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Speaker 1: for the American people.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 3: It is State of the Union Day in Washington. As

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Speaker 3: President Trump heads to Capitol Hill. Congressman Rocanna has lost

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Speaker 3: the thread on Epstein. We have troubling new details of

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Speaker 3: what he's planning next, and it will happen tonight. More

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Speaker 3: bad news for Gavin Newsom. Latest polling not good for

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Speaker 3: the California governor as he manages the fallout from a

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Speaker 3: disastrous appearance in Georgia. It is Tuesday, February twenty fourth.

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Speaker 3: This is common sense for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings,

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Speaker 3: reporting to you live from Saginaw, Michigan, dispatched here for

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Speaker 3: CNN's coverage of the State of the Union speech tonight.

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Speaker 4: My colleague Van Jones and I will.

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Speaker 3: Watch the speech with a group of voters here in Saginaw,

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Speaker 3: and we'll talk about those conversations on both CNN's terrestrial

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Speaker 4: We hope you tune in for that.

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Speaker 3: The White House is previewing a Trump speech tonight heavy

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Speaker 3: on the economy and on celebrating the nation's two hundred

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Speaker 3: and fiftieth anniversary. The President is expected to talk about

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Speaker 3: the deep problems that he found upon regaining the White House,

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Speaker 3: and he will highlight everyday Americans who have benefited from

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Speaker 3: his policies. The speech begins at nine o'clock Eastern. The

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Speaker 3: men's USA hockey team, the gold medalists will be in attendance,

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Speaker 3: we are told, and this just end of the show.

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Speaker 3: Erica Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, will attend the

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Speaker 3: speech tonight as a guest of President Trump. Many Democrats

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Speaker 3: are planning to boycott the speech. A few dozen planning

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Speaker 3: to attend. Something called the People's State of the Union.

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Speaker 3: Looks to be the most radical progressive members of Congress

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Speaker 3: who just can't bring themselves to sit in the same

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Speaker 3: room as Donald Trump and their colleagues. And then there's

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Speaker 3: the curious case of California Congressman Rocanna. You've probably seen

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Speaker 3: him on TV, one of the people who has agitated

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Speaker 3: most often for the release of the Epstein files and

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Speaker 3: making some wild and erroneous claims along the way. Well,

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Speaker 3: he is bringing to the speech tonight someone connected to

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Speaker 3: the Epstein files story. Let's hear from Rocanna about that

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Speaker 5: Hailey Robeson just wants justice. That's why I'm inviting her

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Speaker 5: as my guest tomorrow at the State of the Union.

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Speaker 5: She'll be speaking not just for herself, but for the

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Speaker 3: You heard the name there, Hailey Robeson. Now Rocanna says

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Speaker 3: she is speaking for the survivors, But is she The

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Speaker 3: files show something completely different that Hailey Robeson was, in

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Speaker 3: fact someone who worked with Jeffrey Epstein to recruit young

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Speaker 3: women to the island. According to CNN's reporting, and I'm

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Speaker 3: just going to read it to you, quote Ropes and

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Speaker 3: told police she remembered bringing six girls to Epstein and

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Speaker 3: told authorities she was like a Heidi Flice, the Hollywood

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Speaker 3: madam who ran a high class prostitution ring. Robes and

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Speaker 3: provided police with the names of some of the girls

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Speaker 3: she had brought to Epstein's house. She gave the officers

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Speaker 3: the cell phone numbers for four of them and told

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Speaker 3: police she wanted to assist the investigation in hopes of

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Speaker 3: receiving lesser charges for herself. Here's more from CBS News.

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Speaker 3: I'll just read it to you, and I quote Hayley

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Speaker 3: Robeson received two hundred dollars payments each time she escorted

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Speaker 3: a new messuse to Epstein's home. According to the police reports,

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Speaker 3: less likely to complain to authorities. Here again, ropes And

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Speaker 3: likened herself to the so called Hollywood Madam Heidi Flies.

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Speaker 3: In an interview with Palm Beach Police and Epstein, she

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Speaker 3: younger the better. So of all the possible people that

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Speaker 4: Issue, this is who he chooses.

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Speaker 3: This latest Epstein fiasco with Rocana comes after he outed

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Speaker 3: four innocent men on the house floor by name whose

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Speaker 3: Other news today, Idaho another case of a radicalized anti

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Speaker 3: Forty three year old white female Boise Idaho and other

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Speaker 3: More fallout for Gavin Newsom today on his tour. You

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Speaker 3: might recall that yesterday he told a group of voters

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Speaker 4: Listen to him and cut five.

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Speaker 2: You've written a hell of a book, and I don't

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Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom seems to be one of those politicians whose

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Speaker 3: message is audience dependent, as he furiously pushes back on

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Speaker 4: Let's pick up Harry and cut fourteen chance.

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Speaker 8: Newsom is the twenty twenty eight Democratic nominee three months ago,

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Speaker 8: according to the couch prediction market.

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Speaker 2: Look at that, it was a thirty.

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Speaker 8: Seven percent chance. Now it's just a twenty eight percent down.

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Speaker 8: will note John, I will note that it also seems

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Speaker 8: Newsom than they used to be. Look at this Google

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Speaker 8: searches for Gavin Newsom down sixty three percent from the

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Speaker 3: Back in California, Newsom is under fire for a controversial

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Speaker 3: pardon that he has granted clemency for an illegal alien

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Speaker 3: who was convicted of numerous charges, including attempted murder, assault

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Speaker 3: him in nineteen ninety seven to fourteen years to life

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Speaker 3: in our country. Newsom is also under intense criticism from

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Speaker 3: law enforcement in Sacramento for a parole program that has

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Speaker 3: led a child molester facing multiple life sentences out of jail.

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Speaker 3: Listen to the Sacramento sheriff here and cut number four.

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Speaker 9: He was given three consecutive terms, twenty year terms. He

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Speaker 9: should have been in prisoned the rest of his life. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 9: in twenty twenty, bill was passed that made folks eligible

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Speaker 9: I'm sixty two. That is dead wrong. He ruined their

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Speaker 9: lives and that is eligible. And the demoge he's done.

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Speaker 9: He's still their childhoods. And my issue is the parole board.

