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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, February twenty fifth. Welcome into a special,

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Speaker 1: breaking news edition of Common Sense for the American people.

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Speaker 1: Scott Jennings is here with you on Salem. We are

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Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Washington, d C. We are at the

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Speaker 1: National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee office, the Ronald Reagan Building,

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Speaker 1: and we were reacting today and analyzing President Trump's State

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Speaker 1: of the Union address. Now, if you were watching CNN

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Speaker 1: last night, you know I was in Saginaw, Michigan with

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Speaker 1: my colleague Van Jones. We were at the Old Town Distillery.

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Speaker 1: I want to say thank you to the folks there

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Speaker 1: at Old Town for hosting us. Van and I met

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Speaker 1: with ten voters in Michigan as part of CNN's live

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Speaker 1: coverage of the State of the Union, and we had

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Speaker 1: some great conversations there in Michigan. So to everyone who

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Speaker 1: made our broadcast last night on CNN possible in Saginaw,

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Speaker 1: in to all of our voters, thank you all very much.

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Speaker 1: But we stayed up all night. We got on a

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Speaker 1: plane early this morning we got back to Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: Because today on the show a special day, we have

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Speaker 1: eight members of the United States Senate coming by to

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Speaker 1: talk about what they saw in the chamber last night.

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Speaker 1: And our first senator is here from the great state,

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Speaker 1: the Free State of Florida, one of the newest senators

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Speaker 1: in Washington, Ashley Moody. Senator Moody, thanks for coming on

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Speaker 1: the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 2: Great to be with you. Always important to talk about common.

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Speaker 1: Sense, absolutely, and we heard a lot of common sense

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Speaker 1: from the President, and I think we saw some nonsense

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Speaker 1: from your Democratic colleagues. We're going to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: The President last night made an affirmative case for his

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Speaker 1: administration's policies on a number of fronts, on the economy,

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Speaker 1: on our national strength, and on public safety. Let's start, Ashley,

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Speaker 1: and here a clip of the President at the State

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Speaker 1: of the Union last night. Here's clip number one.

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Speaker 3: Inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast, the roaring economy

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Speaker 3: is roaring like never before, and our enemies are scared,

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Speaker 3: our military and police are stacked, and America is respected again,

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Speaker 3: perhaps like never before.

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Speaker 1: President Trump. Last night, Senator Moody, this was your first

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Speaker 1: State of the Union.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I was there for the Joint Address last year,

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Speaker 4: technically not a State of the Union, but this was

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Speaker 4: my first State of the Union as the United States senators,

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Speaker 4: very exciting.

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Speaker 1: When you hear the President make the case for the

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Speaker 1: state of our union and he said, the state of

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Speaker 1: our Union is strong. Do you agree? And what was

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Speaker 1: the vibe in the room?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: I agree?

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: I also think he set a very clear direction on

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Speaker 4: where he is working to take this country. It has

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Speaker 4: been a serious, hard right turn to get this country

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Speaker 4: back on track. But what I thought he did really

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Speaker 4: well and laid out very clearly for the American people

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Speaker 4: during the last minute. And I get to attest to

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Speaker 4: this because as the Attorney general in Florida, I was

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Speaker 4: fighting day in and day out against the Biden administration

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Speaker 4: that was killing this country, both in over regulation, failure

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Speaker 4: to enforce the law, which, by the way, the Constitution

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Speaker 4: puts on the president a duty to faithfully ensure that

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Speaker 4: the laws are executed. And we just watched as prices skyrocketing,

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Speaker 4: we watched him destroy the economy, we watched him destroy

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Speaker 4: any sense of security of the nation or stability in

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Speaker 4: our communities. And so this president had his work cut

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Speaker 4: out for him coming into office. I mean day one,

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Speaker 4: he had to really get to work to undo all

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Speaker 4: of that destruction that was done. And that's the best

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Speaker 4: way to put it, was destruction. And I thought he

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Speaker 4: laid out, look, we have we have work to do.

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Speaker 4: But he laid out what we've been doing this year

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Speaker 4: and put on full display. Do not fall for them

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Speaker 4: when they come in here and start saying affordability.

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Speaker 2: And all of these things.

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Speaker 4: Because they drove up prices, they put people out of work,

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Speaker 4: they destroyed our energy supply, and now they want to

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Speaker 4: come in the first year of an office to start time.

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Speaker 2: Talking about affordability. They did this. He said that very clearly,

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Speaker 2: and I thought that was important to say.

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Speaker 1: And he also drew a very bright line on the

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Speaker 1: two parties and who is standing up for who? And

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Speaker 1: he made clear it's the Republican Party that's standing up

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Speaker 1: for American citizens and it's Democrats who spend frankly, most

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Speaker 1: of their time standing up for illegal aliens, or in

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Speaker 1: the case of last night, not standing up. And this,

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Speaker 1: to me was the biggest moment of the speech. I

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Speaker 1: want to play it. When the President challenged the Democrats

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Speaker 1: to say, affirmatively, our highest duty is to protect Americans.

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Speaker 1: He challenged them to stand up for that, and they

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Speaker 1: would not excuse me, they would not do it. Let's

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Speaker 1: play cut number four.

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Speaker 3: One of the great things about the State of the

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Speaker 3: Union is how it gives Americans the chance to see

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Speaker 3: clearly what their representatives really So tonight, I'm inviting every

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Speaker 3: legislature to join with my administration and reaffirming a fundamental principle.

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Speaker 3: If you agree with this statement, then stand up and

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Speaker 3: show your support. The first duty of the American government

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Speaker 3: is to protect American citizens, not illegal areas.

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Speaker 1: So this gave the President, I think his longest sustained

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Speaker 1: applause of the night. Were you shocked that not a

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Speaker 1: single Democrat could stand for that?

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Speaker 4: I wish I could tell you I was shocked. It

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Speaker 4: appalls me. I'm devastated by that. I'm sad for this

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Speaker 4: country that we actually have people in leadership that wouldn't

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Speaker 4: stand up to say that on behalf of you, we

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Speaker 4: the people, we pledged to put your interests first in

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Speaker 4: this country first.

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Speaker 2: I'm saddened by that. But look at what we're battling

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 4: We're trying to pass legislation called the Save America Act

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Speaker 4: to make sure that only American citizens can vote, and they.

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Speaker 2: Refuse to help us do that.

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Speaker 4: I just sat through hearing this morning where the Trump

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Speaker 4: administration has said, Okay, we're going to restructure the way

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Speaker 4: we're doing things to DJs said, we're going to build

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Speaker 4: a fraud unit to protect the American taxpayer because some

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Speaker 4: of those people are working two jobs to support their family,

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Speaker 4: and we ask them to give us money so that

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Speaker 4: to help them, we the people. It's come out that

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Speaker 4: ten percent of the money that we outlay as a

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Speaker 4: government goes to bad actors or criminals or waste, fraud

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Speaker 4: and abuse ten percent, and they want to restructure. So

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Speaker 4: I've had to sit in hearings and listen to the

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Speaker 4: Democrats say.

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Speaker 2: Why are we doing this?

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Speaker 4: We've always had fraud or this morning I had to

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Speaker 4: hear them say why would you restructure?

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Speaker 2: Why is it so important now? Well, I have an idea.

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Speaker 4: It's because we have so many people, many of which

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Speaker 4: have come here to this country to take advantage of

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Speaker 4: up our efforts to enforce the laws and protect them,

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Speaker 4: and they're fighting us every step of the way.

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Speaker 2: And who does that benefit.

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Speaker 1: Senator Ashley Moody is here our first guest on our

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Speaker 1: State of the Union reactions show, and on the issue

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Speaker 1: of illegal immigration, another offshoot of this. And you've been

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Speaker 1: dealing with this because you've got a piece of legislation

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Speaker 1: called the Safer Truckers Act. The President last night brought

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Speaker 1: up this issue of illegal aliens getting commercial driver's licenses,

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Speaker 1: and we've seen some tragic accidents. Let's hear the President

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Speaker 3: Many of the most illegal aliens do not speak English

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Speaker 3: and cannot read even the most basic road signs as.

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Speaker 5: To direction, speed, danger, or location.

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Speaker 3: That's why tonight I'm calling on Congress to pass what

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Speaker 3: we will call.

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Speaker 5: The Delilah Law, barring.

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Speaker 3: Any state from granting commercial drivers' licenses to illegal areas.

