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Speaker 3: seen what's coming on the show tonight. And we've got
Speaker 3: a big, one big show. We've got Michael Walley. I
Speaker 3: did an interview with Michael Wattley last week Friday at
Speaker 3: his political event, so we're gonna be airing that tonight.
Speaker 3: Has not yet been aired. It was a private one
Speaker 3: on one interview. Congressman Tim Moore will be joining us
Speaker 3: later on tonight as well to talk about all the
Speaker 3: big things that they voted on up in Washington. D
Speaker 3: c voter I d not allowing congress people or sending
Speaker 3: people for inside or trading. And then we're gonna have
Speaker 3: ap Dylan of the North State Journal join us to
Speaker 3: give us some more insight on what happened yesterday when
Speaker 3: a reporter got kicked out or a couple of reporters
Speaker 3: got kicked out of a Roy Cooper gathering. But we're
Speaker 3: gonna start off tonight with Michael Wattley. And again this
Speaker 3: interview is from last week Friday when he held an
Speaker 3: event up in Harrisburg, and after he's finished with all
Speaker 3: the media, I was able to grab him one on one.
Speaker 2: So here's my interview with Michael Wattley.
Speaker 3: Big press conference, about one hundred and ten people or
Speaker 3: so showed up.
Speaker 2: So what did you do? You feel like you got
Speaker 2: your point across?
Speaker 4: Well, we need to keeping our kids in our community
Speaker 4: safe is the number one priority for any government. I mean,
Speaker 4: if you think about it, what is the highest priority
Speaker 4: of a government keeping its citizen safe? And Roy Cooper
Speaker 4: absolutely failed on that point, and we need to talk
Speaker 4: about his failures. We need to talk about his record.
Speaker 4: We need to talk about the fact that he set
Speaker 4: up a revolving door that put criminals back on the
Speaker 4: streets again and again and again.
Speaker 2: We need to talk.
Speaker 4: About the fact that he vetoed legislation to tell sheriffs
Speaker 4: they need to honorize detainers and get criminal, illegal aliens
Speaker 4: out of our state. And of course that he released
Speaker 4: forty two hundred prisoners, pedophiles, rapists, murderers, the worst of
Speaker 4: the worst, that he took out of our prisons in
Speaker 4: North Carolina and put them right back on the street
Speaker 4: and caused a crime wave across this state.
Speaker 3: A new pole just came out and it's also put
Speaker 3: forth by it.
Speaker 2: They make no bones about it.
Speaker 3: They're a Democrat poll and they had you down four points,
Speaker 3: as opposed to all the other poles that had you
Speaker 3: down anywhere from eight to twelve. So the fact that
Speaker 3: a Democrat poll had you down four points and you
Speaker 3: just started your advertising campaign, what does that say to you?
Speaker 4: Well, I think we have momentum in this race because
Speaker 4: we're talking about the issues the voters care about. The
Speaker 4: voters in North Carolina are going to choose the issues
Speaker 4: they're going to vote on. It's not up to politicians
Speaker 4: and tell them what they think is important. You need
Speaker 4: to listen to the voters understand their issues and put
Speaker 4: solutions on the table. Right now, we are the only
Speaker 4: campaign that is talking about allowing people to make more
Speaker 4: money and keep more money. That we're going to lower inflation,
Speaker 4: we're going to lower interest rates and the cost of
Speaker 4: groceries and gasoline prices and housing prices. That we're going
Speaker 4: to lower taxes. Roy Cooper wants all of those to
Speaker 4: go through the roof. Right we're talking about keeping our
Speaker 4: kids in our community safe, making sure criminals are behind bars,
Speaker 4: making sure that we support our law enforcement community. Roy
Speaker 4: Cooper has put these criminals back on the street. Roy
Speaker 4: Cooper has allowed that revolving door and put our communities
Speaker 4: and our kids at risk. So when we see the
Speaker 4: voters engaging and paying attention to these issues, we feel
Speaker 4: very good about where this election is going to go
Speaker 4: because at the end of the day, the people of
Speaker 4: North Carolina are simply not going to vote for the
Speaker 4: worst governor in the history of North Carolina.
Speaker 3: And I know I'm getting ready to throw you a
Speaker 3: softball here, but the other day I was watching during golf,
Speaker 3: a Roy Cooper commercial popped up and he said, I
Speaker 3: like keeping criminals or I keep criminals in jails behind bars.
Speaker 3: I'm tough on crime and I believe criminals should stay
Speaker 3: behind bars. And the first thought that went through my
Speaker 3: head was, well, Michael Waltley's going to have a field
Speaker 3: day with this one.
