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Speaker 2: The program A State House Happenings is your weekly look

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Speaker 2: at what's going on with Indiana politics and government. Before

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Speaker 2: You know him from thirty years in the Indiana Senate,

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Speaker 2: the most decent man who's ever lived, the great Jim

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Speaker 2: Merrit Helloy Robert and you know him as the owner

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Speaker 3: Doula keeps your baz. Hello, good morning, my friend. All right,

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Speaker 3: so we'll.

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Speaker 2: Start with uh, this is fascinating expose the Indie star

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Speaker 2: Haley Colombo, did you yesterday? Related to the never ending

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Speaker 2: giant red flag that is the Indiana Secretary of State

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Speaker 2: And this relates to his trip that he took to India,

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Speaker 2: the trip that will not go away, in which we

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Speaker 2: don't know who paid for the trip, We don't know

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Speaker 2: exactly what he did over there, and now Indie, so

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Speaker 2: did he did he?

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Speaker 4: Did he say? This is all fake news? Did you

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Speaker 4: see the Well, we're gonna get to that. We're gonna

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Speaker 4: get We're gonna get to that.

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Speaker 2: Because so much happens from one week to the next,

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Speaker 2: it's hard to keep track of what we did last week.

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Speaker 2: But uh, this article specifically deals with one of the

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Speaker 2: guys who went on this mysterious trip to India, which

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Speaker 2: is a guy by the name of Rajushintala, guy who

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Speaker 2: has a massive contract with Diego's office. Nobody knows exactly

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Speaker 2: what he does, and it appears he was in India

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Speaker 2: on that trip with Diego selling access to EB or

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Speaker 2: promoting selling access to EB.

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Speaker 3: Five pieces.

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Speaker 2: All right, before we get into all of that, this

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Speaker 2: abdue will start with you because you've covered Diego for

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Speaker 2: a long time. There's nothing about this guy that is

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Speaker 2: normal in terms of the way the state wide office

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Speaker 2: one thing after another where you say that seems very odd.

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Speaker 4: It's a classic of at the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: this is probably not going to end very well for

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Speaker 4: Missus Morales because every there's always something. And my mother

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Speaker 4: used to have this phrase. He's like, there's some people

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Speaker 4: just weren't happenless. They're they're less, they're out there raising

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Speaker 4: hell at some point in time, they just weren't happless

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Speaker 4: or causing chaos and confusion, and chaos and confusion and

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Speaker 4: Spanish equals diego Morales. It really does. Because first it

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Speaker 4: was it was a trips you know, it was this thing.

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Speaker 4: It was this thing, it was it was hiring your

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Speaker 4: brother in law, it was it was his accused us

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Speaker 4: And I know we'll get done a second, but but

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Speaker 4: if anybody's ever heard the reference. But it's like, okay, dude,

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Speaker 4: it's like the walls are closing in slowly but surely,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jim, you know, obviously you spent thirty years in

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Speaker 2: the Indiana Senate, you dealt with secretaries of state. Everybody's

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Speaker 2: a little bit different. But even Todd Rokeita when he

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Speaker 2: all the predecessors Rokeeda, Connie Lawson. I mean, just you know,

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Speaker 3: It's just not Holly White.

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Speaker 2: Well well, well maybe we'll talk about him are in

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Speaker 2: a second. But it's just like I'm saying, the people

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Speaker 5: Well, Connie Lawson was just a stellar secretary of state,

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Speaker 5: former state senator. She was majority leader when I was

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Speaker 5: know Senate and and uh with with with Diego you

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Speaker 5: just wanted to quote Joe Biden. Come on, man, you know,

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Speaker 5: it just doesn't really, it doesn't resonate that he's always

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Speaker 5: many things that he is doing. There are really just

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Speaker 5: and uh, I, I frankly don't understand why uh he

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Speaker 6: It just doesn't.

