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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Scott Jenning.

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Speaker 3: Show, President Trump moving the final pieces of war into

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Speaker 3: on whether Trump intends to attack Iran. Doctors without Borders

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Speaker 3: admits finally that yes, yes, indeed, Hamas is operating out

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Speaker 3: New York City is ending transgender treatment for minors. It

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Speaker 3: is Wednesday, February the eighteenth, ash Wednesday. This is common

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Speaker 3: sense for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings reporting here

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Speaker 3: on Salem. Coming up this hour, by the way, I'm

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Speaker 3: going to have a serious conversation with Charles Layman of

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Speaker 3: the Manhattan Institute about the legalization and liberalization of marijuana

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Speaker 3: laws in this country and the emerging regrets over this.

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Speaker 3: You know, even the New York Times editorial board has

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Speaker 3: thirty three minutes past the hour. We start with the

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Speaker 3: news today, and we begin with Iran. There are talks

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Speaker 3: the while, the President has moved a massive and I

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Speaker 3: mean a massive amount of military firepower into the region.

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Speaker 3: It seems that we are closer to war than many

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Speaker 3: people realize. According to reporting from Axios this morning, this

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Speaker 3: war could be protracted a week's long campaign, not like

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Speaker 3: the pinpoint in and out operation that we saw in Venezuela.

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Speaker 3: This war would be conducted jointly with the Israelis. What

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Speaker 3: is the case for war? Let's listen to Senator Cotton

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Sean, I think that's well said. It's useful to remember.

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Speaker 4: Iran has never won a war, but it's never lost

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Speaker 4: in negotiation. An is not a normal nation. Iran is

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Speaker 4: a revolutionary Islamist regime that has been exporting terror and

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Speaker 4: bloodshed around the world for forty seven years, most notably

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Speaker 4: chants in the streets to this day. Are the Great

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Speaker 4: Satan and the Little Satan. President Trump has been clear

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Speaker 4: now for more than five years in office. We cannot

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Speaker 4: allow them to have nuclear weapons. We cannot allow them

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Speaker 4: to have ballistic missiles that can threaten US and our friends,

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Speaker 4: and they have to stop supporting terrorism. The military is

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Speaker 4: position of strength, not what Joe Biden and Barack Obama did,

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Speaker 3: Tom Cotton, alluding to the US military build up in

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Speaker 3: the region, Let's talk about that. The armada currently includes

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Speaker 3: fifty US military cargo flights have moved weapons, systems and

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Speaker 3: thirty fives, F twenty two's, and F sixteen's have headed

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Speaker 2: Let's move now to New York City.

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Speaker 3: Residents there are finding out what happens when you elect

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Speaker 3: an avowed socialist mayor. What happens is tax increases, major

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Speaker 3: tax increases. Mam Donni, the new mayor, has proposed a

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Speaker 3: Mam Donnie says there is a five point four billion

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Speaker 3: Five point four billion dollar shortfall in the city budget. Yeh,

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Speaker 3: eight point eight billion dollars on asylum seeker services from

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Speaker 2: That is the new Democratic plan, Folks. I encourage you

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Speaker 3: And while Mom Donnie is raising taxes in New York City,

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Speaker 3: It is Wednesday, February eighteenth, Common Sense for the American People.

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Speaker 3: We've been talking about some of your reporting lately on

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Speaker 3: Well, Andrew, if you need to fix something in a

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Speaker 3: Kerr's reporting in the Washington Free Beacon. Very compelling stuff.

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Speaker 3: Andrew will have you back. Thanks for all the work

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Speaker 3: And it is Wednesday, February eighteenth, Common sense for the

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Speaker 3: broadcasting live today. The world travels of Scott Jennings continue

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Speaker 3: I'm reading the New York Times editorial section the other day.

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Speaker 3: The headline said, and I quote, it's time for America

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Speaker 3: Charles's work focuses primarily on the public policy of antisocial behavior,

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Speaker 8: Very happy to be here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, glad you're here, and thank you for bringing all

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Speaker 3: So to level set this conversation a little bit, you're

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Speaker 3: Frankly the other day a few weeks ago, when President

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Speaker 3: And we have millions upon millions of people who are

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Speaker 8: The Time site's research from Jonathan Culkin's at CMU, who's

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Speaker 8: Are these things, you know, thousands of one thousands of deaths? No,

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Speaker 8: marijuana or the relaxation of restrictions on it accomplishes none

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Speaker 8: of those goals. Makes an addictive, harmful product more widely

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Speaker 8: available in a way that will harm the people who

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Speaker 8: are using most of it, with very little benefit to them,

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Speaker 8: more to everybody else.

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Speaker 3: Some more statistics in our conversation here with Charles Layman

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Speaker 3: from the Manhattan Institute about sixty four million Americans reported

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Speaker 3: using marijuana in twenty twenty four. That is significantly up

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Speaker 3: from previous years. Gallop poll. This is also from twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty four, indicates fifteen percent of American adults actively use,

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Speaker 3: more than double what it was in twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Marijuana use doubling among.

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Speaker 3: US adults over the last decade, with significant increases in

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Speaker 3: past month and past year use. Nearly forty two percent

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Speaker 3: of current users are considered intensive, meaning daily or near

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Speaker 3: daily according to recent estimates. These numbers are staggering. How

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Speaker 3: can a country hope to have a functioning workforce if

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Speaker 3: this many people, millions upon millions of people are debilitated

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Speaker 3: with marijuana use on a daily basis.

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Speaker 8: Well, I think an important thing to point out in

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Speaker 8: those statistics is that the growth in serious or intensive

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Speaker 8: or addictive use is way bigger than the general growth

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Speaker 8: in use you know, you pointed to there's been a

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Speaker 8: doubling in the share of people who are regular marijuana smokers.

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Speaker 8: That's going from about seven percent to fifteen percent. Alcohol

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Speaker 8: users are something like seventy percent of the US population,

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Speaker 8: so fifteen percent doesn't sound that big, But I think

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Speaker 8: what you have to realize is that you have this

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Speaker 8: sort of bifurcation in the marijuana consuming population. They're a

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Speaker 8: handful of people who consume a little bit, most people

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Speaker 8: consume none at all, and then a large majority of

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Speaker 8: the people who are using are using on a daily, compulsive,

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Speaker 8: multiple times a day basis. That means that they are

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Speaker 8: waken baked stoners, and that severely affects their confidence in

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Speaker 8: the workforce. It means people who are driving high. It

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Speaker 8: means people who are driving your uber high means people

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Speaker 8: who are operating having machinery all high. It also means

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Speaker 8: people who don't form family connections, who are using drugs

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Speaker 8: rather than going out and meeting members of the opposite

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Speaker 8: sex forming families, going to church, doing all those things

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Speaker 8: that produce a healthy, functioning, robust society. So, you know,

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Speaker 8: twenty million people is a substantial fraction of the population.

