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Speaker 1: for the American people. Welcome to the Scot Jenning Show.

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Speaker 2: All right, it's Thursday, January the eighth. We're back in

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Speaker 2: began the news today with a fallout from the Minneapolis shooting,

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Speaker 2: a convoy of vehicles that had been interfering with ICE

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Speaker 2: operations in the city. The deceased is thirty seven year

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Speaker 2: old Renee Nicole Good. Video shows her hitting an ICE

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Speaker 2: What strikes me is, first of all, it's extremely sad

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Speaker 2: right now. Why are people showing up in vehicles in convoys,

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Speaker 2: not just in Minneapolis, but all over the country in

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Speaker 2: an effort to obstruct lawful federal law enforcement activities. This

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Speaker 2: is not an isolated incident. We have had hundreds of

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Speaker 2: how we change laws in this country. If you don't

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Speaker 2: like a law, you talk to the politicians. You don't

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Speaker 2: It seems to me that we have an epidemic of

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Speaker 2: This because it's what they have been told to do

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Speaker 2: Democrats have been radicalizing their supporters all year long. I'm

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Speaker 3: But what else am I supposed to conclude?

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Speaker 3: It is just called kidnapping.

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Speaker 2: Why is she doing this? Because she disagrees with US

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Speaker 2: immigration law. That's a perfectly fine political position to have.

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Speaker 2: You can disagree with the laws regarding immigration or anything else.

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Speaker 6: Ice, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

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Speaker 7: And from here on, I have a very simple message.

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Speaker 5: It is time to get out of Minnesota and to

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Speaker 2: You are making all of us less safe and putting

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Speaker 2: The governor of a state threatening to send the National

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Speaker 9: I know what they're doing. They're trying out a new slogan,

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Speaker 9: Donald J. Trump is gonna kill you. It's pretty good

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Speaker 2: Are people in this country, the radical left, radicalizing their

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Speaker 3: And now a woman is dead because of it.

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Speaker 2: And you have these irresponsible voices in the national media

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Speaker 3: The laws make the tax rates lower.

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Speaker 2: But in this case, Democrats, because Trump is the president,

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Speaker 3: And now you see the results coming up.

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Speaker 2: the eighth, Live from New York City today, Scott Jennings here,

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Speaker 2: Grage the Sage, my friend, Dustin Grage on the ground

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Speaker 2: You were with us the other day, we were talking

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Speaker 2: Think we've had a bunch of irresponsible rhetoric from Democrats.

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Speaker 8: seeing these same exact playbook play out with what we

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Speaker 8: They've actually already shut down the street in which the

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Speaker 2: In your opinion, how many of these protesters who are

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Speaker 3: So welcome into the Scott Shetting.

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Speaker 2: So I want to talk about that in a minute. First, Look,

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Speaker 4: People are smarter than democrats. And they're smarter than Democrats

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Speaker 2: That voice you're hearing today on the Scott Jeting Show,

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Speaker 3: It's a polling and analytics firm.

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Speaker 2: He's talking about his new book, America's Emotional Divide. You know,

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Speaker 2: form with Donald Trump.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a challenge that requires a lot of intention

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Speaker 4: in thinking about how am I going to make somebody

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Speaker 4: feel when I talk about this, Not just what are

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Speaker 4: they hearing, but how are they feeling when they hear this?

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Speaker 4: And I don't mean get all touchy feeling. My family

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Speaker 4: would tell you I'm not a super emotional guy.

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Speaker 5: But this is how we.

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Speaker 4: Are biologically wired. It is how humanity works together to

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Speaker 4: understand each other, to form bonds and all of this.

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Speaker 4: These emotional things actually create chemical reactions in the brain.

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Speaker 4: And so when somebody like Donald Trump is creating this

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Speaker 4: connection with somebody, it is a literal chemical connection that

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Speaker 4: he's creating with folks. And that's why he got seventy

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Speaker 4: seven million votes in the last election.

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Speaker 5: And so what.

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Speaker 4: Republicans have to do is realize that this is not

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Speaker 4: a policy or politics game. This is a relational, emotional game,

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Speaker 4: and you've got to make people feel understood. And if

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Speaker 4: they would focus on that piece as opposed to playing

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Speaker 4: the game, they would realize it's really not that hard,

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Speaker 4: but it does take discipline.

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Speaker 2: So final question for you. We got about thirty seconds.

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Speaker 2: I hear Democrats right now. I see democrats Walls, Fry

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Speaker 2: and Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: I see some of them in Washington. They're cursing all

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Speaker 3: the time.

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Speaker 2: They're dropping f bombs like crazy, and you know, we've

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Speaker 2: been playing it on CNN.

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Speaker 3: I question the wisdom with it. I think we ought

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Speaker 3: to beep it out.

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Speaker 2: Frankly, are they doing that to try to create emotional

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Speaker 2: links to people?

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Speaker 3: Do things like that work?

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Speaker 2: It sounds crazy and stupid to me, and it sounds

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Speaker 2: extremely forced and unauthentic.

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Speaker 3: But is that what they're trying to do.

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Speaker 2: They think they can create emotional bonds by cursing all

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Speaker 2: the time.

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Speaker 4: Correct, Anger is the number one motivator for action, whether

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Speaker 4: that's political action or anything else. So if they can

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Speaker 4: make their audience at this, you know, the Trump deranged

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Speaker 4: voter feel that they are as angry about everything Trump

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Speaker 4: is doing as that voter is. They feel that they

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Speaker 4: can create that connection and turn that Personnelt. I think

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Speaker 4: the challenge is for them that they're only speaking to

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Speaker 4: their base when they do that, because their base is

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Speaker 4: already angry. Those folks are going to show up regardless

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Speaker 4: of whether they drop the F bomb or talk about

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump anyways. And I feel that it's going to,

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Speaker 4: like you said, come across inauthentically when those lower propensity

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Speaker 4: voters decide to tune in three to six weeks out

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Speaker 4: from the midterm.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fan service is all it is. I don't

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Speaker 3: think they're doing anything for themselves. It's fan service. That's Brent.

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Speaker 2: You can and Polster and CEO signal. It's a polling

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Speaker 2: and analytics firm. And I guess you're now a chemist

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Speaker 2: talking about brain chemicals there. Brent, Thanks for coming on

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Speaker 2: the show today.

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Speaker 3: Get his book.