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Speaker 9: I've read the reports. They're horrific. You've seen some of

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Speaker 9: the things he did. There's no explanation, you can't explain

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Speaker 9: they don't deserve a second chance in life. What are

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Speaker 9: okay with this to let him out. You think about

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Speaker 9: some of the offenders that do the child abuse cases

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Speaker 3: Now, Brant, the Democrat response is going to be given

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Speaker 3: thanks for joining us on the show. We'll be watching

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Speaker 3: More speech preview, this time from Congressman Ben Klein, also

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Speaker 3: It's common sense for the American people. Scott Jennings, broadcasting

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Speaker 3: Tuesday, February twenty fourth, we await this evening President Trump

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Speaker 4: Scott, great to be with you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for joining us here a few hours before

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Speaker 13: Sure so, Democrats in Virginia, they abused the cause institution,

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Speaker 13: Right, they have had cases earlier. The judge from Taswell

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll keep an eye on the Virginia redistricting situation.

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Speaker 13: Well, the President is going to talk about the great

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Speaker 13: have the facts, you stir up controversy. So look for them.

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Speaker 13: I don't know that they'll hold up those silly signs

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Speaker 13: relentlessly on Twitter, with you know, the signs being meaned

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Speaker 13: But I think you're definitely going to see some antics

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Speaker 3: This is speech tonight, Congressman Client comes amid a partial

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Speaker 3: government shutdown. The Department of Homeland Security, at least in

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Speaker 3: parties shut down right now, and there's been some concern

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Speaker 3: Are you concerned that we are on the brink of

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Speaker 13: I am concerned the impact on traveling Americans is going

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Speaker 13: to be a problem very soon. When TSA, when the FAA,

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Speaker 13: going to be off the job. That's going to be

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Speaker 13: forth to DC. That's when they actually start negotiating. Is

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Speaker 13: when it affects senators of both parties, because all too

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Speaker 13: often you'll see them focus on only the emergency at

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Speaker 13: the moment and not what really needs to get done,

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Speaker 13: like the Save Act, for example. We need to get

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Speaker 13: the Save Act done. They're focusing on a lot of

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Speaker 13: other issues, but we have to secure our elections, and

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Speaker 13: so my hope is that they will take that up soon.

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Speaker 13: But when it starts to hinder their ability to travel

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Speaker 3: Congressman Ben Klein from Virginia is our guest. Let's talk

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Speaker 3: foreign affairs as we prepare for the speech tonight. The

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Speaker 3: United States military is engaged in a massive build up

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Speaker 3: How do you feel about that and how are your

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Speaker 3: constituents going to react if the United States gets engaged

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Speaker 3: here in trying to topple the Iranian regime.

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Speaker 13: Well, I don't think that the president's goal is to

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Speaker 13: very decisive when he went in and struck Iran's nuclear capabilities,

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Speaker 13: and making sure that they aren't able to reconstitute those

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Speaker 13: capabilities is a goal that we all share. So if

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Speaker 13: he needs to step in and strike again, it doesn't

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Speaker 13: interests globally. This regime has supported terrorism both in the

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Speaker 13: Middle East and around the world, and we need to

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about the democratic response to the speech tonight.

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Speaker 3: It will be given by your governor in Virginia Abigail Spanberger,

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Speaker 3: who last year's election, we were relentlessly told Congressman that

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Speaker 3: she was something of a moderate. This was the new moderate,

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Speaker 3: it's been one radical action after another. How do you

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Speaker 3: revert back to this moderate facade? And what do people

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Speaker 3: Who is Abigail Spanberger.

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Speaker 13: Well, working with her for the six years that she

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Speaker 13: or Hakim Jeffries one hundred percent of the time, rarely

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Speaker 13: And when she got elected governor after running on that

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Speaker 13: by disengaging our agreement with ice. The state police had

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Speaker 13: She actually broke that agreement, so and for energy purposes,

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Speaker 13: which is a harmful economic impact on the Commonwealth of

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Speaker 13: Virginia our ability to draw jobs, draw employers to the commonwealth.

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Speaker 13: So a radical on energy issues, a radical on immigration issues.

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Speaker 13: And then she's been bullied by the Democrats in Richmond

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Speaker 13: into signing onto these redistricting bills. When she would campaign

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Speaker 13: against jerry mandering, she said it was harmful to the process,

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Speaker 13: and yet she's signing whatever the Democrats in Richmond put

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Speaker 13: in front of are happy to participate in this harmful

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some of the anti business rhetoric and anti business

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Speaker 3: legislation is already having an impact. I read that Virginia

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Speaker 3: is losing Boeing's National Defense wing. They're moving back to

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Speaker 3: Saint Louis. Are you expecting Virginia to suffer more job loss,

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Speaker 3: more people moving out of the state thanks to the

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Speaker 13: Absolutely. You know, under Glenn Youngkin's leadership as governor, we

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Speaker 13: moving into the Commonwealth of Virginia. Our population was growing,

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Speaker 13: and the more she strays from these economic policies, the

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Speaker 13: Business is fleeing the Commonwealth and the cost of living

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Speaker 4: And Commonwealth and Ben Klein of Virginia. Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you in the chamber tonight as the President

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Speaker 3: addresses the nation around nine o'clock for the State of

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Speaker 3: the Union.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate your time today. Thanks Scott. All right, we're gonna.

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Speaker 3: Take a break, but when we come back, I'm going

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Speaker 3: to play some remarks for you. Do you remember Susan Rice,

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Speaker 3: Obama's national security advisor, and well, she's threatening Trump supporters

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Speaker 3: out there. You want to hear this. It's common sense

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Speaker 3: for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings on location today

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Speaker 3: in Saginaw, Michigan. We appreciate you listening. We'll be back

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Speaker 11: You've heard the narratives, now get the truth. It's the

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Speaker 11: Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 3: I want to take a moment to highlight the really

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Speaker 3: absurd comments, absurd and dangerous, I would say, made by

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Speaker 3: Susan Rice this past week. You remember Susan Rice. She

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Speaker 3: was Obama's National security advisor, former UN ambassador. She was

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Speaker 3: one of the most powerful unelected figures in Washington during

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Speaker 3: the Obama years. Last week, she went on a podcast

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Speaker 3: with a guy named Prete Burrahara. He is a former

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Speaker 3: Democrats regain power. She was doing nothing less than promising retribution.

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Speaker 3: Let's listen to a little bit of this from Obama's

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Speaker 3: Susan Rice in cut number ten.

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Speaker 15: But when it comes to the elite, you know, the

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Speaker 15: corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media, I

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Speaker 15: agree with you, it is not it's not going to

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Speaker 15: end well for them. For those that decided that it was,

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Speaker 15: you know that they would act in their perceived very

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Speaker 15: narrow self interest, which I would underscore is very short

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Speaker 15: term self interest. And you know, take a knee to Trump.

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Speaker 15: I think they're now starting to realize, wait a minute,

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Speaker 15: you know this is not popular. Trump is not popular.

