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Speaker 1: Let's get right into it.

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Speaker 2: Breaking news here on the Dan o'donald Show as we

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Speaker 2: open up the day before Thanksgiving. Two National Guard soldiers

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Speaker 2: have been shot and according to the governor of West Virginia,

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Speaker 2: the state where these Guard members were from, they have

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Speaker 2: both been killed. The suspect, who has not yet been identified,

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Speaker 2: has also been shot. He is in very serious condition

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Speaker 2: as doctors are attempting to save his life to try

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Speaker 2: to ascertain a motive. We do not have a whole

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Speaker 2: lot of details about this. It happened at about two

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Speaker 2: thirty Eastern times, so one thirty Central, at the intersection

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Speaker 2: Park and the Farragut West Metro station. That's about two

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Speaker 2: blocks north of the White House. The victims are a

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Speaker 2: man and a woman. They're part of a larger deployment

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Speaker 2: of over two thousand House and National Guard troops, who,

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Speaker 2: of course, were mobilized to the city this past August

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Speaker 2: under President Trump's federal takeover of local law enforcement aimed

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Speaker 2: at combating crime. Both are now confirmed to have succumbed

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Speaker 2: to their injuries shortly after arriving at area hospitals. Now,

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Speaker 2: the identities of the two guardsmen have not been publicly released,

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Speaker 2: pending family notification. They are described by West Virginia's Governor

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Speaker 2: Patrick Morrissey as quote brave West Virginians who lost their

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Speaker 2: lives in the service of their country. Morrissey, emphasizing that

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Speaker 2: the state he is grieving, Our entire state, he says,

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Speaker 2: grieves with the families, their loved ones, and the Guard community.

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Speaker 2: West Virginia will never forget their service or their sacrifice,

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Speaker 2: and we will demand full accountability for this horrific act. Now,

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Speaker 2: the troops were in uniform, They were patrolling a high

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Speaker 2: can confirm I was just in Washington, d C. Shortly

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Speaker 2: after this deployment in August for about the third time

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Speaker 2: this year, as part of a White House radio row

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Speaker 2: interviewing Cabinet secretaries and members of the Trump administration. And

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Speaker 2: I was struck immediately at the presence of the National Guard.

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Speaker 2: And just what an immediate difference that it made compared

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Speaker 2: two National guardsmen, we are hearing from the Associated Press

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Speaker 2: engaged in gunfire with the suspect before they were wounded.

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Speaker 2: Witnesses reported hearing multiple shots, followed by National Guard personnel

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Speaker 2: responders ambulance METAVAC helicopter arrived quickly, with three stretchers observed

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Speaker 2: being loaded up, one for each victim and one for

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Speaker 2: the suspect. Metropolitan Police Department confirming the scene was secured

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Speaker 2: about an hour ago, shortly after three o'clock Eastern time

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Speaker 2: a hospital for non life threatening injuries sustained during the

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Speaker 2: exchange of gunfire. We now know that the injuries were

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Speaker 2: revealed to be a bit more severe than initially reported.

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Speaker 2: No other injuries reported. Authorities described the incident as isolated

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Speaker 2: with no ongoing threat to the public. It is not

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Speaker 2: entirely clear what the motivation was, although there is obviously

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Speaker 2: a very pronounced fear that this was somehow a politically

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Speaker 2: motivated attack that was actually targeting National Guard soldiers as

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Speaker 2: a direct response to President Trump's deployment of them in

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Speaker 2: an effort to help keep the peace on the streets

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Speaker 2: of Washington, DC. As far as that possibility that would

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Speaker 2: actually track. This would be the second incident of essentially

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Speaker 2: a terroristic double homicide in Washington, d C. In the

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Speaker 2: past seven or eight months. Back in the spring, during

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Speaker 2: an event at the Jewish Museum, a couple of staffers

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Speaker 2: Israeli Embassy to the United States, I should say, they

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Speaker 2: were shot and killed by a left wing activist who

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Speaker 2: screaming free, free Palestine as he was arrested. Now, of course,

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Speaker 2: there is the possibility that this was somehow a politically

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Speaker 2: I think everyone is holding their breaths and hoping against

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Speaker 2: It is also possible that this was just a violent,

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Speaker 1: We just don't know, that is the point.

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Speaker 2: So until we actually are able to ascertain a motive,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't do any goods speculating as to what someone

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Speaker 2: appear that both of these National Guard soldiers were shot

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Speaker 2: This is just a very sad day, especially coming the

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Speaker 2: day before Thanksgiving, when those National Guard troops who are

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Speaker 2: or would have looked forward to a Thanksgiving meal with

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Speaker 2: lie dead? What's this that? Am I seeing this? Right

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Speaker 2: on Fox News? The West Virginia Governor has now retracted

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Speaker 2: the statement declaring both of them dead. All right, the

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Speaker 2: Metropolitan Police. You would think you'd be able to rely

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Speaker 2: on the West Virginia Governor, but alas perhaps not. That

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Speaker 2: obviously would be very very good news. But we had

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Speaker 2: a full statement from Governor Morrissey saying that these were

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Speaker 2: two brave West Virginia's who are now dead. This would

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Speaker 2: be incredible news. Actually if they are alive. However, I

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Speaker 2: Generally speaking, when there is this mistake, it's that the

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Speaker 2: victim is on life support and right now they are

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Speaker 2: working to notify family, they're working to potentially harvest organs

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Speaker 2: that there is probably no hope for survival, although who knows,

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Speaker 2: maybe it was a cross wire, and I guess we

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Speaker 2: can all say a little prayer right now hoping that

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Speaker 2: at least one of those two National Guard soldiers is

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Speaker 2: still alive. Let's go now to Fox News reporter Mark

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Speaker 2: Meredith as we join our network partners at Foxing covering

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Speaker 2: this story. See if we can get some details on

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Speaker 3: Their weapons or not.

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Speaker 4: The Guards members I saw just a few minutes ago

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Speaker 4: before the police push this block away, they did not

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Speaker 4: have weapons. But that's no indication whether or not these

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Speaker 4: members did or not. Joey, that's a great question and

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Speaker 4: of course a big part of the investigation.

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Speaker 3: Joe listen, it's all happening so fast.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for working hard. I think there's

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Speaker 5: going to be a news conference in about forty forty

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Speaker 1: More information on that.

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Speaker 5: I want to now bring in House Armed Services Committee

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Speaker 3: Derek Van Orden.

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Speaker 1: Let's stay for this.

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Speaker 5: You know, we want you on the show today to

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Speaker 5: talk about something different. Unfortunately, tragedy has struck. You're a

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Speaker 5: military veteran yourself. You're also a member of Congress. I mean,

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Speaker 5: you spent a lot of your life in DC. You've

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Speaker 5: witnessed the National Guard deployment to DC firsthand. You've had

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Speaker 5: a front row seat. You've also witnessed the politics around it.

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Speaker 5: Would love your thoughts on what's happened and anything you

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 6: First and foremost, let's pray for these brave soldiers and

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Speaker 6: West Virginia was wrong and that.

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Speaker 7: They're still with us.

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Speaker 8: You know, for p.

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Speaker 6: Six it's the day before Thanksgiving. You've lost friends in combat.

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Speaker 6: I've lost friends in combat, and so we know what

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Speaker 6: But then let's ask ourselves, how did we get here?

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Speaker 6: How are we in this spot? So there's a sitting

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Speaker 6: this inflammatory rhetoric by the left has to stop.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 6: Did this drive this shooter? We don't know the answer

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Speaker 7: Hell no.

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Speaker 6: So my Democrat colleagues need to understand that their words

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Speaker 5: You know, on that topic about the politicization of it,

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Speaker 5: you've interacted with these National Guard members. Have you seen

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Speaker 7: So when he sounds of not wanting to be there,

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Speaker 3: I was just there a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 5: They seemed to be smiling, interacting with the people there.

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Speaker 5: We had someone on earlier talking about how they were

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Speaker 5: They're really there to show presence. What has been your

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Speaker 7: It's then fantastic.

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Speaker 6: These brave young men and women are essentially defending our

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Speaker 7: And you know how much trash I pick up?

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Speaker 6: As a genialistic how much trash did you pick up?

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Speaker 9: Joey?

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Speaker 7: Right, that's part of the job.

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Speaker 6: People who are not in the military, they just don't

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Speaker 1: You know, you, if you.

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Speaker 6: Don't have something to do in the military, you move

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Speaker 6: a trash can. That is not out of character at

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Speaker 6: all for any of us. And again, I want to

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Speaker 2: That is Wisconsin Congressman Derek van Orden talking with Fox

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Speaker 2: News as they provide wall to wall coverage. We are

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Speaker 2: although there isn't a whole lot of information that is

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Speaker 2: This afternoon. Two National Guard soldiers have been shot and

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Speaker 5: We'll bring that to you live when it starts. That

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Speaker 5: God bless our great National Guard and all of our

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Speaker 5: to check back in now with Martin Mayre that he's

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Speaker 5: live on the ground in Washington near where this happened,

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Speaker 5: and he's got more.

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Speaker 4: Mark, Joey, I assure you a few updates from last talk.

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Speaker 4: Moments ago. The White House called a lid, meaning we

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Speaker 4: don't expect President Trump to address what happened here in

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Speaker 4: DC on camera this evening. As you mentioned, he is

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Speaker 4: down in Florida. Odds are we would hear something on

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Speaker 4: his social media pages. With the President not expected to

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Speaker 4: speak today on camera about the horrific events that happened

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Speaker 4: just about two blocks away from where I am standing.

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Speaker 4: This shooting happened a few minutes before three o'clock Eastern today.

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Speaker 4: What we know is that two National Guard members we

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Speaker 4: believe from West Virginia, we're shot and at fairly close range,

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Speaker 4: and that a suspect is in custody and also was

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Speaker 4: either tackled or also severely injured in the confrontation of

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Speaker 4: his arrest. We are expecting an update from DC's police

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Speaker 4: leaders as well as the FBI director. Cash Hotel within

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Speaker 4: about twenty five minutes or so, only about a block

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Speaker 4: and a half from where I am. The police here

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Speaker 4: have moved everybody back that we're pretty close to the

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Speaker 4: shooting scene because the shooting happened right outside of a

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Speaker 4: metro stop, the Farragut West Metro stop, which contains three

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Speaker 4: different subway lines. It is a popular spot on a

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Speaker 4: normal weekday because this is a heavy government area, a

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Speaker 4: lot of businesses, the Saint Regis Nice Hotels. Being a

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Speaker 4: holiday weekend, I would imagine the foot traffic was a

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Speaker 4: little bit less slower than what we would come to see,

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Speaker 4: and also the President not being here still because of

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Speaker 4: where we are in downtown DC. A swarm of federal

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Speaker 4: resources have been on this scene now for several hours,

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Speaker 4: including the ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol to back on firearms,

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Speaker 4: the FBI, the Secret Service, you name the three letters.

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Speaker 4: Odds are they have an agency person out here, but

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Speaker 4: odds are. We'll also be hearing from Metro Transit Police

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Speaker 4: as well as a representative from the West Virginia National

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Speaker 4: Guard about what they know about their fellow members. The

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Speaker 4: confusion came pretty much about forty five minutes ago when

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Speaker 4: the Governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrissey, had put out

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Speaker 4: on social media that those service members had died, and

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Speaker 4: then just about twenty minutes after that he clarified that

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Speaker 4: there was conflicting information and that those service members are alive.