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Speaker 2: It's called America's Emotional Divide. If you want to understand

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Speaker 2: American politics, I recommend you get it and read it

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Speaker 2: and follow Brent Buchannan and the boys over its signal

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Speaker 2: and welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show here on Salem.

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Speaker 2: Want to close out the first hour today talking about Greenland.

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Speaker 2: Everybody is freaking out about Greenland. Look, when Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: revived the idea that Greenland should become part of the

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Speaker 2: United States, predictable snickering followed. But beneath the late night

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Speaker 2: jokes lies a serious argument rooted in history, geography, and

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Speaker 2: national security.

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Speaker 3: Here's the simple truth.

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Speaker 2: The United States has both precedent and logic on its

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Speaker 2: side when it comes to acquiring Greenland. Now, critics insist

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Speaker 2: this is some newfangled Trump aberration, it is not.

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Speaker 3: For more than one hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 2: Years, American leaders have recognized greenland strategic importance, not as

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Speaker 2: a whimsical real estate fantasy, but as a vital asset

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Speaker 2: for national defense and global influence. Let's get one thing straight.

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Speaker 2: This is not about invading Greenland. That's ridiculous. This is

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Speaker 2: not colonial conquest. This is about acquisition by consent, a

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Speaker 2: negotiated transfer of sovereignty, something frankly that the United States

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Speaker 2: has done peacefully before, through purchase or treaty. Despite hysterical

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Speaker 2: cable news commentary, this deal would not be made on

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Speaker 2: a battlefield, but rather at a table. Long before Trump,

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Speaker 2: US presidents and secretaries of state understood Greenland's strategic value.

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Speaker 2: In eighteen sixty seven, Secretary of State William Seward explored

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Speaker 2: acquiring Greenland alongside Alaska and Iceland. He recognized its geographic

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Speaker 2: promise long ago. He did get Alaska, but Greenland would

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Speaker 2: have to wait. After World War Two, the idea came back,

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Speaker 2: this time with urgency. In nineteen forty six, President Harry

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Speaker 2: Truman formed offered Denmark one hundred million dollars in gold

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Speaker 2: to buy Greenland.

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Speaker 3: This was not symbolic or speculative. It was a serious.

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Speaker 2: Proposal designed to secure America's northern flank at the outset

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Speaker 2: of the Cold War. Denmark declined the offer, but granted

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Speaker 2: the United States critical defense rights that remain in place today.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the United States operates the Pitifix Space Base

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Speaker 2: in northern Greenland, a cornerstone of early warning systems and

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Speaker 2: space surveillance. That fact alone underscores Greenland's enduring military value.

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Speaker 3: History proves two things.

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Speaker 2: Greenland matters, and America's interest in it is nothing new.

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Speaker 2: There is also a reasonable argument to be made here

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Speaker 2: that Denmark has not been the strongest steward of the island,

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Speaker 2: and that the United States could offer greater economic opportunity

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Speaker 2: and security for the small population.

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Speaker 3: That lives there. Donald Trump simply said out.

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Speaker 2: Loud, as he often does, what others have always acknowledged quietly.

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Speaker 2: We need Greenland, the president says, from the standpoint of

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Speaker 2: national security. He also made clear that Denmark is not

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Speaker 2: equipped to defend it adequately. This is not in question.

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Speaker 3: They really aren't.

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Speaker 2: Secretary of State Marco Rubio reinforced this point, dismissing the

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Speaker 2: idea that Trump was joking. Secretary of State Rubio says,

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Speaker 2: this is not a joke. This is in our national

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Speaker 2: interest and it needs to be solved. The geography here

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Speaker 2: is undeniable. Greenland sits astride the shortest trans Arctic route

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Speaker 2: between North America and Eurasia. As melting ice opens new

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Speaker 2: shipping lanes and exposes rare earth resources, Chinese and Russian

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Speaker 2: influence is growing. No serious global strategists could ignore this reality.

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Speaker 2: Greenland is, in a fact, a massive forward operating base,

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Speaker 2: a strategic choke point that could determine who controls the

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Speaker 2: Arctic's future. Critics invoke the word sovereignty as if this

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Speaker 2: would end the debate.

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Speaker 3: It does not.

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Speaker 2: This is about offering a mutually beneficial path forward, one

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Speaker 2: that strengthlens Greenland economically, while deepening Western security. Respect for

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Speaker 2: self determination matters, but serious negotiation among allies is not unprecedented.

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Speaker 2: The Louisiana purchase and the Alaska Deal were both ridiculed

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Speaker 2: in their time, but history proved otherwise. These were highly

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Speaker 2: successful ideas for the United States. What truly unsettles Trump's

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Speaker 2: critics is not the substance of the idea. It's the

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Speaker 2: willingness to break taboos. Elites like to pretend that geography

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Speaker 2: no longer matters. Greenland proves exactly the opposite. In an

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Speaker 2: era of renewed great power competition with Russia and pressing

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Speaker 2: into the Arctic, the United States should not blink. Offering

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Speaker 2: a serious deal for Greenland is not reckless. It's just

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Speaker 2: strategic common sense. The jokes obscure a sober truth. A

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Speaker 2: strong America with a secure North Atlantic flank is good

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Speaker 2: for the West. History from Seward to Truman and now

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Speaker 2: to Trump shows Greenland has never been a punchline. It's

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Speaker 2: always been a prize. That's it for the first hour.

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Speaker 2: Coming up at the top of the hour, Steve Scalise,

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Speaker 2: House Majority floor leader down in Washington, DC, is our

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Speaker 2: special guest. You're listening to common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 2: We'll get all the latest from Washington, all the latest

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Speaker 2: news coming.

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Speaker 3: Up right here on Salem. Stay with us, the voice.

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Speaker 1: Of free speech, the truth delivered, common Sense for the

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Speaker 1: American people. Welcome to the Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's Thursday, January the eighth, Common Sense for the

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Speaker 2: American People. Scott Jennings Here on Salem. We are hoping,

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Speaker 2: hoping to hear from the US House Majority floor leaders

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Speaker 2: Steve Scalise in a little while. I know he's got

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Speaker 2: some stuff going on in the House. We were hoping

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Speaker 2: to have him here at the top of the show,

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Speaker 2: but we're getting him in from the hallway, so we're

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Speaker 2: gonna wait for Steve Scalise. I'm gonna start back on

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Speaker 2: Minnesota though, while we get Congressman Scalise.

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Speaker 3: It's just this story is crazy.