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Speaker 15: What he is doing, uh, whether on the economy and

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Speaker 15: more than their pants down. They're going to be held

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Speaker 15: accountable by uh those who come in opposition to Trump

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Speaker 15: and win at the ballot box. And I can tell

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Speaker 15: the States, if these corporations think that the Democrats when

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Speaker 15: they come back in power, are going to you know,

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Speaker 15: play by the old rules, uh, and you know and say, oh,

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Speaker 15: never mind, We'll forgive you for all the people you've fired,

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Speaker 15: all the policies and principles you've violated, all you know,

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Speaker 15: the laws you've skirted. I think they've got another thing coming.

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Speaker 3: So this is Susan Rice. And Democrats listen to Susan Rice,

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Speaker 3: by the way, admitting that her party is not interested

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Speaker 3: and she is saying out loud, they plan to target

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Speaker 3: when they sound desperate, when they sound unhinged, when they

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Speaker 3: sound like they want to punish their fellow Americans, it

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Speaker 3: tells you something deeper is going on out there. It's

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Speaker 3: the Democratic Party. She's hardly the only Democrat who's out

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Speaker 3: talking about retribution right now, but she is one of

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Speaker 4: She is an adviser to powerful Democrats. They do listen

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Speaker 4: to her.

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Speaker 3: She's part of this class of permanent Washington power brokers

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Speaker 3: who never expect to lose their grip. They never expect

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Speaker 3: to be challenged, they never expect to be questioned, and

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Speaker 3: when things happen, like say Donald Trump coming back into

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Speaker 3: and their reaction to all of it is quite dramatic.

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Speaker 3: They want to go after you. They want to go

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Speaker 3: after anyone who has said, Okay, we have a new administration,

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Speaker 3: I need to work with this administration. It's reasonable to

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Speaker 3: say that if you're a corporation or an institution, But

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Speaker 3: for people and institutions that have done that, they now

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Speaker 3: have a target on their back, placed there by Susan

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Speaker 3: Rice and others who believe in punishing punishing you for

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Speaker 3: political differences. Another hour of the Scott Shetting Show is ahead.

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Speaker 3: It's common Sense for the American People. On location today Saginaw, Michigan.

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Speaker 3: Will take a break and be back after this.

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Speaker 1: Stay with us, the voice of free speech, the truth delivered,

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Speaker 1: common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 3: It is Tuesday, February twenty fourth, Scott Jennings broadcasting to

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Speaker 3: you live today from Saginaw, Michigan. I've been dispatched here

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Speaker 3: by CNN to cover the President's State of the Union

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Speaker 3: speech tonight. My colleague Van Jones and I will be

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Speaker 3: here in Saginaw watching the speech with a group of

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Speaker 3: the President's speech tonight.

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Speaker 4: So you'll want to check that out on CNN. We're

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Speaker 4: glad to be here.

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Speaker 3: Great hospitality here in Saginaw and a wonderful location for

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Speaker 3: broadcasting the show today. Quick check of the headlines. Secretary

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Speaker 3: of State Marco Rubio briefing top lawmadeers today at three

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Speaker 3: o'clock on the issue of Iran. This is the so

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Speaker 3: called Gang of Eight, the leadership and the head of

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Speaker 3: the intelligence committees. The briefing is being held virtually does

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Speaker 3: include people from the House and the Senate. Rubio has

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Speaker 3: delayed a trip to Israel from Saturday until Monday, and

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Speaker 3: the United States continues its military build up in the

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Speaker 3: Middle East. The Director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, will

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Speaker 3: join Secretary of Rubio for the briefing today. A judge

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Speaker 3: has declined to dismiss the prosecutors from the case against

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Speaker 3: alleged Charlie kirkshooter Tyler Robinson. This just in Robinson's defense

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Speaker 3: attorneys had asked for the entire Utah County Attorney's office

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Speaker 3: to be recused from the case, arguing that the presence

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Speaker 3: of a lead prosecutor's child at the Charlie kirk event

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Speaker 3: where he was assassinated had tainted the prosecution, but the

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Speaker 3: judge disagreed and the prosecutors will remain. Latest on Nancy Guthrie,

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Speaker 3: her daughter, Savannah Guthrie, is now offering a one million

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Speaker 3: dollar reward for quote any information that would lead to

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Speaker 3: the recovery of her mother Nancy. Still no real new

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Speaker 3: information from police out in Arizona and tonight, the President

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Speaker 3: touts his economic agenda and celebrates the nation's two hundred

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Speaker 3: and fiftieth anniversary in his State of the Union speech,

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Speaker 3: which begins around nine o'clock. We kick off our second

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Speaker 3: hour with someone who will be in the room. Our friend,

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Speaker 3: Congressman Buddy Carter of Georgia is here. He chairs the

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Speaker 3: Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. Buddy Carter, welcome back

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Speaker 3: to the Scott Chenning Show.

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Speaker 14: For having me. Always a pleasureself to my friend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks, Buddy, And we should mention that Buddy is

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Speaker 3: running for the United States Senate. He's in the Republican

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Speaker 3: primary there in Georgia the incumbentist Democrat John Assoff. Congressman Carter,

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Speaker 3: you'll be in the room tonight, and you have a

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Speaker 3: particular focus on healthcare and your work in Congress. What

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Speaker 3: do you want to hear from the President on that

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Speaker 3: particular vector tonight as he speaks to the nation.

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Speaker 14: Well, first of all, the President and this administration, and

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Speaker 14: we've been very successful in bringing down drug prices, and

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Speaker 14: that is important. This administration unlike any other, even this

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Speaker 14: first administration, we've done more in one year in the

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Speaker 14: way of prescription drug prices than than we've ever done.

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Speaker 14: We just had the PBM reform that was part of

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Speaker 14: the Consolidated Appropriations Act of twenty twenty six when we

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Speaker 14: passed the last bills that unfortunately DHS, as you know,

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Speaker 14: was not covered in that, but it does call for

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Speaker 14: reform to PBMs. PBMs are pharmacy benefit managers. They're the middleman,

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Speaker 14: and that is something that has been very important to me.

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Speaker 14: You know, when I first came up here twelve years ago,

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Speaker 14: I said, as my mission to do something about prescription

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Speaker 14: drug prices. As a practicing pharmacist, I'm the one who

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Speaker 14: had to go to the counter and tell the senior

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Speaker 14: citizen how much their prescription was and watch them make

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Speaker 14: a decision between buying their drugs and buying their groceries.

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Speaker 14: I'm the one who had to go tell the mother

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Speaker 14: how much her child's antibotic was and watch her in

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Speaker 14: tears as she tried to pay for that antibotic and

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Speaker 14: figure out how she was going to pay for it.

