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Speaker 1: Hey, Seth and Cain briefing the media on Operation Epic Fury.

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Speaker 1: We have the latest from both of them, and NBA

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Speaker 1: player is released from his team for espousing Christian views.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later in the show with Sage Steele,

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Speaker 1: a judge in Minnesota, drawing outrage after letting a Somali

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Speaker 1: fraudster off very easy. And you've heard of the Epstein Files,

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Speaker 1: but here comes the Swallwell Files. We'll tell you all

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Speaker 1: about that. It is Tuesday, March thirty. First, you're listening

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Speaker 1: to Common Sense for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings,

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Speaker 1: broadcasting for Salem and we are live today in New

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Speaker 1: York City. By the way, four o'clock Eastern today. You

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Speaker 1: can catch me on CNN on the Arena, and then

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Speaker 1: I'll be back on Newsnight with Abbie Phillip tonight at

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Speaker 1: ten o'clock Eastern, and we begin our broadcast today with

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Speaker 1: the news and the video is a site to behold.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching on SNC dot tv or on Roku

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Speaker 1: or on one of the many streaming services where you

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Speaker 1: can now watch this broadcast, you can hopefully see the

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Speaker 1: fireball climbing high into the Iranian night sky above Isfahan,

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Speaker 1: where the United States hit a large ammunition depot overnight

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Speaker 1: with several two thousand pound bunker buster bombs. Now, Joint

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Chairman Dan Kamp brief the media about all of

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Speaker 1: this this morning, and he laid out the accomplishments of

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Speaker 1: Operation Epic Fury so far. Here is Cut three A.

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Speaker 3: Given the increase in air superiority, we've successfully started to

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Speaker 3: conduct the first overland B fifty two missions, which allow us,

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Speaker 3: as we've said before, to continue to get on top

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Speaker 3: of the enemy, and as the Secretary talked about, switched

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Speaker 3: towards more and more dynamic targets, servicing mobile targets around

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Speaker 3: the battlespace. We've continued to do the work against Iran's missile,

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Speaker 1: General Kaine says we have hit eleven thousand targets so far.

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Speaker 1: Alongside him at the podium today, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,

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Speaker 1: who refused to take the bait from the media on

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Speaker 4: As far as President Trump and boots on the ground,

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Speaker 4: I don't understand why the base which they have already

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Speaker 4: they understand, wouldn't have faith in his ability to execute

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Speaker 4: on this. Look at his track record of pursuing peace

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Speaker 4: through strength America first outcomes what he's simply saying, and

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Speaker 4: he's exactly true. And I've said from this podium too,

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Speaker 4: We're not going to foreclose any option. You can't fight

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Speaker 4: and win a war if you tell your adversary what

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Speaker 1: Now, one thing is clear right now there is a

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 1: The latest Harvard Harris poll was issued yesterday. Let me

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Speaker 1: read you some of the results. Seventy six percent of

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Speaker 1: Americans say the US is currently winning the war. Sixty

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Speaker 1: four percent say Iran violated it's nuclear deal, sixty two

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Speaker 1: percent view Iran as a direct US national security threat,

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Speaker 1: sixty seven percent say Iran is a leading source of instability, terrorism,

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Speaker 1: not support the current regime. Seventy three percent support Israel

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Speaker 1: say the campaign is justified. Now, compare all of that

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Speaker 1: and they're getting stronger. It's almost like there's a group

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Speaker 1: More News Today California Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell

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Speaker 1: has some explaining to do when it comes to FBI

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Speaker 1: living in an era of transparency. Perhaps mister Swalwell ought

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Speaker 1: it so passionately for others. Providence, Rhode Island, a mural

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Speaker 1: honoring Irena Zurutska, the young Ukrainian refugee who was brutally

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Speaker 1: The mayor of Providence calls it divisive and he wants

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Speaker 1: Morales says honoring this murder victim runs a foul of

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Speaker 6: Ultimately, we want to make sure that every community member

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Speaker 6: nor does it reflect the creativity that we want to

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Speaker 1: Now, think about that for just a moment. A memorial

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Speaker 1: criminals are the heroes and that their victims are the villains.

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Speaker 1: You know, we are often told that art should provoke

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Speaker 1: Then then art becomes a problem. Now, young Irena Zarutzka

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Speaker 8: Freedom to speak clearly with no leftist lunacy. This is

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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, March thirty first, broadcasting Why from New

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Speaker 1: the American people. I'm Scott Jennings down in Texas. A

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Speaker 11: And the pitch high John Great Center, going back partly

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Speaker 11: Oh, try to understand this game and the Yankees put

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Speaker 1: Apologies to our listeners in Boston. Mark Tschera won his

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Speaker 1: This sea, by the way, is currently held by Republican

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Speaker 1: And my guest today is Mark to Shera. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Scott Jennys Show. Mark, glad to have you here today.

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Speaker 12: Thanks for having me, Scott.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to play that clip. Mark. I hesitated because

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Speaker 12: I appreciate it. I don't think I've raised a lot

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Speaker 1: I think we're okay, okay, Well, I have to ask you.

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Speaker 12: The quick answer is, I've always loved this country, and

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Speaker 1: Talk about the district. This is Texas twenty one. It's

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Speaker 12: So our district, as you mentioned, this is chip Roy's district.

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Speaker 1: Now you got the endorsement of President Trump very early on.

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Speaker 12: I met President Trump one time back in the day

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Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about some current events. As you know,

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Speaker 12: It is Scott. People are so frustrated. They have had

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not only are they getting paychecks in Congress, they're

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Speaker 12: I think so well. You make a great point. In

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Speaker 12: like we had under the Biden administration. That being said,

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Speaker 12: you know, we had I think we had a winning

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Speaker 12: in Minnesota, the Democrats are really good at creating chaos.

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Speaker 12: And when you had two people unfortunately lost their lives

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Speaker 12: in Minnesota, they should have never Ice should have never

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Speaker 12: been put in that situation. You know, you should never

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Speaker 12: have people keeping law enforcement from doing their jobs. That

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Speaker 12: being said, it's flipped a little bit now where there's

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Speaker 12: a lot of Republicans that are saying, well, Ice went

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Speaker 12: too far, Immigration enforcement has gone too far. So this

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Speaker 12: is absolutely going to be an issue in November. And

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Speaker 12: if you don't think it is, I think you've got

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Speaker 12: your head in the sand. That being said, you know,

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Speaker 12: your show, your book. It's all about common sense, right.