Speaker 4: He is absolutely and look that Roy Cooper is trying
Speaker 4: to claim that he is tough on crime is absolutely laughable.
Speaker 4: His decision to let forty two hundred criminals harden criminals
Speaker 4: out of North Carolina prisons was simply put the worst
Speaker 4: decision by any governor in the history of North Carolina.
Speaker 4: He placed our kids at risk, our communities at risk,
Speaker 4: our law enforcement officers at risk. There is a reason
Speaker 4: that the Police Benevolent a Association, the Troopers Association, and
Speaker 4: sheriffs all across this state have endorsed me in this
Speaker 4: race because I am going to back the Blue and
Speaker 4: I'm going to do everything I can to make sure
Speaker 4: that criminals belong behind bars, criminals are behind bars, and
Speaker 4: that we have safe kids in streets.
Speaker 2: Two part question, I'll let you get out on this Iran.
Speaker 3: You know, a part of being a senator is you
Speaker 3: have to deal with foreign stuff as well, and so
Speaker 3: your quick thoughts on what's going on in Iran and also,
Speaker 3: just recently, about half of the Democrats in DC voted
Speaker 3: to stop.
Speaker 2: Giving aid to Israel. So what are your thoughts about
Speaker 2: both of those.
Speaker 4: Look, we cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,
Speaker 4: full stop. And anybody who is going to criticize our
Speaker 4: military intervention over there does not understand that fundamental truth.
Speaker 4: Roy Cooper saying that our troops being engaged in the
Speaker 4: Middle East is absurd shows you that he's not a
Speaker 4: serious candidate. The fact is that if Iran gets nuclear weapons,
Speaker 4: we know that they will use them. We cannot allow
Speaker 4: them to have missile capacity to deliver payloads in Europe
Speaker 4: or the United States. And they need to stop exporting
Speaker 4: terrorism around the Middle East and around the world. That's
Speaker 4: what President Trump has gone into Iran to be able
Speaker 4: to stop right. And the fact is he has offered
Speaker 4: Iran an olive branch multiple times. He has tried to
Speaker 4: get them to come to the table rationally and be
Speaker 4: able to negotiate a long term piece that will allow
Speaker 4: Iran to enter back into the Community of Nations. They
Speaker 4: so far have steadfastly refused that. I hope that they
Speaker 4: see the light. I hope that they will accept the
Speaker 4: olive branch. But if not, the President is going to
Speaker 4: act decisively to make sure that Iran cannot have that
Speaker 4: nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: And the Israel situation, you.
Speaker 4: Know, look, I think that Israel as a ally of
Speaker 4: the United States fundamentally important. Obviously, we want to make
Speaker 4: sure that we have the Abraham Courts are going to
Speaker 4: be strong over there, that we get nations put together
Speaker 4: with Israel as well as each other. The fact is
Speaker 4: that we need to build a fence around Iran the
Speaker 4: same way that we have the NATO fence that was
Speaker 4: built around Russia.
Speaker 2: And I always do this with you. Is there anything
Speaker 2: you want to say to the listeners.
Speaker 4: Well, look, I'm very excited. We finished our hundred county tour.
Speaker 4: We have been to every single one of our one
Speaker 4: hundred counties all across North Carolina. And the overwhelming view
Speaker 4: that I got when I talk to people across the
Speaker 4: state is they want a fighter. They want somebody who's
Speaker 4: going to fight for North Carolina, who's going to fight
Speaker 4: for their communities, who's going to fight for their families.
Speaker 4: And they very appreciative of my position where I'm going
Speaker 4: to fight economically for them to make more and keep
Speaker 4: more that we're going to keep our kids in communities
Speaker 4: that are safe. And I'm also going to fight every
Speaker 4: day to make sure that our men and women in uniform.
Speaker 4: We have ten percent of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines,
Speaker 4: and Coast Guard under our flag are based here in
Speaker 4: North Carolina. We've got to make sure that they have
Speaker 4: what they need to carry out their mission around the world.
Speaker 2: Mirk Walling, thanks for you talking today. It's good to
Speaker 2: see us, sir.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen about six eighteen,
Speaker 5: six nineteen here on this Friday night, coming to you
Speaker 5: live and in living color. All Right, So last night
Speaker 5: I talked a lot about the situation where a reporter
Speaker 5: from the Blue Rich Times and a photographer from the
Speaker 5: North State Journal they went to a Roy Cooper political
Speaker 5: event in Gaston County and they were in there and
Speaker 5: then they got booted. And I talked about how that
Speaker 5: is on brand for Roy Cooper because he did the
Speaker 5: same thing to WBT and me for the fourteen months
Speaker 5: during COVID where I tried to ask questions and basically
Speaker 5: the question that I was always going to ask is.
