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Speaker 1: Welcome to this week on Capitol Hill, your insider's guide

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Speaker 1: to the story shaping Washington and the world. I'm Tony Bergins.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Here's what's ahead on this weekend's edition.

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Speaker 1: Democrats push for a shutdown in Washington, tying federal funding

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Speaker 1: to the growing showdown in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: The wake of ICE's abuses in the administration's recklessness, the

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Speaker 2: Senate must not pass the DHS Buzzit budget is currently

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Speaker 1: I was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: Well unpack what it means with Daily Signal White House

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Speaker 1: Correspondent Elizabeth Mitchell. The twenty twenty four election results in

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Speaker 1: a clear message Americans do want illegal immigration addressed. But

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Speaker 1: is what we're seeing in Minnesota what they had in mind.

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Speaker 3: There's got to be a better way, And actually, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we have to face reality. There is no practical way

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Speaker 3: who actually deport twenty million people, So we have to

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Speaker 3: find a solution to this. And also this is politically,

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Speaker 3: it's hurting our chances at the midterm, and I'm just

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Speaker 3: being frank about it. And the most important thing that

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Speaker 3: we have to do is actually keep the majority, because

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Speaker 3: if not, we're going to go back to the policies of.

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Speaker 4: President Biden and open borders. That's the last thing we

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Speaker 1: I was Republican Congressman Carlos him Andez. Earlier this week

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Speaker 1: on Newsmax. We'll explore how this issue and redistricting battles

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Speaker 1: and several states could impact the midterm elections with David

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Speaker 1: Wasserman of the Cook Political Report. And in International News.

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Speaker 5: We said we'd bring him back. He was the first

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Speaker 5: to come in, he's the last to leave. A hero

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Speaker 5: of Israel, Ronnie is back. There are no more hostages

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Speaker 5: in Gaza.

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Speaker 1: That was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Etna who on Monday

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Speaker 1: announcing the return of the body of the last Israeli

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Speaker 1: hostage held in Gaza. North Carolina Senator Ted bud will

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Speaker 1: join us to talk Israel, Iran and the Middle East.

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Speaker 1: Also ahead, House Speaker Mike Johnson joins us from Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 1: All of that coming up on this edition of This

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Speaker 1: Week on Capitol Hill. Tensions remained high this week in

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Speaker 1: Alex Pedrie, which involved federal agents. As a Trump administration

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Speaker 1: continues its immigration crackdown, protesters have taken to the streets,

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Speaker 1: leading to confrontations and arrest. With me now to discuss

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Speaker 1: what unfolded this week is Elizabeth Mitchell, White House correspondent

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Speaker 1: for The Daily Signal. Elizabeth, Welcome to this week on

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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us, Hi, thanks for having me. So.

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Speaker 1: The deadly confrontation in Minnesota led to communications between the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls and Minneapolis Mayor

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Speaker 1: Jacob Frye. Is that communication ongoing and are we seeing

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Speaker 1: evidence that it is changing the stalemate between state and

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Tom Holman said that he is not good to leave

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Speaker 7: that Tom Homan has the situation under control. He has

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Speaker 7: a lot of experienced immigration enforcement, far beyond the type

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Speaker 6: Some may remember that he.

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Speaker 7: Actually was given an award by Obama for the number

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Speaker 7: Fray about this issue, even though they're very opposed to

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Speaker 1: Is this going to be a successful leverage point for Democrats,

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Speaker 4: Well, I think the.

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Speaker 7: Most important thing to note there is that the one

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Speaker 6: Well, the facts never get in the way.

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Speaker 1: As you've pointed out, this will not affect funding of

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Speaker 6: This week, the Trump administration.

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Speaker 6: What do we know about that.

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Speaker 7: Well, troop of administration has done a lot of great

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Speaker 7: pro life moves throughout the administration this year and even

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Speaker 7: of abortions happening in the United States, something has to

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Speaker 7: General Liz Merle has senterm administration about this, trying to

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Speaker 7: I believe, And so that is definitely a loss for

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Speaker 1: This is becoming a real conflict between red states. I mean,

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Speaker 6: These are red states.

