicans prospects for holding the House majority.

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Speaker 9: One of the realities we face today is that there

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Speaker 9: are very few competitive districts left. When I first got

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Speaker 9: census blocks and do you put this census block in

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Speaker 9: this district or that district. Now we look at what

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Speaker 9: magazine subscriptions you get at your house, what brand vehicle

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Speaker 9: do you drive at that house to term where that

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Speaker 9: Both sides have gotten very good at it, and so

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Speaker 9: there's a whole lot of safe Democrats seat, it's a

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Speaker 9: whole lot of safe Republican seats. Very few up for grabs.

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Speaker 9: It just so happens that most of those up for

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Speaker 9: map favors US. Going into this cycle, I think redistricting

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Speaker 9: wants all the dust settles, is going to be a

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Speaker 9: net positive for Republicans. It maybe just be a couple

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Speaker 9: of seats, It may be five or six seat net positive.

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Speaker 9: But that will help us, and you know, it creates

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Speaker 9: a little bit of uncertainty, but for the most part,

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Speaker 9: we know the battlefield. We've gone out and recruited some

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Speaker 9: of the best candidates I've ever seen. I'm very excited

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Speaker 9: about some of the folks that are going to be

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Speaker 1: Well, if the majority is to be retained, it'll be

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Speaker 1: because of the efforts of the voice you're hearing right there,

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Speaker 1: a Congressman Richard Hudson of North Carolina's ninth district. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for your efforts, sir, thanks for coming by, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for the hospitality today. This is the first time we've

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Speaker 2: That wasn't you know, a law enforcement related.

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Speaker 1: So we're we're appreciative of that. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we've got Chairman August Fluger. It's s got jennings on

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Speaker 1: Salem all right, Wednesday, January seventh, It's common sense for

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Speaker 1: the American people. Scott jennings on Salem saling into our

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Speaker 1: number two here of the show, and I am honored

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Speaker 1: to be joined by to top this hour Chairman August Fluger.

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Speaker 1: The Republican Study Committee. First of all, mister chairman, I

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Speaker 1: just have to start by thanking you. You invited me here.

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Speaker 1: You're allowing us to do our radio show from just

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Speaker 1: d C. In a really cool location, and that of

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Speaker 1: course has enabled us to have a bunch of your

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Speaker 1: colleagues come by, and we're glad that you're able to

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Speaker 1: come and sit down for a few minutes. Your team

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Speaker 1: has been amazing to work with, and so we're honored

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Speaker 2: So welcome to the show.

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Speaker 10: Well, thank you, thanks for being here at the People's House.

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Speaker 10: I think it's important that we provide the transparency that

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Speaker 10: for four years we were really lacking. Thanks for being

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Speaker 10: willing to show up here.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely so I wanted to spend some time with you

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Speaker 1: talking about what's going to happen next, because you know,

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Speaker 1: we've had the majority for a year, Republicans have you've

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Speaker 1: had Trump for a year. Last summer, most of the

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Speaker 1: president's domestic policy agenda wound up in what he calls

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Speaker 1: the Big Beautiful Bill, and through a months long process,

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Speaker 1: Republicans in Washington hammered out a really good piece of

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Speaker 1: legislation cutting taxes, generational welfare reform, historic energy deregulation, and

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Speaker 1: those things are going to bear fruit.

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Speaker 2: But there's more that needs to be done.

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Speaker 1: And what I've been hearing from you and hearing from

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Speaker 1: others is is, look, we just need to pass some bills.

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Speaker 1: The American people have some expectation that Republicans are going

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Speaker 1: to try to legislate this year. A.

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Speaker 2: Do you agree with that sentiment? And b let's talk

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Speaker 2: about how that might get done.

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Speaker 10: Absolutely, I agree, And I think the American public put

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Speaker 10: Donald J. Trump into office because they knew there was

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Speaker 10: a problem and they wanted it fixed. In twenty twenty

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Speaker 10: five was an incredible year, massive victory in the One

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Speaker 10: Big Beautiful Bill. People will see the victory unplay and

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Speaker 10: play out vote during tax season this year, when they

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Speaker 10: get the biggest tax return that they've ever had that

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Speaker 10: they'll see it play out in a number of ways.

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Speaker 10: With the economy forty seven days since Trump has been

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Speaker 10: president that the stock market has hit a record. But

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Speaker 10: there is more to be done. And in the Senate,

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Speaker 10: you know, in the House we have a simple majority rule.

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Speaker 10: We can pass legislation with the simple majority in the Senate,

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Speaker 10: there's a rule that they need sixty votes with the

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Speaker 10: exception of a tool called budget reconciliation.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about this, because obviously the President has

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to happen. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't feel like that's within the realm of

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Speaker 1: the possible right now. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't

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Speaker 1: think so. The only way around democratic obstruction if you

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Speaker 1: believe that the filibuster is not going away, which I do,

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Speaker 1: the only way around democratic obstruction is reconciliation.

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Speaker 10: Yes, that's right, fifty one vote requirement. They shut the

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Speaker 10: government down to stop our agenda, and they will give

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Speaker 10: not a single inch on any legislation. Even if Trump

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Speaker 10: said I have a cure for cancer, they'd vote against it.

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Speaker 1: So we have a effectively a one seat majority right now.

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Speaker 1: Because of things going on here in the House, you

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Speaker 1: got a little bit more wiggle room in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: You can expect no democratic help on anything. You can't

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Speaker 1: expect democratic obstruction. I mean, my goodness, they shut down

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Speaker 1: the government for forty three days because their radical base

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Speaker 1: demands that they try to grind Washington to a halt

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Speaker 1: so long as Donald Trump is the president. But the

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Speaker 1: American people are not going to stand for that. They

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Speaker 1: expect results. And although I had a boss back home

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Speaker 1: in Kentucky years ago who used to say instant coffee

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Speaker 1: ruined the world, in this case, people don't really have

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Speaker 1: a lot of patience because they're hurting and they're looking

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Speaker 1: for someone to do something about it. And you, Chairman Fluger,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of Republicans have ideas about what can

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Speaker 2: You just have to defeat the obstruction.

