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Speaker 1: Hour two for a Friday Twin Cities News talking Am

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Speaker 1: eleven thirty and one oh three five.

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Speaker 2: FM a Freedom Friday. My name is John Justice.

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Speaker 1: We have Sam and the Master Control Booth and Representative

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Speaker 1: Max Reimer joining me in studio.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, chef on at the Capitol this week. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk about a little later on.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's been uh, it's been an interesting first

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Speaker 3: two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Obsession, I'll say that much. I still uh, you know what,

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Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and play it now.

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Speaker 1: Governor Tim Walls yesterday, and we'll discuss this further when

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Speaker 1: the rest of our Freedom Friday guests are in studio.

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Speaker 2: But this was Walls yesterday.

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Speaker 4: I don't know why this is so hard to understand,

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Speaker 4: and I will continue to say this. You can trust

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Speaker 4: me on this. The person who's angriest about this fraud

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Speaker 4: is me. There is certainly no political upside to having

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Speaker 4: fraud in your state, and it undermines the very program

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Speaker 4: that I have spent a lifetime advocating for and trying

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Speaker 4: to implement, and we have got criminals.

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Speaker 1: Well, there was no political upside now that it's been exposed.

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Speaker 1: There was plenty of d upside prior to gaining everybody's

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Speaker 1: attention for the Democrats. So there's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: truth in in what he was in what he was saying,

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Speaker 1: depending on how you want to frame it.

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Speaker 2: But no one's angrier than he is.

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Speaker 3: Give me a brain and talking about what's happening at

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Speaker 3: the Capitol. What's becoming increasingly apparent is that House Democrats

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Speaker 3: and Tim Walls, because they're coordinating, they're communicating, they are

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Speaker 3: absolutely not interested in any type of Inspector General bill.

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Speaker 2: They are slow rolling this.

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Speaker 3: We had another vote on the floor to just move

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Speaker 3: the bill along. The Inspector General being an independent body

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Speaker 3: which can catch fraud no matter where it's happening in Minnesota, Democrats,

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Speaker 3: it's just at first, you're sitting here going, okay, Democrats

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Speaker 3: have an election coming up in twenty twenty six to two.

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Speaker 3: Maybe they want to show a good will effort that

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Speaker 3: they're willing to tackle fraud, and John it's just it's

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Speaker 3: just not going to happen.

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Speaker 2: It's all for show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to We've got a couple of articles

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Speaker 1: to dive into. Walls laid out a series of plans

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Speaker 1: that Democrats have proposed, which is pretty much all the

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Speaker 1: plans that ideas that you guys had already put forward

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Speaker 1: a while back, right in terms of it, except it's

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Speaker 3: They're not actually going to follow through on any of it,

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Speaker 3: So that'll be coming up after a seven thirty.

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Speaker 1: I want to share a few more points from this

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Speaker 1: piece where David M. Perry in the Star Tribune goes

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Speaker 1: all in on comparing Operation Metro Surge to COVID, calling

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Speaker 1: it the ice pandemic. He says, the sudden shift in

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Speaker 1: remote learning in the wake of the ice pandemic.

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Speaker 2: To the article ice Pandemic has had.

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Speaker 1: A similar impact on far too many students' Minnesota children.

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Speaker 1: We don't have the full numbers yet, of course, but

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Speaker 1: it's clear that as Trump's virus lurked around Minnesota schools

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Speaker 1: looking to kidnap children and their parents, many children quite

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Speaker 1: reasonably went into hiding.

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Speaker 2: Okay, just stop already, just stop, this didn't happen. And listen.

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Speaker 2: If any kids.

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Speaker 1: Did miss school, that was on completely their own accord abolition.

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Speaker 1: This was their choice to not go to school because

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Speaker 1: of the fear mongering that was being done by the adults.

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Speaker 1: Just like we were talking about with that Saint Paul's

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Speaker 1: school last hour.

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Speaker 2: This is all on them.

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Speaker 3: No, And to illustrate that, we had a committee hearing

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Speaker 3: in Education Finance this past week to talk about absenteeism.

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Speaker 3: How many kids are missing fifteen days or more of

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Speaker 3: unexcused absences? Right, And the numbers across the state were negligible.

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Speaker 3: And what MDE came in and said was, well, they

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Speaker 3: we haven't gotten the full data from Headpink County yet.

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Speaker 3: We expect that when we get that data, the numbers

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Speaker 3: will skyrocket. And it's like, you're kind of begging the

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Speaker 3: question at this point. You want you want these numbers

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he actually includes that in the piece.

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Speaker 1: He talks about the vanished classmates and the absenteeism related

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Speaker 1: to immigration enforcement since before the COVID nineteen pandemic, So

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Speaker 1: ends up including these anecdotes simply to go and bolster

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Speaker 1: the argument that he's trying to make quite prior to this.

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Speaker 3: But the truth is is we have had, especially in

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Speaker 3: the ice raids.

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Speaker 2: The end of this.

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Speaker 1: Piece, that says, when people around the country ask me

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Speaker 1: how it's going in Minnesota, how will know when the

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Speaker 1: current horrors are really over? I always say, ignore the

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Speaker 1: news conferences in the politicians and just watch to see

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Speaker 1: whether kids are coming back to school. But getting kids

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Speaker 1: back to school is just the first step. Then the

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Speaker 1: real work begins, you know. In this too, it makes

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Speaker 1: it just one more comment on this, he says, perhaps

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Speaker 1: more important, most important of all, is getting kids to

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Speaker 1: see school as a safe, productive place where they belong

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Speaker 1: and bring their full psychological selves. You know, the truth

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Speaker 1: of the matter is the Democrats have done everything they

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Speaker 1: can to make our schools physically less safe, all while

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Speaker 1: inflicting they're indoctrination, you know, upon these developing minds that

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Speaker 1: are making them feel less safe. They're the ones that

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Speaker 1: are making them feel less safe and putting them in

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Speaker 1: less safe situations because of their lack of addressing things

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Speaker 1: like safety in schools.