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Speaker 1: I would think that this could become a political problem

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Speaker 1: after the Dobbs decision clearly, it was recognized that they

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we know that President Trump sometimes views abortion as

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Speaker 7: Human traffickers could order these abortion pills, and so there's

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Speaker 6: Well, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be very interesting how this plays out.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Trump administration making investments in the

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Speaker 1: future in a unique way this week rolling out Trump accounts.

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Speaker 6: Talk about that. Well, there was a big summit yesterday.

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Speaker 7: President Trump was there. Secretary the Treasury Scott Bessant was

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Speaker 7: there where we heard more about these Trump baby bonuses

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Speaker 7: wide variety of individuals are in on this, and they're

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Speaker 7: They could use the paper college pay for a house.

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Speaker 7: And when they say, this could be a great way

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Speaker 4: So a lot of parents were there.

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Speaker 7: They're really excited about this, and so that was an

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Beyond the financial aspects of this, which I think

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Speaker 7: I think the term of administration is the first time

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a positive use of public policy.

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Mitchell. Always great to see you. Thanks so much

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Speaker 6: Have a great.

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Speaker 4: Weekend you too, Thank you so much. All right.

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Speaker 1: You know, this is a positive aspect of public policy

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Speaker 1: when you look at encouraging behavior that's beneficial to society

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Speaker 1: lot of public policy to encourage child bearing to raise

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Speaker 1: before we dive deeper into the domestic headlines of the week,

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Speaker 1: I want to turn quickly to foreign policy. The return

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Tony So Senator.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the situation in the Middle East, starting

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Speaker 1: Senator bud speaking of prayers, you have made it part

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Speaker 8: President Trump has done surgical strikes in Nigeria against Boka Haram.

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Speaker 6: Along those lines. You just have about a minute, laugh, Senator.

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Speaker 1: Well, Senator I want to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: All right, have a great weekend, Senator, Senator Ted Budd

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Speaker 1: Political Report. David, Welcome to this week on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: So some things happening with the We saw a little

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Speaker 10: Well, there was more than a little bit of a shift.

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Speaker 4: And I think what it.

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Speaker 10: Comes down to is the cost of living as an

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Speaker 10: Well, this is a big problem for them in the

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Speaker 4: A twenty twenty six problem for the Republicans.

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Speaker 6: Of the decade.

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Speaker 10: So the White House kicked off this mid decade redistricting

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Speaker 10: more beneficial to Democrats than the Texas map was for Republicans.

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Speaker 10: They more or less offset The White House was hoping

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Speaker 10: for bigger changes of benefiting their side in Indiana and Ohio. Instead,

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Speaker 10: Indiana completely rebuffed Trump's pressure campaign. Ohio passed a map

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Speaker 10: with only minimal changes. Missouri and North Carolina also passed

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Speaker 10: new district lines that will net Republicans a seat each,

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Speaker 10: but Utah, the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of

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Speaker 10: a map that will net Democrats a seat. Democrats have

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Speaker 10: the potential to redraw Maryland and Virginia, although an injunction

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Speaker 10: has paused that in Virginia. The biggest outs and in

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Speaker 10: question questions are Virginia and Florida, where Governor DeSantis wants

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Speaker 10: for potentially three or four additional Republican seats, and so

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Speaker 10: the bottom line is this hasn't gone according to plan

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Speaker 10: for Republicans, but if the remaining variables go their way,

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Speaker 10: they still could net two or three seats.

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Speaker 4: From this war.

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Speaker 10: That's not going to be enough to safeguard their House majority,

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Speaker 10: even what we know in the other states.

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Speaker 6: All right, David, we got to leave it there. Thanks

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Speaker 6: so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: How Speaker Mike Johnson joins us next, So don't go away.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this week on Capitol Hill. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in well. This week, as we've been

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Speaker 1: talking about, Democrats sought to reign in immigration enforcement operations

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Speaker 1: by threatening a partial government shutdown. Well, as of this recording,

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Speaker 1: Senate leaders and White House officials we're moving closer to

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Speaker 1: a deal ahead of Friday's midnight midnight deadline.

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Speaker 6: While we don't know.

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Speaker 1: The conclusion of that, we do know that they believe

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Speaker 1: the situation in Minnesota has become a leverage point for them.

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Speaker 1: Joining me now to discuss this and more is the

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Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who represents the fourth

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Speaker 1: congressional district of Louisiana.