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Speaker 4: That was the last updoate we've had on our condition.

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Speaker 4: Our assignment desk reached out to DC Police to try

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Speaker 4: to get an idea of the hospitals that these service members,

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Speaker 4: but were not being told which hospitals they had been

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Speaker 4: taken to and Obviously, the families of those who were

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Speaker 4: impacted are also trying to be notified. We're trying to

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Speaker 4: piece together this, just like investigators, exactly what happened. Any

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Speaker 4: information about the suspect. Of course, we've mentioned that the

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Speaker 4: suspect is in custody, and President Trump even mentioning that

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Speaker 4: he expects the full jet weight of the justice system

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Speaker 4: to come down on this individual. I know we talked

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Speaker 4: a little bit of the possibility of motive here. We

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Speaker 4: don't have any more information Joe here on that that

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Speaker 4: would likely also come from federal investigators, whether or not

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Speaker 4: the gunman said anything, screamed anything. We had a horrific

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Speaker 4: attack just a few months ago at a Jewish facility,

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Speaker 4: and right before that shooting happened in the evening hours,

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Speaker 4: the suspect in that case yelled out free Pala sign

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Speaker 4: and shot and killed two people as well. We don't

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Speaker 4: know in this case whether or not the suspect indicated

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Speaker 4: his motives verbally. But these people that were attacked, Joey,

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Speaker 4: they were in their very normal to see camouflage gear

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Speaker 4: and say that sounds weird to say it like that,

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Speaker 4: but they were in their National Guard attire, which would

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Speaker 4: be the camouflage.

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Speaker 2: As you know, transition to that.

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Speaker 4: On the back of what they were wearing was a

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Speaker 4: huge black vest, if you will, that also had white

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Speaker 4: lettering that said National Guard. So you would not mistake

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Speaker 4: these people as just ordinary tourists or as DC police,

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Speaker 4: but these stood out as members of the National Guard.

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Speaker 4: One other question we're going to have to try to

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Speaker 4: piece together too, is was there any other additional debts

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Speaker 4: threat to these members of the National Guard. They've been

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Speaker 4: out here on the streets of DC for several months

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Speaker 4: and we've kind of seen them come in ways where

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Speaker 4: if you are on the National Mall, you may see them,

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Speaker 4: but then the next day you may not see anybody.

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Speaker 4: I live in the city. I saw some just on

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Speaker 4: Sunday evening as I was walking home. And they just

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Speaker 4: depend on where they are being deployed. It's not like

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Speaker 4: they are on every city block, but they have been

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Speaker 4: stationed at high traffic points like a metro stop. They

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Speaker 4: wanted their presence to be known. They wanted people to

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Speaker 4: know that they were here and that they were going

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Speaker 4: to be visible. And Joey, when I was at the

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Speaker 4: shooting scene before the police moved us all back a

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Speaker 4: block we saw members of the National Guard standing ready,

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Speaker 4: still on duty, obviously very curious of what was happening

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Speaker 4: and praying for those that were hurt, but an indication

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Speaker 4: that their mission is going to continue even after today's tragedy.

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Speaker 2: Sure, all right, that is Mark Meredith tossing it back

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Speaker 2: to the fill in host for Will Caine on Fox News.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell show. We're going to

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Speaker 2: try to catch that press conference when we come back.

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Speaker 2: There's shot near the White House.

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Speaker 12: We're two of our brave members in that Tional Guard

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Speaker 12: and the Department of War. We're brazenly attacked in a

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Speaker 12: horrendous act of violence.

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Speaker 3: They were shot.

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Speaker 12: They're in critical condition, as you can see behind me.

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Speaker 12: We have assembled the full force about the federal and

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Speaker 12: state and local law enforcement agencies to bring bear all

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Speaker 12: of our resources to make sure we find the perpetrators

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Speaker 12: responsible for this heinous act and make no mistake, they

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Speaker 12: will be brought to justice. Since this is an assault

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Speaker 12: on a federal law enforcement officer, this will be treated

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Speaker 12: at the federal level as an assault on a Fed

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Speaker 12: law enforcement officer. The FBI will lead out on that

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Speaker 12: mission with our interagency partners to include the Department of

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Speaker 12: Homeland Security Secret Service atf DEEA, and we're thankful for

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Speaker 12: the Mayor's assistance in this matter. The Metropolitan Police Department

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Speaker 12: and their skills in investigating homicides and gun shootings in

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Speaker 12: this city is exceptional. We will work together, collaboraally because

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Speaker 12: this is a matter of national security, because this is

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Speaker 12: a matter of pride. President Trump has been informed, We've

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Speaker 12: been in contact with the White House. We will be

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Speaker 12: shortchange the American public with no resources to make sure

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Speaker 12: we find and safeguard our nation's capital right here in Washington,

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Speaker 12: DC and bring anyone responsible for this heinous act of

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Speaker 12: violence to justice. I would lastly like to add to

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Speaker 12: the American public in the world, please send your prayers

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Speaker 12: to those brave warriors who are in critical condition and

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Speaker 12: their families. They are here serving our country. They are

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Speaker 12: here protecting everyday Americans and citizens around the world in

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Speaker 12: our nation's capital.

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Speaker 3: They are the heroes of this.

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Speaker 12: Day, and we must remember them on this day and

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Speaker 12: every day, and their families and the sacrifice they have made.

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Speaker 12: I will now turn it over to Chief Carol the

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Speaker 12: Metropolitan Police Department.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, good afternon Everyone my name is Jeff carroll On,

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Speaker 8: the Executive Assistant Chief here at the Metropolitan Police Department.

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Speaker 8: At approximately two fifteen this afternoon, members of the DC

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Speaker 8: National Guard we're on high visibility patrols in the area

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Speaker 8: of seventeenth and I Street Northwest when a suspect came

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Speaker 8: around the corner, raised his arm with the firearm and

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Speaker 8: discharge at the National Guard members.

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Speaker 3: The National Guard members there were other members that were

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Speaker 3: in the area.

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Speaker 8: They were able to after some back and forth, able

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Speaker 8: to subdue the individual and bring them in the custody

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Speaker 8: within moments. Members of law enforcement in the area were

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Speaker 8: also able to assist and bring the individual into custody.

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Speaker 8: At this time, as the Director mentioned, the National Guard

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Speaker 8: members are.

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Speaker 3: Being treated at a local hospital.

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Speaker 8: DC Fire and Ems responded to the scene to provide

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Speaker 8: first aid for those individuals and transport them to a

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Speaker 8: local hospital. The suspect in this case was also transported

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Speaker 8: for treatment at a local hospital.

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Speaker 3: And the mayor thank you.

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Speaker 13: I'm Uriel Bowser, I'm the mayor of Washington, d C.

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Speaker 13: And I to want to send my thoughts and prayers

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Speaker 13: to the families of the guardsmen and to the guardsmen

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Speaker 13: who are in critical condition in a local hospital. I

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Speaker 13: am joined by members in leadership from the DC National Guard,

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Speaker 13: from the West Virginia National Guard, United States Secret Service

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Speaker 13: Deputy Mayrapilla, Fire Chief Donnelley, and Metro's general manager Randy Clark,

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Speaker 13: and we join with the FBI Director in ensuring that

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Speaker 13: MPD investigates the US Attorney prosecutes this case to the

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Speaker 13: fullest extent of the law. I've had the opportunity to

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Speaker 13: breathe US Attorney General Pambondi, who was speaking to the

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Speaker 13: President when I called, as well as the United States

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Speaker 13: Attorney Pierro, who assured me that this case will have

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Speaker 13: her office's complete attention.

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Speaker 3: Mayor, Is there any other suspect, Community Chief?

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Speaker 14: Sure? So?

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Speaker 3: Now at this time there was no indication there was

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Speaker 3: any other suspect.

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Speaker 8: The one suspect that was involved in this incident, they

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Speaker 8: were shot during the interaction and they were transports to

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Speaker 8: the hospital for treatment.

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Speaker 7: Validated additional peristy.

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Speaker 13: What we know, Andrea, is that this is a target

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Speaker 13: at shooting one individual who appear to target these guardsmen.

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Speaker 13: That individual has been taken into custody.

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Speaker 15: MAC any more details on the condition of the two

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Speaker 15: National Guards.

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Speaker 3: Commandment weether or not anyone else is ancient.

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Speaker 15: And a quick question put off for the FBI directin

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Speaker 15: you said to We'll make sure we find the perpetrators

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Speaker 15: for this act. So just to clarifind the person believed

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Speaker 15: to be responsible is in custody and there are no

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Speaker 15: other suspects.

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Speaker 8: Sure, so I can start out again, Chief Carol from MPD.

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Speaker 8: So both the individuals, the Guard members, they are in

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Speaker 8: critical in the condition of local hospital at this time

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Speaker 8: being treated. At this point, we have no other suspects.

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Speaker 8: We have reviewed video from the area. It appears like

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Speaker 8: I said to be a lone gunman that raised the

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Speaker 8: firearm and ambushed these members of the National Guard, and

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Speaker 8: he was quickly taken into custody by other National Guard

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Speaker 8: members and law enforcement members went alment. Now at this time,

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Speaker 8: obviously we're very the pleminary stages investigation.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of things, a lot of.

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Speaker 8: Agents that are here from various federal agencies, law enforcement agencies.

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Speaker 8: We have the full power of the FBI and or

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Speaker 8: federal partners here in the task force. So we're looking

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Speaker 8: at all those different aspects. But we don't have any

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Speaker 8: motive arms the National guardsmen that were shot.

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Speaker 3: I'm told they were armed at this time. That's part

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Speaker 3: of the pulminary investigation.

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Speaker 8: How waste sure so how the suspect was apprehended.

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Speaker 3: As I said, the individual, the suspect came around the corner.

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Speaker 8: He immediately started firing a firearm at the two National

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Speaker 8: Guard members. Uh So at that time, there were other

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Speaker 8: National Guard members that were in the area.

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Speaker 3: Uh they heard the gunfire.

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Speaker 8: They actually uh were able to intervene and to kind

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Speaker 8: of hold down the suspect after he had been shot

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Speaker 8: on the ground. So law enforcement got there within moments.

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Speaker 8: At this point, we're still investigating exactly who shot the individual.

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Speaker 3: It's not clear at this time. You're he's a weapon

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Speaker 3: the area. We don't know kind of weapon. There was

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Speaker 3: DC police.

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Speaker 8: It happened right in front of the Metro, although there

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Speaker 8: is no indication that the perpetrator was on the Metro.

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Speaker 3: So there's Metro Transit police in the.

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Speaker 8: Area and obviously being on Seventeenth Street by the White House.

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Speaker 8: Uniformed the Business Secret Service were in the immediate area

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Speaker 8: as well.

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Speaker 3: We do not know at this time.

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Speaker 2: That is Washington, DC's police chief, as well as Mayor

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Speaker 2: Muriel Bowser FBI Director Cash Patel providing an update on

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Speaker 2: the shooting of two National Guard soldiers and major developments.