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Speaker 8: Not all those people are dysfunctional, but many of them are,

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Speaker 8: and so it's a big fraction of our fellow citizens

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Speaker 8: sort of sort of sidelining themselves for American life.

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Speaker 2: How did we get here?

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Speaker 3: It seemed like for a very long time, most people

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Speaker 3: and American culture, most policy makers, most responsible people realized

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Speaker 3: that marijuana use was not something you aspired to, that

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Speaker 3: this was not something that was going to be of

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Speaker 3: any benefit to your life, to your family, to your community.

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Speaker 5: And all of a.

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Speaker 3: Sudden, it feels like we just gave up on holding

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Speaker 3: back that idea. We just gave up on it, and

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Speaker 3: states started to pass it and localities started to pass it.

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Speaker 2: What do you think happened?

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Speaker 3: What was the moment where people decided, Okay, fine, we're

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Speaker 3: not interested in fighting this battle. We're not interested in

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Speaker 3: holding this back any longer.

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Speaker 8: You know, there are two periods of marijuana liberalization in

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Speaker 8: American history. One is in the nineteen seventies, where there's

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Speaker 8: this brief push towards decriminalization that burns out by the

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Speaker 8: nineteen eighties, and then the other is this period of

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Speaker 8: sustained liberalization in the two thousands that I think is

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Speaker 8: driven in large part by concerns about the horms of

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Speaker 8: marijuana prohibition, which are often overstated, although in some cases real.

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Speaker 8: We looked at, particularly the large number of people who

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Speaker 8: were arrested every year for marijuana related defenses, and we

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Speaker 8: looked at the racial disparity in those arrest rates, and

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Speaker 8: amid the climate of general support for criminal justice reform,

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Speaker 8: some of it merited, a lot of it not. We said, well,

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Speaker 8: we don't think that there's a lot of rationale behind

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Speaker 8: the criminalization of marijuana. We think this doesn't make a

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Speaker 8: lot of sense. It's just a harmless plant. It's doing

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Speaker 8: all of this harm. And so, you know, I think

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Speaker 8: this is a constant feature of prohibition. Where the drug

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Speaker 8: is well controlled, you mostly see the downsides of controlling it.

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Speaker 8: Where the drug is not well control as, you see

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Speaker 8: the downsides of not controlling it. But because we lived

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Speaker 8: in a regime where marijuana was relatively well suppressed, we said,

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Speaker 8: why don't we take our foot off the gas. It

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Speaker 8: will be fine, because we don't remember what it is

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Speaker 8: like to have a culture that consumes marijuana heavily, to

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Speaker 8: have a society that is heavily addicted to marijuana. So,

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Speaker 8: you know, I think absence makes the heart grow fonder,

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Speaker 8: and we had an absence of marijuana, and that created

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Speaker 8: an opening for its legalization.

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Speaker 3: Is it true, Charles, that the kinds of marijuana product

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Speaker 3: that are available to people today are much different, much

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Speaker 3: more potent than what was available decades ago.

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Speaker 8: Yes, And you see that both in the Drug Enforcement

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Speaker 8: Administration seizure data, where the rate of the percentage by

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Speaker 8: weight of THHC, the active ingredient in marijuana, essentially, has

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Speaker 8: been creeping up steadily for years and years. It's gone

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Speaker 8: from something like five percent in the nineteen nineties to

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Speaker 8: twenty percent plus in the most recent data. But you

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Speaker 8: also see this in terms of the potency of the

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Speaker 8: products now widely available on the legal market. Because we've

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Speaker 8: legalized marijuana, companies can get innovative. They are better at

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Speaker 8: distilling out what consumers want, and disproportionately, what consumers want,

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Speaker 8: particularly addicted consumers, is potency. And so today you can

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Speaker 8: buy products that are eighty ninety percent THHC by volume,

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Speaker 8: by shatter, by wax. The the dose is very different,

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Speaker 8: that experience is very different. But if you're somebody who

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Speaker 8: was used to consuming three to five joints a day,

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Speaker 8: if you're somebody who's getting high constantly throughout the day

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Speaker 8: or is vaping continuously throughout the day. Then you need

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Speaker 8: that much to sustain your experience to deal with your

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Speaker 8: dependency on the on that drug. So you know, we

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Speaker 8: absolutely seen an increase in potency, and the increase in

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Speaker 8: potency is downstream of legalization. Part of what keeps drugs

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Speaker 8: week is prohibition.

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Speaker 3: That's Charles Layman that voice you're hearing. He is a

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Speaker 3: scholar at the Manhattan Institute. We're having a conversation today

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Speaker 3: about the perils of the legalization and liberalization of marijuana

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Speaker 3: in our society. We're gonna have more with Charles on

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Speaker 6: Dear Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 3: The conversation going on here with Charles Lahman, scholar with

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Speaker 3: a Manhattan Institute. Charles recently wrote a piece called the

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Speaker 3: Case for Prohibiting Vice.

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Speaker 2: It's in National Affairs. I'm going to quote from it.

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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, a record sixty two million Americans

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Speaker 3: smoke pot. Seventeen million now use it daily or near daily.

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Speaker 3: One in twelve young adults used a hallucinogen. One in

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Speaker 3: eighteen misused prescription stimulants such as adderall. Another two point

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Speaker 3: six million Americans over the age of twelve took meth.

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Speaker 3: Overdoses still claimed the lives of seventy thousand Americans annually.

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Speaker 3: The majority died using synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Half of

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Speaker 3: American men have a sports betting account, up from almost

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Speaker 3: zero seven years ago, and I gaming gambling via casino

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Speaker 3: apps on your phone is now legal in seven states.

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Speaker 3: By some estimates, Pornography now generates it's more revenue than Hollywood,

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Speaker 3: and OnlyFans creators collectively make more than players in the

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Speaker 3: National Basketball Association. Charles Layman, you're painting a bleak picture

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Speaker 3: of how our society is spending its time and money

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Speaker 3: right now.