Speaker 2: Or was I should say, is.
Speaker 3: How do you always say we have to follow the
Speaker 3: science and data, science, science, science, science, science.
Speaker 2: Can you tell me what science there.
Speaker 3: Says that says that breweries are okay to be open
Speaker 3: as long as they have a food truck within basically
Speaker 3: one hundred feet, but bars that serve food regularly cannot
Speaker 3: be opened, and that's more dangerous than a brewery.
Speaker 2: Can you give me.
Speaker 3: The science and data behind that logic? That was always
Speaker 3: going to be my question. And they never called on me,
Speaker 3: not once, and that, you know, and the Shot Observer
Speaker 3: and the Raleigh News and Observer each did something about
Speaker 3: it and wrote a little something about or actually wrote
Speaker 3: some you know, something significant about it because it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. So anyways, but you know, the.
Speaker 3: News and Observer, Shot Observer, they're never gonna get kicked
Speaker 3: out of a press conference because especially Roy Cooper press covers.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest. Let's be honest, that would never happen.
Speaker 3: But other media outlets, us others, we're not even asked
Speaker 3: to be attending. And we're the largest uh news talk
Speaker 3: radio station between Atlanta and Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: Biggest in the Carolina's, second biggest in the South.
Speaker 3: But yet, oh don't don't bring in WBT into all this,
Speaker 3: so I thought, you know what, now would be a
Speaker 3: good time to actually get a perspective of someone inside
Speaker 3: that particular bubble that transpired yesterday. And so I thought,
Speaker 3: you know what, now would be a great time to
Speaker 3: talk to Ap Dollan of the North State Journal. Ap
Speaker 3: Donan of the North State Journal joins us, and I
Speaker 3: talked about this situation yesterday, But Ap, can you give
Speaker 3: us a little bit more in depth detail of what
Speaker 3: actually transpired yesterday when someone from your paper, your media outlet,
Speaker 3: was kicked out of a Roy Cooper political event?
Speaker 6: Okay, well, yeah, we did. We sent her photographer down
Speaker 6: to cover the Wattley and the Cooper events. We realized
Speaker 6: that Cooper was going to be in the same town
Speaker 6: within a few hours of Watley's event, so we felt
Speaker 6: like it was a good opportunity for us to send
Speaker 6: them over and we did, and he was allowed into
Speaker 6: the menu. And then about five or six minutes after
Speaker 6: being in the venue, who was approached by campaign staffer
Speaker 6: and was told that he had to leave and that
Speaker 6: he wasn't a credentialed reporter for that event. And our
Speaker 6: photographer he said okay, fine, and he recorded the interaction
Speaker 6: on video, which we have playing in the article on
Speaker 6: our website. But he left, He's got that sucked. Part
Speaker 6: of the problem there, though, was apparently these invitations have
Speaker 6: gone out to media. Ou it's for these events that
Speaker 6: Cooper's been holding, and North State Journal has been trying
Speaker 6: to get on that media list since the beginning of
Speaker 6: the campaign and has not done so. So we took
Speaker 6: a chance that we were going to be allowed, you know,
Speaker 6: free press access to a vital campaign event. And it
Speaker 6: was happening right at the same time as Wattley's was
Speaker 6: within an hour or so of each other. I don't
Speaker 6: think that was an unreasonable item. So that's what happened.
Speaker 3: Speak with the ap dian of the North State Journals.
Speaker 3: So ap had just occurred to me, and I just
Speaker 3: remembered that while he was actually governor, they took WBT
Speaker 3: off their media email list at least three different times
Speaker 3: and maybe four different times, and I finally made a
Speaker 3: very very big stink about it, and they finally decided
Speaker 3: that they would keep us on the email list. They
Speaker 3: had always blamed us as being our fault, but were
Speaker 3: weren't the ones that control of the email list, so
Speaker 3: not wanting to talk to media. That's Roy Cooper one
Speaker 3: on one right there.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I mean all eight years that he was
Speaker 7: in office, we would barely get anything from his office
Speaker 7: other than the daily schedules that he would put out,
Speaker 7: which was quite frankly a joke. All it would say
Speaker 7: was like a one liner that says conducting meetings in
Speaker 7: business like that was it. There no details, there's nothing,
Speaker 7: So getting those was pretty much useless. Other than that,
Speaker 7: sometimes we would get the press releases that went out
Speaker 7: on the website, but you know that was even spotty.
Speaker 7: There were multiple times where we put in records requests and.