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Speaker 6: Mister Speaker, it's good to see.

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Speaker 4: You, hey, Tony. Great to be with you as always.

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Speaker 1: All right, I know you have been busy this week

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Speaker 1: trying to bring about an agreement between the Democrats and

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Speaker 1: the Republicans in the Senate, because you've made very clear

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Speaker 1: this can't come back. Changes can't come back to the

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Speaker 1: House and make its way through.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 11: I've made it very clear to Leader Schumer and of

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Speaker 11: course from my counterpart, Leader Throon in the Senate. The

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Speaker 11: House did its job, Tony. I mean, everyone is applauding.

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Speaker 11: The media has written that it was unexpected. They didn't

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Speaker 11: once again they anticipated our downfall. But we got twelve

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Speaker 11: separate appropriations bills passed through the House first time in

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Speaker 11: many years. We built back the muscle memory for good

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Speaker 11: stewardship and how the appropriations process is supposed to work,

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Speaker 11: and we did it in bipartisan fashion. That's what it

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Speaker 11: requires when we have such a small margin in our majority.

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Speaker 11: And we're very proud of that accomplishment, and in fact,

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Speaker 11: people across the building are we sent it over to

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Speaker 11: the Senate, and now some Senate Democrats, in my view,

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Speaker 11: are trying to play games with this, they're trying to

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Speaker 11: tie what's happened in Minneapolis with the appropriations.

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Speaker 4: Process, and it's not a credible argument.

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Speaker 11: They say they want reforms in Department Homeland Security, Well, fine,

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Speaker 11: let's talk about that. But what they're forgetting to note

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Speaker 11: is the important thing is that the funding for the

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Speaker 11: Immigration Customs and Enforcement ICE enforcement has already been provided.

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Speaker 11: We did a big tranche of funding in the Big

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Speaker 11: beautiful Bill last summer, and so holding up the appropriation

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Speaker 11: right now doesn't even accomplish anything they would they say

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Speaker 11: they want to achieve. So I certainly hope Tony, that

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Speaker 11: they pushed this forward, they enacted, and we do not

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Speaker 11: go into a shutdown because they send us to the

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Speaker 11: legislation back. It creates a very dicey situation in the House.

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Speaker 1: I want to explore that a little bit further, mister Speaker,

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Speaker 1: but first I want to go back to something you

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Speaker 1: kind of touched on but passed over quickly. And I

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Speaker 1: think it is quite significant that it's been over two

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Speaker 1: decades since the Congress has moved through regular order when

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Speaker 1: it comes to appropriations. We've been funding through huge omnibus

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Speaker 1: bills or continuing resolutions, which I think, in part has

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Speaker 1: led to the thirty eight trillion dollars in debt that

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Speaker 1: America has. I mean, this is a significant moment that

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Speaker 1: you've returned the House to actual appropriating the money as

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Speaker 1: it should looking at each of these departments.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for saying so.

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Speaker 11: It really is a big achievement, and it's something that

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Speaker 11: I was doggedly determined to do. When I was handed

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Speaker 11: the gavel and became Speaker over two years ago. I

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Speaker 11: started talking about this as a top priority, and people

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Speaker 11: rolled their eyes and said it'll never happen again.

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Speaker 4: You're right, Tony.

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Speaker 11: It's terrible stewardship to governed by omnibus bills right before

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Speaker 11: Christmas every year, when everyone passes legislation that's three or

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Speaker 11: four thousand pages long that no one has. Most people

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Speaker 11: haven't even read and certainly haven't debated the details of

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Speaker 11: and negotiated at the spending levels. So this is a

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Speaker 11: really important thing for Congress to get back to. It's

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Speaker 11: an important practice. It will help us get our fiscal

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Speaker 11: house in order. And look, I'm applauding appropriators and members

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Speaker 11: on both sides of the isle who who finally got

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Speaker 11: that vision and decided to do this.

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Speaker 4: Together.

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Speaker 11: I hope that it doesn't all fall apart because Chuck

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Speaker 11: Schumer and a few Democrats in the Senate want to

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Speaker 11: play politics.

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Speaker 4: Right now, let's pray it doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So let's go to the issue that the Democrats

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Speaker 1: are raising, understanding that their solution doesn't work because ICE

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Speaker 1: has already been funded. But do they have legitimate concerns

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Speaker 1: about what Americans see happening on the streets of Minnesota.