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Speaker 2: Just in the last couple of seconds, both the police

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Speaker 2: chief and mayor confirmed that this was a targeted attack.

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Speaker 2: Mayor Bowser is saying that the gunman appeared to target

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Speaker 2: those soldiers, the police chief following up by saying that

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Speaker 2: he ambushed them, that he came around a corner near

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Speaker 2: the subway station at Farragut Square and immediately started firing. Now,

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Speaker 2: this appears to hone in on the suspect's potential motive,

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Speaker 2: that he was in fact looking to harm members of

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Speaker 2: the National Guard or members of Fed law enforcement. This

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Speaker 2: is in line with a spate of attacks typically targeting

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Speaker 2: ice over the past couple of months. But obviously one

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Speaker 2: can now not ignore the potential political ramifications of this. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: we do have to go to a commercial break. We'll

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Speaker 2: continue monitoring this press conference bring you the very latest

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Speaker 2: as it happens. We are continuing to follow the developing

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Speaker 2: story out of Washington, d C. Two National Guard soldiers

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Speaker 2: shot and critically injured in what Washington's mayor is calling

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Speaker 2: a targeted attack, and the executive police chief is calling

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Speaker 2: an ambush Welcome back to the Dan O'Donnell show. Just

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Speaker 2: a couple of minutes ago, in a press conference headed

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Speaker 2: by FBI Director Cash Pattel, Washington d C. Mayor Muriel

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Speaker 2: Bowser confirmed that the two guardsmen actually one man and

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Speaker 2: one woman, both from West Virginia on patrol in Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. Were attacked in what she's calling a targeted shoot.

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Speaker 13: This is a targeted shooting. One individual who appeared to

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Speaker 13: target these guardsman. That individual has been taken into custody.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: The executive assistant Chief of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department,

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Carroll, did confirm a couple of seconds later in

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Speaker 2: that press conference that this was quote an ambush.

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Speaker 8: Oh, you have reviewed video from the area. It appears,

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Speaker 8: like I said, he alone gumman that raised the firearm

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Speaker 8: and ambushed these members of the National Guard, and he

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Speaker 8: was quickly taken into custy by other National Guard members

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Speaker 8: and law enforcement members.

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Speaker 2: That suspect was also shot. He was also badly injured,

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Speaker 2: but we are hearing now that he suffered non life

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Speaker 2: threatening injuries. Now, there was a good deal of confusion.

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Speaker 2: The Governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrissey actually tweeted out

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Speaker 2: that those two National Guard soldiers had succumbed to their

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Speaker 2: injuries and that they had died. That was apparently a rona.

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Speaker 2: He said he received conflicting information. He retracted that statement.

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Speaker 2: President Trump has, of course weighed in on this on

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Speaker 2: truth Social The White House has called a lid, meaning

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Speaker 2: that the President is not expected to speak. I do

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Speaker 2: have a very strong suspicion that the President is actually

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Speaker 2: a board Air Force one right now. This would be

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Speaker 2: in keeping with his first term in which he said

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Speaker 2: he was going to spend Thanksgiving at mar A Lago,

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Speaker 2: but actually went somewhere across the world to serve Thanksgiving

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Speaker 2: dinner to the troops. Obviously, you cannot advertise that sort

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Speaker 2: of thing. These impromptu visits are kept very very secret.

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Speaker 2: So it is my very strong suspicion that the reason

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Speaker 2: that the President is not speaking out on this is

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Speaker 2: this happened just two blocks away from the White House,

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Speaker 2: outside of Farragut Square, very very close to that subway

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Speaker 2: station that will take you to Farragut Square. The reason

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Speaker 2: that he isn't speaking is that he is currently on

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Speaker 2: board Air Force or perhaps is already in whatever war

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Speaker 2: zone that he is going to be serving Thanksgiving dinner

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Speaker 2: to I don't know that, but I can tell you

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Speaker 2: I believe it was three out of four Thanksgivings in

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Speaker 2: the president's first term that he actually did serve Thanksgiving

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Speaker 2: dinner to the troops. So that is my read on

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Speaker 2: the situation. But again I don't know. I would have

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Speaker 2: to imagine that if the President was actually at mar

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Speaker 2: A Lago right now, that he would find a camera

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Speaker 2: and that he would talk, because obviously this is something

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Speaker 2: that I believe the nation needs to hear. The president

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Speaker 2: on the fact that this is a targeted attack now

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Speaker 2: draws into sharp relief and should put a very harsh

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Speaker 2: glare on what it is that left wing commentators and

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Speaker 2: left wing political figures have been saying about National Guard

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Speaker 2: troops just like the brave man and brave woman who

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Speaker 2: are badly injured in a targeted attack today, patrolling America's streets. Now,

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Speaker 2: how about this for about as disgusting as it gets.

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Speaker 2: This is a former acting Vice chief of the National Guard.

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Speaker 2: He is Major General Randy Manor. He was on CNN

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, and he actually likened national

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Speaker 2: Guard troops under the command of President Trump to nazis.

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Speaker 16: What the President is doing, through the Secretary of Defense

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Speaker 16: is creating units, official military units, to quite frankly, guard

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Speaker 16: or not guard, watch the American people. And that's the

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Speaker 16: thing that is absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Abhorrent.

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Speaker 16: It reminds me so much of what happened in Germany

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Speaker 16: in the nineteen thirties.

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Speaker 2: That's disgusting from anybody on a national television platform, but

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Speaker 2: especially from the acting Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau, who,

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Speaker 2: according to the National Guard's website, was serving in Washington,

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Speaker 2: DC under President Biden. This was someone who was serving

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Speaker 2: in the very spot that these two National Guard soldiers

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Speaker 2: were shot and very very badly injured. That was just

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Speaker 2: two weeks ago. Now, how about this, This was about

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Speaker 2: thirty minutes ago on ms now's coverage of this. Ms now,

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Speaker 2: of course, what is MSNBC. It was it was forced

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Speaker 2: to change its name when NBC sold, NBC Universal sold,

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Speaker 2: ms now is MSNBC. So when you hear ms now

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Speaker 2: moving forward, they just made the big change a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago. Think MSNBC new name, same old left

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Speaker 2: wing craziness. Reporter Ken Delanyon. Sure as hex sounded like

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Speaker 2: he was attempting to justify why this gunman ambushed and

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Speaker 2: shot to National Guard soldiers because well, there are ICE

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Speaker 2: agents wearing masks in these cities, and there are other

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Speaker 2: uniformed soldiers, and well it just gets very stressful for

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Speaker 2: these poor left wing psychopaths.

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Speaker 17: But of course, you know, there's so much controversy happening

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Speaker 17: in the United States right now with ICE who are

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Speaker 17: also wearing uniforms and wearing masks, and so there's you

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Speaker 17: don't know, people walking around with uniforms in an American city.

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Speaker 17: There are some Americans that might object to that, and

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Speaker 17: so apparently this shooting has happened.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, MS now apparently has a brand new sound effects

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Speaker 2: package there. That was their breaking news sounder that you heard,

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Speaker 2: interrupting mister Delaney and making the most acenine point that yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: there are ICE agents who are in uniforms and other

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Speaker 2: people might take offence to that. I'm not exactly sure

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Speaker 2: if he was trying to justify what it was that

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Speaker 2: the gun was doing, or saying, look, hey, there are

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of left wing psychopads out there, and

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Speaker 2: let's not forget there have been a tax on ICE.

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Speaker 1: There was a.

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Speaker 2: Systemic wave of attacks on ICE over the summer, and this, if,

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Speaker 2: in fact this was politically targeted, we again don't know.

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Speaker 2: Although Washington DC's Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, the police

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Speaker 2: chief who serves under a very Democrat Washington d C

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Speaker 2: Metro police chief, saying that this was an ambush generally

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Speaker 2: leads me to believe that this was, in fact what

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Speaker 2: it seemed like like somebody was trying to take out

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Speaker 2: President Trump's so called gestoppo. How many times have we

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Speaker 2: heard Democrats saying those exact words Tim Walls during a

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Speaker 2: commencement speech, and I believe the University of Minnesota back

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Speaker 2: in May saying Donald Trump's modern day gets stop out.

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Speaker 2: He was of course referring to Ice, but he could

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Speaker 2: have just as easily have been referring to National Guard

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Speaker 2: troops patrolling the streets of Washington, DC Democrats and left

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Speaker 2: wing commentators and influencers across traditional and social media. Every

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Speaker 2: time there is a new city, say Chicago, with Operation

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Speaker 2: Midway Blitz, that's targeted for federal law enforcement. And just

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Speaker 2: to be clear, just so we are all clear about this,

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Speaker 2: national Guard troops do not take proactive law enforcement roles.

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Speaker 2: They are there to support and they are there to

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Speaker 2: defend if necessary, federal law enforcement officers if and when

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Speaker 2: a city's police force is unable or far more troublingly

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Speaker 2: unwilling to support them. Remember there was the controversy a

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Speaker 2: couple of months ago that Chicago's police chief apparently was

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Speaker 2: giving a do not render aid order if ever ICE

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Speaker 2: agents were attacked. Well, that is a situation that you

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Speaker 2: would need the National Guard to provide support, to provide

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Speaker 2: protection for ICE agents who are Again I can't believe

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Speaker 2: I need to say this, but they are engaging in

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Speaker 2: legitimate law enforcement operations. Just because left wingers don't like it,

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Speaker 2: That does not negate, That does not invalidate what it

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Speaker 2: is they're doing to enforce this nation's laws. Right here

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Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, we had a similar situation if someone in

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Speaker 2: a position of power, not engaging in violence, but believing

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Speaker 2: that a federal law enforcement operation was not valid. Hannah Dugan,

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Speaker 2: Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, was in federal court today

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Speaker 2: for her final pre trial hearing before her trial is

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Speaker 2: scheduled to begin shortly before Christmas next month, on charges

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Speaker 2: that she actually helped an ill eagle alien, a violent

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Speaker 2: criminal offender, a defendant in her courtroom sneak out just

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Speaker 2: because there were ICE agents waiting to deport him as

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Speaker 2: soon as he was finished with his hearing. She actually

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Speaker 2: snuck him and his attorney out the jury room exit

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Speaker 2: and to some back elevators where she thought they would

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Speaker 2: be able to evade ICE capture. This is where we

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Speaker 2: are as an American political left. We have people in

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Speaker 2: positions of power acting like Hannah Dugan and believing that

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Speaker 2: their personal political and moral judgment supersedes the laws and

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Speaker 2: constitution of the United States. And we have people like

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Speaker 2: the so called Seditious six telling active duty National Guard

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Speaker 2: troops members of the military, you can disobey illegal, unlawful,

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Speaker 2: and unconstitutional orders. Not you can disobey this specific unlawful, illegal,

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Speaker 2: unconstitutional order. That would be just fine if, for example,

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Speaker 2: President Trump said, open fire on students at Kent State

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Speaker 2: University for all you boomer Libs.

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Speaker 1: That'll be some catnip for your memories.

