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

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Speaker 1: for the American people. Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 2: The wargames may be afoot in Iran. We'll have the

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Speaker 2: latest on that situation in the Middle East. We'll interview

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Speaker 2: a former president of the American Plastic Surgery Association today,

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Speaker 2: talk to him about the organization's decision to pull back

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Speaker 2: on transgender surgeries for miners. Former President Bill Clinton testifies

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Speaker 2: in the Epstein investigation.

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Speaker 3: Today. Trump is in Corpus Christi.

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Speaker 2: He's on his way now to Texas to discuss energy

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Speaker 2: and economic policies. We'll have a live report there, and

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Speaker 2: we have three members of Congress on the show today

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Speaker 2: to weigh in on all of this breaking news of

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Speaker 2: the day. It is Friday, February twenty seventh. I'm Scott

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Speaker 2: Jennings reporting live for Salem. We're on location today and Memphi, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: I'm in Memphis to make a speech tonight to the

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Speaker 2: Shelby County Republican Party Lincoln Dinner, and we are broadcasting

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Speaker 2: live at this moment from the historic Peabody Hotel here

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Speaker 2: in downtown Memphis. As I sit here today, a manhunt

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Speaker 2: is on in Memphis for a suspect who shot a

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Speaker 2: police officer on Thursday night. According to the Tennessee Bureau

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Speaker 2: of Investigation, the police say Danell Jarvis Maxwell, age forty,

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Speaker 2: of Memphis is wanted for criminal attempted first degree murder

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Speaker 2: on a police officer. This story, I bring to you

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Speaker 2: is another unfortunate reminder of what crime looks like in

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Speaker 2: Democrat run cities, another reminder of why President Trump has

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Speaker 2: been so adamant about surging federal resources into these cities.

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Speaker 2: On Tuesday night, at the State of the Union, the

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Speaker 2: President hailed Memphis as a major success in his continued

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Speaker 2: fight against violent crime. The data bears that out last summer,

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Speaker 2: the President deployed the National Guard and several other federal

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Speaker 2: agencies to Memphis, and he created the Memphis Safe Task

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Speaker 2: Force that included four hundred National Guard members, sixteen military

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Speaker 2: lawyers to help prosecute cases, and members of law enforcement

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Speaker 2: from the FBI, the ATF, DHS, DEA, and other agencies.

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Speaker 3: And what are the results To discuss that.

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Speaker 2: Sitting next to me, the Congressman for the Greater Memphis Area,

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Speaker 2: David cussed off of the great State of Tennessee. Congressman

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us here on the Scott Jennings Show,

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Speaker 2: and thanks for the invitation to be in Memphis.

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Speaker 3: Scott.

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Speaker 4: We're really glad to have you in Memphis. It's a

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Speaker 4: great city, this is a great community. You've been welcome

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Speaker 4: with open arms, and you're in a beautiful sitting here

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Speaker 4: in the Peabody Hotel.

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Speaker 3: We are.

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Speaker 2: This is a historic hotel, a beautiful hotel, and a

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Speaker 4: What's going on the Cotton Gin Show with the Farming

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Speaker 4: gen Show. This is a big convention that comes to

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Speaker 4: town every year. You have farmers from all over the Southeast,

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Speaker 4: all over the region who are here and they get

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Speaker 4: together and there are vendors and.

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Speaker 3: It's a big deal.

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Speaker 4: So we're glad you're here along with the people who

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Speaker 4: support Americans are farmers.

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Speaker 2: And producers absolutely flying into Memphis today on a beautiful day,

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Speaker 2: walking in the door of the Peabody, greeted by a

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Speaker 2: lot of friendly faces here in Memphis.

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Speaker 3: The hospitality has been really nice. Let's talk about Memphis.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about what President Trump and the Governor Bill

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Speaker 2: Lee and law enforcement have been able to accomplish here.

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Speaker 2: According to the governor, crime has decreased by fifty five percent.

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Speaker 2: Since this task force was launched, fifty five hundred people

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Speaker 2: have been arrested. You represent this area in Congress. What

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Speaker 2: are you hearing from your constituents? Are they happy with

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Speaker 2: the results of the Memphis Safe task Force and the

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Speaker 2: federal intervention?

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Speaker 5: Scott?

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Speaker 4: The majority of people in this community, whether whatever side

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Speaker 4: of the political aisle they're on, whatever part of town

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Speaker 4: Bill Lee surging these federal and state resources into the community.

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Speaker 4: The number of arrest is significant. It's actually over six

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Speaker 4: sixty four hundred arrest As of just a couple of

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Speaker 4: And here's an incredible stat Scott. Since this task force

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Speaker 4: missing children. That's an incredible number. But again, regardless of

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Speaker 4: done his leadership bringing this task force to Memphis. There's

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Speaker 3: So more statistics.

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Speaker 2: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says that twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: crime decreased by nearly twenty percent year over year, and

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Speaker 2: serious violent crimes like murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery

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Speaker 2: dropped nearly thirty percent. Also property crimes burglary, theft, car theft,

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Speaker 2: you have crime down overall in Memphis forty one percent,

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Speaker 2: violent crime down thirty percent, murders down forty seven percent,

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Speaker 2: aggravated assaults down twenty four percent. Raw numbers sixty six

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Speaker 2: fewer homicides than in twenty twenty four, and one hundred

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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: There is no doubt that the President engaging this federal intervention,

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Speaker 2: National Guard and other federal law enforcement this might be

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Speaker 2: the biggest success story this in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 4: So I think you're exactly why Scott. Two takeaways from

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Speaker 4: that is number one. It really does work. And here

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Speaker 3: And they work well together.

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Speaker 4: They're on a common mission to try to scoop up

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Speaker 4: other takeaway is this is a model for how this

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Speaker 4: can work in other cities. Big cities that have experienced

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Speaker 4: a surge in violent crime. Look to Memphis, look to

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Speaker 4: the successes. If I were a mayor or a governor

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Speaker 4: I would welcome these resources that the President has offered

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Speaker 3: But Memphis has done it the right way.

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Speaker 2: And the local officials here are Democrats and probably had

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Speaker 2: some skepticism at the start, but they're even touting now

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Speaker 2: the safety numbers here in the city. It is a

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Speaker 2: good example of federal and state and local cooperation and

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Speaker 2: a good example of bipartisan cooperation when people decide to

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Speaker 2: work together. Memphis is a real success story. That voice

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Speaker 2: you're hearing on the show today. By the way, Congressman

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Speaker 2: David cussed off of Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: Congressman.

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Speaker 2: The other big story of the day international Affairs IRAN.

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Speaker 2: The United States State Department has authorized non emergency personnel

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Speaker 2: That message went out just a few hours ago. Several

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Speaker 2: other countries, China, Kazakhstan, Germany, India, South Korea, they are

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Speaker 2: urging their citizens to avoid the area. Just reading the

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Speaker 2: war footing. We're just hearing as we were going on

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Speaker 2: of negotiations with the Iranian regime. It feels like between

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Speaker 3: What's your reaction to that. Well, look, it's very serious.