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Speaker 2: And protocols relating to locking the schools.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, we just had a story where teachers

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Speaker 3: are telling students that ice is gonna come get you

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Speaker 3: on the playground, that doesn't create a safe environment. That

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Speaker 3: doesn't help the kids feel safe. It's not based in reality.

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Speaker 3: And then, oh, by the way, we're taking days off

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Speaker 3: of school so the kids can go out and protest ICE, and.

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Speaker 1: Then the parents can go and take advantage of pay

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Speaker 1: family medically.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a job.

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Speaker 1: The man Cato City Council, Oh, I'm sorry, colouncil. They

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Speaker 1: passed an ordinance, so let me back up here really quick.

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Speaker 1: They're one of many. So the mayor of Denver has

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Speaker 1: moved forward on banning ICE from all city property. Oh, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: which I don't think that'll work. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: and the man Cato City Council doesn't really have the

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Speaker 1: conducting enforcement operations. This was a unanimous vote they took

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Speaker 2: So if you're working under cover, you could wear a mask.

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Speaker 1: Are they talking to like Mission Impossible style where you're

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Speaker 1: you're you're somebody else. The rules also require the law

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Speaker 1: enforcement agencies to notify man Cato officials when they plan

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Speaker 1: and compel officers to identify themselves on request. City officials

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Speaker 1: acknowledge that passing the ordinance does not guarantee federal compliance

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Speaker 1: and that the city's leverage even when the rules are

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Speaker 1: Mancato City Attorney, Pam Whitmore, repeatedly cautioned the clowncil members

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Speaker 1: that Mancato does not have authority over federal agencies and

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Speaker 1: that enforcement would be challenging in real time, like they're LARPing.

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Speaker 2: Oh duh, they're LARPing as city officials.

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Speaker 3: No does, so, then what are you spending your time

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Speaker 3: on as a city council You're taking you're taking these

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Speaker 3: votes which are basically just virtue signaling.

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Speaker 1: Client Council member Michael McLaughlin argued that backing down because

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Speaker 1: of a potential federal pushback. Max, this would amount to

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Speaker 1: surrendering to tyranny. We can't, we can't. We can't surrender

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Speaker 2: What happens after you surrendered to tyranny? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking MD. That's the question of the bout.

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Speaker 3: Listen, the ICE agents are they have a federal They

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Speaker 3: have federal authority to conduct investigations the way that they

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Speaker 2: Leave me a talkback.

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Speaker 1: What happens after you surrender to tyranny if we use

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Speaker 1: that as our metric or metric, said the clownsul member.

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Speaker 1: It's oh here, Actually he answers the question.

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Speaker 2: My apologies.

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Speaker 1: So he says, okay, surrendering to tyranny, if we use

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Speaker 1: that as our metric, it essentially is succumbing to tyranny.

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Speaker 1: At that point, was that the same thing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, so you're just kidding up.

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Speaker 3: You're giving up to gonna not We're gonna not surrender

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Speaker 3: to tyranny by surrendering to tyranny.

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Speaker 1: And Cato's action follows a similar move in Saint Paul

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Speaker 1: or Mayorkle, who her on February twenty assigned the ordinance

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Speaker 1: wearing identity obscuring masks. So boy, and it's made all

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Speaker 1: the difference. I don't know if you've heard. There's just

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Speaker 2: You know, listen.

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Speaker 3: If you're listening and you're on a city council, God

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Speaker 3: bless you. I look at stories like this and I'm like,

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Speaker 3: city councils have too much time on their hands. It

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Speaker 3: reminds me of a few years ago when I believe

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Speaker 3: the city council in Duluth basically issued a proclamation saying

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Speaker 3: that they support Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's like Russia's.

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Speaker 3: Gonna give up their arms now because the city of Duluth,

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Speaker 3: Minnesota supports Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: What are we focusing on here, folks. That seems like

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Speaker 2: a really good use of their time. Yeah, that's all right.

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Speaker 1: We will get to later on in the show. The

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Speaker 1: federal government presence and Minesota winding down, but leftist activists

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Speaker 1: for the abolition of prisons and eating at Mexican restaurants. Wait,

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Speaker 1: they want to get rid of eating at Mexican rest

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Speaker 1: restaurants or are they calling for people to eat in Mexican.

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Speaker 2: Or Ice is banned from Mexican restaurants? Is that what's

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Speaker 2: going on here? Let's stay here?

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Speaker 1: They went, No, Okay, so they want to get rid

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Speaker 2: I think that's what my takeways on here. Okay, I

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Speaker 2: just conflated.

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Speaker 1: I conflated the two because I said calling for the

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Speaker 1: abolition of prisons and eating at Mexican restaurants. So it

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Speaker 1: felt like they were trying to abolish eating at Mexican restaurants,

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Speaker 1: but they want to mandate eating at Mexican restaurants. No, no,

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Speaker 1: how do you guys read that? Katherine Johnson?

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Speaker 2: How do you? How do you? How do you read that?

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Speaker 5: Good morning?

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Speaker 2: Good morning?

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Speaker 1: If they're calling for an abolition of prisons and eating

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Speaker 1: at Mexican restaurants, is that pro Mexican restaurants or they

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Speaker 1: also want to abolish eating at Mexican restaurants?

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Speaker 6: Well, they probably want to abolish it because it's like

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Speaker 6: cultural appropriation.

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Speaker 5: Don't you think to eat mexis good food?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but they were defending the Mexican restaurants because there

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Speaker 2: were so many workers that were being arrested.