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Speaker 1: And badly injured in one of these accidents in Florida.

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Speaker 1: You all have seen a number of these tragedies on

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Speaker 1: Florida highways. You've been working on this issue. Now you'll

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Speaker 1: be joined up with the President on it.

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Speaker 2: This is such an important issue.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you put someone in the driver's seat

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Speaker 4: of one of these large commercial semi trucks, that can

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Speaker 4: be very dangerous if they cannot read road signs, if

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Speaker 4: they don't have the proper training if so, you know,

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Speaker 4: we put forward legislation that says, if you are a state,

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Speaker 4: you have got to ensure that you're giving those those

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Speaker 4: licenses only to people that are here, that they're American citizens,

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Speaker 4: in English so that they can read signs.

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Speaker 2: This seems again common sense. I can't believe we even

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Speaker 2: have to legislate on this.

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Speaker 4: But if states want to be sanctuary states and just

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Speaker 4: dole these licenses out to these large trucks that can

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Speaker 4: be dangerous like candy, they should have their federal funding yanked.

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Speaker 4: We should not be rewarding these states that cannot comply

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Speaker 4: and won't comply with loss to protect American citizens.

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Speaker 2: It's common sense. I want to make sure it gets done.

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Speaker 1: So does the President that voysher hearing. Senator Ashley Moody

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Speaker 1: of the Free State of Florida, this is two weeks

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Speaker 1: in a row. We've seen each other, and it's been

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Speaker 1: great to chat with you, and you're doing a great

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Speaker 1: We're going to take a break when we come back.

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Speaker 1: Senator Katie Britt of Alabama is going to be here.

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Speaker 1: Senator Moody, thank you for being with us and we'll

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Speaker 1: see you soon.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely great to be with you.

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Speaker 1: Common Sense for the American people. Wednesday, February twenty fifth.

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Speaker 1: We're broadcasting here from Washington, d C. We have eight

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Speaker 1: Senator Britt, you're a vice chair of the National Republican

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Speaker 7: Look, the President did an outstanding job not only laying

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Speaker 7: I mean, Scott, you know better than anybody you look

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Speaker 7: Everything that he committed to the American people during that campaign,

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Speaker 7: It was a great reminder that Joe Biden left us

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Speaker 7: And that I think was evident last night, and I

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Speaker 2: You know, you could feel the love of.

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Speaker 2: You know that he's excited to do.

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Speaker 1: I heard several things last night from the President that

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Speaker 2: Well, the Trump account are incredible.

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Speaker 7: They give everyone an opportunity for the American dream.

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Speaker 7: Once we have these public private partnerships and we teach people,

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Speaker 2: When it comes to what he's done with prescription.

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Speaker 7: Drugs, okay, you've had everyone who's run for president probably

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Speaker 2: He is the first president.

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Speaker 1: The constant problem is to actually do it.

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Speaker 7: And when it comes to IVF, Look, there has been

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Speaker 2: He believes in the creation.

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Speaker 7: I have heard from countless people that have said thank

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Speaker 1: And so when you think about the tax cuts, the

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Speaker 7: I know you have to go to a break, but

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Speaker 1: That's Katie Britt from Alabama coming up. Mark Wayne Mullen

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Speaker 6: He's the author of the best selling book A Revolution

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Speaker 5: Here's Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 1: And we saw some common sense last night in Washington,

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Speaker 1: common sense for the American people. Here on Wednesday, February

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Speaker 1: Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. Senator. Welcome back to the show. Sir, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you, glad to see you. I'm just going to

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Speaker 8: Well, the first thing that jumps out is that I'm

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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about that this night of contrast. I mean,

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Speaker 8: What they set on their hands, did absolutely nothing. Keep

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Speaker 8: in mind, CNN reporter, I'm not going to mention the

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Speaker 8: lady's name becase she doesn't deserve any recognition. Yesterday, she

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Speaker 8: said the so called angel mothers, referring to the individuals

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Speaker 8: that the present was going to bring as a guest

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Speaker 8: so called angel mothers. Now, I'm a father of six,

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Speaker 8: three boys, three girls, three beautiful blonde girls. And you

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Speaker 8: see this young lady that is setting on the subway

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Speaker 8: and her legs are pulled up on the seat. She

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Speaker 8: you can tell she's probably a little bit intimidated. And

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Speaker 8: this gentleman sitting behind her for no reason, there was

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Speaker 8: no conversation, there was no talking, stood up and shoved

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Speaker 8: a blade from her collarbone down into her chest and

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Speaker 8: killed her almost instantly. And the horrific look on her

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Speaker 8: face before she passed away should strike the horror of

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Speaker 8: any individual, any father, any brother, any sister, anybody's got

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Speaker 8: a heart. I don't care. You should have a heart,

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Speaker 8: and that when you can't stand up and uh and

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Speaker 8: show I don't want to say remorse, but.

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Speaker 1: Show some compassion. Yes, a family, And this is a

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Speaker 1: grieving mother and you can see it on her face.

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Speaker 1: She was emotional.

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Speaker 8: So I mean, this is a pretty raw incident took place,

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Speaker 8: and and and they just sat there all because their

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Speaker 8: hatred towards President Trump listened. I did not agree with

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Speaker 8: Barack Obama, I did not agree with Joe Biden, but

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Speaker 8: in those circumstances, I would still stand out of respect

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Speaker 8: for the family and what they're going through, and and

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Speaker 8: they still couldn't do it. But that's that's where this

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Speaker 8: Democrat Party is. And that's why this Democrat uh quite frankly,

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Speaker 8: Scott has the lowest approval rating since they measured the

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Speaker 8: party's UH faves and unfaths. And it's because this extreme

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Speaker 8: view where they think that illegals have more rights than

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Speaker 8: those that are actually in this country legally and just

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Speaker 8: trying to live their life on the safe streets that

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Speaker 8: now we have.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it goes right to the core of

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Speaker 1: their policy views. This case in Charlotte, North Carolina, this

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Speaker 1: person that did the stabbing here to Carlos Brown, he

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Speaker 1: should not have been out of jail. This person had

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Speaker 1: been arrested, he was a violent person. He had been

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Speaker 1: arrested many many times and let out of jail. He

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Speaker 1: should not have been out of here, let out of

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Speaker 1: Joe on a no cash bonds that the Democrats put

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Speaker 1: in place. And one of the people in the middle

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Speaker 1: of this case is the Democrat who's running for the

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Speaker 1: US Senate in North Carolina, the former governor Roy Cooper.

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Speaker 1: Some cameramen caught up with Roy Cooper in North Carolina

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Speaker 1: the other day and wanted to question him about why

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Speaker 1: he put Irena Zurutzka's killer on the list of people

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Speaker 1: criminals that he released from jail. Let's take a listen

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Speaker 1: to that in cut number thirteen.

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Speaker 9: Governor Cooper, why was to Carlos Brown on your list

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Speaker 9: for early release?

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Speaker 1: Governor Cooper?

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Speaker 9: Did you answer the question, please? Governor Cooper? Why was

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Speaker 9: to Carlos Brown on your list for early release? Governor Cooper,

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Speaker 9: why was to Carlos Brown on your list for early release?

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Speaker 1: Now what you didn't hear there was any answer from

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Speaker 1: Roy Cooper in North Carolina. This whole idea that the

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Speaker 1: Democrats have gone completely soft on crime, and the air

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Speaker 1: adherence to this idea that violent criminal perpetrators must be

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Speaker 1: released onto our streets. I think there's a reason their

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Speaker 1: approval ratings are low in this case and others like it.

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Speaker 1: As part of it.

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Speaker 8: Well, Governor Roy Cooper is complicit in this case, and

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Speaker 8: he's complicit in the crime that's taken place in Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: Right now, the President mentioned this, what's happened in Charlotte.