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Speaker 4: We know that right now, Scott, we have the largest

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Speaker 4: military build up in that part of the world since

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Speaker 4: two thousand and three. And we know that the President

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Speaker 4: has dispatched Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Marco Rubio to

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Speaker 4: try to work with the Uranian counterparts in good faith,

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Speaker 4: and the Iranians know that if they don't come to

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Speaker 4: Tuesday night at the State of the Union was very

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Speaker 4: firm and very direct that Iran can never possess a

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Speaker 4: see one of three things happening. One is that we

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Speaker 4: could see a very surgical operation similar to what we

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Speaker 4: when Maduro was captured. Very very strategic and very surgical.

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Speaker 4: It could be broader, it could be regime changed, but

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Speaker 4: Mago mistake. The president is moved the images and the

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Speaker 4: reports of protesters literally in Iran being killed by the

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Speaker 4: nuclear weapons.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, these protesters who are out in the streets being killed,

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Speaker 2: apparently in the tens of thousands, it's just a mass slaughter.

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Speaker 3: The nuclear enrichment is an issue.

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Speaker 2: And also these intercontinental ballistic missiles, the idea that Iran

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Speaker 2: also to strike other countries, other allies of the United States.

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Speaker 2: So it is a dangerous situation. We'll keep an eye

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Speaker 2: on that on the show today. Congressman Custoff, thanks for

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Speaker 3: Today and we'll look forward to seeing you tonight.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Scott. We're honored to have you broadcast from Memphis.

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Speaker 4: Glad to have you here. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Thank you David.

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Speaker 6: this is where you come. The Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 2: It is Friday, February twenty seventh, broadcasting live from the

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Speaker 2: we have Congressman Marlon Stutsman from Indiana's third Congressional District

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Speaker 2: on the line. Congressman, welcome back to the Scott Sheenning Show.

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Speaker 7: Good afternoon, Scott. Great to be with you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great to hear your voice again, sir, and thanks

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Speaker 3: for your time. Today.

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Speaker 2: Let's start here the President traveling to Corpus Christi, Texas.

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Speaker 2: He's going to talk about energy. He's going to talk

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Speaker 3: Tell us what you got going on.

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Speaker 2: It seems like Congressman, this is an issue where you

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Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you about what's going on in Chappaqua,

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Speaker 7: Well, for her especially, I mean, she just, you know,

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Speaker 2: A's Congressman Marlon Stutsman of the Great State of Indiana.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the show today. We'll check

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Speaker 2: Jennings is in Memphis.

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Speaker 3: Stay with us. You know something.

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

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Speaker 6: No for America's favorite pundit, it's Scott Jennakes.

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Speaker 2: Friday, February twenty seventh, We're on location today broadcasting from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Just before departing the White House for Corpus Christi, Texas,

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Speaker 9: With the fact that they're not willing to hear this.

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Speaker 9: But no, I'm not happy with the way they work.

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Speaker 10: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 11: So this is an iterative process that doesn't just sort

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Speaker 2: and other institutions to continue to do these kinds of procedures.

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Speaker 2: Talk to us a little bit about the cultural and

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Speaker 2: political pressure that existed and how ultimately the organization decided

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Speaker 2: you know what, the pressure is not right.

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Speaker 3: We're going to really look at the evidence here.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned a couple of the reports that you looked at,

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Speaker 2: But I think a lot of our listeners are interested

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Speaker 2: in this idea that our culture in politics was pushing

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Speaker 11: So a really great question and one that I've had

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Speaker 11: reality is is the beauty of being a medical and

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Speaker 11: scientific organization, surgical specially the organization is that, don't you know,

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Speaker 11: we don't bow topolitics, We don't deal with politics.

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Speaker 10: We're politics free. We deal with science and data and evidence.

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Speaker 11: And so, you know, for those that have sort of

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Speaker 11: critiqued and said, oh, this is pressure from the Trump

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Speaker 11: administration or AHHS or something, it's.

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Speaker 10: Simply not true.

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Speaker 11: As I pointed out in my initial statement, we started

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Speaker 11: different administration with a completely different view of this, and

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Speaker 11: so this had nothing to do with politics. I totally understand,

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Speaker 11: you know, sort of the intense, you know, discussions around

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Speaker 11: this topic and the political atmosphere. But the beauty of

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Speaker 11: what we do is we are free of science. It's

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Speaker 11: all about patient safety and taking care of patients.

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Speaker 2: First, Doctor Glassberg, when the organization decided to make the decision,

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Speaker 2: did you face a lot of internal dissent? Did you

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Speaker 2: have members of the society that simply disagreed? And are

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Speaker 2: there is there a lot of unhappiness I guess, or

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Speaker 2: is there pretty well acceptance of what you've done and

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Speaker 2: that it is the right direction for the plastic surgeons.

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Speaker 11: Well, the positive comments, both from internally and externally have

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Speaker 11: been overwhelmingly positive. But of course you know, with the

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Speaker 11: such a heated issue, there will be some descent and

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Speaker 11: the difference of opinions, not quite descent, but the difference

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Speaker 11: of opinion.

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Speaker 10: And we acknowledge that.

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Speaker 11: I was chair of a gender surgery task force and

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Speaker 11: it was the goal there was not policy making. It

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Speaker 11: different views. We were never able to do that. That

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Speaker 11: was a different process than this one. And so sure

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Speaker 11: we've had a pushback from some of our members, especially

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Speaker 11: those that do this type of surgery. And you know,

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Speaker 11: there's I think there's hopefully an understanding that you know,

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Speaker 11: these things will continue to be discussed and the evidence

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Speaker 11: will continue to be looked at.

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Speaker 10: But right now where we stand, that's that's where the

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Speaker 10: evidence is.

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Speaker 11: And again we are committed to doing what's best for

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Speaker 11: the well being of our patients.

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Speaker 2: That Voisuer hearing is doctor Scott Glassberg. He is past

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Speaker 2: president of the Americans Society of Plastic Surgeons. We're talking

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Speaker 2: about the Plastic Surgeon's recent decision to no longer recommend

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Speaker 2: transgender surgeries for minors, that those surgeries should.

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Speaker 3: Be put off until at least adulthood.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Glassberg, Obviously, you're a practicing physician, and you're heavily

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Speaker 2: involved in your organization, and you do deal with policymakers

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Speaker 2: and politicians. How difficult is it in our current political

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Speaker 2: environment to deal with the different layers of government. Obviously

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Speaker 2: you have the FEDS, and they have a posture today

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Speaker 2: under the Trump administration which is different than the Biden posture.

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Speaker 2: You have a hodgepodge of different regulations and rules and

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Speaker 2: political pressures in states and in localities.

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Speaker 3: Talk to us about how you all navigate.