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Speaker 2: Care to elaborate.

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Speaker 8: I'm a lot of fun at parties, you know. I

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Speaker 8: think there has been a comprehensive shift in how our

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Speaker 8: society consumes what in that article I refer to as vice.

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Speaker 8: It's obviously an antiquated term, but I think it's the

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Speaker 8: best term we have available to explain what is the

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Speaker 8: common feature of all of those different products that you listed. Gambling,

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Speaker 8: porn drugs, hard drugs, soft drugs, quote unquote. The other

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Speaker 8: thing that I like to emphasize here is that all

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Speaker 8: of this is very recent. If you turn the clock

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Speaker 8: back ten years, marijuana is illegal in forty plus states.

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Speaker 8: OnlyFans has not even launched yet it launches at the

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Speaker 8: end in twenty sixteen. Scambling is illegal everywhere in the

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Speaker 8: United States except for Nevada, and will be for another

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Speaker 8: two years. Hallucinogens have not been decriminalized. Drug possession has

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Speaker 8: not been decriminalized, and won't be for another four years.

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Speaker 8: There has been a radical change in how we treat

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Speaker 8: these products relatively recently. Some of that is a cultural liberalization,

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Speaker 8: but a lot of it is just policy liberalization combined

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Speaker 8: with technological change. The Supreme Court struck down the federal

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Speaker 8: ban on sports scambling in twenty eighteen. Legalization happened through

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Speaker 8: the ballot box of marijuana. The Supreme quest treatment of

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Speaker 8: pornography has been a persistent phenomenon, but I think has

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Speaker 8: shaped the availability of these goods through our phones or

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Speaker 8: the availabilities of direct consumer pornography in the form of OnlyFans.

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Speaker 8: And then again, you talk about, you know, being able

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Speaker 8: to gamble on your phone is a qualitatively different and

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Speaker 8: more harmful experience than having to go down to the

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Speaker 8: casino and place a bit. So there really has been

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Speaker 8: a dramatic change in the real ability of all of

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Speaker 8: these goods, and that that is downstream of this interaction

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Speaker 8: of we got softer on them at the same time

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Speaker 8: that they were able to become much more potent because

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Speaker 8: of technology.

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Speaker 3: And we swallowed a lot of very rosy arguments for

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Speaker 3: these things. You know, with gambling, a lot of states

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Speaker 3: made the argument, oh, well, we'll tax it and use

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Speaker 3: the proceeds to improve education. Marijuana it's medicinal, you know. Pornography,

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Speaker 3: oh and only fans. It's empowering to women. And so

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Speaker 3: we attached a lot of slogans to these campaigns to

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Speaker 3: get these things legalized, and of course people bought it.

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Speaker 3: The media largely cheered it on. And now here we are, Charles,

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Speaker 3: where are we headed from here? In your opinion, do

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Speaker 3: you believe we have reached a moment in American culture

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Speaker 3: where people realize, whoa, whoa, whoa, We've gone way too

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Speaker 3: far on all these vices, or have we yet to

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Speaker 3: reach the tipping point of people saying enough is enough,

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Speaker 3: and we need to turn back the clocker.

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Speaker 8: You know, I think that there are two parts there,

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Speaker 8: which is the enough is enough and turning back the clock.

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Speaker 8: There is I think increasing appetite for some kind of

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Speaker 8: objection to this proliferation advice. I point to survey evidence

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Speaker 8: from Gallup that shows the majority of Americans now believe

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Speaker 8: that marijuana is actively harmful to its users and society.

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Speaker 8: Sports gambling is unpopular, both in polling and in my

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Speaker 8: personal experience. The number of people I know who are

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Speaker 8: otherwise committed libertarians who have said to me, I'm with

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Speaker 8: you on sports gambling is astonishing. People are increasingly considered

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Speaker 8: at porn. They're considered at point in their kids' schools.

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Speaker 8: They're concerned at porn in college, they're concerned at porn everywhere.

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Speaker 8: I think everyone sort of recognizes that culturally we went

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Speaker 8: too far over the past five to ten years on

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Speaker 8: these products. The challenge in my mind is, yeah, we

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Speaker 8: aren't quite sure what to do about it, and we

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Speaker 8: don't have the arguments the ideas that are going to

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Speaker 8: validate how we can make a change. So you know,

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Speaker 8: what I'm trying to do is say, how can I

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Speaker 8: give you ideological permission to say it's okay to not

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Speaker 8: like this stuff. You don't have to feel bad about it.

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Speaker 3: Well, let me give you permission, everybody out there listening,

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Speaker 3: It is okay to realize this stuff is bad for culture,

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Speaker 3: and it's bad for society, and it's bad if you

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Speaker 3: want to preserve Western civilization. Charles Lamon, you've been a

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Speaker 3: great guest. Thanks a lot from the Manhattan Institute. One

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Speaker 3: hour down, one hour to go. It's Scott on Salem.

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Speaker 3: Stay with us.

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Speaker 1: If the leftists haven't had enough yet, there's more. This

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Speaker 1: is the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 3: It is Wednesday, February eighteenth, Common Sense for the American people.

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Speaker 3: Scott Jennings here on Salem broadcasting Why from Amelia Island, Florida.

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Speaker 3: Today the world travels of Scott Jennings continue. Quick check

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Speaker 3: of the headlines here as we begin our number two.

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Speaker 3: You know the thing that they say never happens, It's

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Speaker 3: happening again, this time in Kentucky. They say illegal immigrants

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Speaker 3: can't get driver's licenses.

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Speaker 8: Right.

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Speaker 3: Well, now five people in Kentucky have been indicted for

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Speaker 3: selling drivers' licenses to non citizens. WLKYTV has the story

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Speaker 3: in cut number one.

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Speaker 9: A new indictment describes the elaborate scheme targeting people who

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Speaker 9: didn't know how to get a driver's.

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Speaker 6: License in Kentucky.

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Speaker 9: The document says, starting no later than November one, twenty

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Speaker 9: twenty three, Raoul Teles, Ojetta Lozaro, Alejandro Costello Rojas and

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Speaker 9: Robert Danger Korea recruited people who were immigrants and offered

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Speaker 9: to get them a license by avoiding a line and

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Speaker 9: bypassing testing requirements at the Driver Licensing Regional office at

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Speaker 9: the NIA Center. Those applicants were allegedly told fees ranged

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Speaker 9: to believe the process was legal.

