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Speaker 1: Tony Kats Today.

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Speaker 2: Well, hey there, party people.

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Speaker 1: Happy Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 2: Eve, Christmas evening. Yeah, that's the way that that works.

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Speaker 2: We are on the eve of Christmas Eve. I'm Andrew

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Speaker 2: Langer in for Tony Kats Today on Tony Katz Today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all so very much for joining us, taking

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Speaker 2: the supposed rift within the conservative circles. Laurence Stewart from

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Speaker 2: Americans for Prosperity and Concerned Veterans of America, she's going

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Speaker 2: And I promise you, at least he's promised me. Tom

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Speaker 2: us to talk about what we were talking about yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Now I am going to be breaking down. I did landon,

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Speaker 2: I did go and pull the transcript of that Tim

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Speaker 2: keeps on giving. Jasmine Crockett, too, the gift that keeps

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Speaker 2: on giving. Going to be talking about her authenticity and

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Speaker 2: she got asked, she got asked to explain her policy positions,

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Speaker 2: and it was everything you would expel. I mean, we

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Speaker 2: are talking These are Kamala like, Kamala Kamala esque, Kamala

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Speaker 2: esque answers that she gave. We're going to break that down.

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Speaker 2: But we've got good news today, a couple of bits

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Speaker 2: of good news today. Let me start with this, Actually, Linda,

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Speaker 2: is Doug Bergham, Secretary of Energy, talking about wind shore

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Speaker 3: Today, we're sending notifications to the five large offshore WIN

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Speaker 3: their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns.

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Speaker 3: During this time of suspension, we'll work with the companies

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Speaker 3: work that President Trump has asked us to do. The

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Speaker 3: Department of War has come back conclusively that the issues

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Speaker 3: related to these large offshore WIN programs have create radar

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Speaker 3: interference that creates a genuine risk for the US, particularly

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Speaker 2: I said he was Secretary of Energy. Of course, Doug Burgham.

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Speaker 2: I do public policy work. In my other job, I

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Speaker 2: Katz Today. Welcome back, everybody. I am Andrew Langer and

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Speaker 2: for in for Tony Kats. By the way, I'm still

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Speaker 2: working on my Sean Ono interview. I know that sounds weird.

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Speaker 2: Weirdly enough, Sean was a couple of years behind me

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to that kind of high.

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Speaker 2: a new interview up, I want to say from CBS

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned. I may, I may, I may get it.

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Speaker 1: Yet you never know.

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Speaker 2: working on that. And yes, we are doing some Christmas

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Speaker 1: Landa did that?

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Speaker 1: I'm having a real banner day today, guys.

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Speaker 2: In any case, Uh, she was on Jasmine Crockett was

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Speaker 7: When I'm so glad you brought up policy. I went

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Speaker 7: So I want to give you the opportunity now to

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Speaker 7: You talked about extending the ACA subsidies. Can you give

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Speaker 2: Okay, So that's a very simple and straightforward question. You

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Speaker 1: So it's a very straightforward question.

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Speaker 2: Let me give you a platform, Congresswoman Kroc Senate candidate Crockett,

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Speaker 6: So, first of all, I think we need to raise

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Speaker 6: So the minimum wage is still seven dollars and twenty

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Speaker 1: And whether you're a.

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Speaker 2: In the economy. What we do know is what you

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Speaker 2: That's what you want in America. We know that in Texas.

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Speaker 2: But let's talk about the minimum wage in Texas. Right

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Speaker 8: Here.

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Speaker 2: The bottom ten percent of Texas workers saw substantial real

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Speaker 1: Despite all this, despite the fact that we have.

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Speaker 2: Good numbers, Jasmine Crockett wants to once again get government

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Speaker 1: Now she talks about affordability. She lies about affordability. Let's

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Speaker 6: We know that costs are going up to the extent

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Speaker 2: Were going to open up the borders and make it

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Speaker 2: Of course, the reality is that inflation has been cut

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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew langer In for Tony Kats today, looks back, everybody,

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Speaker 2: I am Andrew for Tony Kats. So else Christmas season

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Speaker 2: upon us through the Christmas Eve Eve and joining us

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Speaker 2: right now is one of Santa's favorite elves. Her name

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Speaker 2: is Scotty E Mail Hughes. She's a journalist doing all

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Speaker 2: I want to get your impressions of what you saw.