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Speaker 2: And the gas lighting and the narratives coming out of

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Speaker 2: the left, coming out of the media is crazy. I

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Speaker 2: thought you might enjoy seeing and hearing what I had

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Speaker 2: to say to Abbie Philip on CNN last night. Let's

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Speaker 2: play cut number three, my monologue on the at ten

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Speaker 2: o'clock show. What strikes me is, first of all, it's

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Speaker 2: extremely sad, and unfortunate that someone died. I mean the

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Speaker 2: political fighting and disagreements aside.

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Speaker 3: It's it's terrible.

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Speaker 2: You don't want people to die in law enforcement situations

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Speaker 2: or otherwise. But it strikes me that we are undergoing

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Speaker 2: an epidemic of political vigilanteism right now. Why are people

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Speaker 2: showing up in vehicles in convoys, not just in Minneapolis,

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Speaker 2: but all over the country in an effort to obstruct

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Speaker 2: lawful federal law enforcement activities.

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Speaker 3: This is not an isolated incident.

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Speaker 2: We have had hundreds of car rammings against ICE agents

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Speaker 2: all over the country. According to DHS, this lady in

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Speaker 2: this car today, along with other vehicles, had been tracking

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Speaker 2: ICE agents around. Why are people believing that they can

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Speaker 2: drive their car into a federal law enforcement situation and

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Speaker 2: that is an appropriate thing to do. I understand they

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Speaker 2: don't like the fact that these agents are enforcing existing

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Speaker 2: immigration law, but that's not how we change laws in

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Speaker 2: this country.

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Speaker 3: If you don't like a law, you talk to the politicians.

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Speaker 2: You don't drive your car into the middle of a

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Speaker 2: building or a law enforcement situation that's being occupied by

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Speaker 2: the people who are simply there to enforce the law.

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Speaker 2: If I don't like how much the IRS is charging

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Speaker 2: me in taxas. I don't drive my car into the

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Speaker 2: Treasury Department try to run somebody over. I call my congressman.

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Speaker 2: Political vigilanteism is being encouraged by Democratic officials like the

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Speaker 2: Lieutenant governor of Minnesota Peggy Flanagan, who earlier this year.

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Speaker 3: Told people to quote put your.

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Speaker 2: Bodies on the line, and Tim Walls calling these guys

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Speaker 2: gestapo all year. What do you think happens when you

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Speaker 2: radicalize a base of people about this? I was worked

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Speaker 2: up last night and I want to ask our next

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Speaker 2: guest about It's Steve Scalise, the majority floor leader of

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Speaker 2: the United States House of Representatives from the great state

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Speaker 2: of Louisiana. Congressman Scalise, are you there? I think we

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Speaker 2: have him on the phone here. I assume you've been

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Speaker 2: watching the news and reacting to this stuff going on

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Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. What's on your mind about it today.

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Speaker 10: Sir, Yeah, Scott, a lot. And you know one is

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Speaker 10: you know, you don't want to see anybody injured. But

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Speaker 10: this started when the crazy lunatics on the left decided

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Speaker 10: they were going to start targeting ice agents. And this

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Speaker 10: has been going on for months and months. I mean,

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Speaker 10: we're seeing attacked against ice agents up over a thousand percent.

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Speaker 10: These are people going after law enforcement, and many of

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Speaker 10: them are be encouraged by left wing politicians. You see

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Speaker 10: timptin Waals, you talked about what he said about just

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Speaker 10: trying to compare our law enforcement officers to Gestopoh, this

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Speaker 10: has to stop. They're enflaming this kind of left wing

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Speaker 10: violence against law enforcement. First they tried to defund the police,

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Speaker 10: now they're going after them. I mean, look, we're going

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Speaker 10: to get the fact and there's going to be an investigation,

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Speaker 10: but we know for a fact that time and time

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Speaker 10: again we've seen people attacking ice officers for doing their jobs.

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Speaker 10: They're trying to secure America's border and our interior from criminals.

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Speaker 10: We've had American citizens murdered by people here illegally. How

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Speaker 10: many times do you have to see if we passed

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Speaker 10: laws but Lake and Riley Act other bills because of

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Speaker 10: the murders that have happened, And yet there are citizens

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Speaker 10: today that are going and attacking law enforcement for doing

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Speaker 10: their jobs, carrying out the laws of this land.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: What sort of strikes me is weird about all this

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Speaker 2: is that we haven't passed any new immigration laws since

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump became the president.

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Speaker 3: These laws have been on the books for a long time.

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Speaker 2: And Democrats, instead of trying to change the laws, I

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Speaker 2: guess because they can't because we're in the majority, they

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Speaker 2: lost the election, They've just decided to become political vigilantes. Well,

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Speaker 2: we're not going to change the laws. We're just going

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Speaker 2: to try to prevent laws from being enforced. Is this

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Speaker 2: the first time in your political career you've seen anything

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Speaker 2: like this where people are essentially taking matters into their

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Speaker 2: own hands. You now even have Senator Tina Smith from

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Speaker 2: across the capitol there from you saying Ice and the

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Speaker 2: federal govern needs to get out of Minnesota. It's like

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Speaker 2: they want to exist in a state of secession where

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Speaker 2: the federal laws don't apply to people in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, you hear it when these nutty left

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Speaker 10: wing celebrities say, oh, g you was if Trump wins

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Speaker 10: were going to move to another country. You know, if

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Speaker 10: you hate America so much, then go move to that

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Speaker 10: other country. And what is that country? By the way,

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Speaker 10: you know, were they gonna move to Moscow? Because they

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Speaker 10: love Russia so much. They want socialism, they want Marxism.

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Speaker 10: Go to China, where you don't have the same kind

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Speaker 10: of rights you have in the United States of America.

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Speaker 10: But I mean, it seems like every day they want

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Speaker 10: to attack America, attack law enforcement, who are, like you said,

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Speaker 10: carrying out the laws of this land. Democrats had the House,

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Speaker 10: Senate and White House just four years ago. They didn't

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Speaker 10: try to change any of these laws. They now they

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Speaker 10: opened up the border illegally. They literally ignored existing law.

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Speaker 10: Joe Biden ignored law when he said, come on into

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Speaker 10: America illegally, and millions of people took him up. And

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Speaker 10: it wasn't a lot of great people. There's a lot

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Speaker 10: of criminals, a lot of bad people. You had countries

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Speaker 10: releasing their criminals from jails, and then we had murder

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Speaker 10: shooting up. We had drugs coming into this country, the

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Speaker 10: cartels of Mexico at operational control of America southern border.