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Speaker 12: Can we put together common sense enforcement if you will,

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Speaker 12: because we don't need new laws, We just need common

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Speaker 12: the worst violent criminals, those that are stealing and you know,

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Speaker 12: perpetuating fraud in the immigration system and in some of

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Speaker 12: If we can prioritize those people, making sure they are

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Speaker 12: being taken care of first, they are being deported first,

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Speaker 12: right now, because we have an issue with violent criminals,

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Speaker 12: we have an issue with fraud, waste and abuse being

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Speaker 12: perpetrated to buy illegal aliens. That's what we need to

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Speaker 1: Voicce you're hearing is Mark Dasher a Republican candidate for

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Speaker 1: Congress in Texas twenty one former Major League Baseball superstar

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Speaker 1: as well. Mark, I want to ask you quickly about

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Speaker 1: the war in Iran. You're running a campaign at a

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Speaker 1: time of war, and your election will take place in November.

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Speaker 1: We don't know exactly what the situation will be come

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Speaker 1: I know you're not in on the intelligence briefings, and

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Speaker 1: neither am I. So let me ask it this way.

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Speaker 1: What is your sort of general disposition when it comes

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Speaker 1: What's your general governing philosophy on these matters.

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Speaker 12: Number One, I believe in peace through strength. I do

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Speaker 12: not believe in forever wars. I also believe that when

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Speaker 12: who chant death to America, we should not let them

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Speaker 12: have a nuclear weapon. And you look at what the

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Speaker 12: to do and enrich their nuclear facilities to get closer

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Speaker 12: to a nuclear weapon. If Iran has a nuclear weapon,

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Speaker 12: they will use it. They will use it to destroy

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Speaker 12: their their enemies all over the world, including Americans. And

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Speaker 12: so from my standpoint, this is a war. This is

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Speaker 12: a conflict that had to happen. We had to make

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Speaker 12: and also needed to let them know that the terror stops.

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Speaker 12: You don't get to terrorize this world, to kill Americans,

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Speaker 12: to execute thirty thousand of your own citizens. You don't

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Speaker 12: So I wish we had more allies all over this

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Speaker 12: back us up a little bit more than they have been.

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Speaker 12: But from my standpoint, I believe in peace. But we

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Speaker 12: is not going to be terrorized by any country any

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Speaker 1: Voice is Mark to Schera. He's running for Congress in

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Speaker 1: Texas and soon to be captain of the Republican Conference

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Speaker 1: baseball team when he makes it to Washington in January. Mark,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Great to get to meet you

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Speaker 1: over the last few weeks, and good luck on your

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Speaker 1: race down in Texas. We got to take a break

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Speaker 1: here on the Scott Jennings Show. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we have more breaking news, more analysis. You don't want

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Speaker 2: Stay with me the man who made CNN's Safe for

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Speaker 2: Conservatives again here Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 1: Rounding out the first hour here on Tuesday, March thirty.

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Speaker 1: First joining the show, Kent Strang, Managing director of Americans

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Speaker 1: for Prosperity Can't Spend, a leader behind several key campaigns

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Speaker 1: that AFP has undertaken, and most importantly, Kent is a

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Speaker 1: fellow Saint Louis Cardinals fan. He comes to us today

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Speaker 1: from O'Fallon, Illinois. Can't welcome into the Scott Chending Show.

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Speaker 13: Great to be with you, Scott, Thanks for having me

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Speaker 13: go cards.

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Speaker 1: I go cars. I love seeing those. I know those

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Speaker 1: are Yatai Air Molina game used bats behind you, so

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Speaker 1: I love seeing that and glad to glad to have

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Speaker 1: you on the show today. Let's talk about what's going

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Speaker 1: on at AFP. I know you guys are launching a

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Speaker 1: new phase of advocacy efforts around supporting what happened last

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Speaker 1: summer with the Big Beautiful Bill that Trump signed into

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Speaker 1: law last fourth of July. Tell us about this new

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Speaker 1: campaign to support the Big Beautiful Bill. Tell us about

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Speaker 1: the policy initiatives contained therein that you think will resonate

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Speaker 1: most with the American people.

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Speaker 13: That's right. Tax Day is a great opportunity to remind

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Speaker 13: Americans of the benefits of the Big Beautiful Bill, the

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Speaker 13: working families tax cuts, Scott. We all felt the pain

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Speaker 13: of bidnomics, rampant inflation. Those policies cost the average American

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Speaker 13: family of eleven four hundred dollars more, and this bill

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Speaker 13: really rights a lot of those wrongs. There was an

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Speaker 13: open border. This bill funded border security. There was wasteful spending.

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Speaker 13: This bill cut one point five trillion dollars in spending.

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Speaker 13: This bill also stopped the biggest tax hike in American history.

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Speaker 13: Filers when they file their taxes are going to see

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Speaker 13: an average of three thousand and seven hundred dollars back

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Speaker 13: in their pocketbook, so they can spend as they see fit,

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Speaker 13: not how Uncle Sam sees fit. And so it's a

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Speaker 13: great reminder for Americans that pro growth tax policies are

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Speaker 13: good for Americans, rather than sending it all to Washington Can.

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Speaker 1: It seems to me there's a bit of a disconnect

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Speaker 1: between what the American people are experiencing with the tax season.

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Speaker 1: Because the refunds are up, people realize what's happening here,

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Speaker 1: but you don't get a lot of it out of

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Speaker 1: the mainstream media. It seems to be a little bit

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Speaker 1: of I think, suppression of the good news that came

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Speaker 1: along with all these tax cuts. But I think to me,

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Speaker 1: that's where AMA for Prosperity really steps in, because what

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Speaker 1: you're not getting from the mainstream media you would get

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Speaker 1: from an organization like AFP in direct contact with voters. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly right, Scott.

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Speaker 13: We talked to Americans every single day, whether it's through

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Speaker 13: traditional ads and digital ads, but also directly at their doorstep,

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Speaker 13: on their phone, call through We've started working on this

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Speaker 13: campaign for over a year to talk to Americans about

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Speaker 13: these tax cuts and making sure that President Trump's twenty

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Speaker 13: seventeen tax cuts didn't expire and they were extended. We've

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Speaker 13: talked to over one and a half million Americans at

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Speaker 13: their doorstep, We've talked to almost a million Americans on

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Speaker 13: the phone, and we've had over twelve hundred events to

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Speaker 13: talk about the benefits of pro growth tax reform. And

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Speaker 13: so while you may not hear it on your TV,

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Speaker 13: at Americans for Prosperity, we're going to go door to

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Speaker 13: that these tax cuts make. And that's part of that

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Speaker 13: next phase. We're going to take it across the country,

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Speaker 13: events across America so people can hear how these impact

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Speaker 13: their lives.