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Speaker 3: Cool, if it's a mandate to eat at Mexican restaurants,

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Speaker 3: what I think is behind it is big pepto bismol,

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Speaker 3: because the more Wow, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Apparently all right, Catherin Johnson centered the American experiment good

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Speaker 5: Good morning, Yes, settled into the new space.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Well, actually Max started to talking about sock cops,

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Speaker 2: Well, society needs a good good sock cop.

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Speaker 1: I do have a story that I pulled specifically for you.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about schools earlier and the Saint Paul

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Speaker 2: You had posted online about the buzzballs. Oh yes, I

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Speaker 6: The buzzballs, which, by the way, I think is an

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Speaker 1: Buzzballs that I don't know about the buzzballs.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm going to go there and get a sex

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, I have a story for you of a

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Speaker 1: Whether or not we can get the Save America Act

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Speaker 5: She's a non partisan news reporter, that's.

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Speaker 2: Right, balls and strikes. She doesn't. She doesn't really build

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Speaker 5: Does she anymore?

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Speaker 5: Okay, gosh, your true colors have shown what we all knew.

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Speaker 2: So more with our guests this morning.

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Speaker 1: Catherine Johnson from American Experiment, Representative Max Rymer, Tom Emmer,

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Speaker 1: and your comments from the iHeartRadio app all morning long

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Speaker 1: on a Freedom Friday. Here on Twinnesday's News Talk AM

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Speaker 1: little bothered I didn't get any housewarming gifts from you.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of hurting now.

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Speaker 3: I kind of forgot this was happening today.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna go get buzzballs, but I ran out

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Speaker 1: That's really what I'm upset about, because you said that online.

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Speaker 6: I know I meant to go get them, but also,

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Speaker 2: John Justice, I plead the fifth. I feel like my

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Speaker 1: So all right, more with our guests on our Freedom Friday,

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Speaker 1: we have Catherine Johnson from US enter the American Experiment,

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Speaker 1: Speaking of representatives, Tom Emmer, good morning, sir, how are

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Speaker 7: Doing?

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Speaker 2: Great job?

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Speaker 1: How you being I'm doing a fantastic especially with this

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Speaker 1: Olsen in the Star Tribune is very upset with you, Tom.

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Speaker 1: She says that Emmer could have helped end Operation Metro Surge.

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Speaker 2: How dare you, Tom Emmer? How dare you?

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Speaker 2: Good morning?

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Speaker 7: Yeah? You know, good morning to you too, I would

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Speaker 7: say when it comes to miss Olsen, I'm sorry to

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Speaker 7: I do not read the Star Tribute and I have

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny just one point and then we'll

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's what That's what this whole thing is.

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Speaker 7: But we can John, I appreciate a lot.

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Speaker 2: It's just we got to keep calling this.

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Speaker 7: Stuff out because look, they're not reporting the fact that

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Speaker 7: I mean, look, this is no different than what Tim

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Speaker 1: Let's spend just a minute talking about the state of

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Speaker 1: the Union. It was really a bad night for Democrats.

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Speaker 1: It was a great night for President Donald Trump. For Republicans.

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Speaker 1: It really did encapsulate, in my opinion, where the country

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Speaker 1: of the Union, right Tom.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's really I.

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Speaker 7: Hadn't thought of that. The comparison to Tuesday night with

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Speaker 7: President Trump laid out the successes and the wins throughout

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Speaker 2: The one hundred year.

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Speaker 7: Old World War Two vet, the young girl who almost

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Speaker 7: and clap for these guys, and don't forget our men's

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Speaker 7: And by the way, John, they and all of us

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Speaker 7: It was a great night. I think he spoke to

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Speaker 1: you were able to get your signature on the hockey stick.

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Speaker 2: It didn't get.

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Speaker 7: Mine, but I got all of theirs, John, I get

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Speaker 7: every one of the Olympians signatures, And I told them

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Speaker 7: they don't understand what they've done, right, it's too early.

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Speaker 7: They're going to find out in ten years and twenty

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Speaker 7: years and thirty years when some guy or gal walks

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Speaker 7: up to him. This will be the women's Olympic team too,

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Speaker 7: that walks up to them on the street and goes, hey,

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Speaker 7: I've watched you win a gold medal in the twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty sixth Olympics, and I got to tell you because

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Speaker 7: of you.

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Speaker 2: I did this.

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Speaker 7: These guys really are a great example. Their patriotism was amazing,

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Speaker 7: and to have idiots at the Star Tribute like this

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Speaker 7: worthless washed up by so called self proclaimed sports reporter

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Speaker 7: suggesting that going to the White House with your president

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Speaker 7: was inappropriate. These guys are that's anti American. I don't

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Speaker 7: care if you liked the president or not. The fact

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Speaker 7: that you went to the White House to celebrate the

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Speaker 7: United States of America. How about that Quinn Hughes brother Jack, who,

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Speaker 7: by the way, I said, Jack, I don't want to

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Speaker 7: keep you from meeting, and he kind of half smiled

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Speaker 7: at me and with a broken tooth and said, it's

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Speaker 7: really not worth right now.

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Speaker 2: To eat.

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Speaker 7: These kids were great and it was fun to be

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Speaker 7: around them because they even though they're all class professionals,

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Speaker 7: this was not about President Trump. This was about the

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Speaker 7: United States of America and they represent.

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Speaker 1: It as well as always. Representative Tom Memmer thank you

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Speaker 1: for the time this morning. I have a great weekend

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Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll want to talk to you again next week.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we'll be at conventions. Have fun, John coming up.

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Speaker 1: Representative ak Kamar will be joining us in studio along

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Speaker 1: with Catherine Johnson from American Experiment. Representative Max Rymer is

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Speaker 1: here and of course your comments all morning long from

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Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app. We have an update. Remember when

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Speaker 1: the White House ballroom was a big deal and everybody

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Speaker 1: was talking about it. We actually have an update on that.