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Speaker 10: Well, this is where the Republican Study Committee comes in

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Speaker 10: the Conservative con of Congress, a body that is motivated

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Speaker 10: to act, not just to sit back, but to come

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Speaker 10: up with solutions. And we have those solutions, and we've

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Speaker 10: done that since July fifth, we've been planning a framework

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Speaker 10: for how to do a second, big, beautiful bill. And

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Speaker 10: although maybe it's more of a two minute drill and

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Speaker 10: it's more tailored and it's not quite as big, it's

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Speaker 10: still as impactful and it addresses some of the major

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Speaker 10: concerns that our constituents have, which is the affordability of everything.

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Speaker 10: Because Republicans have better policy. I wouldn't trust Democrat policy

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Speaker 10: for my life. We have better policy. We just need

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Speaker 4: This is the tool.

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Speaker 1: So to break a little news here, I think on

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Speaker 1: the Scott Jennings Show, it's our expectation that we're going

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Speaker 1: to see the innards of the beginning of a possible

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Speaker 1: reconciliation package begin to become public over the next few days.

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Speaker 1: What do you want to see in this? You obviously

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Speaker 1: want to do reconciliation. I'm a supporter of it. I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of your colleagues want to start the

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Speaker 1: process here, and it won't be instant. It will take

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Speaker 1: some weeks months to work it through. What has to

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Speaker 10: I think a couple of things, and you will and

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Speaker 10: thank you for bringing this up. We'll see the details

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Speaker 10: in the coming days. But it's going to center around

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Speaker 10: three themes that the Republican Study Committee has identified, all

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Speaker 10: about affordability. Number one housing, That is the American dream.

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Speaker 10: Americans deserve and want and demand, and that's what makes

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Speaker 10: us different, is that we can buy homes here, but

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Speaker 10: they have to be affordable. Number two is healthcare. When

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Speaker 10: you buy healthcare, when you go to the store to

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Speaker 10: get your pharmaceutical needs, it has to be affordable. And

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Speaker 10: number three is energy. When energy is affordable, mainStreet businesses

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Speaker 10: can thrive, homes can spend cash on something else, they

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Speaker 10: don't have to spend it on that. These three things

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Speaker 10: will really comprise the bill that we are going to

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Speaker 10: provide a framework for.

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Speaker 2: The budget reconciliation process.

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Speaker 1: Because of the rules surrounding, it doesn't allow for just

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Speaker 1: anything to go in here. But in your mind, these

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Speaker 1: three big areas would pass the test. And you run

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Speaker 1: into this issue with a Senate parliamentary and often you

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Speaker 1: guys do things in the House and the Senate parliamentarian

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a stick in the mud over there.

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Speaker 1: But bottom line is, there's certain things you can do

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Speaker 1: in this you believe these areas will pass muster I do.

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Speaker 10: Look, I'm a fighter pilot, I flew the F twenty two.

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Speaker 10: We read team everything. The red team is the Senate Parliamentarian.

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Speaker 10: That's their body. But we have to comply with their rules,

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Speaker 10: and so we've done the hard work on making sure

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Speaker 10: that they comply with what they call that Bird Rule

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Speaker 10: to make sure that the budgetary impact is there. It

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Speaker 10: meets the Bird Rule, and it addresses the needs that

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Speaker 10: the American public is demanding right now. They want action,

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Speaker 10: and that's what we're here for. We're going to comply

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Speaker 10: and we're going to make sure we pass this across

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Speaker 10: finish line.

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Speaker 1: That's August Flueger, Member of Congress, Chairman of the Republican

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Speaker 1: Study Committee here on the Scott Jennings Show. You brought

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Speaker 1: up the prospect of doing something on housing affordability. I

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Speaker 1: want to read to you a post that's just come

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Speaker 1: out from President Trump. He is saying that he is

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Speaker 1: going to take immediate steps to ban large institutional investors

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Speaker 1: from buying more single family homes, and he'll be calling

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Speaker 1: on Congress to codify it. I guess in his mind,

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons that we have a housing shortage

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Speaker 1: and that prices are up are because these institutional investors

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Speaker 1: buy massive amounts of houses. I've heard people complain about

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Speaker 1: this for a long time. It seems like the President's

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Speaker 1: engaging on it. Any instant reaction to the President's statement.

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Speaker 10: Today housing is too expensive. Right now, we are a

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Speaker 10: deliberative body. We're here to represent our constituencies. This is

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Speaker 10: a perfect example of something that we will debate, we

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Speaker 10: will talk about. The President is right. He has identified

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Speaker 10: that there is a problem when the average age of

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Speaker 10: a first time homeowner is forty plus years old. We've

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Speaker 10: got a problem in our country, and we need to

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Speaker 10: make it more affordable. And although I believe the Congress

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Speaker 10: doesn't necessarily have a role all the time in a marketplace,

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Speaker 10: we set the conditions for that marketplace to thrive and

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Speaker 10: help our constituents.

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Speaker 1: And on healthcare, obviously the Obamacare subsidy debate consumed a

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Speaker 1: lot of last fall that lapsed. Is dealing with that

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Speaker 1: going to be part in your mind of a reconciliation

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Speaker 1: package or do you think that's going to be dealt

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Speaker 1: with before the end of reconciliation Separately, you.

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Speaker 10: Know, on that particular issue, Democrats try to make this

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Speaker 10: an issue that affects three hundred and forty million people,

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Speaker 10: although we know it's just about six or seven percent.

