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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the best we could come up with.

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Speaker 3: I have proof I've done that in the past.

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Speaker 1: And finally this morning, pet Smart answered the question because

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Speaker 1: But let's get back to what's going on with Iran.

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Speaker 1: So You've got the reports that Iran was deploying minds

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Speaker 2: We'll find out how big of a threat this really is.

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Speaker 2: It does seem like everything old is new again, because

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Speaker 1: The other thing you have to consider is that governments,

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Speaker 8: There is coverage when gas prices go up, right, we

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Speaker 2: Five years ago I told you, hey, we're having a

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that you really have to

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Speaker 9: It's been my number one focus for some time now.

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Speaker 4: It has and half.

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Speaker 9: A trillion dollars to the military budget is fiscally irresponsible.

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Speaker 1: So you've got F thirty five's that costs like thirty

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Speaker 1: six thousand dollars every hour that they fly. We're already

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Speaker 1: drowning in this debt, and so you've got to really question.

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Speaker 1: This debt just keeps getting piled up by the military

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Speaker 1: industrial complex and the big spenders in Washington.

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Speaker 3: And you know that Lindsey.

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Speaker 1: Graham is out there with his pom poms, just cheerleading

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Speaker 1: it all the way.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And one thing, I like Rand Paul a lot.

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Speaker 2: I believe in a lot of his core values I share,

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Speaker 2: although I do want to challenge him on one thing.

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Speaker 2: He said, this is our second war in a couple

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Speaker 2: of months.

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Speaker 4: He's talking about Veneze, He's talking about Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: You do yourself a disservice there, Ran Paul, And I

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Speaker 2: get the point that you're trying to make, but let's

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Speaker 2: not call it what happened in Venezuela anywhere near a war,

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Speaker 2: or use it to say, hey, we spent all of

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Speaker 2: this money investigating ve or invading Venezuela. I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to say it was free, but in comparison to this

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Speaker 2: military action in Iran, it was pretty much a drop

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Speaker 2: in the bucket. So Ran Paul does himself a disservice

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Speaker 2: there trying to call what we did in Venezuela war.

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Speaker 4: But this is where Congress has the real power.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this back before the election when the

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Speaker 2: Democrats were still in power and there was a government

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Speaker 2: shut down, and we said, hey, Republicans, if you want

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Speaker 2: to control spending, shut the government down until things get

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Speaker 2: in line. This is where Congress does have the most

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Speaker 2: power as it relates to military actions that the president initiates.

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Speaker 4: It is the power of the purse, and that.

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Speaker 2: May be the thing that ends up stopping Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: from going forward more than anything is if Congress decides,

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Speaker 2: you know what, we're going to call it off funding

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Speaker 2: for this.

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Speaker 1: All right, We're going to check in with wybc's Jared

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Speaker 1: Lewis and get a weather update.

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Speaker 2: Cool, right.

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Speaker 1: Every shutdown story eventually becomes the same headline airports in chaos.

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Speaker 3: But it does show you that there's a pattern, right.

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Speaker 1: Transportation pain points always the first thing that the public

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Speaker 1: feels when Congress can't get it together. We're the ones

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Speaker 1: left waiting in line. You've got airports to security grinding

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Speaker 1: to a halt. Congress can't fund DHS. It just shows

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Speaker 1: that Washington has this habit of using national security and

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Speaker 1: you as political leverage. It comes down to real world

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Speaker 1: situations every single time.

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Speaker 3: Now, the latest.

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Speaker 1: Report is that you have about three hundred TSA officers

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Speaker 1: who quit and a lot called in sick. The sick

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Speaker 1: call ins, callouts more than doubled. And it's hard to

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Speaker 1: blame these people because if you're not getting paid, are

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Speaker 1: you really going to be motivated.

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Speaker 3: To be doing a good job. Probably not. You probably

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Speaker 3: say I'm not going in there. You're not even paying me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: WIBC Newsroom, there's actually a really good story about this

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Speaker 2: right now at WIBC dot com talking about how some

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Speaker 2: Indianapolis TSA agents have recently quit because of the partial

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Speaker 2: government shutdown. And yet it makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 2: I don't care why I'm not getting paid. I don't

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Speaker 2: care if it's a government shut down. I don't care

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Speaker 2: if it's some glitch in the system. At the end

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Speaker 2: of the I'm not getting paid eventually free, I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to show up to work. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: just because you promised me oh no, no, no, we'll take

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Speaker 2: care and we'll give you back pay last to help

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Speaker 2: me today, it doesn't help me today. And also, I

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Speaker 2: can't spend promises. You may promise that to me today

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Speaker 2: and then oh shocker, the government and some politicians lied

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Speaker 2: to me, and I'm not getting back pay in the future.

