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Speaker 1: All right, seven hundred WLW. It's nine Thanksgiving Eve.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dan Carroll.

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Speaker 1: This is the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis.

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Speaker 1: We'd like to call the show We Go till Midnight

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Speaker 1: tonight and Man terrible loss for you see no way

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Speaker 1: to sugarcoat that one Eastern Michigan. West Miller not very

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Speaker 1: happy after the after the debacle at the fifth third

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Speaker 1: Center tonight. So we'll see what happens with the Bearcats

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Speaker 1: down the road. But I am very glad as always

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Speaker 1: to welcome in my first guest tonight. Kevin Aldridge is

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Speaker 1: the opinion editor at the Cincinnati Inquirer, and Kevin Aldridge

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Speaker 1: is great to have you on the show.

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Speaker 3: How are you tonight, Dan, Always a pleasure to talk

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Speaker 3: to you.

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Speaker 2: How you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm great. I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: But there's going to be sort of a dark cloud

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Speaker 1: over this Thanksgiving Giving, the events that have unfolded in Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. With a couple of National Guard members shot

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Speaker 1: and apparently clinging to life at this moment. Let me

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Speaker 1: have your reaction to those events in d C today.

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Speaker 1: This is sure I think to reignite again the debate

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Speaker 1: over migration in this country, whether you're.

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Speaker 2: Here illegally illegally.

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Speaker 1: Again, the rhetoric that we hear are political rhetoric surrounding

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Speaker 1: what federal agents are doing, what National Guard units are doing,

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Speaker 1: what is going on to try in and combat violence

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Speaker 1: in cities like d C, like Chicago, like New York.

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Speaker 1: Give me your thoughts on the events that are unfolding

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Speaker 1: as we speak.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think the first thing that you know

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Speaker 3: needs to be said is prayers need to go up

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Speaker 3: for these two National Guard members as well as their families,

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Speaker 3: and we pray that you know that that they're able

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Speaker 3: to recover and that the worst doesn't happen in this situation.

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Speaker 3: And I think you know, we we all have to

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Speaker 3: unequivocally denounce violence like this. There can be no equivocation

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Speaker 3: or no it's ands or butts to it. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we have to we have to denounce it. We have

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Speaker 3: to say it's unacceptable, and we have to call on

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Speaker 3: each other to be better, to to support law enforcement

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Speaker 3: and and try to get you know, these types of

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Speaker 3: individuals who will commit these types of crimes off our streets.

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Speaker 3: But I think we also have to resist the temptation

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Speaker 3: to try to politicize these incidents, Dan, because I think

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Speaker 3: that's that's part of the problem.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, there there will.

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Speaker 3: Be some people who will say because apparently this is

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Speaker 3: a targeted attack, and I don't know if this is

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Speaker 3: in response to you know, President Trump deploying National Guard

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Speaker 3: members to these cities to to fight crime, and a

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Speaker 3: lot of people think that that is that that move

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Speaker 3: in and of itself was a was a political move.

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Speaker 3: And and I just think the issue of crime is

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Speaker 3: too serious, whether we're talking about here in Cincinnati or

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Speaker 3: us to try to to to politicize these issues. And

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Speaker 3: I think it's not good for law enforcement, it's not

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Speaker 3: good for law abiding.

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Speaker 3: And I just think we've got to find a way

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Speaker 3: to talk about these these very serious issues of crime,

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Speaker 3: which we can't act like don't exist, but deal with

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Speaker 3: them in a way that is that is constructive, that

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Speaker 3: allows people to get due process and and you know,

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Speaker 3: smarter than we have been in terms of how we

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Speaker 3: the We got to come out of our political tribes,

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Speaker 3: We got to come out of this nation and try

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Speaker 3: common sense solutions to this issue, because you know, we

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Speaker 3: And it's definitely a tragedy and and you hate for

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Speaker 3: something like this to happen anytime, but particularly right before.

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Speaker 4: A holiday where you know, where.

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Speaker 3: We celebrate what we're grateful for and thankful for and

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Speaker 3: our freedoms in this country and other things.

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Speaker 1: It's just saying, yeah, how many times have we heard

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Speaker 1: this debate though, about cooling the rhetoric and you know,

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Speaker 1: we get these lectures and we hear all these different

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think this is and I don't think

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Speaker 3: I think both sides do it. And one of the

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Speaker 3: things that I've been critical of a lot of times

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Speaker 3: when I write about these issues is leadership.

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Speaker 2: You know, I believe that.

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Speaker 3: It starts at the top, that it starts at the

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Speaker 3: top with everybody, starting with our President, who I think

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Speaker 3: we just have to admit, is not the It doesn't

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Speaker 3: lay off the rhetoric himself or the hyperbole, and that

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Speaker 3: doesn't help it that it comes from the top levels

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Speaker 3: that that doesn't exempt any member of Congress, Republican or

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Speaker 3: that doesn't do anything but further devis us. And I

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Speaker 3: really feel like our leaders have to have cooler heads,

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Speaker 3: they have to be smarter, they have to choose their

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Speaker 3: words wisely.

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Speaker 4: Dan, I think.

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Speaker 3: About every word that I use, whether I'm writing it

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Speaker 3: it constructive or destructive to the conversation. And it just

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Speaker 3: it pains me that our political leaders don't do that

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Speaker 3: and instead of trying to appeal to the better angels

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Speaker 3: and that's just not good. Whether you're a Republican or

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Speaker 3: a Democrat, it's got to start at the top. And

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Speaker 3: then I also think each one of us bears the

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Speaker 3: responsibility as well. You know, when Donald Trump first won

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Speaker 3: the presidency, I wrote a piece that said, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's not Trump, it's us. You know, Donald Trump can

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Speaker 3: say whatever he wants to say if you don't like him,

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Speaker 3: whether you like him or you don't like him, he

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Speaker 3: doesn't control your social media fee, what you choose to

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Speaker 3: if you don't like the tone in this country, then

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Speaker 3: you need to check your own see what kind of

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Speaker 3: it starts at the top, with all of our leaders

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Speaker 3: this negative discourse that's going on out there, and it's

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Speaker 3: easy to do if you you know, I mean, if

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Speaker 3: you follow any social media, and unfortunately I have to

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Speaker 3: consume more of it than I would like because of

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Speaker 3: And you just want to think, like man, you want

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Speaker 3: to think your fellow person is better than that. But

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Speaker 3: to try to figure out the best solutions. And I

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Speaker 3: think people who feel like that have to be more

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Speaker 3: vocal in holding all of our leaders to account, not

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Speaker 3: to be more responsible.

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Speaker 1: Well, that is very well said. Let me turn our

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Speaker 1: the first time you and I have talked since after

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Speaker 1: so after the election. I asked Chris smithaman in the

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Speaker 1: We've got the issues going on with the Privy nightclub,

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Speaker 1: and so I put a post out there and I

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Speaker 1: asked Chris smitham in this, I said, I said, the

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Speaker 1: voters of Cincinnati apparently won it this way because they

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Speaker 1: have returned the exact same mayor, the exact same city

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Speaker 1: council that really did not address crime in a serious way.

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Speaker 1: They gave it some some lip service, you know, the

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Speaker 1: I asked Chris Smithman, I said, is that a fair

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Speaker 1: twenty nine point eight percent turnout? Just absolutely horrible when

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Speaker 1: you talk about the turnout for the vote, but the

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Speaker 1: And apparently this is the way the voters want it.

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Speaker 1: Is that a fair comment?

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's totally fair. I see how one

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Speaker 3: would say that, right, because you elect pretty much all

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Speaker 2: And how they live.