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Speaker 5: It's not in line with his responsibilities. And you know,

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Speaker 5: I I I think it's great that the party infrastructure,

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Speaker 5: the people in the grassroots love him.

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Speaker 6: He has worked very hard to be Do they.

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Speaker 2: Love him though, because it seems like, I mean, I

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Speaker 2: the Republican Party and our listeners can't stand the guy.

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Speaker 2: So who are these people inders who really like him?

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Speaker 5: It's that it's that bubble that we have with the

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Speaker 5: go to a Lincoln Day dinner, or you go to

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Speaker 5: a Republican picnic, and Diego's there. He knows everybody. He's

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Speaker 2: Okaylate, have a question, because you know the Republican Party

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Speaker 2: better than anybody.

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Speaker 3: Can these people not read?

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Speaker 3: Can these people not read?

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Speaker 2: I mean this stuff has been written about at nauseum,

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Speaker 2: all the crap this guy's pulled over the past three years.

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Speaker 3: Do they not have the Internet? Do they not look

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Speaker 2: I mean, how do you see this guy in public

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Speaker 2: and go, yeah, I'd like to get my photo taken

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Speaker 2: with him.

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Speaker 6: Well, you know they do read.

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Speaker 5: Uh, And I I if Diego's I can't defend him.

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Speaker 5: And uh, but but people think, uh, it's just it's

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Speaker 5: a bubble here. And uh, if you're in if you're

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Speaker 5: go table to table and he's beloved and and uh,

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Speaker 5: I don't know when you had your face to face

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Speaker 5: and you talked about all the great things that you

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Speaker 6: I don't know if you witness.

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Speaker 5: Or not, but uh he he is well known and

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Speaker 5: and you know, I've got friends everywhere, and people say

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Speaker 5: that Dave Shelton, who is his prime opponent for next

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So I want to talk about a couple

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Speaker 2: of things. Harrik's got a lot to get to. I

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Speaker 2: want to definitely get to this stuff with Raju because

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Speaker 2: it's super interesting, this this big xpos in the Indie

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Speaker 2: Star about this guy. But to come back to what

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Speaker 2: Abdul said, this Motor Vehicle Advisory Board meeting. So there

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Speaker 2: was a meeting last week of the Motor Vehicle Advisory

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Speaker 2: Board that is, I guess just a group that advises

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Speaker 2: on the governance of a auto dealer. Is sure, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a it's a boring governmental affairs group. And the

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Speaker 2: meeting should be an hour and then maybe get two

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Speaker 2: of views. Yeah, let's let's try to stay awake, eat

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Speaker 2: and then it gets posted. Braidy Place's Indie Reporter account,

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Speaker 2: amongst others, reposted it and that's how it be got

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Speaker 2: in the public. He being Diego Morales gets up and

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Speaker 2: go was on a fifteen minute rant about a whole

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Speaker 2: we WIBC and the Indie Star, Indianapol Star are fake

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Speaker 2: news and we don't cover him properly, and we don't

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Speaker 2: report about him properly, and we don't report all the

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Speaker 4: We could write about him being the only secretary sent

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Speaker 4: to go to all ninety two counties three times this summer,

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Speaker 4: Like why don't they write about that?

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Speaker 3: What excuse me?

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Speaker 2: In his taxpayer funded car, with his taxpayer funded gasoline.

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Speaker 3: And his dollars ninety thousand dollars taxpayer fund.

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Speaker 2: Now you both have seen the rant, Jim thirty years

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Speaker 2: Indiana Senate. You ever seen an elected official in a

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Speaker 2: public a public meeting pull that, Well, I have, Oh

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Speaker 2: I have. Can I take some casses on who it was?

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, he was testifying on a gun law in

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Speaker 5: front of a committee at the state House. And he's

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Speaker 5: and he was excoriated for it, and uh, we're talking

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Speaker 5: about uh, Superintendent Doug Carter and uh, and he just was.