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Speaker 3: Oh is it as devastating and horrible as everyone promised?

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Speaker 2: Of course it is. Of course, it's the end. It's

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Speaker 2: the end. Of the world. They're going to put all

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Speaker 2: the ICE agents in.

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Speaker 1: There's going to become a new ICE headquarters on the

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Speaker 1: White House grounds.

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Speaker 2: That's not true at all. I completely made that up.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you details of what actually is going on.

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Speaker 2: Ice sock cop posted in the ballroom.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Twin Cities News Talk Game eleven thirty

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Speaker 8: pandemic the leftism that has infected our educational system.

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Speaker 1: So we have video cameras in studio now. I haven't

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Speaker 1: used him yet, sometime in the near future here on

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Speaker 1: Twin City's News Talk, we will I am regretting it though,

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Speaker 1: because I really should have been recording everybody here on

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Speaker 1: a Freedom Friday getting themselves situated in our new studio.

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Speaker 1: Here on Twin City's News Talk, my name is John Justice.

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Speaker 1: We've got Sam in the master control booth nextdoor. Representative

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Speaker 1: Max Rymer, Good morning, if Catherine Johnson from American Experiments,

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Speaker 1: Good morning aka Kamara. Just went for a ride in

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Speaker 1: his high share here in studio.

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Speaker 3: Chair almost sent to ak to the hospital this morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: No, it literally is like a carnival ride, you know,

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Speaker 9: like here's the thing visual for all the listeners. The

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Speaker 9: chair sits up probably like to like just above my waist,

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Speaker 9: and it's not a natural flow to step up onto

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Speaker 9: a you know anything and then sit down. So I

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Speaker 9: was trying to lower the seat so I could just

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Speaker 9: kind of like transition instead of stepping up and sitting down.

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Speaker 2: But then when I sit down, I'm a three hundred

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Speaker 2: pound man.

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Speaker 9: Uh you know, I like knocked into the into the blinds,

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Speaker 9: and it was it was entertaining.

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Speaker 1: It was it was almost like a Goldie locks in

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Speaker 1: the Three Bears the situation, because I think Max got

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Speaker 1: in at first and he's like, no, I ain't doing that,

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Speaker 1: and then Catherine got in it same thing happened, and

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Speaker 1: I go, I'll leave it for Ak. We'll just figure

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Speaker 1: we'll just finish the trifecta of the chair nonsense and

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Speaker 1: the studio with Ak.

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Speaker 2: So Ak's in a toddler bouncy seat this morning. I

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Speaker 2: have it's it's very nice.

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Speaker 1: Well, we have any the boards higher so we have

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Speaker 1: not that not that it matters, but the we have

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Speaker 1: a standing board now where it's you know, before it

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Speaker 1: was down a typical desk size, and now we have

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Speaker 1: a board that's much higher and the desk is much

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Speaker 1: higher in here, so we need a taller chairs.

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Speaker 2: We are getting all new chairs. By the way, apparently

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Speaker 2: I've been told that recliners.

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Speaker 9: Part of me wants to part of me wants to

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Speaker 9: just do the rest of the show standing up and

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Speaker 9: like I can feel like I'm really into it.

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Speaker 2: I've been going back and forth. That's what. That's what

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Speaker 2: I'm mean to you, man. It'll make us all feel awkward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, A federal judge will touch upon this briefly. Has

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Speaker 1: allowed the Trump administration to continue the ongoing construction of

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Speaker 1: the White House east to east wing. You guys remember

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Speaker 1: when this was This was the this was the biggest

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Speaker 1: thing ever.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was like controversies ago, just huge.

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Speaker 1: Finding that the legal challenge that was brought about last

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Speaker 1: year was not comprehensive enough to prove that President Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump lacked the authority to renovate the building with private

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Speaker 1: funds and without congressional actions. So the US District Judge

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Speaker 1: Richard Leon ruled that the legal challenge brought by a

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Speaker 1: preservationist group failed because the White House Office of the

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Speaker 1: Executive Residents is not a government agency, and said that

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Speaker 1: he cannot address the merits of the doing that thing

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Speaker 1: with my fingers, novel and weighty issues raised by the

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Speaker 1: challenge without an amended challenge. So it looks like they're

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Speaker 1: going to go ahead and like we all expected, and

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Speaker 1: finish the construction of the White House a ballroom. Again,

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Speaker 1: I do laugh because this was like the biggest controversy

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Speaker 1: for like what a week, a week.

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Speaker 7: And a half.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot about this one. Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Actually, so I'm an insurance back in the insurance industry

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Speaker 9: and sat down with a guy who was just a

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Speaker 9: rabid rabbit anti Trumper. Had no idea what I was,

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Speaker 9: and I don't usually discuss politics when i'm especially when

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Speaker 9: i'm in the industry, unless someone specifically brings it up.

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Speaker 9: And one of the things, like all of his litany

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Speaker 9: of things that he was attacking Trump on, is the ballroom.

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Speaker 2: So listen, it.

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Speaker 9: Does work when the Democrats push this nonsense and you're like,

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Speaker 9: why do you care about the ballroom? It's just because

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Speaker 9: if they see this idea into their rabbid, you know,

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Speaker 9: trump deranged syndrome base, they will glom onto it, and

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Speaker 9: they use it as a talking point in the middle

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Speaker 9: of a conversation about insurance.

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Speaker 5: So well, they glom onto any thing.