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Speaker 1: Involved in a lot of campaigns and grassroots efforts over time,

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Speaker 1: of course, the political communications landscape is changing. Is it

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Speaker 1: your opinion that good old fashioned grassroots campaigning, door knocking,

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Speaker 1: telephone calls, hand to hand stuff, Is it your opinion

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Speaker 1: that is still an effective way to communicate with folks

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Speaker 13: I absolutely believe it. I think that so many people

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Speaker 13: They want to hear it from a neighbor, a trusted source.

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Speaker 13: You know, you can hear anything that you want to

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Speaker 13: make your point on the Internet, but neighbors are still

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Speaker 13: a trusted source. And that's what I think we do

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Speaker 13: best in Americans for Prosperity. We take our message directly

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Speaker 13: to voters, directly to friends and neighbors. We knock on

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Speaker 13: their door every single day, We reach them on the

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Speaker 13: phone every single day, we have events. I think that's

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Speaker 13: what makes us unique. We have chapters and full time

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Speaker 13: staff all across the country to do exactly that. Again,

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Speaker 13: we've knocked on over one and a half million doors

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Speaker 13: just on this issue alone. And it doesn't stop there.

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Speaker 13: From local school board says all the way to the

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Speaker 13: US Senate, AFP is probably in a neighborhood near you,

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Speaker 13: talking to voters about the issues that you care most about.

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Speaker 1: Can't what are some of the big states you plan

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Speaker 1: to focus on this year? Got about thirty seconds give

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Speaker 1: you the last word.

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Speaker 13: Sure, we're going to be all across the country, but

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Speaker 13: it's in the most targeted congressional districts across the nation

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Speaker 13: where people need to hear these messages that the one big,

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Speaker 13: beautiful bill, the working Family's tax cut, helped improve their lives.

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Speaker 13: And we also need to drive accountability. Where there are

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Speaker 13: members that chose to have the biggest tax sic in

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Speaker 13: American history, they need to hear about that too, that

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Speaker 13: you voted for higher taxes, the biggest tax sikes in

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Speaker 13: American history, rather than voting for more money in American

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Speaker 13: people's pockets. They need to hear that from folks too,

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Speaker 13: and so hold your member accountable if they didn't vote

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Speaker 13: for this legislation and give them a pat on the

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Speaker 13: back of they did.

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Speaker 1: Can't straying quickly the url. If people want to go

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Speaker 13: Two fifty dot org and visit our one Small Step

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Speaker 13: initiative or visit Americans for Prosperity dot org to get

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Speaker 1: That's Ken Strang with AFP. I'm Scott Jennings with Salem.

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Speaker 1: Our number one is in the books. We'll take a break.

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Speaker 1: Our number two coming up next day with us here

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Speaker 1: on common sense for the American people. Portion all right,

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Speaker 1: it's Tuesday, March thirty. First, we'll give you a quick

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Speaker 1: check of the headlines here. The Pentagon offered up a

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Speaker 1: media briefing this morning on Operation Epic Fury, and on

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Speaker 1: the Fury that is, in fact, raining down on Iran.

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Speaker 1: Our elite military has absolutely obliterated the Iranian navy. It

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Speaker 1: week period since World War Two. Here's Joint Chiefs Chairman

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Speaker 1: Dan Kine about the American naval dominance cut three b second.

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Speaker 3: On the navy front, we continue to assert dominance over

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Speaker 3: the Iranian navy. We remain focused on targeting their mind

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Speaker 3: lane capability, their naval assets, and we've now, as I

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Speaker 1: The Department of Homeland Security remains shut down today, and

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Speaker 1: it looks like it's going to be shut down for

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Speaker 1: the foreseeable future as the House and the Senate cannot

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Speaker 1: Speaker Mike Johnson remains very upset with how the Senate

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Speaker 1: Let's listen to the speaker and cut fifteen.

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Speaker 8: Well, they sent this the bill in the dead of night.

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Speaker 7: It was about a two thirty am vote, and it

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Speaker 7: go home.

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Speaker 8: We passed the bill.

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Speaker 7: The full funding bill, a CR for eight weeks, clean,

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Speaker 7: non part is and no tricks on that at all,

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Speaker 7: just to keep the whole Department of Homeland Security funded

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Speaker 7: for eight weeks so the parties can work out the differences.

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Speaker 8: We thought that would be passed by.

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Speaker 7: And am unanimous consent on Monday, and it didn't happen

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Speaker 7: in the Senate, and so we've got a dilemma. The

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Speaker 7: zero in the bill for the funding of border security

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Speaker 7: and customs and immigration enforcement.

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Speaker 8: We can't do that. That was the biggest issue.

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Speaker 7: In the twenty twenty four election and it's outrageous to us.

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Speaker 1: Seems like the pressure at America's airports has alleviated somewhat

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Speaker 1: this week. President Trump got the TSA agents paid on

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Speaker 1: Monday via an executive order and the declaration of a

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Speaker 1: national emergency, and he has sent ice agents to airports,

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Speaker 1: a tactic that has clearly worked. We'll see what the

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Speaker 1: House and the Senate decide to do when they come

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Speaker 1: back from the Easter recess. Now a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: US Senator Steve Danes of Montana shocked Washington when he

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Speaker 1: announced his retirement, but things developed quickly and the Republican

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Speaker 1: Party out there has coalesced around a replacement named Kurt Almey,

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Speaker 1: who served as US Attorney in President Trump's first and

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Speaker 1: second term. He stepped down from that post in March

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Speaker 1: to take up electoral politics, and he is the odds

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Speaker 1: on favorite to replace Senator Danes in Washington. Joining me now, Kurt,

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Speaker 1: allme welcome into the Scott Jennings Show. Glad to have you.

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Speaker 5: Thanks, Scott, good afternoon. Good to be on the show

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Speaker 5: with you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, glad you're here now. You were an appointee of

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Speaker 1: President Trump and you were confirmed twice by the United

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Speaker 1: States Senate. But now you're looking to be confirmed by

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Speaker 1: the voters out there in Montana. What made you decide

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Speaker 1: to jump into this race and try to get to Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C an elected capacity.