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Speaker 6: The indictment says the suspects often.

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Speaker 9: Escorted applicants on the day of their appointment and told

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Speaker 9: them where to wait and when to enter the NIA center.

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Speaker 9: Many of the applicants had a difficulty speaking English. As

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Speaker 9: part of the scheme, Danita Wilson and Ariel Matthews, who

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Speaker 9: worked as temp workers at the NIA center, are accused

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Speaker 9: of manually changing the status of driver's license records so

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Speaker 9: the system would recognize licenses that did not exist.

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Speaker 3: Yet more examples of the fact that we have any

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Speaker 3: legal immigration crisis in our country, Remember that the next

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Speaker 3: time a Democrat tells you we have to have to

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Speaker 3: keep as many people here as possible. President Trump is

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Speaker 3: going to visit Georgia tomorrow. White House Press Secretary Caroline

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Speaker 3: Leavitt briefing right now at the White House. She says

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Speaker 3: he is going to stop at two local businesses in

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Speaker 3: North Georgia and talk about affordability in his speech. He's

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Speaker 3: also down there to boost Assume Clay Fuller, who is

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Speaker 3: one of the Republicans running to replace Marjorie Taylor Green

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Speaker 3: in that special election.

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Speaker 2: That comes up in a few days.

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Speaker 3: And also, Kentucky lawmakers pass legislation to outlaw diversity, equity

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Speaker 3: and inclusion at public colleges and universities. In March twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five, the Republican led legislature overrode a veto by

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Speaker 3: Governor Andy Basheer to pass the bill, which bands DEI funding,

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Speaker 3: diversity training and the use of diversity statements in hiring

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Speaker 3: and admissions.

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Speaker 2: But did it work.

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Speaker 3: Kicking off our second hour of the show, we have

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Speaker 3: the president of the organization Accuracy in Media here to

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Speaker 3: discuss his group's investigation into the University of Kentucky and

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Speaker 3: to explain to us how DEI is still alive and

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Speaker 3: well in our colleges despite laws like the one I

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Speaker 3: just described. Adam glad welcome back to the Scott Sheenning Show.

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Speaker 10: Thank you so much for having me, doctor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate you being here.

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Speaker 3: Let's kick off this conversation by playing a video. You've

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Speaker 3: got some undercover videos that your organization has come up

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Speaker 3: with where you talk to people at the University of

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Speaker 3: Kentucky about DEI and whether it is still operating. Let's

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Speaker 3: play cut number three and come back to it.

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Speaker 11: Those are faculty, our pre progressive.

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Speaker 8: We can't actually use those words, you know, be Ware does,

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Speaker 8: and you went on to explain that you were still

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Speaker 8: continuing to do the DEI work.

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Speaker 6: What people are dumbe. Did you hear about issues with

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Speaker 6: respect to that we would move the.

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Speaker 12: Remedy that correctly.

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Speaker 3: So, Adam tell us how did you undercover this story

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Speaker 3: of DEI still operating at the University of Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Did you get a tip? Is that why you went

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Speaker 2: to Lexington?

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Speaker 10: Well, you know, unfortunately the higher education in America in

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Speaker 10: twenty twenty six is such that you don't need a tip,

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Speaker 10: you only need to show up. We cast a wide net.

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Speaker 10: We go to red state universities where they have a

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Speaker 10: state ban on DEI in addition to the executive order,

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Speaker 10: and what we find at university after university is that

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Speaker 10: these activist administrators are more than happy to circumvent state laws,

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Speaker 10: ignore state laws, break state laws, state laws, and the

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Speaker 10: University of Kentucky is definitely one of the worst.

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Speaker 2: We have another clip from your investigation. Let's roll this.

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Speaker 2: This is cut number two.

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Speaker 4: One of the things that we think about, what is

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Speaker 4: what are things that looks like that? Okay, yeah, are

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Speaker 4: his strategy as they are his through department?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, this is gonna say our facilage.

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Speaker 3: Adam, who are these people that you're talking to here

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Speaker 3: at the University of Kentucky And why do you think

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Speaker 3: they so willingly admit to breaking the law.

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Speaker 10: We talk to a variety of administrators in a variety

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Speaker 10: of different departments, and we also go and visit the

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Speaker 10: people who previously had the DEI titles. I'll tell you,

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Speaker 10: if you want to get rich quick scheme in twenty

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Speaker 10: twenty six, get into the business card business. Because all

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Speaker 10: of these people just change their job title and continue

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Speaker 10: doing the exact same work, and we meet with them

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Speaker 10: quite briefly, but they do think that we are an

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Speaker 10: ideological ally and they're telling a complete stranger off the

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Speaker 10: street how they're circumventing, bending, or breaking a state law.

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Speaker 10: I always wonder if we met them for six months

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Speaker 10: and earned their trust or a year or two, what

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Speaker 10: horrible things might we learn about.

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Speaker 4: Then?

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Speaker 10: You know, Kentucky's law doesn't prohibit DEI from being in

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Speaker 10: the curriculum, and I think they use that as a

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Speaker 10: bit of a loophole, But they claim to be in

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Speaker 10: compliance with state law. At the same time they bragg

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Speaker 10: to us about how they change the words, change the titles,

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Speaker 10: which they have to do because quote unquote people are dumb.

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Speaker 10: Well generally, people who are adhering to the law don't

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Speaker 10: need to engage in the level of deception they're engaging

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Speaker 10: in at Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: Adam your investigation and it sounds like, by the way,

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Speaker 3: you have some more videos that you are about to

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Speaker 3: release on the University of Kentucky. Do you raise these

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Speaker 3: matters to the administration at the University of Kentucky. Have

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Speaker 3: you set it up to the university president's office for instance?

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Speaker 10: In this instance, We actually spoke with the pr spokesmen

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Speaker 10: who have co insisted that they're in compliance with the law.

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Speaker 10: We've also coordinated with some members of the state legislature

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Speaker 10: and the Attorney's General's office. You know, they do use

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Speaker 10: their excuse that no, it's merely curriculum oriented. But here's

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Speaker 10: the thing. The administrative bloat in higher education in America

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Speaker 10: is out of control. These universities now have administrators who

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Speaker 10: outnumber the faculty, and they're essentially taxpayer funded activist positions.

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Speaker 10: They'll claim their work is all curriculum related. But when

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Speaker 10: they brag and brag about their levels of deception, and

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Speaker 10: when they show the disdain they have for the taxpayers

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Speaker 10: who pay their salaries by saying people are dumb, it

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Speaker 10: certainly looks rotten to me.