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Speaker 6: Like I was opening our mail the other day at

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Speaker 6: Senator of the American Experiment. We have no affiliation with Trump,

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Speaker 6: but half of our mail was just big things saying

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Speaker 6: Trump is a pedophile, which I thought was very interesting

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Speaker 6: that that is their new thing, I guess is that

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Speaker 6: Trump is a pedophile, which is interesting since we were

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Speaker 6: all like cute people, you know, a year.

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Speaker 5: Ago, and now Trump's a pedophile. So I'm a little confused.

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Speaker 6: But when they have a narrative, everyone gloms on immediately.

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Speaker 2: Are they flyers? Are they?

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Speaker 10: Are?

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Speaker 3: They?

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Speaker 7: Are? They?

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Speaker 2: Are they? Trump's a pedophile? Flyers, what do you get?

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Speaker 5: You right on our stuff? Okay, and send it back.

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Speaker 6: And so our mail comes back to us with like

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Speaker 6: you know, your pedophiles and Nazis written all over it.

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Speaker 5: Okay, it's a joy.

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Speaker 2: Thoh that's making you spend your money on the return edgress.

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Speaker 9: It's funny because some of these people are so deranged

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Speaker 9: that they think, ooh, I'm really gonna get you. I'm

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Speaker 9: gonna send this back and you're gonna have to pay

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Speaker 9: the full cost of this return letter ha.

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Speaker 5: And they put a bunch of pennies in it and

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Speaker 5: stuff like.

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Speaker 2: That the way does.

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Speaker 5: So this is like how they.

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Speaker 9: Wrap up, you know, man, Like imagine sitting there and

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Speaker 9: you're like, you wanna know, I'm really gonna lay it

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Speaker 9: and stick it to them. I'm gonna put some pennies

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Speaker 9: in this envelope and send it back because it's prepaid.

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Speaker 5: Well, this is how the name is, like phyllis or something.

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Speaker 2: You're like, lady for sure.

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Speaker 1: But this is what they've all convinced themselves. Upsets conservatives

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Speaker 1: like they have convinced themselves and I'm really gonna own

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Speaker 1: them now with this and I don't again, I can't

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Speaker 1: relate to that mentality.

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Speaker 2: Most of it stems from this is what they've been told.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is what their party and the individuals

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Speaker 1: that they've elected have continued to hammer for over for

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Speaker 1: over a decade. But they really do genuinely believe that

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Speaker 1: this is Oh, they're just gonna open that mail and

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Speaker 1: they're just gonna real Oh.

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Speaker 2: My gosh, I can't believe me. They're calling and kind

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Speaker 2: of fazi. You're just gonna break down in tears.

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Speaker 3: Well, it sounds like the leftist with your organization have

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Speaker 3: moderated a little bit. I think you would take some

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Speaker 3: return letters versus fire bombing your office.

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Speaker 2: True, that's true.

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Speaker 1: To bring the house down, Max, Well, if you weren't

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Speaker 1: do it, if you weren't going to bring the house down,

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Speaker 1: Shane via the iHeartRadio app talkbacks brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Lyndall Realty, was going to attempt to bring the house down.

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Speaker 2: You guys, right, you guys ready for this one? You're ready? Okay,

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Speaker 2: here we go. Embrace myself.

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Speaker 10: The Republican Party are nothing but cowards. Cowards, Okay, a

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Speaker 10: lot of talk, Okay, that's it.

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Speaker 2: Cowards. Okay.

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Speaker 10: At least the Democrats have a backbone enough to get

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Speaker 10: out there protests in the street, you don't destroy our

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Speaker 10: monuments and everything else. But Republicans are cowards. They ain't

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Speaker 10: got a backbone strong enough to stand up and fight back.

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Speaker 10: And if you think politics is going to fix it,

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Speaker 10: you're sadly mistaken cowards.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I do find it amusing because I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: the transcript here, so this makes it really easy for

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Speaker 1: me to kind of break this down. So Republican Party

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Speaker 1: years we got as cowards. It's one, two, three, four,

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Speaker 1: five times cowards is mentioned. But he also said that

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Speaker 1: Republicans are all talk. Yes, there wasn't a ton of

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Speaker 1: substance in this piece. I don't know if he thinks

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Speaker 1: are Republicans supposed to go out?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 1: I get the first question. I would also ask, and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to take the thunder away from any

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Speaker 1: of the guests this morning.

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Speaker 7: But.

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Speaker 1: What are the Democrats accomplished with their protesting? That's the

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Speaker 1: first question. Does he expect Republicans to go and destroy

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Speaker 1: things on their own? And how is that akin to

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Speaker 1: Republicans being cowards. I'm very confused by Shane's glisson.

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Speaker 9: I have interacted with a lot of folks, and I

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Speaker 9: will say this about Shane not knowing anything beyond just

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Speaker 9: this one talkback. I think he is frustrated that he

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Speaker 9: feels like Republicans aren't doing enough, and I think that

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Speaker 9: that is just not true. If your idea of doing

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Speaker 9: something is just being like the loudest virtue signaler, I

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Speaker 9: think that your intentions are misplaced. The question is what

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Speaker 9: policies have been passed have made your life better?

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Speaker 2: And if you had to have.

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Speaker 9: The two choices between having Kamala Harris sit in the

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Speaker 9: White House or President Trump, and you had to have

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Speaker 9: the two choices of having Democrats to control of Congress

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Speaker 9: or Republicans. I think every sane, rational person that it's

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Speaker 9: not a leftist, would say it's better for Republicans to

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Speaker 9: be in power. So I understand that it feels like

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Speaker 9: maybe we're not doing enough. But then the last point

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Speaker 9: is this, what do you want us to do? And

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Speaker 9: then lastly, what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: My guy? Yeah, like, are you out there protesting? Leading?