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Speaker 8: You think about this guy, he's running to replace Tom Tillis,

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Speaker 8: which is why we've got to make sure that we

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Speaker 8: put Whatley in Because if you think he was bad

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Speaker 8: as a governor, and by the way, he was, you know,

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Speaker 8: representing a mostly red state, when he gets here and

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Speaker 8: he's surrounded by uh, by these individuals like Shift and

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Speaker 8: and Chuck Schumer and then working with Talib and Omar Uh,

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Speaker 8: you think that he's gonna stand up to him. Of course,

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Speaker 8: I mean he didn't stand up to him when he

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Speaker 8: was governor, and he was governor of one and now

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Speaker 8: he's going to be uh, He's going to be caucusing

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Speaker 8: with the Democrats. He's gonna he's not gonna have a

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Speaker 8: backbone in that conference any more than he had a

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Speaker 8: backbone as a governor. And he's going to lead these

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Speaker 8: extreme policies and vote on these extreme policies like he

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Speaker 8: did as a governor. But he's going to have more

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Speaker 8: people surrounded him Cheerney on and it would be horrible

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Speaker 8: for the great state of North Carolina. I'm I have

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Speaker 8: I've had what Lee in our state. I've been able

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Speaker 8: to do events with Whatley, multiple different events. We're going

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Speaker 8: to be going into North Carolina. We there is no

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Speaker 8: way I want to see the great state of North

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Speaker 8: Carolina to be represented by Batman, meaning Cooper up here

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Speaker 8: in Washington, d C. I'm telling you he will be.

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Speaker 8: He'll dive right in with the with the crazies here

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Speaker 8: in DC.

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Speaker 1: That voice you're hearing, Senator Mark Wayne Mullin of Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: We got a minute left here, Senator, and I want

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Speaker 1: to pivot to the great hockey team, the Team USA.

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Speaker 1: The energy in the crowd and in the chamber was

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Speaker 1: coming through the television last night. Let's hear a little

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Speaker 1: bit of that in cut fifteen, the President welcoming Team USA.

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Speaker 1: You're going to win again.

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Speaker 3: You're going to win big. You're gonna win bigger than ever.

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Speaker 3: And to prove that point. To prove that point here

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Speaker 3: with us tonight is a group of winners who just

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Speaker 3: made the entire nation proud, the men's gold medal Olympic

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Speaker 3: hockey team.

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Speaker 1: Come on, take us inside that moment.

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Speaker 8: My wife first ball met earlier in the rotunda and

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Speaker 8: she was a total fanggirl. I mean, I have been

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Speaker 8: this lady for twenty eight years, and I think her

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Speaker 8: happiest moment wasn't when I put a ring on her fingers.

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Speaker 8: When one of the guys put the gold medal around

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Speaker 8: her neck, she said, I felt so patriotic. There's such

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Speaker 8: a good group of men too. They were so friendly

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Speaker 8: to everybody, talking, taking pictures, letting everybody wear that big ol'

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Speaker 8: heavy gold medal.

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Speaker 1: But just to see the pride, now the Democrats did

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Speaker 1: stand for that. It was neat to see. You know

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Speaker 1: who didn't clap the journalists. There's this video when the

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Speaker 1: Team USA comes in and the media sitting up there

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Speaker 1: not really reacting to Team US. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.

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Speaker 1: You've been around them, you understand that. But that's a

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Speaker 1: great look.

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Speaker 8: Just the excitement in that in that room, especially from

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Speaker 8: our party, but even throughout the country. It was such

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Speaker 8: a such a special moment that, you know, this team

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Speaker 8: of a first gold medal in forty six years, only

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Speaker 8: our third gold medal ever. And then to have the

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Speaker 8: women's hockey team win against Canada a few days before.

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Speaker 1: It's just all around.

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Speaker 8: And I'm not a big hockey fan, but the idea

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Speaker 8: that I could have played a sport, get in a

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Speaker 8: fight and just getting a pin of the box and

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Speaker 8: be able to come back out that I'm may have

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Speaker 8: been maybe fighting mixed martial arts and wrestling was my

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Speaker 8: wrong my wrong sport. Maybe I should have lived up

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Speaker 8: north and got on skates.

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Speaker 1: That's Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. Senator, thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming by today. Appreciate your reaction to the State of

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Speaker 1: When we come back, Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas is

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Speaker 1: here talk a little healthcare from the State of the Union.

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Speaker 1: Last night scommon sense for the American people. Scott Jennings

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Speaker 1: on a special Show today reacting to the State of

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Speaker 1: the Union. Stay with us.

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Speaker 6: You've heard the narratives, now get the truth. It's the

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Speaker 6: Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 1: A special edition of Common Sense for the American People.

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Speaker 1: Scott Jennings here on Salem. We're talking to eight United

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Speaker 1: States Senators today about what they saw in the Capitol

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Speaker 1: last night from the President and the State of the

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Speaker 1: Union and batting cleanup for our number one Senator, Roger

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Speaker 1: Marshall of Kansas is here. Senator, thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about specifically some of

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Speaker 1: the healthcare talk that we heard from the President last night.

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Speaker 1: He was talking about Trump r REX, his effort to

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Speaker 1: lower prescription drug prices. He talked about the Most Favored

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Speaker 1: Nation Agreement. This is in an executive order. He asked

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Speaker 1: the Congress to codify that. Maybe take us inside some

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Speaker 1: of the policy deliberations right now on lowering prescription drug

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Speaker 1: costs for the American people.

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Speaker 10: Yes, Scott, I think tree fix is something that's out there.

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Speaker 10: It's working as we speak. It's nothing we have to

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Speaker 10: wait on. You can do it right now with your

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Speaker 10: local pharmacists. We were out on the across the state

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Speaker 10: last week and talk to multiple pharmacists.

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Speaker 1: That's already there.

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Speaker 10: If you're on a regular prescription drug, go to trump

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Speaker 10: our x and see if it's one of the thirty

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Speaker 10: drugs that are under this most Favored Nation status. That'll

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Speaker 10: take you to a website. They'll give you a cupe on,

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Speaker 10: you give it to your pharmacist. It's that simple. We're

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Speaker 10: going to eliminate the Pharmacy Benefit manager. So it's trumparx

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Speaker 10: dot gov.

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Speaker 1: You just go in there, tipen in your drug and

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Speaker 1: if it's in there, you get a cupe on, you

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Speaker 1: just hand it to the pharmacist.

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Speaker 10: Right right, So you have to go then to the

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Speaker 10: It takes you to a second website and then you

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Speaker 10: can get a cupe on, maybe take a snapshot on

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Speaker 10: your phone, or you may have been able to email

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Speaker 10: it to your pharmacist.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've heard some stories of people who saved

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Speaker 1: significant amounts of money on this. Yeah, twenty sixty eight

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Speaker 1: eighty percent.

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Speaker 10: And these are the newest, hottest drugs out out there

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Speaker 10: that are some of the most very expensive drugs.

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Speaker 1: And you've been out traveling all over Kansas recently as

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Speaker 1: part of your duties as senator. Is this a topic

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Speaker 1: that's coming up in a lot of your conversations with voters.

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Speaker 10: You know, the cost of healthcare is always a topic.

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Speaker 10: It's a top three issue for businesses. Now that we've

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Speaker 10: had the Working Family tax cuts bill, and the small

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Speaker 10: businesses are going to see so many benefits from that,

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Speaker 10: a writing off, bonus, appreciation, interest, deductibility, those types of things.

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Speaker 10: But now they're back to the cost of health care.

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Speaker 10: This is nothing new. The cost of healthcare up fifty

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Speaker 10: percent under Joe Biden. And it's our job to come

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Speaker 10: up and hear and clean this mess up.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was in Michigan last night, Sagonaw Michigan, and I

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Speaker 1: did a focus group with ten voters, and there was

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Speaker 1: a guy there owns a towing company, a seventy year

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Speaker 1: old family business, and he was telling me about what

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Speaker 1: I hear from small business owners a lot, which is

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Speaker 1: they get a letter every year saying, and your health

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Speaker 1: insurance premiums are going up, you know, thirteen fourteen, fifteen percent.

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Speaker 1: They obviously don't feel like their health insurance is getting

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Speaker 1: any better. To that same degree, talk to us about

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Speaker 1: the conversations going on among Senate Republicans right now about

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Speaker 1: how to get this a little more under control. Yeah.

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Speaker 10: So the President released the Great American Healthcare Plan a

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Speaker 10: month ago. The first point was prescription drug prices and costs.

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Speaker 10: We talked about trump RX. We're also trying to do

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Speaker 10: what we can to trim back the wings and the

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Speaker 10: pharmacy benefit managers. But I really think that the most

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Speaker 10: important piece of that pie is our bill on transparency,

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Speaker 10: on forcing price tags, forcing every healthcare provider to show

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Speaker 10: you the price of an MRI, an X ray lab work,

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Speaker 10: a serge. You'd be shocked at one hospital compared to another.