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Speaker 14: I said, as my goal to do something about that. Fortunately,

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Speaker 14: we have been successful and we got this reform in

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Speaker 14: not only that, but it was other reform for healthcare

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Speaker 14: as well, telehealth, which is extremely important, particularly in the

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Speaker 14: rural areas. We were able to get that pass. We

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Speaker 14: are also able to address maternal mortality, which is a

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Speaker 14: big problem, again particularly in our rural areas, and that

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Speaker 14: is something that we're very proud of.

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Speaker 3: Congresson Buddy Carter of Georgie is our guest. He'll be

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Speaker 3: in the room tonight when the President addresses the nation

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Speaker 3: in the State of the Union. Let's talk a little

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Speaker 3: about immigration. Congressman Carter, you have pushed recently for a

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Speaker 3: surge of ICE agents to come to Georgia after a

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Speaker 3: special education teacher was killed by an illegal immigrant fleeing

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Speaker 3: a federal traffic stop. Maybe tell us more about that

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Speaker 3: story and tell us about what's going on with getting

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Speaker 3: more ICE agents into Georgia to deal with illegal immigrants.

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Speaker 14: Well, I have called for more, I say, just because

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Speaker 14: I support ICE and you know, these guys are patriots.

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Speaker 14: They're out there doing their job. We're trying to get

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Speaker 14: rid of the criminal illegal immigrants who are in this country.

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Speaker 14: We had a tragedy in my hometown of Savannah, Georgia,

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Speaker 14: where one of our beloved teachers, Linda Davis, was killed

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Speaker 14: by an illegal immigrant who was fleen who was resisting

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Speaker 14: arrest in traffic accident and it was just horrible. But

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Speaker 14: these Democrats really do have blood on their hands now.

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Speaker 14: It's a result of this. After all, the rhetoric is

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Speaker 14: so bad right now, they're encouraging people not to cooperate

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Speaker 14: with ICE, to resist Ice. That kind of rhetoric is

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Speaker 14: what led to this disaster, to this tragedy, and that

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Speaker 14: is taken the life of one of our dear members

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Speaker 14: of our community, an educator, and that's got to stop.

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Speaker 14: You know, we teach our children and that words matter

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Speaker 14: and that actions have consequences. Well, the words that the

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Speaker 14: Democrats are using right now and encouraging people again to

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Speaker 14: resist and not to cooperate with ICE, that's what's resulting

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Speaker 14: and the problems that we're having right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a strange situation out there. I think congressmen,

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Speaker 3: your words are true. We're seeing a lot of people

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Speaker 3: who have essentially transformed themselves into political vigilantes. I've had

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Speaker 3: a story on the show today, in fact, about a

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Speaker 3: woman in Idaho who stole an ambulance and drove it

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Speaker 3: into an office building where she thought DHS was working

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Speaker 3: to try to burn it down. And you have people

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Speaker 3: taking these sorts of crazy actions all over the country,

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Speaker 3: and so I think you're right about the anti ice rhetoric,

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Speaker 3: and it's gotten out of hand.

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Speaker 4: Talk about foreign policy a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I reported a few minutes ago that Marco Rubio's briefing

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Speaker 3: the Gang of Ad today on the military build up

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Speaker 3: in Iran. Do you want to hear the president make

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Speaker 3: the case for war against Iran tonight? Is that something

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Speaker 3: he should do?

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Speaker 14: Well, Hopefully we don't get to that point, but yes,

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Speaker 14: I do. You know, Iran needs to come to the table.

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Speaker 14: They need to negotiate. They need to understand that this

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Speaker 14: is a president who says what he means, and means

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Speaker 14: what he says, and he is not kidding, He's not

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Speaker 14: bluffing here. He is going to cause an inflict pain

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Speaker 14: on them if they don't cooperate. They need they need

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Speaker 14: to make sure that they come to the negotiating table

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Speaker 14: and that they cooperate with us in the nuclear negotiations.

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Speaker 14: They need to stop funding terrorism, they need to stop

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Speaker 14: killing their protesters. All of these things need to stop,

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Speaker 14: and we need to get Iuran's attention. You know, it's

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Speaker 14: interesting to me, Scott that this is really not the

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Speaker 14: Iranian people. This is just the leaders that Ietolahs. They

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Speaker 14: are the ones who are causing the problem. The Uranian

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Speaker 14: people don't want this, They won't They want this to stop.

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Speaker 14: They hope America is successful in stopping the Ietolahs.

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Speaker 3: Congressman, we've got about a minute here. I want to

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Speaker 3: give you a chance to talk to people about the

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Speaker 3: race for US Senate in Georgia. Make the case what

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Speaker 3: makes Buddy Carter the best Republican to take on John

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Speaker 3: Ossoff this fall and what should be one of the

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Speaker 3: most targeted races in the country.

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Speaker 14: And it will be, and we need a change. We

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Speaker 14: need someone who represents Georgia values, a life on Georgia,

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Speaker 14: and I represent Georgia values. Why am I the one

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Speaker 14: to help President Trump deliver his America First policies in

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Speaker 14: the Senate Because I've been doing and I've been doing

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Speaker 14: the House. I did it through his first administration, I've

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Speaker 14: done it this last year, will continue to do it

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Speaker 14: over in the Senate. Right now, John Ausof represents more

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Speaker 14: of the California, New York and Illinois values than he

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Speaker 14: does of Georgia values. That is not something we need.

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Speaker 14: We need someone who is going to support ice who

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Speaker 14: is going to support DHS, who is going to support

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Speaker 14: you know, I'm blessed to have six granddaughters, and I

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Speaker 14: do not want them competing against a biological mail in athletics.

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Speaker 14: I do not want a biological mail on their locker room.

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Speaker 14: And yet John also off he has voted against prohibiting that.

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Speaker 14: He voted fourteen times. Using our wic, our snap beneficiaries,

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Speaker 14: our troops is leverage in order to try to get

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Speaker 14: healthcare benefits forary illegal immigrants. That is not Georgia values.

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Speaker 14: We need someone who is going to represent Georgia and

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Speaker 14: Georgia values, who's going to support President Trump and his

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Speaker 14: America First policies.

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Speaker 3: In the Senate as Congressman Buddy Carter of Georgia, He's

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Speaker 3: on the Energy and Commerce Committee and deals a lot

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Speaker 3: with healthcare policy. He's a practicing pharmacist and also candidate

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Speaker 3: for the United States Senate. Congressman Carter, thanks for joining

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Speaker 3: us on the show today.

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Speaker 14: Thank you, Scott. Always a pleasure.

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Speaker 3: All right, Buddy, appreciate your time. Let's share a listener's

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Speaker 3: story before we take a break, with a man named

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Speaker 3: out of pain? When we come back, Agnes Gibbey joins us.

