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Speaker 1: Tony Katz today. I think it's mostly hilarious when the

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Speaker 1: Republicans hold a news conference house Republican leaders, mostly because

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Speaker 1: I would like to hear the subject that you seem

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Speaker 1: to avoid. How are you planning on winning the mid

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Speaker 1: terms or is everything really predicated on the fact that

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Speaker 1: the Democrats are so completely ridiculous, Which is a fine,

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Speaker 1: partial strategy, but you might want to actually tell your

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Speaker 1: own story, Tony Katz, Tony Katz Today, an absolute pleasure

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Speaker 1: to be with you. You've got Shared Brown, the Democrat

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Speaker 1: leading in Ohio. You've got John Osse, the incumbent Democrat,

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Speaker 1: leading in Georgia. You're leading by a small, small, tiny,

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Speaker 1: And I get what you're relying on. You're relying on

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Speaker 1: these people to be well, just absolutely ridiculous and for

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Speaker 1: I get your point. But you also got to go

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Speaker 1: out there and you got to you gotta sell your story.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty six Generic Congressional vote. This is economist in

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Speaker 1: you gov, This is of today Democrats forty six, Republicans

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Speaker 1: generic poll, that's not enough. That's nowhere near enough for

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Speaker 1: the Democrats. This is not strong enough. And this is

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Speaker 1: the highest one they have had in weeks the five

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Speaker 1: this Economist poll, still putting Democrats about four and a

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Speaker 1: half to five points ahead of Republicans in the race

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Speaker 1: to take over the House of Representatives. Get it, That's

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Speaker 1: usually what happens in a midterm year, the party not

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Speaker 1: incredibly poorly, outrageously poorly for the Democrats. But where is

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Speaker 1: the move from Republicans? Where is the action from Republicans?

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Speaker 1: Where is the storyline from republicans? And that's just it. It

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Speaker 1: missed in all of this is that you don't get

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Speaker 1: to see it because you're not crazy. There's nothing to see.

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Speaker 1: There is no story making its way through, not a

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Speaker 1: there's no story about the madness of the political left,

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Speaker 1: how they defunded the government, how they want to defund

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Speaker 1: because that's the take. The take is that the Democrats

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Speaker 1: going to say we need to defund once again or

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Speaker 1: not vote to fund certain aspects of the government because

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Speaker 1: this is a good opportunity for us to take the

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Speaker 1: a victory to them. So where are we, Conservatives, Republicans?

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Speaker 1: What have you where? Let's talk about the republic Party.

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Speaker 1: Let's just call it the Republican Party, not us. Where

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Speaker 1: what kind of nonsense is being pushed by this Democratic

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Speaker 1: is there nothing in terms of Judo using their own

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Speaker 1: is it nowhere? Absolutely nowhere. There's no seriousness to this

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Speaker 1: Republican Party. Yet they're gonna have some kind of presser

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Speaker 1: First things First, I said the other day that I

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Speaker 1: this pressor this is what you're gonna make the election about. Fine,

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Speaker 1: except not now. I want to hear what you have

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Speaker 1: But it can't be just about this. You gotta have

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Speaker 1: telling me is that you don't think you can win

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Speaker 1: the affordability conversation. You can't even compete in the affordability conversation.

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Speaker 1: So change the subject altogether. But if i'm you, I

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Speaker 1: go the affordability conversation in reverse. I say that if

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Speaker 1: there is this move towards communism by the left, which

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Speaker 1: everything else. It is how unaffordable they will make things,

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Speaker 1: course it does, and all of that is about taking

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Speaker 1: private property. If you let them enact their policies, you

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Speaker 1: the idea of rent control. So they say, here's a

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Speaker 1: and yet the landlord's expenses go up. Eventually the landlord

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Speaker 1: now this building's getting dilapidated and you're just a slumlord.

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Speaker 1: The city or we the state, we have to save

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Speaker 1: to provide value to these people. So what do they do? Whoop?

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Speaker 1: They take it. They take the property in order to

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Speaker 1: They don't actually fix the property. Oh sure, they might

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Speaker 1: That certainly don't have the money to fix these things.

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Speaker 1: And we have other priorities we have to get to. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: yes it's a problem, but hey, your problem is no

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Speaker 1: That's what communism does. It relegates everybody to the bottom.