Speaker 6: We wouldn't hear back. We wouldn't hear back, so we'd
Speaker 6: post them and say, hey, you know, we sent this
Speaker 6: records request. Did even call nothing zero, not a sip.
Speaker 6: We got no responses. To his credit, Governor Stein's office
Speaker 6: has been much more responsive to us, and they's kept
Speaker 6: us on their press list through our editor So that
Speaker 6: that's saying something so ap.
Speaker 3: There's at least one media outlet, specifically the Assembly, that
Speaker 3: is saying that they were not allowed to attend a
Speaker 3: Michael Wantley press conference, but there's actually way way more
Speaker 3: behind that. Than basically what happened with Roy Cooper. You
Speaker 3: were witnessed to it, So can you tell our listeners
Speaker 3: exactly what happened with this wally not allowing a reporter
Speaker 3: from the Assembly to attend one of his events.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, this was a week ago. I believe Michael
Speaker 6: Wattley received the endorsement from the Police Benevolent Association in Raleigh.
Speaker 6: It was a small, very small press release group. It
Speaker 6: was just a press conference.
Speaker 7: It was small.
Speaker 6: It was in a building that was downtown, a secured
Speaker 6: building I believe Tom Tillis's officer, and that's in building.
Speaker 6: You have to have access to get up the elevator
Speaker 6: that whole nine yards. So we get there, we had
Speaker 6: RSVP'd to the event. We get there and we're told
Speaker 6: that yeah, it's okay to go up, and we're escorted upstairs.
Speaker 6: But down in the lobby, the Assembly reporter was told
Speaker 6: that he was not granted access to it, and he
Speaker 6: stayed down in the lobby. Now I didn't see exactly
Speaker 6: what went on down there. I do know that the
Speaker 6: police were called at one point and the security desk
Speaker 6: person had indicated that he had been refusing to leave
Speaker 6: and kind of stayed this a little bit of a scene.
Speaker 6: Campaign staffers didn't really talk to me about that, but
Speaker 6: I got the feeling based on some of the conversations
Speaker 6: that I had that it had to do with that
Speaker 6: reporter's conduct. During another event two or three weeks ago
Speaker 6: in Debulan that dealt with no tax on tips, he
Speaker 6: jumped ahead of other reporters and asked a gotcha question
Speaker 6: about hockey instead of was the topic of the note
Speaker 6: tax on tips, which wasn't something that Wattley was.
Speaker 8: Expecting to be asked about.
Speaker 6: A guess, and he refused to let it go. After
Speaker 6: Watley tried to get around him and go to other
Speaker 6: reporter questions.
Speaker 8: I happened to notice.
Speaker 6: Because I was standing right there. And then finally he
Speaker 6: did get to other reporters, and their questions were all
Speaker 6: about tax on tips. It was all about the people
Speaker 6: that it came to speak, you know, economics, that kind
Speaker 6: of thing. Following the press gaggle, Watley needed to leave
Speaker 6: and go somewhere else, so he talked too quickly to
Speaker 6: some campaign staffers. I could see it out of the
Speaker 6: corner of my eye across the room, and that reporter
Speaker 6: followed him over there and tried to engage him again,
Speaker 6: a staffer intervened, excuse me, staffer intervened. And then as
Speaker 6: I was leaving the venue talking to a couple folks,
Speaker 6: Whatley went past me into the main dining area off
Speaker 6: of where the private event room was and was headed
Speaker 6: out the door, and the Assembly reporter was still following
Speaker 6: him through the dining hall asking questions. It was aggressive,
Speaker 6: is what I would probably label it up either way.
Speaker 3: AP This is a trend we're starting to see in
Speaker 3: a lot of different places, and this has been going
Speaker 3: on with Cooper even when he was governor.
Speaker 2: And like I said yesterday on x, if.
Speaker 3: It could happen to one media outlet, it can happen
Speaker 3: to all media outlets, no matter who you.
Speaker 7: Are, well, yes it can and it has.
Speaker 6: And it's these these campaigns are keeping their events closed
Speaker 6: to those that they think will provide them good coverage
Speaker 6: or or you know, up until now, a lot we
Speaker 6: had pretty much invited anyone into his media events, left
Speaker 6: right center, whatever you want to however you want to
Speaker 6: divvy up these different groups. And I thought that that
Speaker 6: was a good thing, even though they were small press events.
Speaker 6: You know, it was you know that maybe a dozen
Speaker 6: reporters each time in the room kind of thing. He's
Speaker 6: since held bigger events with supporters in the room, which
Speaker 6: I think is good. Cooper's been doing the same thing,
Speaker 6: but his events have all been closed or very strict
Speaker 6: access to them or restricted access, I should say, since
Speaker 6: North State Journal has not received any of the invites,
Speaker 6: We've been kept off the media list despite our asking
Speaker 6: multiple times. And it's it's not doing the public any
Speaker 6: good to have, you know, one sided stories or one
Speaker 6: side of coverage coming out of these things on either.