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Speaker 1: Now, that's a pitiful turnout for an important election like this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And so you know, one would say, well,

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Speaker 3: I looked at was is that, you know, Cincinnati has been,

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Speaker 3: this was I think this election was as much a

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Speaker 3: referendum on Trump and the national politics in Cincinnati and

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Speaker 3: maybe in other parts of the country, then it says, hey,

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Speaker 3: we're completely and totally okay with with the status quo.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, if you are if you live in

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Speaker 1: That was definitely part of the strategy well, Kevin Aldiens,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Aldridge and this everyone at the Inquiry and keep

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Speaker 3: Hey, thanks the Happy Thanksgiving to you and.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Kevin Aldridge from the from

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Enquirer nine six at seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: This is the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis

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Speaker 1: on this Thanksgiving Eve. Glad to be here, Glad you

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Speaker 2: One of my favorite guests.

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Speaker 1: That's my buddy Curtis house from NewsBusters dot org and Curtis,

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Speaker 1: what does hey, what does Thanksgiving look like at the

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Speaker 5: Well, the first thing I'll just say is, it is

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if it weren't for you know, you guys are

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Speaker 1: It's an interesting phenomena that it's always the shooter who's

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Speaker 1: that he's a sick puppy. And I was I forget

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Speaker 1: who I was talking to, but I said, this is

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Speaker 1: this is the the next attack line for the for

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Speaker 1: the Democrats and for the left in this country, and

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Speaker 1: AOC was reciting these talking points yesterday. Here's AOC talking

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Speaker 1: about this. Let's hear cut number five, Joe.

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Speaker 6: To be honest, the president's remarks are I think indicate

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Speaker 6: a level of instability. It's not just shocking, it's not

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Speaker 6: just offensive. It's bizarre, it is it's erratic, it's volatile,

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Speaker 6: and I think it indicates a mental state that we

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Speaker 6: should all be questioning right now, whether that's emotional, mental,

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Speaker 6: what have you. It is not normal to make these accusations.

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Speaker 3: It is not normal to.

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Speaker 6: Invoke these kinds of threats of violence. And it's also

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Speaker 6: not normal to also dramatically misquote, as Carolyn Leavett was doing.

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Speaker 6: What these members of Congress said.

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Speaker 7: They made a.

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Speaker 6: Very clear message to US service members, which is that

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Speaker 6: you do not have to obey in illegal order. And

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Speaker 6: I think that's an important message to reiterate because this

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Speaker 6: administration seems to be increasingly trying to go down that path.

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Speaker 1: So there you go, there's AOC, de facto leader of

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Speaker 1: the Democrat Party taking the latest DNC talking points out

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Speaker 1: for a walk that that Trump is mentally ill and

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Speaker 1: the hand he's just not normal.

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Speaker 2: So how much mileage. Will they get out of this narrative?

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Speaker 5: Well, it seems like that's what they're going to do here.

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Speaker 5: I mean, on the side note the service members saying

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Speaker 5: is so pathetic. It's all it's so insinniary. We all

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Speaker 5: know what they're doing. It's a linkuick, nudge, nudge, you know.

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Speaker 5: We it's amazing when these people are actually asked. So

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Speaker 5: what is in illegal order that the president has given

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Speaker 5: a lot I don't know, men a fake movie. But

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Speaker 5: you know, notice how it's all coordinated. Right now, Dan,

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Speaker 5: you have the AOC saying that the New York Times

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Speaker 5: put out a story that was thousands of words long

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Speaker 5: that the President was going off about on true social

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Speaker 5: going after Katie Rogers today about his cognitive state, you know,

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Speaker 5: and axios is. Alex Thompson was talking about this is

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Speaker 5: real concern now and the great Redski Stephen L. Miller

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Speaker 5: put out on the X that you know, it's remarkable,

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Speaker 5: this is so predictable.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 5: Now they're looking at themselves in the mirror saying, I'm

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Speaker 5: not going to miss the story, you know, because that

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Speaker 5: was the line that Alex Thompson said about all these

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Speaker 5: subst we just missed the story. We just didn't get

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Speaker 5: it right. We just didn't, you know, cover it with

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Speaker 5: Joe Biden. But we're going to get it this time.

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Speaker 2: Just missed it, okay, guy, you were.

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Speaker 5: But don't worry, guys, We're not just a wheel this time.

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Speaker 5: Give me a break. I mean, Scott Jennings made a

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Speaker 5: great point his book is out talking about this, that

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Speaker 5: he spends his time with the president. The president is

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Speaker 5: fully in control, you know. I mean that's the thing.

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Speaker 5: You know, when a decision is made by this administration,

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Speaker 5: the president has made that decision, not Jake Sullivan or

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Speaker 5: you know, Jeff Science or Kareem John Pierre or who

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Speaker 5: else you know fill in the blank from the last regime.

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Speaker 5: You know, the president has made that decision. But he

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Speaker 5: doesn't just go into them. He asks a lot of questions.

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Speaker 5: He presses, and you know, some might say pits people

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Speaker 5: against each other, but that's kind of how it works,

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Speaker 5: you know, versus the faculty lounge approach of Barack Obama,

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Speaker 5: where he'd sit around and not be able to make

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Speaker 5: a decision forever because he just enjoyed the idea of

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Speaker 5: think about stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, Curtis out, we've got about two minutes left here.

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Speaker 1: But uh, I and I almost pulled off the sound

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Speaker 1: bite of Joy Reid and she's on this podcast with

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Speaker 1: these two women. Uh, what is the deal with these

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Speaker 1: two women that that are doing you? I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't even know what it's called. We had It, I

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Speaker 1: think is the name of the podcast. And uh and

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Speaker 1: and I on my social media, I see this gal's

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Speaker 1: picture and stuff that she's posting all the time. Why

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Speaker 1: is she the hottest thing in social media and podcasting

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Speaker 1: right now? Because he takes are idiotic devoid of any

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Speaker 1: substance whatsoever. It's just it's just stuff she makes up

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Speaker 1: off the top of her head. And I guess it's

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Speaker 1: okay now. According to Joy Read, to attack other minorities

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Speaker 1: like JD Vance's wife and uh and and and make

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Speaker 1: fun of her heritage and her skin color, well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, to say that there's no way that jd as

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Speaker 5: there's any chance in twenty twenty eight because Maga doesn't

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Speaker 5: like brown people, you know. And to say that as

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Speaker 5: Joy Reid did in these two crazy which is that

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Speaker 5: that you know, it would be a Maga dream if

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Speaker 5: shad Vance would divorce Usha Vance Kickers of the Curve

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Speaker 5: in favor of Erica Kirk. I mean it's disgusting material.

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Speaker 5: I mean, these these women Jennifer Welsh and Andie Sullivan

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Speaker 5: with a weird niitty pump personify there the embodiment of liberal,

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Speaker 5: white rich women who dominate the Democratic Party and are

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Speaker 5: just devoid as any joy and enthusiasm in their life.

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Speaker 5: These people are the quintessential you know, middle school bullies

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Speaker 5: who are hiding behind a damn breaking level of insecurities.

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Speaker 5: You know, they're leveling all these conspiracy theories. They say

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Speaker 5: Trump's mental state, right Dan is the greatest media scandal ever.

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Speaker 5: It's the greatest media cover up of all time. Excuse me,

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Speaker 5: you know, and they say all kinds of things like this.

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Speaker 5: I have a piece of news pumpings and I have

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Speaker 5: one coming out tomorrow about more than they said over

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Speaker 5: an entire hour podcast, and.

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Speaker 8: Can you believe it?