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Speaker 2: The different political levers that you come into contact with

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Speaker 2: every single day.

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Speaker 11: So as I mentioned, you know, we put medical clinical

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Speaker 11: care above all else, and that's what we.

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Speaker 10: Primarily focus on. But if you read the.

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Speaker 11: Statement that SPS put out carefully, you know, not for

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Speaker 11: the criminalization of medical care. However, we do caution the

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Speaker 11: members in the statement to be mindful of whether it's

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Speaker 11: a ban or a law in a certain state that

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Speaker 11: might make this care legal or banit. To be mindful

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Speaker 11: of those laws. And you know, those are different, as

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Speaker 11: you know, from each of the different fifty states, about.

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Speaker 10: Half of them now have bans on this type of care.

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Speaker 11: So we do caution our members, We advise our members

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Speaker 11: to be mindful of what's going on in their states.

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Speaker 11: But again, our focus is primarily on science, evidence and data,

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Speaker 11: you know, medical ethics, I should mention as well, is

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Speaker 11: really important this realm, you know, and coming back to

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Speaker 11: a vulnerable population of children and with adolescents, and in

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Speaker 11: terms of surgery, many of which are irreversible, I think

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Speaker 11: that we have to put that above all politics, all pressures.

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Speaker 10: You know. Sure do we speak to you.

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Speaker 11: Know, different facets of government, whether it's the legislature or

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Speaker 11: you know, the departments, absolutely, but when push comes to

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Speaker 11: much best for our patients.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Glassberg, I thought maybe I would just ask you

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Speaker 2: to talk directly to parents for a moment. Obviously, parents

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Speaker 2: are sometimes put in difficult situations. They're getting signals from

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Speaker 2: their children, their children maybe getting signals from other people

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Speaker 2: in their lives that their parents don't know about. They're

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Speaker 2: interacting with different folks. You all have made the decision

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Speaker 2: to say these surgery should not be done until adulthood.

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Speaker 2: Maybe talk to the parents of America. What would you

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Speaker 2: tell them if their child comes to them and says, hey,

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Speaker 2: I've for whatever reason decided I want to do this.

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Speaker 2: How would you advise parents to deal with those conversations

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Speaker 2: right now?

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Speaker 10: Another great question.

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Speaker 11: I don't do these surgeries, but I know what I

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Speaker 11: would say if I was talking to a parent in

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Speaker 11: the situation.

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Speaker 10: You know, we don't start with the endgame.

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Speaker 11: We start at the beginning, right, and we know that

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Speaker 11: a careful psychiatric evaluation. Psychological evaluation is critical to understanding

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Speaker 11: what's going on with their children. In terms of pressure,

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Speaker 11: we want to make sure there's no pressure like social

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Speaker 11: media or peer pressure and things like that that could

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Speaker 11: go into the minds of these children and adolescents, and

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Speaker 11: then there's a you know, a process that builds before

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Speaker 11: you get to either endigrint or surgical care, which again

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Speaker 11: has you know, right now, no scientific basis in this population.

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Speaker 11: There are other ways to go, There are other ways

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Speaker 11: to treat these patients through psychological care, and you know,

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Speaker 11: I would I would caution parents to do their homework.

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Speaker 11: You know, these are significant treatments, irreversible, and I would say,

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Speaker 11: if you're not comfortable, you know, get a second opinion,

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Speaker 11: get a third opinion, speak to a lot of different people,

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Speaker 11: and I would make sure that I was comfortable moving forward,

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Speaker 11: both with what we're what they're going to do, and

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Speaker 11: also with the expertise of the person that they're seeing.

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Speaker 10: Even on other procedures. We talk all the time.

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Speaker 11: About only seeing aboard certified plastic surgeon because of their training.

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Speaker 10: That's doubly important here.

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Speaker 11: Same thing is true for whether it's a psychiatrist or

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Speaker 11: an endocrinologist or any other person they might encounter in

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Speaker 11: their discovery of what is going on with a child.

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Speaker 10: And I think there's a lot of empathy that needs

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Speaker 10: to be said.

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Speaker 11: No one is suggesting that these children don't have concerns

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Speaker 11: issues that gender dysphoria may not be real in those patients,

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Speaker 11: but I think you know they need to be guided

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Speaker 10: Interests of these children.

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Speaker 2: That voice you're hearing doctor Scott Glassberg, past President of

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Speaker 2: the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Doctor Glasburg, thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for taking the time to talk about this

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Speaker 2: Dylan has announced that the Justice Department is suing five

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Speaker 2: additional states for failure to produce the voter role. She

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Speaker 2: made a comment about this that I want to play

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Speaker 2: for you. This is her Meat Dylan, Assistant Attorney General,

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Speaker 2: in cut number one.

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Speaker 12: Exciting election law news here at the DOJ Civil Rights Division. Today,

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Speaker 12: we sued five additional states for their refusal to turn

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Speaker 12: over voter roles in response to the Attorney General's request

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Speaker 12: under the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty. Specifically, we

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Speaker 12: sued West Virginia, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: That's the Assistant Attorney General Harmeat Dillon. The project here

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Speaker 2: is that the federal government is trying to work with

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Speaker 2: states to clean up voter roles. They found in a

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Speaker 2: number of states that there are tens or even hundreds

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Speaker 2: of thousands of people on voter rolls who should not

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Speaker 2: be there, people who are phantom registrants, moved away, deceased,

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Speaker 2: what have you. And some states are resisting so Harmeat

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Speaker 2: Dillon has been quite aggressive at going after these states

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Speaker 2: and filing lawsuits. The federal government trying to get a

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Speaker 2: hold of this data so they can help the states

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Speaker 2: clean up their voter roles. You're listening to common sense

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Speaker 2: for the American people. It's Scott Jennings broadcasting to you

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Speaker 2: on Salem. We are in Memphis, Tennessee today. I was

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Speaker 2: in New York last night on Newsnight with Abbey Phillip.

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Speaker 2: Got on a plane early this morning and made my

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Speaker 2: way down here to Memphis. Beautiful sunny day in Memphis Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: We're broadcasting live from the Peabody Hotel, one of the

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Speaker 2: most historic hotels in the southern United States. The hospitality

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Speaker 2: here has been incredible. I'll be making a speech here

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Speaker 2: in Memphis tonight. We are going to take our top

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Speaker 2: of the hour break. We have all the breaking news

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Speaker 2: and updates. When we come back, it's Scott Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 13: Stay with us.

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Speaker 5: Have the leftist haven't had enough yet? There's more. This

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Speaker 5: is the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 2: It is Friday, February twenty seventh. Common sense for the

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Speaker 2: American people.

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Speaker 3: We're on the road.

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Speaker 2: Memphis, Tennessee is our location today and we broadcast to

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Speaker 2: you live from the historic Peabody Hotel here in Memphis,

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Speaker 2: and we're glad to be here. Everyone is extremely friendly.