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Speaker 10: Obamacare was built by Democrats, it was voted on by Democrats,

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Speaker 10: and I think this issue will likely be voted on

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Speaker 10: before we get to a reconciliation bill. But when it

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Speaker 10: comes to healthcare. What we are going to do is

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Speaker 10: have a transparent, competitive system that puts money back into

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Speaker 10: americans pockets and not insurance companies like Obamacare was built

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Speaker 10: to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is amazing to me watching this debate unfold

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Speaker 1: and how the Democratic Party has attracted yet another massively

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Speaker 1: unpopular constituent health insurance companies. I mean, the entire position is,

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Speaker 1: let's just continue funneling billions of dollars to insurance companies

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Speaker 1: when most people you talk to with private insurance feel

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Speaker 1: like it's not insurance at all. I cannot use it.

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Speaker 1: The deductibles are too high. I get a letter every

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Speaker 1: year telling me my premiums have gone up. I pay it,

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Speaker 1: and then I won't even feel like I go to

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Speaker 1: the doctor. And yet the defense of this system in

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Speaker 1: the name of hey, it's Obamacare, it's shocking to me.

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Speaker 10: I look forward to having these insurance company CEOs testifying

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Speaker 10: front of Congress. I look forward to asking them why

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Speaker 10: they wrote provisions that would enrichen them and make our

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Speaker 10: country poorer. I look forward to getting the truth out

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Speaker 10: there because they were the ones that wrote Obamacare. Not

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Speaker 10: a single Republican has ever voted for Obamacare to this day,

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Speaker 10: and we're going to keep that record alive, and also

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Speaker 10: we have solutions and good policy to deconstruct that model.

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Speaker 1: Our host today, Chairman August Flugger, head of the Republican

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Speaker 1: Study Committee, the champion for a new reconciliation process. Sir,

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Speaker 1: we'll follow this unfolding story with great interest. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: stopping by Common Sense for the American people. Wednesday, January seventh,

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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the United States Capitol in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: We are honored to be joined by.

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Speaker 1: The fifty sixth Speaker of the House of Representatives from Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson is here. Speaker Johnson, Welcome to the Scott

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Speaker 1: Jenny Show.

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Speaker 11: Welcome to the Capitol. Glad you're here.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: We've had a number of members come by today and

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Speaker 1: talk about priorities. You're just getting started back here in

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Speaker 1: the new year, but I have to start with a

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Speaker 1: little politics. With the tragic passing of Congressman LaMalfa and

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Speaker 1: the retirement and resignation of Marjorie Taylor Green and some

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Speaker 1: other issues. The margin for error in the Republican Conference

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Speaker 1: right now is zero, really, so in terms of governing

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Speaker 1: and Republican unity. Right now, where do we stand is

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Speaker 1: at the dawn of twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 11: We stand in good position. We're very bullish about this.

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Speaker 12: We met with the House Republicans this morning in our

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Speaker 12: regular scheduled weekly conference, and we talked about the stark

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Speaker 12: reality that losing Doug Lamofa was a huge hit for

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Speaker 12: all of us because he was just a genuinely good man,

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Speaker 12: a great Christian guy. I pray for his family. His

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Speaker 12: wife has four children. But we got a soldier on

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Speaker 12: and we got to do it with this literally the

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Speaker 12: smallest imaginable margin. It'll be a literal one vote margin

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Speaker 12: throughout the entirety of twenty twenty six, even when a

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Speaker 12: few of the three seats that are shuffling around now

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Speaker 12: get filled or moved. That's our margin. So almost unanimity

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Speaker 12: is what we have to do. Thomas Massey is apt

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Speaker 12: to vote know a lot of times, so really it

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Speaker 12: is zero. So what does that mean for us? Well,

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Speaker 12: we got to keep moving the agenda forward. We have

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Speaker 12: to do it together as a unit. And I told

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Speaker 12: everybody yesterday at our little gathering, our policy forum that

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Speaker 12: we did over at the Trump Kennedy Center that now

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Speaker 12: is the time for you to dig in, protect your colleagues,

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Speaker 12: defend our agenda, and move it forward. And I think

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Speaker 12: if we stick together, there's nothing we cannot accomplish.

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Speaker 2: So we have no margin for error here.

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Speaker 1: You have at least one member of the Conference who's

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Speaker 1: being a little recalcitrant right now, Massy from Kentucky. But

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Speaker 1: the American people still have expectations and priorities. We have

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Speaker 1: affordability issues to deal with, housing, healthcare and other things.

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Speaker 1: What's the vehicle, what is your out look on it?

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Speaker 1: How things can get done given your limitations with the

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Speaker 1: majority and obviously massive amounts of democratic obstruction in both chambers.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, the tough part for us is getting things to

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Speaker 12: the Senate because you need sixty votes, as we know,

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Speaker 12: and we've only got fifty three Republicans there, and it's

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Speaker 12: hard to get all those cats herded in the same

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Speaker 12: direction as well. Leader Thune has a big task ahead

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Speaker 12: of him, but I can only control the controllable. So

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Speaker 12: what we do in the House is everything we can

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Speaker 12: to move this agenda. I know Chairman Flugger here who

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Speaker 12: replaced me as our a sea chair. A couple of

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Speaker 12: terms later. Is doing a great job, and he's very

880
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Speaker 12: bullish as I am on a second reconciliation package. As

881
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Speaker 12: you know, that's the only way to get around the

882
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Speaker 12: necessary threshold of sixty votes in the Senate. So we're

883
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Speaker 12: working right now, very methodically, carefully to determine whatever our

884
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Speaker 12: priorities we can squeeze into a second reconciliation bill with

885
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Speaker 12: the idea we'd moved that early in the year.

886
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Speaker 11: And then in.

887
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Speaker 12: Addition to that, we've got to codify more and more

888
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 12: of what the President has done. On the executive branch side.