Speaker 2: Side of the aisle.
Speaker 6: So I think the both campaigns should probably you know,
Speaker 6: make the decision that these should be open to the
Speaker 6: public and people can show up. And that's not something
Speaker 6: that either one of them is going to do at
Speaker 6: this point.
Speaker 3: These are certainly different times between politics and media. Ap
Speaker 3: Dillan of the North State Journal, I really do appreciate
Speaker 3: you joining us tonight. Thanks once again, thanks to Ap
Speaker 3: Diana of the North State Journal. When we returned Congressman
Speaker 3: Tim Moore, they had a lot big votes up there
Speaker 3: in Washington this week and he's going to join us
Speaker 3: to talk about them. Welcome back to Breaking with Brett
Speaker 3: Jensen here on this Friday night, little dreary Friday night
Speaker 3: as we go up until seven o'clock. All right, So
Speaker 3: we had Michael Walley join us earlier and ap dealing
Speaker 3: at the North State Journal and now joining us as
Speaker 3: Congressman Tim Moore and he had a very very busy
Speaker 3: week up in Washington as they voted on a lot
Speaker 3: of things, including voter ID and not allowing for insider
Speaker 3: trading anymore. Nancy Pelosi's not going to like that, so
Speaker 3: joining us now is, said Congressman Tim Moore. So again,
Speaker 3: thank you, sir for joining us tonight. And second of all,
Speaker 3: passing an insider trading bill has been something that's been
Speaker 3: talked about for a very very long time, and it
Speaker 3: finally happened Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: This is kind of a big deal.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we did. I was proud to vote for it.
Speaker 8: And I'll tell you something.
Speaker 9: I mean, I was I've traded the.
Speaker 8: Stocks for over thirty years and I pretty well pretty.
Speaker 9: Much quit now just you know, just the optics of it.
Speaker 9: So but what I've seeing though, is that there were
Speaker 9: some members in the past, you mentioned Nancy Pelosi, others
Speaker 9: who had just had ridiculous returns like fifteen hundred percent
Speaker 9: profits just crazy things, and I'm scratching my head.
Speaker 8: Going what in the world.
Speaker 9: And so I think when you have that, it raises
Speaker 9: a question whether they actually by the way, insider trading
Speaker 9: is actually already illegal, but you know, if folks, so,
Speaker 9: if folks are inside or trading, they need to be
Speaker 9: prosecuted to that. But I think at this point it's
Speaker 9: a matter the appearance just isn't good of some of
Speaker 9: these folks who've made some of these just ridiculous profits
Speaker 9: and trades, and and you know, so we had to
Speaker 9: pass it, and I proudly voted for it.
Speaker 10: We also passed the.
Speaker 9: And by the way, I think it should apply it
Speaker 9: to the executive branch and the judicial branch. You know,
Speaker 9: I think it aught to apply to everybody the same way,
Speaker 9: wether in the House with the Insenate, whether you're the president,
Speaker 9: whether you're in the cabinet, whether you're in the Supreme
Speaker 9: Court or a federal judge at auto. Just apply to everybody.
Speaker 9: Just get rid of it as an issue.
Speaker 8: In that way, you don't have to worry about.
Speaker 3: And so Congressman, I just want to make sure I
Speaker 3: am fully understanding of this and our listeners are fully
Speaker 3: understanding this, this new no insider Trading bill that basically
Speaker 3: means elected officials and their immediate family like spouses, can
Speaker 3: no longer make trades. And I just want to make
Speaker 3: sure am I correct on that?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, publicly traded stocks you can still trade, or you
Speaker 9: own and buy like ets, mutual funds, those sorts of things.
Speaker 9: And I'll just tell you, in my personal life that's
Speaker 9: kind of what I've switched to at this point. That way,
Speaker 9: people don't you.
Speaker 8: Know that would be allowed under this even though.
Speaker 9: It's full stock trading is still legal at the moment.
Speaker 9: But that's what I've pretty well done in my own
Speaker 9: just personal life at this point. But at the end
Speaker 9: of the day, it just seemed to me to make
Speaker 9: sense to go ahead and pass the ban on it
Speaker 9: and hopefully it'll become well, we just got to get
Speaker 9: it to.
Speaker 8: Pass in the Senate. The other thing that we did
Speaker 8: that's even.
Speaker 9: More important than that Brett is passing to Save America Act.
Speaker 8: We actually passed it not only.