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Speaker 1: the dirt. Your problem with it, You don't have heat

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Speaker 1: That's what the left is putting forward, that's what they

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Speaker 1: You haven't tried anything until now, But this is the

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Speaker 1: The Democrats you believe have given you an opening, like

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Speaker 1: Republicans gave Democrats in opening with the Epstein files. Oh

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Speaker 1: yes they did. And you know it. You know it.

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Speaker 1: Because here's the historical record, video after video after video

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Speaker 1: my Facebook page Tony Kats Radio, Oh I get trolls,

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Speaker 1: I get good people too, And someone said, well, would

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Speaker 1: you admit that you try to influence people with your content? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: every political argument is about trying to influence somebody to

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Speaker 1: That's the way we should be. Here's my point of view,

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Speaker 1: here's my take on the subject. Sometimes it's pretty entertaining.

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Speaker 1: I have zero issue with this and there's no difference

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Speaker 1: you're trying to influence them. That is not shocking nor surprising.

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Speaker 1: I just never referred to myself as an influencer because

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Speaker 1: I think that that is a very, very different thing, truly,

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Speaker 1: What is the approach to winning the midterms? Am I right?

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Speaker 1: Is this the approach? Keep it here? This is Tony

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Speaker 1: Kats Today. So a fifty percent tariff on Canada because

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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that there aren't

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Speaker 1: Trump is putting a tariff on Canada because of the wildfires.

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Speaker 1: You still don't have an answer to that question. We're

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Speaker 1: This is Tony Katz Today. Find everything at tonycats dot com.

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Speaker 1: So I said it earlier that if the Republican Party

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Speaker 1: is going to run on the left being communists, I'm

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Speaker 1: Great to.

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Speaker 3: Be with you.

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Speaker 1: But when you hold these news conferences as Republican Republican

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Speaker 4: Well, what I find very interesting is how the radical

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Speaker 1: I mean, they should say it loud, they should say

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Speaker 1: They're communists. That's what they're running on. That's what they support,

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Speaker 1: And hey, press, nice work in telling the story here.

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Speaker 5: Yet every Democrat is against these basic things. Why the

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Speaker 5: So that and by the way, in states, and you

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be about those commies and you being able

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Speaker 6: A lot on our plate this week. It's going to

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Speaker 6: As we see all the time, this is not your

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Speaker 6: We have finally cobbled together what we believe is the

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Speaker 6: the good work of the House Administration Committee and Chairman

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Speaker 6: Brian Style for their quarterback in of this collaborative effort,

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Speaker 6: and they've drafted a bill that I think is really

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Speaker 6: really well done. Too often Americans struggling to make ends

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Speaker 6: meet have watched as lawmakers have entered office to leave

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Speaker 6: as multimillionaires. There's a handful of glaring examples. A couple

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Speaker 6: of those people are still serving, notably on the Democrat side.

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Speaker 6: The Stop Insider Trading Act does exactly what it says.

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Speaker 6: It bans members of Congress from purchasing individual stocks from

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Speaker 6: publicly traded companies, and it helps prevent public officials from

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Speaker 6: profiting from inside information. It's a very logical thing to do.

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Speaker 6: The bill also includes a very common sense and popular

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Speaker 6: provision to ensure that voters must show a valid ID

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Speaker 6: when do they go to the polls to vote. Virtually

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Speaker 6: all Republicans support that common sense measure, and over seventy

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Speaker 6: percent of Democrats do, as acknowledged most recently by Chuck

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Speaker 6: Schumer himself. And yet watch, I bet you not a

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Speaker 6: single Democrat in the House or Senate will support these measures.

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Speaker 3: Democrats only talk about corruption.

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Speaker 6: Republicans are actually delivering real solutions to actually restore the

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Speaker 6: public's faith in our institutions because we believe in this country,

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Speaker 6: we believe in our matchless constitution that is the envy

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Speaker 6: of everybody around the world, and we believe on the

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Speaker 6: two hundred and fifteth anniversary now is at a very

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Speaker 6: important time to stand on that. Later today, House Republicans

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Speaker 6: are going to move closer to responsibly funding the government

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Speaker 6: as well. We're going to pass a totally clean, very

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Speaker 6: simple continuing resolution that will fund the government through November.

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Speaker 6: The cr is as clean as they come. There are

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Speaker 6: no poison pills, there's no maneuvers, there's nothing other than

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Speaker 6: a simple extension of current funding levels.

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Speaker 3: Now, this is going to be one to watch.