889
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Speaker 12: There's seventy executive orders we have now codified and gotten

890
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Speaker 12: over there, but we have much more to do. Among them,

891
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 12: the components of HR two, which are the border security measures,

892
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 12: we solve that problem. The President did exactly what he

893
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Speaker 12: said was going to do. We need to put that

894
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Speaker 12: in statute so the next Democrat president, whenever that happens,

895
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Speaker 12: having forbid, can't just unwind it and undo it. So

896
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Speaker 12: there's a lot of things on the table. A lot

897
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Speaker 12: of it has to do with affordability. As a new buzzword.

898
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Speaker 12: We were going at cost of living, it's all the same.

899
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Speaker 12: We got to bring that down our policies that we've

900
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Speaker 12: already implemented will begin to have that effect in the

901
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Speaker 12: first and second quarter. But there's always more to do

902
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Speaker 12: on that. Healthcare is one of those things, a lot

903
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Speaker 12: of these priorities, and of course finishing appropriations because we've

904
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Speaker 12: got we've finally got Congress working again, back closer and

905
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Speaker 12: closer to the regular order of things, and we're very

906
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Speaker 12: happy about those achievements.

907
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Speaker 11: Look, all boats are going to be rising in twenty

908
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Speaker 11: twenty six.

909
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Speaker 12: As Scott Besson said, so well the Treasure sectory of

910
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Speaker 12: the other day, he said, you know what, twenty twenty

911
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Speaker 12: five was just the set up. The banquet and the

912
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Speaker 12: feast comes in twenty twenty six. It's going to be

913
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Speaker 12: an extraordinary year. We're counting on that.

914
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Speaker 1: I'm going to shift gears to Venezuela quickly. You've been

915
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Speaker 1: in briefings with the administration. We've arrested Maduro. I've noticed

916
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Speaker 1: all the people that were carrying free Palestine signs are

917
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: now carrying free Maduro sign and the Democrats have adopted

918
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: yet another strange constituent. Are you satisfied with the administration's briefings,

919
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Speaker 1: what you're hearing about this law enforcement operation to bring

920
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Speaker 1: Maduro to justice in the United States.

921
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:12,359
Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: Absolutely, And I've spoken extensively on it last couple of

923
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Speaker 12: days because it attended the Gang of Eight briefing day

924
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Speaker 12: before yesterday I think it was, and then just a

925
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Speaker 12: few hours ago, as you know, we had the briefing

926
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Speaker 12: with all members of the House. The Synate got the

927
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Speaker 12: same briefing. I think we had almost had a literal

928
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Speaker 12: full house in the Congressional auditorium today, Republicans and Democrats.

929
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Speaker 11: And I'll tell you what when.

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Speaker 12: They explained the details, particularly General Kane, who's the commander

931
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Speaker 12: of the George Chiefs of Staff, this is the chair

932
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Speaker 12: of that, when he talked about the precision of the

933
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Speaker 12: US military, how we did this so effectively in such

934
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Speaker 12: a short period of time, we had no casualties. We

935
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Speaker 12: bring into justice now one of the most hard and

936
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Speaker 12: dangerous criminals in the world. It was a standovation moment.

937
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Speaker 12: Even the Democrats, God had to stand up and applaud

938
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Speaker 12: that because our men and women and who wear the uniform,

939
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Speaker 12: and the leaders of the Pentagon and sek War Hexeth,

940
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Speaker 12: they're doing an extraordinary job.

941
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Speaker 2: It's amazing.

942
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Speaker 1: Maduro is the only elite Venezuela and the Democrats don't

943
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Speaker 1: want in the United States right now.

944
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Speaker 2: It's crazy faint.

945
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Speaker 1: That voice you've been hearing is the fifty six Speaker

946
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Speaker 1: of the House. You know, we call you Magic Mike

947
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: when you're not here. We'll call you Magic Mike while

948
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: you are here, because.

949
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Speaker 12: Firm Miracle Magic Mike is assigned to some sort of

950
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Speaker 12: pornography thing or something.

951
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Speaker 2: I've heard you sure you don't want. I don't want.

952
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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, the Speaker, thanks for stopping Bible. Take a break,

953
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Speaker 1: can be back with more after this. It's Scott Chennings.

954
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Speaker 1: I's say on Wednesday, January seventh, common sense for the

955
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Speaker 1: American people. Scott Chennings broadcasting live today from Washington, d C.

956
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Speaker 1: But not just anywhere in Washington, broadcasting from under the

957
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Speaker 1: Dome here in the United States Capital. We are mere

958
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Speaker 1: feet from the floor of the House of Representatives. And

959
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Speaker 1: I want to just say thanks to Speaker Mike Johnson

960
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Speaker 1: for coming by for a few minutes and talking about

961
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Speaker 1: his priorities. He's he's got a tough job right now.

962
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Speaker 12: Uh.

963
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Speaker 1: And one of his top lieutenants is here, Jim Jordan

964
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Speaker 1: of Ohio, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a

965
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Speaker 1: member of the Oversight Committee, Chairman Jordan with the imaginations

966
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Speaker 1: of what's going on in the conference.

967
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Speaker 2: You got no margin for error right now, No, we don't.

968
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Speaker 13: And Mike's got a tough job, as you said, But

969
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 13: excuse me, but I think he's doing a good job. So, yeah,

970
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 13: it's no margin for aer, but we'll we're going to

971
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Speaker 13: continue to do what we told the American people we

972
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 13: were going to do when they elected us. Always say

973
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 13: we make this job too complicated. It's pretty basic. What'd

974
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 13: you tell the voters you were going to do when

975
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 13: you put your name on a ballot? If you get elected,

976
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Speaker 13: go do what you said, and Scott you and I

977
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 13: know no one does that better than President Trump. Yeah,

978
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Speaker 13: I mean he said he cut taxes, he did. He

979
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 13: said he'd getting men out of women's sport.

980
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Speaker 7: He did.

981
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 13: He said he'd secure the border, he said he'd stop

982
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Speaker 13: and he did that. He said he would make sure

983
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 13: Arman didn't get nuclear weapon.

