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Speaker 1: So the session ends tomorrow, but there's still a lot

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Speaker 2: And to get the latest, we check.

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Speaker 1: In from Indiana Capitol Chronicle Nikki Kelly.

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Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you right out of the

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Speaker 1: bat about this duel Wilson candidate tangle.

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Speaker 3: There's one Wilson, Brenda Wilson, who is backed by Trump

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Speaker 3: to beat Greg Good who voted against the redistricting bill.

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Speaker 3: So they're hoping to take him out in the primary

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Speaker 3: on the Republican primary. Then another Wilson, Alexandra Wilson, filed

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Speaker 3: to run also, And so basically the Trump people believe

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Speaker 3: that this is a trick that another Wilson, whose name

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Speaker 3: will be above the Trump Brenda Wilson, was put in

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Speaker 3: there to split votes and that therefore and maybe that

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Speaker 3: incumbent senator could get through his primary.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we've got two Wilson's running.

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Speaker 1: Does the Trump endorsement still move votes in Indiana?

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Speaker 3: You know what? I think it used to This year,

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Speaker 3: it's going to really make a difference. Well, we'll see

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Speaker 3: if it does. He's certainly nationwide on different congressional or

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Speaker 3: and especially when he's not on the ballot that year. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so I'm not sure it means as much as people

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Speaker 4: Now, Nikki, you mentioned that the other Wilson will be

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Speaker 4: put Alexander Wilson will be put ahead of Brenda Wilson

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Speaker 4: on the ballot, Brenda Wilson being the one endorsed by Trump.

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Speaker 4: And if Trump is claiming that, or if other you

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Speaker 4: know people, others are claiming that this Alexander will like,

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Speaker 4: did they like intentionally have to go out and find

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Speaker 4: somebody whose last name was Wilson And by the way,

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Speaker 4: their first name has to start with an AA, so

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Speaker 4: it will be ranked above Brenda on the ballot.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's the allegation from the Brenda Wilson slash

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Speaker 3: Trump side. Also because Alexander Wilson had to get special

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Speaker 3: the two primary rule recently for voting in the last

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Speaker 2: Okay, so what does that tell us about the race?

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Speaker 1: Like, who's really running the Indiana Republican Party right now?

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I don't know. I mean, the Trump people

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Speaker 3: think that you know, the county chair is trying to

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Speaker 3: protect the incumbent senator good and you know it might be.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the fact is that, you know, all politics

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Speaker 3: is local, and these senators and reps have long, deep

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are you thinking are they hoping that one side

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think they're just hoping that the Wilsons

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about what's going on with the casino

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Speaker 1: and why was the vote so close?

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Speaker 2: It just narrowly cleared the state Senate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and what an interesting discussion. I mean, basically, you

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Speaker 3: had two senators who's this casino is going to go

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Speaker 3: and everyone's ignoring them. You know, usually the way the

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Speaker 5: So, Nikki, I.

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Speaker 4: Know when this bill first got introduced at the beginning

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Speaker 3: There were a few times and people even I think

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Speaker 3: That was not done. I think, you know, the looking

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Speaker 1: Do you think that this is really about helping Fort

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean when it started out, it was about

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Speaker 3: Now it's an open now. That's why part of what's

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Speaker 1: So with such a narrow vote, how likely do you

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Speaker 3: Well, it's gone to conference committee. They dissented on it.

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Speaker 3: You know? Yeah, so we'll find out by tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got that's okay.

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Speaker 5: So, Nicky, I got to follow a question.

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Speaker 4: Then, So, if it's going to conference committee, does that

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Speaker 3: Now very procedurally it would work, but I just you know,

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Speaker 5: Okay, got it.

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Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just always skeptical that, you know, things

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Speaker 1: So, Nikki, were you there at the big press conference

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Speaker 3: I was not. Our reporter Leslie was, but it's you know,

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Speaker 1: Do you think that the regulators actually have teeth here

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing, I'm not sure they have teeth in

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Speaker 2: Not to raise the tuition.

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Speaker 3: You know, did they have the lever to actually say,

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Speaker 4: Hey, Nikki, I want to go back to that press

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't know.

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Speaker 3: Brought up. I know obviously we're going to go back

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Speaker 2: You know, you brought up a good point.