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Speaker 2: Let's say President Trump actually authorize the National Guard to

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Speaker 2: shoot boomer Libs on Ken State University's campus fifty some

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Speaker 2: years ago. That would obviously be an unlawful order that

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Speaker 2: those National Guard troops would be able to reject that

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Speaker 2: they would be able to disobey. What the Seditious Six did, however,

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Speaker 2: was to say to those troops, to say to the

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Speaker 2: National Guards soldiers like say, the two that were shot today, Hey,

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Speaker 2: if you believe that an order is unlawful, if you

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Speaker 2: believe we are empowering you, as members of the Senate,

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Speaker 2: as members of the Congress, to you substitute your own

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Speaker 2: judgment for that of your commanding officers and your commander

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Speaker 2: in chief, and in essence to be like Hannadugan, to say, well,

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Speaker 2: the law doesn't apply. I believe that the law that

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Speaker 2: is being enforced is immoral. So based on my own

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Speaker 2: personal convictions, I am going to take the law into

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Speaker 2: my own hands. That's exactly what the Seditious six we're

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Speaker 2: telling members of the military to do. For example, if

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Speaker 2: they were talking to those two National Guard soldiers, would

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Speaker 2: they have told that man and that woman, hey, do

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Speaker 2: not patrol the streets of Washington, d C. We happen

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Speaker 2: to believe that this is an unlawful order, and you

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Speaker 2: should believe that too. It's not how it works that

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Speaker 2: is actually fomenting dissension, that is fomenting discord in the

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Speaker 2: ranks of the United States military, and those congressmen and

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Speaker 2: those senators knew exactly what it was that they were doing.

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Speaker 2: They are actively trying to get the military to turn

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Speaker 2: on Donald Trump. And they're saying, oh, well, it's because

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Speaker 2: he's issued all of these unlawful and unconstitutional orders. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we'll name one, name, just one, just one specific order

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Speaker 2: that President Trump has given that is unlawful. Please, oh,

877
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Speaker 2: taking out the narco boats coming out of Venezuela. Really,

878
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Speaker 2: because last time I checked, we declared drug cartels, international

879
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Speaker 2: drug cartelles as foreign terrorist enemies, and that absolutely does

880
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Speaker 2: authorize military action against its perfectly lawful. It is perfectly constitutional.

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Speaker 1: You may not like it.

882
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Speaker 2: You may have a personal conviction or a soft spot

883
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Speaker 2: in your heart for narco terrorists taking boatloads of drugs

884
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Speaker 2: from Venezuela into the United States, but that does not

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Speaker 2: authorize you to substitute your own judgment for the judgment

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Speaker 2: of your commander in chief. Just to recap, two National

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Speaker 2: Guard soldiers from West Virginia, one a man, another a woman,

888
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Speaker 2: shot and badly injured in what authorities are calling an

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Speaker 2: ambush attack at Farragut Square about two blocks north of

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Speaker 2: the White House in Washington, d C. This afternoon. The

891
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Speaker 2: suspect was shot and badly injured himself by other National

892
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Speaker 2: Guard troops and law enforcement officers who immediately responded to

893
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Speaker 2: the scene after the shots rang out. Both Muriel Bowser,

894
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Speaker 2: the mayor of Washington, d C, as well as Michael Carroll,

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Speaker 2: who is the executive Assistant Chief of the Washington, d

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Speaker 2: C Metropolitan Police Department, confirmed that this was a targeted attack.

897
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Speaker 2: Assistant Chief Carroll is calling it an ambush. The FBI

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Speaker 2: is investigating, taking the lead in this investigation, and Attorney

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Speaker 2: General Pam Bondi as well as US Attorney Jeanine Bio

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Speaker 2: both promising to bring the full weight of justice of

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Speaker 2: the federal government down on this ambush attacker. We are

902
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Speaker 2: going to hopefully get more information about him, who he is,

903
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Speaker 2: what his motivation was. I am hoping against hope, but

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Speaker 2: it is looking very very likely, folks, that this was

905
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Speaker 2: in fact a targeted attack that is motivated at least

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Speaker 2: in part by the extreme anti law enforcement, anti ice,

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Speaker 2: anti National Guard, anti military rhetoric coming from people on

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Speaker 2: the American left who absolutely should know better.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Dan o'donald show. More on this

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Speaker 1: coming up.

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Speaker 2: Both Washington d C's mayor and executive assistant police chief

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Speaker 2: have now confirmed that two National Guard soldiers who were

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Speaker 2: shot and critically injured they were not killed. They are

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Speaker 2: West Virginia National Guard troops, and the governor of West

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Speaker 2: Virginia erroneously tweeted out about an hour or so ago

916
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Speaker 2: that the troops had died.

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Speaker 1: They did not.

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Speaker 2: He said he retracted that statement, saying he had gotten

919
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Speaker 2: his wires crossed and that the information that he got

920
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Speaker 2: was incorrect. But both DC's mayor and executive police you

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Speaker 2: have now confirmed that this was a targeted ambush attack.

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Speaker 2: And obviously, since this is in President Trump's Washington d C,

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Speaker 2: just two blocks from the White House, one has to

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Speaker 2: wonder whether this was in fact a politically motivated assault

925
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Speaker 2: on law enforcement, in line with attacks on ice facilities

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Speaker 2: across the country. In Dallas, in southern Texas, we saw

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Speaker 2: an attack near Chicago, we saw an attempt to storm

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Speaker 2: an ice facility by a member of Congress and the

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Speaker 2: mayor of Newark, New Jersey a couple of months ago.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is starting to get to a very

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Speaker 2: dangerous place. If we haven't been there already, unless I

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Speaker 2: forget this comes nearly three months, just two and a

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Speaker 2: half months after the assassination of one of the most

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Speaker 2: prominent conservative media figures and activists in the country. Joining

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Speaker 2: us now to talk about all of it is Wisconsin

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Speaker 2: Congressman Brian Style, Sir, I wish you were joining us

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Speaker 2: on a happier occasion, but your initial reaction to what

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Speaker 2: certainly looks like a politically motivated ambush of two National

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Speaker 2: Guard soldiers in Washington.

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Speaker 9: Dan as I heard the news earlier today, my heart sank,

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Speaker 9: and I think everyone is joining together, myself included, and

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Speaker 9: praying for the families of these two West Virginia National

943
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Speaker 9: Guard troops who were shot near the White House earlier today,

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Speaker 9: as families across the country might included to gather around

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Speaker 9: the Thanksgiving table tomorrow. There's two families that by all

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Speaker 9: likelihood won't have two members home with them. Were praying

947
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Speaker 9: that they are able to recover, that the news that

948
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Speaker 9: came out that they had passed is not true, and

949
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Speaker 9: that they ultimately, by the grace of God, regained strength.

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Speaker 9: But it is a broader statement of the challenges that

951
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Speaker 9: we face in our country right now. We don't know

952
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Speaker 9: the motivation of the individual who shot both of these individuals,

953
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Speaker 9: but it's not lost on anyone that both of them

954
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Speaker 9: were dressed as National Guard is, in National Guard uniforms,

955
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Speaker 9: wearing camouflage, attire, large large names in the back of

956
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Speaker 9: their uniform that identified them as National Guard troops. And

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Speaker 9: so you see an attack like this, I don't think

958
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Speaker 9: anyone has any experience other than feeling their heart sink

959
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Speaker 9: is minded in journing, in prayer that ultimately both of

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Speaker 9: these individuals are able to recover.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this certainly does cast a pall over the Thanksgiving holiday,

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Speaker 2: but it also, as I said Congressman, it's impossible to

963
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Speaker 2: ignore the fact that this comes amid escalating attacks against

964
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Speaker 2: law enforcement, especially members of ICE that have been I

965
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Speaker 2: don't want to say cheered on or encouraged, but given

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Speaker 2: a permission structure, as Ben Shapiro puts it, by Democrats

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Speaker 2: to engage in extreme violence. I mean, Democrats have been

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Speaker 2: calling National Guard soldiers ICE agents nazis part of Trump's

969
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Speaker 2: personal gestoppo, and that creates, as Shapiro says, a sort

970
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Speaker 2: of permission structure for the most homicidal, craziest in society

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Speaker 2: to Act.

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Speaker 1: What's your take on that.

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Speaker 9: Well, it is unquestionable that the rhetoric on the left

974
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Speaker 9: continue to grow, and we have seen multiple political based

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Speaker 9: attacks over the course of the last year. I mean,

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Speaker 9: I often reflect back that the killing of Charlie Kirk,

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Speaker 9: an individual who is willing to go in and speak

978
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Speaker 9: truth on college campuses and share his views, ideas and opinions,

979
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Speaker 9: only to ultimately lose his life in that effort. You

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Speaker 9: correctly noted the attacks that we have seen against ice

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Speaker 9: men and women law enforcement who are standing up and

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Speaker 9: sworn to protect us and to enforce the laws of

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Speaker 9: the United States of America. And it's a continuation of

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Speaker 9: the rhetoric of the left, of the anti police approach

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Speaker 9: that we have seen on the left time and again

986
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Speaker 9: versus I think a very consistent support of law enforcement

987
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Speaker 9: by those of us on the right, recognizing that we

988
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Speaker 9: need to support those men and women who are waking

989
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 9: up in the morning putting a badge over their heart

990
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Speaker 9: or putting an American flag on as these men and women

991
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Speaker 9: of the National Guard did to go out to protect us,

992
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Speaker 9: to keep us safe. And I think it's incumbent upon

993
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Speaker 9: us to make sure that we're calling out when the

994
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 9: left is clearly crossing the line in some of their rhetorics.

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Speaker 2: The Department of Homeland Security Congressman reports that from January

996
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Speaker 2: to September of this year, compared to the same period

997
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Speaker 2: last year, attacks on ICE officers are up one thousand

998
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 2: percent one thousand percent. I'm taking a look at just

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Speaker 2: a short list. July fourth, Albaredo, Texas, the Prairie Land

1000
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Speaker 2: Detention facility. There was a coordinated ambush by twelve antifar

1001
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Speaker 2: radicals in tactical gear. They used fireworks as a diversion

1002
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Speaker 2: to get ICE agents out of that detention facility and

1003
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Speaker 2: then fired AR fifteen's at the officers. One officer was

1004
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Speaker 2: shot in the neck. Fortunately that was a non fatal injury.

1005
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Speaker 2: This coincided with a number of tacks across the country.

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Speaker 2: Was one also on the fourth of July in Portland, Oregon,

1007
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Speaker 2: riders assaulting ICE agents there. July seventh, McAllen, Texas, a

1008
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Speaker 2: Border patrol facility. A gunman fired dozens of rounds at

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Speaker 2: the building as well as at agents. Two police officers

1010
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Speaker 2: and one Border Patrol employee were hospitalized with non life

1011
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Speaker 2: threatening injuries. The gunman was killed there in Dallas, Texas,

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01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 2: a sniper on September twenty fourth fired from a rooftop

1013
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 2: into the sally port of that Field office, targeting agents,

1014
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 2: but in fact accidentally killed one detainee and injured two

1015
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 2: others who were being brought to the center for processing.

1016
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 2: The gun casings literally read anti ice. In addition, five

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Speaker 2: days after that, Broadview, Illinois, in the Chicago area, two

1018
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 2: hundred or so riders blocked gates chanted arrest ICE shoot Ice.