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Speaker 1: One of they have they seen what's going on in

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Speaker 1: Minnesota lately? I mean, come on, you want to tell

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Speaker 1: you want to talk about huge scandals. It's unbelievable. But

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Speaker 1: Curtis help will have to leave it right there for now,

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Speaker 1: because the time always flies by whenever you're on my friend.

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Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate the time. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: answering the call when whenever I ask to have you

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Speaker 1: on you you do such great work. And tell everyone

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Speaker 1: over at NewsBusters I said, keep up the great work.

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Speaker 1: And again, thank you for your time. And I hope

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Speaker 1: you and yours have a great Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely happy Thanksgiving to you as well, Dan and everybody

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Speaker 5: at w LW. You guys are one of the best.

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Speaker 2: Go Bengals, Go Bengals.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens tomorrow night. Curtis here the best man.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again soon. Seven hundred WLW pright

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Speaker 1: back on the Big one. Seven hundred WLW ten thirty

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Speaker 1: seven phone lines are open for the first time tonight

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Speaker 1: five one, three, seven, nine seven.

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Speaker 2: One Big one.

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Speaker 1: A couple of things I want to touch on before

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Speaker 1: we get into another topic. I read the post today

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Speaker 1: from the Hamilton Township Police Chief Scott Hughes that Officer

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Speaker 1: Megan Graham passed away thirty one years old, had had

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Speaker 1: a battle with cancer. And I can tell you that

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Speaker 1: police department is feeling that loss very very deeply. And

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Speaker 1: Chief Scott Hughes texted me earlier today and or we

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Speaker 1: texted each other and he said she was she was

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Speaker 1: far too young but recently married. Just a great professionalism,

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Speaker 1: great courage. And so if you want to say an

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Speaker 1: Township Police and for Officer Megan Graham, that would be

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Speaker 1: a good thing to do. I also might want to

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Speaker 1: say a prayer for the one time Sheriff of Clairemont County.

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Speaker 1: Tim Rodenberg. Been reading about his difficulties lately. He was

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Speaker 2: He was.

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Speaker 1: Sheriff for twenty years in Claremont County. Before that, an

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Speaker 1: assistant Clairemont County prosecutor, I worked with Tim, known him

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Speaker 1: for a long time. At one point he was my

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Speaker 1: go to guy for legal and law enforcement issues on

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Speaker 1: this show. But I also know that he has had

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Speaker 1: I would not be surprised. I don't know this, but

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Speaker 1: According to the police report, shortly before seven thirty pm,

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Speaker 1: Rodenberg was driving a Chrysler Pacific, a mini van on

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Speaker 1: US fifteen near Walton Creek Road when he failed to

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Speaker 1: maintain a safe distance for another vehicle and rear ended it,

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Speaker 1: and then he allegedly fled the scene later located in

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to say a little prayer for Tim

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Speaker 1: Rodenberg tonight and hope that he gets things squared away.

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Speaker 1: So all the best to him. Known to him for

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Speaker 1: a long time and like him very much much another story.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we've been talking about mostly for the first

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Speaker 1: Virginia coming under attack by some dude from Afghanistan who

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Speaker 1: Biden administration, but that legal protection ran out now in

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Speaker 1: the country. According to Bill Mlusion the Fox News Now

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Speaker 1: in the country illegally, and according to reports from the scene,

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Speaker 1: more news during the day today and Fulton County District

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Speaker 1: Attorney Fanny Willis the case that she brought against Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump has officially come to an end. Jude Scott McAfee

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Speaker 1: agreed to dismiss the racketeering case on Wednesday, when the

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Speaker 1: prosecutor who inherited Willis's troubled effort to urged him to

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Speaker 1: take it off life support. The political persecution of President

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Speaker 1: Trump by disqualified DA Fanny Willis is finally over. Trump's

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Speaker 1: lead defense counsel, Steve Sato said in a statement, this

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Speaker 1: case should have never been brought. A fair and impartial

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Speaker 1: prosecutor has put an end to this law fair Prosecuting

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Speaker 1: Attorney's Council of Georgia executive director Peter Sidocalus, who was

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Speaker 1: tasked with finding Willis's replacement after she was disqualified from

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Speaker 1: prosecuting the case, took over November fourteenth, after failing to

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Speaker 1: find another attorney willing to do it. So no one

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Speaker 1: wanted this case, and so this news prosecutor comes in,

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Speaker 1: judge agreed to dismiss it. And if you listen to

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Speaker 1: this show and the legal analysts that I provide on

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Speaker 1: this show, then you know that this case and all

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Speaker 1: these lawfare cases were on the flimsiest legal ground you

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Speaker 1: could have ever imagined. And we've seen over the course

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Speaker 1: fell apart, not because of any great and brilliant lawyer

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Speaker 1: strategies on the part of the lawyers who are defending Trump,

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Speaker 1: but because the cases were bogus to begin with, they

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Speaker 1: complete frauds, and yet they were allowed to continue. And

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Speaker 1: the Democrats and the left sought to get as much

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Speaker 1: political mileage out of these things as they possibly could.

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Speaker 1: And now we have for them the law of unintended

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Speaker 1: quants consequences. Trump has been president since January twentieth, so

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Speaker 1: we are now what eleven months into his presidency, and

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Speaker 1: we've got three years and a month ago how we

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Speaker 1: look it. And you gotta love that the Department of

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Speaker 1: War is now going to investigate Senator Mark Kelly that

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Speaker 1: may lead to a court martial, serious allegations of misconduct. Kelly,

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Speaker 1: who was a retired Navy captain facing accusations of accusations

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Speaker 1: of sedition from President Trump. He was part of that

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Speaker 1: video that I played at last week. The Democrats put

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Speaker 1: out telling telling people, telling people in the military, telling

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Speaker 1: people in the clandestine services. Yeah, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: follow any illegal orders from this guy. But yet none

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Speaker 1: of them can come up. And they've been asked repeatedly,

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Speaker 1: can you give me one illegal order?

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Speaker 2: And it's all this.

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Speaker 1: And Curtis House was talking about this when I had

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Speaker 1: him on the interview, and it reminded me of when

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Speaker 1: James Comy was just walking on the beach and he

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Speaker 1: found this interesting shell formation right eighty six forty seven. Oh,

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Speaker 1: look at that. Isn't that These shells just happened to

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Speaker 1: be aligned like that. Didn't have any no, no motive

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Speaker 1: for it. Couldn't understand why anyone would get upset about that.

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Speaker 1: And then you got these Democrats, senators and these lawmakers

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Speaker 1: who are putting this video out.

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Speaker 9: Ah.

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Speaker 1: Now, we were just just a little refresher on on

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Speaker 1: the law on the Uniform Code of Military Justice, just

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Speaker 1: letting these people know, Hey, illegal orders. No, you don't

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Speaker 1: have to. Did this guy Trump he's giving you orders?

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Speaker 2: No, you are you?

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Speaker 1: You are right to question these orders. Everyone knows that's

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Speaker 1: exactly what they are up to. And now Kelly's going

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Speaker 1: to be investigated, which he should. I think they should

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Speaker 1: all be investigated. And then Pete Hegseth and got into

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Speaker 1: a little back and forth with because heg Seth called

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Speaker 1: them the Sedition six. And so this guy Kelly puts

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Speaker 1: out a picture of him with all these medals on

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Speaker 1: his chest. Pete hegg Seth had a look at that,

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Speaker 1: and he says, not only did your Sedition video intentionally

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Speaker 1: undercut good order and discipline, but you can't even display

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Speaker 1: your uniform correctly. Your medals are out of order and

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Speaker 1: rose reversed. When and if you're called recalled active duty,

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Speaker 1: I'll start with a uniform inspection. So I give Pete

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Speaker 1: Hegseeth the upper hand on that one. Ken from Mason,

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Speaker 1: I hope you you and your family are going to

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Speaker 1: have a great Thanksgiving, you.

