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Speaker 1: President Obama is concerned about the vote, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's not concerned enough to pass the Save Act.

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Speaker 1: But former President Obama is all in his feelings about

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Speaker 1: some things. Tony Katz, Tony Katz Today, Good to be here,

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Speaker 1: Good to be with you, live streaming on YouTube. Check

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Speaker 1: it out for yourself. Just go to YouTube, go to

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Speaker 1: hit the like button. I'm told there's a like button

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Speaker 1: I don't know, like it, don't like it. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: keep doing it. I have not heard this yet. I

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Speaker 1: there are sometimes that I'm like, I hear something like

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Speaker 1: I gotta share it with you. And there's sometimes I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I want to hear this with you. I want us

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Speaker 1: to experience it together.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: And you say to me, Tony, why would you play

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Speaker 1: Barack Obama on this show? Because I believe in the

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Speaker 1: suffering there is love. That's a weird thing to say.

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Speaker 1: I don't actually believe that. Let's hear what President Obama

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Speaker 1: has to say about voting.

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Speaker 2: Shall we free and fair elections are the cornerstone of

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Speaker 1: That's why you need to pass the Save Act. I'm

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Speaker 1: Barack Obama. Voter IDA is good and people opposed to

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Speaker 1: voter ID are stupid. Voter ID I'm Barack Obama. What. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we don't know what he says. Okay, well, he starts

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Speaker 1: with the baseline that, indeed, we want free and fair elections,

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Speaker 1: but right now they are under threat. What under threat?

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Speaker 1: What have the Democrats done this time, Barack Obama.

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Speaker 2: Over the past year, several Republican controlled states have taken

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Speaker 2: the unprecedented step of redrawing their congressional maps in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the decade.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is an older video. Oh, you want to

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Speaker 1: talk about redistricting, mister President. Oh gosh, I didn't know

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Speaker 1: we were going to talk about redistricting. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: redistricting with Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger. Hello.

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Speaker 3: I'm Governor Abigail Spanberger and I'm voting yes on Virginia's

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Speaker 3: redistricting amendment.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, according to Barack Obama, Abigail Spamburger, you are

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Speaker 1: a direct threat to the future of the safety of

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Speaker 1: elections in the United States and something must be done

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Speaker 1: about this. You cannot make this stuff up. When Republicans

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Speaker 1: do it, it is the worst thing that ever happened

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Speaker 1: when Democrats do it. Why are you looking at us?

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Speaker 1: Why are you paying attention? We're just saving America. What's wrong?

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Speaker 1: What's the big deal? Why are you paying attention? Why

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Speaker 1: with us? All you and your culture wars? You just

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Speaker 1: want to date us? Good lord? Hey else? S Bamberger

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Speaker 1: said she had absolutely no intention of engaging redistricting, and

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Speaker 1: now she's saying, my gosh, we have to do this

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Speaker 3: Here's why I supported the formation of Virginia's bipartisan Redistricting

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Speaker 3: Commission in twenty twenty, and that support has not changed.

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Speaker 3: What has changed is what we're seeing in states across

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Speaker 3: the country and a president who says that he's quote

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Speaker 3: entitled to more Republican seats before this year's midterms. That's

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Speaker 1: Just a note to the people you know I live

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Speaker 1: Republicans who did not redistrict, I told you, Oh you

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Speaker 1: were above it all, were you you were gonna really

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Speaker 1: fighting against? I would appreciate less stupid it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I said it. I'll say it directly to you. I

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Speaker 1: am a fellow the Mitch Daniels Leadership Foundation. I like

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Speaker 1: Mitch Daniels tremendously personally and professionally. And he wrote in

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post that Indiana shouldn't redistrict, and he was

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Speaker 1: wrong because he is not willing to engage the fights

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Speaker 1: audacity to tell you that we are under threat because

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Speaker 1: Republicans are redistricting. But it's the Democrats who then redistricted.

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Speaker 1: And where's the Where's the threat, Barack Obama? Where is

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Speaker 2: And they've done it for a simple reason to give

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Speaker 2: themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms. Of this bark

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Speaker 2: in April, Virginians can respond by making sure your voting

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Speaker 1: So I guess it wasn't a older video. It is

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Speaker 1: it's leftists who scream punch a Nazi. Well, who's a Nazi? Well,

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Speaker 1: anybody we disagree with as a nazi, gusting vile people.