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Speaker 5: But but that was coming from a serious feeling about

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Speaker 3: He scream about us being fake news?

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Speaker 5: No, he screamed about the issue of guns. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 5: but but that's a rant and it kind of got

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Speaker 5: out of control. But but diego U doubled down on

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Speaker 5: not being serious. He's very unserious and and uh, I'm

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Speaker 5: sure people were looking at each other like, what the

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Speaker 5: heck is.

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Speaker 6: Going on here?

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Speaker 3: I have another word other than heck. But I know,

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Speaker 3: you know, me put.

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Speaker 2: Some of the tea, the piece of the puzzle together

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Speaker 2: on this. And what we've determined is because so many

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Speaker 2: people have covered his bull crap, you know, the Capitol Chronicle,

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Speaker 2: TV State, you know, all these people have covered It's like.

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Speaker 3: Why did he choose Us and the Star?

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Speaker 2: And we kind of put together, you've gotten under his skin.

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Speaker 2: Well we're the two probably ugess agitators. But we had

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Speaker 2: campaign finance report which just came out, and there's a

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Speaker 6: Well, he's stung, and he's embarrassed. Is he embarrassed?

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Speaker 3: Careful what you wish for.

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Speaker 2: I've tried to let this go at least I think

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Speaker 4: I was sick to say, diego. Rows is the gift

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Speaker 2: you're not so, Diego Morales, Secretary of State, took this

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Speaker 2: mysterious trip to India. You know, I believe it was March.

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Speaker 2: He disappeared for ten days. We will have his budget hearing.

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Speaker 2: This staff would not come clean on where he was

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Speaker 2: I'm like, well, first of all, no, still not all good.

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Speaker 3: But say it.

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Speaker 2: Of all, then if we didn't pay for it, who

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Speaker 3: Well why not?

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Speaker 2: And his excuse on that was, well, I'm very concerned

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Speaker 2: I believe at one point he actually used that as

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Speaker 4: But here's the thing though, even about the let's say

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Speaker 2: Well, it's just utterly ridiculous. The idea that you win

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Speaker 3: This is an official visit.

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Speaker 2: He was acting in his official capacity, and you won't

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Speaker 2: I paid the money back. First of all, No, not

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Speaker 2: because he kept going, well, this version doesn't have any

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Speaker 3: Nope, not gonna do that. Did he tell you that

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Speaker 3: And so we said we accepted the offer.

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Speaker 2: And then we said, look, you got to show us

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Speaker 2: So all of this stuff around India is a giant

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Speaker 2: This I believe it's eighty thousand dollars contract with Diego

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Speaker 3: Like, what does that mean? He checked?

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Speaker 6: Who?

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Speaker 3: Which business of co? DOESNT have an answer for that.

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Speaker 2: So Indie stars started digging into this guy because one

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Speaker 2: Kennell and Casey did, was that Raju, while he was

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Speaker 2: So then on top of that, it comes out that

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Speaker 3: And boy howdy, was that.

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Speaker 2: Article very concerning about this guy and what he potentially

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm just shaking my head here. And these

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Speaker 6: UH.

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Speaker 5: But but the term situational awareness comes to the fact

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Speaker 5: terrific job of bringing Indiana together with India. UH and

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Speaker 2: With all their workers. Yes, with their workers, yes, to

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Speaker 6: Yes, yes.

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Speaker 5: And now as many as we thought there was going

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Speaker 5: You have a spotlight on you. Whenever you're doing something,

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Speaker 3: I want to read a little bit from this article

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, it's unclear how Chinhala divided his time during the

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Speaker 2: trip between state and personal ventures. His contract with the

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Speaker 2: state specifies he was supposed to put forth about put

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Speaker 2: forth about twenty hours of effort per week on stay business.

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Speaker 3: Eight grand a month for twenty hours a week.

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Speaker 5: I still don't understand how you sell access to these visas.

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Speaker 5: It's just never been well how an individual.