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Speaker 8: Too, Dan, I hope your family has a great Thanksgiving tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 8: And and I want to talk locally. First, your guest,

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Speaker 8: Kevin Aldridge, you had on ruler today. He clearly is

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Speaker 8: obviously a Democrat. His statements, well.

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Speaker 1: We you know what we don't. We don't see a

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Speaker 1: lot of the issues the same way. But I like

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Speaker 1: Kevin Kevin Aldrichhan. He presents a different viewpoint. I think

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Speaker 1: he expresses himself quite well. I was at a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a disadvantage tonight because of the postgame cut

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Speaker 1: in into about ten minutes worth of our time, so

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Speaker 1: I didn't really have time to argue with him on

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Speaker 1: some of the different points that he was making. But

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Speaker 1: I still enjoy his perspective anyway.

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Speaker 8: But go ahead that the election, as you said, was

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Speaker 8: less than you know, thirty two percent of the total.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 8: That's so sad. They had a Channel nine had done

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Speaker 8: a thing dan where they talked about thirty five people.

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Speaker 8: Not one of them knew who they voted for. Now

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Speaker 8: one individual knew who they voted for. They were all

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Speaker 8: being given placards on who to vote for, and they

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Speaker 8: just followed that.

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Speaker 2: They couldn't That sounds about right.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, they couldn't say who they voted for. It was

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Speaker 8: just they were voting Democrat, no matter.

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Speaker 1: What, Yeah, vote for these vote for these these eight

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Speaker 1: names or these nine names. Yeah, and that's what they did.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I had no idea. You know, Bowman

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Speaker 8: never had a chance in hell of winning that election.

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Speaker 8: You know, in the city has been made to look

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Speaker 8: so bad, so inept, so ineffective. Yet these people they

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Speaker 8: just keep winning that and a lot of our major

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Speaker 8: cities in the United States. And these people keep voting

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Speaker 8: to be treated like crap. They keep voting to let

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Speaker 8: people just abuse them. You know, it's always amazed me.

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Speaker 8: They they cry out constantly about what they don't have

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Speaker 8: and what they have their hands on. They want more,

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Speaker 8: and they refuse to accept the fact it's Democratic lawmakers

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Speaker 8: that have put them in this plight they suffer from. Well,

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Speaker 8: it's not the Republicans. And you know, Aldridge made comments about,

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Speaker 8: you know, demeaning Trump and he referred to Maggie like

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Speaker 8: in a negative term. I don't understand how make America

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Speaker 8: Great Again is anything but a fantastic slogan.

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Speaker 2: No, it's it's a great slogan.

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Speaker 1: But that was the whole notion of connecting Bowman too

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Speaker 1: to the Vice President J. D. E. Vance, because they're

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Speaker 1: I guess they're step brothers or half brothers. I don't

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Speaker 1: know exactly what the relationship is, but I've got a

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Speaker 1: step brother. I call them my brother, and and and

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Speaker 1: and that's the way I think a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: a lot of families deal with that issue. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: making that connection and trying to create this narrative that

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Speaker 1: this was going to be the conduit to getting the

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Speaker 1: mega agenda in the city of Cincinnati. People hear that,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's something easy to latch onto and easy

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Speaker 1: to make people afraid of. And so that that strategy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how hard they hit that. And I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, I didn't pay attention to all

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Speaker 1: the daily comings and goings of that election. But the

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Speaker 1: pieces and parts that I did see and that I

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Speaker 1: did pay attention to, I knew that was a main

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Speaker 1: thrust of their campaign was to create that that whole,

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Speaker 1: that whole narrative that hey, if this guy gets in here,

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Speaker 1: he's bringing the whole mega team with him, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: make America great again. That is not a bad thing,

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Speaker 1: you know what. You know what a bad thing is,

756
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Speaker 1: Ken from Mason A bad to to me. A bad

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Speaker 1: thing is when Bernie Sanders the day after the election

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Speaker 1: in New York City, and you got Zoron Mondanni gets elected,

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Speaker 1: and he's a he's a communist, he's a he's a socialist.

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Speaker 1: And Bernie Sanders says, we need to take this Mandannie

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Speaker 1: model and and and bring this all across America. And

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders is not saying that because it's something that's

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Speaker 1: good for America. He's not saying that because it's wholesome

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Speaker 1: or uplifting or anything that is going to benefit the

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Speaker 1: American people. The only reason he's saying that is because

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Speaker 1: this is what gets democrats in power. And that is

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Speaker 1: his that is his that is his ultimate goal. That's

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Speaker 1: his mountaintop having having democrats in power, and the rest

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Speaker 1: of it be damned. It doesn't matter how you get

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Speaker 1: him there, just get him in power.

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Speaker 8: Well, Dan he the Democrats are successfully brainwashing millions and

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Speaker 8: millions and millions of people that Trump. Everything Trump says

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Speaker 8: is a lie. Every single word he says is lie,

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Speaker 8: and every single thing he does is to for his

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Speaker 8: own benefit, not of America's benefit. And yet if you

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Speaker 8: will look at the facts and look at the truth,

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Speaker 8: the man is talking nothing but common sense. And the

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Speaker 8: man truly loves America, and the man the economy is

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Speaker 8: going to start exploding in April and May. There will

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Speaker 8: be so many jobs, so many car factories in this country.

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Speaker 8: Everything is going to be turned upside down. In America

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Speaker 8: is going to start thriving again. This economy is going

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Speaker 8: to start booming. And God knows that Democrats will have

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Speaker 8: one lie on top of another. They're brainwashing people. There's

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Speaker 8: a large swath of African American people that believe Trump

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Speaker 8: is a bad man, that he's evil, he's poison, he said.

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Speaker 8: Donald Trump has won the highest honor from the NAACP twice.

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Speaker 8: People don't even realize that in the last forty years

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Speaker 8: he's won wards that very very few African or white

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Speaker 8: people ever win. You know, Donald Trump is one of

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Speaker 8: their greatest friends, if they'd want to be honest and

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Speaker 8: be truthful. But the Democrats, you know, starting with elano'mar

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Speaker 8: in Minnesota, Talida Rashiva Michigan, AOC in New York, this

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Speaker 8: idiot young lady in Seattle, these people are communists. They

795
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Speaker 8: want power. People need to wake up. They're listening to

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Speaker 8: your show, Dan every week. They need to wake up.

797
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Speaker 8: These people want to take power away from you. They

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Speaker 8: want to take everything from you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, if we had, if we had a

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Speaker 1: legitimate news media in this country, then the vast majority

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Speaker 1: of people would know that. It is amazing to me

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Speaker 1: how many people still get their news from George Stephanopolis

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Speaker 1: at CBS and all the rest of them ABC and

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Speaker 1: NBC and MSNB and I guess it's called ms now

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Speaker 1: and CNN. The vast majority of American people still get

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Speaker 1: their news from those sources, PBS and so. Know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of shows like mine, well you know the

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Speaker 1: host is uh at least uh at least leans to

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Speaker 1: the right and conservative talk radio. Even though they you know,

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Speaker 1: those shows are on in abundance, the vast majority of

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Speaker 1: the American people still get their news from those those sources,

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Speaker 1: those few sources, and it's a it's not good. And

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Speaker 1: because they they simply refused. And if you listen to

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Speaker 1: Curtis Halk earlier tonight, and he was talking about the

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Speaker 1: news coverage that came out during the you know, the

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Speaker 1: breaking news today with these these National Guard members they

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Speaker 1: got gunned down in in d c. Their their baseline

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Speaker 1: is is that Trump shouldn't have had him out there

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Speaker 1: to begin with. And and they all they all have

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Speaker 1: that that's their starting point on the coverage that Trump

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Speaker 1: was wrong.