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Speaker 3: She's one of the angel moms who was with the

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Speaker 3: President at the White House this week. A great conversation ahead,

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Speaker 3: stay with us, Ready.

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Speaker 11: For more common sense here CNN Senior Political Comment. New

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Speaker 11: York Times best selling author at America's favorite political pundit,

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Speaker 11: Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 3: It is Tuesday, February twenty fourth. We await the President's

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Speaker 3: speech tonight. The State of the Union is at nine

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Speaker 3: o'clock Eastern this evening, and we are sure to hear

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Speaker 3: quite a bit of talk from the President about all

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Speaker 3: of his success in dealing with the immigration crisis in

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Speaker 3: our country. We saw this first hand yesterday at the

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Speaker 3: White House when President Trump hosted a number of angel families.

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Speaker 3: If you're unfamiliar with that term. Angel families are those

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Speaker 3: who have lost a loved one to illegal immigrant crime,

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Speaker 3: and yesterday President Trump signed a proclamation designating February twenty

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Speaker 3: second as National Angel Family Day. These stories are tragic,

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Speaker 3: and joining us now on the show is Agnes Gibbney,

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Speaker 3: who unfortunately knows this pain all too well. She herself

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Speaker 3: is an angel mom. She was in attendance yesterday as

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Speaker 3: President Trump highlighted the families. Agnes, I'm so grateful for

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Speaker 3: your time today. Welcome to the show. Why don't you

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Speaker 3: take a moment tell us your story and tell us

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Speaker 3: what it was like to be at the White House

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Speaker 3: with President Trump yesterday.

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Speaker 16: Sure, thank you for having me yes. My story is

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Speaker 16: my son, first born and only son, was shot and

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Speaker 16: killed by a previously deported criminal, illego alien because our

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Speaker 16: borders are open. And yesterday I had the honor and

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Speaker 16: presidents signed the Angel Family's Remembrance Day, which will be

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Speaker 16: every year on March twenty second. And I'm honored that

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Speaker 16: all of our loved ones who have been killed by

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Speaker 16: ego Alians will be remembered that they nationally.

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Speaker 4: What was it like to be with the President yesterday?

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Speaker 3: You know, often, Agnes, we discussed these things as macro

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Speaker 3: policy issues, but for you and for the other Angel families,

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Speaker 3: it's all too personal and it's all too real. What

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Speaker 3: was it like to talk to the president about your story?

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Speaker 3: What did you experience with him in your conversations?

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Speaker 16: Well, we didn't most of us didn't have None of

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Speaker 16: us actually had a conversation with him because we had

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Speaker 16: the event and then had the candlelight event, if anybody

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Speaker 16: saw it, in the extremely beautiful, beautiful candlelight event where

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Speaker 16: they showed the pictures of our loved ones and announced

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Speaker 16: their names. But President Trump has always been supporter of

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Speaker 16: Angel moms. He always had our back. He is actually

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Speaker 16: the only president who ever cared about angel families like

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Speaker 16: me and cared about the victims of illego Indian crime.

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Speaker 16: And I also got to say that Tom Foreman and

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Speaker 16: our beautiful Secretary Christinomes is doing an absolutely fabulous job

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Speaker 16: deporting criminals. We do not need more criminals in our country.

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Speaker 16: And she's doing a fabulous job because if we think

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Speaker 16: back to four years ago, Secretary Alejandro majorca absolutely nothing

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Speaker 16: to prevent more criminals from coming into our country, and

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Speaker 16: much less deport criminals. And Christinome is taking on the

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Speaker 16: job that a man couldn't do. But this woman is

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Speaker 16: doing it. Thank God for her, God bless her.

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Speaker 3: It was a beautiful ceremony, somber but beautiful at the

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Speaker 3: White House. Let's hear a little bit of that. This

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Speaker 3: is President Trump and cut number three.

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Speaker 7: We're willing to tell the story and that. I don't

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Speaker 7: know why the news doesn't want to hear it. The

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Speaker 7: Democrats don't want to hear it, the radical left, they

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Speaker 7: don't want to hear it. What's not to hear We

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Speaker 7: want to stop murderers and criminals from coming into our country.

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Speaker 7: I watched the mayor of Minneapolis. I watch these people

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Speaker 7: saying we want to protect murderers. I don't get there's

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Speaker 7: something sick. They're sick. You can't have a country like that.

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Speaker 7: So we appreciate the bravery of everybody in this room.

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Speaker 3: Actually agnes when you hear certain people in our politics

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Speaker 3: today say that we need to abolish ice, or that

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Speaker 3: we don't need to take seriously deporting these criminal, illegal aliens.

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Speaker 3: For someone who has experienced the pain of losing your

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Speaker 3: own son, what goes through your mind when you hear

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Speaker 3: these politicians?

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Speaker 16: Actually very outraged that a politician who's supposed to be

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Speaker 16: representing Americans in this country is siding with criminals that

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Speaker 16: belong in other countries. And I am very disappointed. They

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Speaker 16: need to all retake their oath of allegiance to this

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Speaker 16: country because they forgot that little clause that says I

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Speaker 16: swear to defend my country against foreign and domestic invaders,

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Speaker 16: and they are not doing that. And I wish we

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Speaker 16: had something in our constitution that would automatically disqualify these

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Speaker 16: politicians as treasonous and remove them from office, because we

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Speaker 16: are being destroyed from inside, from within as well as

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Speaker 16: from the outside. If we cannot protect our own.

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Speaker 14: How strong can we be?

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Speaker 16: And President Trump has done so much, so much already,

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Speaker 16: God bless, I wish we could clone him.

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Speaker 13: Well.

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Speaker 3: This is powerful words from Agnes Gibbey. She's an angel mom.

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Speaker 3: Her son Ronald, was twenty nine years old when an

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Speaker 3: illegal alien killed him in April of two thousand and two.

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Speaker 3: She was with the President yesterday at the White House

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Speaker 3: as he honored these angel families. Agnes, we really appreciate

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Speaker 3: your time on the Scott Jenning Show today. We're going

933
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Speaker 3: to take a break. We'll have more right after this.

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Speaker 3: It's common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 11: Stay with us quality and leftist arguments with truth and

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Speaker 11: common sense.

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Speaker 2: They hate that. This is a Scott Jenny Show.

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Speaker 3: It is Tuesday, February twenty fourth, and in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 3: All the members of Congress and the rest of Washington

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Speaker 3: are awaiting the President of the United States. He'll give

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Speaker 3: the State of the Union address this evening around nine

942
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Speaker 3: o'clock Eastern time. Now I'm broadcast the show today from Saginaw, Michigan.