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Speaker 10: Trump got control of all that, And I would argue,

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Speaker 10: by the way, Scott, that's one of the main reasons

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Speaker 10: Donald Trump got elected. Border security was the number one issue.

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Speaker 10: I went all around this country, including traveling with President

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Speaker 10: Trump and some swing states, and everywhere we went, President

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Speaker 10: Trump number one, he said I'm going to secure the border,

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Speaker 10: and that got the biggest applause. He said a lot

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Speaker 10: of other things too, about what he's going to do

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Speaker 10: to reverse the damage Joe Biden did to so many

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Speaker 10: other things to our economy, rules and regulations, energy prices,

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Speaker 10: soaring housing costs, soaring food cost soaring all of those

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Speaker 10: things happened under Joe Biden. And by the way, because

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Speaker 10: of Obamacare, you're still seeing skyrocketing health care costs, all

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Speaker 10: because of Democrat left wing policies. And Donald Trump ran

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Speaker 10: the fix all of it and he's working on it.

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Speaker 10: There's a lot more work to do, by the way.

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Speaker 10: And everything the Democrats do was obstruct They vote no

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Speaker 10: on everything, They encourage people to go and attack law enforcement.

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Speaker 10: You know, you're seeing the fraud in Minnesota. We didn't

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Speaker 10: even talk about that talking about Minnesota. You know, yesterday

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Speaker 10: started with a hearing in Congress with some whistleblowers and

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Speaker 10: state legislators talking about billions of your tax dollars stolen,

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Speaker 10: stolen by Somali's and others in Minnesota because the governor

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Speaker 10: of the states, and also look the other way when

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Speaker 10: all this fraud was going on, It was going on

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Speaker 10: for years and years stealing your hard earned money. And

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Speaker 10: what is the Democrat response, They want to raise your taxes.

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Speaker 10: You know, the mandamnie wing of the party that's running

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Speaker 10: this country now. On the Democrats side, you know that say, hey,

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Speaker 10: everything should be free. Well, of course they're getting all

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Speaker 10: that money from you. If you work for a living,

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Speaker 10: you're the guy providing the free stuff to the people

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Speaker 10: that want to come here illegally and ignore our laws

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Speaker 10: and attack our law enforcement. It's time for this country

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Speaker 10: to get back to the rule of law. Donald Trump

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Speaker 10: was elected to do that. He's carrying that out. Our

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Speaker 10: brave men and women in law enforcement, by the way,

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Speaker 10: are part of doing that job, and they're under attacked

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Speaker 10: every day and it's got to stop.

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Speaker 2: Congressman, we got about thirty seconds before we need to

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Speaker 2: go to a break. I do want to ask you

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Speaker 2: about the attacks on ICE agents. I know a few

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Speaker 2: months ago there were some legislative proposals floating around to

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Speaker 2: dramatically increase the penalties on people who attack a federal

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Speaker 2: law enforcement Is that still floating around.

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Speaker 3: Is that something we're going to see pop up this year?

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Speaker 10: There's still bills moving through committees to help give stronger

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Speaker 10: protection to our law enforcement. Obviously federal law enforcement officers

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Speaker 10: who have been under attacked. One of the things we've

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Speaker 10: put in the work in family tacks. Got the Big

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Speaker 10: Beautiful Bill is a bonus ten thousand dollars bonus too,

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Speaker 10: our ice officers who were under attack. We gave a

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Speaker 10: pay raise to our military, our men and women in

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Speaker 10: uniform who are protecting us from domestic and terrorism threats

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Speaker 10: all around the world. You're seeing that those threats come

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Speaker 10: to America sometimes, but the goal is to keep it

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Speaker 10: out of our country and to go after the bad

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Speaker 10: guys where they are so they don't come here. But

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Speaker 10: it takes a full effort, and I'm glad that the

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Speaker 10: Trump adminished tration has respected law enforcement after years of

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Speaker 10: them being put under a pack and frankly being targeted

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Speaker 10: is to bad guys by the left wing.

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Speaker 2: That's Congressman Steve Scalise, the House Majority floor leader in Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. Congressman, stay with us through the break. When

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Speaker 2: we come back, I want to ask you about what's

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Speaker 2: going to happen next. I know we have a thin

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Speaker 2: majority now because of circumstances, and I know there's an

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Speaker 2: idea about the possibility of a new budget reconciliation process starting.

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Speaker 3: I want to get to that after the break.

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Speaker 6: Ready for more common sense here, CNN senior political commentator,

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Speaker 6: New York Times best selling author and America's favorite political pundit,

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Speaker 6: Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to common sense for the American people. Scott

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Speaker 2: Jennings in New York City today, Congressman Steve Scalise, the

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Speaker 2: House Majority floor leader, on the line with us. Congressman,

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Speaker 2: thanks for spending some time with us. You guys got

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Speaker 2: a big job right now, and a tough one because

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Speaker 2: of the margins. We had an unfortunate passing of one

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Speaker 2: of your members, and had a resign from Marjorie Taylor

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Speaker 2: Green and other issues. You're down to effectively a one

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Speaker 2: seat majority. I asked this of the Speaker yesterday on

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Speaker 2: the show, and I'll ask you, how are we feeling

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Speaker 2: in the room with the team, because it's going to

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Speaker 2: require nothing short of perfect teamwork to do what you

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Speaker 2: want to do in the next few months. How are

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Speaker 2: you feeling about keeping everybody together?

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Speaker 10: Well, a couple of things on that, Scott. Let me

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Speaker 10: first say that Doug LaMalfa, that the colleague that we

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Speaker 10: just lost two days ago, three days ago. Uh, just

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Speaker 10: a wonderful, wonderful person, great human being. Is congressman from California,

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Speaker 10: came in twenty twelve and just had the biggest heart

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Speaker 10: and I love serving with them. And so there is

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Speaker 10: a human side of this. And then we look at

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Speaker 10: numbers and majorities. But but Doug was one of the

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Speaker 10: good guys and we're going to miss him a lot.

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Speaker 10: And in terms of okay, where do we go from here?