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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful day in Memphis, Tennessee. Quick check of

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Speaker 2: the headlines for you. Attorney General Pam Bondi and this

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Speaker 2: is just in to the Scott Jennings Show. Attorney General

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Speaker 2: Bondi has announced that the Justice Department has unsealed an

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Speaker 2: indictment charging thirty three zero thirty more people who took

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Speaker 2: part in the attack on the city's church in Minnesota

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Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, federal agents Attorney General Bondi says,

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Speaker 2: have already arrested twenty five of the thirty they have

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Speaker 2: been indicted on the Face Act and on the Clan Act.

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Speaker 2: This is the attack on the church that involved Don Lemon,

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Speaker 2: who was previously indicted by a grand jury. President Clinton,

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Speaker 2: former President Clinton, is being deposed by the House Oversight

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Speaker 2: Committee in Chappaqua, New York today. The chairman of the

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Speaker 2: House Oversight Committee is Jamie Comer of Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: He briefed the media, here's clip number three.

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Speaker 14: For these depositions of great power and great wealth, and

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Speaker 14: I used yesterday and today as an example. It took

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Speaker 14: seven months, seven months to get the Clintons in here,

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Speaker 14: but we've got him in here, and we look forward

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Speaker 14: to answering to asking lots of questions that I think

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Speaker 14: any curious media outlet in America would have. Yesterday, Miss

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Speaker 14: Clinton deferred a lot of questions to her husband. Today

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Speaker 14: there were at least a dozen times when she said,

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Speaker 14: you'll have to ask my husband that I can't answer that.

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Speaker 5: So we already had a big portfolio of.

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Speaker 14: Questions for him, and that increased yesterday.

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Speaker 5: So we look forward to that. We'll be happy to

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Speaker 5: answer a couple.

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Speaker 9: Mister chairman, mister chairman, mister chairman, good morning.

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Speaker 2: And the current President, Donald Trump is on his way

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Speaker 2: to Texas right now and he's going to have an

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Speaker 2: event today regarding energy and economic policies. Before he left

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Speaker 2: the White House in Washington, he was asked about the

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Speaker 2: situation where he ran. It does appear the United States

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Speaker 2: is moving towards a war footing with Iran.

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Speaker 3: Here's the President in cut number six.

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Speaker 8: I no, I'm not I'm not happy with the fact

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Speaker 8: that they're I'm willing to hear this love we have

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Speaker 8: to have, so I'm not thrilled with that. And we'll

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Speaker 8: see what happens. We're talking later.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, well, we'll have some additional talks today.

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Speaker 9: But no, I'm not happy with the way they were working.

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Speaker 2: After the President said he wasn't happy with the Iranian regime,

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Speaker 2: not happy with the direction of the talks, he boarded

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Speaker 2: Air Force one and he's on his way to Corpus Christi, Texas,

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Speaker 2: and that's where.

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Speaker 9: We go now.

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Speaker 2: Kicking off this hour of the Scott Jenning Show, we're

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Speaker 2: joined live by Congressman Keith Self, who is in Corpus

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Speaker 2: Christy waiting for the President to arrive. Congressman, welcome into

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Speaker 2: the Scott Sheenning Show.

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Speaker 9: Delighted to be here, Scott, thank you and.

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Speaker 2: Good to see you Saturday down in Collin County, Sir,

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Speaker 2: and we had a great, great event there together and

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Speaker 2: glad you were able to join us here. What are

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Speaker 2: you affecting the President to do and say in Corpus

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Speaker 2: Christy today.

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Speaker 9: Well, he's come to the dynamic state of Texas to

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Speaker 9: make his case if the economy is moving again. The

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Speaker 9: economy has got great things happening. We just saw the

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Speaker 9: mortgage rate spop below six percent. So he's going to

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Speaker 9: be making the case that Trump economy is moving and

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Speaker 9: we need to be watching it carefully because the midterms

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Speaker 9: will will revolve on the economy, and I think between

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Speaker 9: now and then we're going to see great movement and

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Speaker 9: people are going to be very pleased with where they

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Speaker 2: Congressman's self, my understanding is there could be some announcements

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Speaker 2: today on LNG liquid natural gas at this event. What

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Speaker 2: are you expecting to hear on this critical energy issue.

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Speaker 9: Well, we already produce more oil and more gas than

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Speaker 9: anybody else in the world likes two and three combined

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Speaker 9: in some cases. So if we've got more agreements, drill

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Speaker 9: baby drill is working. And if we have an agreement

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Speaker 9: that he's going to announce, it's only going to ascerbate.

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Speaker 9: It's only going to speed up the fact that American

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Speaker 9: energy dominance rule the world.

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Speaker 2: And as you mentioned the midterms, you do have a

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Speaker 2: primary coming up in Texas that is March the third.

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Speaker 2: You have three people running for the United States Senate.

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Speaker 2: Are you expecting Senator Cornyn and his two opponents to

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Speaker 2: be there today and are you expecting the President to

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Speaker 2: make any announcement on politics in Texas today?

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Speaker 9: Well, I know that two of them are going to

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Speaker 9: be here because I've seen and heard that. I don't

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Speaker 9: know if all three will be here. I'll leave that

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Speaker 9: the names to them to announce, But yeah, I expect.

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Speaker 9: I would expect all three of them to be here

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Speaker 9: because this is President Trump and their stomping grounds. Look,

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Speaker 9: it is right around the corner. Tuesday is election day.

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Speaker 9: Most people don't have this early primary, but it is oponus.

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Speaker 9: So they're going to make their cases for the last time.

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Speaker 9: In the next couple of days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a hot and heavy down there in Texas.

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Speaker 2: We'll be paying attention to that on the show. Let

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Speaker 2: me bring up another issue that you've been working on

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Speaker 2: in the House congressman self, and that is part of

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Speaker 2: this movement in the House Republican Conference to ban Shariah

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Speaker 2: law nationally. Can you talk to us about this effort

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Speaker 2: and why it's so important that this happens this year?

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Speaker 9: Oh, my goodness. Absolutely. Look, we started the Sharia Free

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Speaker 9: America Caucus after the White House Christmas Party a conversation

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Speaker 9: with Senator Tuberville from Alabama. We noready have forty five

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Speaker 9: members of the House of Representatives joined the caucus, representing

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Speaker 9: twenty two states. That's almost half of the states in America.

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Speaker 9: And frankly, that's in two months time. It's important because look,

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Speaker 9: Sharia law is what governs Islam, and it is moving fast.

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Speaker 9: I represent ground zero North Texas, ground zero. The monster

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Speaker 9: being built fast. We're moving past the accommodation phase into

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Speaker 9: the intimidation phase in some cases. And this is a

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Speaker 9: dominant political ideology that will not be an alternative of

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Speaker 9: political ideology will subplant the US Constitution and our laws,

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Speaker 9: our laws are based on personal responsibility, personal freedom, the individual.

