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Speaker 1: Richard Ardel, how are you yeah?

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Speaker 2: Doing well?

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Speaker 3: Mine? Now?

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Speaker 1: Are we going to get across the hurdle? Here? Is

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Speaker 1: something going to open up or not?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, maybe this misery appears to be on the

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Speaker 3: way to some conclusion, but it isn't coming easily and

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Speaker 3: it leaves a lot of people unhappy, some furious, even

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Speaker 3: as the Democrats who flipsay that they've at least set

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Speaker 3: the table for the debate on the midterm elections coming

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Speaker 3: up next year. So the Senate last night approved the

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Speaker 3: legislation to end the shutdown. It now moves on to

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Speaker 3: the House, which hasn't done any official business since it's September,

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Speaker 3: which seems astonishing anyway, speak of. Johnson sent his House

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Speaker 3: members home at the time in what were seen as

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Speaker 3: a bid to quiet and calls for release of the

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Speaker 3: Jeffrey Epstein file. Seven Democrats and one independent joined all

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Speaker 3: but one Republican senator to pass that government reopening measure,

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Speaker 3: which does not include the very thing Democrats said was

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Speaker 3: their main demand, the continuation of health insurance subsidies. One

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Speaker 3: of those dams who folded his Senator June, who said

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Speaker 3: on this early on.

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Speaker 2: I had a meeting with some constituents last Friday when

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Speaker 2: I was in New Hampshire. One was a man. He said,

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Speaker 2: if I didn't have that insurance through the Affordable Care Act,

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Speaker 2: I would not have gone to the doctor, I would

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Speaker 2: not have gotten my cancer treated, and I would be

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Speaker 2: dead by now.

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Speaker 3: Well, now she is citing those same constituents for the backdown.

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Speaker 2: When I talked to my constituents in New Hampshire, you

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Speaker 2: know what they say to me. They say, why can't

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Speaker 2: you all just work together to address the problems that

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Speaker 2: are facing this country?

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Speaker 3: Right? That's the way, Gozie Washington. Yeah, Trump crushed his opponents,

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Speaker 3: including Democratic Senate leader Schumer, says Trump, of that face off,

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Speaker 3: he thought he could break the Republicans, and the Republicans

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Speaker 3: broke him. Benacle politics. Some Dems are calling for Schumer

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Speaker 3: to be replaced into Bernie Sanders, saying, of this.

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Speaker 2: Look, I think it was a terrible, terrible vote at

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Speaker 2: a time when we have a broken healthcare system.

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Speaker 3: Republicans say they might have a vote on healthcare subsidies,

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Speaker 3: perhaps in December. Even if there is a vote on this,

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Speaker 3: it is unlikely to win Republican backing in Republicans for

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Speaker 3: years have come out with no plans zip for health

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Speaker 3: care improvements, so the expectation would be that millions of

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Speaker 3: people here who have subsidized health care at the minute

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Speaker 3: will lose that health coverage. All this comes to a

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Speaker 3: crunch again by the end of January, when there could

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Speaker 3: be another shutdown, and centrist Dems argue it would be

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Speaker 3: even clearer that their political opponents have nothing on their

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Speaker 3: health issue. Meantime, air travel here continues to be completely chaotic.

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Speaker 3: The number of flight cancelations this week is growing more

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Speaker 3: than today. Trump has slammed those air traffic controllers who,

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Speaker 3: with no money coming in, took on other jobs, who

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Speaker 3: quit just to allow their families to survive. That was Unamerican,

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Speaker 3: says Trump, who doesn't have to worry about missing a

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Speaker 3: monthly paycheck. I guess Trump is proposing a bonus of

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Speaker 3: ten thousand bucks for controllers who stayed on the job.

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Speaker 3: No details on any of that, so they don't hold

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Speaker 3: your breath. Folks. Ask John Fox where he Trump would

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Speaker 3: find the money for that the funding, the President snapped,

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'll get it from someplace.

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Speaker 3: So money for phony paybacks or billions for Argentina no problem.

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Speaker 3: Money for healthcare or food for Americans struggling, not possible.

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Speaker 1: I suppose this was always coming, But this Camp Mystic

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Speaker 1: thing will end up in court.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about time. I think the story has kind

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Speaker 3: of disappeared. Back in July the fourth, it was a

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Speaker 3: dark time when twenty seven people, mostly the young kids

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Speaker 3: of course, drowned in flash floods had that religious retreat

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Speaker 3: site known as Camp Mystic. This camp was in a

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Speaker 3: known flash flood zone. Now, the families of some of

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Speaker 3: those victims of vide lawsuits where they claim in gress

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Speaker 3: negligence by the camp operators, and these lawsuits got to

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Speaker 3: say a brutal in their accusations. They accused the camp

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Speaker 3: management putting profit over safety, some of the parents saying

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Speaker 3: the tragedy was no mischances one.

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Speaker 2: This wasn't an accident, this was complacency and it is

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent preventable.

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Speaker 3: They say the owners chose to house young girls in

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Speaker 3: cabins in flood prone spots to avoid the cost of

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Speaker 3: relocating those cabins. They claim also that when the Weather

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Speaker 3: Service put out their middle of the night warning of

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Speaker 3: life threatening mass flooding, the owners spent about an hour

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Speaker 3: plus predicting equipment. I did nothing at that point to

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Speaker 3: try and save lives. They claimed. The owners wrongly directed

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Speaker 3: some to stay in the cabins while others were running

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Speaker 3: for their lives. The owners say they did not realize

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Speaker 3: at first the scale of this thing, but these are

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Speaker 3: pretty scathing accusations.

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Speaker 1: See Friday Ridgard I'd sightside.

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