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Speaker 10: There may be a ten x difference between the cost

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Speaker 1: So we'll let you wrap up the hour here. You

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Speaker 1: listen to the whole speech. It was the longest State

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Speaker 1: of the Union ever given, but the President covered a

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Speaker 1: lot of different topics other than the healthcare issue. What

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Speaker 1: are a couple of things that jumped out to you

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Speaker 1: that will resonate back in Kansas.

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Speaker 10: Well, you know, number one, this is our two hundred

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Speaker 10: and fiftieth birthday. Kanson's our patriots. So it's great to

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Speaker 10: celebrate our successes and whether that's at our border secure

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Speaker 10: or that inflation alas is under control. Last year, real

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Speaker 10: wages go up about fourteen hundred dollars per job, that

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Speaker 10: wages exceeding the rate of inflation. Rents come down six

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Speaker 10: months in a row as well, the lowest and four years.

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Speaker 10: So there's lots to celebrate, and I think going forward

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Speaker 10: the same act is what's important to me right now

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Speaker 10: that eighty percent of Americans think that it's a good

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Speaker 10: idea to show some type of ID when you vote

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Speaker 10: proof of citizenship when you're registered to vote.

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Speaker 1: It's a slam duck.

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Speaker 10: And the question why is the national media not asking Democrats,

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Speaker 10: why won't you support this bill? And if they don't

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Speaker 10: like it, let's fix it? Because seventy percent of Democrats

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Speaker 10: thinks it's a good idea.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there really is no constituency against is. If you

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Speaker 1: look at the polling, overwhelming numbers of Americans, Republicans, Democrats,

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Speaker 1: people of all ideological stripes think it is a good

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Speaker 1: idea to show ID. It's really just the Democratic leadership

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Speaker 1: in Washington. And you know, look, I mean there's some

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Speaker 1: connective tissue here. They do everything they can do to

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Speaker 1: keep twenty million illegal immigrants in the country, and they're

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Speaker 1: doing everything they can do to keep people from having

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Speaker 1: to show an ID in our elections. I think most

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Speaker 1: people see the connection here. Yeah.

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Speaker 10: The only reason that's logical why they would want twenty

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Speaker 10: million people to come in here illegally is they think

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Speaker 10: someday they're going to be voters. It'll change the electoral map,

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Speaker 10: among other things. But we need to hold them accountable here.

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Speaker 10: I would end the filibuster in order to get the

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Speaker 10: Save Act across the finish line. We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: You would end it, or you would just change the

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Speaker 1: rules and go to the talking film on whichever one

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Speaker 1: it takes.

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Speaker 10: I think this is that import of an issue that

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Speaker 10: whatever it takes to get it across the finish line.

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Speaker 1: But meanwhile, we need to hold them accountable. We need

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Speaker 1: to ask everyone of the Democrat senators, why won't you

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Speaker 1: vote yes on this? As Senator Roger Marshall of the

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Speaker 1: Great State of Kansas. Our number ones in the books,

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Speaker 1: our number two coming up, four more senators coming by.

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Speaker 1: We're reacting to the state of the Union here on Salem.

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Speaker 1: Stay with us. It is Wednesday, February twenty fifth. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to a special edition of Common Sense for the

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Speaker 1: American People. I'm Scott Jennings reporting from Washington.

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Speaker 9: D C.

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Speaker 1: For Salem. Last night here in your nation's capital, President

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Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump delivered the State of the Union address,

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Speaker 1: And during our show today we are being visited by

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Speaker 1: eight members of the United States Senate, including one of

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Speaker 1: the newer Are you the newest I'm the newest, the

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Speaker 1: newest senator in Washington and he's on the ballot this

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Speaker 1: year in Ohio. You took over for the Vice President JD. Vance.

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Speaker 1: Your name is John Houston. Welcome into the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 1: Great to be with you. Glad you're here and you

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Speaker 1: were in the chamber last night for your first State

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Speaker 1: of the Union. I'll tell you what. Let's listen to

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Speaker 1: the President. I want to get your reaction to this.

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Speaker 1: This is cut number five. Donald Trump last night talking

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Speaker 1: to the nation.

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Speaker 4: But I last.

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Speaker 3: Spoken this chamber twelve months ago. I had just inherited

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Speaker 3: a nation in crisis, with the stagnant economy, inflation at

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Speaker 3: record levels, a wide open border, horrendous recruitment for military

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Speaker 3: and police, rampid crime at home, and wars and chaos

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Speaker 3: all over the world. But tonight, after just one year,

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Speaker 3: I can say with dignity and pride that we have

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Speaker 3: achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before,

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Speaker 3: and a turnaround for the ages. It is indeed a

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Speaker 3: turnaround for the ages.

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Speaker 1: That seemed to be the branding for the speech, Senator Houston,

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Speaker 1: a turnaround for the ages. Did the President do enough

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Speaker 1: to describe to the American people the deep, deep hole

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Speaker 1: that he found our economy and other aspects of our

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Speaker 1: country in when he took office just a year ago.

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Speaker 11: Well, he mentioned the fact that we had nine percent

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Speaker 11: inflation at the peak under Joe Biden and now it's

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Speaker 11: less than three percent. That's progress. Do we need to

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Speaker 11: do more? Of course, we need to do more. Our

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Speaker 11: jobs are never.

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Speaker 1: Done in this business.

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Speaker 11: But he made the point and then he took a

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Speaker 11: victory laugh on the things that he's done. The Working

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Speaker 11: Families tax cut plan. If the Democrats had their way,

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Speaker 11: taxes on the average Ohio family would have gone up

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Speaker 11: by thirty five hundred dollars. Instead, they get a five

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Speaker 11: thousand dollars benefit, no tax on tips, no tax in overtime.

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Speaker 11: A married Social Security couple gets a twelve thousand dollars

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Speaker 11: tax deduction and twenty two hundred dollars tax credit for

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Speaker 11: working families. So if you're a mom and dad you

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Speaker 11: have two kids, that's forty four hundred dollars more in

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Speaker 11: your pocket to try to spend on the things that

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Speaker 11: are essential for you to get ahead in life. And

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Speaker 11: he did a victory lap on those things. He talked

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Speaker 11: about the changes that need that we've done, and then

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Speaker 11: also outlined what we need to do for the future.

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Speaker 11: And I think those things are reportant. But he also

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Speaker 11: talked about crime. You know, he got into that a.

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Speaker 1: Little bit too.

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Speaker 11: Securing the border has a big deal across the board

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Speaker 11: because it's less fentanyl coming into our country, it's less

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Speaker 11: human trafficking, it's safer streets. And then we've seen crime

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Speaker 11: numbers plummet with with you know, in every in every

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Speaker 11: major city in Ohio, they're down by double digits. Fewer homicides,

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Speaker 11: less violent crime, fewer overdoses. That's the stuff that has

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Speaker 11: happened in one year. In one year's time, those things

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Speaker 11: were all done and they're benefiting the American people.

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Speaker 1: I want to zoom in on this illegal immigration issue

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Speaker 1: because it does have a lot of offshoots. It impacts

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Speaker 1: overdose deaths, which are down, It impacts frankly, aspects of

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Speaker 1: our economy as well, which we've seen in a number

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Speaker 1: of states. But the President drew aligne last night. I

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Speaker 1: want to play this. The President of the United States

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Speaker 1: dared Democrats to affirm that their number one allegiance is

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Speaker 1: to American citizens, and they wouldn't do it. They absolutely

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Speaker 1: would not do it. Let's listen to this from the President.

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Speaker 1: Cut number four.

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Speaker 3: One of the great things about the State of the

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Speaker 3: Union is how it gives Americans the chance to see

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Speaker 3: clearly what their representatives really believe. So tonight, I'm inviting

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Speaker 3: every legislature to join with my administration and reaffirming a

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Speaker 3: fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand

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Speaker 3: up and show your support. The first duty of the

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Speaker 3: American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.

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Speaker 1: Now this generated long, sustained applause, but only from the Republicans.

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Speaker 1: This was your first State of the Union. Senator Housted,

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Speaker 1: you shocked that the Democrats sat there on their hands,

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Speaker 1: and affirm something that frankly seems pretty basic and pretty

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Speaker 1: common sense.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, they failed. If that was a past fail question,

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Speaker 11: they they definitely failed. I was really stunned that not

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Speaker 11: I agree with that. I mean, it's stunning to me

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Speaker 11: because that's what we take the oath of office to do,

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Speaker 11: is to serve the American people, not to serve people

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Speaker 11: who came into the country illegally, and particularly when we

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Speaker 11: know that many of the people that came across the

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Speaker 11: border were unvetted or not properly vetted. We have criminals

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Speaker 11: throughout the country that are committee violent crimes. Some of

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Speaker 11: the victims of those violent crimes were in that chamber

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Speaker 11: last night.