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Speaker 1: Do you think people should expect lower bills because of

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Speaker 3: You know, I would I would see toward a better explanation.

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Speaker 1: So if the investigation finds any problems, do you think

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Speaker 2: I mean, is this.

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Speaker 1: Another ie DC audit. Yeah, we're going to look into things,

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Speaker 3: Remains to be seen. I think Broun has I mean,

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Speaker 3: Mike bron is the one bringing this to the floor,

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Speaker 3: and he picked these new people to say, you know,

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Speaker 3: we're tired of this system, you know, leaning toward the

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Speaker 1: That right and how far Governor Brown wants to push.

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Speaker 1: I mean, with the latest polling showing him a twenty

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Speaker 2: He needs a win in the eyes of the voters.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, he obviously doesn't even have a

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Speaker 1: The You can find her at Indiana Capitol Chronicle dot com.

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Speaker 2: That is Nicki Kelly. Thank you so much for being here.

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Speaker 1: You're not being clear though, how I'm gonna get my

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If FedEx or any other big company wants a massive

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Speaker 2: But where's my money?

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Speaker 5: And as a consumer, I'm like, hey, fed X, we paid.

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Speaker 4: Who could I sue to get my money back because

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Speaker 5: But now where am I going to get my money back?

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Speaker 5: We paid them more money, and now they're gonna get

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Speaker 5: This states on all levels, and in.

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Speaker 1: Some case ca is they raised the price of the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and look, I mean this sucks on every level

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Speaker 4: They're gonna keep raising prices as long as you keep

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Speaker 4: For product, you gotta pay, you gotta pay. We're gonna

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Speaker 4: Some will still pay. You may lose a for a

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Speaker 4: we need more competition. That's how that's the only way

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Speaker 2: Uh, it's more.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about more than one hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is you.

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Speaker 5: Well, look at Trump.

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Speaker 4: Trump's been talking about how beautiful tariffs are and our

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Speaker 5: So, yeah, we're talking about a ton of money here.

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Speaker 2: Did you know what the T and T shirt stands for?

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Speaker 5: I didn't until I saw this article. I had no idea.

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Speaker 2: The fifty some T stands.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, in the fifty some years I've been on this planet,

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Speaker 1: To ask the T stands for the letter T. Because

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Speaker 1: when you lay the T shirt flat, the body and

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Speaker 4: Easy, right and almost and like it seems so dumb

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Speaker 5: That can't be right. That just seems like too much

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Speaker 4: I'm waiting for some elaborate story about some guy whose

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Speaker 4: this apply to other clothing, because I've heard the term

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Speaker 5: Isn't that a thing?

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Speaker 4: Because it looks like an a Because it looks like

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Speaker 5: That come down.

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Speaker 2: Yes, very good.

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Speaker 5: I see I can apply this to other clothing.

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Speaker 2: How many T shirts do you think you have in

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Speaker 5: I'm a heavy T shirt guy. It's weird.

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Speaker 4: I'm actually wearing a shirt with a collar today, which

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Speaker 1: It's simple, it's practical, typically comfortable.

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Speaker 5: They're made out of cotton. It's a breathable material.

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Speaker 1: Love a good T shirt, Yeah, you know the best

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Speaker 2: The free kind, A free T shirt swagging.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, with somebody, some business's name on it.

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Speaker 2: There's always the what sized T shirt are you? I

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Speaker 4: This is something again, there's something I learned, and I

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Speaker 5: It exists.

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Speaker 1: There are So there's a new survey that came out

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll talk about the the erratic poll coming up.

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Speaker 1: It is ninety three WIBC.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a certain newsroom they can't make up

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Speaker 1: CNN earlier put out an article saying, well, they put

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Speaker 5: And his mental acuity. Yeah, I mean this is classical.

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Speaker 6: What is it?

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Speaker 4: We talked about it earlier, the poll showing that Donald

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Speaker 2: This was the survey they did. It's a Reuter's.

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Speaker 1: IPSOS poll, and sixty one percent of Americans say Trump

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Speaker 2: They're blaming his age on the erratic behavior.

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Speaker 4: Look, I'm not seeing Trump acting any more erratic than

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Speaker 4: he ever has. In fact, his performance at the State

447
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Speaker 4: of the Union the other night was just classic Trump.