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Speaker 10: You know, I know Doug would want us to keep

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Speaker 10: plowing forward doing our work. And you know, I'll give

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Speaker 10: you something that President Trump shared with us. We met

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Speaker 10: with President Trump on Tuesday of this week to talk

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Speaker 10: about the twenty twenty six agenda, and it's a very

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Speaker 10: bold agenda. We're not slowing down. Sure, we have a

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Speaker 10: small majority. We've got a small majority this whole Congress,

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Speaker 10: and yet we've done really really big things, including the

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Speaker 10: one big beautiful bill. President Trump' say enough quote it's

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Speaker 10: not a big majority, but it's a unified majority. And Scott,

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Speaker 10: that's really been the key. Everything that we've done, all

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Speaker 10: the big things we've done for the American people have

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Speaker 10: been Republicans coming together. Sure, we've had differences, you can

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Speaker 10: read about them in the paper. But then we've come

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Speaker 10: together and we just get the job done. While Democrats

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Speaker 10: vote no on everything. They voted to raise your taxi,

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Speaker 10: they voted to open the border. You know, you can

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Speaker 10: go see all the things that they've done. We have said,

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Speaker 10: we've got to come together if we're going to be

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Speaker 10: able to reverse all the damage that Joe Biden did.

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Speaker 10: If we want a lower inflation, which we're finally starting

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Speaker 10: to do, it's not enough. If we want to lower

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Speaker 10: healthcare cost which, by the way, wait, we just passed

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Speaker 10: a bill last month for lower health care costs eleven percent.

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Speaker 10: It's over in the Senate. Let's get the Senate to

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Speaker 10: move that bill. Every Democrat voted no on that bill,

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Speaker 10: by the way, because they don't want to lower your

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Speaker 10: healthcare premiums. They want an issue to just go talk

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Speaker 10: about and throw billions of dollars to big health insurance companies,

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Speaker 10: the companies that have record profits while they raise your premiums.

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Speaker 10: So our answer is lower premiums for families. And we're

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Speaker 10: going to keep working on things like lowering energy costs.

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Speaker 10: We're working on a reconciliation bill. If we can come

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Speaker 10: together there, and again it's going to be up to

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Speaker 10: us as Republicans because Democrats have already made it clear

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Speaker 10: they don't want any more proglot policies that will result

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Speaker 10: in higher wages for workers or more energy, produce more

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Speaker 10: natural resources. Why should we be getting critical minerals from

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Speaker 10: China and other countries when we can make them all here,

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Speaker 10: but they're shut down because of Biden. Arrow regulations that

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Speaker 10: we want to reverse are to build things in America.

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Speaker 10: We need more permitting reform. We passed a really good

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Speaker 10: bill out of the House to do that so that

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Speaker 10: people in the northeast part of the country don't have

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Speaker 10: to get their energy from tankers from foreign countries when

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Speaker 10: they can get it from Ohio and Pennsylvania. But because

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Speaker 10: of really stupid policies in states like New York that

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Speaker 10: want to shut down their neighbor's energy supply, everybody's paying

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Speaker 10: more for electricity costs, for example, in those states. How

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Speaker 10: about we lower electricity costs and buy and make more

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Speaker 10: things in America. So we're passing bills to do that

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Speaker 10: through the House the nights. If we had one or

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Speaker 10: two Democrats that would vote on any of this stuff.

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Speaker 10: But we're going to keep the oct whatever the majority.

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Speaker 2: Is the House has actually passed in legislation, and I

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Speaker 2: know there's some other things you want to do. We've

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Speaker 2: got about thirty seconds here, a Congressman. Is the way

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Speaker 2: forward a budget reconciliation process like the.

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Speaker 3: One that you use to deliver the big beautiful bill

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Speaker 3: last summer.

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Speaker 10: That's one piece, and again it requires us to come

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Speaker 10: together on that. There's other bills that we're going to

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Speaker 10: be moving this year as well. We're going to be

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Speaker 10: not more waste, broaden abuse. Imagine every time we find

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Speaker 10: a billion here and another ten billion there of your

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Speaker 10: money that's being wasted or stolen like in Minnesota, that's

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Speaker 10: more money in your pocket. That lowers inflation, that lowers

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Speaker 10: interest rates. So we're going to be working on a

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Speaker 10: lot of different fronts to put more money in the

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Speaker 10: pockets of hard work and tax payers. Democrats will vote no,

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Speaker 10: I get it. That's what they do. They're socialists, they're

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Speaker 10: Marxists now. But we're going to be fighting for those

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Speaker 10: working families who have been left behind for way too long.

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Speaker 2: As Congressman Steve Scalies from the Great State of Louisiana,

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Speaker 2: he is the House Majority floor leader, and it is

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Speaker 2: his job to keep along with the Speaker Johnson and

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Speaker 2: the rest of the leadership team. It's his job to

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Speaker 2: keep the team together and deliver on the Republican agenda

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Speaker 2: in Congress. And they're doing it with small margins right now.

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Speaker 2: But as he pointed out, they have been passing some legislation.

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Speaker 2: They are working for the American people. Congressman, thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining us. We'll keep up with you in the weeks ahead,

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Speaker 2: and look forward to seeing you up in the capital

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Speaker 2: very soon.

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Speaker 3: We're going to take a break.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Congressman. Good to see you, sir. When we

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Speaker 2: come back, I've got Mike Summers here. He's the president

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Speaker 2: and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute. These are the

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Speaker 2: oil companies. They're the news right now. We'll hear from

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Speaker 2: him when we come back. Common Sense for the American people, stay.

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Speaker 6: With us, saving Western civilization, One busted leftist narrative at

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Speaker 6: a time. It's the Scott Jenny Show.

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Speaker 2: Common Sense for the American People. Thursday, January the eight

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings broadcasting live today from New York City back

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Speaker 2: in the Big Apple, and tomorrow I think we're going

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Speaker 2: to be broadcasting from Orlando, Florida. Salem's got a nice

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Speaker 2: set up down there, so we'll see our friends down

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Speaker 2: in Orlando tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Today though in.

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Speaker 2: A cold, big apple, digesting the news of the day,

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Speaker 2: talking mostly about Minnesota today, but I want to talk

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Speaker 2: a little bit about energy because underlying so much of

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Speaker 2: what's going on in our public policy in Washington and

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Speaker 2: even our international affairs right now now is our relationship

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Speaker 2: with energy.

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Speaker 3: What's going on with oil and so on and so forth.

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Speaker 2: Joining us right now special guest conversation today with Mike Summers.

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Speaker 2: He's the president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute.

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Speaker 2: This is the leading trade association of America's oil and

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Speaker 2: natural gas industry API. We call it around Washington, representing

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Speaker 2: more than six hundred companies advocating for American energy production, dominance, security,

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Speaker 2: and affordability. Mike Summers, Welcome into the Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 5: Scott is great to be with you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us today, and I just want to

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Speaker 2: start with the biggest energy news of the moment, Venezuela.