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Speaker 3: I think what it is is.

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Speaker 4: It's a classic if you want to come to a

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Speaker 4: maryor you work in the high tech field, whatever, but

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Speaker 4: you need a certain type of visa to come here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we can do. We can sort of shepherd you

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Speaker 3: through the products. Okay.

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Speaker 2: He said he never he has quote never used state

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Speaker 2: resources to conduct any EB five visa, any EB five

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Speaker 2: related activities, and said he did not discuss EB five

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Speaker 2: visas with Morales or staff. Okay, first of all, we

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Speaker 2: don't know because we don't know who paid for this trip.

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Speaker 3: We don't know what the what they paid for.

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Speaker 2: And we're supposed to believe that this guy who was

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Speaker 2: listed was listed as a senior advisor on one of

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Speaker 2: these posts from somebody over there in India on this trip.

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Speaker 2: Just what skudoodled off for a day to sell these

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Speaker 2: EV five's and Diego's, Like, I don't know where Rose

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Speaker 2: you went, have no idea where he went, had no idea.

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Speaker 2: That just sounds utterly ridiculous and totally unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: And the thing is, Uh, when I ran a analysis

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Speaker 4: of the contract, remember I remember doing this like a

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Speaker 4: while back. Just pulled up my computer and it says,

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Speaker 4: you know, to coordinate inter national business Promotion Engagements and

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Speaker 4: Election observation missions.

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Speaker 3: Huh yeah, what you're the Indiana Secretary of State.

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Speaker 4: Read that again, Yeah, it says le Uh. That's that's

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Speaker 4: the other weird section lead establishment of a nonprofit in

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Speaker 4: it of a nonprofit Indiana International Business Promotion Foundation developed

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Speaker 4: structure for financial support.

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Speaker 3: What does that have to do with the Secretary of State?

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Speaker 3: Secretary State has no business?

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Speaker 4: And here's number two. Coordinate International Business Promotion Engagements and

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Speaker 4: Election observation missions.

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Speaker 2: Election observation of who is raws you an elections expert?

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Speaker 2: And then does he have some long history as a

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Speaker 2: county clerk that I'm unaware of?

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Speaker 3: And the other part was he twenty hours a week? Uh?

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Speaker 4: Document a minium average of twenty hours per week for effort.

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Speaker 4: Twenty hours a week for eight thousand dollars a month.

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Speaker 4: That's that's five hundred dollars an hour, isn't it?

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Speaker 3: Is that right? No? That's that right? Is that right?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 3: What is that?

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Speaker 6: It's?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, he's got to he's got to do eighty.

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Speaker 2: No, let me make sure to get the bath one

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Speaker 2: hundred dollars a hour, right, because it's eight it would

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Speaker 2: be eighty hours a month. For eight thousand dollars, but

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Speaker 2: one hundred dollars an hour, which is way more than

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Speaker 2: what a state employee would make. Yeah, I mean there

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Speaker 2: may be some that are making that, but not many.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, there's also an amendment thirty two

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Speaker 4: thousand dollars extension with zero new goals was in there.

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Speaker 4: And in a nutshow, basically, uh, Diego was paid Raju.

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Speaker 4: And and by the way, I I'm not used rajuo

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Speaker 4: doing anything illegal. Raju's a businessman, got a contract. God

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Speaker 4: love you, God bless you. I put no blame on Raju.

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Speaker 4: But the blame on the agency the edition is the

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Speaker 4: contract in the first place. And so in a nutshell,

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Speaker 4: what Diego's doing is paying someone eighty thousand dollars a

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Speaker 4: year do the job that the ADC does already.

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Speaker 2: That's right and what and so then it comes to

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Speaker 2: the bigger So there's a big exposait on this guy,

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Speaker 2: and we we can't even scratch the surface on it.

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Speaker 2: Everybody go read it Indie Star with the with the

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Speaker 2: publication more red flags about this guy.