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Speaker 5: I didn't see him stumbling over his work.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about what this really is, what this really

450
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Speaker 4: is bad publicity. No, this is a bunch of liberals

451
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Speaker 4: and Democrats that are still upset that they got called

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Speaker 4: on the carpet and called out his total frauds. Because

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Speaker 4: you remember twenty twenty four during the election, everybody.

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Speaker 5: Was like, I don't think Biden's doing so great, and they.

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Speaker 4: Had people like Joe Scarborough wagging his finger at us

456
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Speaker 4: and saying, this version of Joe Biden is the sharpest

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Speaker 4: shoe Biden I've ever seen. And so you've got all

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Speaker 4: these liberals and Democrats that are like, wow, we really

459
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Speaker 4: got exposed on that one.

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Speaker 5: You know how we're going to get.

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Speaker 4: Back Trump's got it too. Trump's got Trump's got mental problems.

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Speaker 4: He's the problem. Now, that's exactly what this is.

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Speaker 1: So the poll says that forty five percent of Americans

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Speaker 1: say Trump is still mentally sharp and able to deal

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Speaker 1: with challenges.

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Speaker 2: However, the rest say that he is.

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Speaker 1: Becoming sixty one percent that he's becoming more erratic with age.

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Speaker 2: So Trump returned to office at the age of seventy eight.

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Speaker 1: He's, you know, one of the he is the oldest

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Speaker 1: president in history. And despite that, he still has a

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Speaker 1: job approval rating. It's around forty percent, depending on the

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Speaker 1: poll that you look at. But seventy nine percent of

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Speaker 1: Americans said that they think elected leaders in Washington are

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Speaker 1: too old to represent most people.

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Speaker 2: Hey, no kidding, I E. Mitch McConnell.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Look, and there's let me be clear about this. There

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Speaker 4: is a difference between being old and then not having

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Speaker 4: all of your mental faculties. And there are plenty of

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Speaker 4: old people. I know, plenty of old people that are

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Speaker 4: sharper than I am. And these are people that are

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Speaker 4: thirty plus years older than me. So it is not

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Speaker 4: solely about age here. It is about how sharp you

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Speaker 4: are mentally, and yes, we've certainly had some leaders. And look,

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Speaker 4: I mean it's clear from everything we've seen that Mitch

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Speaker 4: McConnell's ability to function on a day to day basis

487
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Speaker 4: is long past him.

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Speaker 5: And same thing with Joe Biden.

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Speaker 4: I just don't know where anybody comes up with this

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Speaker 4: because Trump is just I haven't seen anything that shows

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Speaker 4: Trump has lost one step at all.

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Speaker 5: I mean, He's still.

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Speaker 2: Trump, that's it. Where do they come up with this?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think, like I said, I think some liberal

495
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Speaker 4: organization is still upset about how they get exposed with

496
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Speaker 4: Biden's mental health in twenty twenty four, and so they

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Speaker 4: were like, you know.

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Speaker 5: What we're gonna do.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna put a poll out there, and I bet

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Speaker 4: that we can arrange the questions in such a way

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Speaker 4: to where the majority of people will say they're concerned

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Speaker 4: about Trump's mental state, and then that'll make a bunch

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Speaker 4: of big headlines and then we can say, hey, look

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Speaker 4: see Trump's got problems too.

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Speaker 1: Now another article from mainstream media, and this kind of

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Speaker 1: goes along with the Trump being erratic idea. The headline,

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Speaker 1: Trump says he obliterated Iran's nuclear program. Now he says

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Speaker 1: the US may have to bomb I ran again. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so if you're saying erratic, yeah, that is an opposite

510
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Speaker 1: of what he just told us, right, Well.

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Speaker 4: But that's just Trump being Trump, being hyperbolic and telling

512
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Speaker 4: tall all tails and exaggerating everything. Trump also says that

513
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Speaker 4: everything is the greatest of all time. Nobody knows more

514
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Speaker 4: about the tax system than he does. Nobody knows more

515
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Speaker 4: about interior decorating, which is why he changed everything in

516
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Speaker 4: the White House in the Oval Office. Nobody knows more

517
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Speaker 4: about it than Donald Trump. Trump is the biggest expert

518
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Speaker 4: on every single topic. But he's been doing that since

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Speaker 4: his first term in twenty sixteen. This is just Trump

520
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Speaker 4: being Trump and continuing to do the things he's always done.