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Speaker 3: And maybe you did not have this on.

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Speaker 2: Your BINGO card for twenty twenty six, but here we

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Speaker 2: are Venezuela and the President's comments about the oil industry there,

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Speaker 2: what we're doing to you, frankly, bring some kind of

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Speaker 2: legitimate government back to that country, and how oil is

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Speaker 2: wrapped up in that.

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Speaker 3: I read in news accounts.

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Speaker 2: That most of the top oil executives are meeting with

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Speaker 2: the President Friday in the Oval Office to discuss this.

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Speaker 2: As the head of the American Petroleum Institute, what can

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Speaker 2: you tell us about this right now? I know it's

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Speaker 2: very new, I know we're just days into it, but

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Speaker 2: what's your sort of viewpoint on this American involvement with

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Speaker 2: oil in Venezuela.

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Speaker 11: Well, look, I think it would help your listeners if

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Speaker 11: we just did a little bit of history here. So

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Speaker 11: most of the United States oil companies, Exxon Mobile and

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Speaker 11: Connico Phillips in particular, the industry basically left the country

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Speaker 11: of Venezuela around the two thousand and seven period. This

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Speaker 11: was when Hugo Chavez really started feeling his oats, really

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Speaker 11: decided that he was going to nationalize all of the

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Speaker 11: oil companies. There was only one company that really remained,

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Speaker 11: and that was Chevron. Chevron is still there operating in

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Speaker 11: a place called Maricabo Lake and they've operated there for

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Speaker 11: over one hundred years.

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Speaker 5: But the big resource is.

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Speaker 11: In an area of Venezuela called Orinoco Belt, and Orinoco has

944
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Speaker 11: very heavy oil. It's very difficult to process, but it

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Speaker 11: is the primary place where American companies could really discover

946
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Speaker 11: a bounty of oil down in Venezuela. But really the

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Speaker 11: industry left Venezuela in two thousand and seven. Think about

948
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Speaker 11: the place that we were in in two thousand and seven,

949
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Speaker 11: where the United States was only producing about five million

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Speaker 11: barrels of oil every single day. This was in the

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Speaker 11: very early stages of the fracking revolution. So today we're

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Speaker 11: producing about thirteen million barrels of oil every single day just.

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Speaker 5: In the United States.

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Speaker 11: And in addition to that, we've kind of moved on

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Speaker 11: from Venezuela as an industry. There's no investment down there

956
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Speaker 11: because of the socialist regime in that country. We found

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Speaker 11: other resources offshore in Guyana, or in Canada, or by

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Speaker 11: the way here right here in the United States of America,

959
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Speaker 11: the Permian Basin in Texas, or the back and shale

960
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Speaker 11: in North Dakota. We have grown our footprint as an

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Speaker 11: oil and gas superpower.

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Speaker 5: So as an industry.

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Speaker 11: You know, Venezuela is kind of at the bottom of

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Speaker 11: the list, but the resource potential is enormous, and so yeah,

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Speaker 11: there of course is going to be.

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Speaker 5: Interested in the country of Venezuela.

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Speaker 11: But you have to remember that this is this is

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Speaker 11: kind of a backwater right now because of that socialist

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Speaker 11: regime that has done so much damage to the America,

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Speaker 11: to the oil industry in that country.

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Speaker 2: Mike, help our listeners understand something. You refer to this

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Speaker 2: oil as heavy oil. It's hard to process. So if

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Speaker 2: production were to start, you were to get this oil

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Speaker 2: flowing again, where would you process it? And then where

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Speaker 2: would it wind up as part of our economy. This

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Speaker 2: isn't the kind of oil that's going to wind up

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Speaker 2: up in your gas tanks.

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Speaker 5: Right well, actually it could.

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Speaker 11: You know, we've replaced a lot of that so called

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Speaker 11: heavy oil. And when I talk about heavy oil, think

981
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Speaker 11: of it as tar. It's very, very difficult to process.

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Speaker 11: So that same kind of oil can be found to

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Speaker 11: our northern neighbor in Canada. So we replaced a lot

984
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Speaker 11: of the oil that we were getting from Venezuela from Canada.

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Speaker 11: So we're getting the so called Canadian oil sands so

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Speaker 11: that's a very similar kind of oil. Interestingly, the United

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Speaker 11: States refining industry, those that take the oil and turn

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Speaker 11: it into the products that we use on a daily basis, gasoline, diesel, asphalt.

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Speaker 11: Those the refineries in the United States are actually tooled

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Speaker 11: to refine the kind of oil that you find in Venezuela.

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Speaker 5: In Canada, why is that, One.

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Speaker 11: Of the reasons is is because we haven't built a

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Speaker 11: refinery in this country since nineteen seventy seven. And when

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Speaker 11: you think about the oil market that we found ourselves

995
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Speaker 11: in nineteen seventy seven, it was a much different oil

996
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Speaker 11: market where we were importing most of the oil that

997
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Speaker 11: we needed in this country, and because of all these

998
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Speaker 11: crazy environmental regulations, it's very difficult to build a new

999
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Speaker 11: refinery in this country. So when Venezuela was an oil superpower,

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Speaker 11: we were importing a lot of oil from Venezuela, that

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Speaker 11: heavy oil, because that's what was used in our refineries.

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Speaker 11: But since they turned to socialism, since they turned this

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Speaker 11: terrible totalitarian regime that was coerced upon the poor Venezuelan people,

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Speaker 11: and remember huge they have a great history of democracy

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Speaker 11: in that country pre Chavez, we've replaced all of that

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Speaker 11: heavy oil with oil from other places around the world.

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Speaker 11: But if we're gonna have energy security going forward here

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Speaker 11: in the Western hemisphere, of course Venezuela should play a role.

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Speaker 11: And I compliment the President of the United States of

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Speaker 11: taking care of this issue, because what we saw is.

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Speaker 5: That oil didn't go away. It was just the.

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Speaker 11: Chinese in the Range, Indians and the Russians that were

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Speaker 11: operating in our hemisphere. So the fact that the President

1014
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Speaker 11: took this on, took this challenge on, and took Maduro out,

1015
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Speaker 11: it could have huge geopolitical consequences for the American people

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Speaker 11: and our country.