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Speaker 8: Talking about putting me right on the spot, Andrew Langler,

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Speaker 8: I have avoided the last five days of people asking

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Speaker 8: Not what grassroots conservatism is. On the other hand, though,

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Speaker 2: You know, you and I both gave a presentation. You

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Speaker 2: were gracious enough to sit down with students from my

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Speaker 2: high school who were down at SEAPAC last year, and

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Speaker 2: one of the most important lessons that I got from

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Speaker 2: my high school was the importance of skepticism. I'm glad

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Speaker 2: to see that that's being taken up because it really

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Speaker 2: is the most you know, being a deep listeners. I

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Speaker 2: was just saying to somebody today, being an active listener

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Speaker 2: and being a skeptic or two of the most important

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Speaker 2: qualities you can have. So let's talk about this though,

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Speaker 2: about the idea of mom stepping in. What do we

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Speaker 2: need to do? How can conservatives come together. We're seeing

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Speaker 2: a lot of riffs get get formed. Part of it

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Speaker 2: has to do with the accusations of the grifter class.

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Speaker 2: You and I both watched the grifter class run ramping

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Speaker 2: through the Maga movement, through the Tea Party movement, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: How do we guard against that? How do we guard

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Speaker 2: against being divided by those who benefit from dividing us.

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Speaker 8: Well, I'll be pointing something out. This is happening on

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Speaker 8: the other side, Andrew. I mean, hello, we just had

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Speaker 8: them take out Joe Biden behind the scenes, so are

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Speaker 8: there is the sensu within.

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Speaker 1: The Democratic Party.

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Speaker 8: They took out their own presidential candidate and replace him within.

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Speaker 2: Days of themselves, So they do have it.

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Speaker 8: But they you know, they're obviously a lot more discreet.

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Speaker 8: Oddly enough, within the same people that wear purple hair

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Speaker 8: and you know, like to march down the street half naked,

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Speaker 8: they're very discreet when it comes to their personal internal conflicts.

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Speaker 2: So they have that same decision.

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Speaker 8: We put our dirty air, we air our dirty laundry

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Speaker 8: every chance we get, and that was what was on

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Speaker 8: high display. Here's how we get through this. And neither

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Speaker 8: side's going to want to do it because unfortunately, people

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Speaker 8: are making money off.

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Speaker 1: Of this split.

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Speaker 8: People are gaining power and gaining So people have to

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Speaker 8: understand that when they speak to this, they don't have

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Speaker 8: to They don't need one hundred percent of the conservative movement.

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Speaker 8: It's so big right now, Andrew, you don't need to

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Speaker 8: control one hundred percent of it. Even twenty percent of

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Speaker 8: the Conservative movement following you.

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Speaker 1: You're still a millionaire. So they could care less about

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Speaker 1: the other side.

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Speaker 8: As long as they've got their shore group. They're still

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Speaker 8: making the Mercedes Benz pavements. So neither side is going

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Speaker 8: to want to actually give that power or that money up,

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Speaker 8: because let me tell you, as we've learned, the Turning

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Speaker 8: Point is worth almost several million at this one. What

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Speaker 8: do we what was the last thor I don't even

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Speaker 8: want to I don't remember yet remember, but it has

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Speaker 8: tens of millions of dogs. Eighty million, I want to think,

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Speaker 8: and think is what it is. It's ridiculous how much

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Speaker 8: Turning Point is worth right now, how much they raised,

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Speaker 8: and so neither side does want to give those up.

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Speaker 8: I do find it very interesting. Andrew, Now a little

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Speaker 8: side note. I did have a friend call me who

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Speaker 8: went and they said, you know what that was? That

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Speaker 8: was everything that Seapack used to be and wanted to be.

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Speaker 2: I have no comment on this. I have no comment

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Speaker 2: on this.

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Speaker 1: Gutty.

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Speaker 8: I know you're precluded from commenting, but and I get that,

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Speaker 8: but I'm saying this is something. But the difference between

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Speaker 8: Seapack and what we saw Turning Point was the Seapack

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Speaker 8: was more grassroots. While it still costs a lot of

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Speaker 8: money to go to Seapack, he was still there was

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Speaker 8: a grassroots movement.

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Speaker 1: They still honored the people.

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Speaker 8: That were out there that were knocking on doors and

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Speaker 8: that we're trying to do it. They did have the

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Speaker 8: million dollars behind me.

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Speaker 2: I think part of the reason why Seapac is moving

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Speaker 2: from DC to to Dallas this year is to be

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Speaker 2: closer to to the grassroots. So I think you know

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Speaker 2: you're you're going to see that a real retrenchment of

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Speaker 2: that listened before I let you go, I got I

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Speaker 2: got two quick questions for you. Number one, Nick Saban

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Speaker 2: and the Nashville Predators very exactly your thoughts.

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Speaker 8: Here, Well, that's what I mean, Nick Saban at this point,

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Speaker 8: because he owns a Mercedes dealership right outside of our

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Speaker 8: airport here in Nashville, you bought into the predators great

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Speaker 8: ownership obviously with Bill has them, who also is a

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Speaker 8: former governor, owns pilot oil.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 8: Nick David this point needs to get rid of the A,

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Speaker 8: the red A and start wearing the orange tea because

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Speaker 8: he's more Tennessee than Alabama at this stage.