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Speaker 9: Sharia is based totally on submission to Islam, and they

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Speaker 9: intend to do that. Look at the fifty other countries

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Speaker 9: around the world that are dominated by Sharia law and Islam.

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Speaker 9: You'll see what we do not want in America today.

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Speaker 2: Congressman Keith's self is from Texas. He's our special guest

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Speaker 2: here on the Scott Jennings Show. Congressmen, our thoughts are

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Speaker 2: with all the deployed military servicemen and women who are

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Speaker 2: now in the Middle East, And as we heard at

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Speaker 2: the top of the show, it may be that we're

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Speaker 2: moving towards a war footing where Iran. You are a

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Speaker 2: graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point,

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Speaker 2: You had a twenty five year career of service to

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Speaker 2: our nation.

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Speaker 3: You were deployed all over the world.

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Speaker 2: What's going through your mind as a career military officer

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Speaker 2: as you watch this military build up and you watch

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Speaker 2: our nation possibly move toward attacking the Iranian regime.

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Speaker 9: Well, first of all, we've got a huge military force

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Speaker 9: in We've got one carrier stationed oflf Israel, one station

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Speaker 9: in the Gulf that's offense defense. We've got a tremendous

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Speaker 9: force there. Now, the two priorities for the Islamic regime

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Speaker 9: in Iran are regime survival first and their nuclear program second.

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Speaker 9: And from what I'm hearing, they are not answering. Presidents

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Speaker 9: demand that they at least give up their nuclear program

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Speaker 9: if they will not have regime change, so they may

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Speaker 9: have to undergo both. What I do not want is

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Speaker 9: an extended war in the Middle East. We do not

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Speaker 9: want another forever war in the Middle East. I don't

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Speaker 9: think the American people would put up with it, and

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Speaker 9: we certainly don't need to send our young men women

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Speaker 9: in harm's way again over an extended page of time.

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Speaker 9: So if we do do it, I hope it is

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Speaker 9: a massive strike. But let's don't get bogged down. And

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Speaker 9: yet another Middle Eastern country.

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Speaker 2: That's Congressman Keith Sell from the great State of Texas.

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Speaker 2: He is in Corpus Christy and he is waiting on

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Speaker 2: President Trump to arrive in Texas. The President is having

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Speaker 2: a big event today. Congressman, I know you said you

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Speaker 2: were waiting for the President out there in the parking lot.

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Speaker 2: I assume the crowds are large and already gathering.

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Speaker 9: Oh my goodness, the lines to get into it are

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Speaker 9: already huge. Oh my goodness, Yes, the parking lot is

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Speaker 9: full and it is a huge parking lot. I go

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Speaker 9: to be a biggie then, sure looks like it to me.

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Speaker 3: All right. Congressman self, thanks for joining us on the

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Speaker 3: Scott Jenny Show.

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Speaker 9: Honored to have you, sir, Thank you Scott.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: That was Congressman Keith's Self of Texas, a military hero

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Speaker 2: and now member of the United States Congress. A quick

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Speaker 2: word from our friends at Relief Factor, and in fact,

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Speaker 2: I'll keep it in Texas because I've got a letter

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Speaker 2: here from Tom in Texas, eighty five year old Tom.

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Speaker 2: He told me that pain was keeping him from riding

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Speaker 2: his bike and flying small aircraft as a flight instructor.

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Speaker 2: But after taking relief Factor, lower back pain and hip

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Speaker 2: pain are virtually gone, and he even had a long

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Speaker 2: standing trigger finger issue that started to improve. Yet another

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Speaker 2: person who has written us to tell us that Relief

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Speaker 2: Factor materially changed the quality of their life. We are

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Speaker 2: using Relief Factor in the Jennings household. Just was texting

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Speaker 2: with my father. He's on his way back on a

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Speaker 2: little road trip back from Florida, back towards Kentucky today.

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Speaker 2: Every week we are going to highlight the person, politician, organization,

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Speaker 2: watched Democrats refusing to stand, refusing to applaud, refusing to

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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you're surrendering your beliefs. It just means

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Speaker 2: Democrats refused to stand for angel families, families that have

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Speaker 2: faced unimaginable loss. They couldn't even acknowledge their pain. Families

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Speaker 2: that have lost loved ones to illegal immigrant, violent criminals.

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Speaker 2: Some of the Democrats refused to stand for the mother

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Speaker 2: on the train in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Speaker 3: They refuse to applaud a grieving mother.

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Speaker 2: Who has no political cause, who was simply there because

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Speaker 2: Democrats refused to stand for Erica Kirk, the widow of

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Speaker 2: Wondered Senator John Fetterman the day after, after he watched

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Speaker 2: his Democratic colleagues sit on their hands. Well, I agree, Senator,

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Speaker 2: but that's just not what Democrats do anymore. Some Democrats

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Speaker 2: even sat through Donald Trump, our commander in chief, honoring

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Speaker 2: our nation's military heroes with the Medal of Honor. But

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Speaker 2: perhaps the most telling moment of the night was when

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Speaker 8: One of the great things about the State of the

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Speaker 8: fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand

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Speaker 8: In that shame, you should be ashamed of yourself. Not

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Speaker 2: Now, if you were watching the speech, what you saw

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Speaker 2: there was Republicans standing up and giving the President lengthy applause,

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Speaker 2: Every Democrat in the chamber sat sat in silence. Their

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Speaker 2: between the two parties. Right now, Republicans are working to

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Speaker 2: with us on the Scott Jutting Show.

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Speaker 5: Ready for boor common sense.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Friday, February twenty seventh, and you know what

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Speaker 2: that means. It's time for Friday punditry. Here on the

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings Show. Joining me is my good friend Larry O'Connor.

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Speaker 2: Larry is the editor at Townhall dot com. He's a

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Speaker 2: talk radio show host in Washington, DC. Larry, Welcome in

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Speaker 2: to the Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 13: Thanks Scott for having me. It seems only fair because

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Speaker 13: my town Hall Show every day I feed you. You're

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Speaker 13: about half of my show, featuring your great work all

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Speaker 13: day long, so time to return the favor.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're glad to have you and grateful for your

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Speaker 2: support and grateful for your friendship. And we have a

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Speaker 2: lot of breaking news to talk about today, Larry. A

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Speaker 2: lot of things have gone on in the world of

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Speaker 2: politics this week. Let's start with actually breaking news that

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Speaker 2: happened just in the last hour. The Department of Justice,

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Speaker 2: through the Atorney General, has announced that thirty more people

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota have been indicted in the city's church attack.

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Speaker 2: This was the attack that involved Don Lemon. They have

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Speaker 2: arrested twenty five of the thirty they were indicted on

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Speaker 2: various violations of the Face Act and the Clan Act. Larry,

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Speaker 2: how does this strike you, the DOJ staying on top

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Speaker 2: of this church attack in Minnesota. Personally, I love it

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Speaker 2: because I think if you don't crack down on these things,

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Speaker 2: it's going to happen all over the country.