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Speaker 1: Think about this. There were little girls who were hit.

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Speaker 11: By illegal aliens, who were who had CDLs if they

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Speaker 11: were Delilah. We had parents of slain victims of illegal immigrants,

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Speaker 11: and in the presence of those people, the Democrats refused

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Speaker 11: to stand up and say, no, we're going to put

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Speaker 1: It was a pretty stunning moment. I think stunning in

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Speaker 1: the moment, but also when you think about what we'll

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Speaker 1: live on in certain speeches, I think that moment is

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Speaker 1: think you're going to see it in campaign ads in

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Speaker 1: races across the country. Frankly, the President did give us

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Speaker 1: a healthy dose of economic talk last night. He talked

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Speaker 1: about manufacturing job increases while government jobs are decreasing. Let's

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Speaker 1: hear from the President on that and cut number sixteen.

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Speaker 3: More Americans are working today than at any time in

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Speaker 3: a hiss of our country. Think about that, anytime and

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Speaker 3: the history of our country.

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Speaker 5: More working today, and one.

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Speaker 3: Hundred percent of all jobs created under my administration have

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Speaker 1: It's kind of a key thing, Senator Hughestad because under Biden,

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Speaker 1: some of the job production that they always touted these

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Speaker 1: were government jobs. The government was growing. Under Trump, we

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Speaker 1: we are seeing big increases in private sector employment. You're

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Speaker 1: on the ballot in Ohio. I assume this is going

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Speaker 1: to play for your constituents. Yeah, that's part of the

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Speaker 1: America First agenda. We want more made in America. Ohio

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Speaker 1: is the place where you make things from the food

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Speaker 1: you eat, to the cars you drive, to the trucks,

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Speaker 1: to the airplanes, to the steel. That's what we do

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Speaker 1: in Ohio. And we're seeing more production in those spaces,

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Speaker 1: more investment in those spaces because the President's tough agenda

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Speaker 1: on fair trade, and you're seeing companies like Stillanta invest more,

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Speaker 1: Whirlpool invest more, Cleveland Cliffs who make steel invest more.

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Speaker 1: And that means more jobs for people in my state

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Speaker 1: to people across the country. And it is important not

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Speaker 1: just an economic question of jobs, but it's important for

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Speaker 1: to that economic national security are made in America.

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Speaker 11: Where that's the pharmaceutical supply chain, whether it's rare earth,

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Speaker 11: where it's chips, those more of that needs to be

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Speaker 11: made in America, and we need the capacity and the

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Speaker 11: talent and then know how to make things. President Trump

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Speaker 11: is leading that agenda to help reshore more of those

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Speaker 11: jobs to America.

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Speaker 1: Got about a minute left. That's Senator John Housted from Ohio.

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Speaker 1: You're on the ballot this November. You're running against a

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Speaker 1: retread Democrat named Shared Brown. Make the case why should

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Speaker 1: Ohio stick with Senator Houstad and not return to Senator

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Speaker 1: Shared Brown who represented the state for quite a while.

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Speaker 11: Look, he's been in public office or running for public

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Speaker 11: office for fifty two years and he's accomplished nothing.

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Speaker 1: His values are aligned with the coastal elites.

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Speaker 11: He voted with Elizabeth Warren ninety five percent of the time,

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Speaker 11: Chus Schumer ninety seven percent of the time, Kamal Harris,

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Speaker 11: China win the trade war. He drove up health insurance

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Speaker 11: made the lives of Ohioans a lot safer.

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Speaker 1: And that's just in one year.

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Speaker 11: So I don't want to be here for thirty two

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Speaker 11: He failed for thirty two years. I've shown success in

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Speaker 1: If you're interested in what's going on in Ohio and

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Speaker 1: Senator Houstad, where can folks find you out there? John

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Speaker 1: Scott Jennings Show, reacting to the President's State of the Union,

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Speaker 1: and eight members of the US Senate are here. Coming

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Speaker 1: up next, the other senator from Ohio comes by, Bernie Marino.

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Speaker 6: Stay with us, saving Western civilization one busted leftist narrative

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Speaker 5: It's the Scott Jenny Show.

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Speaker 1: And it's a special edition of common Sense for the

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Speaker 1: American people. Scott Jennings here in Washington. We're talking to

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Speaker 1: several members of the US Senate today in reaction to

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Speaker 1: the President's State of the Union. And our next guest

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Speaker 1: is here. Been on the show a few times. Senator

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Speaker 1: Bernie Moreno from the great state of Ohio is with us.

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Speaker 1: Before we talk about the state of the Union. Senator Moreno,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like Senator Thun, the Republican leader, is having

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Speaker 1: a press conference right now, and it sounds like there

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Speaker 1: may be a little bit of an update on the

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Speaker 1: Save America Act and what will happen in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: Care to talk about that.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, We're gonna put that on the floor of the

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Speaker 12: United States Senate because Scott, the American people need to

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Speaker 12: hear firsthand directly. Is Democrats saying you shouldn't have to

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Speaker 12: one time prove that you're an American citizen to registered

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Speaker 12: to vote, and when you go to vote, you shouldn't

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Speaker 12: have to prove who you are, two outrageous things. I

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Speaker 12: think if you were in a regular coffee shop somewhere

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Speaker 12: in Chillicothe, Ohio, or somewhere in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, and

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Speaker 12: you ask somebody there, hey, should you have to prove

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Speaker 12: your citizen to register? And should you have to show

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Speaker 12: your ID, they'd say, of course, this is common sense.

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Speaker 12: Let the Democrats make the case sense it's not.

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Speaker 1: And still to come on this conversation, there'll have to

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Speaker 1: be some internal conversations among the Republicans about how to

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Speaker 1: possibly change the filibuster rules in the Senate to stop

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Speaker 1: the Democrats from blocking it. But those conversations are still

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Speaker 1: to come.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely, and again we're going to put some common

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Speaker 12: sense guardrails in place. That doesn't change the tradition of

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Speaker 12: the Senate. We're still the most deliberative body on earth that,

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Speaker 12: quite frank contented, doesn't really debate. So we're going to

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Speaker 12: actually try to make it much more of a deliberative

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Speaker 12: body where you see your elected leaders debating each other

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Speaker 12: real ideas. I did that earlier today, debated Ron Widen

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Speaker 12: at a very simple bill. It said, if you're unwell fare,

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Speaker 12: you shouldn't be able to send money overseas. Ron Wyden

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Speaker 12: said that's racist, to which I reminded him on an

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Speaker 12: immigrant and I find it racist that he thinks that

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Speaker 12: immigrants come here to be on social welfare programs.

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Speaker 1: All right, Senator Moreno, you're very involved here at the

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Speaker 1: National Republican Senatorial Committee. You're very acquainted with the electoral

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Speaker 1: landscape for the fall. Couple things. Number one, did the

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Speaker 1: President give the Republicans the message to run on for

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Speaker 1: this November. It made me run through a couple of

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Speaker 1: the key races that the Republican Party really needs to

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Speaker 1: win this November to hold the Senate majority. He absolutely did.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he hit a home run.

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Speaker 12: You hate to compare it to other speeches, but my opinion,

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Speaker 12: it's the best State of the Union speech he's ever given.

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Speaker 12: I think he struck the perfect tone of just truly

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Speaker 12: loving America, having Americans realize, you know what, at the

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Speaker 12: end of the day, this is an amazing, amazing country.

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Speaker 12: Eric Slova, I mean, what American hero It also highlighted

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Speaker 12: to the sadness and despair and just total lack of

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Speaker 12: joy from the Democrats. I mean, it's just two very

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Speaker 12: sad people just clean the President United.

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Speaker 1: States when he couldn't get the Democrats to stand up

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Speaker 1: to affirm that their allegiance is to American citizens, and

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Speaker 1: then he has Omar and Tallade screaming at him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: from a Republican or a conservative perspective, you couldn't have

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Speaker 1: asked for a better split screen than that. There was

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Speaker 1: a messaging device coming out of the speech.

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Speaker 12: No, no question at all. And the stories are great.