1019
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 2: Fortunately no one was injured. There there were four separate

1020
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 2: vehicle rammings at the Border Patrol facility in Chicago on

1021
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 2: November eighth. Then in Maryland November thirteenth, an illegal alien

1022
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 2: rammed an ICE vehicle then hit another car. I mean,

1023
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 2: the list goes on and on and on and on

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01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 2: and on, sir. I mean, and now you've got two

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01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 2: National Guard troops shot in Washington, d C. We don't

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01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 2: know the motive, but there is a clear and unmistakable

1027
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 2: pattern of targeting federal law enforcement officers. And now we're

1028
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 2: seeing federal troops. And I'm not blaming leftist rhetoric for this,

1029
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 2: but again I'm saying there's a clear pattern.

1030
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 9: Here, but there's unquestionably a clear pattern of those on

1031
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 9: their left tacking federal law enforcement officers over the course

1032
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 9: of this year. Your list is just part of the

1033
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 9: full number of attacks that are law enforcement office have

1034
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Speaker 9: endeared over the course of this past year. And what

1035
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 9: these men and women are doing is waking up in

1036
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Speaker 9: the morning and going out to protect us, to make

1037
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Speaker 9: sure that they're out protecting our freedoms and liberties and

1038
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Speaker 9: forcing the law of the United States of America. And

1039
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Speaker 9: there are individuals on the left encouraged by some of

1040
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 9: the most egregious rhetoric to take harm and to put

1041
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 9: their lives at risk. And I think it's incumbent upon

1042
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 9: all of us to recognize how far and how radicalized

1043
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 9: the language is on the left, and how we have

1044
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 9: to ultimately stand up against this for the protection of

1045
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 9: our country. We continue to see the radicalization of the left.

1046
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Speaker 9: I think again, I reference to Charlie kirk assassination, these

1047
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 9: ice attacks, and then it leads you to have a

1048
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:53,040
Speaker 9: lot of questions about what was the motive. And I

1049
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:56,240
Speaker 9: think we will ultimately learn a lot more about the

1050
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 9: incident from today, But it is unquestionable that we have

1051
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:06,400
Speaker 9: a broader past violent attacks against law enforcement radicalized, most

1052
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Speaker 9: likely by language on the left.

1053
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Speaker 2: And how about the political assassinations and attempted assassinations. We

1054
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Speaker 2: had a very obviously politically motivated attempted assassination last summer

1055
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Speaker 2: against President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. There was a much

1056
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Speaker 2: less known attempted assassination of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant in

1057
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Speaker 2: January by a radicalized leftist. A few years back, when

1058
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Speaker 2: the draft opinion of the Roe v. Wade decision, the

1059
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Speaker 2: one that overturned at Dobsvy Jackson Women's Health, was leaked,

1060
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Speaker 2: you had Nicholas Rosky, who now identifies as a woman

1061
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Speaker 2: named Sophie. He only got eight years in prison for

1062
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Speaker 2: attempting to kidnap and then murder Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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Speaker 2: He was arrested, fortunately, had a moment of lucidity in

1064
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two when he called police on himself and said, Hey,

1065
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Speaker 2: I'm in the Justice's natood and I'm going to kill him.

1066
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Speaker 1: Please come and arrest me.

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Speaker 2: I mean again, clear and unmistakable pattern of violence emanating

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Speaker 2: on the left. Brian's style. Wisconsin Congressman. My guest here

1069
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Speaker 2: on the Dan O'Donnell show, Sarah if I may I

1070
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Speaker 2: want to switch gears very quickly, because yesterday the Wisconsin

1071
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Speaker 2: Supreme Court impaneled two separate three judge panels of district

1072
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Speaker 2: court judges, every single one of them either appointed by

1073
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Speaker 2: Governor Evers or who has serious Democrat ties. One is

1074
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Speaker 2: even the former chairman of a county Democrat party for

1075
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Speaker 2: goodness sakes, and they are going to decide on whether

1076
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Speaker 2: or not Wisconsin's congressional maps will be overturned. Rather bizarre

1077
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 2: move by the Supreme Court. In fact, I actually think

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Speaker 2: it violates the Wisconsin Constitution since you have district court

1079
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Speaker 2: judges potentially overturning several prior decisions of the Wisconsin Supreme

1080
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Speaker 2: Court upholding those maps. Now, Democrats want to essentially jerry

1081
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Speaker 2: mander you and Congressman Derrek van Worden out of your

1082
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Speaker 2: seats by redrawing the districts to make it impossible for

1083
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Speaker 2: a Republican to win. Since this directly impacts you, what

1084
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Speaker 2: are your thoughts on this?

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Speaker 9: Well, I'm planning to run and win. I think it's

1086
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Speaker 9: we need to continue the direction in this country of

1087
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Speaker 9: cleaning up the mess of the Biden administration, getting costs

1088
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Speaker 9: into control, and making our communities safe. So I'm planning

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Speaker 9: to run and win. We'll see what the Supreme Court does.

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Speaker 9: But I think everybody should be concerned about the process

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Speaker 9: that has been utilized by the Supreme Court, in particular

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Speaker 9: picking district court judges without providing even so much as

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Speaker 9: an understanding for the public to see why these were

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Speaker 9: the judges that were selected by the Supreme Court. Supreme

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Speaker 9: Court judges are obviously elected in the state of Wisconsin.

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Speaker 9: District judges elected at the county level. But why is

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Speaker 9: it that these individuals are the ones chosen? How were

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Speaker 9: they chosen? And it clearly appears that it was not random,

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Speaker 9: that it was selected based on a partisan tilt of

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Speaker 9: the individuals selected. I think that might be one of

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Speaker 9: the more concerning points for everyone in the state that

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Speaker 9: the Supreme Court is effectively bringing on board two sets

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Speaker 9: of three judges in the selection process of how these

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Speaker 9: judges were chosen is not being shared or provided or

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Speaker 9: given insight to the people of Wisconsin.

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Speaker 2: Do you believe that this is a brazen effort as

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Speaker 2: I do to Gerrymander you and Congressman Van Orden out

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Speaker 2: of your seats.

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Speaker 9: Well, it's pretty clear even throughout the entire election for

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Speaker 9: Supreme Court seats in the state of Wisconsin, and there

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Speaker 9: was one justice as we know, who attended a fundraiser

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Speaker 9: where the headline was take back. Effectively, We're going to

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Speaker 9: win the United States House Representatives by getting our chosen

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Speaker 9: candidate on the Supreme Court praising for what that fundraiser was,

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Speaker 9: which tells you the national Democrats are interested in the

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Speaker 9: Wisconsin Supreme Court for one reason. They want to stop

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Speaker 9: President Trump's agenda, and they think that this is an

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Speaker 9: easy way to do it. But at the end of

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Speaker 9: the day, the voters of Wisconsin will have their say

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Speaker 9: in the fall. I'm planning on running and winning re election.

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Speaker 9: I think Dvo is of the similar mindset, and so

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Speaker 9: the Supreme Court of Wisconsin is now a hyperpartisan institution.

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Speaker 9: They've shown themselves that they're unabashed in that regard. And

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Speaker 9: these are the consequences to the state that we are

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Speaker 9: going to be living under until we ultimately are successful

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Speaker 9: at running winning conservatives to the Wisconsin Supreme Court multiple

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Speaker 9: times here to get the court back to return to

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Speaker 9: common sense.

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Speaker 2: He is Wisconsin Congressman Brian's styles. Sir, I actually really

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Speaker 2: really wanted to talk to you about your hearing last

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Speaker 2: week on congressional trading, which I think is rather obviously

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01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 2: in so trading you have members of Congress trading stocks

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01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 2: based on information that the general public is not privy to.

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Speaker 2: I had a ton of stuff I wanted to ask

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Speaker 2: you about that, as well as affordability, but that just

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Speaker 2: gives us reason to talk again very soon. Obviously, the

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Speaker 2: events of the day needed your comment on. I really

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Speaker 2: do appreciate you. I am thankful that you are representing

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Speaker 2: us here, and I do hope you and your family

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Speaker 2: have a very happy Thanksgiving, your first Thanksgiving with your

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Speaker 2: new fiance.

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Speaker 9: Exactly. No, Kley and I look forward to this Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 9: We wish everyone and all your listeners as well, a

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01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:39,640
Speaker 9: happy Thanksgiving with their families. Will continue to pray for

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Speaker 9: these two troops who are shot earlier today Congressman style.

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Speaker 2: As always, it is a true pleasure. I am Dan O'Donnell.

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Speaker 2: We will be right back in just a second show.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to it. We have been spending much of

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01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:57,760
Speaker 2: the day on the developing story out of Washington.

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Speaker 1: DC coming up at five six.

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Speaker 2: However, we are going to put the focus on Thanksgiving

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Speaker 2: and what has become an annual tradition. Here on the

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Speaker 2: Dan O'Donnell Show, on our final show before we break

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Speaker 2: for Thanksgiving, which is of course tomorrow, we play Rush

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Speaker 2: Limbaugh's recitation of the Real Story of the First Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: It is something that I grew up listening to, at

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Speaker 2: least grew as a radio broadcaster when Rush made it

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Speaker 2: a part of his every year Thanksgiving tradition. I will

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Speaker 2: never forget. The day before Thanksgiving, probably about seven eight

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Speaker 2: years ago, my son who's now eighteen, was ten eleven

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Speaker 2: years old and we needed to get a fake Christmas tree,

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Speaker 2: so we went to Stein's. He was allergic to pine needles,

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Speaker 2: we discovered, so we could no longer get real trees.

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Speaker 2: So we went to mines Over on Highway one hundred

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Speaker 2: to get a fake tree, and we parked in the

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Speaker 2: car and Rush was doing his real story of the

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Speaker 2: First Thanksgiving. Now, I of course had been hearing this

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Speaker 2: for years and years and years, and needed to get

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Speaker 2: the tree and wanted to get it up right after Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: But my son said, Dad, wait, can we just finish this?

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Speaker 2: He was so fascinated by the history that Rush was presented. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: in fifth or sixth grade, he had never heard this before,

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Speaker 2: and it's entirely possible that he never would if not

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Speaker 2: for Rush Limblaine. In that moment, I realized just how

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Speaker 2: powerful Rush was as a broadcaster and as someone who

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Speaker 2: could bridge generations. Because my grandfather, May God rest his soul,

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Speaker 2: he has been dead, Oh my goodness, he has been

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Speaker 2: dead now for thirty years.

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Speaker 1: He died in nineteen ninety five.

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Speaker 2: He was one of the very first listeners of the

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Speaker 2: National Rush Limbaugh Show, and in fact, he told everybody

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Speaker 2: that he knew, you got to listen to this guy.

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Speaker 2: He makes more sense than anybody I've ever heard. In fact,

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Speaker 2: it was sort of a joke. His nickname was Live

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01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 2: because he was always sitting, and when he was young,

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01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 2: he was always sitting and listening to the radio.

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Speaker 1: He was obsessed with radio.

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Speaker 2: I guess it was sort of genetic that this was

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Speaker 2: the business I ended up getting into as his grandson.