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Speaker 5: God, I'm just honored to have gotten the President's nomination

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Speaker 5: twice to be the United States Attorney and now his

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Speaker 5: endorsement in the Senate race. There's a lot of work

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Speaker 5: to do in Washington, as you know, we want to

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Speaker 5: make life more affordable for people in this country and

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Speaker 5: people in this state. We want to make our community

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Speaker 5: safer and out here in Montana. We want to be

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Speaker 5: sure we do that, we're protecting our Montana way life,

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Speaker 5: and I have experience in those areas to hopefully get

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Speaker 5: those things done.

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Speaker 1: Kurt, it seems quite likely to me you are going

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Speaker 1: to be a United States senator come this time next year.

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Speaker 1: So tell us about yourself. Where did you grow up?

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Speaker 1: Tell us about your family and what led you into

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Speaker 1: the career of public service ultimately becoming US attorney and

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Speaker 1: a prosecutor putting bad guys in jail.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, native Montana and Scott. I was grew up all

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Speaker 5: over this state and graduated high school from Miles City,

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Speaker 5: which is out in eastern Montana cattle country. My wife

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Speaker 5: and I live in Billings where we've raised our two kids.

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Speaker 5: As far as my background, I've dedicated my life to

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Speaker 5: public service as a prosecutor and also as a state

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Speaker 5: budget director and director of the Department Revenue. And then

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Speaker 5: also spend a lot of time in the nonprofit world

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Speaker 5: as a nonprofit leader, president of a Yellowstone Boys and

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Speaker 5: Girls Ranch Foundation which supports the ranch, which works with

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Speaker 5: about six hundred minile ill kids every day, and also

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Speaker 5: done a lot of volunteer work with our community organizations.

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Speaker 5: So there's a lot of work here to be done.

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Speaker 5: Proud to be the common sense candidated endorsed by the President,

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Speaker 5: and we're going to fight for fiscal responsibility, public safety,

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Speaker 5: and like I said, try to protect our Montana values

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Speaker 5: and put America first.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about this issue of public safety.

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Speaker 1: It seems to me that this is going to be

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest issues in campaigns, not just in Montana,

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Speaker 1: but across the country. You have Democrats out there doing

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Speaker 1: two things right now which most people think are outrageous.

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Speaker 1: One is coddling violent illegal aliens, and two is they're

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Speaker 1: on a campaign dedicated to let violent criminals out of

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Speaker 1: jail as much as possible. You've been US attorney, You've

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Speaker 1: been on the front lines of trying to put violent

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Speaker 1: people in jail and keep them there. Do you intend

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Speaker 1: to focus on this as part of your campaign and

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Speaker 1: would it be your advice to the Republican Party to

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Speaker 1: focus on this issue this fall?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely?

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Speaker 14: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: We need to continue to secure the border. The President's

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Speaker 5: done a great job in the first two years of

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Speaker 5: securing that southern border, and we need to keep it secure.

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Speaker 5: We have to support law enforcement. This defunding the police

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Speaker 5: is not the right direction to go. We need to

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Speaker 5: back the blue and support law enforcement, and we need

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Speaker 5: to focus on prosecuting violent criminals, as you said. As

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Speaker 5: you pointed out that needs to be our priority, whether

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Speaker 5: it's legal aliens or those who come across the border

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Speaker 5: with drug trafficking that's directly related to the cartels. We

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Speaker 5: have to focus on making our community safe, and the

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Speaker 5: only way we can do that is by prosecuting drug

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Speaker 5: traffickers and do what President Trump said, which is go

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Speaker 5: all the way up to the cartels and tear these

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Speaker 5: organizations out by the roots.

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Speaker 1: You're traveling around Montana right now, meeting voters and asking

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Speaker 1: for their support. Give us an idea. What are the

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Speaker 1: top two or three things that you're hearing out on

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Speaker 1: the campaign trail. What are people most worried about today?

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Speaker 5: Well, the two things we're focusing our campaign on. There's

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Speaker 5: no coincidence that we're trying to listen to Montana voters

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Speaker 5: and be sure that we respond. What we're hearing about

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Speaker 5: is affordability. Montanas are concerned about the cost of living

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Speaker 5: and they want to live in a place where inflation

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Speaker 5: is low. And afford to live the life that they've

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Speaker 5: always lived. And the second is public safety. Again, we've

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Speaker 5: got to deal with the drug trafficking that's driving the

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Speaker 5: violent crime in our communities.

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Speaker 1: Kurt, you'll be taking office and running a campaign this

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Speaker 1: year at a time of war. Taking office next year.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what the situation in the Middle East

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Speaker 1: is going to be this time next year. We pray

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Speaker 1: for the war to be over and for our troops

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Speaker 1: to come home safely. And I recognize you're not in

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Speaker 1: all the briefings and you don't have access to all

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Speaker 1: the intelligence, but generally talk to us about your disposition

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Speaker 1: when it comes to war and peace, your theories about

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Speaker 1: national security, your attitude when it comes to you know,

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Speaker 1: when it's appropriate to commit US troops to situations like

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Speaker 1: we have with Iran right now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, First, let me say I support the goals of

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Speaker 5: the President here of trying to set back Around's nuclear

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Speaker 5: intentions as far back as we can, as well as

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Speaker 5: their ability to export terror around the country. So very

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Speaker 5: pleased to see the President doing what he's done to

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Speaker 5: try to protect us by preemptively dealing with those problems.

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Speaker 5: But I think we're all all of us in America

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Speaker 5: want to be sure that, if ever we're going to

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Speaker 5: engage militarily around the world, that we have a very

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Speaker 5: compelling reason in our national interest to do so, and

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Speaker 5: that we do it in a way where we know

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Speaker 5: what our objectives are and we know we're going to win.

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Speaker 1: Kurt, You've got the President's support, You've got the Republican

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Speaker 1: Party support in Montana, You're close to the governor there,

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Speaker 1: Governor g and Forte. You put together a pretty impressive

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Speaker 1: operation in a short period of time. Talk to us,

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Speaker 1: and I'll give you the last word here about your

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Speaker 1: conversations with the President. He came out for you pretty strongly.

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Speaker 1: What were some of the things that you talked about

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Speaker 1: that were important to him as you launched this Senate campaign.

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Speaker 5: Well, again, I've had a relationship with the President as

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Speaker 5: he's nominated me to be United States Attorney twice. So

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Speaker 5: most of my conversations have been about law and order

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Speaker 5: and about backing the blue and about making our community

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Speaker 5: safe and a high priority for the President in his

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Speaker 5: decision to endorse me.