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Speaker 4: He really, I haven't seen anything that shows me that

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Speaker 4: he you know, he's you know, got a screw loose

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Speaker 4: these days, or can't function mentally like he used to.

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Speaker 1: At the State of the Union address, he said that

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Speaker 1: the USN Israeli strike last year heavily damaged Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

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Speaker 1: He called it obliterated. And now he's saying that they're

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Speaker 1: trying to rebuild their nuclear program. And he obviously prefers

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Speaker 1: to diplomacy. He even mentioned that in the State of

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Speaker 1: the Union address and he encouraged those negotiations with Iran,

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Speaker 1: which are ongoing. There is a new report that came

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Speaker 1: out and they said that Iran Supreme Leader, the Ayatola,

532
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Speaker 1: doesn't just run the visible government, he also controls a

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Speaker 1: shadow power structure that's withinside the country.

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Speaker 2: That's not really a surprise you would imagine that, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, actually a country like Iran.

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Speaker 4: The politicians in Iran have always been figureheads and the

537
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Speaker 4: mullas of the ones that are always behind the scenes

538
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Speaker 4: are actually pulling all the strings. And we talked about

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Speaker 4: Iran now for weeks and weeks, and obviously we're going

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Speaker 4: to continue to talk about it until there's some sort

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Speaker 4: of resolution, either militarily or diplomatically. What I have found

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Speaker 4: fascinating about this, I don't know a whole lot about this,

543
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Speaker 4: but I'm starting to read more and more about it

544
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Speaker 4: because it is fascinating to me.

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Speaker 5: Are you aware of these what they're.

546
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 4: Called prediction markets or betting markets, things like polymarket and

547
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 4: call sheet, so you can bet on and this is

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Speaker 4: functioning in this You can do this in the United

549
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 4: States right now. You can bet on pretty much anything.

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Speaker 4: You could a bet on the length of Donald Trump's

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Speaker 4: State the Union speech. You could have bet whether or

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Speaker 4: not we were going to invade Venezuela. You can bet

553
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Speaker 4: on a sports, you can bet on anything you can

554
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Speaker 4: think of. So this is currently polymarket is showing that

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Speaker 4: there is a fourteen percent chance that the United States

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Speaker 4: will enter Iran militarily by March thirty first. Oh, so

557
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Speaker 4: you can bet on whether or not the US is

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Speaker 4: going to invade Iran or not. So right now, if

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Speaker 4: you were to bet, if you were to bet fourteen

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Speaker 4: cents and the US invades Iran before March thirty first,

561
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Speaker 4: you'd win a dollar, or you could bet fourteen thousand

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Speaker 4: dollars and if Iran is invaded by March thirty first,

563
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Speaker 4: you'd end up winning one hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Well, and now there's a group of AI tools that

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Speaker 1: were asked to predict exactly when the attack might happen, and.

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Speaker 2: You can wear chi.

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Speaker 5: This is where we're at in twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: Guy, not a crystal ball.

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Speaker 4: We've got a potential military invasion and not only can

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Speaker 4: you bet on it, but we can also see when

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Speaker 4: AI thinks we're going to be made around.

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Speaker 1: I love it AI stringing together dates from different news

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Speaker 1: news outlets and deadlines. But it doesn't really mean anything

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Speaker 1: because AI can say whatever it wants, right, it's just

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Speaker 1: going to be guesswork because they're not the one in

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Speaker 1: the room making the decision.

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Speaker 2: And who's going to hold it's called AI?

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Speaker 4: They by the way, you did you gave them a

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Speaker 4: pronoun and who's going to hold them accountable when they're wrong?

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Speaker 5: Oh so AI was wrong about it? Yeah, bad Ai?

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Speaker 5: Bad so.

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Speaker 1: Rokana said that the he wants to force a vote

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Speaker 1: next week on the Iran War Powers Resolution, and he said,

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Speaker 1: instead of sending billions of dollars overseas, we need to

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Speaker 1: invest in jobs, healthcare, and education here in the United States.

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Speaker 6: Mister speaker, another war in the Middle East is not

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Speaker 6: America First. That is why Congressman Massey and I will

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Speaker 6: introduce a bipartisan Iran War Powers Resolution. America First means

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Speaker 6: first on matters of war and peace. Every member in

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Speaker 6: this body must go on the record, but whether we

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Speaker 6: should have another endless war in the Middle East. The

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Speaker 6: American people are sick of billions of dollars going for

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Speaker 6: overseas wars. They want that money for manufacturing jobs, here,

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Speaker 6: for healthcare, here, for childcare, here for education.