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Speaker 2: But Live Grandpa, my Grandpa Leo would actually sleep with

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Speaker 2: a radio underneath his pillow, and I still to this

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Speaker 2: day remember being three four years old and forgetting about

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Speaker 2: the damn radio under Grandpa's pillow. When Grandma would put

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Speaker 2: me down for a nap. They were like your quintessential

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Speaker 2: greatest generation of Heaven. They slept in separate bets. Weirdly enough,

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Speaker 2: both of my grandparents until they die slept in separate beds,

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Speaker 2: both sets of grandparents.

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Speaker 1: I guess it was just a thing back then.

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Speaker 2: But if you got Grandpa's bed, you had better watch

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Speaker 2: out for that radio or you would have quite the

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01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 2: sore head. I guess even before I could remember listening

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01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 2: to the radio, I'm sure I was listening to Rush

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Speaker 2: Limbaugh when I would go over to Grandma and Grandpa's

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Speaker 2: for babysitting when I was five six years old. And

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Speaker 2: my son, Live's great grandson also listened to Rush and

1206
01:12:34,320 --> 01:12:39,479
Speaker 2: was just so taken by his take on things, by

1207
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:43,599
Speaker 2: his way with words. So for the past four years now,

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01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 2: since Rush passed away in early twenty twenty one, we

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01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 2: have made it our mission to ensure that Rush lives

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Speaker 2: on forever. So we are right after the top of

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Speaker 2: the hour news going to play in its entirety, Rush

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01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 2: reading from his first book, The Way Things Ought to Be,

1213
01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 2: and reciting the real story of the first Thanksgiving. I

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01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 2: can't wait. It is one of my favorite traditions each

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Speaker 2: and every year. I actually, just as you do, sit

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01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 2: just as I'm sure my grandfather did totally wrapped listening

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01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:25,919
Speaker 2: to the radio, as my son did years ago listening

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01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:29,200
Speaker 2: to Rush. So that is coming up right after the

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Speaker 2: top of the hour News at about five oh six.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna step aside for a break.

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Speaker 2: The Unsung hero of the day coming up next here

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Speaker 2: on the Dan O'Donnell Show, Stay two. The Wisconsin State

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Speaker 2: Senate Democrat Committee has actually put out organized talking points

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Speaker 2: for arguing with your Republican relatives this Thanksgiving. It is

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Speaker 2: part of my absolute favorite genre of left wing journalism,

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Speaker 2: and in this case, left wing activism. It is the

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Speaker 2: presumption that the audiences of left wing news outlets are

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Speaker 2: just complete morons who couldn't possibly withstand any sort of

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Speaker 2: scrutiny of their worldview from their conservative uncle at Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into that, and as I said at the

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Speaker 2: top of the hour, we will hear from the late

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Speaker 2: great Rush Limbaugh with the real story of the first Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: Though right now it is time to name the unsung

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Speaker 2: heroes of the day. Today's unsung heroes of the day

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Speaker 2: are the West Virginia National guardsmen and National guardswomen who

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Speaker 2: are shot and critically injured today while on patrol in Washington,

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01:14:56,080 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 2: DC and what's being described as an ambush targeted attack.

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Speaker 2: My initial plan today was to name all service members

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Speaker 2: who are away from home this Thanksgiving as my unsung

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Speaker 2: heroes of the day, and while that is true, they

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01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:16,519
Speaker 2: are the unsung heroes really of every day today. Our

1242
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 2: prayers of hope, our prayers of support, and our prayers

1243
01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:25,920
Speaker 2: of mourning are with those two who are just doing

1244
01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 2: their jobs in Washington, DC this afternoon when they were

1245
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Speaker 2: set upon the day before Thanksgiving by a psychopath who,

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Speaker 2: for whatever reason wanted them dead. Our hearts, our thoughts,

1247
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:42,520
Speaker 2: our prayers are with them. They are our unsung heroes

1248
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 2: of the day. And of course our thoughts, hearts, and

1249
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:49,960
Speaker 2: prayers are with the brave men and women serving overseas

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01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 2: and anywhere away from home this holiday season. Each and

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Speaker 2: every day, Rush Limbaugh with the real story of the

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Speaker 2: first Thanksgiving right after the news right here the Dan

1253
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:06,280
Speaker 2: o'donald Show, And a happy early Thanksgiving to all of

1254
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:09,240
Speaker 2: you from all of us here at the Dan o'donald Show.

1255
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:14,320
Speaker 2: We are thankful for each and everyone of you. One

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Speaker 2: more hour two go on this the final show before Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 2: and what has become an annual tradition. We play Rush Limbaugh,

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Speaker 2: the late, much beloved humble host who entertained and informed

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Speaker 2: us for decades his recitation of the real story of

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Speaker 2: the First Thanksgiving. I never got a chance to give

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Speaker 2: out our phone numbers. You know what it is by

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Speaker 2: heart hopefully by now four one four seven nine to

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Speaker 2: files of your kids, your grandkids singing a Christmas carol

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Speaker 2: or playing one on their musical instruments their piano, their violin,

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Speaker 2: their guitar, their ukulele.

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Speaker 2: We want them for the twenty twenty five Dan O'donalds

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Speaker 2: Show Family Christmas Special. Thanksgiving weekend is a perfect time

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Speaker 2: to sit down your kids and record their magic and

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Speaker 2: then share it with the world live on the radio

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Speaker 2: on December twenty third, that is the day before Christmas Eve,

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Speaker 2: where the show will play throughout the day as well

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Speaker 2: as on Christmas Day, it will also be available as

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Speaker 2: its own standalone podcast. Here's the deal. Just send me

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Speaker 2: an email d od at iHeartMedia dot com. Include the file. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: it can be a video or an audio. It is

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Speaker 2: going to be an audio only show, however, and we

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Speaker 2: want to know your child's age, name, and where they're from.

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Speaker 2: We just need that basic biographical information. Don't worry, We're

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Speaker 2: not going to use last names where you just want

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Speaker 2: to give our listeners an idea of where it is

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Speaker 2: our talented kids come from. This is open to high

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Speaker 2: school seniors on down. If the kid can talk, put

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Speaker 2: a microphone in front of them, record them singing their

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Speaker 2: best version of a Christmas carol. Also, we do ask

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Speaker 2: that performances are about two minutes or shorter, as we

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Speaker 2: want to get as many kids as possible. However, we

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Speaker 2: can only accept the first fifty five zero entries, and

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Speaker 2: we've already got quite a few folks. We can only

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Speaker 2: guarantee the first fifty are going to make the show,

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Speaker 2: and there is a hard deadline of Friday, December twelfth,

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Speaker 2: that's coming up.

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Speaker 2: So your kids or your grandkids can take part in

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five Dan o'donald's show Family Christmas Special.

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Speaker 2: It is always one of the most magical shows we do.

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Speaker 2: Oh also the day before that, December twenty second, Get

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Speaker 2: your questions ready. It is one of the most popular

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Speaker 2: shows we do. It's become a Christmas tradition. Ask Dan anything.

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Speaker 2: We literally just clear out the phone lines and if

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Speaker 2: there are if there's big news, we will obviously be

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Speaker 2: covering that same thing with the Christmas Special, but we

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Speaker 2: will actually be taking your calls, your questions, no question

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Speaker 2: well within reason, all right, you pervs. There are obviously

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Speaker 2: some questions that I'm not going to answer, no matter

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Speaker 2: how nicely you ask them. We always have a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun with this show, always have a lot of

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Speaker 2: fun with it. I just I love interacting with you

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Speaker 2: are listeners. Now, what has become an annual tradition here

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Speaker 2: on the Dan o'donald Show has been Rush Limbaugh's recitation

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Speaker 2: of the real story of the First Thanksgiving. I think

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Speaker 2: all of us who grew up with Rush and listened

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Speaker 2: to Rush for decades felt a profound sense of loss

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Speaker 2: when he passed away in February of twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 2: following a year long battle with lung cancer. We thought,

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Speaker 2: here at the Dan o'donald Show, what better way to

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Speaker 2: pay tribute to the man who taught us so much

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Speaker 2: than by once a year having him come alive again

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Speaker 2: by reciting the true history that you're probably not going

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Speaker 2: to hear anywhere else. It was a story that fascinated

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Speaker 2: me the first time I heard Rush tell it, and

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Speaker 2: as I've told dozens of times, fascinated my then ten

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Speaker 2: year old son when he first heard it, even asking

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Speaker 2: to stay in the car in the parking lot so

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Speaker 2: he could finish hearing what has become an annual tradition

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Speaker 2: on The Dan O'Donnell Show. Ladies and gentlemen, it is

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Speaker 2: time now for the real story of the First Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 2: presented by the late Great Rush Limbaugh.

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Speaker 18: When the Mayflower Pilgrims landed in New England in the

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Speaker 18: early seventeenth century, they established a harvest celebration that would

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Speaker 18: later become known as Thanksgiving, by sitting down with the

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Speaker 18: Native Americans gracious enough to share their land and way

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Speaker 18: of life. And we all know how that turned out.

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Speaker 18: The Pilgrims eventually killed the Indians, conquered their land and

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Speaker 18: took everything from it. That's the modern multicultural way Thanksgiving

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Speaker 18: is taught. Native Americans were here minding their own business.

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Speaker 18: The Pilgrims showed up. They were incapable, They were incompetent

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Speaker 18: of feeding themselves. They didn't have any hotels. There weren't

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Speaker 18: any houses. They couldn't have gotten by not the Indians,

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Speaker 18: and the Indians shared everything with them, and in gratitude,

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Speaker 18: the Pilgrims wiped him out. That is so far from

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Speaker 18: the truth of the story of Thanksgiving that it's more

1349
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Speaker 18: than a shame. The story of the Pilgrims begins in

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01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:29,200
Speaker 18: the early part of the seventeenth century. The Church of England,

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Speaker 18: under King James the First was persecuting anybody and everyone

1352
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:38,600
Speaker 18: who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority.

1353
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Speaker 18: Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly

1354
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Speaker 18: in freedom of worship were hunted down. They were imprisoned

1355
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Speaker 18: and sometimes executed for their beliefs.

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Speaker 7: A group of.

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Speaker 18: Separatists first fled to Holland and established a community. After

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Speaker 18: eleven years, about forty of them Green need to make

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Speaker 18: a very perilous journey to the New World across the

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Speaker 18: Atlantic Ocean, where they would certainly face hardships, but at

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Speaker 18: least they could live and worship God according to the

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Speaker 18: dictates of their own consciences. On August first, sixteen twenty,

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Speaker 18: the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of one

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Speaker 18: hundred two passengers, including forty Pilgrims, led by William Bradford.

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Speaker 18: On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract

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Speaker 18: that established just and equal laws for all members of

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Speaker 18: the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Now where

1368
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Speaker 18: did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from?

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Speaker 18: They came from the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people

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Speaker 18: completely steeped in the Bible Old Testament New Testament. The

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Speaker 18: Pilgrims were or religious, and they came here to establish

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Speaker 18: freedom of religion. They fled and crossed an entire ocean

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Speaker 18: to escape religious persecution. They looked at the ancient Israelites

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Speaker 18: for their example, and because of the biblical precedence set

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Speaker 18: forth in scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.

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Speaker 18: But it was not a pleasure cruise. The journey to

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Speaker 18: the New World was long and arduous. When the Pilgrims

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Speaker 18: landed in New England in November. They found, according to

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Speaker 18: William Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness.