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Speaker 3: I've been dispatched here by CNN for State of the

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Speaker 3: Union coverage tonight. My colleague Van Jones and I will

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Speaker 3: be watching the speech with a group of voters here

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Speaker 3: in Saginaw, and we're going to talk about those conversations

947
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Speaker 3: on the air tonight on CNN. So we'll look forward

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Speaker 3: to both hearing what the President has to say and

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Speaker 3: hearing what the voters here in Michigan have to say

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 4: We look forward to your tuning in for that.

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Speaker 3: To continue to preview the President's speech, we go back

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Speaker 3: to Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 4: For another live interview.

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Speaker 3: We have Congressman Craig Goldman Goldman sorry, representing Texas twelve,

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Speaker 3: joining US. Congressman Goldman, thank you for hopping on for

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Speaker 3: your inaugural appearance on the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 4: We're glad to have you.

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Speaker 17: Thanks for having me, Scott. Look forward to our conversation.

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Speaker 17: And something tells me it's a little colder in Michigan

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Speaker 17: that is in DC today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We of all the places we could have picked to

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Speaker 3: do this broadcast, we picked Saginaw, Michigan up here in

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Speaker 3: the dead of winter. But we're enjoying our time up

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Speaker 3: here into one place, great hospitality here and saging on.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk a little about the President's speech. Some of

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Speaker 3: the issues at play and something you have going on.

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Speaker 3: In fact, we haven't really touched on this, but I

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Speaker 3: think we need to give in your proclivities. You're on

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Speaker 3: the House Energy and Commerce Committee, you deal a lot

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Speaker 3: with energy topics, and you've got a piece of legislation

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Speaker 3: on the floor tomorrow called the Homeowner Energy Freedom Act.

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Speaker 3: I want to hear about this legislation. And also i'd

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Speaker 3: love to get your thoughts on what the President should

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Speaker 3: tell the nation tonight about our national energy policy.

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Speaker 14: Well.

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Speaker 17: Great, I'd love to do that, Thank you. And yes,

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Speaker 17: tomorrow the House will be voting on my bill, the

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Speaker 17: Homeowner Energy Freedom Act, And basically what it does is

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Speaker 17: it repeals yet another horrific Biden regulation where the US

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Speaker 17: government mandated green energy policy on home appliances. Now you

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Speaker 17: may think that that's kind of funny, but it's not

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Speaker 17: funny to the cost of already one thousand dollars on

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Speaker 17: average for an everyday American to buy a new home.

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Speaker 17: With the mandates on appliances and and and water heaters, stoves,

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Speaker 17: ovens mandate that those appliances be green energy, and which

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Speaker 17: is it's just a joke as yet another piece of

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Speaker 17: regulation to Biden administration put in effect that I'm working

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Speaker 17: hard to deregulate, to repeal those ridiculous, stupid laws that

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Speaker 17: they passed in previous congresses.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there were a lot of.

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Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you about the bill, because I

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Speaker 3: know you're I know you're excited about it, and you know,

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Speaker 3: it seemed like during the Biden years there was just

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Speaker 3: one regulation, one law, you know, one idea after another,

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Speaker 3: all in pursuit of this climate agenda. But no thought

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Speaker 3: was ever given to the cost to the average person,

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Speaker 3: you know, the average working family out there that has

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Speaker 3: to live with all these regulations. To add it up,

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Speaker 3: over four years, you're taking action against it. Have you

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Speaker 3: had any Democrats at all in the House working with

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Speaker 3: you on this or has this been fully a project

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Speaker 3: warehouse within the Republican Party.

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Speaker 17: Well, it's pretty much been within the Republican Party. Again,

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Speaker 17: it went through my committee, the Energy and Commerce Committee,

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Speaker 17: and so yeah, I mean, but I passed a bill

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Speaker 17: last year, and actually I call it a bipartisan vote.

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Speaker 17: I think three or four Democrats voted for it. That

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Speaker 17: was to repeal another horrific Biden regulation on commercial refrigerators.

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Speaker 17: And again, it sounds silly but it's not when the

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Speaker 17: cost of commercial refrigerators was going to rise tremendously, and

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Speaker 17: who at the end of the day was going to

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Speaker 17: pay the increase in those costs was going to be

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Speaker 17: the American taxpayer. As you went into a restaurant or

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Speaker 17: you had catering, and these commercial refrigerator owners or the

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Speaker 17: buyers and the new ones let me forced to pay

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Speaker 17: higher prices. They don't just pay the higher price and

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Speaker 17: eat it themselves. They pass it on to the consumer.

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Speaker 17: So with the Homeowners Energy Freedom Act that we're gonna

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Speaker 17: have on the floor tomorrow, I expect Democrats to actually

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Speaker 17: vote for the bill, some of them, not all of them.

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Speaker 4: It would be common sense to do so.

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Speaker 3: Seems to be a little bit lacking in their party

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Speaker 3: right now, but hopefully you'll get a bipartisan achievement. Let's

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Speaker 3: shift gears to tonight's speech. What should the President tell

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Speaker 3: the nation about energy policy tonight, both what he has

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Speaker 3: done and what still needs to be done about our

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Speaker 3: energy needs in this country.

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Speaker 17: Well, I just left the floor, Scott, and we you know,

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Speaker 17: kind of the somewhat somewhat of a joke around the

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Speaker 17: floor is whether or not the President's going to speak

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Speaker 17: for one hour or two hours or even three hours.

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Speaker 17: You know, he certainly has a lot of accomplishments to

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Speaker 17: speak about energy specific I can tell you as a Texan,

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Speaker 17: it's been a game changer having Donald Trump in the

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Speaker 17: White House versus Joe Biden. It's been a game changer

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Speaker 17: having Chris Wright the Secretary of Energy versus the last

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Speaker 17: Secretary Energy who literally she spoke against the very industry

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Speaker 17: she oversaw. We have an incredible friendly administration towards energy

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Speaker 17: policy to where regulations are down, permits are up, and

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Speaker 17: gas prices as a result are down lo and behold,

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Speaker 17: can you believe that? I mean, look where we were

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Speaker 17: a year and a half ago at gas prices, something

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Speaker 17: as simple as paying at the pump, to where we

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Speaker 17: were in the bidens last years, compared to where we

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Speaker 17: are one year in the Trump administration. Gas prices across

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Speaker 17: the nation. Americans are paying lesson to what they paid

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Speaker 17: for a year and a half ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, gas prices definitely down, and we are producing more

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Speaker 3: energy here. Of course, we need more energy, and you know,

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Speaker 3: with some of the winter weather that we've had around

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Speaker 3: the country this weekend, in fact, this happening right now

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Speaker 3: in the Northeast, and in recent weeks people have become

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Speaker 3: acutely aware of the kinds of energy that you need

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Speaker 3: to power the grid.