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Speaker 2: And here's what happened.

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Speaker 8: Well under Murio Bowser's leadership, the mayor of d C,

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Speaker 8: who's not running for reelection, she had turned Washington, d C.

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Speaker 8: Into a hellhole. It was dangerous. Everywhere you walk, you

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Speaker 8: couldn't walk, you know, without being worried about getting run

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Speaker 8: over shot. And they're changing that city dramatically and cleaning

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Speaker 8: up all the homeless crap and the graffiti and everything

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Speaker 8: else associated with what Democrats do. This is what they're

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Speaker 8: doing across the United States, and they're destroying the major cities.

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Speaker 8: They're destroying Chicago, They're destroying l A, They're destroying Baltimore.

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Speaker 8: They're destroying these cities. You know, in the city of Baltimore,

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Speaker 8: they don't have one kid that's had eighth grade proficiency.

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Speaker 2: In Man for English. The schools are they're terrible there.

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Speaker 1: They're terrible in Chicago, and uh and you know, and

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Speaker 1: and the and you know those are cities where the

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Speaker 1: mayor has a lot of control over the over those schools.

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Speaker 1: But Ken and Mason, we got to run late for news.

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Speaker 1: But uh, as always, Man, I appreciate you picking up

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Speaker 1: the phone, and you and your family have a great

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving tomorrow.

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Speaker 8: Happy Thanksgiving to you, Danny and your family.

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Speaker 1: There you go, Ken from Mason with that. We got

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Speaker 1: to get We got to get to the news at

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Speaker 1: seven hundred Wlwright, seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: It's eleven o nine.

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Speaker 1: This is the Wednesday night edition of the Midweek Crisis.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Carroll five one, three seven, the big one.

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Speaker 1: If you want to get on board, Mark and Monroe,

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Speaker 1: what's going on tonight?

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Speaker 2: Thanks for holding on man, Hey Dan, how are you

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Speaker 2: doing it? I'm good. I appreciate the call and happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 10: Well, same to you, Bud. Here's my theory, and this

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Speaker 10: is in regard to Mark Kelly. I think his comment

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Speaker 10: about not obeying illegal orders was not only directed to

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Speaker 10: the military, but I think and hope in hopes that

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Speaker 10: he was also hoping he would hope that it would

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Speaker 10: be picked up by so called civilians and hope you

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Speaker 10: know that the Luce Keenan's once they hear that, they

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Speaker 10: would think that, well, if it's good for the military,

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Speaker 10: it must be good enough for us to take the

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Speaker 10: same initiative. So if he can get the military to,

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Speaker 10: you know, disobey, I think there's a springboard for a

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Speaker 10: lot of nutjobs out there to go, well, you know,

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Speaker 10: if that's the way they feel about the military, why

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Speaker 10: not take the same initiatiff on their.

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Speaker 4: End of it.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I you know, as I've seen so many

869
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: of these individuals that were in the video being interviewed,

870
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: and they all want to play dumb on this. They

871
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: all want to play you ask him. Scott Jennings on

872
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: CNN was asking the question of one of the panelists

873
00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: on there, saying, what were you trying to? You know,

874
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: what were you trying? What what were you trying? What

875
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,399
Speaker 1: was the message you were trying to get across here?

876
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: And the message is is that Trump is doing something

877
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 1: that he shouldn't be doing. But yet they can't point

878
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: to a single example of something that he has done

879
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:20,320
Speaker 1: that is illegal or against the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

880
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: So they know they know what, they know what they're doing,

881
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: but yet they want to play. They want to play

882
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 1: like all, we're totally innocent here and no need to

883
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: investigate us. Just trying to you know, create this this

884
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: notion because it's people here. They they want people to

885
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: hear certain things. They want people to hear illegal orders

886
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 1: that you don't have to follow them that the you

887
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:52,879
Speaker 1: know that that our democracy is in danger, those are

888
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: those are the things they want them to hear. And

889
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: if that, if that's the message you get to cross,

890
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,280
Speaker 1: then they've accomplished their mission.

891
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 10: Let me ask you this, uh, based times what I

892
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 10: would refer to as the power suggest You know, they

893
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,359
Speaker 10: can wease a lot of everything. We all know how

894
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 10: the media and all that sublibin messages go across the

895
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 10: board there. But like I said, if you got other

896
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 10: ears out there that are hearing this, uh, like I said,

897
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 10: power suggesting, and they had instgates or initiates them to

898
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 10: come to the forefront and and all the people that

899
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 10: you know, the brass like Kelly, they can get off

900
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 10: the hook. But they've already put the the idea out

901
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 10: out there.

902
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: So if they yeah, I mean no, you're you're I

903
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: think you're one hundred percent right they are. They are

904
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: likely not to face any serious consequences for doing this.

905
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,760
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, and then what what I'm glad about.

906
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: If Pete hagg Sath and Cash Betel and the Attorney

907
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:06,399
Speaker 1: General can make their life a living hell, then I'm

908
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 1: good with that. Even if even if they might not

909
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: face any any meaningful consequences of doing such a thing.

910
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 10: Well that that's necessary. Otherwise you're going to have, you know,

911
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 10: you're going to open the flookies anarchy. Unless unless there's

912
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 10: some sort of convictions, not just indictments against these people.

913
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:32,919
Speaker 1: Well and then and look, and they've got they've still

914
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: got their friends in the media who are going to

915
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: try and create the idea that somehow Pete hegg Seth

916
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 1: isn't the wrong for pursuing this, that if if any,

917
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: if any legal action is brought because of this, well

918
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 1: then somehow it's going to be the Trump administration that

919
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 1: is being heavy handed or doing something that shouldn't be done.

920
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,359
Speaker 1: And and that's that's the way they're going to play it. Mark,

921
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 1: I appreciate the phone call. Uh, let's go to Amelia

922
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: and talk to Jim. Then we got David Dayton, Jim

923
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,280
Speaker 1: seven hundred w l W.

924
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 9: Hey, Dan, I want to don't want to play checkers ready,

925
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 9: but when I heard about those two people got got

926
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 9: killed West Virginia National Guard people got killed, well, I

927
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 9: am the governor.

928
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,760
Speaker 1: The governor of West Virginia said a couple of hours

929
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: after it happened, that he that he he said that

930
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: they had been killed. He has taken that back and

931
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 1: he has and he has said he was getting some

932
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: some conflicting information on that, so he might have been mistaken.

933
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: As of now, we do not know if if those

934
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 1: individuals had been killed as a result of that attack.

935
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: So the latest information we have on that is that

936
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: is that they are still alive.

937
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 9: The two the two the two soldiers are still alive. Yes,

938
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 9: let's thank god for that because yes.

939
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: No, it was reported earlier that they that they had died,

940
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: but that reporting was an air all right.

941
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 9: Well, I'm just saying that if it were true, like

942
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:16,720
Speaker 9: you know, God is dead and the war's begun. Because

943
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 9: this stuff is getting out of hand, and I'm getting

944
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 9: very angry, and I I my Thanksgiving is a ruin

945
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 9: because of these reports of this stuff in the Capitol.