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Speaker 2: There there, there and listen. And we've seen it in

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Speaker 2: how Alabama is doing all right? And and finally, finally, uh,

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Speaker 2: I know your kids aren't listening. What's what's the top seed?

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Speaker 2: What's the top seed in the in the kids Christmas

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Speaker 2: list this year? What's like the number one thing that

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Speaker 2: they both want? College tuition paid for a good parking path.

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Speaker 8: So that he doesn't so that my son doesn't have

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Speaker 8: to hike across. Honestly, both of my kids and I

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Speaker 8: kid you not due to the economy that I know,

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Speaker 8: Trump had some great numbers come out today. The reality

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Speaker 8: of it is for most still middle class families there

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Speaker 8: are still struggling, specially they.

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Speaker 2: Have kids in college.

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Speaker 8: My kids, my son is getting a big thing of

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Speaker 8: laundry detergent, some dire cheat, some sindbads.

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Speaker 1: My daughter is getting, you know, some.

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Speaker 8: Accessories for her car so that it functions. So parents

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Speaker 8: are still trying to find ways to spoil their children,

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Speaker 8: but we're also having to be realistic in the economy

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Speaker 8: we live today.

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Speaker 2: Listen, my number one seed was to get a new puppy,

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Speaker 2: but the kibosh was put on that, So I'm instead

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Speaker 2: going to put some brighter lights on on my car.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I get that. I get those things. Scotty.

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Speaker 2: How do folks find out more about what you're up

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Speaker 2: to these days?

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Speaker 8: Go find me at Scotty and Hughes on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: Everything's there, big, big announcement coming up, I'm sure, Scotty.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you, Mary Christmas.

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Speaker 8: Happy at all your.

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Speaker 2: Listeners, Thank you, my dear. So listen, we got so

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Speaker 2: much more to get to here on the show, we're

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Speaker 2: going to be talking about well, I'm not sure we're

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Speaker 2: going to be I think we're gonna to talk about

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Speaker 2: Jasmine Crockett a little bit here. I'm Andrew Langer in

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Speaker 2: for Tony Kats Today on Tony Katz Today.

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Speaker 1: Well, welcome back, everybody. I love this song. True story

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Speaker 1: when I in.

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Speaker 2: The nineties, I was working for a law firm in DC.

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Speaker 2: I was the reader AND's personal assistant to a blind lawyer.

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Speaker 2: That's part of how I started working on public halls issues.

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Speaker 2: And they gave me some money. They wanted me to

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Speaker 2: DJ and do announcements at the law firm's children's Christmas party.

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Speaker 2: And this is one of the songs that I found

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Speaker 2: on a CD. I'm gonna Last of Santa Claus by

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Speaker 2: Peggy Lee. My girls love this song. It's awesome. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: Hi everybody, welcome back. I'm Andrew Langer in for Tony

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Speaker 2: Kats today. Listen, we're going to continue to talk about

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Speaker 2: Jasmine Crockett. As we were talking about in the first

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Speaker 2: half hour of the show today. She was on ms now,

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Speaker 2: or as I call it, m Snow, talking about her authenticity.

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Speaker 2: Asked about public policy, she answers about minimum wage and affordability,

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Speaker 2: and as she talked about affordability, the word salads began

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Speaker 2: to appear, so she continued, Now, there was one question

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Speaker 2: that I got asked, fifteen second question, and there was

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Speaker 2: a whole series of answers, at least she answered them.

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Speaker 2: But these are kamala esque like answers. Here she is

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Speaker 2: talking about taxes and tax subsidies. Let's go ahead and

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Speaker 2: play cut number nine.

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Speaker 6: You know that there were a lot of working class people.

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Speaker 6: We have somehow decided that in this country we were

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Speaker 6: okay with two senators from Texas voting to make tax

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Speaker 6: cuts for billionaires permanent, while at the same time not

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Speaker 6: being okay with making sure the tax subsidies are that

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Speaker 6: our temporary are available as a release of healthcare.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what a bizarre statement to sort of contrast.

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Speaker 2: I mean, setting aside the fact that the Trump tax

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Speaker 2: cuts we know gave tax cuts are no change in

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Speaker 2: taxes to eighty seven percent of taxpayers. How do we

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Speaker 2: know this because the Democratic Controller of Maryland ran the numbers,

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Speaker 2: the Democrat controller, and by the way, for his pains

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Speaker 2: and being honest about this, he was not able to

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Speaker 2: not able to gain the Democratic nomination for governor of Maryland.

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Speaker 2: That's part of how we got Wes Moore. But setting

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Speaker 2: all of that aside, right, she sort of buries it

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Speaker 2: in there, doesn't she extend temporary tax subsidies?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: They're supposed to be temporary, They're not supposed to be permanent.