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Speaker 4: Talk to us a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit about all of our energy demands and sort of

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Speaker 3: the kinds of energy that we have to have. I

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Speaker 3: think what we've learned lately, Congressman, is that fossil fuels

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Speaker 3: still work, and that's what we need to make sure

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Speaker 3: we have the lights on and the heaters on when

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Speaker 3: the winter weather comes.

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Speaker 17: No question, And you know, I'm sorry for my friends

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Speaker 17: in the Northeast who are paying more because of the

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Speaker 17: horrific Blue state policies and the Biden regulation policies that

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Speaker 17: have blocked the kind of a new production of energy

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Speaker 17: up in the Northeast and saying no to new pipelines

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Speaker 17: being put in the ground to carry something as simple

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Speaker 17: as natural gas. So they're burning oil. They're burning oil

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Speaker 17: instead of burning natural gas, which is one cleaner and cheaper,

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Speaker 17: but because of the regulations they put in. So we

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Speaker 17: need all hands on deck. We need natural gas, we

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Speaker 17: need certainly need more nuclear I think the bottom line

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Speaker 17: is one good news out of the Energy and Commerce Committee,

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Speaker 17: as we've had many hearings in the last year, and

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Speaker 17: we're all in agreement that nuclear energy needs to come

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Speaker 17: online as quickly as possible. The small modular reactors work,

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Speaker 17: and that is truly the future of the United States

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Speaker 17: power is getting those online as quickly as possible. And

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Speaker 17: we have an administration thankfully that is an agreement with

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Speaker 17: us and instead of an administration and the Biden administration

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Speaker 17: that worked against that very thing.

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Speaker 4: But the more we can.

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Speaker 17: Get online, the cheaper it'll be for rest of Americans

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Speaker 17: to pay for the energy prices.

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Speaker 3: Congressman, how are you feeling and what are you hearing

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Speaker 3: from your constituents about these AI data centers. I've seen

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Speaker 3: some polling in the last couple of days. People seem

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Speaker 3: to be skeptical. They're worried about the amount of power

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Speaker 3: the AI data centers are using. We've heard the President

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Speaker 3: talk about the need to produce more power so that

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Speaker 3: we can control the AI data centers, so we can

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Speaker 3: beat China in this race to control rolling artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 3: What are you hearing, how are you feeling about how

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Speaker 3: this issue is unfolding?

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Speaker 4: What should people know about it?

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Speaker 17: Well, to your point one, we have to win the

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Speaker 17: AI game. There's no question about that and we have

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Speaker 17: to beat China at it, and that's our toughest and

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Speaker 17: closest competitors. So we are again with the Trump Administration's backing,

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Speaker 17: we are moving full speed ahead to make sure that

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Speaker 17: we do anything inever we can to win the AI game. Now,

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Speaker 17: what does that look like to your point? The data centers,

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Speaker 17: We are building a bunch of them in Texas. We're

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Speaker 17: building some of the biggest of them in Texas, but

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Speaker 17: they're also going in all over the country. They do

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Speaker 17: take a lot of power, they also take a lot

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Speaker 17: of water. So where they are going, I think every

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Speaker 17: single local entity, if you will, has to make sure

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Speaker 17: there's certainly enough power and enough water to supply for

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Speaker 17: those data centers. The good news is is that you

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Speaker 17: know in states like Texas hate to keep referring to that,

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Speaker 17: but you know, we're doing it right, and other states

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Speaker 17: that are putting them in know what the capabilities are

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Speaker 17: and what the needs are, and they're going to do

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Speaker 17: them right because you have to have the power and

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Speaker 17: you have to have the water to be there for

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Speaker 17: these data centers. But they are the future and there's

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Speaker 17: no turning back. We can't stop building them. We can't

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Speaker 17: not build them, because we have to win the AI game.

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Speaker 3: Congressman Craig Goldman represents Texas twelfth Congressional District. He's our

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Speaker 3: conversation previewing the President's State of the Union tonight. Of course,

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Speaker 3: the president, Congressman is speaking at a time when the

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Speaker 3: government is partially shut down, the Department of Homeland Security

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Speaker 3: is somewhat shut down.

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Speaker 4: You represent an area near Dallas.

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Speaker 3: Dallas Fort Worth DFW Airport is one of the busiest

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Speaker 3: airports in America. Are you concerned that this Democrat led

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Speaker 3: shutdown is going to begin to impact air travel for

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Speaker 3: regular people in the next few days.

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Speaker 17: Well, I certainly hope not concerned. Yes, I hope that

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Speaker 17: it happens. No, is this a political game by the

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Speaker 17: Senate Democrats. Absolutely, It's ridiculous. The members of the TSA

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Speaker 17: and other people that are not receiving paychecks or pawns

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Speaker 17: in the Democrat Senate game that they're playing, which they're

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Speaker 17: going to lose. They're not going to win anything out

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Speaker 17: of this, and I you know, it's just ridiculous that

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Speaker 17: Chuck Schumer is leading this is using our TSA agents

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Speaker 17: and our hardworking men and women who get funded by

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Speaker 17: Homeland Security. They're really just being used as ponds and

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Speaker 17: in Chuck Schumer's game, and it's it's just ridiculous. You know,

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Speaker 17: no one wants these type of side games going on

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Speaker 17: when they're there to work on baff of the American people.

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Speaker 3: Congressman, last question, how much should the president lean in

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Speaker 3: on the immigration issue tonight? Would you say this is

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Speaker 3: one of his best accomplishments of his first year plus

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Speaker 3: in office.

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Speaker 17: Look, let me be very clear. I come from Texas,

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Speaker 17: and one of the greatest problems we had in Texas

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Speaker 17: during the Biden administration were the open porest borders. I

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Speaker 17: was a member of the Texas State Legislature where I

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Speaker 17: voted to spend fit over fifteen billion dollars of our

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Speaker 17: state funds to send DPS troopers down to the border

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Speaker 17: to buy drones, to buy votes, to buy buy's. We

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Speaker 17: were doing the job of the federal government completely unfair,

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Speaker 17: but the Biden administration failed to do it. Hundreds of

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Speaker 17: thousands of people crossing our borders illegally, and Donald Trump

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Speaker 17: and the Republican led Congress put a stop to it.

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Speaker 17: No crossings over illegal crossings over those borders. In the

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Speaker 17: last several months. So immigration is a huge issue. Illegal

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Speaker 17: immigration is a huge issue in the state of Texas

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Speaker 17: and the United States, and Donald Trump and his administration

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Speaker 17: put an end to it.