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Speaker 1: They're the ones who believe in tearing down cities, setting

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Speaker 1: Fighting is about policy and philosophy. Fighting is about never

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Speaker 1: accepting a narrative. And that's where this starts. Everything. Abigail

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Speaker 1: Spamberger and Barack Obama said, there's a lie. Barack Obama

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Speaker 1: is a liar. Republicans redistricted in Texas. I believe it

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Speaker 1: was North Carolina. Democrats redistricted in California, and they're trying

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Speaker 1: to a Virginian in Maryland, and they're trying to in

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Speaker 1: other states. If it's wrong, it's wrong, and we should

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Speaker 1: be clear that I don't believe that it's wrong. I

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Speaker 1: process that can, indeed happen in the middle of a decade.

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Speaker 1: We look at redistricting. That is something that happens with

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Speaker 1: the census. The census determines population, a representation in Congress

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Speaker 1: is determined by that population, and then new maps are

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Speaker 1: drawn based on that. You could argue that Republicans had

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Speaker 1: no need to engage redistricting because when you take a

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Speaker 1: look what's going to happen in twenty thirty with California

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Speaker 1: things are going to move anyway. That is true. But

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Speaker 1: and Texas did it. I said at the time, well,

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Speaker 1: then that's an issue for Texans. If Texans don't like it, remember,

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Speaker 1: nothing would change to their local representation, their state life representation.

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Speaker 1: They could vote those people right out. But there's nothing

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Speaker 1: a legal process. Republicans in states like mine forgot that

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Speaker 1: Nothing can be more important than the representatives of the people,

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Speaker 1: They thought they were engaged in a concept of civility.

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Speaker 1: There is a massive problem with the definition of civility

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Speaker 1: because some people think civility is please and thank you

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Speaker 1: you and all that jazz. That's not what civility is.

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Speaker 1: Civility is the majority, not tyrannizing the minority. Civility is

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Speaker 1: I sat there when I lived in California after Barack

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Speaker 1: Obama was elected. I'm sitting in like kitchen table. It's late,

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Speaker 1: And could not believe it, could not believe how horrifying

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Speaker 1: it was that America voted for a guy that progressive,

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Speaker 1: nay communist. We knew the story, but they did. But

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Speaker 1: and then he decided, nah, I'm getting that's what happened.

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Speaker 1: Candy Crowley to decide how to talk for him in

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Speaker 1: got himself knocked around exactly like a Mitt Romney gets

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Speaker 1: knocked around, and the rest is history. Republicans have a

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Speaker 1: long history of not fighting because they think that it's

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Speaker 1: about civility. Civility does not mean the absence of fighting.

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Speaker 1: And the first thing you do in a fight is

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Speaker 1: you never accept their narrative. They lie free and fair elections,

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Speaker 1: says Barack Obama when Democrats do it, but not when

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Speaker 1: Republicans do it. What a fraud. And there was a

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Speaker 1: story regarding Indiana that somehow a gentleman's deal was made

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Speaker 1: with Maryland wect. We don't redistrict. What is Marylynd trying

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Speaker 1: to do? Redistrict? You believe them. They hate you, They

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Speaker 1: want to destroy you. You understand that the left, if

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Speaker 1: they absolutely believe this stuff. They believe that they are

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Speaker 1: be reprogrammed. Dude, I'm free and good, and so are you.

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Speaker 1: We agree, we disagree, We drink a little bourbon. Life's

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Speaker 1: all right. My politics are based on what I think

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Speaker 1: it takes to best to have a free country. Their

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Speaker 1: politics are their religion. So you understand that we're dealing

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Speaker 1: that way, and you can never give in to their narrative.

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Speaker 1: You want to readistrict Republicans, it's pure evil. They want

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Speaker 1: to do it. Well, then it's quite all right, and

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Speaker 1: why do you care? Why are you paying attention? That

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Speaker 1: is what Barack Obama and Governor Abigail Spanberg are selling

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Speaker 1: right now. Unbelievable. I'm Tony Katz, and this is Tony

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