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Speaker 13: I'm incredibly satisfied by this. This was the turning point

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Speaker 13: I think in the narrative where the left sorto overplayed

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Speaker 13: their hand there in Minneapolis. I think that they had

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Speaker 13: the media on their side, and then even this was

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Speaker 13: a bridge too far for most people observing the events there,

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Speaker 13: with ICE's activities there and enforcing our laws, intruding on

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Speaker 13: worshippers in the middle of a Sunday service, intimidating them,

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Speaker 13: as Don Lemon said, you know, making them feel uneasy, uncomfortable,

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Speaker 13: and intimidated. That's absolutely a bridge too far. And the

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Speaker 13: best part of this from the DOJ is that they're

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Speaker 13: using the Face Act, which of course was employed to

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Speaker 13: imprison elderly women in DC who were praying the Rosary

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Speaker 13: out in front of an abortion mill. Those women got

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Speaker 13: locked up, women in their seventies under the guise of

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Speaker 13: the Face Act. But what most people don't know is

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Speaker 13: that part of the Face Act is also you can't

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Speaker 13: intrude upon and intimidate people at their places of worship.

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Speaker 13: That's exactly what this is, and it's sweet justice God.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. On top of this, we are also learning that

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Speaker 2: Don Lemon, who was already criminally indicted, is now being sued.

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Speaker 3: He's being sued by one of the parishioners for his role.

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Speaker 2: Just reading from the New York Post here, a church

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Speaker 2: goer has slapped activist news commentator Don Lemon with a

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Speaker 2: civil suit for his involvement in the anti ice mob

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Speaker 2: that stormed the Minnesota church. He was arrested in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: but now is also facing a civil suit. When you

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Speaker 2: look at Don Lemon in this situation, Larry, and you

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Speaker 2: see all the things he has said in the wake

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Speaker 2: of this, this claim that he is just some mere,

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Speaker 2: humble journalist who's roaming around covering the news. But when

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Speaker 2: you listen to everything he says in the aftermath and

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Speaker 2: leading up to the attack, this is not journalism.

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Speaker 3: What do you think.

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Speaker 13: That's not journalism? The First Amendment was never designed to

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Speaker 13: protect people from doing what Don Lemon did. It was

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Speaker 13: one hundred percent premeditated and honestly, despite the real ramifications

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Speaker 13: of the criminal charges, I think it might be these

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Speaker 13: civil lawsuits. Hopefully this isn't the first one or the

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Speaker 13: last one. I should say every single church member should

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Speaker 13: sue Don Lemon. It would absolutely cripple him. Let me

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Speaker 13: put it in perspective, imagine if Don Lemon had been

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Speaker 13: embedded with MS thirteen gang members who were going into

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Speaker 13: a private home and kidnapping every person in there and

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Speaker 13: intimidating them with physical violence. Would he and he was

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Speaker 13: part of the planning process, knew about it ahead of time,

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Speaker 13: participated in it, and livestream the whole thing. Would anyone

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Speaker 13: say that he was just you know, protected by the

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Speaker 13: First Amendment and doing journalism, or would they say that

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Speaker 13: he was part and parcel to that crime and supported

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Speaker 13: the criminals. It's obvious that this is a criminal act.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like there is this weird thing going

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Speaker 2: on on the left where they have decided that if

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Speaker 2: you're carrying a camera or just carrying your cell phone

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Speaker 2: with a camera on it, that that somehow gives you

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Speaker 2: this mystical layer of protection from federal laws. Like if

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Speaker 2: I go and as long as I'm carrying a cell phone,

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Speaker 2: I can interfere with federal law enforcement who are engaging

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Speaker 2: in a law enforcement activity. As long as I've got

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Speaker 2: a camera, I can kick open the door of your

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Speaker 2: church and terrorize your parishioners. And then afterwards, hey, hey,

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Speaker 2: first amendment, I'm just filming car. This is a public

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Speaker 2: service announcement from Larry and Scott to the world. Carrying

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Speaker 2: a phone and carrying a camera does not give you

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Speaker 2: immunity from breaking federal laws.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 13: And by the way, Scott, it's pretty rich from my perspective.

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Speaker 13: You know, I got started in this business with Andrew

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Speaker 13: Breitbart in two thousand and nine when he started his

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Speaker 13: Website's Big Hollywood, Big Government that eventually became brightbart News.

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Speaker 13: One of the big stories we had in two thousand

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Speaker 13: and nine was this young kid named James O'Keefe who

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Speaker 13: had an undercover video expose on acorn. People might remember

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Speaker 13: this story in your audience.

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Speaker 3: I know I do.

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Speaker 13: They attacked O'Keefe, they attacked Breitbart. They said this isn't

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Speaker 13: real journalism. It was the kind of sixty minutes undercover

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Speaker 13: investigative journalism that Mike Wallace was known for for decades.

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Speaker 13: But back then, these very same people are now claiming

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Speaker 13: they can go anywhere and break any laws as long

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Speaker 13: as they've got a smartphone live streaming it. We're attacking

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Speaker 13: us for not conducting actual journalism back then. Boy boy,

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Speaker 13: oh boy. How things have changed over the years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how the tables have turned, or as Michael Scott

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Speaker 2: would say, how the turntables.

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Speaker 3: Let's go back Tuesday too. Just stated it. Yeah, let's

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Speaker 3: go back Tuesday to the State of the Union.

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Speaker 2: I'll just get your reaction watching the president the longest

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Speaker 2: State of the Union in history. After you turned it

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Speaker 2: off and thought about it, what was your gut telling you, Larry.

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Speaker 13: Scott, I do a morning radio show in DC, so

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Speaker 13: I got to be up around four am. So my

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Speaker 13: gut was telling me, come on, man, let's wrap this up.

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Speaker 3: I get it.

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Speaker 13: Said that said the amount of political showmanship that he

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Speaker 13: displayed there, nobody does it better. And it was you know,

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Speaker 13: let me say this everybody, Because of course, his critics

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Speaker 13: on the left and many of your colleagues on cable

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Speaker 13: news sadly jumped up and said this was divisive, This

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Speaker 13: was divisive. It was actually the opposite if you think

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Speaker 13: about it, Scott. The President went out of his way

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Speaker 13: to offer Democrats opportunities to unite around things that eighty

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Speaker 13: percent or more of Americans all agree on. He kept

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Speaker 13: floating these things that we could all get together and

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Speaker 13: bond and unify around. It was the Democrats who refused

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Speaker 13: to do it. They refused to stand and applaud and

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Speaker 13: get excited about basic American principles and ideas that we

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Speaker 13: should all unite around. So, if anything, the President I

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Speaker 13: think is guilty of being too much of a unifier,

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Speaker 13: it was the Democrats who refused to play a lot, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, as a political tactical matter.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't help but notice that the President basically stayed

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Speaker 2: on his script all night long. It's very unusual for

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Speaker 2: him to do that, but he basically kept it between

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Speaker 2: the contours of the written speech. He kept it between

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Speaker 2: the navigational beacons, and was quite disciplined in his messaging.