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Speaker 3: Adam, Are you in touch with anyone in the Kentucky

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Speaker 3: State legislature. Obviously, this law that they passed in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five is being ignored or exploited by the University

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Speaker 3: of Kentucky. Do you think they are planning any changes

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Speaker 3: to tighten up the law to try to go after

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Speaker 3: universities who are circumventing it.

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Speaker 10: We are coordinating with them in Kentucky really needs a

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Speaker 10: strict Kansas style law.

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Speaker 12: Kansas is the.

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Speaker 10: Only state with a really strong deiband that has not

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Speaker 10: only a reporting mechanism, but specific legal consequences for those

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Speaker 10: who break the law, which sounds like an incredibly novel idea. Now,

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Speaker 10: the challenge, of course, is if the law becomes so

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Speaker 10: much that it's micromanaging faculty members and how they can

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Speaker 10: teach and what they can teach, that can to be counterproductive.

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Speaker 10: We should be able to trust faculty members to actually

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Speaker 10: teach in an honest way. If you want to talk

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Speaker 10: about a controversial topic, talk about it, but don't indoctrinate.

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Speaker 10: But I go to these administrative buildings like in Kentucky

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Speaker 10: and elsewhere, and I see just far left propaganda posters everywhere,

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Speaker 10: far left books on all of these bookshelves, and you

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Speaker 10: would swear that you're in the Democratic Socialist of America office,

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Speaker 10: not a public university. To me, that's a problem, and

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Speaker 10: that's why these people can't be trusted.

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Speaker 3: Adam, I know you have investigations going on around the country.

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Speaker 3: Any hints to where we may see you all pop

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Speaker 3: up next? Any states?

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Speaker 10: Well, we just released another one from kent State University

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Speaker 10: yesterday north of Kentucky and Ohio, where an administrator told

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Speaker 10: us that all of these reforms coming from Republicans for

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Speaker 10: Keith through twelve and higher education is just to keep

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Speaker 10: the white man in power. The white man wats control education,

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Speaker 10: is what this radical white woman told us. We have

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Speaker 10: more coming from Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas. You know, unfortunately, if

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Speaker 10: it's a red state with a DEI band, they're more

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Speaker 10: than likely breaking the law.

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Speaker 3: That voice you're hearing on the show today Adam Gallette.

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Speaker 3: He is with the organization called Accuracy in Media. They

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Speaker 3: are doing some very important undercover investigative journalism. And if

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Speaker 3: you're interested in this story in Kentucky, by the way,

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Speaker 3: you can go to this website Deiinkentucky dot com and

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Speaker 3: you can learn about Adam's investigation there and also send

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Speaker 3: a message to Kentucky lawmakers that you don't want DEI

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Speaker 3: in public universities. Adam, thanks for joining us today. We

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Speaker 3: look forward to having you back in the very near future.

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Speaker 1: Ready for more common sense here CNN senior political commentator,

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Speaker 1: New York Times best selling author and America's favorite political pundit,

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Speaker 1: le Scotch.

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Speaker 3: Jennings Common sense for the American people. Scott Jennings here

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Speaker 3: on Salem. I have to tell you a story this

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Speaker 3: afternoon about two white guys who are colluding to hurt

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Speaker 3: the political career of an African American woman.

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Speaker 2: It's a sad story, it's a tragic story.

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Speaker 3: The two white males are named Stephen Colbert and James Tallerico,

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Speaker 3: and the African American woman is named Jasmine Crockett. But

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Speaker 3: this story began to unfold on Monday night when James Tallarico,

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Speaker 3: who was a candidate for the United States Senate in

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Speaker 3: Texas running against Miss Crockett, scheduled an interview on Stephen

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Speaker 3: Colbert's late night program, and then the mayhem started. Colbert

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Speaker 3: and Taala Rico claimed that Donald Trump's FCC had threatened

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Speaker 3: CBS not to air this interview. That turned out to

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Speaker 3: be a lie, by the way, and they created this

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Speaker 3: online frenzy, Oh my goodness, Donald Trump trying to keep

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Speaker 3: you from hearing James taller Rico. What turns out the

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Speaker 3: truth is that CBS's lawyers told Stephen Colbert, hey, you're

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Speaker 3: pretty close to a primary election in Texas, and if

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Speaker 3: you're going to have on one of the candidates, in

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Speaker 3: this case tall Rico, you really need to have on

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Speaker 3: the other candidate, Crockett. Colbert did not air the interview,

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Speaker 3: in fact, they put it on YouTube instead. But that

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Speaker 3: was their plan all along for tallar Rico to claim

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Speaker 3: he'd been banned by Trump.

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Speaker 2: Here's this forbidden interview, go watch it.

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Speaker 3: And now they're touting having raised two and a half

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Speaker 3: million dollars online. Two white Democrats colluding to lie to

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Speaker 3: you all to hurt Jasmine Crockett. Let's listen to Jasmin Crockett.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe it. I'm taking up for Jasmine Crockett.

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Speaker 3: She's clearly been wronged here by these white males. Let's

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Speaker 3: listen to her. Cut number five.

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Speaker 13: We actually received a phone call, and that was a

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Speaker 13: little bit earlier today, and in that call, they explained

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Speaker 13: that they actually told CPS CBS that they could go

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Speaker 13: ahead and move forward with the interview of James Talerico.

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Speaker 13: They just needed to offer me equal time. I did

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Speaker 13: not get a request from the Colbert Show to go on,

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Speaker 13: as you know, I've been on Colbert multiple times and

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Speaker 13: frankly and you know, if we would have gotten an offer,

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Speaker 13: that would been great. But we're in the middle of

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Speaker 13: early voting, so I'm kind of focused on being in

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Speaker 13: Texas at this moment.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of amazing, actually Democrats showing absolutely no respect

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Speaker 3: for Jasmine Crockett now Jasmine Crockett here before, has been

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Speaker 3: the smartest person in the Democratic Party. She's been one

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Speaker 3: of the most prominent national Democrats since Donald Trump was

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Speaker 3: sworn back into office. But the Democrats, who were all

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Speaker 3: too happy to push Jasmin Crockett for the last year,

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Speaker 3: have decided to throw her overboard because they want a

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Speaker 3: white male in Texas named James Tallerco to be their

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Speaker 3: nominee for Senate. Why tall Rico is currently at the

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Speaker 3: forefront of Democrats who are pushing this new theology, this

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Speaker 3: idea that we have figured out that the Bible in

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Speaker 3: fact supports child mutilation at infacted, supports unlimited abortion at infacted,

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Speaker 3: supports open borders. Basically, James Tallerco is an evangelist for

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Speaker 3: this new liberal theology that says, magically, anything that we're

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Speaker 3: for whila is supported by Biblical teachings. This is more

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Speaker 3: interesting to them today than anything Jasmine Crockett is doing.