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Speaker 11: Well, look, part of the problem that we have right

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Speaker 11: now is with public perception, is the twenty four hour

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Speaker 11: news cycle and social media and you know, everyone with

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Speaker 11: the cell phone, there's six different angles you know on

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Speaker 11: each of the events that the tragic events that happen

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Speaker 11: in Minneapolis, and we have to allow the investigations to

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Speaker 11: play out and do process to work its corese.

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Speaker 4: What we do know for certain is that local.

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Speaker 11: And state officials in Minnesota have been encouraging resistance to

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Speaker 11: law enforcement. And Tony is a former law enforcement officer yourself,

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Speaker 11: you know that that always creates a dangerous environment and situation.

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Speaker 11: The people are told they're to resist, they're told to

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Speaker 11: push back, literally, and that is a violation of federal

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Speaker 11: law to do so. So you've got a heightened threat

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Speaker 11: environment there in so many ways, and ICE is simply

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Speaker 11: trying to do its job, and that is to apprehend

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Speaker 11: to port dangerous illegal criminals, legal aliens who are a

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Speaker 11: threat to the homeland.

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Speaker 4: This is a process that is escalated way out of control.

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Speaker 11: And I'm grateful that the President acknowledges that Tom Homan

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Speaker 11: is there on the ground in Minneapolis doing a great

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Speaker 11: sanity there. But they need the participation of local law enforcement,

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Speaker 11: and I guess the aforemention of the governor and the

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Speaker 11: mayors there.

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Speaker 1: This certainly was an issue, if not the issue in

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four election. The American people spoke the

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Speaker 1: majority of them saying they want illegal immigration dealt with,

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Speaker 1: But there are some thinking, well, maybe we're going a

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Speaker 1: little too far and how we're carrying that out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: even some of your own members. Florida Congressman Carlos him

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Speaker 1: Andez he said he's a little concerned that this could

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Speaker 1: be a liability going into the midterm elections.

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Speaker 11: Well, the point they're making is the obvious one is

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Speaker 11: that immigration enforcement and always should be smart and targeted

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Speaker 11: and balanced and efficient, and the optics of what have

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Speaker 11: happened in some of these places has not projected that.

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Speaker 11: And you know, our hats go off to the brave

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Speaker 11: men and women who put on that badge, put on

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Speaker 11: that uniform, take their own lives at risk to enforce

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Speaker 11: federal law. That is what the American people demand and deserve,

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Speaker 11: and so we've got to do that, but we have

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Speaker 11: to do it in a way that makes sense. Again,

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Speaker 11: if you have friction between local and state law enforcement

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Speaker 11: and the FEDS, that creates a problem, an inherent problem,

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Speaker 11: and it is going to escalate. So we've got to

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Speaker 11: get everybody back on the same page. We've got to

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Speaker 11: do the work that the American people elected the Trump

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Speaker 11: administration to do, and that is to apprehend and remove

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Speaker 11: dangerous criminals. That's the mission, and I think they'll get

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Speaker 11: back to.

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Speaker 1: It now, mister speaker. I know every day is a challenge.

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Speaker 1: You've got some challenge with me right now. We're trying

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Speaker 1: to get the government funded. So looking down the road

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Speaker 1: a bit becomes a little difficult because every day is

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Speaker 1: a new new adventure. What's ahead? What are we looking

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Speaker 1: for next week? When Congress, when the House returns, well,

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Speaker 1: let's hope we're not dealing with reappropriations and sorting that out.

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Speaker 11: But after that, we've got an aggressive gender going forward,

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Speaker 11: reconciliation two point zero, we've got a farm bill ahead

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Speaker 11: of us, and some other priorities. So no day is

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Speaker 11: wasted here and it's never a dull moment, and we're

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Speaker 11: in unprecedented times.

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Speaker 4: Tony, So you're right, it's hard to project day over day.

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Speaker 1: Always waiting to see the red Sea party for the

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Speaker 1: Speaker as he walks through. Mister Speaker, always great to

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Speaker 1: see you, Thanks so much for joining us, and we

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Speaker 1: pray that the weekend goes well.