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Speaker 6: Unfortunately, given that Democrats have already forced the two longest

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Speaker 6: government shut downs in American history in this Congress, one

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Speaker 6: of them for seventy eight days, they've already demonstrated they

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Speaker 6: don't don't care what kind of pain they inflict on

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Speaker 6: the American people. They do this to try to score

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Speaker 6: political points. I think they're making the wrong calculation here.

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Speaker 6: Republicans are under no illusions about Democrats' intentions out of

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Speaker 6: a very consequential midterm election. Today's Democrat party, I think

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Speaker 6: they have a very false impression. They think that they

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Speaker 6: can score political points by trying to inflict pain.

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Speaker 3: It's not going to work.

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Speaker 6: They've shown there's nothing they love more than a government

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Speaker 6: shutdown as tens of millions of Americans head to the

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Speaker 6: polls in November. But this clean cr is an opportunity

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Speaker 6: for both sides, So they have an opportunity to demonstrate

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Speaker 6: they're committed to responsibly fund in the government through November.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. You understand that, right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad he started with this, although I thought he

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Speaker 1: was going to continue the conversation regarding the Kami left.

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Speaker 1: This is what it was that John Fetterman is warning

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Speaker 1: about the Democrat and others that we are absolutely in

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Speaker 1: the place where Democrats are going to force another shutdown.

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Speaker 1: They're going to say this is what works. They believe it.

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Speaker 1: Now is it going to work? Do Americans get tired

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Speaker 1: of it? They feel that they got some success with

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Speaker 1: the last two why not why not do it? Why

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Speaker 1: not go forward with making that happen? Which is why

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Speaker 1: you've got Republicans talking about reconciliation where the House is

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Speaker 1: trying to put everything through a budget process to be

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Speaker 1: able to get into the Senate. So shutdowns won't matter

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Speaker 1: because you don't need to avoid the filibuster. That's sixty

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Speaker 1: vote threshold, which is all self imposed. And more and

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Speaker 1: more people saying, why are we dealing with these democrats,

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Speaker 1: these intransigent people. Just end the filibuster and let's move on.

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you that I think my argument still holds,

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Speaker 1: and I get that I'm getting yelled at, and if

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Speaker 1: we were having a drink together, I would agree with

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Speaker 1: you in every way. Here here's my philosophy. So ending

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Speaker 1: the filibuster would end the ability for the minority party

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Speaker 1: to hold up legislation by not voting that legislation to

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Speaker 1: be debated on or out of debate cloture. Cloture. That's

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Speaker 1: sixty vote threshold. If you get rid of the filibuster,

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Speaker 1: what you do is you eliminate the sixty vote threshold

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Speaker 1: and you now go to something majority fifty plus one.

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Speaker 1: So the reason the Save Act isn't getting any play

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Speaker 1: is because it can't get through the sixty vote threshold,

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Speaker 1: which is why people are saying, what we need to

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Speaker 1: do is get rid of the filibuster, end this thing.

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Speaker 1: Reconciliation is a budget process, and there are ways to

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Speaker 1: utilize parts of the Save Act as a budget process mechanism.

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Speaker 1: A budget process doesn't go through that system. It goes

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Speaker 1: through the fifty plus one simple majority. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about cloture. You just have the vote, and

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Speaker 1: you don't even have to worry about where you are

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Speaker 1: with all the Republicans because even with cloture, you've got

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Speaker 1: the tie break with the Vice President Jdae Vance, and

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Speaker 1: you're going to be able to get these things past

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Speaker 1: the Vice President being, of course the president of the Senate,

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Speaker 1: this is their role to play. So we take a

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Speaker 1: look at the Save Act and adding this to a

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Speaker 1: reconciliation package or the reconciliation package in TOTO is to

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Speaker 1: try and avoid what it is Senate Democrats are trying

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Speaker 1: to do. Now, there's no guarantee that this is going

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Speaker 1: to be the case, there's no guarantee that's all going

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Speaker 1: to work. But this is about avoiding in part, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily in total. This is about avoiding the Democrats engaging

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Speaker 1: another shutdown, which they want to do so. To Speaker

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Speaker 1: Johnson's point, yes, so they think that this is a

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Speaker 1: good strategy. Is it a good strategy? I can't actually

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Speaker 1: answer the question. Is it a good strategy amongst the

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Speaker 1: elect I don't know, is a good strategy amongst people

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Speaker 1: who donate to campaigns? Maybe? So now you've got to

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Speaker 1: ask yourself for whom are they employing the strategy. That's

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Speaker 1: a worthy question. Now some of you may be thinking

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Speaker 1: of putting the cart before the horse. He's talking about

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Speaker 1: continuing resolution over here and then reconciliation what they call

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Speaker 1: reconciliation three point zero over there. I'm telling you, I

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Speaker 1: think it's all going to come together as one big

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Speaker 1: powerplay conversation for the American people. But I do like

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Speaker 1: how the Speaker tried to wrap it all up before

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Speaker 1: he took questions.