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Speaker 3: I think African American women, African American candidates, Democrats around

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Speaker 3: the country ought to take.

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Speaker 2: Note of this.

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Speaker 3: When push comes to shove the Democratic Party. The powers

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Speaker 3: that be, the cultural celebrities who prop up the Democratic

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Speaker 3: Party are all too willing to throw you overboard, to

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Speaker 3: deprive you of resources and attention if it means promoting

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Speaker 3: the shiny new object in the form of white male

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Speaker 3: James Tallerico or someone like him.

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Speaker 2: That's all it took.

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Speaker 3: That's all it took for them to broom Jasmine Crockett

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Speaker 3: in the Democratic Party. When we come back, Aaron Houchin

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Speaker 3: of Indiana, Congresswoman is our guest. We'll ask her about

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Speaker 3: this and other topics. Stay with us here at Scott

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Speaker 3: Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 1: The voice of reason, that common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 6: This is the Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 3: It is Wednesday, February eighteenth, Common Sense for the American people.

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Speaker 3: Scott Jennings broadcasting to you on Salem, and we're broadcasting

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Speaker 3: on the road today. Amelia Island, Florida is the location.

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Speaker 3: We're glad to be here and thank everyone here for

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Speaker 3: the hospitality and helping us get the Scott Jennings Show

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Speaker 3: off the ground this afternoon. My next guest a bright

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Speaker 3: new star in the House Republican Conference in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 3: She's from Indiana. She represents the ninth Congressional district. Her

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Speaker 3: name is Aaron Houchin Erin, thanks for coming on the

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Speaker 3: Scott Jutting Show.

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Speaker 12: Great to be with you, Scott. Nice to hear your voice.

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Speaker 2: Great to hear your voice. I'm in Amelia Island, Florida.

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Speaker 3: You're in the slightly colder confines of Indianapolis, Indiana today,

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Speaker 3: and so I won't hold that over your head and

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Speaker 3: taught you too much during this conversation, but it's good

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Speaker 3: to be a little Southerly at the moment. Erin, let

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Speaker 3: me ask you about a topical item that impacted the

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Speaker 3: state of Indiana recently.

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Speaker 2: It's the issue of illegal.

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Speaker 3: Aliens and other migrants in our country who are able

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Speaker 3: to get driver's license and commercial driver's license and find

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Speaker 3: themselves behind the wheel of these semi tractor trailers for people.

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Speaker 3: In fact, we're killed in Indiana by one of these

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Speaker 3: situations recently. What are you going to do about this?

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Speaker 3: Is the question I'm hearing from a lot of conservatives

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Speaker 3: out there. We've heard these stories all over the country

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Speaker 3: now in some of these states, in this case it

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Speaker 3: was Pennsylvania or handing out these CDLs.

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Speaker 2: What can Congress do about this?

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Speaker 3: To crack down We've had too many fatal accidents on

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Speaker 3: American roadways.

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Speaker 12: Well, you're absolutely right, Scott. This is a tragedy that unfortunately,

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Speaker 12: we're seeing more and more of across the country because

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Speaker 12: of Joe Biden's open border policies that first allowed illegal

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Speaker 12: aliens to enter the country and then states that have

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Speaker 12: exploited loopholes in the CBL application allowing illegals to obtain

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Speaker 12: commercial driver's licenses without really any information about their previous

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Speaker 12: violations in other countries. This has been endangering Americans and

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Speaker 12: taking innocent lives across the country. President Trump, though it's

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Speaker 12: taking this issue seriously. We heard learned from Secretary Duffy

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Speaker 12: that the loophole has been closed, and we will continue

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Speaker 12: to work with the administration to make sure that unqualified

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Speaker 12: and dangerous drivers illegal aliens cannot obtain commercial driver's licenses.

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Speaker 12: Here's an interesting piece of information that should infuriate everyone

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Speaker 12: even more. It's that we've been trying to allow for

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Speaker 12: retired veterans who had military CDLs to be able to

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Speaker 12: obtain commercial CDLs upon exiting from the military, and we

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Speaker 12: can't get them to get commercial driver's licenses, but some

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Speaker 12: states are handing these out to illegal immigrants. Even in

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Speaker 12: Republican states, scott and in Indiana, when I was in

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Speaker 12: the state legislature, there were Republicans that were pushing for

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Speaker 12: giving illegal aliens driver's licenses. This was back when my

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Speaker 12: daughter was sixteen years old getting her own driver's licenses,

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Speaker 12: and the requirement.

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Speaker 11: Under the proposed law, which did not pass, which I

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Speaker 11: thought vigorously, was.

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Speaker 12: Less than what would be necessary for my own daughter

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Speaker 12: to get a driver's license.

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Speaker 11: No proof of identity, no proof of age, no proof

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Speaker 11: that you've.

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Speaker 12: Even had any driver training whatsoever, just an affidavit that

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Speaker 12: they would sign to say, yeah, I am who I

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Speaker 12: say am, and I can drive. It's terrifying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Earlier in the program, Aaron I was playing a report

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Speaker 3: from Louisville, Kentucky about this whole elaborate scheme that had

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Speaker 3: been uncovered where people were just simply selling driver's licenses

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Speaker 3: in the state of Kentucky to illegal aliens. Many people

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Speaker 3: had been indicted for doing this, and I was reflecting

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Speaker 3: on my own hours spent with my own son, who's

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Speaker 3: trying to get his driver's license right now, he'll have

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Speaker 3: to take a test and so on and so forth.

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Speaker 3: And you have these people out here who were dedicated

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Speaker 3: to circumventing our laws, circumventing our system and our testing,

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Speaker 3: and giving driver's licenses to illegals and giving them licenses

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Speaker 3: to drive these extremely dangerous vehicles. Let me connect this

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Speaker 3: to another issue you're dealing with in Washington, that is

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Speaker 3: the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Speaker 3: Democrats have shut down DHS because they want changes to

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Speaker 3: the way ICE is enforcing our immigration law. Essentially, they

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Speaker 3: want changes that would make it harder to deport illegal,

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Speaker 3: illegal immigrants from our country. Do you think this is

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Speaker 3: going to end anytime soon? What's the prognosis on this

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Speaker 3: for you, Congresswoman.