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Speaker 3: Here's the question, though.

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Speaker 2: Why will Braun not do something? Braun could solve this

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Speaker 2: tomorrow by coming out holding the press conference. I've seen

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Speaker 2: enough red flags. I've seen enough deception and lack of

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Speaker 2: transparency from these people that I am ordering the state

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Speaker 2: police to conduct a thorough investigation into who paid for

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Speaker 2: this trip, what happened, and everything related to this trip.

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Speaker 3: Why would Braun not do that?

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Speaker 2: He knows the public goes grows more weary of this

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Speaker 2: guy by the day. He knows that doesn't look right,

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Speaker 2: he knows that doesn't make any sense. He knows article

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Speaker 2: after article gets written about this, and yet he just

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Speaker 2: sits there on his hands act think nothing's going on

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Speaker 2: while this guy appears to be you souping his usurping

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Speaker 2: his authority.

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Speaker 5: Well, he could be really busy with press conferences if

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Speaker 5: he was going to do that, and so he's probably thinking,

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Speaker 5: I've got better things to do.

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Speaker 6: But it goes back to.

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Speaker 3: But he doesn't. No, he's could be serious. I mean,

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Speaker 3: maybe it is nothing.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's just this guy is just doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: actually do the job and he just likes to go

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Speaker 2: to foreign countries. But it certainly has the look of

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Speaker 2: something very serious, and I cannot believe the governor is

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Speaker 2: sitting there allowing this to happen.

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Speaker 5: It goes back to the party discipline and and uh

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Speaker 5: you you need a strong uh state chairman. You need

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Speaker 5: a discipline where somebody can say you're in time out.

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Speaker 5: Uh and uh the whole it's just so confusing how

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Speaker 5: we have evolved into a situation where we have TikTok

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Speaker 5: kids and and and and people are on their own islands.

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Speaker 5: And it's it's just very very disconcerting. And and I

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Speaker 5: I don't know what the answer to it is, because

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Speaker 5: everybody is is it's everybody for themselves.

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Speaker 4: Got about a minute left, Bill five reasons people scared

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Speaker 4: of retaliation, proximity. You'd be surprised. He's the governor and

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Speaker 4: my person, my first favorite is no one, no one.

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Speaker 4: Nobody wants to be first. Oh because when when who's

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Speaker 4: your politics? The only person, only person who's you politics,

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Speaker 4: Devinan know who want to be first was Mitch Daniels. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: but who will Nobody wants to be the first person

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Speaker 4: to take. Everybody's waiting for the one guy to take

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Speaker 4: the step forward, then one to stay four. We're with you,

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Speaker 4: mister President. H I'll take a guess. Because we've done

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Speaker 4: the work. The star has done the work.

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Speaker 2: There's no doubt there's all these red flags, there's no doubt,

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Speaker 2: there's all these concerns. This thing has been written about

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Speaker 2: ad nauseum. The behavior goes more bizarre by the day.

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Speaker 2: My theory is, and merit, we got thirty seconds left.

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Speaker 2: You can tell me you're crazy. The money that touches

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Speaker 2: Diego or fuels Diego touches so many of these politicians,

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Speaker 2: and they all know it, and they don't want to

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Speaker 2: look bad. They think, well, Rob and the Star and

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Speaker 2: the Capitol Chronicle and all these other people, they'll just

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Speaker 2: run out of steam eventually, will outlast them, because if

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Speaker 2: it comes out who's doing all this or what's going on,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna make us look bad.

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Speaker 5: Well I think, I think, I don't know if it's

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Speaker 5: the money or not. But we know Todd Rukeito, we

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Speaker 5: know Diego, we know Micah. All are children of the Convention.

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Speaker 5: The convention delegate is a conservative person. They will they

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Speaker 5: will stick with those three individuals. And everybody's scared of

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Speaker 5: the roots of the Republican Party.

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