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Speaker 2: Let me zoom in on a couple of Democratic reactions.

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned, most of the Democrats, all of them,

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Speaker 2: really wouldn't stand up for basic things. But a couple

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Speaker 2: of them stood out to me, and I think the

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Speaker 2: split screen worked very well for Trump. You had Rashida

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Speaker 2: Claibe of Michigan, congresswoman from Michigan, chanting k k K

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Speaker 2: while everyone else in the chamber was chanting USA.

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Speaker 3: How outrageous was that moment?

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Speaker 13: Despicable, Absolutely despicable and indicative of I think where the

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Speaker 13: power center for the Democrat Party is right now, Scott,

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Speaker 13: I mean the Chuck Schumers of the world, and that

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Speaker 13: keep Jeffries, will you wave this off or some of

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Speaker 13: the political pundits on television will wave this off and say, well,

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Speaker 13: she's just the extreme, she's just you know, the far

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Speaker 13: off left.

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Speaker 3: But she isn't.

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Speaker 10: Really.

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Speaker 13: She's one of the top fundraisers nationwide for members of

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Speaker 13: Congress who were running or for new candidates who are

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Speaker 13: trying to turn red districts blue or purple districts blue.

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Speaker 13: She's one of the squads, she's one of the stars.

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Speaker 13: And yes, as everyone else was chanting USA to celebrate

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Speaker 13: our gold medal hockey team, she equates our nation, our

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Speaker 13: United States of America, with the Klan, which is also

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Speaker 13: kind of ironic because, as you have most recently noted,

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Speaker 13: the KKK is a Democrat Party institution.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Democrats conveniently forget their party's history. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I find it incredible that this Don Lemon mob that

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Speaker 2: invaded that church, some of them are being indicted apparently

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Speaker 2: for violations of the Clan Act, which was passed in

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Speaker 2: the eighteen seventies to fight the Ku Klux Klan, which

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Speaker 2: was of course an outgrowth of the Democratic Party. And

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Speaker 2: now you have Don Lemon and his band falling victim

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Speaker 2: to the klanac. It's a bit of a delicious irony.

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Speaker 2: One more thing on the Democrats.

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Speaker 3: I had a lot of them book detail.

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Speaker 5: That's amazing.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's the Face Act in the

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Speaker 3: Klan Act. All right.

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Speaker 2: One more thing on the Democrats around the State of

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Speaker 2: the Union. Some of them boycotted and they had alternative events.

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Speaker 2: And if you look at the video, you had Democrats

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Speaker 2: up on stage with people dressed in frog costumes. There

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Speaker 2: was a man in a giraffe costume, there were furries.

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Speaker 2: Larry My question, why has the left gotten so weird?

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Speaker 2: Why are they dressing up in weird costumes? What do

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Speaker 2: they believe this is of some appeal to the American people,

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Speaker 2: I guess, or at least to their base.

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Speaker 10: I don't know.

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Speaker 13: I mean, it's funny they ran for a while there

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Speaker 13: that they were the ones who were the grown ups

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Speaker 13: in the room and the mature ones, the adults. They're

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Speaker 13: going to bring back the norms, and if this is

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Speaker 13: their idea of the norms, include me out. My friend

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Speaker 13: Selina Zido, a great, great writer over at Washington Examiner,

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Speaker 13: had a perfect article about this, which is, you remember

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Speaker 13: that moment when Trump turned to the Democrats and said,

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Speaker 13: you people are crazy. That's the narrative. That's the message

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Speaker 13: that Democrats should fear the most in these midterms, Scott,

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Speaker 13: because most Americans looking at that behavior. I mean, let's

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Speaker 13: face it, elections are always a choice, a binary choice.

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Speaker 13: You want to be on this team, you want to

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Speaker 13: be on that team. Who wants to be on the

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Speaker 13: giraffe furry and inflatable frog costume team?

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Speaker 15: Not me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very strange, And you know, I think that

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Speaker 2: there's going to be a cohort of voters in this

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Speaker 2: election who are moderately disapproving of what's going on in

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Speaker 2: the country on this issue or that. But yeah, that

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean they're going to turn back to the Democrats,

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Speaker 2: because I think Trump is right. They're going to look

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Speaker 2: at this these crowds and say, I don't want to

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Speaker 2: be affiliated with people who are simply acting crazy and who,

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Speaker 2: by the way, continue to die on the twenty of

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Speaker 2: every eighty twenty issue in America. All right, we got

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Speaker 2: about a minute ago here, Larry, it's that time with

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Speaker 2: our Friday punditry that we picked the winner and loser

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Speaker 2: of the week. You picked the winner. I picked the

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Speaker 2: loser who won the week in American politics.

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Speaker 13: Larry O'Connor, Well, listen, there were a lot to choose from,

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Speaker 13: and it would have been easy to stay President Trump

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Speaker 13: with this State of the Union, but I'm going to

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Speaker 13: go a little outside the box. Congresswoman kat Camick of

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Speaker 13: Florida positioned herself down in the front row of the speech,

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Speaker 13: dead center. Looked like she was right on the Democrat border.

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Speaker 15: There.

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Speaker 13: She kept standing up and you could not miss her.

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Speaker 13: All eyes were on her, and she got a great

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Speaker 13: attention drawn to her and also even better, highlighting the

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Speaker 13: fact that everyone around her, the Democrats, refused to stand up.

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Speaker 13: It was such a glaring example of what was wrong

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Speaker 13: with the Democrats in that room, and Cat Camick because

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Speaker 13: of that brilliant move positioning herself there. She's the political

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Speaker 13: winner of the week.

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Speaker 3: That's a great pick. I love Kat Cammick. I know

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Speaker 3: her a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Jared, make a note, we gotta get Cat in here

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Speaker 2: pretty soon because she is a hoop to talk to,

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Speaker 2: all right, shall She's really really good, strong conservative. Loser

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Speaker 2: of the week for me, just based on the breaking

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Speaker 2: news today, I'm going with the Ayatola. I think he

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Speaker 2: may have overplayed his hand here. It sounds like the

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Speaker 2: president is not happy. And when you've got all this

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Speaker 2: armada and aircraft carriers in the US military bearing down

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Speaker 2: on you, he made some stupid decisions. It sounds like

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Speaker 2: we'll see what happens in the next few days. The

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Speaker 2: Iatola is the loser of the week. Our pundit of

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Speaker 2: the week is Larry O'Connor, editor of town Hall dot com. Larry,

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Speaker 2: you're awesome, Thank you for everything, and we'll see us soon.

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Speaker 13: Thanks, Scott, Right back at you.