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Speaker 12: Hounchen Well, I think it's going to be quite a

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Speaker 12: while before the Democrats have any common sense. We may

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Speaker 12: be we may be aging out of our congressional service

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Speaker 12: before the Democrats find any common sense on this issue.

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Speaker 12: But we already funded DHS in the one the Working

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Speaker 12: Family's Tax Cuts Act, in the one Big Beautiful Bill,

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Speaker 12: we already funded DHS and ICE. So the only thing

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Speaker 12: that they're really doing is performative, and it's hurting our

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Speaker 12: TSA agents and our travel for.

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Speaker 11: Every American citizen. It is hurting the Coast Guard and

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Speaker 11: FEMA so that.

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Speaker 12: Is the thing that they're standing on, and those are

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Speaker 12: the Americans that they're hurting for this performative stand against

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Speaker 12: quote unquote ICE. The problems that we see in Minnesota

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Speaker 12: Trump administration. You see Muriel Bowser, Democrat mayor of Washington,

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Speaker 12: d C. Cooperating with the Trump administration allowing the National

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Speaker 12: Guard's presence, and we have seen a dramatic drop in

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Speaker 12: crime and murder in the capital city. Same story in

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Speaker 12: I think that, you know, Tom Homan said it best.

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Speaker 12: If you had just if Minnesota would just allow for

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Speaker 12: the ICE agents to take detained illegal immigrants who've been

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Speaker 12: would not be happening. So I don't think the Democrats

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Speaker 12: performative for them. Understand that that funding has already been issued,

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Speaker 12: and those are the groups of people, as I said,

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Speaker 3: Let me connect this issue to one more issue dealing

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Speaker 3: with illegal immigration in this country, and that is the

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Speaker 3: Save America Act. The Save America Act would require voter

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Speaker 3: registrants to prove that they are US citizens. You pass

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Speaker 3: this out of the US House, you supported it. It

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Speaker 3: is now sitting in the United States Senate and we're

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Speaker 3: waiting to see what happens. But Democrats are raging against

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Speaker 3: the Save America Act. Do you see any connective tissue,

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Speaker 3: any through lines between the Save America Act the lack

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Speaker 3: so go for. Do you see a thread between all

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Speaker 12: Erin absolutely. I mean, we know that when Joe Biden

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Speaker 12: took office, the first few executive orders he issued one

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Speaker 12: he issued an executive order that opened the southern border

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Speaker 12: So they want these people here, They want them to

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Speaker 12: be able to vote in our elections. It's why they're

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Speaker 12: fighting so hard on this issue, where this is an

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Speaker 12: eighty twenty issue. Even Democrats agree that you should show

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Speaker 12: voter id American elections should be decided by American citizens, period.

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Speaker 12: This is common sense that you should show proof of

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Speaker 12: citizenship when you register to vote, and you should prove

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Speaker 12: who you say you are when you cast your ballot.

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Speaker 3: White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was at the podium

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Speaker 3: a few minutes ago talking about a number of issues.

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Speaker 3: One of them is touting the successes of the Trump

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Speaker 3: economic recovery. Let's hear from Caroline Levitt. Let's listen to

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Speaker 3: Cut seventeen and we'll let Aaron Houschen respond Cut seventeen to.

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Speaker 6: Provide an update on the economy.

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Speaker 14: We're seeing promising signs every day that twenty twenty six

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Speaker 14: is going to be a record successful year for the

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Speaker 14: American people, just as President Trump promised them. The January

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Speaker 14: jobs report shattered expectations, highlighting how the President's pro growth

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Speaker 14: economic agenda is fueling American prosperity. The economy added one

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Speaker 14: hundred and seventy two thousand new private sector jobs to

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Speaker 14: kick off the year. That's more than two and a

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Speaker 14: half times economists predictions. The labor force participation rate went

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Speaker 14: up while the unemployment rate fell. The prime age labor

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Speaker 14: force participation rate is now at its highest since two

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Speaker 14: thousand and one. Most importantly, one hundred percent of all

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Speaker 14: job creation under President Trump continues to be in the

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Speaker 14: private sector.

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Speaker 6: This is truly remarkable.

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Speaker 14: That's six hundred and fifteen thousand private sector jobs that

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Speaker 14: have been added in President Trump's second term thus far.

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Speaker 6: These are real working people.

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Speaker 14: These are real American families who will be living out

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Speaker 14: their American dream. Meanwhile, federal government employment has shrunk to

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Speaker 14: its lowest level since nineteen sixty six, saving taxpayers twenty

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Speaker 14: nine billion dollars annually, and all of.

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Speaker 6: The net job growth under President Trump.

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Speaker 14: Has gone to native born Americans, ending the disgraceful pattern

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Speaker 14: under Joe Biden of job gains going to non citizens

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Speaker 14: and illegal aliens.

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Speaker 3: Compelling case, Congresswoman, what are you hearing from people in

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Speaker 3: Indiana's ninth district.

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Speaker 12: I mean, this has been a substantial impact because of

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Speaker 12: the Trump tax cuts. You know, families are keeping more

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Speaker 12: of their money, workers are keeping more of their money,

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Speaker 12: small businesses are growing, wage rates are outpacing inflation. I mean,

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Speaker 12: Caroline Levitt, I couldn't have said it better than she did.

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Speaker 12: But people are starting to feel the effects and we'll

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Speaker 12: be starting to feel that the effects of the Working

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Speaker 12: Family Tax Cuts Act. You know, making these tax cuts

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Speaker 12: permanent allows seven thousand or more businesses in the district

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Speaker 12: to reinvest, hire more workers, and raise wages. This is

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Speaker 12: a historic tax cut, a major win for families and

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Speaker 12: workers across the district. This couldn't have been accomplished without

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Speaker 12: the leadership of President Trump and the hard work of

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Speaker 12: my colleagues in Congress and in passing the Working Families

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Speaker 12: Tax Cuts Act. We know that, you know, the wage

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Speaker 12: rates are outpacing inflation, and job creation is up. Growth

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Speaker 12: is way out pacing expectations, including what we anticipated with

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Speaker 12: the passage of the Working Families Tax Cuts Act. Only

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Speaker 12: counted on it about a two point five percent growth

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Speaker 12: rate and we're looking at an average right now four percent.

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Speaker 12: Really incredible, and it's thanks to President Trump. I think

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Speaker 12: we're starting to let small businesses thrive. Deregulation is working,

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Speaker 12: and we're really going to see, as President Trump has promised,

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Speaker 12: this golden age of the American economy.

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Speaker 2: Five seconds.

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Speaker 3: Are you still moving forward in the House Republican Conference

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Speaker 3: with Budget reconciliation two point zho?

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Speaker 2: Is that still happening?

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Speaker 12: We would still love to do budget reconciliation two point zero.

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Speaker 12: We need bills to move through the Senate. That's a

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Speaker 12: great way for us to do it with fixing the

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Speaker 12: filibuster or without needing the filibusters. So absolutely we want

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Speaker 12: to pursue a second bite at reconciliation.

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Speaker 3: That's Congresswoman Aaron houch In, Indiana's ninth congressional district, one

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Speaker 3: of the brightest new stars in the House Republican Conference.

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Speaker 3: My friend Erin, thanks for coming on the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 3: We'll look forward to having you back in the very

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Speaker 3: near future. We're going to round out the hour with

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Speaker 3: more from White House Press Secretary Caroline Levin had a

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Speaker 3: lot to say on a few issues. We'll play some

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Speaker 3: of that for you when we come back. It's Scott

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Speaker 3: Jennings on Salem. Stay with us common sense for the

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Speaker 3: American people. This is the Scott Jennings Show Home Stretch, Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: February eighteenth. It's Scott Jennings with you on Salem. In

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Speaker 3: just a moment, play a couple of clips for you

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Speaker 3: from Caroline Levitt. The breaking news this afternoon is that

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Speaker 3: she held a White House press briefing and made a

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Speaker 3: few comments, including announcing the President's headed to Georgia tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: He's going to talk affordability and a couple of stops

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Speaker 3: at local small businesses. I assume he is going there

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Speaker 3: also to tout Clay Fuller, who is running in this

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Speaker 3: large open field to replace Marjorie Taylor Green in Congress.

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Speaker 2: But we'll get to Caroline in just a moment.

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Speaker 3: First, I want to tell you that we are still

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: seven eight. All Right, Caroline Levitt back at the podium

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Speaker 3: this afternoon, and she had a little update on what

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Speaker 3: Tom Homan did in Minneapolis to try to get the

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Speaker 3: situation with immigration under control up there. Let's listen to

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Speaker 3: eleven cut eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 14: The last time I spoke with mister Homan, which was

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Speaker 14: just a few days ago, he assured us that nearly

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Speaker 14: every single county in the state of Minnesota has agreed

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Speaker 14: to notify ICE when they are releasing criminal illegal aliens

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Speaker 14: from their jails. This is an unprecedented level of cooperation

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Speaker 14: that we have not seen. It has led to not

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Speaker 14: only cooperation to detain illegal aliens in Minnesota, which just

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Speaker 14: this past week I have looked at the list. They've

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Speaker 14: detained some very heinous people who none of you would

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Speaker 14: want living in your communities, but has also led to

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Speaker 14: a much more calm situation on the ground. We've also seen,

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Speaker 14: and you've seen this with your own eyes play out.

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Speaker 14: The local police and the state police have now cooperated

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Speaker 14: in the arrests of left wing agitators and criminals who

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Speaker 14: are unlawfully obstructing immigration enforcement in their efforts.

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Speaker 6: So this is a huge win.

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Speaker 14: And again the President and mister Homan to Minnesota to

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Speaker 14: do a job, and he has done it well. And

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Speaker 14: I think the situation on the ground proves.

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Speaker 3: That sounds like the White House pretty happy with what

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Speaker 3: Homan was able to accomplish in Minnesota. Levett today also

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Speaker 3: talking about the Obama era endangerment finding that EPA administrator

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Speaker 3: Lee Zelden did away with in this is the last

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Speaker 3: few days, let's hear cut nineteen.

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Speaker 14: This is one of the largest deregulatory actions ever taken

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Speaker 14: in the United States of America, and overall, it's going

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Speaker 14: to save our country one point three trillion dollars in

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Speaker 14: regulatory burdens that have really done nothing for our country,

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Speaker 14: nothing for our environment, nothing for our economy. In fact,

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Speaker 14: this announcement received widespread and bipartisan praise. I think I

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Speaker 14: recall seeing the editorial board of the Washington Post, of

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Speaker 14: all places, even commending the President and Administrator Zelden for

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Speaker 14: this historic action last week. So there's no doubt it

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Speaker 14: is going to save American consumer money. And I'd be

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Speaker 14: happy to provide that specific economic analysis to you.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 3: Caroline Levitt briefing at the White House podium this afternoon,

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Speaker 3: and also talked about the possibility of an executive order

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Speaker 3: on national voter ID. She was asked about that, and

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Speaker 3: believe she said that it was the President's preference that

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Speaker 3: Congress deal with this by passing the Save America Act.

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Speaker 3: So no commitment from the President on that. Of course,

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Speaker 3: you wouldn't want to take away the pressure on Congress,

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Speaker 3: specifically the United States Senate to pass that legislation. All right,

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Speaker 3: wrap it up the show. Here, We're an Amelia Island, Florida.

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Speaker 3: And I want to give a shout out to a

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Speaker 3: couple of groups that brought me to Florida this week.

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Speaker 3: Last night, I was actually down in Naples and gave

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Speaker 3: a great speech and had a great night with the

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Speaker 3: folks at the James Madison Institute, a conservative public policy

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Speaker 3: think tank. Here in Florida. You'll be hearing more about

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Speaker 3: the James Madison Institute. They're sort of exporting the Florida

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Speaker 3: model nationally and tonight I'm speaking to a group of

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Speaker 3: people affiliated with Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College one of the

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Speaker 3: greatest conservative universities in America, and that's why I am

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Speaker 3: at Amelia Island today. So my travels have taken me

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Speaker 3: to Florida, which is great, but it's always great to

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Speaker 3: see great friends at James Madison and Hillsdale and I'm

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Speaker 3: grateful for their hospitality. Thanks for listening. We'll be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: It's common sense for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 3: This is Salem.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Fighting the left with the best weapon we have, common sense.

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Speaker 1: This is the Scott Jennings Show.