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Speaker 4: That's also a possibility.

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Speaker 2: But we're seeing some of the awful TSA lines that

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Speaker 2: we saw over the weekend, at the end of last

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Speaker 2: week and early this week have settled down a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but there are still several air reports that are reporting

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Speaker 2: just awful TSA lines right now, the worst being a

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Speaker 2: Houston Hobby Airport and Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. So if you've

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Speaker 2: got plans to travel through either to or through any

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Speaker 2: of those locations with connecting flights, you better be prepared

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Speaker 2: for a lot of people. And it really is kind

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Speaker 2: of bad timing here because we're just getting started on

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Speaker 2: the spring break rush that's going to last for the

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Speaker 2: next month. So you're seeing not only a reduction in

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Speaker 2: the amount of people that TSA can clear in a

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Speaker 2: certain amount of time, but we're also seeing this massive

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Speaker 2: influx of people traveling, and so we're getting hit from

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Speaker 2: both ends and that's why we're seeing I mean, Houston

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Speaker 2: Hobby Airport is still asking travelers to show up three

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Speaker 2: to four hours before their scheduled departure. That's not for

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Speaker 2: international flights. International flights that's usual. You know, you're supposed

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Speaker 2: to show up two hours three hours early so they

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Speaker 2: can make sure your passport and your paperworker in order. No, No,

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Speaker 2: these are domestic flights flying out of Houston three to

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Speaker 2: four hours in advance.

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Speaker 1: You've also got the airport in New Orleans having long

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Speaker 1: lines and.

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Speaker 3: Charlotte as well.

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Speaker 1: And Charlotte is a big connecting airport, especially for people

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Speaker 1: who are flying from Indianapolis to maybe Florida to go

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Speaker 1: on spring break.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of switching in Charlotte.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a major hub.

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Speaker 2: Charlotte is a major hub for American airlines, So flying

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Speaker 2: American airlines to the East Coast, a lot of times

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Speaker 2: you're going to have a connecting flight through Charlotte, and

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Speaker 2: that's one of the worst airports right now too, So.

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Speaker 1: You've got TSA shortages producing these three to four hour

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Speaker 1: security lines. It's just a reminder that a lot of

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Speaker 1: these government systems, they function less and they're not really

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Speaker 1: resilient when the funding isn't there. But John Thoone, he said,

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Speaker 1: you know, he tried to talk to those Democrats and

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Speaker 1: he put in an offer to reopen DHS twelve days ago,

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Speaker 1: and the Democrats never responded.

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Speaker 10: You're starting to see the lines at the airports because

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Speaker 10: TSA employees aren't getting paid. Obviously, cybersecurity falls under the

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Speaker 10: jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security, Border Security. You

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Speaker 10: can go right down the list FEMA. These are agencies

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Speaker 10: that have a profound impact on the safety and security

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Speaker 10: of the American people, and the Democrats have opted to,

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Speaker 10: in the most cynical way, play politics. I mean, how

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Speaker 10: much more cynical can you get than to play politics

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Speaker 10: with issues that affect homeland security. But that seems to

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Speaker 10: be where they are. Obviously, we're going to do everything

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Speaker 10: we can to continue to make the case that we

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Speaker 10: need to get DHS opened up. In fact Center, britt

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Speaker 10: last week offered a couple different times unanimous consent requests

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Speaker 10: to fund those that department and those agencies and to

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Speaker 10: allow additional time for discussion with the Democrats so we

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Speaker 10: could at least get into the negotiation, and they resisted

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Speaker 10: that as well.

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Speaker 1: So we were talking about the inconvenience of waiting around

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Speaker 1: in the TSA lines in the airport. But John Thune

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Speaker 1: did mention something there. You're talking national security while we're

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Speaker 1: in the middle of Operation Epic Fury with Iran.

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Speaker 3: It's not good.

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Speaker 1: But John Thune, he's saying that he doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Have the votes to remove the filibuster. Nancy Pelosi was

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Speaker 3: able to get the votes.

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Speaker 1: You know, take these people off their committees, don't give

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Speaker 1: him any money for reelection. John Thune could get it

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Speaker 1: done if he really wanted to.

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Speaker 2: It's clear John Thune does not want to. He has

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Speaker 2: options and he's not using them.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to ninety three WYBC

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