984
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Speaker 6: He did that.

985
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Speaker 10: I mean, on and on he can go.

986
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 11: So we just got to keep that up.

987
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: So we've spent a lot of time on the show

988
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 1: today talking policy. We've talked to Chairman Fluger, about housing stuff.

989
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: We've talked about the way forward on healthcare, We've talked

990
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: about taxes and energy de regulation so on. There's another

991
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: big part of what you do here, and that is

992
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: oversight investigations. And you have made a national name and

993
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: brand for yourself as being one of the real bulldogs

994
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 1: and getting to the bottom of waste, fraud and abuse

995
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: and corruption. That was on display YEP this morning. I

996
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: watched a fair bit of the hearing. So in the

997
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Speaker 1: House Republican conference, you all have now started the process

998
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Speaker 1: of investigating the fraud that's going on in the Somali

999
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Speaker 1: community in Minneapolis. You had a bunch of witnesses in

1000
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Speaker 1: I saw you questioning them give us a report.

1001
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Speaker 13: Well, it wasn't the point I made. It wasn't just

1002
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Speaker 13: overlooking the fraud from the Walls administration and the people

1003
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Speaker 13: in the administration up there Minnesota. It was actually enabling

1004
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Speaker 13: and in some cases maybe even assisting, And we got

1005
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Speaker 13: into that, particularly with this Feeding our Future program. But

1006
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Speaker 13: when you step back for a second and just look

1007
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Speaker 13: at the big picture, the fraud was so pervasive. Six

1008
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Speaker 13: federal agencies, your tax dollars. The folks I represent in

1009
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Speaker 13: the fourth District of Ohio, their tax dollars were being

1010
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Speaker 13: taken wasted fraudsters grabbing that money from HUD Housing Urban Development,

1011
00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 13: Department of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, a Department of educator.

1012
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,439
Speaker 13: You could get the six federal agencies. It was that bad.

1013
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 13: And one of the witnesses, who's a member of the

1014
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Speaker 13: General Assembly up there, said, going on for fifteen years,

1015
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 13: whistleblowers coming forward, those whistleblowers then being harassed and intimidated

1016
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Speaker 13: for coming forward with the truth. And now in addition

1017
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Speaker 13: to those six agencies that were dispensing federal tax dollars

1018
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Speaker 13: that were getting taken by these fraudsters, now there's two

1019
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 13: other agencies involved at the federal government, the FBI and

1020
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 13: the DOJ, and they're prosecuting people. Sixty eight people been indicted,

1021
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Speaker 13: two have already been sentenced and are waiting been put

1022
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Speaker 13: in jail and are waiting sentencing. Who ran this feeding

1023
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 13: our future crazy program that they had up there. So, yeah,

1024
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Speaker 13: there's some accountability coming. But I think the key was

1025
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Speaker 13: there were folks in my judgment assisting it, namely the

1026
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Speaker 13: governor's office in the Attorney General's office.

1027
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Speaker 2: It looks like to me.

1028
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Speaker 1: You had some state representatives from Minnesota in today, and

1029
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: it sounds like that. For years you had Republicans in

1030
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Speaker 1: Minnesota who were screaming about these issues bringing information forward,

1031
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Speaker 1: and the Democrat Ats who run Minnesota, as you said,

1032
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: and now Tim Walls, the governor, looking the other way

1033
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Speaker 1: and also demonizing people who were bringing information forward and

1034
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Speaker 1: accusing people of racism for trying to bring forward credible

1035
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Speaker 1: allegations of massive amounts of fraud. To me, it's one

1036
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: of the most hateful things you can do.

1037
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.

1038
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Speaker 13: The Uh that particular program the Minnesota Department of Educations

1039
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Speaker 13: is we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna call time out.

1040
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Speaker 13: We're gonna suspend payments here for a few minutes because

1041
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 13: we think we think there's a problem going on here.

1042
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 13: So for thirty days, those payments are suspended and they're

1043
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 13: suddenly reinstated, right, And the reason they were reinstated is

1044
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:40,959
Speaker 13: because the folks from that program, from the Somali community said,

1045
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 13: if you don't do it, we're gonna take you to

1046
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 13: court and we're gonna claim racism. And as you point out,

1047
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,720
Speaker 13: this is the this is the template the left uses.

1048
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 13: I always say, the left will tell a lie, we're

1049
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 13: feeding kids, when in fact they were just pocketing the money.

1050
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 13: The left will tell a lie. Big media will assist

1051
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 13: in the lie, whether it's not covering the story like

1052
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 13: they did here, not covering the fact were covering. How

1053
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 13: suppose how great this this thing was. Leftell's a lie.

1054
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 13: Big media assist a lie. And when you tell the truth,

1055
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Speaker 13: they call you a racist. I mean time and time,

1056
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Speaker 13: and they succumbed to that pressure, it looks like to

1057
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 13: me and they said, okay, well, shazam, we're going to

1058
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 13: reinstate that. After thirty days, they reinstate the program and

1059
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Speaker 13: then they find out they were stealing millions of dollars.

1060
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Speaker 13: And the two people who ran the program, Salim Said

1061
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Speaker 13: and Amy bank Brock, are already have already been indicted

1062
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Speaker 13: and convicted in our waiting sentencing.

1063
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Tim Wallas, the governor of Minnesota. He

1064
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,800
Speaker 1: dramatically announced that he would not be running for reelection

1065
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: this week and said pretty plainly that the reason was

1066
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Speaker 1: this fraud scandal that is engulfing his administration is the reason.

1067
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Speaker 2: He did say. The buck stops with me. I agree

1068
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Speaker 2: with him on that. He is disputing that he had

1069
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Speaker 2: anything to do with it.

1070
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Speaker 1: But these programs you're talking about, these things are run

1071
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Speaker 1: by and the oversight of them is done by the

1072
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Speaker 1: governor of the state of Minnesota.