946
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:34,439
Speaker 1: Well it's a terrible thing, sure, and look, uh we're

947
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 1: probably all feeling a lot of the same things. I'm

948
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: angry about this. I feel helpless to do anything. I

949
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: look at the reporting that is being done on this,

950
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: that is coming from the national media. And that's why

951
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 1: I had my buddy Curtis Halkon because he's been following

952
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 1: this all day.

953
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,399
Speaker 2: And okay, and you know, and they.

954
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,320
Speaker 1: And they start from their starting point is that Trump

955
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:01,720
Speaker 1: is doing something wrong and shouldn't have had these people

956
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: in harm's way.

957
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 2: And so it's somehow it's his fault that this took place.

958
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 9: So so the people that are taking care of this shootero,

959
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 9: We're going to waste our our our blood to say this, dude,

960
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 9: I don't understand that.

961
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: Well uh yeah, well he's a yeah, he's a perpetrator

962
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: and and and that's how we we deal even though

963
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: they may have committed a hana's crime. Well, we don't

964
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 1: let people just suffer and die in the hospital. David Dayton,

965
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: what's going on tonight?

966
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 2: Hey?

967
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 4: Dan, it's been a minute, and I want to wish

968
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 4: you and your family happy things.

969
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dave. I appreciate that, and the and the

970
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 2: same to you and yours.

971
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 4: Hey, thank you very much. Of First, I'm a hoop chunky.

972
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 4: You know, I'll get to the National Guard units, but

973
00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 4: I want to just I'm I'm a eight flyer fan

974
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 4: and season ticket holder, but I'm a hoops chunkie in general.

975
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 4: So I want all you know, ships her eyes Xavier, U.

976
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 2: See and do and then lose Michigan.

977
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 4: Losing to the dregs of the MAC, and I'm a

978
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 4: Miami grad and they could have lost to Miami would

979
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 4: have been a debacle as well.

980
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 8: But.

981
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 4: That that is completely unacceptable. To lose to Eastern Michigan

982
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 4: is a complete joke. And God helped West Miller with

983
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 4: the Big twelve schedule this year. If you lose to

984
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 4: a lower MAC team at home and they just got

985
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 4: their brains beat in by Louisville by thirty one points

986
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 4: two days ago, and you get your you know, blown,

987
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 4: it's ridiculous and it's just a.

988
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 2: Shame that pack Kelsey.

989
00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 4: So I'm also a hoops.

990
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 2: Coach and I've all said, I've always said that.

991
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 4: Over and you you back up the Brinks truck to

992
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 4: bring Pat Kelsey home to coach the Ucy Bearcat because

993
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 4: he is.

994
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 2: One hell of a coach. I like him all.

995
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 4: So onto the National you know, really, you know, piss

996
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 4: off about the National Guard shootings. I was eleven year

997
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 4: National Guard and you well, I thank you. I appreciate that,

998
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 4: but it's no different than if you put on the

999
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 4: uniform and we're giving a weapon to go out there

1000
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 4: and defend because you know, I'll pull back the curtain

1001
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 4: on the National Guard. I mean, I served eleven years,

1002
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 4: but you know, these are white collar and blue collar

1003
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 4: people that have families and we you know, I get

1004
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 4: a weapon with live rounds in it for one hour

1005
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 4: a year going down to Fort Knox to do our

1006
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 4: range qualifying and and you're we're not We're not the

1007
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 4: regular warriors like the Marines or anything like that. When

1008
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 4: you're a National Guard where where your mom and dad

1009
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 4: and you know you but you put the uniform on

1010
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, it's like putting if you

1011
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 4: you know, if you put a copy uniform on or

1012
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 4: a state higher patrol. Now you're the target.

1013
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 2: Of people who hate, you know.

1014
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 4: The military or hate enforcement. And it's just a damn shame.

1015
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 4: You know that, you know, someone some idiot that probably

1016
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 4: as a record and don't belong in this country may

1017
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 4: have well they've definitely altered their lives forever. But hopefully

1018
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 4: they you know, pray for Lee they I pray that

1019
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 4: they make it. But but yeah, it's it's it's not

1020
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 4: Trump's fault.

1021
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 2: It's just.

1022
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 4: Uh Trump derangement syndrome again, probably manifested in the shooting.

1023
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, we will see. I think

1024
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 1: we'll get some more information on this dude tomorrow. But

1025
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: according to what Bill Malusian said, the guy is from Afghanistan,

1026
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: came in under the Biden administration in September I believe

1027
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: it was twenty one, and that you know that legal

1028
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: status expired in September of this year, and so he

1029
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: technically in the country illegally. So what motivated him to

1030
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: do this, We'll have to wait and see. Initial reports

1031
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: are was that he was not cooperating with the you know,

1032
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 1: whether it's federal or state or local police investigators.

1033
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 2: So we'll see.

1034
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 1: Well, we'll find out more about this guy tomorrow, but

1035
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 1: based on what we see already, it looks like the

1036
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 1: dude is here illegally and was yelling alu wakbar when

1037
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: when the gunfire was taking place, So that that that

1038
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 1: is not good and I belie leave the government right

1039
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: now is looking.

1040
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 2: At this as a terrorist attack.

1041
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 4: Well, I pray they they pull through. And it's just

1042
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 4: a shame when whatever uniform is targeted for just having

1043
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 4: a uniform on, just like that police officer run down

1044
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 4: just because the guy who's angry with cops because of

1045
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 4: this kid yeah, you.

1046
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: Know, I was thinking about that, or I was thinking

1047
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: about that earlier today was I sort of have that

1048
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 1: same feeling right now because I'm angry that this happened.

1049
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 1: I feel helpless that I couldn't do anything about it.

1050
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: And this guy, Look, the National Guard is not the

1051
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: one that is. And again there's this whole leftist narrative

1052
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: out there that you've got federal agents who are wearing masks,

1053
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 1: who are going into places of business taking people away.

1054
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 1: People who are actually American citizens don't have any business

1055
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 1: being rounded up as the illegal aliens. They haven't committed

1056
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: any crime and all that kind of stuff. So they

1057
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: want to create this whole narrative that these are the

1058
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 1: people that are paying the price for this policy that

1059
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: the Trump administration has. And so it's someone who who

1060
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 1: was in uniform simply following orders, doing what they were

1061
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: told to do. That doesn't have anything to do with that.

1062
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 1: And if they have anything to do with that, it's

1063
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 1: because they are in a role to help protect the

1064
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:35,200
Speaker 1: federal agents who are carrying out that policy. And so

1065
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: when we have a sheriff's deputy in the city of

1066
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 1: Cincinnati who's working a traffic detail at the UC's graduation

1067
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: gets run over by a guy whose son was who pointed,

1068
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 1: you know, whose son pointed a gun out a Cincinnati

1069
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 1: police officer, and that police officer had to unfortunately end

1070
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 1: his life. He goes out and attacks someone who had

1071
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing to do with it. And so I'm sort

1072
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:06,240
Speaker 1: of feeling that same sort of emotion of anger and helplessness.

1073
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 1: And and you know, you have that that case of

1074
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 1: mistaken identity there, because the person who attacked the sheriff's deputy,

1075
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: I think was wrong in attacking that sheriff's deputy, but

1076
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 1: somehow he feels justified. And so, you know, the person

1077
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 1: who attacked these guardsmen, it really didn't have any business

1078
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 1: attacking those guardsmen, but somehow, I guess he'd probably feels

1079
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: justified that he was, you know, striking a blow for

1080
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 1: for illegal immigrants.

1081
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:39,160
Speaker 2: And I don't know.