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Speaker 7: There were no friends to greet them, he wrote.

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Speaker 18: There were no houses to shelter them, there were no

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Speaker 18: inns where they could refresh themselves, and the sacrifice they

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Speaker 18: had made for freedom was just beginning.

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Speaker 7: During the first winter, half the pilgrims, including William.

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Speaker 18: Bradford's on wife, died of either starvation, sickness, or exposure.

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Speaker 18: Many of them lived on the mayflower for months while

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Speaker 18: houses and other shelters are being built. When spring finally came,

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Speaker 18: Indians indeed taught the settlers how to plant corn, how

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Speaker 18: to fish for cod, how to skin beavers for coats,

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Speaker 18: and life improved with the coming of spring for the pilgrims.

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Speaker 7: But even with all this, they did not yet prosper.

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Speaker 18: Now this is important to understand because this is where

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Speaker 18: modern American history lessons often end. Thanksgiving is actually explained

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Speaker 18: in some textbooks as a holiday for which the pilgrims

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Speaker 18: gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather

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Speaker 18: than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the Bible.

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Speaker 18: The original thanksgiving was a thanks to God. It was

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Speaker 18: not a thanks to the Indians. This is not to

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Speaker 18: disparage the Indians and the Native Americans. The Pilgrims did not,

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Speaker 18: but it was not a thanks to the to the

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Speaker 18: enders for saving the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims thanked God. But

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01:26:15,080 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 18: it's more detailed than this. Here's the part that's been omitted.

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Speaker 18: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their

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01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:27,799
Speaker 18: merchant sponsors in London.

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Speaker 19: They didn't have the money to do this. They were

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Speaker 19: beholden the people who funded them, and they entered into

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Speaker 19: contracts with these merchant sponsors. They called for everything that

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Speaker 19: they produced to go into a common store, and each

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Speaker 19: member of the community was entitled to one common share.

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Speaker 7: All of the land they cleared and all of.

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Speaker 18: The houses they built belonged to the community as well.

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Speaker 18: They were going to distribute it equally. Everybody was going

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Speaker 18: to get an equal share of whatever everybody combined produced.

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Speaker 18: All of the land they cleared and the houses they

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Speaker 18: built belonged to the community, not to any individual. Nobody

1416
01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 18: owned anything, They just had a share in it. It

1417
01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:16,280
Speaker 18: was a commune, folks, and it was this way, by contract,

1418
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:21,680
Speaker 18: by design. It was the forerunner to communes we saw

1419
01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:24,400
Speaker 18: in the sixties and seventies in California. It was complete

1420
01:27:24,400 --> 01:27:27,760
Speaker 18: with organic vegetables. By the way, they could grow no

1421
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 18: other than organic. William Bradford, who had become a new

1422
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Speaker 18: governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism

1423
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:40,479
Speaker 18: was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that

1424
01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:44,000
Speaker 18: first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. It

1425
01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:49,000
Speaker 18: just wasn't working. There wasn't any prosperity. William Bradford, his

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01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 18: own journal, decided to take bald action. Bradford assigned a

1427
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:57,320
Speaker 18: plot of land to each family to work and manage. Now,

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01:27:57,360 --> 01:28:02,840
Speaker 18: whatever they produced was theirs. In the overages, they could

1429
01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:06,320
Speaker 18: sell or share or do whatever they wanted with. But

1430
01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:11,599
Speaker 18: what happened, essentially was that Bradford turned loose the power

1431
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:12,440
Speaker 18: of the marketplace.

1432
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Speaker 7: If you're saying it to yourself, you're right.

1433
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Speaker 18: The Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only

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01:28:21,720 --> 01:28:24,879
Speaker 18: be described as socialism, and it failed.

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Speaker 7: It did not work.

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Speaker 18: What Bradford and his community found was that the most

1437
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Speaker 18: creative and industrious people had no one sentive to work

1438
01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:40,519
Speaker 18: any harder than anybody else, unless they could utilize the

1439
01:28:40,560 --> 01:28:43,640
Speaker 18: power of personal motivation. If everybody got the same, no

1440
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:46,040
Speaker 18: matter what the end result was, and if everybody got

1441
01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 18: the same no matter how hard they worked, they were

1442
01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:54,000
Speaker 18: all essentially members of a union and all socialized. Now,

1443
01:28:54,040 --> 01:28:56,000
Speaker 18: most of the rest of the world's been experimenting with

1444
01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:58,599
Speaker 18: socialism for well over one hundred years, trying to refine

1445
01:28:58,600 --> 01:29:03,679
Speaker 18: it perfect it reinvented. The Pilgrims decided early on. Didn't

1446
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:05,720
Speaker 18: take long for them to realize it doesn't work, and

1447
01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:07,040
Speaker 18: they scrapped it permanently.

1448
01:29:07,479 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 7: You're not taught this.

1449
01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:09,719
Speaker 1: Nobody has taught this.

1450
01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:13,560
Speaker 18: Even today in the True Story of Thanksgiving. It was

1451
01:29:13,600 --> 01:29:19,760
Speaker 18: an epic failure of socialism. What Bradford wrote about this

1452
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:25,680
Speaker 18: experiment should be in every school child's history lesson. If

1453
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:29,719
Speaker 18: it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future.

1454
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 18: Remember this book is written twenty one years ago, or

1455
01:29:35,720 --> 01:29:37,000
Speaker 18: maybe nineteen years ago.

1456
01:29:37,160 --> 01:29:38,160
Speaker 7: This nineteen ninety two.

1457
01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:42,559
Speaker 18: The experience we had, this is Bradford writing, the experience

1458
01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:45,240
Speaker 18: that we had in this common course and condition tried

1459
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:49,440
Speaker 18: sundry years that by taking away property and bringing community

1460
01:29:49,479 --> 01:29:52,080
Speaker 18: into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing, as

1461
01:29:52,120 --> 01:29:57,440
Speaker 18: if they were wiser than God. Bradford wrote, But this community,

1462
01:29:57,479 --> 01:30:00,720
Speaker 18: so far as it was, was found to breed much confusion, discontent,

1463
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 18: and retard much employment that would have been to their

1464
01:30:04,439 --> 01:30:07,799
Speaker 18: benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able

1465
01:30:07,800 --> 01:30:11,280
Speaker 18: and fit for labor and service, repined that they should

1466
01:30:11,280 --> 01:30:13,599
Speaker 18: spend their lives and strength and work for other men's

1467
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:16,880
Speaker 18: wives and children without being paid for it, without any recompense.

1468
01:30:18,240 --> 01:30:20,800
Speaker 18: That was thought to be injustice. Why should you work

1469
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:23,439
Speaker 18: for other people when you can't work for yourself? What's

1470
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:28,360
Speaker 18: the point Bradford was saying, it's not working here. There's

1471
01:30:28,400 --> 01:30:32,519
Speaker 18: no personal incentive, and there were slots. Not all these

1472
01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:34,720
Speaker 18: people were a creaming the crops. Some of them set around,

1473
01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 18: didn't do anything well, others did everything. The Pilgrims found,

1474
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:41,840
Speaker 18: folks that people could not be expected to do their

1475
01:30:41,880 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 18: best work without incentive.

1476
01:30:44,200 --> 01:30:45,360
Speaker 1: So what they try next?

1477
01:30:47,920 --> 01:30:48,679
Speaker 7: Free enterprise.

1478
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:53,840
Speaker 18: William Bradford and the Pilgrims unharness unharnessed the power of

1479
01:30:53,880 --> 01:31:00,320
Speaker 18: good old free enterprise by invoking the principle of private property.

1480
01:31:00,400 --> 01:31:03,280
Speaker 18: Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work,

1481
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:08,760
Speaker 18: and they were permitted to market its own products, crops sell,

1482
01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:13,880
Speaker 18: whatever overages they had. What was the result. Well, here's

1483
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:16,679
Speaker 18: what William Bradford wrote is in his journal. This had

1484
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:21,320
Speaker 18: very good success, for it made all hands industrious, so

1485
01:31:21,439 --> 01:31:24,320
Speaker 18: as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.

1486
01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:34,120
Speaker 18: It's an amazing story of what happened. In no time,

1487
01:31:35,320 --> 01:31:38,599
Speaker 18: the pilgrims found they had more food than they could

1488
01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:44,560
Speaker 18: eat themselves. Now this is where it gets really good, folks,

1489
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:48,360
Speaker 18: if you're laboring under the misconception that I was that

1490
01:31:48,439 --> 01:31:51,759
Speaker 18: I was taught to school. So they set up trading posts,

1491
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:55,200
Speaker 18: they exchanged goods with the Indians. They produced more than

1492
01:31:55,320 --> 01:32:01,400
Speaker 18: they needed for themselves. They started doing business with the Indians.

1493
01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:08,160
Speaker 18: They exchanged goods. The prophets allowed them to pay off

1494
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:12,599
Speaker 18: their debts to the merchant sponsors in London and Holland.

1495
01:32:13,640 --> 01:32:17,440
Speaker 18: And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted

1496
01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 18: more Europeans and began what came to be known as

1497
01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:26,599
Speaker 18: the Great Puritan Migration. It was a rousing economic success

1498
01:32:26,680 --> 01:32:31,520
Speaker 18: after an attempt to establish themselves under socialism.

1499
01:32:31,560 --> 01:32:32,679
Speaker 7: It was not the name they knew.

1500
01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:38,920
Speaker 18: They used commune communal so forth, but it did not work,

1501
01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:41,960
Speaker 18: and they had such great success that it began a

1502
01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:44,800
Speaker 18: migration of others who heard about it and wanted in

1503
01:32:45,040 --> 01:32:49,280
Speaker 18: on the action. And the First Thanksgiving was the Pilgrims

1504
01:32:49,360 --> 01:32:53,360
Speaker 18: indeed getting together with the Indians with whom they were trading.

1505
01:32:54,200 --> 01:32:56,839
Speaker 18: There's no question the Indians assisted them when they landed,

1506
01:32:57,880 --> 01:33:00,000
Speaker 18: but it's not true that the Pilgrims and took advantage.

1507
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:04,759
Speaker 7: Jem conquered them, killed them, and took their land.

1508
01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:07,360
Speaker 18: They ended up trading with all of this, And this

1509
01:33:07,479 --> 01:33:11,000
Speaker 18: whole story is written about in a way that eight

1510
01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:13,360
Speaker 18: to ten year olds understand it and are taken right

1511
01:33:13,439 --> 01:33:15,800
Speaker 18: to it in the first Rush Revere book, Russia The

1512
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:17,320
Speaker 18: Brave Pilgrims.

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Speaker 7: I was never taught this.

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01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:23,479
Speaker 18: I didn't until I started researching that book back in

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01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:26,040
Speaker 18: nineteen ninety two. That was the first I had heard

1516
01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:29,799
Speaker 18: of why the Pilgrims are really thankful.

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01:33:29,920 --> 01:33:34,960
Speaker 7: It was thanks to God. It was the virtue of gratitude.

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01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:41,080
Speaker 2: That of course, the late legendary Rush Limbaugh reciting the

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01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 2: real story of the First Thanksgiving. We react and get

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01:33:46,280 --> 01:33:48,640
Speaker 2: to some of your reactions coming up next here on

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01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:58,120
Speaker 2: the Dan o'donald's show. Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show.