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Speaker 2: I mean, setting aside that all of this, the issue

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Speaker 2: of the Obamacare subsidies is purely a Democratic problem. All

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Speaker 2: of this is created by the Democrats. The Affordable Care

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Speaker 2: Act is a Democrat problem. The ruination into our healthcare sector,

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Speaker 2: which we're going to get to in the next hour

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Speaker 2: and the last hour, laid at the feet of Democrats.

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Speaker 2: The idiocies that are out there, these subsidies implemented by

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Speaker 2: Democrats because Democrats had created a public health crisis and

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Speaker 2: exacerbated a public health crisis, shutting down the economy and

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Speaker 2: throwing millions of people out of work.

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Speaker 1: Well, guess what economy is coming back.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we ought to focus on the real problems in

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Speaker 2: healthcare and not continue to try to tinker with this.

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Speaker 2: And I'll say this on both sides of the aisle.

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Speaker 2: If you are having to hand out money, or you

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Speaker 2: are talking about handing out money because some prospect, some

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Speaker 2: program of yours, has upended a sector of the economy,

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Speaker 2: maybe if you didn't up end the sector of the

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Speaker 2: economy in the first place, we wouldn't need to tinker it.

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Speaker 2: Like we're some high school custodian trying to balance a clock,

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Speaker 2: a school clock with paper clips. Take off a little

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Speaker 2: bit here, put on some there, but then it goes

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Speaker 2: completely off the rails, and she starts talking about international trade.

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Speaker 2: Let's play cut number ten.

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Speaker 6: We also know that we are in Texas and we

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Speaker 6: do trading big. We are one of the largest trading

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Speaker 6: states in this entire world. And with that, we know

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Speaker 6: that we are experiencing record bankruptcies from a lot of

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Speaker 6: our small businesses because of the tariff policies that this

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Speaker 6: president has decided he wanted to implement. It is time

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Speaker 6: to rain him in. It is time to implement some

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Speaker 6: sort of checks and balance.

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Speaker 2: You know something I need to It's time to implement

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Speaker 2: some kind of checks and balances.

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Speaker 1: That's what she was saying. And this is just it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's so funny. I mean, the US bankruptcies were up,

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Speaker 2: but they were up between twenty twenty four and twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five.

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Speaker 1: That's the way it was.

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Speaker 2: Bankruptcy followings was thirteen point one percent during the twelve

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Speaker 2: month period between mark April one, twenty twenty four and

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Speaker 2: March thirty one, twenty twenty five. That number is actually

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Speaker 2: down down, you know, the numbers are trending down. So

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Speaker 2: she's just wrong on the face there. But this is

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Speaker 2: my favorite. This is my favorite. Well, oh, by the way,

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Speaker 2: trading big Texas is trading big. Let's go to cut

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Speaker 2: number eleven.

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Speaker 6: We also know that, ultimately, when I came down to

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Speaker 6: making this decision, the Senate is the one that actually

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Speaker 6: has oversight over the Supreme Court. It is time for

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Speaker 6: us to actually exercise some oversight. And this is the

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Speaker 6: only court, the highest court in the land. It's the

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Speaker 6: only one that does not have any type of ethics

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Speaker 6: that they have to follow. I think that we need

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Speaker 6: to look at that, in addition to the fact anyone

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Speaker 6: who gets a lifetime appointment has to go through the Senate,

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Speaker 6: and so it's time for us to make sure that

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Speaker 6: we have someone who has been in those courtrooms and

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Speaker 6: can make sure that the right judges are on the benches.

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Speaker 2: Now. I don't remember about John Cornyn, but Ted Kruz

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Speaker 2: has been in that court, of those courtrooms and actually

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Speaker 2: practice law at a much higher level than Jasmine Crockett

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Speaker 2: ever did. But my imagination or does she sound like

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Speaker 2: an eighth grader ninth grader who's just discovered some little

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Speaker 2: factoid after listening to a conspiracy theory podcast.

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Speaker 1: You may not know this, but the Supreme Court is

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Speaker 1: the highest court.

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Speaker 2: In the land. Yeah, yeah, no, guff there, Chet, We're

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Speaker 2: aware of this. But no, the Senate does not exercise

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Speaker 2: oversight over the Supreme Court. Yeah, the Senate gets to

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Speaker 2: advise and consent and deal with the nominations of Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court judges, take them up and have hearings and pass them.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately. Yeah, they can do.

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Speaker 2: A I guess an impeachment, but that's not the same

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Speaker 2: thing as oversight. The whole nature of checks and balances

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Speaker 2: is such that the Supreme Court doesn't have that.

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Speaker 1: Listen.

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Speaker 2: In the next hour, we got Lawrence Stewart from Americans

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Speaker 2: for Prosperity. We got new ship classes being proposed. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: a Trump class of ships. Here on Tony Katz today