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Speaker 9: Like I guess if you want to organize something, you

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Speaker 9: can shoot me an email AK at mmgop dot com

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Speaker 9: and I'll be there right there with you if you

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Speaker 9: want to have some protests, as long as like, we're

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Speaker 9: being peaceful and we're not acting like leftists, but also

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Speaker 9: take some responsibility and accountability.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just be careful if you go protest though, because

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Speaker 1: the left likes to try to go and beat up

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Speaker 1: conservatives that are out there protesting.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to bring it back up.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Whenever I hear similar to AK, whenever I hear a

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Speaker 3: sentiment like this, being an elected Republican, I believe and

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Speaker 3: maybe I'm still romantic about where we are in America.

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Speaker 3: But I believe this outlines a key difference between conservatives

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Speaker 3: and anarchal leftists. Right, we still believe in a civic process.

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Speaker 2: What would the alternative be? Right?

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Speaker 3: Do you want us to have civil skirmishes in the street?

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Speaker 3: Is that the end goal that you're looking for? Because

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Speaker 3: I still believe in our constitutional republic. I still believe

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Speaker 3: that things can be accomplished by convincing other people that

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Speaker 3: your viewpoint is right. I believe in that North Star

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Speaker 3: goal that Charlie Kirk laid out for us, and to

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Speaker 3: abandon that means that I'm I get to be part

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Speaker 3: of the chaos, and I don't want my children growing

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Speaker 3: up in that country. I don't want my grandchildren growing

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Speaker 3: up in that country. I still believe there's a pressure

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Speaker 3: relief valve to this whole situation. If you can speak

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Speaker 3: out more, if you can make the case for your position.

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Speaker 3: Are you going to convince that people who are sticking

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Speaker 3: male appendages on people's cars. No, but you were never

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Speaker 3: convincing those people anyway.

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Speaker 1: Somebody had suggested, by the way, because I was talking

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Speaker 1: about the Pentagon Pizza Report, where you can go and

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Speaker 1: track when the Pentagon's busy and there might be a

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Speaker 1: big event taking place. By the number of pizzas that

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Speaker 1: are ordered via the pizza places around the Pentagon. Somebody

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Speaker 1: suggested we need to do something similar regarding the rubber

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Speaker 1: mail appendages.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so maybe we can.

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Speaker 1: Track the level of the protest coming up if we

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Speaker 1: can keep an eye on just how many of these

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Speaker 1: adults toys are being are being sold.

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Speaker 9: What's funny is you've mentioned on your show so many

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Speaker 9: times that every time the local legacy media wants to

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Speaker 9: talk about terrorists, they talked to that that toy store.

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Speaker 2: I saw it the other day.

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Speaker 9: I told you that after this So after this show

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Speaker 9: last week with Supreme Court announcement, it was like on

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Speaker 9: that weekend they had them and they were talking.

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Speaker 2: About it, and I'm like, like they must get paid, man,

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Speaker 2: Mischi like mischief toy store is the darling of the

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Speaker 2: of the of the left, and it's just absurd. Man.

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Speaker 9: But I will say this that the whole idea of

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Speaker 9: watering the tree of liberty, that's not a world that

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Speaker 9: most people want to live in. So like, let's just

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Speaker 9: chill out on like we need to water the tree.

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Speaker 6: I just was going to say, to his point, I

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Speaker 6: think I agree with him in one sense. I disagree,

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Speaker 6: and that I think Trump is getting more done than

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Speaker 6: we've seen any administration get done, certainly in my lifetime,

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Speaker 6: and it's incredible and we should be so proud of

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Speaker 6: that as conservatives, of how much they're getting done in

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Speaker 6: his administration.

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Speaker 5: At the same time, I get frustrated with.

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Speaker 6: My fellow conservatives for rolling over too easily sometimes, for

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Speaker 6: seeing the pushback we got in Minneapolis on Ice from

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Speaker 6: the crazy left who were never gonna win over and

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Speaker 6: now all of a sudden, I know people in my

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Speaker 6: life who purport to be conservatives changing their mind because

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Speaker 6: they got a little bit of pushback from their friends,

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Speaker 6: and that frustrates me.

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Speaker 5: So if that's what he means, that I understand that.

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Speaker 5: But on the other hand, look at how much we're

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Speaker 5: getting done in DC. I mean, seriously, how can you

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Speaker 5: complain about that?

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Speaker 2: Well, and you know, apart from you know.

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Speaker 5: Shane and you're fascinating to talk.

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Speaker 1: To, I just want to say thank you for the comment,

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Speaker 1: because we've got a lot of really good commentary that

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Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting out of that.

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Speaker 2: So thanks for being an idiot, dude. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I want to say thank you, Ak. I really needed

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Speaker 2: to hear that today. I appreciate you. I appreciate the show.

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Speaker 10: Okay, and I know sometimes I get a little frustrated,

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Speaker 10: and I do appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: Was Shane by the way. Oh yeah, shout out Shane.

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Speaker 1: I'm not taking back the idiot thing, but I'm still.

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Speaker 9: Gonna know I disavowed. I was going to say I

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Speaker 9: disavowed the idiot comment. Shout out to your brother. I

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Speaker 9: love it, man.

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Speaker 2: Ak Man of the people.

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Speaker 1: By the way, another quick programming note, guys don't curse.

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Speaker 2: In the talkbacks. Yeah, I can't please.

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Speaker 1: I just I and they're friends of the show and

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Speaker 1: they're doing it. Say you guys know better than you.

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Speaker 2: Guys know better than that.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go here. I predicted this yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: was spot on. It was not a hard prediction to make. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gloating. I'm just saying that I did predict this.

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Speaker 1: President Donald President Donald Trump. Governor Tim Walls held the

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Speaker 1: press conference yesterday. I'm looking at the star tribute. The headline,

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Speaker 1: Walls decries targeted retribution as Trump seeks to claw back

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Speaker 1: Medicaid funds. I said that was gonna have and yesterday

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Speaker 1: that that was going to be the first thing that

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Speaker 1: he was going to say with that.