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Speaker 6: Prove beyond dispute. Democrats reflexive obstruction.

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Speaker 3: That's what they do now.

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Speaker 6: It's obstruction for the sake of obstruction. It is driven

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Speaker 6: by Trump arrangement syndrome, and other maladies that they have.

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Speaker 6: It's shocking to say, but today's Democrats would rather endanger

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Speaker 6: or national security. They'd rather threaten the livelihoods of hard

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Speaker 6: working Americans. They'd rather punish their own constituents than work

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Speaker 6: with Republicans to advance any meaningful policy under this administration.

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Speaker 3: But here's the good news.

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Speaker 6: Republicans refuse to allow the Democrats to railroad the legislative

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Speaker 6: process with their relentless and childish substruction tactics. No matter

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Speaker 6: how hard they dig in their heels, We're gonna work

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Speaker 6: ten times harder.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna deliver for the American people.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna make our country safer and more affordable for

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Speaker 6: millions of working families. We've demonstrated that over and over

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Speaker 6: and we'll continue to do it this week and in

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Speaker 6: the days ahead. And that is why we're gonna win

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Speaker 6: decisively in the midterms.

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Speaker 3: This is not a game.

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Speaker 6: We're not going to turn his country into a communist experiment.

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Speaker 6: We're going to maintain the greatest country in history the world.

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Speaker 3: Take few.

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell him, they got to get him off

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Speaker 1: the stage. I know, maybe it's an unpopular opinion, or

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Speaker 1: maybe you're totally with me. I don't know. He can't

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Speaker 1: deliver this message. I don't mind what he's saying, but

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Speaker 1: if there is a message to be delivered, he can't

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Speaker 1: do it. He's too staate, he's too quiet. There is

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Speaker 1: no passion, there is no sense of urgency none. It's

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Speaker 1: about being too nice. This is the prime problem. Stop

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Speaker 1: being nice. They want to turn into a communist healscape

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Speaker 1: and you're like, well, we're not going to let that happen.

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Speaker 1: Could I see you be just a little bit upset,

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Speaker 1: a little bit bothered, a little bit infuriated, a little

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Speaker 1: bit disgusted, a little bit aw Hell no, not on

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Speaker 1: my watch. Could you do anything but b Michael Dukakis

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Speaker 1: when asked what you would do if your wife was raped,

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Speaker 1: you might want to go into the wayback machine for that.

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Speaker 1: Ended his career, that's for sure. Can't have speaker Johnson

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Speaker 1: up on the stage. Not enough energy for this, Nope,

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Speaker 1: not at all. More to get to I'm Tony Katz.

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Speaker 1: This is Tony Katz today. You want something else Republicans

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Speaker 1: could run on. How about the fact that we're actually

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Speaker 1: doing something about the fraud in Minnesota and California and

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Speaker 1: all over the Dann country.

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Speaker 7: CMAS is pausing more than a billion dollars in federal

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Speaker 7: medicaid paymans to California and Minnesota because of suspected fraud

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Speaker 7: and non compliance. That includes more than eight hundred and

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Speaker 7: sixty seven million dollars for California and over two hundred

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Speaker 7: million dollars for Minnesota. If those states want that money,

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Speaker 7: they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate.

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Speaker 1: Good This is a winning strategy. Tony Katz. Tony Katz

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Speaker 1: today a pleasure, don't I don't disagree with the whole

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Speaker 1: communism strategies we've been talking about for the past hour,

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Speaker 1: but I like this, which are as be talking about

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Speaker 1: how well the border's going. There are things Republicans can

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Speaker 1: be talking about and should be dang it. Yes, they're

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Speaker 1: communists and their lunatics, and we're doing these good works

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Speaker 1: over here, most importantly keeping an eye on your tax

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Speaker 1: dollars because these scammers they don't get to steal from you.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna throw the sons. You know what's in jail

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Speaker 1: as well. It should be that approach. This is good

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Speaker 1: from Secretary Kennedy. Find everything at Tony Kat's dot com.

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Speaker 1: I'll catch you tomorrow. Everyone take care,