Speaker 9: In the Stock bill, but also in two other bills
Speaker 9: BAA and the A bunch of resolution. And because you know,
Speaker 9: President Trump has made clear this is a priority of
Speaker 9: his look, it's a priority of mine and I point
Speaker 9: to North Carolina and we passed. It's been been around
Speaker 9: a decade now roughly, that voter idea has been in
Speaker 9: place in North Carolina, and it is it works. We've
Speaker 9: seen voter participation increase. We've not seen these you know,
Speaker 9: people being disenfranchised, you like the Left would always say,
Speaker 9: And it just makes common sense. And what the Save
Speaker 9: Act does is, of course it says photo ID for voting,
Speaker 9: but it also requires citizenship when it comes to being
Speaker 9: a registered voter. And the Left doesn't want to talk
Speaker 9: about the fact that six six hundred votes were cast
Speaker 9: in New Jersey by non citizens. Now always think I
Speaker 9: want to repeat that, six six hundred votes in New
Speaker 9: Jersey and the last election cast by non citizens. So
Speaker 9: these people that say there isn't voter fraud, that non
Speaker 9: Systens aren't voting us, it's a bunch of junk. It's happening,
Speaker 9: and I guarantee it's happening.
Speaker 10: In North Carolina. I mean, we've got good laws to.
Speaker 9: Try to to try to catch it. But well, on
Speaker 9: the citizenship thing, that's the sort of still even in
Speaker 9: our state, the missing part because there's historically.
Speaker 8: At least when Biden was in there have been.
Speaker 9: A lack of cooperation. Now at least, of course we
Speaker 9: know home Win has been communicating with state Board of Elections.
Speaker 9: You guys have covered.
Speaker 10: That to go in and work to.
Speaker 8: Verify the citizenship status.
Speaker 9: But it's just common sense. I mean, why would someone want,
Speaker 9: you know, foreign nationals, citizens of other countries, folks maybe
Speaker 9: who are here illegally voting in American elections. And so
Speaker 9: this is.
Speaker 8: About is like this, This is as common sense of
Speaker 8: a bill as I can think of.
Speaker 9: But you know what's happening. They cannot get enough Democrats
Speaker 9: to vote for this thing, and only a handful, only
Speaker 9: a handful of Democrats even supported it here in the House.
Speaker 9: And you know, you ask them to.
Speaker 8: Defend, why they don't.
Speaker 9: They give you these crazy arguments about access and so forth.
Speaker 9: Give me a break, there's no issue with this. They
Speaker 9: just kind of want to let voter fraud happen. And
Speaker 9: I point to the fact that we've now concluded it
Speaker 9: is proven that this happened in New Jersey, and I
Speaker 9: got a feeling bread it's going to come out that
Speaker 9: it's happening more and more places around the country.
Speaker 3: Speak with Congressman Tim more So, Congressman, we know that
Speaker 3: voter idea has been a big thing and the Save
Speaker 3: America Act and everything else, but it keeps getting held
Speaker 3: up in the Senate, and one of the main reasons
Speaker 3: is because of North ConA.
Speaker 2: Senator Tom Tillis, do you think.
Speaker 3: Now that this will actually go through the Senate and
Speaker 3: pass the Senate? And do you think Tom Tillis will
Speaker 3: actually vote yes on this?
Speaker 9: You know, I'll let my good friend Senator Tailor speak
Speaker 9: for himself and where he is. I certainly lobbied him
Speaker 9: to support it, and I hope it's I hope it's
Speaker 9: something that will get done over.
Speaker 8: There, because you know, I think the.
Speaker 10: Fact now that in evidence has come out about what
Speaker 10: happened in New Jersey, it ought to make it very
Speaker 10: clear to folks that there's a need now.
Speaker 8: But I will be the first to acknowledge this.
Speaker 10: If we did.
Speaker 9: Pass it into law right now, if we passed it
Speaker 9: a month now, whenever it is, there's no way it
Speaker 9: could be implemented in time for this upcoming lection. It
Speaker 9: just is not possible for that federal law to be
Speaker 9: put into place. But regardless of that, we need to
Speaker 9: get it done, and I just think folks need to
Speaker 9: continue calling members of Congress, members of the Senate and
Speaker 9: letting them know how strongly they feel about to Save
Speaker 9: America Act.
Speaker 3: Well, Congressman ten More again out of District fourteen. You
Speaker 3: always provide us with a lot of great information and insights.
Speaker 3: So again, I really do appreciate you joining us tonight
Speaker 3: because it has been definitely a busy week for you
Speaker 3: guys up in Washington.
Speaker 9: Hey, great being with you.
Speaker 2: Take care.