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Speaker 12: He told the stories perfectly. And at the end of

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Speaker 12: the day, we now understand what the messaging is going

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Speaker 12: to be going into the midterms, which is we save

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Speaker 12: this country. This country is going to go down off

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Speaker 12: the cliff. President Trump saved it. We're working on safety, security,

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Speaker 12: and prosperity. If you look at the races that start

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Speaker 12: with Maine, Susan Collins is a very effective senator. By

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Speaker 12: the way, your listeners would be surprised to know that

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Speaker 12: she actually votes with Republicans more than your senator in Kentucky,

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Speaker 12: Ram Paul, and she's actually with us quite a bit

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Speaker 12: but she represents made Now she's up against two formidable candidates,

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Speaker 12: a Nazi loving lunatic and a trans loving unity, very aged,

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Speaker 12: very aged person who Mother Nature will keep the one

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Speaker 12: term if you were to win.

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Speaker 1: They got a pick between the trans cult or the

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Speaker 1: Nazi cult in the main Democratic primary. It's quite a

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Speaker 1: choice they.

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Speaker 12: Have up there versus a super serious, very effective, very

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Speaker 12: knowledgeable senator. So Susan Collins I feel good about. In

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Speaker 12: North Carolina, we have an amazing candidate, Michael Wattley. He's

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Speaker 12: up against Roy Cooper. And look, at the end of

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Speaker 12: the day, people saw the video that Ukrainian girl who

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Speaker 12: came to America to seek refuge was killed because of

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Speaker 12: Roy Cooper's policies. He let that lunatic out on the streets.

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Speaker 12: He'll do more of that. Michael Wattley would never make

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Speaker 12: that happen. That race is going to turn on public safety.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that Charlotte story outraged people in

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. I mean it outraged people across the country.

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Speaker 1: But Roy Cooper as governor let a bunch of dangerous

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Speaker 1: people out on the streets. Absolutely.

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Speaker 12: Then we turn our attention to Michigan State, just north

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Speaker 12: of us that we beaten football. So in Michigan you

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Speaker 12: got Mike Rogers, proven candidate, a great guy, versus just

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Speaker 12: completely deranged three Democrats. Look, if you like illlhan Omar,

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Speaker 12: you're gonna love the people running against Mike Rodgers. So

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Speaker 12: we're gonna flip that state. The auto industry has never

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Speaker 12: been in a better position, is right now.

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Speaker 1: Mike Rodgers all the way. It's an interesting map. Republicans

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Speaker 1: have fifty three and to hold a majority and maybe

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Speaker 1: pick up one or two out there, we'll need resources.

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Speaker 1: Fundraising going well here.

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Speaker 12: Well, it can always do better, you know. It's just

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Speaker 12: like the line in It's a Wonderful Life. Money comes

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Speaker 12: in a handy down here, Bob. So look, if you

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Speaker 12: care about this country, you care about expanding the Senate majority,

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Speaker 12: do whatever you can to help to help senators. In

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Speaker 12: Help that money goes to the NRC.

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Speaker 1: As Bernie Marino of Ohio, I'm Scott Jennings. You're on Salem.

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Speaker 1: Stay with us. Dan Solomon is next, ready for.

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Speaker 6: More common sense here, CNN senior political commentator, New York

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Speaker 6: Times best selling author Maris's favorite political pundit Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, February twenty fifth, Common Sense for the

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Speaker 1: American people. I want to thank my friends up in Saginaw,

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Speaker 1: Michigan for our broadcast hospitality. Last night. I was on

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Speaker 1: CNN with my colleague Van Jones. We met with ten voters,

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Speaker 1: watched the State of the Union, and had a really

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Speaker 1: nice time in Saginaw. We were at the Old Town

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Speaker 1: Brewery and that was a really great venue. And I

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Speaker 1: think Van and I are going to get out on

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Speaker 1: the road and meet with voters and do a little

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Speaker 1: bit more out in Middle America, which I think would

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Speaker 1: be good for our political coverage. But it was a

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Speaker 1: really insightful conversation with those voters, and so for all

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Speaker 1: the voters who came out, and the folks at Old

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Speaker 1: Town Brewery were grateful for your hospitality in Michigan. Now,

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Speaker 1: I got up super early this morning, Senator to fly

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Speaker 1: back to Washington to talk to you good and your colleagues,

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Speaker 1: because I wanted to hear how Republicans in the US

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Speaker 1: Senate are reacting to the President's State of the Union.

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Speaker 1: You were in the chamber. Senator Dan Sullivan is from

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Speaker 1: Alaska and I'm going to start here. Give me an idea.

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Speaker 1: What was the vibe in the room. What were a

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Speaker 1: couple of things that jumped out to you about the

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Speaker 1: president's performance.

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Speaker 13: Well, look, the vibe was great, Scott. And by the way,

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Speaker 13: we got to get you and Van Jones up to Alaska.

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Speaker 13: We would do you would have a great time. Yeah,

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Speaker 13: the vibe was great. But I would say most importantly

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Speaker 13: what I loved about the speech was the optimism and

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Speaker 13: the discussion of really, it's all about the American comeback.

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Speaker 13: The President's first line was America is back right, and

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Speaker 13: then he reminded us what we're back from, high prices

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Speaker 13: of the Biden administration, open borders, eleven million illegals, crime

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Speaker 13: that was rampant, attacking American energy, a weak military that

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Speaker 13: couldn't even recruit enough soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines to

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Speaker 13: stay strong. All that's in the rearview mirror. It was

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Speaker 13: about optimism, It was about the American comeback. And here's

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Speaker 13: the other thing I loved about it. It wasn't just

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Speaker 13: about our nation coming back. It was about the stories

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Speaker 13: of individual heroes coming back right and overcoming adversity and

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Speaker 13: how they had triumphant was the hockey team, two Medal

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Speaker 13: of Honor recipients, and one night it was great.

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Speaker 1: I loved it. Well, there was some optimism in the room,

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Speaker 1: mostly from the Republicans. I didn't detect a lot of

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Speaker 1: optimism from the Democrats. In fact, I saw a lot

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Speaker 1: of stone faces. I saw them sitting in their seats,

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Speaker 1: refusing to stand up for frankly, very easy issues. They

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Speaker 1: wouldn't stand you know. The President asked the Democrats, could

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Speaker 1: you just stand up in affirm that your highest duty

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Speaker 1: is to protect American citizens. Yep. They wouldn't stand up

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Speaker 1: for that. They had the mother of Irena Zarutzka there,

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't stand up for that. It was really kind

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Speaker 1: of shocking to me. But I think the American people

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Speaker 1: saw a bright line contrast between two parties, one that

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Speaker 1: frankly loves America and one that's pretty sour on America.

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Speaker 13: Well, look at your point on when they stood, when

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Speaker 13: they stayed seated when the President said the fundamental duty

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Speaker 13: of the government is not he said this protect American citizens,

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Speaker 13: not illegal immigrants. Yes, and they sat the whole time.

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Speaker 13: We were up clapping. But to be honest, I was

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Speaker 13: shocked because unless you're kind of such a far left

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Speaker 13: crazy that you're you know, you can't think right. That's

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Speaker 13: a pretty easy question as a senator or congressman, regardless

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Speaker 13: of party, to stand up and be counted for, and

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Speaker 13: they wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: Let's zoom in on an issue the President spent some

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Speaker 1: time on last night, and it is huge, of course

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Speaker 1: in Alaska, and that's the issue of our national energy policy.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from the President and cut number ten.

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Speaker 3: American natural gas production is at an all time high

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Speaker 3: because I kept my promise to drill, baby, drill.

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Speaker 1: President talk a lot about energy, talk about unleashing fossil

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Speaker 1: fuel in the United States of America, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we've seen gas prices come down, we've seen production go up.

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Speaker 1: Talk to us about how this issue is playing out

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Speaker 1: in Alaska with Trump as the president. Oh, it's huge.

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Speaker 13: And the contrasts between Biden and Trump on this night

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Speaker 13: and day.

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Speaker 1: I always have this chart. I don't like showing it

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Speaker 1: around anymore because it's the past.

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Speaker 13: But this was the seventy executive orders seven zero that

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Speaker 13: Biden issued in four years against my state, solely against Alaska.

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Speaker 13: We call it the Last Frontier Lock.

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Speaker 3: Up.

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Speaker 13: It was all about killing Alaska oil and gas and

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Speaker 13: mining and access to our federal lands. I love ripping

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Speaker 13: this up, you know, because it's the thing on the past.