1073
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Speaker 2: So he's right, the buck stops there.

1074
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,720
Speaker 1: But it seems like he's trying to have it both ways,

1075
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: proclaiming that he wants to be accountable but then denying

1076
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: any responsibility.

1077
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Speaker 2: I don't see how these are compatible.

1078
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Speaker 11: I don't think they are either. I think you're right.

1079
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Speaker 13: The reason he's not running is because of this very,

1080
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 13: this very scandal, which was so pervasive, so long term,

1081
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Speaker 13: and involved so many federal agencies and so much American

1082
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 13: tax money. So I think that's that's that's right. But remember,

1083
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Speaker 13: there was a meeting that took place, it's on video

1084
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Speaker 13: between the Attorney General and folks who ran this program

1085
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 13: from the Somali community. They had this meeting, and after

1086
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Speaker 13: the meeting, two weeks later, the Attorney General starts getting

1087
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Speaker 13: campaign contributions from people in the meeting, people affiliated with

1088
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 13: the feed Are Future program that was bilking millions of

1089
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 13: dollars from the taxpayer. I think again, this is now

1090
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Speaker 13: into the not just overlooking things, but actually enabling and

1091
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 13: assisting wrongdoing that was taking place.

1092
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Speaker 1: All Right, We're going to continue to follow the Somali

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Speaker 1: corruption and fraud story out of Minnesota. I happen to

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Speaker 1: think this is going to be expand to every state.

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Speaker 1: I think if you look inside these blue states with

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Speaker 1: blue governors all over the country, we're going to find

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Speaker 1: similar kinds of fraudulent situations. I mean, already, I think

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Speaker 1: we know it's going on in California, but even look

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Speaker 1: at like Washington, d C. Where you had local officials

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Speaker 1: here cooking the books on crime statistics. You just look

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Speaker 1: at these jurisdictions that are dominated by Democrats. There's fraud,

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Speaker 1: there's manipulation of data, and people look the other way.

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Speaker 1: And now you and Chairman Comer and other members of

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Speaker 1: the Republican House majority here, you're shining a bright light

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Speaker 1: on it. And it seems like we have an administration

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Speaker 1: that's willing to use the powers of prosecution to really

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Speaker 1: hold people accountable.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, and never forget what President Trump and Elon and

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Speaker 13: others did when they started the Doze effort. It was

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Speaker 13: all part of this, and I think this is just

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Speaker 13: a continuation of that process getting to the bottom of

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Speaker 13: these When you're talking about this kind of money that's

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Speaker 13: going on with that, and one thing we should celebrate.

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Speaker 2: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is stopped. Stopped, It's done.

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Speaker 13: And you know what I found out The sun came

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Speaker 13: up the next day.

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Speaker 2: Go figure.

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Speaker 13: It's like, so, this is the kind of thing that

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Speaker 13: doesn't happen unless you have a leader and President Trump

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Speaker 13: who's willing to take bold action, the work of Elon

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Speaker 13: Musk and what he did, and starting to get this.

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Speaker 13: Now we're finding more and more, and I think you're right, Scott.

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Speaker 13: I think the more we did, we're going to find

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Speaker 13: this is all over the country, maybe in every state,

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Speaker 13: because even states run by Republicans. I think there's so

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Speaker 13: much money out there. And not that Republicans are doing

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Speaker 13: anything like Tim Wallas did for goodness sake, but there's

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Speaker 13: so much money out there. I bet there's things going

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Speaker 13: on that we need to get to the bottom of it.

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Speaker 13: And that's what the Doze effort and limited government is

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Speaker 13: supposed to be supposed to be trying to do.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk foreign affairs for a moment and shift gears

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Speaker 1: to Venezuela. Obviously, we've arrested Maduro, and you know Democrats

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Speaker 1: have I was talking to the speaker about this a

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Speaker 1: minute ago. Have adopted another strange new constituent, Maduro. And

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Speaker 1: it's funny like, whenever Donald Trump does something, Democrats will

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Speaker 1: reflexibly and immediately take the other side of it. So

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Speaker 1: we arrest a fugitive of American justice, an illegitimate dictator,

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Speaker 1: flooding the United States with drugs, doing things in our

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Speaker 1: backyard he should be doing, and immediately Now he's the

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Speaker 1: most popular democratic constituent in the country. Are you satisfied

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Speaker 1: with what the administration is telling you as it relates

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Speaker 1: to the Venezuelan operation, and ultimately the larger question is

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Speaker 1: us controlling the Western hemisphere? You agree with the administration's

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Speaker 1: direction on this.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I think you've summarized as good as anybody I've heard.

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00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 13: It's just this guy wasn't recognized as the head of

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Speaker 13: state by the Trump administration or the Biden administration, ran

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Speaker 13: a narco terrorist criminal operation, five year rest warrant out

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Speaker 13: for him, coosing up playing foot seat with China and

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Speaker 13: Iran right here in our hemisphere, and we bring him

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Speaker 13: to justice, and somehow that's a bad thing. I think

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Speaker 13: most Americans think like, well, I kind of appreciate a

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Speaker 13: president who will take that kind of action. So I

1155
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 13: think it's a good thing. I think, you know, those

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00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 13: who criticized it just on was the donro doctor. Now

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Speaker 13: as President Trump calls it, I think that's that's important,

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Speaker 13: and I trust as president. I think America appreciated president

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00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 13: who takes decisive action and project strength from the Oval Office.

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Speaker 13: And I contrast, as I said this the other day,

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Speaker 13: but I think it's probably the best comparison. Think of

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Speaker 13: the action President Trump took this past weekend and the

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Speaker 13: great work our military did with this operation. Think of that.