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Speaker 1: All right, that is Kurt Allmey. He is going to

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Speaker 1: be most likely, although there is an election this year,

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Speaker 1: the next United States senator from Montana. Senator Danes is retiring,

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Speaker 1: and the Republican Party, both in Montana and in Washington

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Speaker 1: has coalesced around Kurt. All me, Kirk, before we go,

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Speaker 1: Where can folks find you on the internet to learn

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Speaker 1: more about your campaign?

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Speaker 5: Allmef Senate dot com. We're up and running and we're

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Speaker 5: going full speed in November.

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Speaker 1: Allme for Senate dot Com. All right, Kurt, we look

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Speaker 1: forward to having you back. Thanks for coming on the

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Speaker 1: Scott Jennings Show, and good luck this fall.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Scott, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: All right, Kurt, all me from Montana. I think that

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Speaker 1: might have been his first big interview as a candidate,

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Speaker 1: so we're honored to have him here on the Scott

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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, March thirty. First. A note for our

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Speaker 1: listeners in the Cleveland area. We're heading to Cleveland for

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Speaker 1: Opening Day Friday, April third, and Salem is setting up

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Speaker 1: issues facing the country in exclusive events. There'll be a

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Speaker 1: America cruz story that caught my attention today out of Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember the Feeding our Future fraud story up there?

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Speaker 1: This was the big I mean like two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars. That's that's how much fraud was in

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Speaker 1: play with this Feeding our Future thing. Well, a defendant

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Speaker 1: to federal prison. Okay, that sounds good maybe, except he

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Speaker 1: was only given one year and one day. One year

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Speaker 1: and one day now two hundred and fifty million dollars

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Speaker 1: in fraud. But this particular fraudster, abdul Abu Bakar Ali,

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Speaker 1: was only given one year and one day for his

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Speaker 1: role in all of this. Again, this scheme, the Feeding

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Speaker 1: our Future thing, was involved. What was involved here was

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Speaker 1: people stealing, including this defendant, more than two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars that was meant to feed children during

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. You know what I think we're learning this

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Speaker 1: week when you look at this situation in Florida. This

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Speaker 1: Congresswoman McCormick, she stole five million dollars in pandemic relief.

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Speaker 1: These Feeding our Future people they stole two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars. It seems to me we had quite

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Speaker 1: a bit of fraud during the pandemic. Seventy nine people

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Speaker 1: overall in this Feeding our Future thing have been charged.

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Speaker 1: Most of them were pleading guilty or were convicted at

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Speaker 1: trial in court on Monday morning. I'm reading now from

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Speaker 1: Fox nine that's on the case. Abdul Abubakar Ali got

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Speaker 1: his sentence, and according to his plea, here's what he did.

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Speaker 1: He used a nonprofit as a shell company to submit

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars in fraudulent reimbursement claims for meals that

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Speaker 1: were never served to children in need. What kind of

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Speaker 1: a deranged, sick person must you be to look at

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Speaker 1: a situation and say we're going to use hungry children

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Speaker 1: as a cover to set up a fraudulent nonprofit to

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Speaker 1: steal money. But it's like the least honorable thing you

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Speaker 1: could possibly do. He and his co conspirators, Fox nine says,

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Speaker 1: used fake invoices for food and services, and they falsely

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Speaker 1: claim to have provided roughly one point three million meals

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Speaker 1: over a seven month period. They told the government we

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Speaker 1: served one point three million meals. I mean that's a

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Speaker 1: lot of meals. I mean, the scale of this is breathtaking.

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Speaker 1: He paid a little bit of restitution, it sounds like,

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Speaker 1: but not much. The over thing was two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars. This guy's gonna get a year in

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Speaker 1: federal prison and then what and then what he gets

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Speaker 1: out and I guess he gets to re examine his life.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just feel like right now, folks

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Speaker 1: around the country were seeing judge after judge after judge,

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Speaker 1: not throw the book at people. I want the books thrown.

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Speaker 1: I think the American people do as well. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a break more when we come back. It's common

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Speaker 1: sense for the American people. Scott Jennings is here on Salem.

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Speaker 1: Stay with us here, Scott Jennings, all right, Tuesday, March

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Speaker 1: thirty first more politics news and politics news down in

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Speaker 1: Louisiana getting wild and woolley this primary season. Let's take

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Speaker 1: a deep dive into the race for United States Senate,

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Speaker 1: where the incumbent is Republican Bill Cassidy. Cassidy was first

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Speaker 1: elected to the Senate in twenty fourteen when he defeated

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Speaker 1: incumbent Senator Mary Landrew. He was the first Republican to

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Speaker 1: hold the Senate seat there since eighteen eighty three. However,

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Speaker 1: Senator Cassidy has caught the ire and the attention of

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Speaker 1: President Trump because he voted to convict Trump in his

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Speaker 1: impeachment trial. Following the events of January sixth and that

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Speaker 1: led President Trump to endorse a primary opponent for Bill Cassidy.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen to this and cut fourteen.

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Speaker 15: I'm thrilled to give my complete and total endorsement to

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Speaker 15: your next United States Senator from Louisiana, Julia letlow She's

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Speaker 15: been a friend of mine, She's been loyal as can be.

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Speaker 15: We've had great success. Every time I've endorsed her, she won,

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Speaker 15: and she's been a great congresswoman.

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Speaker 1: And joining me now is the recipient of that presidential endorsement.

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Speaker 1: Congresswoman Julia Letlowe is here. Julia, welcome to the Scott

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Speaker 1: Jennings Show.

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Speaker 14: Thank you so much for having me. Scott, it's crazy

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Speaker 14: to be with you.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's nice to hear your voice, and I just

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Speaker 1: want to start here. You know, challenging and incumbent United

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Speaker 1: States senator is not easy, but you have jumped into

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Speaker 1: this race nonetheless. Tell us about your campaign and why

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Speaker 1: you're running for the Senate.

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Speaker 14: Well, first, it was so incredible to receive President Trump's endorsement,

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Speaker 14: you know, before I'd even made the decision to run

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Speaker 14: for the Senate. That kind of trust means the world

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Speaker 14: to me, something I definitely don't take lightly. And that's

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Speaker 14: the kind of encouragement that it's just impossible to ignore. Scott.

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Speaker 14: You know, President Trump knows he can count on me.