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Speaker 2: You know, every time I hear the statistic that we

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Speaker 2: haven't built an oil refinery in this country since nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy seven, it is shocking to me because the demand

1020
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Speaker 2: for energy since nineteen seventy seven here and around the

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Speaker 2: world is obviously increased exponentially. Will we be building new

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Speaker 2: refineries in the near future. Is this something that you

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Speaker 2: think is in the offing for the next few years,

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Speaker 2: or are we just kind of stuck with what we

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Speaker 2: got right now.

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Speaker 11: Well, the truth of the matter is is even though

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Speaker 11: we've had a decline in the number of refineries, in

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Speaker 11: the United States. The complex refinery kit that we have

1029
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Speaker 11: in the United States is.

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Speaker 5: The wonder of the world.

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Speaker 11: The fact that we're able to convert these products into

1032
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Speaker 11: the products that you and I use on a daily

1033
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Speaker 11: basis is truly a miracle. So while we were having

1034
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Speaker 11: a declining number of refineries, those refineries have become much

1035
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Speaker 11: more efficient over time. You think about the situation that

1036
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Speaker 11: we were back in nineteen in two thousand and seven

1037
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Speaker 11: when we were importing all that Venezuelan and oil. We're

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Speaker 11: in a completely different marketplace right now, and that's only

1039
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Speaker 11: because of American ingenuity that we've been able to find

1040
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Speaker 11: these resources. The Frocking Revolution, in my view, was the

1041
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Speaker 11: most important technological change that we've seen in this country

1042
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Speaker 11: in the last fifty years, because it enabled every single

1043
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Speaker 11: other innovation and invention that this country has seen since then.

1044
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Speaker 11: If we weren't an energy superpower, we wouldn't be an

1045
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Speaker 11: economic superpower.

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Speaker 5: And it is exciting that we have these.

1047
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Speaker 11: Resources at our disposal and that we need to continue

1048
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Speaker 11: to expand the American energy superpower that we have become.

1049
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Speaker 11: But that also has to include other countries as well.

1050
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Speaker 11: So yeah, American oil country companies are interested in investing

1051
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Speaker 11: in Venezuela, but a lot of things have to happen

1052
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Speaker 11: before that happens.

1053
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Speaker 2: Well, as much as you're interested in Venezuela, you have

1054
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Speaker 2: been investing in America. And that's what I want to

1055
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Speaker 2: talk about next, American energy dominance. Since taking office a

1056
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Speaker 2: year ago, the President has put a real emphasis on

1057
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Speaker 2: US energy leadership. They've lifted these ev mandates, they've restarted

1058
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Speaker 2: LNG permitting, they've opened up more access, and I think

1059
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Speaker 2: they're really correct me if I'm wrong, engaging with the

1060
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Speaker 2: oil industry and the energy industry in a way that

1061
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Speaker 2: we just haven't seen in the previous administration. Maybe characterized

1062
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Speaker 2: for the audience MIC, what is it like to work

1063
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 2: with a new administration compared to what you had to

1064
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Speaker 2: work with under Biden?

1065
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 3: And is that engagement?

1066
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Speaker 2: And is the new attitude in Washington leading directly to

1067
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Speaker 2: American energy dominance in the world.

1068
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Speaker 5: Absolutely.

1069
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Speaker 11: And let's rewind to the era when Joe Biden was

1070
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 11: President of the United States, when they had a war

1071
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Speaker 11: on oil and gas. We actually invited the Energy Secretary

1072
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Speaker 11: Secretary Granholm to an API board meeting at the very

1073
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Speaker 11: beginning of the Biden term and one of the things

1074
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Speaker 11: that she said to us is that this industry needed

1075
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Speaker 11: to change, otherwise we would become Kodak. You think about

1076
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 11: how what a terrible statement that was that someone would

1077
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Speaker 11: actually say that to an industry that has been so

1078
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Speaker 11: fundamental to this country's success, the American oil and gas industry,

1079
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Speaker 11: and how dismissive it was and how naive it was

1080
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Speaker 11: from an energy reality perspective. Fast forward to President Trump's

1081
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 11: second term, and we actually have an administration that wants

1082
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 11: to work with this industry to advance an industry, to

1083
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Speaker 11: ensure that American consumers have access to oil and gas

1084
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Speaker 11: and lower price prices at the pump.

1085
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Speaker 5: And so from day one.

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Speaker 11: This administration has worked with us, from the executive orders

1087
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Speaker 11: on day one that ensured that we can operate effectively,

1088
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 11: to the regulatory reform that they've put in place, to

1089
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Speaker 11: lifting the LNG pause that was put in place by

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Speaker 11: the Biden administration, to allowing us to finally operate again

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Speaker 11: in the Gulf of America and in onshore on federal lands,

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Speaker 11: and then finally with a completion of the One Big

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Speaker 11: Beautiful Bill that mandated more lease sales in the Golf

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Speaker 11: of America, mandated le sales onshore, and finally gave us

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Speaker 11: a tax system that is actually competitive with the rest

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Speaker 11: of the world.

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Speaker 5: It has been a complete and utter sea change.

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Speaker 11: And as a consequence, what you're seeing right now is

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Speaker 11: you're seeing an American oil and gas industry that is

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Speaker 11: thriving and that is producing more oil than any country

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Speaker 11: has in the history of humanity. And that is good

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Speaker 11: news for American consumers and great news for our geopolitical strength.

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Speaker 2: So gas prices are down people like that, maybe approaching

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Speaker 2: to or less than two dollars a gallon in a

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Speaker 2: number of states. I assume the employment picture for the

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Speaker 2: energy industry, for the petroleum industry is up.

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Speaker 3: You guys are hiring in a lot of places.

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Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely.

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Speaker 11: We support about eleven million jobs throughout the United States

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Speaker 11: in every congressional district in the country. And you know,

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Speaker 11: we also represent about seven percent of American GDP. And

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Speaker 11: I like to say Scott that that's really the first

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Speaker 11: seven percent, because there's no way that we can have

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Speaker 11: a manufacturing base or the kind of industrial base that

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Speaker 11: we have in this country if it were not for

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Speaker 11: the American energy superpower that came as a consequence of

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Speaker 11: American oil and Gas.

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Speaker 2: That voice you're hearing today on the Scott Jennings Show,

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Speaker 2: Mike Summers. He's the head of the American Petroleum Institute.

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Speaker 2: They represent all of the big oil companies and the

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Speaker 2: energy companies, about six hundred of them. And Mike, we're

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Speaker 2: going to take a break. When we come back, I

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Speaker 2: actually want to ask you about next week. I know

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Speaker 2: you're having your big annual State of American Energy event.