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Speaker 2: This was more of the targeted retribution.

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Speaker 1: As Governor Tim Walls unveils his fraud plan blast the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration over the Medicaid pause.

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Speaker 4: I don't know why this is so hard to understand,

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Speaker 4: and I will continue to say this. You can trust

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Speaker 4: me on this. The person who's angriest about this fraud

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Speaker 4: is me. There is certainly no political upside to having

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Speaker 4: fraud in your state, and it undermines the very program

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Speaker 4: that I have spent a lifetime advocating for and trying

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Speaker 4: to implement.

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Speaker 2: And we have got criminals. We all have just a

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Speaker 2: side note, because it's a freedom Friday. I know we

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Speaker 2: all we all have like our speech patterns. I have

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Speaker 2: plenty of them, right, Wals just has.

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Speaker 1: He has his weird little phrases, you know. And I'm

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Speaker 1: going to keep saying this and just don't.

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Speaker 4: Know why this is so hard to understand, and I

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Speaker 4: will continue to say this.

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Speaker 2: You can trust me on Thank you, Thank you, thank

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Speaker 2: you for letting me.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to you continuing to say this so

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Speaker 1: Governor Tim Walls did a veil plans to focus on

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Speaker 1: stopping fraud through three pathways, better detection, oversight, investigative and

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Speaker 1: enforcement authority, and increased criminal penalties for a violator. This

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Speaker 1: is a little bit more of what he had to

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Speaker 1: say yesterday.

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Speaker 7: They should.

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Speaker 4: But look, I now, after seven years, I have.

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Speaker 2: To be candid with you.

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Speaker 4: I've come in here and I am truly the eternal optimist.

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Speaker 4: I've come in here and said, you know, we all

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Speaker 4: want a bonding bill. We should have this done by March,

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Speaker 4: and then you know we're setting here the end of May,

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Speaker 4: last hours trying to.

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Speaker 2: Get a bonding bill done.

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Speaker 4: This one just makes sense because we're telling you what

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Speaker 4: the tools are. The issue on this is I don't

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Speaker 4: think and you'll tell me on this. I don't think

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Speaker 4: many of these things are in here are controversial at all.

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Speaker 4: I think many have been brought up by the Republicans.

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Speaker 4: I know the legislature is going to frown on that

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Speaker 4: we're not going to have basic ear marks for programs.

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Speaker 2: But the OLA and.

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Speaker 4: Everyone else who's told us that that's risky. So I'm saying, Okay,

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Speaker 4: we're gonna We're not going to do that.

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Speaker 2: Anymore.

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Speaker 1: First off, Max, correct me if I'm wrong. Hasn't Governor

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Speaker 1: Tim Walls, during multiple legislatives sessions been the one at

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Speaker 1: the last minute to throw to gum up the works

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Speaker 1: and to bring everything to a grinding halt and often

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Speaker 1: forcing us into a special session where he's talking about

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Speaker 1: the eternal optimist. And yet he almost points to everybody

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Speaker 1: else's being the ones that end up extending the legislative

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Speaker 1: session beyond what it's supposed to be.

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Speaker 2: Yet he's the one that's typically responsible for that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's He's just the guy who decides at the

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Speaker 3: last minute that he wants fourteen other policy points, and

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Speaker 3: that's that's usually what extends these things. And I actually

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Speaker 3: think that there's mutual frustration on our side or in

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Speaker 3: our chamber between Republicans and Democrats when Tim Walls goes

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Speaker 3: and does this right, because you work together for three

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Speaker 3: months on a number of issues. You got to kind

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Speaker 3: of come together and figure out what sloppy piece of

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Speaker 3: you know, legislation where nobody gets what they want, gets

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Speaker 3: through the system. And then when Tim Wallace decides, it's

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Speaker 3: like I woke up this morning and I want and

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Speaker 3: earn sick and saved time funded it's like.

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Speaker 1: But now, most of my understanding is most of the

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Speaker 1: proposals that they brought forward to combat fraud were Republican

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Speaker 1: ideas that have been presented in prior relegislative sessions.

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Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, I mean there's elements of stuff that

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Speaker 3: we proposed even last session. But at the end of

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Speaker 3: the day, what people have to keep in mind is

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Speaker 3: we had an Office of Inspector General bill. It got

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Speaker 3: sixty votes in the Senate. I don't think only seven

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Speaker 3: Democrats voted against it in the Senate, So you had

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Speaker 3: a massive party cross over there and for that to

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Speaker 3: come back to the House and for no Democrat to

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Speaker 3: vote for this bill, it's shameful.

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Speaker 2: It's shameful.

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Speaker 5: Next, what's your charitable take? Why will they not?

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Speaker 6: Because I truly I don't understand what do they think

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Speaker 6: is wrong with the Inspector General bill? Why won't they

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Speaker 6: sign onto it seems like to me one positive thing

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Speaker 6: they could do about fraud.

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Speaker 2: It is for this reason and this reason alone.

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Speaker 3: Tim Walls came to the Minnesota House Democrats and said,

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Speaker 3: I don't like this bill. I know what got through

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Speaker 3: the Senate. You better not have one vote on this thing. Yep,

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Speaker 3: that's the reason.

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Speaker 9: Basically, if you want to like strip it all down,

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Speaker 9: it allows this office.

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Speaker 2: To be able to.

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Speaker 9: Stop these programs that the Democrats have been funding. Like

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Speaker 9: that's that's honestly what it allows without first going through

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Speaker 9: this process where you will go back to the executive

884
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 9: and say, hey, we have these concerns and then they

885
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 9: can just bury it and say no, no, no, no.