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Speaker 14: Since day one I came to Congress, I've been a

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Speaker 14: reliable America first vote on the issues that matter to Louisiana,

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Speaker 14: like border security, energy, the tax bill, every priority that

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Speaker 14: matters to Louisiana families, and wherever I go, that's exactly

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Speaker 14: what I hear about in Louisiana. So so honored that

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Speaker 14: the President gave me his complete and total endorsement. That

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Speaker 14: is again something I don't take lightly. And I know

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Speaker 14: he endorsed me because he wants a senator from Louisiana

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Speaker 14: who will advance his agenda without hesitation, when he can

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Speaker 14: depend on, instead of someone who voted to impeach him

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Speaker 14: more and then spent the next five years trying to

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Speaker 14: walk it back. So I'm running because I know that

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Speaker 14: Louisiana deserves and is wanting, a conservative senator who will

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Speaker 14: not waiver when the pressure's on.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about the Louisiana election system

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Speaker 1: this year. My understanding, it's a little bit different than usual.

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Speaker 1: You will have a May primary here, is that right?

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Speaker 8: That's right.

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Speaker 14: We're running in close primaries so Republicans can have a

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Speaker 14: strong conservative candidate of their choice. We're used to fall elections,

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Speaker 14: we're used to running in open primaries, but this is

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Speaker 14: different this year, and so it'll be May sixteenth, and

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Speaker 14: we're trying to just inform everyone that this election is

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Speaker 14: coming up soon, and everybody come on out May sixteenth

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Speaker 14: to vote.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes party primaries can be a little uncomfortable inside of

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Speaker 1: states like this, and it's kind of unusual, honestly for

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Speaker 1: two office holders like this, federal office holders to be

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Speaker 1: running against each other. I'm kind of interested in the

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Speaker 1: primary dynamics as you're traveling around state and talking to voters,

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Speaker 1: how are they reacting to the idea of a sitting

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Speaker 1: congresswoman running against a sitting senator, probably two people that

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Speaker 1: they may have voted for both of you in the past.

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Speaker 14: You know, wherever I go, and I encountered this got

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Speaker 14: six years ago when I was running for the first

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Speaker 14: time for Congress, Senator Cassidy had just voted to convict

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Speaker 14: the president and people were irate about that vote. And

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Speaker 14: I heard it wherever I went, every stop, every corner

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Speaker 14: of the state, and I thought, you know, Okay, well,

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Speaker 14: there's six years from now, maybe that rhetoric will have

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Speaker 14: died down a little bit.

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Speaker 1: It has not.

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Speaker 14: It is the same wherever I go. That is a

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Speaker 14: flaw that you just cannot make. And you know, one thing,

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Speaker 14: I was never imagined that I would be in politics.

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Speaker 14: I'm not a career politician. I'm an educator at heart.

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Speaker 14: And my husband, my late husband Luke, was the public

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Speaker 14: servant in our family and actually ran for this seat

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Speaker 14: and one and then I tragically lost in the COVID

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Speaker 14: five days before he was said to be sworn in.

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Speaker 14: But one thing that I did learn from him, just

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Speaker 14: witnessing him serve other people, is that you can't lose

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Speaker 14: sight that you work for the people. This is their seat,

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Speaker 14: it's not yours, and you're there to represent them. And

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Speaker 14: that's what I've strived to do every day that I've

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Speaker 14: been in Congress for the last five years. And that's

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Speaker 14: something that I know that the Louisiana people can count

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Speaker 14: on if they will have me in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: A voysher hearing Julia Letlow, a member of Congress running

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Speaker 1: in the Senate primary for the Republicans in the state

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Speaker 1: of Louisiana. Congresswoman Letlo. You mentioned that your background is

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Speaker 1: in education. Tell us a little bit about that, because

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Speaker 1: I think something interesting is going on in education policy

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Speaker 1: in America. It's actually red states that are now leading

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Speaker 1: the way in blue states that are lagging behind. I'm

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Speaker 1: curious about your own education background and your views on

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Speaker 1: this issue.

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Speaker 14: Well, I'm so proud about what the President and the

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Speaker 14: administration are doing in the education space. For the longest time,

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Speaker 14: I've believed, and as most Americans do, that we need

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Speaker 14: to take power away from the federal government and give

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Speaker 14: it back to the states and local municipalities where it belongs.

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Speaker 14: We know best how to educate our children, not the governments.

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Speaker 14: So I've been championing this since I've been in Congress.

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Speaker 14: So it was so proud to authors the Parents' Bill

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Speaker 14: of Rights, remembering COVID for the first time, parents were

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Speaker 14: sitting down with their children and seeing what they were

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Speaker 14: being taught firsthand across this country, and many were not pleased.

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Speaker 14: They went to their school boards to voice their displeasure

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Speaker 14: and then were turned away, rebuffed, and many were even

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Speaker 14: put on a domestic terrorist watch list, which should never

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Speaker 14: happen in our country. And so so proud to make

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Speaker 14: sure that that never happens again. Authors of Parents Bill

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Speaker 14: of Rights, we passed it through the House, would love

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Speaker 14: to continue that work over in the Senate. It died

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Speaker 14: over there if I'm fortunate enough to make it over

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Speaker 14: the Senate, so I would love to codify that. I'm

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Speaker 14: so grateful that the President signed that as an executive order.

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Speaker 14: Was one of his first initiatives to make sure parents

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Speaker 14: always have a seat at the table when it comes

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Speaker 14: to their child's education. But you'll find no stronger advocate

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Speaker 14: for education than me. I believe in education at every level.

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Speaker 14: It is the answer. If you educate a child, you

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Speaker 14: give them a future.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about a current event, and it's relevant to

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Speaker 1: your primary because you're in the House and Senator Cassidy

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Speaker 1: is in the Senate, and there is an impast in

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Speaker 1: Washington right now between the House and the Senate over

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Speaker 1: how to get the Department of Homeland Security funded and

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Speaker 1: back up and running and get TSA agents paid and

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Speaker 1: get our homeland secure, as the name of the Cabinet

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Speaker 1: might imply. Obviously, in the House, you all voted late

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Speaker 1: Friday night to fully fund DHS. The Senate voted to

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Speaker 1: fund DHS without the Immigration Enforcement piece. Maybe talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about the House Republican position in your own

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Speaker 1: personal position as it relates to what you want to

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Speaker 1: see to get the Department of Homeland Security up and

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Speaker 1: running again. Right now we are in the longest show

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Speaker 1: of any part of our government in US history.

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Speaker 14: We absolutely need to get DHS up and running again.

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Speaker 14: I believe the House has passed the DHS bills what

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Speaker 14: four times now we have done. Our job is the

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Speaker 14: onus is on the Senate. I would implore them to

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Speaker 14: make sure to do whatever it takes to fund DHS

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Speaker 14: to get it back up and running. We all saw

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Speaker 14: what happened at the airports with TSA. But Scott, I

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Speaker 14: come from Louisiana. We have natural disasters. We absolutely need

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Speaker 14: FEMA up and running. We need everyone at full capacity.