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Speaker 13: And by the way, you know, on day one, the

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Speaker 13: President issued this an executive order called Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary

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Speaker 13: Resource Potential. It is all about undoing what Biden did

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Speaker 13: to hurt us. And this was again day one from

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Speaker 13: the President on Alaska. My only state in the country's

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Speaker 13: got its own executive order. But here's the thing on this, Scott.

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Speaker 13: Of course, this hurt my constituents. Hundreds, if not thousands

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Speaker 13: of jobs killed by the Biden administration. But if you're

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Speaker 13: shutting down Alaska, the state with the most resources of

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Speaker 13: any state in the country, not just toiling ess but

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Speaker 13: critical minerals that we need to compete with China, you're

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Speaker 13: hurting America. This hurts the whole country when you're taking

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Speaker 13: off the table one of the great resource development states

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Speaker 13: of the United States. And so when the President says drill, baby, drill,

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Speaker 13: he has been so focused on unleashing Alaska's energy. We're

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Speaker 13: having a renaissance on the North Slope in terms of

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Speaker 13: our oil production. We're very close to getting this very

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Speaker 13: big LNG project off the ground that we've been focused

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Speaker 13: on for years. And it's not just this executive order

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Speaker 13: in the Working Families Tax Cuts Act that we talked of.

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Speaker 1: The President talked about a lot last night. The Budget Reconciliation.

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Speaker 13: Well, that has a number of provisions focused exclusively on

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Speaker 13: Alaska that mandates lease sales on our federal lands. So

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Speaker 13: that bill also unleashes Alaska and it's great for my state.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you represent Alaska, You're on the ballot this year,

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Speaker 1: and let me just ask you, you know, just hearing

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Speaker 1: you describe how Alaska was specifically treated by Biers, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: and hearing how it's been specifically treated by Trump, do

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Speaker 1: you see your race this year sort of as a

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Speaker 1: referendum on two visions. One party that's gonna lock down Alaska,

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Speaker 1: one party that's gonna on lease one hundred percent. That's

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Speaker 1: what I talk about. It's a great point.

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Speaker 13: I always say elections are about three things, your record,

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Speaker 13: and I have a strong record, right I'm one of

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Speaker 13: the top producers every year in the Senate in terms

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Speaker 13: of getting bills over the goal line. That Working Families

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Speaker 13: Tax Cut Act has so much good stuff in it

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Speaker 13: for Alaska. In the vision right Republicans, the President, John Thune,

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Speaker 13: all my colleagues, they want to unleash my state. This

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Speaker 13: is just what the President said on David One. The

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Speaker 13: Democrats and not just Biden. Schumer is the most anti

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Speaker 13: Alaska member of Congress probably in the history of the country.

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Speaker 13: We are looking into his votes, hundreds and hundreds of

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Speaker 13: votes in actions directly against Alaska's interest. So the vision

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Speaker 13: of Republicans and the Democrats in DC on my state

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Speaker 13: and it relates to the whole country, is very, very different.

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Speaker 13: And then of course there's resources. Dems are very good

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Speaker 13: about raising money. We know that there. But we have

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Speaker 13: the people, we have the ideas, and that's what we're

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Speaker 13: gonna run on that contrast my record, and with that

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Speaker 13: we're gonna win.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your race is interesting. I want to get into

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Speaker 1: a couple of issues. One, you have to run in

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Speaker 1: the ranked choice vote system, which by the way, is

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Speaker 1: an abomination. It is, but you have to run under this.

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Speaker 1: Talk to us about what it's like to run a

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Speaker 1: race with the US Senate with a ranked choice voting

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Speaker 1: laying out there.

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Speaker 13: Well, look, rank choice voting got hoisted on the state

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Speaker 13: of Alaska. This happens a lot by outside far left

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Speaker 13: interest groups. They see us as a place to spend

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Speaker 13: their unlimited money. Right, this is George Soros and all

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Speaker 13: the far left groups, and they hoisted this on the state.

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Speaker 13: They spent millions and millions of dollars on a statewide

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Speaker 13: referendum to get it on the ballot. And it's very confusing.

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Speaker 13: It's Alaskans don't like it. It's dropped voter turnout significantly.

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Speaker 13: But it's a jungle primary. It's the top four vote getters,

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Speaker 13: and then you go to a general election and you

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Speaker 13: rank the different board members on the ballot, and the

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Speaker 13: top the guy who gets the least amount of votes

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Speaker 13: his voters kind of get to vote again on the

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Speaker 13: remaining three. It is very confusing. It was meant to

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Speaker 13: elect Democrats in my state. I've never had to run

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Speaker 13: under it yet. This is the first time I'll run

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Speaker 13: under it. But again, we will run on a record

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Speaker 13: in a vision, and it's the vision the people of

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Speaker 13: my state. One, by the way, it's the vision Americans.

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Speaker 13: One At Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska. Let's talk about

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Speaker 13: record a little bit and how you're presenting it to

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Speaker 13: the people of Alaska.

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Speaker 1: Here's one of the latest advertisements in the campaign Cut

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Speaker 1: number fourteen.

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Speaker 14: Dan Sullivan promised to put Alaska first.

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Speaker 5: He delivered.

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Speaker 14: Alongside President Trump.

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Speaker 15: Sullivan unlocked nearly thirty million acres across Alaska and seventeen billion.

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Speaker 14: Dollars in new energy revenue.

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Speaker 15: He delivered the largest coast guard investment in history, upgraded

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Speaker 15: Alaska's aviation safety, secured one point thirty six billion dollars

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Speaker 15: for Alaska's rural health care and hospitals, and not one

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Speaker 15: dollar was cut from Alaskan's Medicaid benefits. Sullivan delivered military

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Speaker 15: pay raises, two hundred and eighty four million dollars in

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Speaker 15: new military construction, and over twenty five billion dollars for

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Speaker 15: President Trump's Golden dominitiative protecting Alaskans. Dan Sullivan's Alaska comeback

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Speaker 15: is just getting started. Tell Dan Sullivan thank you for

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Speaker 15: putting Alaska first.

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Speaker 1: There's the argument about what you're talking to the people

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Speaker 1: of Alaska, and this is a state with a long

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Speaker 1: tradition of valuing leaders in Washington and who can delivereah

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Speaker 1: directly for the people of Alaska.

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Speaker 13: Correct, And look again, that's what we're going to run

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Speaker 13: on My opponent had two terms in My Democrat opponent

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Speaker 13: two terms in the House and never got one bill passed. Right,

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Speaker 13: that's not my record that ad. I appreciate that ad

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Speaker 13: because it lays out the myriad of issues that we

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Speaker 13: have focused on energy, of course, national security, health care.

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Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. And trust me, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to let people know.

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Speaker 13: I had my big annual speech to our Alaska legislature

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Speaker 13: last week. The Democrats in the Senate, led by Schumer,

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Speaker 13: opposed every single one of those good provisions for Alaska,

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Speaker 13: for our coast Guard, for our troops, of course, for energy.

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Speaker 13: They love shutting us down. So again, this is a

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Speaker 13: very different vision of where you want to take the state,

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Speaker 13: certainly for me, But I think this race is going

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Speaker 13: to play into a national narrative of these are the

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Speaker 13: things we want to get done for America, rebuilding our military,

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Speaker 13: unleashing American energy, having the large investment in rural healthcare

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Speaker 13: in American history, the one I love, you know, I

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Speaker 13: chair the Coast Guard Subcommittee, yep. And we in the

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Speaker 13: Working Family Tax Cuts Act, got the biggest investment in

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Speaker 13: the Coast Guard in American history by far, twenty five

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Speaker 13: billion dollars to rebuild our coast Guard. A lot of

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Speaker 13: that's coming to Alaska. We have the biggest coast Guard

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Speaker 13: stations in the country. We have more coastline for the

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Speaker 13: Coast Guard to protect than the rest of the Lower

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Speaker 13: forty eight combined. So these issues really matter to my constituents.