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Speaker 3: I want to hear about that when we come back.

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Speaker 6: He's the author of the best selling book A Revolution

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Speaker 6: of Common Sense, Piers Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 2: Part of that Revolution of common Sense was common sense

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Speaker 2: actions taken by the Trump administration to get our energy

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Speaker 2: policy correct in this country. We're talking to Mike Summer's

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Speaker 2: head of the American Petroleum Institute, today about all of that. Mike,

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Speaker 2: thanks for being with us on the show today. You

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Speaker 2: have your annual State of American Energy event next week

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Speaker 2: in Washington, DC. You're calling this the Demand Decade. What

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Speaker 2: does that mean? The demand decade? Why is this a

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Speaker 2: defining moment for US energy policy?

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Speaker 11: Well, you think about the kind of energy that was

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Speaker 11: required when President Trump was president. The first time energy

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Speaker 11: demand was only going up about one point five to

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Speaker 11: two percent a year under President Trump when he was

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Speaker 11: president the first time. We're in a completely different situation

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Speaker 11: now where energy demand is expected to go up rapidly

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Speaker 11: over the course of the next fifteen to twenty years.

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Speaker 5: One estimate says that in.

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Speaker 11: The next fifteen years we're going to need fifty percent

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Speaker 11: more energy than what we use right now just to

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Speaker 11: supply more data centers and to win the war for

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Speaker 11: artificial and intelligence with China.

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Speaker 5: So what we're.

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Speaker 11: Talking about here is that that demand is going to

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Speaker 11: continue to grow in this country, and if this country

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Speaker 11: is going to continue to be the world's superpower, the

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Speaker 11: world energy superpower, we have to invest in the future.

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Speaker 11: Now what that means is more pipelines, more development in

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Speaker 11: the United States, and more energy infrastructure to supply the

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Speaker 11: data centers and artificial intelligence that's going to keep this

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Speaker 11: country growing as an economy. So next week on Tuesday,

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Speaker 11: we have our big event State of American Energy. We've

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Speaker 11: been doing this event for over a decade where we're

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Speaker 11: going to be outlining our priorities for the future. A

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Speaker 11: lot of it has to do with how do we

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Speaker 11: continue to build the infrastructure that we're going to need

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Speaker 11: to power the future, but we're also going to have

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Speaker 11: industry experts and CEOs from my member companies talking about

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Speaker 11: what's going to be required in twenty twenty six. And finally,

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Speaker 11: we're excited to announce that Andy Garcia, who's one of

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Speaker 11: the big characters in the show Landman, is also going

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Speaker 11: to be making an appearance to talk about how that

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Speaker 11: show has really changed the cultural moment that we're in

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Speaker 11: and we now have a one of these big Hollywood

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Speaker 11: shows highlighting how great it is to work in the

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Speaker 11: American oilan passage.

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Speaker 2: Andy Garcia, now he plays like the narco terrorist who's

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Speaker 2: now helping Billy, Bob Forden and Demi Moore. Okay, well,

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Speaker 2: bullet forty yeah, Bullet ford To hearing it from Andy Garci,

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Speaker 2: I love that show. But let me ask you this.

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Speaker 2: I assume because of this show, people are now walking

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Speaker 2: up to you. And by the way, when I watch it,

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Speaker 2: I see some ads and stuff from API in there.

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Speaker 2: I assume this is like renewing interest in energy companies

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Speaker 2: and oil companies and causing people who didn't know much

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Speaker 2: about it to ask you questions about it. Has Landman

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Speaker 2: had a huge impact on your own pr both personally

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Speaker 2: and just as an industry.

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Speaker 11: You know, when we started our partnership with Landman, right

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Speaker 11: before the first episode aired in season one, were a

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Speaker 11: little bit concerned as to how it was going to

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Speaker 11: portray the industry. But after a couple of episodes were

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Speaker 11: it was clear to us that this was going to

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Speaker 11: be a huge boon to our industry.

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Speaker 5: I don't think that it is changing the cultural moment

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Speaker 5: that we are in.

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Speaker 11: I think it is a reflection of the cultural moment

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Speaker 11: that we are in. This is an industry and that

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Speaker 11: actually is very popular with the American people. The American

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Speaker 11: people because of that big price surge that we saw

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Speaker 11: under President Biden, understand how important American energy dominance is, and.

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Speaker 5: We see it in our polling.

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Speaker 11: This is an industry that's more popular than finance, it's

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Speaker 11: more popular than pharma. It's more popular than just about

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Speaker 11: any other industry out there.

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Speaker 5: And we're proud of that.

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Speaker 11: And I think what Landman recognizes, it's a cultural phenomenon.

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Speaker 11: Of course, the number one streaming show in America, but

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Speaker 11: it is a reflection of what the American people already

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Speaker 11: knew that this is an essential industry that is providing

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Speaker 11: energy that this country is going to need for decades

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Speaker 11: and decades to come. And we're proud of our partnership

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Speaker 11: with Landman, and this year commercials are all about portraying

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Speaker 11: the real and industry workers in our industry. So we're

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Speaker 11: portraying real Landman and we're real people who work in

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Speaker 11: the oil field. And it's an exciting partnership that we

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Speaker 11: have with Taylor. Sheridan's most important show right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the way he writes it and it's

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Speaker 2: fun to watch. We got about thirty seconds left, Mike.

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Speaker 2: Gas prices are low, production is going well. It's an

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Speaker 2: election year. Can American consumers expect low gas prices throughout

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 11: What they can expect is continued production and continued energy

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Speaker 11: dominance in this country.

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Speaker 5: We are currently producing more oil.

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Speaker 11: More natural gas than we have in any other time

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Speaker 11: in our history and any other country in world history.

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Speaker 11: We're proud of that, and we want to make sure

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Speaker 11: that we're continuing to support the eleven million Americans that

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Speaker 11: work in this industry and consumers that benefit from this

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Speaker 11: industry every single day.

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Speaker 2: That's Mike Summers, head of the American Petroleum Institute, support

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Speaker 2: a lot of jobs, support a lot of companies, offshoot companies.

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Speaker 2: There's second, third, and fourth order economic impacts of what

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Speaker 2: we do with energy, and we're making a lot of

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Speaker 2: it right now. And as you said, American energy dominance

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Speaker 2: is very important. And thank you all, Mike for investing

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Speaker 2: in America. That's all for the Scott Jetting Show today.

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Speaker 2: We'll be live from Orlando tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: See us soon. Common sense for the American people