1082
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 4: Any when he looked at those National guardsmen as cold

1083
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 4: blooded killers like marines and stuff. And I realized that

1084
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 4: when I took off my coat and tie it with

1085
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Speaker 4: my white collar job and threw on the uniform, that

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01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 4: now I was transformed into a target. And and you're,

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Speaker 4: you know, literally it's almost window dressing ts A you know,

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01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 4: it's feel good window dressing so that we look like we're,

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Speaker 4: you know, having some force. We're trying to do our

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01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 4: due diligence. But you know, those poor people that were

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Speaker 4: shot were We're regular Joe's that you know work worked

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01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 4: there nine to five Monday through Friday, and but they

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01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 4: got called the duty. And that's a risky take. And

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01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 4: you know, maybe with this happening that you know, Trump

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01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:29,880
Speaker 4: maybe switches some put some active duty guys in there.

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Speaker 4: I'm not blaming him, but maybe have people who wear

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Speaker 4: the uniform daily and that are being trained a little

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Speaker 4: more often too. If they're going to have weapons with

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Speaker 4: live rounds in them too.

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Speaker 1: Well, and we'll see, you know, we'll see what the

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Speaker 1: the We'll see what happens with the policy. But Dave,

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Speaker 1: we got to run. I got to get to a break.

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Speaker 1: And I appreciate the phone call tonight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks staying I was talking to you, think.

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Speaker 1: David Dayton, I appreciate that. But everyone that I've heard

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01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 1: that is in DC, people who worked there, they talk

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Speaker 1: about with the presence of National Guard members on the

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01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: street has transformed that city into a place that was

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Speaker 1: very uncomfortable to walk around a lot of violence going on,

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01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 1: a lot of random bad stuff, and with those National

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01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 1: Guard members in uniform on the streets, a lot of

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Speaker 1: that has come to an end. Eleven twenty five, seven

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Speaker 1: hundred WLW SO last weak, President Trump announced his intent

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Speaker 1: determinate temporary protected status for Somali's. He put out a

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01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 1: social media post, but the status has not been legally

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01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 1: ended or officially ended yet. That has to go through

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01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:58,440
Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security, and Christy Noams said the

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01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: Department would follow the prompt her legal process to evaluate

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01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: temporary protective status for Somalia or Somali ends, but it

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Speaker 1: would not be limited to just Minnesota and so ilhan

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Speaker 1: Omar heard about that, and she's not happy about that

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Speaker 1: at all.

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Speaker 10: Cut number seven, Somali's are not terrorizing this nation.

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Speaker 2: You are helping it fly. Oh, helping it fly.

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Speaker 6: I have always seen as a fabric, has seen themselves

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01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 6: as a fabric.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's enough turn that off. That's enough for her,

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01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 1: always seeing themselves as the fabric helping America fly well.

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Speaker 1: City Journal Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe did a deep

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01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:56,360
Speaker 1: dive into what's happening in Minnesota, and they write Minnesota's

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01:07:56,440 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 1: drowning and fraud Billions and taxpayer dollars have been stolen

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01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: during the administration of Governor Tim Walls alone. Democrat state

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01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 1: officials overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in

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01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:12,320
Speaker 1: the country are asleep at the switch, and the media

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01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: refuses to connect the dots. In many cases, the fraud

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01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 1: has been perpetrated by members of Minnesota's sizable Somali community.

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01:08:21,439 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 1: Federal counter terrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in

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01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 1: stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they

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01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:33,799
Speaker 1: ultimately land in the hands of terror groups Al Shabab.

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01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,439
Speaker 1: As one confidential source put it, the largest funder of

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01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 1: al Shabab is the Minnesota taxpayer. Their investigation shows what

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01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:48,680
Speaker 1: happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding heart bureaucracy,

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01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:53,760
Speaker 1: When imported clam loyalties collide with a political class too

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01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:58,919
Speaker 1: timid to offend, and when accusations of racism are cynically

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01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:04,879
Speaker 1: deployed to shield criminal behavior, the predictable result is graft,

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01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: with taxpayers left to foot the bill. If you were

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01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 1: to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would

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01:09:13,320 --> 01:09:18,280
Speaker 1: probably look a lot like Minnesota's Medical Housing Stabilization Service program.

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01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:21,599
Speaker 1: The Health and Human Services program, first of its kind

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01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:24,720
Speaker 1: in the country, was launched with a noble goal to

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01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:29,679
Speaker 1: help seniors, addicts and disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing.

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01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 1: It was designed with low barriers to entry and minimal

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01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:39,160
Speaker 1: requirements for reimbursement. Nonetheless, before the program went live in

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01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at

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01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: two point six million. Costs quickly spiraled out of control.

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01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, the program paid out more than

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01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: twenty one million in claims. In the following years, annual

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01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 1: costs shot up to forty two million, then seventy four million,

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01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:03,320
Speaker 1: then a hun hundred and four million dollars. During the

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01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:06,679
Speaker 1: first six months of twenty twenty five, payouts totaled sixty

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01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: one million. In August, Minnesota's Department of Human Services moved

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01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 1: a scrap the HSS program, noting that the payment to

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01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 1: seventy seven housing stabilization providers had been terminated due to

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01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:29,280
Speaker 1: credible allegations of fraud. Joe Thompson, then the acting US

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01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:33,839
Speaker 1: Attorney for the District of Minnesota, stated that the vast

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01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 1: majority of the program was fraudulent, and it goes on

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01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:45,400
Speaker 1: and on and on. So that's just one program. And

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01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:49,600
Speaker 1: there's another one that fraud the frauds Medicare and Medicaid.

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01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:55,760
Speaker 1: There's another one that where you have called Feeding Our

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01:10:55,800 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: Future founded in twenty sixteen, and Feeding Our Future, a

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01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 1: small Minnesota nonprofit, sponsored daycares and after school programs to

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01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 1: enroll in the federal child nutrition program. The organizations that

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01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:17,000
Speaker 1: Feeding Our Children are Feeding our Future sponsored were primarily

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01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 1: owned and operated by members of Minnesota's Somali community. In

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01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Feeding Our Future received three point four million

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01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:31,040
Speaker 1: in federal funding dispersed by the state. In the months

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01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:34,639
Speaker 1: after the COVID nineteen pandemic, which I call the WUHUNT,

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01:11:36,240 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 1: the nonprofit rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites. Using

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01:11:41,240 --> 01:11:48,080
Speaker 1: fake meal counts, doctored attendance records fabricated invoices. The perpetrators

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01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:50,760
Speaker 1: of the fraud ring claimed to be serving thousands of

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01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:54,799
Speaker 1: meals a day, seven days a week to underprivileged kids.

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01:11:55,560 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, Feeding Our Future received nearly two

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01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:05,479
Speaker 1: hundred million in funding. And so you've got that going on.

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01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:10,679
Speaker 1: Then you've got the other scam where You've got all

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01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 1: these kids claiming autism, and they take these kids around

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01:12:15,439 --> 01:12:18,000
Speaker 1: to different clinics, and these clinics get all this federal

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01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:28,759
Speaker 1: funding and it's all completely bogus. And ilaan Omar has

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01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:30,880
Speaker 1: the nerve to sit up there and say, they say

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Speaker 1: that the Somali's are the fabric of the country. Do

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01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:39,920
Speaker 1: they cheat and steal in the fraud the government in

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01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:42,759
Speaker 1: Somalia like they do here in the United States, I wonder?

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01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 1: And so she's upset that Trump may take action on this.

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01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:58,960
Speaker 1: According to her, we're just supposed to sit there and

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01:12:59,080 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 1: let all this fraud take place.