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Speaker 14: And then when you talk about national security, you have

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Speaker 14: to have DHS up and running. So I would implore

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Speaker 14: the Senate to do what it takes to pass the

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Speaker 14: bill to make sure DHS is reopened. I've actually just

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Speaker 14: signed a letter with a clerk that I will no

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Speaker 14: longer be taking my paycheck as long as DHS is

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Speaker 14: closed down.

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Speaker 1: That is the voice of Julia Letlow, member of Congress,

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Speaker 1: and she is a candidate Republican candidate for the United

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Speaker 1: States Senate in Louisiana ahead of the May primary. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the other big issue in

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Speaker 1: the world right now, and that is Operation Epic Fury

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Speaker 1: in the United States Israeli action against the regime in Iran.

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Speaker 1: You're in Congress, You're getting information from the administration. I

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Speaker 1: have two questions for you. Number one, are you satisfied

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Speaker 1: with a level of information and briefings that you're receiving

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Speaker 1: from the Pentagon and from the State Department? And number two,

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Speaker 1: how do you foresee this ending? What is a satisfactory

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Speaker 1: ending to this for you and the people of Louisiana.

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Speaker 14: We I'm definitely satisfied with the briefings that we've received.

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Speaker 14: I trust this administration. I trust the President that he

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Speaker 14: also has intelligence information that maybe not all of us

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Speaker 14: are privy to at all times. But I know that

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Speaker 14: he is doing everything he can to put America first

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Speaker 14: and make sure American lives are protected and full face

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Speaker 14: that this operation will move swiftly, that's what we are

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Speaker 14: being told and will be successful, and then we can

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Speaker 14: move forward from from there. So again, fully trust the administration,

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Speaker 14: the President to make the best decisions, and he has

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Speaker 14: been successful in the past. I know this will be

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Speaker 14: successful as well.

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Speaker 1: For you, what do you need to see to consider

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Speaker 1: this to be a success?

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Speaker 15: Is it?

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Speaker 1: You know, do we have to be able to say

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Speaker 1: we got all of the enriched uranium?

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Speaker 10: You know?

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Speaker 1: Do we have to be able to say one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent we can assure the world that this regime does

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Speaker 1: not possess the capacity or the material to make a

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Speaker 1: nuclear weapon. Is that at the top of your list

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Speaker 1: of desires to call this a successful engagement.

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Speaker 14: I think that's at the top of every Americans list

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Speaker 14: that they should not have the capability to make a

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Speaker 14: nuclear bomb. I mean, that's what we've been saying for years,

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Speaker 14: and that's what it's going to take to make American

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Speaker 14: citizens safe. So I think if you pulled most Americans,

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Speaker 14: including me, we want to make sure that they do

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Speaker 14: not have the capacity to build a nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the economy and what you voted on

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Speaker 1: last summer in Congress, the Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill,

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Speaker 1: which did offer a lot of tax relief to average

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Speaker 1: working class Americans. I'm curious as you move around out

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Speaker 1: there in this campaign, are people talking to you about that.

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Speaker 1: We're hearing from the Treasury Department that average refunds are

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Speaker 1: way up, that a lot more Americans are getting a refund,

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Speaker 1: getting more money than they expected. Is this coming up

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Speaker 1: to you from voters in your conversations.

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Speaker 14: They are, you know, wherever I go to speak and

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Speaker 14: also listen to them, they are excited about their tax

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Speaker 14: returns this year. You know, We've been saying it, Republicans

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Speaker 14: have been screaming from the recops. Just wait till April.

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Speaker 14: You are going to see a huge return. And that

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Speaker 14: is going to be so helpful when we talk about

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Speaker 14: things like affordability. And there were so many wins in

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Speaker 14: that bill because it was so large that just being

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Speaker 14: able to remind them no tax on tips, no tax

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Speaker 14: on overtime. You know, something that's really important to me

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Speaker 14: as one hundred percent pro life is that we were

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Speaker 14: able to de fun planned parenthood. That is huge for Louisiana,

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Speaker 14: especially for my pro life population down here. So just

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Speaker 14: amazing wins all across the board, and I'm excited to

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Speaker 14: share the good news wherever I go in Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: Congresswoman Julia Letlo running for the United States Senate. Tell

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Speaker 1: the people how to get in touch with your campaign.

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Speaker 1: Where do they find you online?

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Speaker 14: Julia letload dot com.

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Speaker 1: Simple as that. Julia let Loo from Louisiana. Interesting primaries

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Speaker 1: down there in Louisiana. We'll be tracking all of that

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Speaker 1: as we go throughout the spring. Appreciate your time with

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Speaker 1: us on the Scott Sheending Show today.

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Speaker 14: Thank you for having me. Scott.

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Speaker 1: All right, Julia, talk to you soon after the break.

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Speaker 1: We're going to round out the show with some basketball

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Speaker 1: news wokeness still infecting the NBA, Sage Steele, we'll be

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Speaker 1: here to discuss what happened with the Chicago Bulls and

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Speaker 1: a player they released. I do want to give you

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Speaker 1: a quick word from the IFC jay. As we've been

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Speaker 1: discussing for weeks now, Operation Epic Fury is raging and

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Speaker 1: in the Holy Land. This means that if you're there,

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Speaker 1: you're hearing red alert sirens almost every night as these

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Speaker 1: missiles continue to rain down on innocent civilians. Now, I've

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Speaker 1: been there when this is going on. I was there

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Speaker 1: last summer. When these things go off, you've got about

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Speaker 1: fifteen seconds to get into a bomb shelter. I know

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Speaker 1: how it works, and at times like these, freedom and

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Speaker 1: faith aren't just abstract ideas. They are absolutely what we

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Speaker 1: depend on to get us through these long, dangerous nights.

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Speaker 1: And also in times like these, we depend on the

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Speaker 1: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews because they are on

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Speaker 1: the ground. They are preparing large scale distributions of life

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Speaker 1: saving food and emergency essentials for people who are in

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Speaker 1: hospitals and shelters. They keep all of these places stocked

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Speaker 1: with critical supplies. Israel's most vulnerable they need the Fellowship,

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Speaker 1: and the Fellowship needs your prayerful support. I'm asking you

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Speaker 1: to join Christians and Jews around the world and praying

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Speaker 1: for the protection of Israel right now. Stand with it.

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Speaker 1: Go to support IFCJ dot org. Support IFCJ dot org.