886
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 9: That's you're misunderstanding what this means. Truly, having an independent

887
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 9: office that has teeth to be able to then make

888
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 9: actual actions to stop things from occurring is a power

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00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 9: that the Democrats will die on the hill to stop

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Speaker 9: from happening.

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Speaker 3: And with this bill, it is under the executive branch,

892
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 3: but it is distinct from the governor. It is independent

893
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 3: of the governor to catch this fraud and correct it

894
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 3: as quickly as possible, to do ongoing audits, and and

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Speaker 3: make sure that we're actually taking proactive steps department by

896
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 3: department to prevent this fraud. And for me, I don't

897
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 3: care if it's the Inspector General bill. I don't care

898
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Speaker 3: if it's what Elliott Engen proposed and his run for

899
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 3: State Auditor where we expand that office. It needs to

900
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 3: be independent from the governor. Anytime there's window dressing where

901
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 3: Tim Wall said, he says, ah, I got a program

902
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 3: oversight guy no, and he's my best buddy and he's.

903
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 2: A donor, and I think it's so funny till thanks.

904
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Speaker 9: Talking about Tim Wall's speech, when he will throw like

905
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 9: if you just listen to the words that he's saying,

906
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 9: it's like he throws in these weird additives. So he'll

907
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 9: be like, you know, for the first time in seven years,

908
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 9: I'm being candid. It's like, so you've been lying for

909
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 9: the last seven that's a weird thing. And then it'll

910
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 9: be like, you know, he'll be talking about something else.

911
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 9: He's like and you know what I mean, and it's like, literally,

912
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 9: no one knows what you're talking about, my guy, you

913
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 9: keep on saying these little extra words, and it's like

914
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Speaker 9: he took a class and maybe he used to have

915
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 9: a or like problem with filler words. So they told him, like,

916
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:04,800
Speaker 9: just throw in something else.

917
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 2: It says, I'm surry. Just listen to him.

918
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 9: The next time that he speaks, he'll say these this

919
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 9: one sentence two sentence you know, two word sentences where

920
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 9: you're like, what are you talking about the.

921
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 4: White House solution to this is to take health care

922
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 4: from poor people. Our solution to it is catch these

923
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Speaker 4: people before they do it, and if.

924
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 2: We don't, to lock them away for a long time.

925
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 4: How does taking and punishing children and elderly have anything

926
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 4: to do with fighting fraud when that's not where this

927
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 4: issue is taking place. This is a targeted retribution against

928
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Speaker 4: a state that the President doesn't like.

929
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Speaker 2: The real shame in all this is this is.

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00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 4: A state that does healthcare as well as anybody. Healthcare outcomes,

931
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,439
Speaker 4: health care access, health care providers. We do it.

932
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: Wait, but just because you spend an inordinate amount of

933
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: money on services that the majority of which we're finding

934
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: out have been fraudulent, doesn't mean that you're doing this well.

935
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Speaker 5: No, And he always talks in this way.

936
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Speaker 6: This is one of my biggest complaints and something we

937
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 6: talk about in American Experiment all the time is he's

938
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 6: always talking.

939
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Speaker 5: About inputs and not outputs. He always says.

940
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Speaker 6: We fund this more than anyone else, and that means

941
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Speaker 6: that people are healthier.

942
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Speaker 5: Absolutely not. When you look at the output, people are.

943
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Speaker 6: Not healthier in Minnesota. It doesn't have the same effect

944
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Speaker 6: that he claims it does. Just because we spend more.

945
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Speaker 4: Money on it well as anybody. And this Medicaid piece,

946
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Speaker 4: I don't know how you can't use this statistic. Cms's

947
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 4: own numbers say medicate air rates in Minnesota are two

948
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 4: point one percent, national average six point four percent. It's

949
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 4: the same pattern they use false information as a pretense

950
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 4: to do Operation Metro Surge. They're using false information or

951
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 4: no information as a pretense to take our tax dollars

952
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:48,399
Speaker 4: and now asking us to turn away people who need

953
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Speaker 4: that healthcare.

954
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Speaker 1: There was no false pretense to Operation Metro Surge. Every

955
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Speaker 1: bit of that from from decision to implementation to it

956
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Speaker 1: wrapping up up was completely justified. From you know, from

957
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Speaker 1: start to finish, there was every reason. He's just continuing

958
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Speaker 1: to spread the same propaganda that the false narratives have

959
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Speaker 1: been put forward by the Democrats.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not surprised by that. I just wanted to

961
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Speaker 2: point it out.

962
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Speaker 3: If you want a really apt comparison, why should the

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00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 3: federal government trust us with their dollars? If I hand,

964
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 3: if if one of my children comes and asks, hey, Dad,

965
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Speaker 3: can I have five bucks? I go sure, And then

966
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Speaker 3: he comes back and he doesn't have five dollars anymore,

967
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Speaker 3: and I asked my child, what happened to.

968
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Speaker 2: The five bucks? I lost it? I need another five bucks.

969
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 2: And it's that over and over and over again.

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Speaker 3: At some point, as a responsible parent, it's like, hey man,

971
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 3: I'm going to stop giving you five bucks because you

972
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 3: keep losing it. Yeah, that's what the federal government is doing.

973
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Speaker 9: And I think that what's even more fascinating is that

974
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Speaker 9: Tim pretends that there haven't been all of these reports

975
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Speaker 9: and information showing the rampant amount of fraud that is occurring.

976
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Speaker 9: So when he uses to like, oh, two point two

977
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 9: percent error rate, it's like, well, that just means that

978
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Speaker 9: the paperwork is correct. It's not saying a two point

979
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 9: two percent fraud rate because we know clearly, just based

980
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Speaker 9: off of the autism program, it's gonna.

981
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Speaker 2: Be way higher than two point two percent.

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