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01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not just me making this up. And

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01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:11,679
Speaker 2: it's gotten to the point where.

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Speaker 1: Even local news in Minneapolis has caught on to all

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Speaker 1: of this. This is a montage of different stations in

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Speaker 1: Minnesota that thankfully are starting to cover this story.

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01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 2: Joe Let's hear cutt number six.

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01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:34,519
Speaker 11: Look at this graph showing the explosion in this program.

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01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:36,639
Speaker 11: This is the amount of money the state is paid

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01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 11: in Medicaid claims to autism treatment providers using your tax dollars.

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01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 11: You can see in twenty seventeen, not that much, just

1205
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:47,280
Speaker 11: more than a million dollars. But you see the gradual

1206
01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 11: growth here in twenty twenty one more than eighty million dollars.

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01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 11: But look at last year, more than two hundred and

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01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,960
Speaker 11: twenty million dollars paid out in claims, with a grand

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01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:01,640
Speaker 11: total of jaeshi of seven hundred million dollars. This is

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01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 11: what state investigators are now looking at, these soaring costs

1211
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 11: in questioning how many providers are doing real.

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01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:13,439
Speaker 12: Workington Federal prosecutors say Minnesota is grappling with one of

1213
01:14:13,479 --> 01:14:16,719
Speaker 12: the biggest welfare fraud waves in US history, and now

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01:14:16,880 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 12: counter terrorism officials warned some of that money as likely

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01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 12: ending up in the pockets of al Shabab and now

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01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 12: Kitlnked terror group operating out of Somalia, So the biggest

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01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 12: funder of out right.

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01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 1: Enough so you get the idea. It's gotten to the

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01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 1: point where even local stations are having to cover this now.

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01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:43,360
Speaker 1: Congressman Tim Burchett, I'm really starting to like this guy.

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01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:49,520
Speaker 1: Was asked about this, about what's going on with Minnesota

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01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: and these folks who are stealing all this money, and

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01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:57,280
Speaker 1: here's what he had to say about it. Let's hear

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01:14:57,320 --> 01:14:58,000
Speaker 1: cut number nine.

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01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:06,320
Speaker 13: Please to think that somebody is using that situation to

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01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 13: rip off the system, to me, is unbelievable. We need

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01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 13: to get a hold of these people that are doing this.

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01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:15,680
Speaker 13: We need to within the law, of course, but we

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01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:20,280
Speaker 13: need to seize their assets. We need to mark them, no,

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01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 13: not physically mark them, but know who they are so

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01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 13: that they will never ever be able to get back

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01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 13: in our country again, and deport their assets fast as possible.

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01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:36,320
Speaker 13: Then is to root out who in our government allowed

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01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:39,280
Speaker 13: this to happen. That's the problem we have with the

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01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 13: conservative movement. We get a hold of these the person

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01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 13: at the tip of the spear, and then we don't

1237
01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:49,599
Speaker 13: go down to the base. And that's where the problem is,

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01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 13: the real problem, because they've allowed this to happen. They've

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01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 13: been paid off, or they've got they're so deep in

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01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:59,760
Speaker 13: whatever department it is that they are. There's some gun

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01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:04,479
Speaker 13: that they are able to just move around to another

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01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 13: another area and that needs to stop.

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01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:13,840
Speaker 1: So there's Tim Burchet, and he's right. We find out

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01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 1: about these things, we have hearings, investigations, and then nothing

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01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:21,960
Speaker 1: ever happens. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said the

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01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:25,879
Speaker 1: facts of this story are truly discussed. Millions in stolen

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01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 1: Minnesota welfare dollars have been funneled to Al Shabab and

1248
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 1: ISIS aligned terror group. It happened because Democrats build a

1249
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: system so loose, so corrupt, so politically timid, that fraudster

1250
01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 1: has exploited it to bankroll terrorists abroad. This is a

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01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:49,880
Speaker 1: national security problem. But Ilha and Omar says that, oh,

1252
01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 1: look we're the fabric of the country. Yeah, we Somali's

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01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 1: so you know, we look, we make this country fly.

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01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:09,519
Speaker 1: Now you're fraudsters. I mean, the fraud and the corruption

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01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: is absolutely breadtaking. And so much of this was set

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01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: up under the Biden administration. John Kennedy from Louisiana was

1257
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:29,000
Speaker 1: talking about this during the hearing last week, talking about

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01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:33,559
Speaker 1: the money that was being shoveled out the door under

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01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 1: the Biden administration. Let's hear this cutting number eight.

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01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:42,080
Speaker 7: It's rare that I'm speechless, but I want to be

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01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 7: sure I understood. The people running the Department of Energy

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01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:56,160
Speaker 7: for President Biden's administration shoveled ninety three billion dollars, not million,

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01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 7: ninety three billion dollars out the door in seventy six days.

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01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 7: And it just happened to be the time between when

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01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 7: President Trump was elected in President Biden their boss was leaving.

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01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:12,160
Speaker 2: Is that right?

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01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:19,120
Speaker 11: It is correct and distasteful confidence undermining.

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01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:25,439
Speaker 7: So you're telling me that the Department of Energy in

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01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:30,080
Speaker 7: the seventy six day period before their boss was going

1270
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:36,600
Speaker 7: to leave office gave our loan money to institutes that

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01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:42,200
Speaker 7: had no business plan, correct, no financials?

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01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:45,600
Speaker 2: Correct? My god.

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01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 1: So there you go. There's Kennedy spelling it out. And

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01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:53,920
Speaker 1: what do you think is going to happen when all

1275
01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:57,960
Speaker 1: this stuff gets investigated? Is anyone going to be held accountable?

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01:18:58,080 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 1: Is anyone going to have to pay the price for this?

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01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:02,280
Speaker 2: Yeah?

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01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:05,439
Speaker 1: You like to think that at some point that the

1279
01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 1: times are going to change and that this kind of stuff,

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01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 1: that this is the kind of stuff that needs to

1281
01:19:13,479 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 1: be done away with. It needs to be cut out

1282
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:19,719
Speaker 1: once and for all. We are thirty eight trillion dollars

1283
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:27,200
Speaker 1: in debt. How do you deal with that? And the

1284
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 1: money just keeps on. There's so much of it. I mean,

1285
01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 1: just you can you can all this stuff about Minnesota,

1286
01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:40,440
Speaker 1: you can find it on your own. It is beyond breathtaking,

1287
01:19:42,439 --> 01:19:46,840
Speaker 1: just how just how bad it is. So, you know,

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01:19:47,040 --> 01:19:53,400
Speaker 1: I thinking about Thanksgiving is just a few minutes away.

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01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: It'll be midnight and in about seven minutes from now,

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01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 1: and we'll have Thanksgiving at twenty twenty five. Of course,

1291
01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 1: it's going to have this dark cloud over it during

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01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:11,479
Speaker 1: the course of the day ahead, and we have to

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01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:15,960
Speaker 1: pray for these members of the National Guard who were

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01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 1: attacked in DC. Pray for Hamilton Township Police, my buddy

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01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 1: Tim Rodenberg. So that's kind of things I'll be thinking

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Speaker 1: about tomorrow, and then i'll be back on Friday. And

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Speaker 1: I got a whole bunch more stuff that I wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk about today, but it didn't really get a

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Speaker 1: chance to get into that much. So Joe Waddell, thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here. Appreciate everything you do. Joe Waddell

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Speaker 1: running the big board there in the seven hundred WLW

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Speaker 1: Command Center, and I'm out of here. Have a great Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you on Friday, and let's go Bengals tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: I'm not holding my breath on seven hundred WLW.