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00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 13: Contrast that with the Chinese bibuloon. Yes, Joe Biden led

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00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 13: a fly clear across the country all the way. We

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00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 13: watched it, and we're like, I tell people, I'm just

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00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 13: a country boy from Ohio. I think I had just

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00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 13: shot it down before it went across the country. I'm

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00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 13: no President Trump would have definitely shot it down. For

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Speaker 13: anyone would have who had common sense, except Democrats, except

1171
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 13: the party that has a guy in New York who says, oh,

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Speaker 13: forget rugged individualism, We're going to be communists. We're gonna

1173
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Speaker 13: go with collectivism. Like what are you talking about? So

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00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 13: I think Americans appreciate the kind of action that they

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00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 13: get from our current commander in chief, decisive action, projecting strength.

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Speaker 13: And I think it's good for Americans. I think it's

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Speaker 13: good for the world. Quick political question.

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Speaker 1: Your home state of Ohio has a couple of big

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Speaker 1: elections this year.

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Speaker 2: There's a Senate race going on there.

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Speaker 1: Houstad is the Republican, good Mandate, he was appointed to

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Speaker 1: fill that seat and running against the old senator, Shared Brown.

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Speaker 1: And there's also an important governor's race to work in Ohio.

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Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswami is the Republican there running against acting the

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Speaker 1: Democrat is you know, look, Trump has turned Ohio into

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Speaker 1: a really bright, sure has red state. Do you feel

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Speaker 1: good about these.

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Speaker 2: Races right now? I do.

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Speaker 13: Good candidate, you know, good, good race to start with

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Speaker 13: good candidates. We got We've got a great United States

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Speaker 13: Senator in John Hughes said was our former lieutenant governor,

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Speaker 13: Speaker to the House a few years back before that.

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Speaker 13: So good, good man, good family, doing a good job.

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Speaker 13: And same with Vivek and Vivik's opponent. I mean, Vic's

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00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 13: just one sharp guy who's already got the President's endorsement.

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00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 13: Out there, working hard, going around our state. But his

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00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 13: opponent is she's been called the Fauci of Ohio, right,

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Speaker 13: and she was for all the crazy lockdowns and taking

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Speaker 13: away your liberty and all this stuff. And so I

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00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 13: think it's it's going to be a clear contrast, which is,

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Speaker 13: you know, elections are about that. I think he'll have

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Speaker 13: the resources and most important, he's a good candidate, sharp guy.

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Speaker 13: I always say, never hearstuf smart people in charge, yep.

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00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 13: And the bank is certainly that. So I think he's

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Speaker 13: gonna win. He's and he's working hard, and we'll I've

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00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 13: been doorsteaining, we're for him. We'll keep working hard for him.

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Speaker 1: You're in the middle of a lot of stuff here

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00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: in the Capitol where we sit today. When you're back

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Speaker 1: home in Ohio. What's the number one thing people walk

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Speaker 1: up to you and tell you on the.

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Speaker 13: Street, Jordan, when is someone going to jail? I get

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Speaker 13: that question, Pimy are you? I'm sure you get it.

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Speaker 1: I've been in twenty states in the last six weeks.

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Speaker 1: It is literally the number one thing when is someone going.

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Speaker 13: To because they look at the spot. I mean, you think,

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00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 13: but just we'll just do it with Trump. Forget about

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00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 13: the fact they went and got my phone records for

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Speaker 13: two and a half years. We've got the Speaker of

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Speaker 13: the House, Jack Smith, think about this, Jack Smith. Two

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Speaker 13: weeks after Kevin McCarthy has been named Speaker of the House,

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Speaker 13: Jack Smith goes to a judge and says, I want

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Speaker 13: you to put a gag order on the fact that

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Speaker 13: I've got the Speaker of the House, the guy second

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Speaker 13: in line to the president. I've got his phone records

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Speaker 13: for two years prior, for a two month time period

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Speaker 13: from November election in twenty twenty two January seventh. I

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Speaker 13: want to Speaker, you can they know when he called someone,

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Speaker 13: how long the call lasted, who we talked to, who

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Speaker 13: called him, if he initiated the call, they knew where

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Speaker 13: he was at when he did, so that you can

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Speaker 13: pattern someone's life. You know who the speaker's talking to

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Speaker 13: before big votes after me. That is ridiculous. They did that,

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Speaker 13: that kind of activity, and what they did to President

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Speaker 13: Trump over the last decade. Oh, it's so, that's that's

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Speaker 13: the main question. I get same probably from people, and

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01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 13: I sell them you know, we can't put any one

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Speaker 13: jail with the legislative branch, but we can do the work.

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Speaker 2: You can shine the light. You get bank referrals exactly,

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Speaker 2: dig up the information.

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Speaker 1: That's what Jim Jordan does from Ohio Common Sense for

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Speaker 1: the American People. Wednesday, January seventh, Scott Jennings broadcasting.

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Speaker 2: Live from Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: We are in the United States Capitol, mere feet from

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Speaker 1: the floor of the US House and coming down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: Here our final guest today, one of the most quotable

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01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: and interesting members of the House, Tim Burchett of Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Second District, is here.

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Speaker 2: Congressman Burchett, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 7: Thanks, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Bro.

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01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: You were telling me that this is your first visit here,

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01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: but there's still three things you've never done.

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01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 14: Three things I've never done written in a Lemo d

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01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 14: bottled water or eating a bagel.

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Speaker 1: And now appearing on the Scotch any shows off the

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Speaker 1: list now because this is your inaugural appearance, you are

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Speaker 1: in the middle of a bunch of interesting issues.

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01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 2: I've got five minutes. I'm gonna tick.

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Speaker 1: Through this and I need I need the Tim Burchett

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Speaker 1: hot take number one Congressional Stock Trading Van.

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Speaker 14: You've been outspoken on this. Where does it stand? It's

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01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 14: not gonna go anywhere. Brother, we're gonna pass something. Probably

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01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 14: in the Senate will pass something, and they'll say, all

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01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 14: those ingrates in the House, and we're gonna see them

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01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 14: old guys in the Senate, and then everybody's gonna laugh

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Speaker 14: and go vacation in Kenny bunk Port or something.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 14: And because it's it's most sides are it's it's bypartisan support,

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01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 14: but bypartisan hatred, because Congress is infinitely broken both parties.