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Speaker 4: You got it, Thank my friend. Good talk to you, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, how Speaker Mike Johnson, it's quite amazing the work

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Speaker 1: he's been able to do, even returning, as I mentioned

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Speaker 1: to regular order, given the slim majority that he has

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Speaker 1: in the House. All right, don't go away, because when

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Speaker 1: we come back, I've got some final thoughts on.

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Speaker 9: The week.

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Speaker 6: Welcome back.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: As cities descend into repeated cycles of chaos and lives

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Speaker 1: are lost in Minnesota, Americans are asking a simple question,

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Speaker 1: how did we get here? Many Americans understandably shocked look

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Speaker 1: at the protests, the violence, and the loss of life,

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Speaker 1: and they look for the causes. Some site fraud and

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Speaker 1: corruption in federally funded social programs, apparently tolerated by state officials,

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Speaker 1: linked to illegal immigration. Others point to aggressive enforcement of

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Speaker 1: immigration laws that sparked the deadly confrontations. But these are symptoms,

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Speaker 1: they're not the causes. Minnesota is not an outlier. It

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Speaker 1: is a case study of what happens when institutions that

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Speaker 1: once fostered moral restraint abandoned that role. The real cause

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Speaker 1: is less obvious because it is far removed from the

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Speaker 1: tragic events we see today in the headlines. It can

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Speaker 1: be traced back decades to what was called the Long

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Speaker 1: March through the Institutions, a phrase coin in the late

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixties by Marxist student leader Rudy Dutchka.

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Speaker 6: The phrase deliberately.

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Speaker 1: Echoed mal Zedong's Long March, but Dutsca's was not a

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Speaker 1: military campaign. It was a cultural and ideological one, measured

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Speaker 1: in decades rather than in battles. The strategy was to

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Speaker 1: transform society, not by overthrowing government outright, but by infiltrating

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Speaker 1: its core institutions, universities, primary and secondary education, the media,

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Speaker 1: the courts, and even churches. The objective was to shape

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Speaker 1: what people were taught, what would be considered normal, respectable,

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Speaker 1: and acceptable, so that their political outcomes would eventually become inevitable.

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Speaker 1: House speaker Mike Johnson alluded to this reality recently before

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Speaker 1: the British Parliament when he referenced a quote often attributed

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Speaker 1: to Abraham Lincoln, the philosophy of the classroom in one

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Speaker 1: generation will.

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Speaker 6: Be the philosophy of the government in the next.

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Speaker 1: That insight helps explain why the classroom has been central

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Speaker 1: to this long march, which obstacles to Marxist ideology had

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Speaker 1: to be removed or marginalized. There was no accident that

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Speaker 1: prayer and Bible reading were removed from public schools in

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two and sixty three. When God and his

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Speaker 1: Word are removed as moral restraints, lawlessness fills the vacuum.

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Speaker 1: That is, the fertile ground in which Marxism takes root

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Speaker 1: and gains power. Over time, that march has moved beyond institutions,

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Speaker 1: and it's spilled into the streets of America. Confrontations like

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Speaker 1: those we've seen in Minneapolis, whether involving George Floyd or

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Speaker 1: alex pretty all becoming routine. The rule of law depends

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Speaker 1: on shared moral limits. When those limits erode, force alone

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Speaker 1: cannot restore order. Yet this is not the end of

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Speaker 1: the story. We're now seeing efforts to retrace the steps

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Speaker 1: of that long march and restore what was dismantled. Just

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Speaker 1: last week, I said in the courtroom of the Fifth

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Speaker 1: Circuit Court of Appeals, as officials from Louisiana and Texas

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Speaker 1: argued in defense of laws placing the Ten Commandments in

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Speaker 1: public school classrooms. Ten years ago, leaders were routinely worn

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Speaker 1: not to attempt such measures, intimidated by a distorted notion

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Speaker 1: of the separation of church and state. But the fruits

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Speaker 1: of the long March, lawlessness and chaos are now undeniable,

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Speaker 1: and so courageous parents, pastors, and public officials are standing

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Speaker 1: up with constitutional authority and with the courage of faith.

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Speaker 6: They're working to restore

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Speaker 1: And preserve what has always been essential to our republic

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Speaker 1: if we are to be one nation under God, That,

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Speaker 1: my friends, has been this week on Capitol Hill,