Speaker 3: Once again, thanks to Congressman ten More for joining us
Speaker 3: here during his very very busy schedule. Welcome back to
Speaker 3: breaking with Bret Jensen for a few more minutes until
Speaker 3: we go up until seven o'clock tonight. Then TJ and
Speaker 3: the Bear Richie will be taken over.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: So guess what, ladies and gentlemen that Carolina Paranthers started
Speaker 3: training camp this week. Football season is officially here and
Speaker 3: before you know it, college will be playing on Labor
Speaker 3: Day weekend, and then the following week you're gonna have
Speaker 3: the NFL games. Carolina Panthers have the first preseason game
Speaker 3: of the year against the Arizona Cardinals in the Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame Game, which is I think they've played it
Speaker 3: in it I know at least one other time. I
Speaker 3: think they played against the Jacksonville Jaguars their very first
Speaker 3: year in existence. They may have played it in one
Speaker 3: other time. But because they have the first game, it
Speaker 3: means that they get to start training camp early.
Speaker 2: So a couple of.
Speaker 3: Days ago, cornerback Bryce Young, he went to the met
Speaker 3: he met with the media to talk about everything going
Speaker 3: on with the team and himself and everything else in ILK.
Speaker 2: I just still don't think he's going.
Speaker 3: To be the guy to take this team to the
Speaker 3: super Bowl anymore than Muggsy Bogues was ever going to
Speaker 3: take the Hornets or Walker to They gonna take the
Speaker 3: Hornets to the NBA Championships. They're just way too small
Speaker 3: and way too undersized, and they might be nice people,
Speaker 3: they were never going to take it to the Promised Land. Nonetheless,
Speaker 3: he's the starting quarterback. So here's Bryce Young talking about
Speaker 3: the return to the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 11: Your fourth training camp, fourth day one of training camp.
Speaker 11: How comfortable did you feel out there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I feel great. I'm super excited for this team for
Speaker 12: this year. Really just being able to come back here
Speaker 12: and just be a part of this building. It's special,
Speaker 12: the locker room, special, coaching staff is special, everyone in
Speaker 12: the front office. Just how we've been able to build
Speaker 12: and grow and evolve. You know, now this being a
Speaker 12: year four, it's been you know, it's definitely been a
Speaker 12: blessed to be able to see that and be a
Speaker 12: part of that. And I'm so excited for is just
Speaker 12: our mentality. There's so much work for us to do,
Speaker 12: so much for us to grow in so much. Obviously
Speaker 12: they want a camp. So there's so much that we
Speaker 12: have in front of us, and I wouldn't want to,
Speaker 12: you know, face that with any other group. We all
Speaker 12: embody that, we all embrace that, we all are excited
Speaker 12: for that work. So I'm super super grateful to yeah,
Speaker 12: to be a part of that, right.
Speaker 13: Not that change the tone little bit, but but you
Speaker 13: mentioned sort of the size of the confusion here.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of excitement.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of us around this team.
Speaker 13: Is that something you were able to feel getting the
Speaker 13: off season? And how do you approach for things Understanding
Speaker 13: that that.
Speaker 3: This is AH a team that's looked at a little different.
Speaker 12: Olaers proach doesn't doesn't change for us. UH coach talks
Speaker 12: about all the time in the meeting. It's about finding
Speaker 12: our best. You know, how people view us, how we're
Speaker 12: talked about. You know, whatever that is, we can't control that.
Speaker 12: That's not something that we can you know, we can
Speaker 12: we can baste how hard we work or our mindset
Speaker 12: off of we have to m try to find our
Speaker 12: best every day. We have to uh, you know, search
Speaker 12: for right now just in training camp, having the best
Speaker 12: practice right now we get done, having the best lift,
Speaker 12: having the best meeting. So regardless of what that is,
Speaker 12: it doesn't affect our approach. And I think all of
Speaker 12: our guys for the same way, which I'm grateful to
Speaker 12: be a part of, they all have that just keep
Speaker 12: it in the building, have our best day weekend mentality
Speaker 12: and coach does a great job of installing that.
Speaker 13: Wing the NFC South last year and end that playoff
Speaker 13: drought here and then you know, take the rams to
Speaker 13: the limit. There How much confidences that give you guys
Speaker 13: going forward that you can kind of build you know, championship.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we're super confident, but you know that that doesn't
Speaker 12: come from any sort of looking at last year. That
Speaker 12: doesn't come from you know, from that we know it's
Speaker 12: a it's a new year. You know, it's a new page.