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Speaker 5: Here.

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Speaker 6: There is no doubt the Iranian regime is brutal in

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Speaker 6: pro killing protesters and murdering their own people. But an

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Speaker 6: American war will only inflame nationalism and will not prevent

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Speaker 6: them from getting the bomb. We need a better approach.

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Speaker 6: We need to focus on our country's economic development.

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Speaker 1: I do agree with him on that point that we

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Speaker 1: need to stop sending so much money overseas.

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Speaker 2: We need to invest in America first. That's what Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump ran on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Rocanna and Thomas Massey again getting together and

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Speaker 4: trying to push this bill through Congress that would limit

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Speaker 4: Trump's ability to have a military action against Iran. You know,

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Speaker 4: keep in mind it was Rokanna and Thomas Massey that

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Speaker 4: have really been pushing on the Epstein files too. Those

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Speaker 4: guys have turned out to be good buddies. I think

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Speaker 4: we're only probably just a few months away from them

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Speaker 4: starring in a buddy cop movie where they're going to start,

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Speaker 4: you know, taking down prostitutes and drug dealers in South

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Speaker 4: central Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: They're just just on par with everything these days.

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Speaker 1: So John Fetterman on Iran he said that you can't

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Speaker 1: negotiate with it, you got to attack it, which.

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Speaker 7: I think, I think clearly I was the only Democrat

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Speaker 7: last year, you know, like, why how could you allow

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Speaker 7: Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb? Now people have always

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Speaker 7: said that, Well, you know, he actually did something to

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Speaker 7: actually prevent I Ran from doing that. If they have

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Speaker 7: nine hundred pounds of near weapons great uranium, why wouldn't

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Speaker 7: you strike that? Why wouldn't you hold them accountable that way?

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Speaker 7: And now here we are again, and now we've demonstrate

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Speaker 7: that's the only thing I Ran ever responds to is

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Speaker 7: strength and power and hit him. And if they want

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Speaker 7: to hit him again, because I don't think you can't

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Speaker 7: really trust and negotiate with him. You can't negotiate with cancer.

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Speaker 7: You have to attack it and go right at it

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Speaker 7: with superior force.

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Speaker 1: Interesting that John Fetterman is not agreeing with Rocanna somebody

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Speaker 1: in his party. By the way, Rocana consistently voted to

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Speaker 1: send money to Ukraine for billions and billions of dollars.

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Speaker 4: Right, And then in that audio clip we just played

636
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Speaker 4: a few minutes ago, he's like, keep the money here, weave,

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Speaker 4: wagging his finger at us and saying no, that's not

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Speaker 4: American first, hard shocking that a politician isn't consistent in

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Speaker 4: his beliefs.

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Speaker 1: Right, they're they're messaging. And here is a little bit

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Speaker 1: more from John Fetterman. He was told that he was

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Speaker 1: surprised that he wore a suit and tie to the

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Speaker 1: State of the Union. Some people were surprised you wore

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Speaker 1: a suit and tie.

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Speaker 7: I'm not sure why that's news. Yes, I do dress

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Speaker 7: like a slab, but I mean, for me, I'm gonna

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Speaker 7: respect the event. Respect that's the dress code, of course.

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Speaker 7: So for me, it was an opportunity to hear these things.

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Speaker 7: And now I think there was enough there that I

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Speaker 7: could say, hey, I want to acknowledge that. I think

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Speaker 7: that's a good thing.

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Speaker 2: Interesting he did that interview wearing a hoodie.

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Speaker 4: Yeah he did, and you know what, good for him

654
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Speaker 4: self awareness. He's like, yeah, no, I get it. I

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Speaker 4: dressed like a slob. John Fetterman is going to be

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Speaker 4: fascinating to watch because he is becoming a problem for

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Speaker 4: the Democrat Party because he is out front and center

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Speaker 4: and doing all the talk shows and on CNN and

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Speaker 4: loves a microphone, and he is saying things that the

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Speaker 4: Democrat Party doesn't want other Democrats in office to say

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Speaker 4: out loud. Now he's not up for reelection until twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty eight, but there's already been a lot of talk

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Speaker 4: about Democrats looking to primary him because he isn't bound

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Speaker 4: by party politics. He doesn't care what the rest of

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Speaker 4: the Democrats are doing. He's out there with his own

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Speaker 4: independent opinion, even if they are completely counter to what

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Speaker 4: the Democrat Party wants to have out there.