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Speaker 14: I just think, as we say in each Tennessee, we're

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01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 14: crooked as a dog's leg when Pelosi's making five six

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Speaker 14: hundred percent return. You know, go to Wall Street and

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Speaker 14: if you go to the top one hundred list on

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Speaker 14: unusual whales, I think it's the website and it lists them.

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Speaker 7: Of course, I don't ever crack the thing.

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Speaker 14: My ten thousand dollars portfolio that buddy Tommy Siler managed

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Speaker 14: was a mutual fund, which is what everybody in Congress.

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01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 14: It's an honor to be in Congress. I'm sick and

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01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 14: tired of these knuckleheads coming up here saying how much

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Speaker 14: money it costs them. You know what Dad gummt Then

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01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 14: don't run for Dad Gum Congress because it is an honor.

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01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:16,439
Speaker 14: More people have played professional baseball than by the United

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Speaker 14: States Congress.

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Speaker 1: Questions today were raised by you and committee about il

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Speaker 1: Han Omar, Congresswan from Minnesota. You've asked for her immigration records.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about what you did today and why you

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01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: did it.

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Speaker 14: Well, I did that because it's not I didn't bring

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Speaker 14: up any of the things that you see on the internet,

1290
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 14: any of the other inflammatory things. Let's just get to

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01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 14: the bottom of it. We're a country of justice, legal

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01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 14: that we have legal parameters. Let's get to the bottom

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01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 14: of it. If she's here legally, then shut up. If

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01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 14: she's not legal, she needs to be got she needs

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Speaker 14: to get out. And that's the bottom line. As the

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01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 14: bottom line, she and I came to Congress. We're still friends.

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Speaker 14: We're friends. I don't know if we still are, but

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Speaker 14: I just I'm tired of all the talk and all

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01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 14: the back and it doesn't do us any good.

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01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 7: Let's get to the bottom of it. Let's move on

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01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 7: to other issues.

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Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of as you reference, a

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Speaker 1: lot of things swirling about that out there. What you

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Speaker 1: did was very specific. You asked the Intelligence Committee correct

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Speaker 1: to get a hold of her immigration records, so that

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Speaker 1: once and for all you can that's correct.

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Speaker 2: Give the American people the answers of the.

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Speaker 14: Question, because they are the body to do it. I

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Speaker 14: thought it was I thought it was oversight. Talked to

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Speaker 14: Chairman Comber about it last week. He came to me

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Speaker 14: and said, no, in fact, we cannot do that. The

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Speaker 14: only committee of jurisdiction apparently is the Intelligence Committee.

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Speaker 7: So let's get it to them. Let's get on with it.

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Speaker 7: I'm tired of.

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Speaker 14: Talking everybody, everybody, you know, everybody in this in Congress.

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Speaker 14: They throw a rock over the fence and then they

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Speaker 14: run home behind behind their mama's skirt.

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Speaker 7: I'm sick of that, dude. I'm sick of that.

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Speaker 14: Now these people that there can vote for Tim Burchett,

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Speaker 14: only people back in Tennessee, and these are things they

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Speaker 14: want to know.

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Speaker 2: All right, let me move on to the other hot

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Speaker 2: topic of the day.

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Speaker 1: Aliens, UFOs, you have been asking lots of questions about this.

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Speaker 1: You work with Anna Paulina Luna on issue. All are

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Speaker 1: sort of the UFO caucus here a. What is the

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Speaker 1: when you, as a member of Congress want answers to

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Speaker 1: questions about stuff like that? How hard is it to

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Speaker 1: get the administration, any administration, to turn over documents whatever

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Speaker 1: to you, or do you run into a lot of walls.

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Speaker 7: On It's virtually impossible.

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Speaker 14: The war pimps at the Pentagon and all the people

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Speaker 14: and the members of Congress, who are really just portfolio warriors,

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Speaker 14: they vote, they vote to enhance their portfolio. We're in Ukraine.

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Speaker 14: Biden said, we're gonna send you our missile defense system. Okay,

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Speaker 14: we send our missile defensivesm I guess who owned stock

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Speaker 14: in that missile defense system that we had to automatically

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Speaker 14: replenish in a multi billion dollar no bid contract. Members

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Speaker 14: of Congress, both parties infinitely broken, crooked as a dog's leg.

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Speaker 14: Let's fix it. I just I don't know about Little

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Speaker 14: Green Man or flying saucers. I have my theories on

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Speaker 14: all of this, but I think that we should know

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Speaker 14: what we're spending billions of dollars. When I go into

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Speaker 14: a meeting and I'm told by an admiral that says

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Speaker 14: they're real, and then I go into another and some

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Speaker 14: little punk with that gum what do you call it,

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Speaker 14: a ponytail or whatever? A man bun, excuse me, A

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Speaker 14: man bun looks at me it was some arrogance and

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Speaker 14: hides behind his title, and we're giving him millions of

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Speaker 14: dollars to study something. And the people that and other

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Speaker 14: departments within that organization are telling me there's something else

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Speaker 14: out there that we're looking at, something that I've seen

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Speaker 14: things to me that just tells you there's a cover up.

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Speaker 14: And again it's never going to come out unless the President.

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Speaker 7: Of the United States breaks the news.

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Speaker 1: We'll leave it there that one of the most interesting

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Speaker 1: and quotable and cool members of Congress, you see them

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Speaker 1: on your TV sometimes. And now you're on the Scott

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Speaker 1: Jennings Show. Tim Burchett from Tennessee, thanks for stopping by.

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Speaker 1: The show's over. We're done at the Capitol. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: all the members who came by. We'll see you tomorrow

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Speaker 1: at Scott Jennings on Salem.