Speaker 12: That doesn't entitle us anything. Right now, we feel like
Speaker 12: is where we're building that confidence. You know, right now
Speaker 12: is where you know, we feel like it's imperative for
Speaker 12: over these these next few weeks, over the preseason. That's
Speaker 12: where we build a confidence to feel like heading the
Speaker 12: week one, you know, where where we want to be.
Speaker 12: We're you know, we're we're able to you know, obviously
Speaker 12: take it week by week, but but just be in
Speaker 12: a good space. So I think that right now, that's
Speaker 12: what it's all about, is making sure we can try
Speaker 12: to stack good days. We could try and stack good meetings,
Speaker 12: have a conversation. We need to build that confidence and
Speaker 12: whatever happened last year, you know, that doesn't entitle us
Speaker 12: to to anything, and we all embrace that. Drew and
Speaker 12: the Cardinals or the or the first teams.
Speaker 13: To report that it's gonna be a law can.
Speaker 4: With a couple of joint practices, what's your mind set?
Speaker 7: Is this capable to look.
Speaker 2: A little differently a little longer past year?
Speaker 12: Yeah, just take it one day at a time. Like
Speaker 12: you said, there's a couple of different moving parts. You know,
Speaker 12: you get the extra week we're here. We gotta you know,
Speaker 12: take advantage of it, you know, we we we get
Speaker 12: that more time to compete, we get the you know,
Speaker 12: for the young guys, they get time to more time
Speaker 12: to showcase what they can do, put out film, things
Speaker 12: like that. But for us, coach talks about all the time,
Speaker 12: just being where your feet are taking it one day
Speaker 12: at a time and regardless of all that stuff, you know,
Speaker 12: we're all just committed to having our best day resetting
Speaker 12: and then next day comes having to recommit again.
Speaker 11: Right. This was John and Brooks's first training camp practice
Speaker 11: of centel career.
Speaker 1: Was it was?
Speaker 11: It kind of used the word joy in the spring
Speaker 11: of describing him in his return.
Speaker 13: Was it joyful again today?
Speaker 11: And did he appear to be enjoying himself?
Speaker 2: Yeah? For sure. Yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean just the way the way JB has been
Speaker 12: working ever since you got here. Obviously has dealt with
Speaker 12: a lot of adversity, and the way he's carried himself,
Speaker 12: the way he's been a pro about it, the way
Speaker 12: he supported all of us, the positivity he's had despite
Speaker 12: you know, having to deal with some some really difficult stuff.
Speaker 12: I couldn't be happier to see him out there being himself,
Speaker 12: moving around having fun and yeah, and I think you
Speaker 12: see that in him too. He's so ready for the moment.
Speaker 12: It's the work he's put in throughout the season. You know,
Speaker 12: it's easy, especially you know last year you're not playing
Speaker 12: the year, it's easy to just phone it in and
Speaker 12: practices and when you're in, you know you're in your
Speaker 12: two and a half. You know it's two and a
Speaker 12: half hours into a meeting that you know you're not
Speaker 12: for a game, you're not gonna be in as easy
Speaker 12: to turn it off and and just zone out all
Speaker 12: Last year you could ask them anything game plan, specific, playbook,
Speaker 12: whatever it is, and he would know exactly what was
Speaker 12: going on. He was at focused, So you know he's ready.
Speaker 12: He's not over there trying to fill out certain plays
Speaker 12: or remember stuff. He's been putting the work in. So
Speaker 12: we're all super excited for him to be back.
Speaker 14: Last season, you guys had to deal with a lot
Speaker 14: of accommodations on the offensive line kind of weekend and
Speaker 14: week out of like, how did that help you guys
Speaker 14: with the adaptability and knowing that you're gonna have to
Speaker 14: go into this season with two new starters at tackle.
Speaker 2: On that line.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think it just it speaks to the culture
Speaker 12: of that room, the coaching staff, all of them. They
Speaker 12: hold themselves to an extremely high standard. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 12: football is a tough sport. You know, last year there was,
Speaker 12: like you said, a lot of movement. We're gonna have
Speaker 12: some stuff going into this year, but they make sure that,
Speaker 12: you know, regardless of who might be be up, the
Speaker 12: standard is a standard. And you know, I commend them
Speaker 12: for that. That's themselves, you know, holding each other accountable,
Speaker 12: hold themselves to again that standard. So uh, we know
Speaker 12: what it's gonna be. And I have all the conferences
Speaker 12: in the world in that group.
Speaker 3: All right, everyone that's gonna do it for us tonight
Speaker 3: and this week once again thanks to Michael Wantley, AP
Speaker 3: Dyllon and Congressman Tim Moore. Coming up next as TJ
Speaker 3: and the Bear Richie. My name is Brett Jensen, and
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