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Speaker 3: More to come on the Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 5: Stay with us fighting the left with the best weapon

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Speaker 5: we have, common sense. This is the Scott Jenny Show.

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Speaker 2: All right, home stretch here on Friday February twenty seven,

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings on location. Memphis, Tennessee is the city today

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Speaker 2: and we're broadcasting live from the historic Peabody Hotel.

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Speaker 3: A little breaking news into the show.

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Speaker 2: Jamie Comer, the head of the House Oversight Committee, has

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Speaker 2: just talked to the press about the deposition with Bill

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Speaker 2: Clinton today. Apparently Bill Clinton testified under oath that he

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Speaker 2: didn't have any reason to believe that President Trump had

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Speaker 2: ever been involved with anything problematic involving Jeffrey Epstein. So

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Speaker 2: you have Clinton saying nothing to fear for Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: and all of this even as Democrats out there try

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Speaker 2: to falsely smear the President on this. Also today, the

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Speaker 2: Department of Justice has announced that an additional thirty people

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Speaker 2: have been indicted in this attack on the city's church

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Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. That's a total of thirty nine altogether that

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Speaker 2: have been indicted, and at this point, thirty five of

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Speaker 2: them are actually under arrest.

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Speaker 3: So the Department of Justice.

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Speaker 2: Continuing to follow up on the Don Lemon attack on

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Speaker 2: the church in Minneapolis, and we have the issue of

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Speaker 2: Iran going on right now. My next guest is here

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Speaker 2: to discuss the latest breaking news on whether we're going

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Speaker 2: to war with Iran. His name is benham Ben Taliblue

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Speaker 2: from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He's a foremost

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Speaker 2: Iran expert in our public policy sphere Ben, and welcome

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Speaker 2: back to the Scott Chenning Show. You've seen what the

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Speaker 2: embassies are doing, You've heard what the President has said.

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Speaker 3: He's not happy. What say you are we headed for

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Speaker 3: war with Iran?

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Speaker 15: Well, great to be with you. The balance certainly looks

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Speaker 15: like that. I haven't really changed my odds. I still

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Speaker 15: think twenty percent chance of a deal in dropping significantly,

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Speaker 15: but seventy percent chance of a strike and growing significantly

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Speaker 15: and less likely it's just ten percent stasis, limp along

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Speaker 15: and containment. But the president certainly means what it says.

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Speaker 15: And if the Islamic Republic, as it is looking like

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Speaker 15: in twenty twenty six, is borrowing a page from its

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Speaker 15: own diplomatic playbook in twenty twenty five and trying to

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Speaker 15: run the clock, well they're going to run into the

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Speaker 15: president and the military of the foremost army in the world,

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Speaker 15: because the President gave them two months and they dragged

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Speaker 15: their feet, and then we had the Twelve Day War

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Speaker 15: in twenty twenty five and he gave them in now

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Speaker 15: ten to fifteen days, and he seems unhappy. And so

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Speaker 15: the logistical things to get the US in the position

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Speaker 15: for a strike and hopefully maybe more of a campaign

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Speaker 15: than a one off operation in the region are happening

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Speaker 15: right now. There's major base hardening, there's embassies drawing down,

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Speaker 15: and there's assets moving into theaters.

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Speaker 3: So I wanted to ask you about the embassies.

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Speaker 2: We've seen the US embassy in Israel telling non essential

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Speaker 2: personnel maybe time to leave. Other countries are emptying out

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Speaker 2: their embassies in Tehran. Countries are telling their populations don't

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Speaker 2: go to the region, it's not safe. Does this tell

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Speaker 2: you that the United States is essentially telling our allies

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Speaker 2: around the world, Hey, we're.

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Speaker 3: On the brink of war.

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Speaker 15: I don't know if on the brinkow we're certainly getting close.

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Speaker 15: There are negotiations again scheduled for next week in Vienna

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Speaker 15: and the Austring capital. That'll be at the same time

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Speaker 15: as the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors meeting.

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Speaker 15: It'll be interesting to see if there's more pressure or

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Speaker 15: talk of talks on the sidelines of those meetings. But again,

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Speaker 15: the President has put the knife near the neck of

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Speaker 15: the Islamic Republic, and he's sharpening it. He would love

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Speaker 15: nothing more than to not have to pull the trigger.

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Speaker 15: He would love it if they actually did concede. But

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Speaker 15: I think based on what we're seeing Viranyan doing what

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Speaker 15: we're seeing and hearing the Iranians saying, they think they

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Speaker 15: can get through another limited conflict, and they feel like

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Speaker 15: confessions at this point are more dangerous than military strikes.

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Speaker 2: There was some reporting this week, Benam that the American government,

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Speaker 2: people inside the White House thought perhaps it might be

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Speaker 2: best if our ally Israel were to launch the actual

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Speaker 2: first strikes against Iran. Seems like we'll be working together

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Speaker 2: with Israel if a war breaks out here.

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Speaker 3: Do you agree with that? Should Israel take the lead

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Speaker 3: on initial military operations?

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Speaker 15: Well, the funny thing is Israel has been much quieter

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Speaker 15: in twenty twenty six. You know, you compare what the

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Speaker 15: Israeli prime ministers to what the American President has said,

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Speaker 15: it's been considerably less. Even when talking about the missile threat.

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Speaker 15: The President has been the one, even from the pulpit

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Speaker 15: at the State of the Union, let alone on social media,

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Speaker 15: really driving the train and the forcing function. Indeed, for

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Speaker 15: why the trigger might be pulled this year actually has

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Speaker 15: to do with those protests. The President himself, not once,

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Speaker 15: not twice, nine times, drew a redline in the month

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Speaker 15: of January and promised help to Iranian protesters. So I

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Speaker 15: think there's no doubt that I think Israel will be

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Speaker 15: involved at some point, even if it doesn't want to,

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Speaker 15: because it's likely the Islamic public will fire missiles at

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Speaker 15: it anyway. But at this point in time, I think

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Speaker 15: it's better for Uncle Sam to go in, take out

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Speaker 15: the strategic systems and clear the way, and then perhaps

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Speaker 15: Israel you take apart the security services and what's left

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Speaker 15: for the military apparatus. But who knows what's being plimbed

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Speaker 15: behind the scenes. The President could envision a joint operation.

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Speaker 15: It could be a division of labor.

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Speaker 2: That's Ben and Ben Tableau Tellablue from the Foundation for

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Speaker 2: Defensive Democracies, one of our experts we bring on here

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Speaker 2: to discuss the Middle East. Bevenham, thanks for your time today.

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Speaker 2: We'll check back with you in the next few days,

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Speaker 2: depending on what happens. We're going to wrap up the

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Speaker 2: show here from Memphis. We're at the Peabody Hotel. Thanks

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Speaker 2: to everyone here for making the show a great success.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back in our nation's capital on Monday. It's

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Speaker 2: common sense for the American people. Scott Schennings is out.

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Speaker 2: Have a great weekend.