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Speaker 4: That is Congressman Craig Goldman.

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Speaker 3: He represents the Texas twelfth Congressional District near Dallas, Texas. Congressman,

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Speaker 3: thanks for your time and we'll look for your reaction

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Speaker 3: after the President's speech tonight.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much, thank you.

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Speaker 17: Thank you, Scott very much. I'll leave you a little teaser.

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Speaker 17: Watch and wait for the Olympic hockey team to be

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Speaker 17: talked about by the President and watch what happens. There's

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Speaker 17: a teaser for you. It's going to be pretty exciting.

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Speaker 3: Well, if they make an appearance, I know the American

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Speaker 3: people will be thrilled with it. There are heroes right now.

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Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Congressman. A quick word from our Yeah,

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Speaker 3: When we come back, my closing thoughts on the President's

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Speaker 3: State of the Union here on common sense for the

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Speaker 3: American people.

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Speaker 4: Stay with us.

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Speaker 2: Well, he's done in the Oval Office. Are owning the

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Speaker 2: Jennings Show.

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Speaker 3: Home stretch here on Tuesday, February twenty fourth and broadcasting

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Speaker 3: on location from Saginaw, Michigan. Thank you all for listening

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Speaker 3: today as we preview the President's State of the Union

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Speaker 3: speech tonight. Little breaking news into the show. I'm looking

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Speaker 3: at a photo just into the show. Team USA Hockey

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Speaker 3: on the south lawn of the White House.

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Speaker 4: I see the guys, I see.

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Speaker 3: The gold medals getting their picture made at the White House.

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Speaker 3: Seems they'll talk to the President before they head up

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Speaker 3: to the Capitol this evening to be in attendance for

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Speaker 3: the President's speech. I'm sure there'll be big heroes in

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Speaker 3: the halls. Well, there'll be heroes, at least among the Republicans.

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Speaker 3: I think some of the Libs we're having trouble with

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Speaker 3: all this, based on my social media feeds, some of

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Speaker 3: the Libs having real trouble celebrating Team USA during the

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Speaker 3: Olympics this year. So the President is going to give

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Speaker 3: the State of the Union tonight. Always a big question

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Speaker 3: what should the president say? How much should you look back?

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Speaker 3: How much should you look forward? What is the impact

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Speaker 3: of a speech like this. I wouldn't frankly expect the

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Speaker 3: president's poll numbers to change all that much. The State

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Speaker 3: of the Union rarely changes permanently. Of president's poll numbers,

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Speaker 3: you might see a temporary increase, So I wouldn't read

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Speaker 3: too much into the polling that you see tonight or

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Speaker 3: in the next few days. It just tends not to

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Speaker 3: have a lasting impact. But of course the President is

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Speaker 3: the number one messenger of the Republican Party, and so

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Speaker 3: tonight speech is i assume, going to be somewhat a

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Speaker 3: template for other Republicans and how they talk about the

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Speaker 3: state of the country out there. What is the state

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Speaker 3: of our union right now? Well, let's see, the border

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Speaker 3: is closed, and that was a huge issue and it's

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Speaker 3: perhaps the president's number one accomplishment. We are in a

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Speaker 3: period of growth. Growth, domestic product is good. We are

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Speaker 3: in a situation where inflation has been controlled. Inflation under

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Speaker 3: Biden hit nine point one percent. It was the fastest

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Speaker 3: price growth since the Carter years. Under Trump, inflation is

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Speaker 3: down near two percent and falling. I think when the

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Speaker 3: President says, and he's likely to say tonight, we have

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Speaker 3: tamed the Biden inflation crisis, he is absolutely right and

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Speaker 3: underpinned by the data. What's the status of our military.

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Speaker 3: We have a strong military that has performed admirably around

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Speaker 3: the world and is now amassing in the Middle East.

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Speaker 3: We have deregulation that's working for the American people. We

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Speaker 3: have the smallest federal government since nineteen sixty six. There's

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Speaker 3: a whole lot that's gone on in the last year

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Speaker 3: that is going right for Donald Trump. Now he faces

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Speaker 3: relentless lying and propaganda and negativity about his administration. But

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Speaker 3: there's a whole lot of things that are actually going

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Speaker 3: in the President's direction. A lot of promises were made,

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Speaker 3: a lot of promises have been kept. We've seen a

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Speaker 3: lot of change for the better in this country. Immigration

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Speaker 3: has been swiftly dealt with. The deportations are happening of

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Speaker 3: some of the most heinous criminals in our society. On

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Speaker 3: foreign policy, we're respected again. People don't laugh at the

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Speaker 3: United States anymore the way they did when Joe Biden

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Speaker 3: was the president. We have peace in many places in

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Speaker 3: the world thanks to the presidents in agement on these issues.

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Speaker 3: We have new trade deals with a lot of countries,

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Speaker 3: rebalancing the international scales. As I mentioned, real GDP grew

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Speaker 3: over two percent in twenty twenty five. Inflation down, consumer

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Speaker 3: confidence moving up, industrial manufacturing on the rise, Retail sales

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Speaker 3: exceeding expectations.

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Speaker 4: In the Big Beautiful bill.

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Speaker 3: No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax

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Speaker 3: on Social Security. We have record tax refunds coming back

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Speaker 3: to the American people as we speak during this tax season.

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Speaker 4: A lot of.

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Speaker 3: Things, a lot of things are going right for Donald Trump,

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Speaker 3: but he does have to acknowledge to the American people.

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Speaker 3: I know how much pain you were in. I know

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Speaker 3: why you were in that pain. It was thanks to

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Speaker 3: the policies of the Biden administration. I know how deep

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Speaker 3: the hole is, and I am working feverish lead to

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Speaker 3: get us out of it. I'm building a ladder as

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Speaker 3: fast as I can. That's really the message the President's

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Speaker 3: going to have to deliver this evening the speeches at

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Speaker 3: nine o'clock. We'll be watching here from Saginaw, talking with

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Speaker 3: voters about it, and we'll look forward to discussing the

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Speaker 3: aftermath on the show tomorrow. I'll be back in Washington

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Speaker 3: for that. I've got a number of United States Senators

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Speaker 3: coming on the show tomorrow for their reactions. As we

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Speaker 3: close out today, I didn't want to put in another

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Speaker 3: Union tonight. We react tomorrow. Thank you for listening live

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Speaker 3: from Saginaw. It's common sense for the American people. We'll

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Speaker 3: see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Common sense for the American people. This is the Scott

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Speaker 2: Jenning Show.