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Speaker 2: I saw an interesting video of him.

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Speaker 1: You know, you see these reporters that are chasing down

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Speaker 1: the reps or the senators, and they're chasing them with

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Speaker 1: their cell phone or the microphone, and they're trying to

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Speaker 1: get a comment, and the representative is.

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Speaker 2: Almost running away from the reporter. Doesn't want to answer.

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Speaker 1: They've got that a lot their group around them, and

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Speaker 1: they're just trying to, you know, get to their car

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Speaker 1: and get away.

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Speaker 2: The one with John Fetterman that I.

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Speaker 1: Saw, he was walking in the tunnel underneath the underneath

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Speaker 1: the Capitol, and he actually he just stopped and kind

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Speaker 1: of pointed to the reporter like, Okay, let's just take

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Speaker 1: a minute. You're walking backwards here trying to get my comment,

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Speaker 1: so let's just stop. I'll give you the comment and

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Speaker 1: then we can both move on our way. He wasn't

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Speaker 1: running away from it. He wasn't trying to duck out

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Speaker 1: or hide. He was actually like, okay, wait, just wait,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna hurt yourself.

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Speaker 2: Let me just give you my answer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, John fetterman continues to surprise us. And look, still

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Speaker 4: plenty of things that I disagree about with John Fetter

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Speaker 4: you know. I hate the fact that he, you know,

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Speaker 4: will show up a lot of times just wearing a

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Speaker 4: hoodie in shorts. I think that he I would prefer

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Speaker 4: my elected officials to have a little bit more respect

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Speaker 4: for their elected office and professionalists a little bit better

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Speaker 4: and dress a little bit more professional. But I will

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Speaker 4: give him credit that he is clearly his own man

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Speaker 4: and isn't afraid to buck his own party. And I

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Speaker 4: think we need more politicians like that on both the

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Speaker 4: left and the right, both from Republicans and Democrats.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to ninety three WYBC, So you've got the

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Speaker 1: combine going on this week in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people are very excited about that.

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Speaker 1: However, India expressing interest in hosting the NFL Draft as

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Speaker 1: soon as twenty thirty.

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Speaker 2: This is on your bucket list of things to do

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've always wait long enough.

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Speaker 2: It'll be here.

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Speaker 4: I've always wanted to go to the NFL Draft, and

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Speaker 4: it's in Pittsburgh this year. And by the way, I'm

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Speaker 4: still holding out hope that we're going to get there

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Speaker 4: and go to the Pittsburgh Draft this year. But I

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Speaker 4: would love to go again if it comes to Indianapolis.

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Speaker 4: The draft use to always be held at Radio City

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Speaker 4: Music Hall, and then one year they had a scheduling

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Speaker 4: conflict and the NFL couldn't hold it there and so

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Speaker 4: they were like, all right, I guess we're gonna have

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Speaker 4: to go somewhere else. So they did it in Chicago

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Speaker 4: and it was a massive success, and all these fans

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Speaker 4: showed up. A couple of years ago, they did it

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Speaker 4: in Detroit and over the three or four day period

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Speaker 4: they had almost a million fans that just showed up

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Speaker 4: to watch team representatives come out and say, yeah, we're

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Speaker 4: gonna pick this left guard from Oklahoma in the fifth round.

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Speaker 4: It's become this massive, huge gathering event for the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so they're saying that Indy could be a big

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Speaker 1: city for the Draft as soon as twenty thirty, and

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Speaker 1: that would bring another massive sporting event and an influx

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Speaker 1: of visitors here to the capital city.

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Speaker 4: Got two months until the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, plenty

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Speaker 4: of time to make travel plans, to book a hotel,

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Speaker 4: to figure out our strategy. I say we do the

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Speaker 4: NFL Draft this year in Pittsburgh and then do it.

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Speaker 5: Again in India in twenty thirty.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you're listening to ninety three. It is WI DC

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Speaker 2: say I got to see