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Speaker 13: We've got about thirty seconds left here. Coast Guard and

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Speaker 13: DHS in the news right now. The Democrats have shut

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Speaker 13: down the Department of Homeland Security. Do you think we're

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Speaker 13: going to see them relent on this anytime soon? It

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Speaker 13: does impact your state, I certainly hope so, because a

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Speaker 13: lot of people are missing the big issue here. You know,

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Speaker 13: the Democrats are now back in their mode of defund Ice,

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Speaker 13: which to me makes absolutely zero sense. They're always coming

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Speaker 13: after our heroic law enforcement. But this Homeland Security show

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Speaker 13: don't very doesn't touch ICE even that much. ICE has

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Speaker 13: a lot of money to continue from the Budget Reconciliation

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Speaker 13: Bill of working family's tax cuts out. This primarily shuts

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Speaker 13: down the Coastguard in FEMA and again in my state.

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Speaker 1: And at a time when we're having terrible weather, terrible weather,

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Speaker 1: and we always need the Coastguard. And so look the

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Speaker 1: fact that they're doing that again is a real disappointment

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Speaker 1: led by Schumer once again, another Schumer shutdown, anti Alaska Schumer.

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Speaker 1: You heard it from Senator Dan Sullivan. He's on the

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Speaker 1: ballot in Alaska this year. Will take a break, wrap

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Speaker 1: up the show with Pete Ricketts from Nebraska. It's common

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Speaker 1: sense for the American people. Scott's on Salem, stay.

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Speaker 5: With us, the very definition I've never back down.

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Speaker 1: Here Scott Jennings rounding out the show here on a

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Speaker 1: special edition of common Sense for the American people. Scott

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Speaker 1: Jennings here in Washington. And this is our eighth of

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Speaker 1: eight United States Senators coming by to react to the

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Speaker 1: President's State of the Union last night. This is a

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Speaker 1: Senator Pete Rickett, so the great state of Nebraska. Senator,

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Speaker 1: glad to have you here in the studio. I know

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Speaker 1: an issue that you care about deeply is this issue

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Speaker 1: of rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in our government.

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Speaker 1: The President went right at the fraud that's being uncovered

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota last night. Let's hear from him, and I

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Speaker 1: want to get your reaction, President Trump on fraud cut eleven.

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Speaker 3: But when it comes to the corruption that is plundering

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Speaker 3: really it's plundering America. There's been no more stunning example

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Speaker 3: than Minnesota. The members of the Somali community have pillaged

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Speaker 3: and estimated nineteen billion dollars from.

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Speaker 5: The America taxpayer. We have all the information.

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Speaker 3: And in actuality the number is much high.

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Speaker 1: So we have billions that's already been uncovered in fraud

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota. We know it's in California. It's a number

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Speaker 1: of states. The President Senator Ricketts announced that Vice President

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Speaker 1: Vance is going to run a national task force on this.

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Speaker 1: Where are you on this topic and what do we

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Speaker 1: need to know?

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I think it's really great that the President is

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Speaker 16: highlighting this on a couple of things. You know, first

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Speaker 16: of all, let's just put it in a perspective of scale.

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Speaker 16: We did a recisions bill led by my colleague Garry

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Speaker 16: Smith from Missouri, and we were able to pull nine

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Speaker 16: billion dollars out. And you know, some of the early

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Speaker 16: numbers we had were nine billion dollars in fraud. The

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Speaker 16: President said nineteen billion dollars. So think about all the

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Speaker 16: work that we had to do to get that nine

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Speaker 16: billion dollars out just gone because of nine billion dollars

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Speaker 16: of fraud or nineteen billion dollars of fraud or whatever

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Speaker 16: it is. And part of this is the Democrats are

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Speaker 16: actively opposing our efforts to rein in this waste fraud abuse.

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Speaker 16: When we did the Reconciliation Bill last year, we had

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Speaker 16: a lot of things that would actually help get at

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Speaker 16: the fraud, say medicaid, and the Democrats would block those

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Speaker 16: things and say, no, no, we're not going to let you

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Speaker 16: do these things because they don't want to actually stop

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Speaker 16: the fraud that's going on there. So that's part of

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Speaker 16: what the Vice President's going to be up against is

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Speaker 16: that you've got an active Democrat machine that is pushing

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Speaker 16: back against our efforts here. And when I was governor,

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Speaker 16: this is one of the things that we really did

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Speaker 16: to try and run government better, is to put things

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Speaker 16: in place to measure what we're doing, be able to

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Speaker 16: hold people accountable for results, put in measurements, that sort

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Speaker 16: of thing. In fact, we reduced the growth of spending

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Speaker 16: from six and a half percent down to about two

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Speaker 16: point eight percent, so we cut it by more than half.

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Speaker 16: And by doing that, we were able to really fund

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Speaker 16: our tax relief, funder roads, I mean, all the things

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Speaker 16: that we want to do to the investments we want

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Speaker 16: to make and giving people back their money because we

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Speaker 16: were doing those things. So I'm really excited about this opportunity.

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Speaker 16: And of course we had the Doze effort with Elon Musk.

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Speaker 16: He had covered a lot or just highlighted a lot

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Speaker 16: of this stuff that was going on. I think there's

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Speaker 16: huge opportunity in the federal government to be able to

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Speaker 16: do more.

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Speaker 1: I know your close device, President Vance, and this is

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Speaker 1: a big job. I mean, the idea of trying to

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Speaker 1: get your arms around the fraud we know about, plus

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Speaker 1: all the things we don't know about. I'm sure there's

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Speaker 1: something going on in virtually every state, particularly blue states

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Speaker 1: out there. What's your advice to him where to start,

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Speaker 1: How to sort of get your arms around this problem

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Speaker 1: and really bring it out in the life for the

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Speaker 1: American people.

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Speaker 16: Well, I think there's a couple of things they ought

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Speaker 16: to do. First of all, start with us in the

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Speaker 16: US Senate. We've got the Doge Caucus. Jony Ernst is

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Speaker 16: leading that caucus. But I'm remember of that caucus. She's

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Speaker 16: putting together already a package of anti fraud legislation that

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Speaker 16: we want to push.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we can get that.

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Speaker 16: Done in a reconciliation package, so we wouldn't necessarily need

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Speaker 16: Democrat votes to get that done.

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Speaker 1: So that's one opportunity. I would say.

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Speaker 16: Also, then you know, look open up a whistleblower line, right,

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Speaker 16: have people in the federal government start telling you about

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Speaker 16: where they see the fraud. Start looking at some of

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Speaker 16: these independent journalists like uncover the ones in the fraud

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Speaker 16: in Minnesota, right, and start you know us. The part

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Speaker 16: of the problem with the federal government is that it

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Speaker 16: is just so used to doing things the way it's

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Speaker 16: used to doing things. You got to get outside that

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Speaker 16: mode because a lot of the people just don't won't

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Speaker 16: even see it for what's happening in front of them,

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Speaker 16: won't even think about it. You've got to get new

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Speaker 16: people looking at this like Eli must did when he

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Speaker 16: was looking at it, to be able to start saying, oh, hey,

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Speaker 16: it doesn't make any sense for us to send a

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Speaker 16: check out the door and not know who asked for

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Speaker 16: the money, and not know what a budget is posted against.

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Speaker 16: I mean, that's just the kind of stuff that's been

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Speaker 16: going on for years, but nobody said why is that's

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Speaker 16: just a dumb thing to do? Why are we doing that?

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Speaker 1: Senator Pete Ricketts is from Nebraska. We've got about thirty seconds.

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Speaker 1: You're on the ballot this year. You're running against a

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Speaker 1: man named Osborne who tells people he's an independent. He's

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Speaker 1: really a radical leftist posing as an independent. Give us

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Speaker 1: twenty seconds on this race. Why should people in Nebraska

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Speaker 1: reject Osborne?

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Speaker 16: Well, Dan's a fake independent because he's getting all his

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Speaker 16: money and all his positions are the Democrats. So when

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Speaker 16: he ran against deb Fisher in twenty twenty four, the

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Speaker 16: Democrats spent thirty eight million dollars on him, and then

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Speaker 16: he pretended like he didn't know who Chuck Schumer was,

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Speaker 16: even though Chuck Schumer gave him.

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Speaker 1: Nearly four million of that money. He's really trying to

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Speaker 1: pull them over the eyes exactly. But you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: let him get away with it, not at all.

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Speaker 16: He's got the same He wants to raise taxes, he

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Speaker 16: wants boys to play girls sports, all that.

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Speaker 1: Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, We're done here in Washington.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to the eight US Senators that came by, and

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Speaker 1: thanks again to the folks in Saginaw, Michigan for having

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Speaker 1: vanned me up last night. That's our state. Of the

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Speaker 1: union coverage more tomorrow. Scott's out here on Salem. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening.