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Speaker 1: Artemis two steaming toward the Moon after a successful lift off.

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Speaker 1: We'll have the latest on the first man mission to

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Speaker 1: the Moon in over fifty years. President Trump addresses the

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Speaker 1: nation on Iran. We'll have some audio from the President.

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Speaker 1: Senate and House Republican leaders have a plan to finally

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Speaker 1: end the Democratic shutdown of the Department of Home Land Security.

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, April the second. This is common sense

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Speaker 1: for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings broadcasting for Salem

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Speaker 1: Today and we are live from Louisville, Kentucky, and we

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Speaker 1: begin the news this hour in Washington, where the House

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Speaker 1: and the Senate Republican leaders struck a deal late last

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Speaker 1: night to open the Department of Homeland Security. The plan

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Speaker 1: puts funding of the department on two separate tracks. On

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Speaker 1: Track number one, they will fund most of the department

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Speaker 1: through a regular appropriations bill like the one that passed

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Speaker 1: the Senate last week. This track will not include immigration enforcement,

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Speaker 1: and in fact, the Senate gaveled in this morning and

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Speaker 1: We're still waiting to find out when the House is

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Speaker 1: But Speaker Johnson and President Trump have endorsed this plan,

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Speaker 1: Johnson of Wisconsin was on Fox this morning. He said, honestly,

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Speaker 2: Let's hear him in clip number ten.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Ria, listen. I think this is the only

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Speaker 4: We didn't defund CBP and ICE. We made sure we

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Speaker 4: But they literally are using the security of our homeland

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Speaker 2: It's really disgusting now they were using it as a

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Speaker 1: But one thing is true, Democrats gained nothing from this exercise.

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Speaker 1: We look to the head Evans today as four brave

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Speaker 1: astronauts continue their journey to the Moon. Artemis two launched

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Speaker 1: A potentially explosive new controversy is brewing around the Democrats

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Speaker 1: As often happens during the Scott Jennings Show, we have

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Speaker 1: Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in

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Speaker 12: It is an honor.

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Speaker 9: You forgot to mention a huge fan of the Scott

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Speaker 2: So I love that.

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Speaker 1: That's the most important credential to going to Congress. Do

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Speaker 12: And it just brings me great joy watching that.

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Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate the viewership, and you know my view,

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Speaker 1: see in you, Jay, And I'll just start here with

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Speaker 2: Tell us why you made this decision to run for office.

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Speaker 9: I could have kept doing a job at CBS doing

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Speaker 9: who my wife and I at our heart, That's who

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Speaker 9: we've always been in our life, trying to affect su

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Speaker 9: and to change their life. I think at his core,

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Speaker 9: that's what political office is supposed to be about. It's

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Speaker 9: supposed to be sacrificial. It's supposed to be. You go

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Speaker 9: there not to enrich yourself, to help other people. And

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Speaker 9: I hope I can bring that to this race and

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Speaker 9: to our country.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think that's a message, Jade. It's going to

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Speaker 1: resonate with people in this congressional district. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: a few issues. Well, first, let me ask you this.

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Speaker 1: Since getting into this race, you've obviously been out meeting

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Speaker 1: with voters. What are the top two or three things

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Scott, I think the number one issue for everyone

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Speaker 9: look at affordability. Americans want to know that they have

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Speaker 9: hope for the future for their children and their grandchildren.

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Speaker 9: They want economic tailwinds behind them and their business, and then.

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Speaker 12: They want government to get out of the way.

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Speaker 9: You know, I think most Americans want to get rid

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Speaker 9: of all the fraud that exists.

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Speaker 12: That is not a partisan issue. Republican, conservative, Independent.

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Speaker 9: We look at the tax dollars that we pay in

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Speaker 9: and we don't want those dollars to be wasted, and

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Speaker 9: we don't want people taking advantage of the fraud every

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Speaker 9: single politician on both sides of the aisle should be

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Speaker 9: fighting tooth and nail every day to get rid of

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Speaker 9: all the fraud that exists in our government, both federally

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Speaker 9: as well as statewide. You know, I think Americans also,

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Speaker 9: it's an eighty percent issue. They want secure elections. We

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Speaker 9: have to pass the Save America Act. They want to

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Speaker 9: know that their vote counts and people whose vote shouldn't

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Speaker 9: count aren't being counted, and that's an issue.

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Speaker 12: You know.

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Speaker 9: I'm disappointed that we haven't passed that. I'm disappointed that

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Speaker 9: we as Conservatives, when we hold the House and the Senate,

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Speaker 9: that we haven't found a way to make sure that

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Speaker 9: we give Americans what they want. And they know going

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Speaker 9: into this midterm that's so crucial that they have secure elections,

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Speaker 9: you know, And I think people want to know that

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Speaker 9: they have safety at home, that they have economic opportunities,

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Speaker 9: and that their families will be protected.

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Speaker 1: I think another issue Jay, that people in Arizona, really

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Speaker 1: people around the country are focused on is immigration. And

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Speaker 1: the President has closed the border. The President has kept

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Speaker 1: his promises on immigration.

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Speaker 2: But right now we're.

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Speaker 1: Facing off against a Democratic party that is dedicated to

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Speaker 1: enforcing no immigration laws in this country, shutting down the

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Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security over it. Are you hearing much

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Speaker 1: from people in Arizona about this? How would you approach

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Speaker 1: the immigration issues as a member of Congress.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you're absolutely right, Scott, because we are a border

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Speaker 9: state and it was such a massive impact when we

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Speaker 12: We know that the Democrats want to go back to

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Speaker 12: open borders. They continually fight against it.

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Speaker 9: It's a completely hypocritical issue for Democrats because when you

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Speaker 9: look at their policies, Obama and what he did when

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Speaker 9: he was in office is not much different than what

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Speaker 9: Trump is doing. He had three million deportations, eighty percent

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Speaker 9: of those without due process. They talk about due process

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Speaker 9: all the time. Now eighty percent of his deportations were

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Speaker 9: without due process. They had a greater percentage under Obama

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Speaker 9: of detaining American city then the Trump administration does with ice.

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Speaker 9: The difference is you didn't have ice in those sanctuary

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Speaker 9: cities and those sanctuary states. Not having cooperation from those

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Speaker 9: sanctuary cities in those states. That is where all of

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Speaker 9: the conflict exists. And you know when Obama said, hey,

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Speaker 9: we have somebody who has a record.

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Speaker 12: And it's a violent criminal, and we want to deport them.

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Speaker 9: Under Obama, those states said, sure, come in, get them,

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Speaker 9: get rid of him. There was no issue now because

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Speaker 9: it's Trump. When Ice wants to deport somebody that shouldn't

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Speaker 9: be here. Most Americans don't want violent criminals that are

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Speaker 9: legal aliens to be in this country. But the Democrats

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Speaker 9: fight tooth and nail against common sense issues. They want

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Speaker 9: those issues, They want to create conflict in those cities

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Speaker 9: because that conflict will lead to their only issue that

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Speaker 9: they care about, and that is resisting President Trump on

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Speaker 9: everything that he tries to do.

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Speaker 2: And Voiser hearing today.

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Speaker 1: Jay Feely and Arizona, former NFL star and NFL television analyst.

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Speaker 1: He's running for congress in Arizona's first congressional district. Jay,

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Speaker 1: if you win this race, you'll be taking office. Well,

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Speaker 1: we don't know what the status of the war with

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Speaker 1: Iran is going to be at that time, but certainly

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Speaker 1: you're taking office at a time when we have a

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Speaker 1: commander in chief who's unwilling to put up with nonsense

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Speaker 1: on the world stage. I'm going to play a clip

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Speaker 1: for you of President Trump last night in his address

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Speaker 1: to the nation. We'll have you respond to it. Let's

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Speaker 1: hear the president and cut number seven.

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Speaker 3: Tonight.

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Speaker 10: Aren's Navy is gone, their air force is in ruins.

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Speaker 10: Their leaders, most of them terrorist regime they led, are

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Speaker 10: now dead. Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary

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Speaker 10: Guard Corps being decimated as we speak. Their ability to

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Speaker 10: launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons

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Speaker 10: factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces. Very

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Speaker 10: few of them left. Never in the history of warfare

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Speaker 10: as an enemy suffered such clear and devastating, large scale

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Speaker 10: losses in a matter of weeks. Our enemies are losing.

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Speaker 10: In America as it has been for five years under

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Speaker 10: my presidency, is winning, and now winning bigger than ever before.

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Speaker 3: Jay.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, we don't know what the situation will be in

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Speaker 1: November or come next January, but generally, what is your

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Speaker 1: attitude and disposition towards America's national security posture, both with

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Speaker 1: the situation in Iran and generally how we ought to

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Speaker 1: be conducting ourselves around the world.

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Speaker 9: Scott, I think for the first time we have a

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Speaker 9: president that's willing to stand up for the American people.

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Speaker 9: He did it when he tried to reset trade parameters

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Speaker 9: he did it when he tried to force countries to

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Speaker 9: reinvest back into this country, trillions of dollars coming in.

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Speaker 9: And he's doing it globally on a world stage where

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Speaker 9: he single handedly has taken on the greatest supporter of

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Speaker 9: And for the Democrats not to support that, not to

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Speaker 9: say that that was a just decision, that what he

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Speaker 9: the world. You know, I think as a disservice, they're

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Speaker 9: not honest when they look at that, and you know,

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Speaker 9: we look at we have to look at this from

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Speaker 9: a big picture perspective. Not only is he getting rid

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Speaker 9: support of HESBLA, the Huthis, and what that regime was

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Speaker 9: willing to do, but also when we look at this

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Speaker 9: He created tremendous leverage for himself going into those conversations

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Speaker 12: You have to.

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Speaker 9: Remember that China only has ten percent of their own

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Speaker 9: crude oil produced in country. They have to import ninety percent.

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Speaker 9: Twenty percent of that came from Venezuela and Iran. And

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Speaker 9: so when he was able to take those actions against

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Speaker 9: the crude oil, the China gut, it gives him tremendous leverage.

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Speaker 9: And we know that President Trump loves leverage. He's going

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Speaker 9: to utilize that leverage to create the best opportunities he

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Speaker 9: it was the right thing to do when it comes

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Speaker 12: It was the right thing to do with leverage. And

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Speaker 12: he's the one who will step up and do what's

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Speaker 1: All right, Jay feees in Arizona. You've gone from kicking

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Speaker 1: footballs to kicking the butts of Democrats in a political

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Speaker 1: campaign this fall. And if you want to learn more

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Speaker 1: about Jay Feely look him up. He's in one of

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Speaker 13: Jay.

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Speaker 1: Easter Message with Joe Arnold coming up next on The

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Speaker 1: Scott Jenning Show. It is Thursday, April the second, and

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Speaker 1: this Sunday. Millions of Christians around the world will celebrate Easter,

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Speaker 1: the most important holiday on the Christian calendar. Joining me

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Speaker 1: Christianity around the world is Scott Shedding Show Faith and

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Speaker 1: Religion correspondent Joe Arnold, my longtime friend. He joins us

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Speaker 1: from Louisville, Kentucky. Joe, welcome into the show. And I

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Speaker 1: know you're preparing to celebrate Easter with your family. It's

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Speaker 2: Maybe we could just.

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Speaker 1: Start there and you talk about what Easter means to

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Speaker 1: the Arnold family.

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Speaker 14: Oh my gosh, well, I mean, obviously it's the highest

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Speaker 14: hole of the holidays, right in terms of this is

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Speaker 14: the reason why our faith exists.

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Speaker 2: Is the Christ died on the.

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Speaker 14: Cross for our sins, and of course, but he rose

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Speaker 14: from the dead, and that's of course his ultimate act

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Speaker 14: of love and our salvation. So this is a situation

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Speaker 14: Scott where you know, so often, and I appreciate.

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Speaker 2: The fact that you on your show and obviously in.

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Speaker 14: Your life as well, are unapologetic about sharing this and

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Speaker 14: so often I think and I was thinking about this

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Speaker 14: recently in a conversation with you and I.

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Speaker 2: Are around the fire pit, you know in Kentucky.

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Speaker 14: Is the is the fact that so often in our

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Speaker 14: poked fun at it's nothing compared to the persecution that

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Speaker 14: and death situations. But I do think it's an opportunity

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Speaker 14: protects these freedoms. We're able to say all these things

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Speaker 14: truly without fear of reprisal. But I I mean for

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Speaker 14: me and this again it's back to your show and

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Speaker 14: some of the guests that you've had on. I don't

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Speaker 14: think I realized until just recently just how pervasive the

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Speaker 14: persecution of Christians are across the world. You mentioned you know,

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Speaker 14: Nigeria and where entire Christian services and communities have been attacked,

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Speaker 14: you know, on Palm Sunday this past week, you know,

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Speaker 14: surveillance and screening, But there are countries of cos Nigeria,

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Speaker 14: but around the world of course, where this is just

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Speaker 14: a common practice.

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Speaker 1: I think, Joe, we are grappling with as Christians.

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Speaker 3: Two things.

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Speaker 1: One, as you just mentioned, there is a violent persecution

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Speaker 1: of Christians going on around the world.

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Speaker 2: Nigeria you mentioned just last Palm Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Officially, I guess the death toll was twelve in an

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Speaker 1: attack radical terrorists attack Islamic terrorists attacking Christians, but the

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Speaker 1: locals there say there were many more killed. There have

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Speaker 1: been thousands upon thousands of people slaughtered there. We do

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Speaker 1: see actual violent persecution of Christians around the world, that's

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Speaker 1: one thing. And then in our politics and in our culture,

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Speaker 1: I think we do see persecution of Christians and people

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Speaker 1: who proclaim the faith. They're often denigrated, they're often made

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Speaker 1: fun of, they're often marginalized, and the culture works very

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Speaker 1: hard to try to make Christians. People who proclaim, you know,

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Speaker 1: their faith in Jesus Christ and their belief that he

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Speaker 1: was crucified and rose from the dead as he did

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Speaker 1: on Easter Sunday. People who proclaim that are often made

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Speaker 1: fun of. They're you know, sort of cast as some

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Speaker 1: sort of fanatics or crazy, particularly in conservative politics, if

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Speaker 1: you talk about your faith.

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Speaker 2: You know, what's the first thing that liberals do.

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Speaker 1: They say, Oh, this is Christian nationalism at work here,

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Speaker 1: and they try to turn it into some sort of

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Speaker 1: an extremist view when millions of people around the world,

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Speaker 1: of course, and from millennia now have believed in Christianity

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Speaker 1: and Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior. So I

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Speaker 1: actually think the state of Christianity is somewhat precarious right now,

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Speaker 1: but it does speak to what you said.

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Speaker 2: It's our charge, it's our charge to talk about our faith.

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Speaker 2: It's our charge to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Our values and our beliefs, and it's our charge to

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Speaker 1: understand that there will be persecution.

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Speaker 2: But we cannot back down. Joe, We've got about a

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Speaker 2: minute here. I'll give you the last word on this.

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Speaker 1: But you know, as someone who lives out their Christian

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Speaker 1: faith every day and is someone who takes his faith

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Speaker 1: very seriously, I had you on today because I knew

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Speaker 1: you'd be a great witness for the Gospel here as

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Speaker 1: we get ready for Easter Sunday.

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Speaker 2: And that's the whole point of this too. And first

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Speaker 2: of all, I don't think I try.

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Speaker 14: I'll say that, but since we all have to try.

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Speaker 14: But I think this is an opportunity for us. I

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Speaker 14: want to thank you for always speaking the truth, Scott,

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Speaker 14: and for being out there.

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Speaker 2: This is all of our opportunity.

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Speaker 14: When you take on, when you're a Daniel in the Lions,

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Speaker 14: then you know on CNNA, Rever Rolds you're doing it.

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Speaker 14: This is our opportunity as well. This is again the

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Speaker 14: reason our faith exists.

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Speaker 2: That's all.

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Speaker 14: As Christians, no matter what denomination is the Body of Christ,

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Speaker 14: proclaim the good News and act together so we can

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Speaker 14: protect those who are being persecuted across the world.

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Speaker 2: That's Joe Arnold, my longtime friend.

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Speaker 1: He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, Originally from Belleville, Illinois. He

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Speaker 1: now serves as the official Faith and Religion correspondent of

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Speaker 1: the Scott Jennings Show. It's common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for your time today, Joe, and happy Easter to

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Speaker 1: you and all Christians around the world will have more

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Speaker 1: after this.

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Speaker 3: The voice of free speech, the truth delivered common for

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Speaker 3: the American people. Welcome to the Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Thursday, April the second Common Sense for the American People,

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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from Louisville, Kentucky. Today it is the Scott

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Speaker 1: Jennings Show here on Salem. Couple of headlines out of Washington.

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Speaker 1: We appear to have a deal among Republican leaders in

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Speaker 1: the House and the Senate and over at the White

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Speaker 1: House about how to get the Department of Homeland Security open.

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Speaker 1: The Senate gabbled in this morning and passed a two

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Speaker 1: track plan to get DHS funded. A little bit of

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Speaker 1: consternation among the House Republicans, and we'll see when they're

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Speaker 1: ready to come in and vote on it. This all

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Speaker 1: has President Trump's blessing, so unity at the top of

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Speaker 1: the party.

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Speaker 2: Will see if the rank and file in the House

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Speaker 2: follow along.

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Speaker 1: And the breaking personnel news in the Trump administration is

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Speaker 1: that just in the last hour, the President has officially

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Speaker 1: announced that the Attorney General Pam Bondi is leaving the administration.

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Speaker 1: He has put out a positive statement about it to

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Speaker 1: Erny General Bondi, calling her a great patriot. He's also

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Speaker 1: announced that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will be the

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Speaker 1: interim ag while the President considers his options on a replacement.

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Speaker 1: And of course, today we are still tracking the incredible

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Speaker 1: story of Artemis two, the NASA rocket that took off

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Speaker 1: last night at six thirty five pm Eastern from the

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Speaker 1: Kennedy Space Center. They're up in space, they're moving fast

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Speaker 1: and headed towards the Moon, and it has captivated millions

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Speaker 1: around the world, the first manned mission to the Moon

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Speaker 1: in over fifty years. Joining us now to discuss this

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Speaker 1: someone who knows a little bit about what it's like to.

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Speaker 2: Be in outer space. His name is Barry Butch.

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Speaker 1: Will Moore, an American astronaut in a United States Navy

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Speaker 1: test pilot. Butch is a veteran of three space flights,

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Speaker 1: the first of which was an eleven day Shuttle mission

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Speaker 1: in November of two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 2: Butch spent a total of four.

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Speaker 1: Hundred and sixty five four days off of Earth and

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Speaker 1: thirty two hours outside of a spacecraft. Now, you remember

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Speaker 1: Butch and the other astronauts Sonny Williams, they were up

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Speaker 1: in space last year. They thought they were going on

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Speaker 1: an eight day mission and it turned into a nearly

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Speaker 1: ten month stay above the International Space Station due to

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Speaker 1: thruster failures and helium leaks. This was last March that

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Speaker 1: they came home. You remember they were up in space

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Speaker 1: and then the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft had to go pick

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Speaker 1: them up and bring them home. That was all last March.

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Speaker 1: And Butch has a book out which I highly recommend,

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Speaker 1: called Stuck in Space and Astronauts Hope through the Unexpected.

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Speaker 1: To the Scott Jenning Show, we welcome Butch Wilmore and

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Speaker 1: a certified American hero.

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Speaker 2: Butch joining us from Tennessee. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 15: The Waterfall to have me with you, Scott, thank you

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Speaker 15: so much for let me share some thoughts with you.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're glad to have you.

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Speaker 1: And not too many people know what it's like to

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Speaker 1: be where the Artemis astronauts are right now. So first

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Speaker 1: I just want to get your thoughts watching that rocket

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Speaker 1: take off last night, knowing what the astronauts are doing

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Speaker 1: up in space, knowing all the pressures and all the

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Speaker 1: training that goes into that. Give us your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: this mission and the status of America's space program.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I appreciate that.

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Speaker 15: So the launch yesterday was absolutely spectacular, and the astronauts

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Speaker 15: with the Orion spacecraft, they got on a trajectory where

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Speaker 15: they actually went further than any humans have been in

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Speaker 15: fifty four years. They've already gone forty four thousand miles

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Speaker 15: away from the planet. That is the highest point in

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Speaker 15: an orbit around a heavenly body is called apage.

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Speaker 16: So they've hit the apigee.

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Speaker 15: Now they're coming back towards the Earth at this moment,

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Speaker 15: and then they'll hit up perogy. So from forty four

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Speaker 15: thousand miles, they're going to hit the perogy, which is

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Speaker 15: the closest point in an orbit to the heavenly body,

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Speaker 15: and the parochee is going to be about one hundred

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Speaker 15: and fifteen miles as they come swipping by the Earth

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Speaker 15: at a fairly close range. Once they get past the

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Speaker 15: perogy and start back out on their trajectory, the next big,

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Speaker 15: big phase of the flight is the translunar injection burn.

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Speaker 15: At this moment, all systems are going to do that burn,

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Speaker 15: and that burn is where you add velocity and you

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Speaker 15: will be on a track from about seventeen thousand, five

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Speaker 15: hundred miles an hour a three to six minute burn,

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Speaker 15: depending on what the trajectory in all is. They will

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Speaker 15: increase their speed from that seventeen thousand, five hundred about

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Speaker 15: twenty four thousand, five hundred miles an hour. That's enough

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Speaker 15: speed to escape the gravitational pull of the Earth, and

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Speaker 15: then they'll be on a trajectory towards the Moon. So

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Speaker 15: the TLI burn translunar injection burn, that's the next big

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Speaker 15: thing coming. And now all systems are looking go right now,

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Speaker 15: and that's supposed to happen about seven o'clock Central eight

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Speaker 15: o'clock Eastern time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that would be tonight. And so let's say

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Speaker 1: that that happens on time. How long would it take

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Speaker 1: from that point to.

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Speaker 2: Get to the moon.

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Speaker 15: Well, that's a great question. So the burn, actually you're

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Speaker 15: going to point not at the Moon. You're going to

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Speaker 15: park point to where the moon is going to be

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Speaker 15: three days from now. So they're going to rhyndezvous basically

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Speaker 15: with the Moon, and that shaped trajectory hitting that exact point,

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Speaker 15: the Moon's gravitational pull will start pulling them in based

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Speaker 15: on their speed. It will loop them around the moon

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Speaker 15: this slingshot trajectory and get them on a course back

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Speaker 15: to Earth.

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Speaker 16: So the burn that.

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Speaker 15: Takes them to the Moon is the same burn that

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Speaker 15: brings you back because of that slingshot trajectory like I

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Speaker 15: just mentioned, and.

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Speaker 16: That all sends back.

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Speaker 15: And the whole thing is going to take about nine

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Speaker 15: days from the time they burn until they splash down

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Speaker 15: off the coast of San Diego.

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Speaker 16: Exciting times.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to astronaut Butch Wilmore about the Artemis mission. Butch,

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about your own career. You

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Speaker 1: were up in space for a long time and you

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Speaker 1: live through one of the most harrowing experiences. You thought

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Speaker 1: you were going to be gone for eight days, you

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Speaker 1: were gone for nearly ten months. I know you're a

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Speaker 1: man of faith. I thought maybe you could talk to

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Speaker 1: our audience today out how faith sustained you while you

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Speaker 1: were up in space. I mean, you had a lot

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Speaker 1: of failures on that spacecraft and it wasn't altogether clear

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Speaker 1: what was going to happen to you. But I know

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Speaker 1: how important your faith is to you. Maybe talk to

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Speaker 1: us a little bit about that.

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Speaker 16: Well, I appreciate that opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Scott.

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Speaker 2: Faith.

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Speaker 15: Obviously, the God's word is the foundation of all things.

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Speaker 15: I believe God's word is true. Actually, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 15: what I believe, It doesn't matter what you believe, no

893
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Speaker 15: matter what anybody believes. What matters is what's true. And

894
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Speaker 15: I can tell you God's word is true. I don't

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Speaker 15: have enough time to explain all of that, but it

896
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Speaker 15: is absolutely true. I believe it is the foundation of

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Speaker 15: who I am, of who my family is, and the

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Speaker 15: foundation of actually of any true believer. So it starts

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Speaker 15: with God's word, absolutely true. And because it's true, all

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Speaker 15: the things that you glean from it gives you strength.

901
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Speaker 15: It gives you strength in all moments, in all aspects

902
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Speaker 15: of life, even when things don't go as planned. So

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Speaker 15: if you are a believer that Jesus and Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 15: that he is Lord, that he incurred the wrath of

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Speaker 15: God the Father for your sins on the cross, and

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Speaker 15: this price for your sin are paid. And here we

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Speaker 15: are Easter weekend, I mean he has risen. He has risen. Indeed,

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Speaker 15: that'll be Sunday morning. We'll think about that. And I

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Speaker 15: actually focus on that all the time, but certainly Sunday

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Speaker 15: morning we'll be saying that at church he has risen,

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Speaker 15: we'll get back.

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Speaker 16: He has risen.

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Speaker 15: Indeed, he is lord. He is the Lord of all things,

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Speaker 15: and that brings comfort like no other thing can. Because

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Speaker 15: people can take away many things from you. They can

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Speaker 15: take away your money, they can take away your planned

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Speaker 15: eight day mission and make it nine and a half

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Speaker 15: to ten months. Things can happen in life, and it

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Speaker 15: often does. But one thing that can never be taken

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Speaker 15: from you is eternal hope. And that eternal hope comes

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Speaker 15: only in Jesus Christ, our Lord, and the Gospel that saves,

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Speaker 15: and that honestly is a foundation of this life, and

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Speaker 15: it's a foundation of the events that took place now

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Speaker 15: on a year and a half ago, and certainly, like

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Speaker 15: you mentioned when we got back just a couple of

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Speaker 15: weeks ago in March, a year ago. So that is

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Speaker 15: the foundation, and because of that, that eternal hope in

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Speaker 15: all situations. Just like Paul said, when he endured many,

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Speaker 15: many difficult situations, he said, I am content. And that's

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Speaker 15: exactly what an eternal hope brings. It brings contentment in

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Speaker 15: all situations, and that is supernatural it only comes from

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Speaker 15: our Lord, and that's a blessing. And so in this respect,

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Speaker 15: when you tie all that again, that's the information that

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Speaker 15: kind of gives you where I was through all this,

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Speaker 15: And it's only because of God's word and God's work

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Speaker 15: in and through this life. And I just give him

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Speaker 15: the glory for all of that contentment. Eternal hope. What

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Speaker 15: a blessed way to live your life.

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Speaker 2: It's astronaut Butch Wilmore. Butch.

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Speaker 1: We've got a couple of seconds left here. I know

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Speaker 1: you have this book out. It's called Stuck in Space,

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Speaker 1: which is a pretty accurate title. You were stuck in space.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about the book. I got

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Speaker 1: thirty seconds. Where can people get it? And should well?

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Speaker 1: And I always ask authors this, should we read it

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Speaker 1: or should we listen to the audible version?

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Speaker 2: What's your recommendation?

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Speaker 15: Well, I wrote it, I've read it, I've listened to

949
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Speaker 15: the audible version, and actually I enjoyed the audible version immensely.

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Speaker 16: Hope. Like I just said, Hope.

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Speaker 15: This book tells the story of hope for the now,

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Speaker 15: and it points you towards hope for all eternity. That's

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Speaker 15: the reason I published it. I didn't publish it to

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Speaker 15: tell a story. I published it for the message of

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Speaker 15: hope now and eternally. Butch Wilmore dot Com, Amazon Kindle

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Speaker 15: version and an audio version is just around the corner.

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Speaker 16: Thank you, Scott Bush, and we share that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Butch, thank you for your time today.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being a great ambassador for our Space program

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Speaker 1: and for the United States of America. And thanks for

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Speaker 1: being a great witness for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: Butch Wilmore, everyone here on the Scott Jennings Show. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we'll check in towards the end of the mission. Butch

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Speaker 1: love to get your thoughts after this mission goes around

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Speaker 1: the moon. Do you have a quick word from our

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Speaker 1: Or you can go to Patriot mobile dot com. When

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Speaker 1: we come back the birthright arguments at the Supreme Court,

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Speaker 1: we have Sarah Iger to explain right after this.

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Speaker 8: Ready for more common sense? Here CNN senior political commentator,

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Speaker 8: New York Times best selling author and America's favorite political

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Speaker 8: fund Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: All right, it's Thursday, April second.

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Speaker 1: As you know, yesterday at this Supreme Court, big arguments

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Speaker 1: over the President's executive order ending birthright citizenship. Will it happen?

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Speaker 1: We turn to the expertise of one Sarah. I Isger,

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Speaker 1: the editor of Scotus Blog, the smartest Supreme Court watcher

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Speaker 1: that I know. Sarah, Welcome back to the show. You

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Speaker 1: tracked all of it yesterday. Give us the scorecard. What's

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Speaker 1: the Sarah scorecard? Does the president have a chance here?

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Speaker 17: Look, anytime we're talking about the Supreme Court and judging

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Speaker 17: how it's going to come out based on the oral argument,

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Speaker 17: you're always only making a prediction. Historically, by the way,

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Speaker 17: even after they vote in their conference, ten percent of

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Speaker 17: votes change between that conference vote and when the opinion

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Speaker 17: comes out. So you know, far be it from me

1001
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Speaker 17: to say the fat lady has sung. That being said,

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Speaker 17: the administration's going to lose this birthright citizenship case, and

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Speaker 17: the executive order is not going to go into effect.

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Speaker 1: And Sarah, the issue here for the Court is likely

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Speaker 1: to be something in the key of look to get

1006
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Speaker 1: Congress to pass a law. If you're worried about, say,

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Speaker 1: birthright tourism, shouldn't you ask Congress to do something about that?

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Speaker 1: Do you expect that to be the focus of the

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Speaker 1: decision here?

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Speaker 17: Yes, because we keep seeing them say this, whether it's

1011
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Speaker 17: the bump stock band, student loan debt, forgiveness under Biden,

1012
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Speaker 17: the eviction moratorium, the Clean Power Plan, tariffs, federalizing the

1013
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Speaker 17: National Guard, all of these are things that presidents could

1014
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Speaker 17: do if they worked with Congress. And by the way,

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Speaker 17: both Biden and Trump their parties controlled both Houses of

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Speaker 17: Congress when they came into office. And yet we're doing

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Speaker 17: government by executive order. So if you love the policy

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Speaker 17: of birthright citizenship, don't get mad at the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 17: They're just telling you who gets to decide this question,

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Speaker 17: And the answer to that is always Congress and Sarah.

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Speaker 2: When do we expect the decision on this This will

1022
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Speaker 2: be this summer? Right.

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Speaker 17: They usually wrap up by June thirtieth. Sometimes we have

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Speaker 17: gone into July one, but very rarely so expect it

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Speaker 17: at the very end of that week in June.

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Speaker 1: All right, I mixed in your handicapping of how the

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Speaker 1: lawyers did yesterday. This lister General is John soer Is.

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Speaker 1: If you listened to any of this, he's the fellow

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Speaker 1: with a rather unusual voice. Did he do a good

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Speaker 1: job arguing this case?

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Speaker 3: Yes and no.

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Speaker 17: He was handed what I would call just a bad

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Speaker 17: executive order. If the Trump administration for the executive order

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Speaker 17: had made it narrower, had made it, for instance, only

1035
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Speaker 17: about birthright tourism and tried to sort of do this incrementally.

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Speaker 17: If you are here on a tourist visa for less

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Speaker 17: than six months and you have a child, that child

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Speaker 17: does not automatically get US citizenship. That would have been

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Speaker 17: a very different case. Before the Supreme Court. But it's

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Speaker 17: such a sweeping order. John Sower was really on his

1041
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Speaker 17: heels having to argue something much more like living constitutionalism.

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Speaker 17: This idea from the left that sort of the constitution

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Speaker 17: is vibes and it was actually the advocate for the

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Speaker 17: ACLU who is arguing for tech history and tradition, and

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Speaker 17: we need to look to the text of the Constitution

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Speaker 17: and how it was liquidated by the ratifiers. So everyone

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Speaker 17: kind of switched hats during this argument.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some of the justices that we think of as

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Speaker 1: being on the conservative side ask some questions that you

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Speaker 1: might have expected out of the liberals. Did any of

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Speaker 1: the justices say anything yesterday that surprised you?

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Speaker 17: There weren't any big surprises. There was, of course, the

1053
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Speaker 17: great line from the Chief Justice where he said the

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Speaker 17: Constitution we may be in a new world, but it's

1055
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Speaker 17: an old constitution, meaning you can't change that unless you

1056
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Speaker 17: want to amend it. And so it doesn't really matter

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Speaker 17: whether you're pointing out a new problem. This, of course,

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Speaker 17: is the same thing that they the conservative justices have

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Speaker 17: been saying to advocates on the left, Oh you don't

1060
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Speaker 17: like this rule about guns, amend the Constitution. Justice Salia

1061
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Speaker 17: famously said that we should make amending the Constitution easier.

1062
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Speaker 17: I agree with him, but you really can't complain that

1063
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Speaker 17: the Court is getting it wrong. The Court always has

1064
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Speaker 17: to defer to majorities, whether it's amending the Constitution or

1065
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Speaker 17: going to Congress to get this stuff done. The Court's

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Speaker 17: just here to tell you who gets to decide the question.

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Speaker 13: All right.

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Speaker 1: I know it's not on our list, and we're here

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Speaker 1: to talk about the Supreme Court, but you are our

1070
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Speaker 1: legal legal here on the Scott Jennings Show. What's your

1071
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Speaker 1: reaction to Pam Bondi being fired today?

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Speaker 17: So you know I worked at the Department of Justice

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Speaker 17: under Jeff Sessions, Jeff Sessions twenty one months, Bill Barr

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Speaker 17: twenty two months, Pam Bondy fourteen months. I just don't

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Speaker 17: think she was functionally running the Department of Justice since

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Speaker 17: probably about October. So Todd Blanche will be interim Attorney

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Speaker 17: General acting Attorney General. He's basically been doing that job

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Speaker 17: for several months now, so I don't think you'll see

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Speaker 17: a lot of changes, all right.

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Speaker 2: That Voisher hearing Sarah Iger.

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Speaker 1: She is the editor of Scotus Blog, which is an

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Speaker 1: indispensable resource if you want to follow along with what's

1083
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Speaker 1: going on at the Supreme Court and understand what's happening,

1084
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Speaker 1: and if you need someone to explain it all to

1085
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Speaker 1: you like you're five. That's the position I frequently find

1086
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Speaker 1: myself in. Sarah Isger is the literal best person to

1087
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Speaker 1: do that. Sarah, we look forward to having you back

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Speaker 1: in the near future. Thanks for all your time and expertise.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Sarah, I Isger from Scotus Blog.

1090
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Speaker 1: We're going to take a break when we come back.

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Speaker 1: It's a National Child Abuse Awareness Month and I've got

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Speaker 1: an interesting interview with Michael Maduro from our friends at

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Speaker 1: Child Help coming up to talk about that right after this.

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Speaker 8: He's the author of the best selling book A Revolution

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Speaker 8: of Common Sense.

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Speaker 3: Here's Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 1: Breaking news here on Thursday, April the second, the Attorney

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Speaker 1: General of the United States, Pam Bondi, has been fired

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Speaker 1: by President Trump. He has issued a statement on it,

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Speaker 1: and the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, is going to

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Speaker 1: run the apartment in the interim. We'll see what the

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Speaker 1: President wants to do with a permanent appointment. But the

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Speaker 1: breaking news of the day Pam Bondy out as Attorney

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Speaker 1: General of the United States. Little International News. The United

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Speaker 1: Kingdom the UK has gathered up foreign ministers from forty

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Speaker 1: countries to discuss options to reopen the Strait of Horror Moves.

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Speaker 1: That's that shipping route that's been blocked off by Iran

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Speaker 1: as they face down the United States and Israel and

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Speaker 1: Operation Epic Fury. The UK Foreign Secretary Evette Cooper has

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Speaker 1: said Iran has engaged in recklessness in blockating the waterway.

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Speaker 1: So you've got a forty country coalition coming together to

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Speaker 1: try to get the straits reopen.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what President Trump had asked for in his

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Speaker 1: speech last night, for other countries to get engaged in

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Speaker 1: this effort. President Trump did talk to the nation last

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Speaker 1: night about Operation Epic Fury and what's been going on

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Speaker 1: and why we are there. Let's hear from the President

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Speaker 1: and cut number three.

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Speaker 10: As I stated in my announcement of Operation Epic Fury,

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Speaker 10: our objectives are very simple and clear. We are systematically

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Speaker 10: dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America or project power

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Speaker 10: outside of their borders. That means eliminating Iran's navy, which

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Speaker 10: is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their air force and their

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Speaker 10: missile program at levels never seen before, and annihilating their

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Speaker 10: defense industrial base. We've done all of it. Their Navy

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Speaker 10: is gone, their air force is gone, their missiles are

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Speaker 10: just about used up or beaten. Taken together, these actions

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Speaker 10: will cripple around military, crush their ability to support terrorist proxies,

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Speaker 10: and deny them the ability to build a nuclear bomb.

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Speaker 1: President Trump addressing the nation last night on Operation Epic Fury. Okay,

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Speaker 1: April is National Child Abuse prev Month. And I bring

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Speaker 1: that up to you because if you're a regular listener

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Speaker 1: of the show, you know about our friends and our partner,

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Speaker 1: child Help. It's based in Phoenix, Arizona, and I went

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Speaker 1: out to Phoenix recently to have a conversation with the

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Speaker 1: COO of Child Help. His name is Michael Maduro. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to present it to you here in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: But with April being National Child Abuse Prevention Month, focusing

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Speaker 1: on what Child Help does is.

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Speaker 2: More important than ever.

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Speaker 1: They are the number one line of defense and trying

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Speaker 1: to stamp out the scourge of child abuse in the

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Speaker 1: United States. Here's my conversation with Michael mcduro, Hey's Scott

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Speaker 1: Jennings with a Salem Radio Network, and we're in Phoenix,

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Speaker 1: Arizona today with our friend Michael Maduro, the COO, the

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Speaker 1: chief operating officer of Child Help. Now you're familiar with

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Speaker 1: child Help because we've been talking about them on our show.

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Speaker 1: Child Help is the nation's leading organization trying to end

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Speaker 1: child abuse in the United States. And Michael, you all

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Speaker 1: operate the National Child Abuse Hotline, which we've told our

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Speaker 1: Life listeners about.

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Speaker 2: This is child Helps.

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Speaker 1: Center here in Phoenix where children actually come once they

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Speaker 1: have called the hotline. You and I were talking today

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Speaker 1: about a phone call versus actually the new way that

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Speaker 1: people get in touch with you, which is the text

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Speaker 1: system or the chat system, and that really is the

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Speaker 1: majority of the contacts that you have, and so we

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Speaker 1: call it a hotline. But you all have adopted to

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Speaker 1: the times here and you hear from children via these

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Speaker 1: text methods and via the chat. How has that improved

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Speaker 1: sort of the response time and the service time for

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Speaker 1: child Help getting these children into the services that they need.

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Speaker 18: So prior to our ability to launch text in chat,

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Speaker 18: which we were able to launch in twenty nineteen, ninety

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Speaker 18: plus percent of the contact that our counselors had were

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Speaker 18: with adults in crisis and oftentimes adults who were about

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Speaker 18: to offend or about to abuse that we're reaching out

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Speaker 18: to our professional counselors asking for help.

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Speaker 1: This, by the way, This, by the way, really shocked me.

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Speaker 1: You're saying that adults calling the hotline saying I'm going

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Speaker 1: to abuse this child. You have to come stop me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this just blew me away.

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Speaker 18: That's exactly why our hotline only has professionally degreed counselors

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Speaker 18: working on them. This isn't something that is just inherently trained,

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Speaker 18: or you can go through an onboarding process and learn

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Speaker 18: how to handle calls like that. Imagine a woman frantically

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Speaker 18: calling and telling you she's holding her baby in her hands,

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Speaker 18: she's at her wits end, and she's about to put

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Speaker 18: this baby into boiling, scalding water.

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Speaker 3: Stop me.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 18: That's the type of calls that our counselors were receiving.

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Speaker 2: And you're getting that every day, every day, from all

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Speaker 2: over the country, all over.

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Speaker 18: The country, every day. And then when we launch text

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Speaker 18: in chat capability, the pendulum swung the other way. So

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Speaker 18: now majority of the contact that our counselors are having

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Speaker 18: are with youth because text in chat is a much

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Speaker 18: more comfortable medium for them to use than it was

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Speaker 18: to call a hotline. After we launch text in chat,

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Speaker 18: which just happened to be right before twenty twenty COVID season,

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Speaker 18: every other hotline, CPS hotlines, Mandatory Reporting hotlines, every other

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Speaker 18: hotline in America saw double digit decreases in call volume.

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Speaker 18: Our hotline was the only hotline in America that saw

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Speaker 18: double digit increases month over month, and that was because

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Speaker 18: of the reinforcement that we gave to children through our

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Speaker 18: prevention education curriculum, educating children at the youngest age possible,

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Speaker 18: keeping that education going with them throughout their academic years,

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Speaker 18: and continually reinforcing to them the availability of a professional

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Speaker 18: counselor is how Child Heup is continuing to break the

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Speaker 18: cycle of abuse and communities across America.

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Speaker 3: We saw that through COVID.

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Speaker 18: We saw that after COVID that got the attention of

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Speaker 18: companies like Meta and Google who wanted to see more

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Speaker 18: done to help support this hotline. Because of the demand

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Speaker 18: that we are seeing in the need that we are

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Speaker 18: seeing in team suicidal ideation, physical and sexual abuse, online

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Speaker 18: grooming AI grooming, we are in a crisis in America.

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Speaker 18: This hotline is crucial to be able to save the

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Speaker 18: youth of America. So what Child Helped created was a

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Speaker 18: multidisciplinary model of which all of those child protection professionals

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Speaker 18: are operating together as one team under one roof, and

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Speaker 18: an environment that is designed to care for a child.

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Speaker 18: So we are sitting in a playroom that is designed

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Speaker 18: for a child to walk into and get comfortable before

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Speaker 18: they are greeted by a non uniform, trauma informed, forensically

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Speaker 18: trained interviewer who's going to bring them into a forensic

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Speaker 18: interview room and capture what transpired, what happened to that child,

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Speaker 18: in a manner where an entire team of professionals is

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Speaker 18: watching that in an adjacent monitoring room in real time.

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Speaker 18: What we have done is created a model where children

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Speaker 18: who have experienced trauma and abuse aren't re traumatized, Where

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Speaker 18: an environment where children can come and feel safe, and

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Speaker 18: a team of professionals can immediately work together to collect

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Speaker 18: evidence and in the end, when a case goes to trial,

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Speaker 18: where offenders are held accountable for their actions.

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Speaker 1: Really, what I saw today, it's minimized trauma andmize healing

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Speaker 1: exact and you're trying to you know, we're in this playroom.

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Speaker 1: The children come in here first, they get comfortable with

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Speaker 1: their surroundings, and then as we walk through this building,

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Speaker 1: every single thing, the rooms, the hallways, the walls, everything

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Speaker 1: was done here with a purpose, and the purpose was

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Speaker 1: what's in the best interest of the child. And that's

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Speaker 1: not always the way that these systems are set up,

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Speaker 1: as you pointed out, and that's what makes I think

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Speaker 1: the child Help model unique. And you are really a

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Speaker 1: national thought leader on this. Child Help really is the leader.

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Speaker 1: And so you have the center here in Phoenix, you

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Speaker 1: have a center in Knoxville, Tennessee. But there are models

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Speaker 1: like this in virtually every state and it's all based

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Speaker 1: on this multidisciplinary system that you've set up here in Phoenix.

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Speaker 18: Exactly right when Sarah and Yvonne, the founders of child Help,

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Speaker 18: launched this organization, they had to create in pioneer programs

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Speaker 18: and services just like this, because those programs and services

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Speaker 18: didn't exist. In fact, it was then California Governor Ronald

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Speaker 18: Reagan and his wife Nancy that actually personally wrote out

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Speaker 18: of their own account, the very first check for a

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Speaker 18: feasibility study to test and assess for needs of programs

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Speaker 18: and services just like this. But that's what happens right here,

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Speaker 18: and this model has been replicated not just in almost

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Speaker 18: every state, but in a lot of countries around the

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Speaker 18: world as well.

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Speaker 1: And just honestly, walking around here with you today, I

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Speaker 1: saw all kinds of children here today. Typically it's kids

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Speaker 1: ages six to sixteen that you see here. You've had

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Speaker 1: kids as young as three. And I also thought it

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Speaker 1: was noteworthy that you have an area of this facility

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Speaker 1: that's designed for very young children, but you also have

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Speaker 1: an area here.

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Speaker 2: That's designed for teenagers.

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Speaker 1: It's specifically for the older kids who call in and

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Speaker 1: wind up in contact with Childhilth exactly right.

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Speaker 18: Right now, we're sitting in a playroom that's a little

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Speaker 18: bit more for a remedial age child. But you got

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Speaker 18: to put yourself in the position of a thirteen, fourteen,

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Speaker 18: fifteen year old. I'm not going to feel comfortable walking

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Speaker 18: in and sitting in this kind of an environment, and

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Speaker 18: I'm already walking in knowing that I'm going to be

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Speaker 18: addressing something that is traumatic for me. So again, it's

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Speaker 18: important for us to understand and address the environmental situation

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Speaker 18: for everybody that walks through that doors, and that's why

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Speaker 18: we created a team center, an environment that was dedicated

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Speaker 18: for them, for them to be able to feel comfortable

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Speaker 18: stepping into the exact same scenario that a younger child

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Speaker 18: would be in this room.

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Speaker 2: And it's really the only thing like it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what the miracle of child help is

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Speaker 1: is you all have this model, You have the hotline,

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Speaker 1: you have the proven expertise to take care of these children,

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Speaker 1: and all you really need is the resources to make

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Speaker 1: sure it is running with the staff and personnel that

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Speaker 1: need to be here to save these children, in some

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Speaker 1: cases from death exactly right. Twenty seven dollars sponsors a call.

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Speaker 18: Twenty seven dollars sponsors a call for a child in

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Speaker 18: crisis with a professional counselor who's going to guide that

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Speaker 18: child to what's necessary, what's needed, what resources are available

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Speaker 18: to them, how to break and intervene in the cycle

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Speaker 18: of abuse, either they are experiencing or they are witnessing.

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Speaker 18: Twenty seven dollars saves a child that simple.

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Speaker 2: It is that simple, and it's all under the same roof.

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Speaker 1: And so when you think about the coordination of that

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Speaker 1: and how much more efficient that makes helping a child

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Speaker 1: who makes that first call. It really when you think

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Speaker 1: about I'm going to spend twenty seven dollars on this,

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Speaker 1: You're sponsoring a call, you're saving a child. But what

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Speaker 1: that fuels is the most efficient possible way.

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Speaker 18: To do it exactly right, exactly right. And you're talking

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Speaker 18: about the best of the best partners working under one

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Speaker 18: roof Phoenix Children's Hospital, the best children's hospital in the

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Speaker 18: state of Arizona, the largest child crimes unit of Phoenix PD,

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Speaker 18: the Office of Child Welfare Investigations, the Department of Child Safety,

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Speaker 18: child Help all working together, the Office of the County Attorney,

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Speaker 18: all working together as one team to combat and eradicate

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Speaker 18: this abuse.

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Speaker 2: You could make a huge difference.

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Speaker 1: Go to childhelp dot org slash scott, make a twenty

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Speaker 1: seven dollars donation and save one child on this hotline.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty five dollars is five call sponsored.

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Speaker 1: That's five children that you can save. The best thing

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Speaker 1: you can do is set up a recurring donation. Michael Medoro,

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Speaker 1: you are the chief operating officer of Child Help. You

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Speaker 1: are a national leader on this topic. Your model here

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Speaker 1: is being replicated in states and countries around the world,

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Speaker 1: and our listeners here at the Scott Jennings Show. I

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Speaker 1: hope will find it in their heart to help you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me in today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Thanks Michael Juchi.

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Speaker 1: My conversation with Michael Medoro. He is the COEO of

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Speaker 1: Child Help. A few weeks ago I went out to

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Speaker 1: Phoenix where they have their national headquarters. I was blown

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Speaker 1: away by the facility, by how it works, by the

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Speaker 1: dedicated professionals, the integration, by the way with the counselors

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Speaker 1: and the medical staff and the police there. So they're

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Speaker 1: taking care of children and they're also doing their level

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Speaker 1: best to bring people to justice who abused children. It

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Speaker 1: really was incredible, So I couldn't recommend this charity more.

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Speaker 1: It's called child Help. If you want to do it today,

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Speaker 1: go to childhelp dot org slash Scott. A donation of

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Speaker 1: twenty seven dollars fuels one of these phones calls to

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Speaker 1: the National Child Abuse Help Hotline. Every child deserves to

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Speaker 1: grow up safe, loved and protected. That's what child Help

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Speaker 1: is trying to do. That's why I am so proud

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Speaker 1: to have them as a partner here of the Scott

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Speaker 1: Shetting Show. We're going to take a break and wrap

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Speaker 1: for the week, common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 2: One more break to go here on Salem.

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Speaker 11: Stay with us very definition.

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Speaker 3: I've never backed down. Here's Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I've had the good fortune this winter to be in

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Speaker 1: Florida a little bit, and part of the reason I

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Speaker 1: was there was to meet with and speak to some

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Speaker 1: folks at something called the James Madison Institute, which is

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Speaker 1: Florida's leading think tank and what just be America's most

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Speaker 1: important state. The mission of the James Madison Institute is

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Speaker 1: to tether the Sunshine State to the wisdom of free

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Speaker 1: market capitalism, limited government, the rule of law, economic liberty,

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Speaker 1: and the principles that have made Iron Nation great. And

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Speaker 1: I've invited my friend Bob McClure, who is the CEO

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Speaker 1: and President of the James Madison Institute, for a conversation today.

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Speaker 2: Bob, welcome in.

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Speaker 1: You and I had an interesting conversation when I was

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Speaker 1: down in Florida, and it's this, Florida's doing everything right.

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Speaker 1: Everybody wants to be in Florida. It's the best run

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Speaker 1: state in America. And you all at James Madison are

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Speaker 1: in a position, I think to tell the story about

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Speaker 1: why it would be good to export the Florida model

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Speaker 1: to everywhere else. So, first of all, tell us about

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Speaker 1: James Madison Institute, tell us about what's going right in Florida,

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Speaker 1: and tell us about all the sort of the policy

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Speaker 1: framework that your organization has put in place to lead

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Speaker 1: to these amazing outcomes for the Sunshine State.

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Speaker 13: Well, it's good to see you, my friend, and thanks

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Speaker 13: for having me today. It's you know, the founders, in

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Speaker 13: their infinite wisdom, understood the importance of the states. You know,

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Speaker 13: so many of us get frustrated with the federal government

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Speaker 13: what's happening there. But the reality is that Americans can

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Speaker 13: vote with their feet, and Florida has become I would argue,

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Speaker 13: the single most important state in the country when it

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Speaker 13: comes to policy and politics. Demographically, we reflect the entire country.

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Speaker 13: We're growing, you pick the demographic. We have it in

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Speaker 13: this state and people are moving here because we value freedom.

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Speaker 13: I mean by the millions, people are moving to the

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Speaker 13: state of Florida. And so what the James Madison Institute

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Speaker 13: has been doing for nearly forty years has been focusing

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Speaker 13: on public policy that advances limited government, free market scott

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Speaker 13: and the protection of private property. And what we have seen,

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Speaker 13: probably in the last eight years, even pre COVID, Florida

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Speaker 13: has become a state where people are moving to because

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Speaker 13: our state values capital. In short, for your listeners, it

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Speaker 13: essentially means we value your version of the American dream.

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Speaker 13: Come here, and you can have the freedom to do that,

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Speaker 13: as opposed to some of these blue states which I

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Speaker 13: know you and I'll talk about more in a minute,

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Speaker 13: that want to tax you, want to regulate you out

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Speaker 13: of existence, into a kind of a frozen position, if

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Speaker 13: you will.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you raised the issue of migration, and over the

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Speaker 1: last several years, you've seen people fleeing Blue states. What's

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Speaker 1: incredible to me, Bob, is that states like California, New York,

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Speaker 1: Washington State, Massachusetts, and others, they see this happening, they

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Speaker 1: know it's happening, and yet they continue to double down,

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Speaker 1: triple down on the taxation and regulatory policies that cause

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Speaker 1: this migration. I mean, we joke about it sometimes, but

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Speaker 1: you just confirmed it. Millions of people are moving to

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Speaker 1: or trying to move to, Florida because you can actually

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Speaker 1: do business there and you're not going to be taxed

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Speaker 1: out of existence. Why do you think it is these people,

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Speaker 1: these political people, these politicians in blue states continue to

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Speaker 1: do the very things that are killing their states.

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Speaker 13: Well, I think it's economic ignorance for one. I think

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Speaker 13: it's the political landscape. For number two, if you look

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Speaker 13: at you know, Kathy Hochel or Gavin Newsom, economically they

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Speaker 13: don't understand.

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Speaker 16: Certainly Mayor Momdani doesn't understand.

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Speaker 13: He's proposing almost a ten percent property tax increase, a

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Speaker 13: wealth tax, rent freeze, and so Americans by the millions are.

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Speaker 16: Just not going to do it.

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Speaker 13: So if you're in New York or you're in California,

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Speaker 13: you're moving to states like Florida and Texas where you

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Speaker 13: can run a business, where you can start a business.

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Speaker 13: I mean there are you know, the We've seen hundreds

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Speaker 13: of examples, whether it's Wells Fargo out of California or

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Speaker 13: a Pallunteer out of Colorado or Ken Griffin out of Chicago.

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Speaker 13: These people will have chosen to move to states and

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Speaker 13: value freedom. And it's not just uber wealthy Scott Uster

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Speaker 13: Cronian dister Conian regulations, the inability to run a business,

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Speaker 13: to start a business, the idea of being taxed at

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Speaker 13: fifteen percent on top of the federal income tax. Even

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Speaker 13: middle class Americans are moving. There's almost a thousand people

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Speaker 13: a day moving to the state of Florida, and you.

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Speaker 2: Have New York.

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Speaker 13: Wow, has lost roughly ten percent of its state's population

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Speaker 13: in the last eight years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy what's happening in these blue states, and

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Speaker 1: yet voters keep sending politicians to their state capitals who

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Speaker 1: keep enacting these crazy policies. If you want to learn more,

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Speaker 1: by the way, about the James Madison Institute, go to

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Speaker 1: James Maadison dot org. Bob McClure is the president and CEO. Bob,

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Speaker 1: Happy Easter, my friend, have a great weekend and we'll

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Speaker 1: have you back on the show very soon.

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Speaker 3: Happy Easter.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me all right.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot to Bob McClure and our friends at

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Speaker 1: James Madison. Thanks to everybody who came on the show

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Speaker 1: this week, especially which Wilmore. Pretty cool to have an

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Speaker 1: American astronaut on the show. Happy Easter, every one. We

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Speaker 1: got a best of show tomorrow. We'll be back live

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Speaker 1: on Monday. I'm Scott Jennings on Salem. Thanks for listening.

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