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Speaker 1: Finish up the show here in just a moment with

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Speaker 1: Sage Steele. Stay with us here on Salem. I'm Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 8: You've heard the narratives, now get the truth. It's the

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Speaker 8: Scott Jennicks Show.

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Speaker 1: Tuesday, March thirty first rounding out today's show, Hoping to

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Speaker 1: get Sage Steele, famed sportscaster on the line here in

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Speaker 1: just a few minutes. The issue I wanted to discuss

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Speaker 1: with Sage is that the Chicago Bulls have waived their

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Speaker 1: point guard, Jaden Ivy, following videos he posted where he

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Speaker 1: ranted or talked about religion and other topics, including calling

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Speaker 1: out the NBA for celebrating Pride Month. Now. The Bulls

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Speaker 1: announced this move on Monday, and they said it was

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Speaker 1: conduct detrimental to the team. Ivy in this video called

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Speaker 1: out the league on Monday morning. He called the celebration

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Speaker 1: of Pride Month quote unrighteousness. Now. He has been posting

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Speaker 1: other videos with other views in recent weeks. He's twenty

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Speaker 1: four years old. By the way, Ivy in his latest

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Speaker 1: video said quote, I'm going to quote from the video here.

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Speaker 1: The world can proclaim LGBTQ right. They can proclaim Pride

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Speaker 1: Month in the NBA. They proclaim it. They show it

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Speaker 1: to the world. They say, come join us for Pride

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Speaker 1: Month to celebrate unrighteousness. In joining me now to discuss

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Speaker 1: all this and the fallout from it is Sage Steel. Sage,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you joining us here on the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of this situation? Can you think

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Speaker 1: of another case where a professional sports team has waived

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Speaker 1: someone from the roster for espousing a cultural or religious view.

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Speaker 16: Not at the top of my head, Scott, and it's

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Speaker 16: always awesome to see you. Thank you for having me on.

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Speaker 16: My first reaction was, what the NBA, it's woke. Here

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Speaker 16: we go again, but this time it's at another level.

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Speaker 16: And I think that's the easy, probably natural reaction, especially

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Speaker 16: based on the NBA's history. However, I do think that

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Speaker 16: we have to start with the facts, and yes, the

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Speaker 16: facts are what he said. It was certainly anti LGBT.

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Speaker 16: It was also anti Catholic. He said several things that

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Speaker 16: could be offensive to many people, and that's where the

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Speaker 16: subjective part comes in. Sometimes it's difficult. It's like, Okay,

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Speaker 16: just because I'm offended, does that mean you should be

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Speaker 16: offended or not offended. We've seen this so many times.

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Speaker 16: At the end of the day, of the NBA and

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Speaker 16: these teams, which are separate, right it is the league,

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Speaker 16: the teams themselves that have ownership, that can make any

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Speaker 16: decision they want. The Chicago Bulls made this decision conduct

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Speaker 16: detrimental to the team, which is a very big phrase,

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Speaker 16: something that they can truly hide behind in many ways, right,

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Speaker 16: it is their right to say, you know what, we

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Speaker 16: don't like what you're saying. That's the right. I experienced

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Speaker 16: that in many ways at ESPN and Disney. I think

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Speaker 16: the question is and the question I have and the

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Speaker 16: issue I have is the lack of consistency throughout the NBA.

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Speaker 16: When you have coaches. You have Greg Popovitch for years

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Speaker 16: who's crushed President Trump and called his voters cultists, right,

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Speaker 16: when you have Doc Rivers, when you have Steve Kurr,

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Speaker 16: people that I've known for years and respects in many ways,

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Speaker 16: who are They're allowed to say anything? Scott? We know that,

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Speaker 16: But then when one person says something on the other side,

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Speaker 16: you're out. And I think the lack of consistency is

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Speaker 16: the issue here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. A lot of coaches and some players

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Speaker 1: have used their position to espouse a lot of political views.

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Speaker 1: And also we've had a lot of players who have

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Speaker 1: done things in their personal lives that you know, could

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Speaker 1: be offensive to some fans, whether it's you know, engage

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Speaker 1: in violent acts or engage in criminal activity and one

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Speaker 1: and so forth. And although you know, I don't know

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Speaker 1: a lot about the personal background of mister Ivy, I

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Speaker 1: tend to agree with you. It does seem to be

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Speaker 1: some amount of uneven treatment. What do you make of

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Speaker 1: the fans online who have wondered about mister Ivy's mental health?

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Speaker 1: I saw Seth Davis, the college basketball analyst, question that

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Speaker 1: do you think that's an unfair attack or do you

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Speaker 1: think that's a fair conversation to have about him?

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Speaker 16: I think if you do your homework, all of us

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Speaker 16: right as we you know, put out judgments here cast judgments.

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Speaker 16: There are some questions maybe to ask if you dig

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Speaker 16: deeper into him as a human being instead of just

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Speaker 16: casting a wide net over the whole thing. He has

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Speaker 16: been public over the last year about some of his struggles,

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Speaker 16: having been sexually abused when he was a child and

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Speaker 16: even been involved in some domestic violent situations with his

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Speaker 16: now wife that come from anger from his childhood. I mean,

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Speaker 16: I love that he's been open about it, and he's

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Speaker 16: been open about his come to Jesus over the last

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Speaker 16: year as well, which is not something we should be celebrating.

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Speaker 16: And hey, you can go deeper into this and say, well,

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Speaker 16: if he has these mental issues, some of the things

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Speaker 16: that coach Billy Donovan has talked him about these struggles.

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Speaker 16: Should they be helping him more? Should they be using

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Speaker 16: those NBA resources to help him instead of saying, you

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Speaker 16: know what, goodbye, peace out. I think that's a very

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Speaker 16: fair question, and we're still learning details about this. I

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Speaker 16: will say this, and this is where the people I

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Speaker 16: believe on exits. So many of us who are upset.

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Speaker 16: Look at Lebron James, Scott, look at Lebron James and

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Speaker 16: what he said in twenty twenty one right about your

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Speaker 16: next for a police officer who had shot someone else.

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Speaker 16: And so when you say your next as if, hey,

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Speaker 16: you should die next cop, and then that's okay and

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Speaker 16: then there's no repercussions for him. That's the issue that

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Speaker 16: I agree with.

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Speaker 1: That's Sage Steele. I'm Scott Jennings. We're done for the day,

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Speaker 1: see you later, Sage. Appreciate you hopping on and we'll

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Speaker 1: see you tomorrow on The Scott Jennings Show.