1522
01:33:59,160 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 2: And happy thanks to everybody from all of us here

1523
01:34:03,240 --> 01:34:08,760
Speaker 2: who hope you have a safe and wonderful extended holiday weekend.

1524
01:34:08,880 --> 01:34:12,280
Speaker 2: We go out to the phones and talk with Ian.

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01:34:12,520 --> 01:34:16,880
Speaker 2: Ian is calling from Troy Center. Ian, I've got to

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01:34:16,880 --> 01:34:19,960
Speaker 2: plead ignorance on this one. Where is Troy Center.

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01:34:21,320 --> 01:34:25,400
Speaker 14: Just inside of Walworth County, just the south of Waukesha

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01:34:25,520 --> 01:34:26,200
Speaker 14: County lines.

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01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:30,160
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, I was going to say, I'm taking

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01:34:30,160 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 2: a wild guest. It's somewhere near East Troy, but that's

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01:34:33,520 --> 01:34:36,920
Speaker 2: just me. Thank you so much for calling, and you'll

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01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:39,800
Speaker 2: miss it. Okay, I'm going to say, is it an

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01:34:39,840 --> 01:34:43,320
Speaker 2: unincorporated area? That sounds kind of like it. All right,

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01:34:43,680 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 2: welcome to the show. Happy Thanksgiving to you, sir.

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01:34:46,960 --> 01:34:49,200
Speaker 14: Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Dan, Thank you very much

1536
01:34:49,240 --> 01:34:51,920
Speaker 14: for taking my call. I just wanted to say thank

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01:34:51,960 --> 01:34:55,160
Speaker 14: you for playing that that that that that bit. And

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01:34:55,160 --> 01:34:58,160
Speaker 14: I don't mean to call it a bit, but from Rushlembo, I,

1539
01:34:58,479 --> 01:35:00,559
Speaker 14: you and I are similar in age, and I listen

1540
01:35:00,560 --> 01:35:06,280
Speaker 14: to your show every day, and uh, it's it's growing up.

1541
01:35:06,320 --> 01:35:08,599
Speaker 14: I listened to rustling About with my dad and with

1542
01:35:08,600 --> 01:35:13,080
Speaker 14: my grandpa growing up, and it was just it's just

1543
01:35:13,200 --> 01:35:17,040
Speaker 14: nice to hear those kinds of you know, true history

1544
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:20,920
Speaker 14: and fundamentals, especially at this time of year, of just

1545
01:35:21,240 --> 01:35:24,599
Speaker 14: you know, how people were able to come together and

1546
01:35:24,600 --> 01:35:27,639
Speaker 14: and do you know the right thing for each other

1547
01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:32,640
Speaker 14: and and buy each other. And I just it was

1548
01:35:32,720 --> 01:35:34,680
Speaker 14: just it was just a nice little kind of walk

1549
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:38,639
Speaker 14: down Memorial Lane via the radio. And I just wanted

1550
01:35:38,680 --> 01:35:42,080
Speaker 14: to say Happy Thanksgiving to everybody that's that's listening.

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01:35:42,280 --> 01:35:45,519
Speaker 2: That's it, well, Ian, Happy Thanksgiving to you too, sir.

1552
01:35:45,640 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 2: The pleasure is all mine. And that's exactly why we

1553
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:52,800
Speaker 2: play this each and every year. Uh, it's it's to

1554
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:55,599
Speaker 2: walk down Memory Lane together. And also there is a

1555
01:35:55,720 --> 01:35:59,599
Speaker 2: very valuable lesson here, perhaps maybe this year more so

1556
01:35:59,760 --> 01:36:02,920
Speaker 2: than other years, as New York City is on the

1557
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:08,400
Speaker 2: verge of swearing in a true socialist mayor, it's second

1558
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:11,160
Speaker 2: in three mayors is going to be an out and

1559
01:36:11,240 --> 01:36:15,280
Speaker 2: out socialist. This one is an actual communist in Zohn Momdani,

1560
01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:20,000
Speaker 2: and he won overwhelmingly earlier this month. It seems as

1561
01:36:20,040 --> 01:36:25,840
Speaker 2: though not enough people, and certainly not enough leftists, understood

1562
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:28,920
Speaker 2: the real lesson there. Let's go to Jerry and Walkeshaw

1563
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:30,800
Speaker 2: up next on The Dan O'Donnell Show.

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01:36:30,840 --> 01:36:32,320
Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving to you, Jerry.

1565
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:40,360
Speaker 20: This is actually Luke Drury, last Drury, Luke mister Drury

1566
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:41,160
Speaker 20: or Jerry.

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01:36:41,479 --> 01:36:43,000
Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving to you too.

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01:36:44,479 --> 01:36:47,439
Speaker 20: Yeah, so I'm really thankful if you guys playing the

1569
01:36:47,520 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 20: Rush the Rush program for Thanksgiving. I actually started last

1570
01:36:52,640 --> 01:36:56,160
Speaker 20: night for my kids for bad and they're all sitting

1571
01:36:56,160 --> 01:36:58,400
Speaker 20: there just listening to and I had to step away

1572
01:36:58,400 --> 01:36:59,760
Speaker 20: to let him actually wind down a.

1573
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:00,360
Speaker 9: Little little bit.

1574
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:03,920
Speaker 20: And where it cut off when I got in my

1575
01:37:04,040 --> 01:37:07,920
Speaker 20: truck today after work, turned on the show and it

1576
01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:12,040
Speaker 20: was at the exact point where Rush had left off

1577
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:15,639
Speaker 20: with my kids last night. So I got to finish

1578
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:18,280
Speaker 20: the rest of the story. So I'm really thankful for that,

1579
01:37:18,360 --> 01:37:21,200
Speaker 20: and I appreciate all that you guys do. It's it's great.

1580
01:37:21,200 --> 01:37:23,320
Speaker 20: I listen to you guys every day and have since

1581
01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:26,200
Speaker 20: I moved to Wisconsin about eleven years ago.

1582
01:37:26,439 --> 01:37:28,200
Speaker 9: So well, that's fantastic.

1583
01:37:28,479 --> 01:37:28,839
Speaker 1: Jerry.

1584
01:37:28,920 --> 01:37:33,479
Speaker 2: We really appreciate you. I'm kidding, Luke, we appreciate you.

1585
01:37:34,080 --> 01:37:37,080
Speaker 2: Happy Thanksgiving to you and your cause. Just out of curiosity,

1586
01:37:37,080 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 2: how old are they?

1587
01:37:39,840 --> 01:37:43,800
Speaker 20: My oldest is nine, my youngest just turned one.

1588
01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:45,519
Speaker 9: I have six kids.

1589
01:37:45,640 --> 01:37:48,919
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, you wit wait wait, yep, your oldest

1590
01:37:49,040 --> 01:37:53,960
Speaker 2: is nine, your youngest is one, and you've got skinned

1591
01:37:54,040 --> 01:37:54,799
Speaker 2: between there.

1592
01:37:55,760 --> 01:37:56,040
Speaker 9: Six.

1593
01:37:56,120 --> 01:38:00,479
Speaker 20: We're about eighteen months month average kids, and we might

1594
01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:03,519
Speaker 20: get another one out another eight every eighteen months, trying

1595
01:38:03,560 --> 01:38:07,599
Speaker 20: to repopulate the earth and get a lot of good,

1596
01:38:08,520 --> 01:38:13,040
Speaker 20: valued kids out there that can help move us forward.

1597
01:38:13,160 --> 01:38:19,040
Speaker 2: So, hey, Luke, you you are doing literally the lord's work, sir.

1598
01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 2: I mean, she's doing most of the heavy lifting. You

1599
01:38:22,640 --> 01:38:25,719
Speaker 2: get to do the fun part if you catch my drift.

1600
01:38:25,800 --> 01:38:32,400
Speaker 2: But uh, you hope one producer producer Eric says, he hopes, Luke,

1601
01:38:32,439 --> 01:38:36,040
Speaker 2: one of your kids is named Jerry now. But we

1602
01:38:36,040 --> 01:38:40,280
Speaker 2: we really do appreciate each and every one of the

1603
01:38:40,640 --> 01:38:46,120
Speaker 2: Dreary kids for being I guess we had rush babies,

1604
01:38:46,160 --> 01:38:47,120
Speaker 2: we had belling babies.

1605
01:38:47,320 --> 01:38:49,080
Speaker 1: Would they be dan babies?

1606
01:38:50,080 --> 01:38:50,320
Speaker 7: Hey?

1607
01:38:50,439 --> 01:38:50,800
Speaker 1: Why not?

1608
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:51,080
Speaker 18: You know?

1609
01:38:51,320 --> 01:38:53,479
Speaker 2: And and and that's the thing that's that's a big

1610
01:38:53,520 --> 01:38:56,439
Speaker 2: reason why we do this every year. And and that's

1611
01:38:56,439 --> 01:38:59,719
Speaker 2: a reason we started the tradition of playing the second

1612
01:38:59,800 --> 01:39:03,519
Speaker 2: week of deer Camp at the end of our Friday

1613
01:39:03,600 --> 01:39:06,240
Speaker 2: before the start of the gun deer season here in

1614
01:39:06,240 --> 01:39:09,400
Speaker 2: Wisconsin as sort of a tribute to Mark Belling, because

1615
01:39:09,400 --> 01:39:14,360
Speaker 2: we understand that this is we're upholding a legacy here.

1616
01:39:14,680 --> 01:39:19,040
Speaker 2: It was an entire industry started by one man, Rush

1617
01:39:19,080 --> 01:39:23,040
Speaker 2: Limbaugh at the national level, and Belling really, in a

1618
01:39:23,120 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 2: very real sense, proved that that model of having an unabashed,

1619
01:39:28,840 --> 01:39:33,320
Speaker 2: very well informed, very entertaining conservative on the radio would

1620
01:39:33,400 --> 01:39:37,440
Speaker 2: work if you had somebody who is just a talented

1621
01:39:37,479 --> 01:39:42,320
Speaker 2: broadcaster and you had him say he was saying the

1622
01:39:42,360 --> 01:39:45,800
Speaker 2: things he believed, the things that millions of Americans and

1623
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:52,160
Speaker 2: thousands of Milwaukeeans and Wisconsinites believed, that it would revolutionize

1624
01:39:52,200 --> 01:39:56,080
Speaker 2: the radio game. And I understand very acutely the legacy

1625
01:39:56,160 --> 01:39:59,599
Speaker 2: that I'm upholding here, and I'm very very thankful this

1626
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:03,400
Speaker 2: thanks Giving to be a part of it. You know

1627
01:40:03,439 --> 01:40:08,040
Speaker 2: what else, I'm thankful for the fact that Democrats constantly

1628
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:13,800
Speaker 2: believe their readers, their followers, their voters to be complete

1629
01:40:13,840 --> 01:40:19,320
Speaker 2: morons who can't possibly survive an argument with their MAGA

1630
01:40:19,439 --> 01:40:26,240
Speaker 2: supporting uncle. At Thanksgiving, the Wisconsin Democrat Senate Committee gets

1631
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:29,439
Speaker 2: in on the act of providing a step by step

1632
01:40:29,479 --> 01:40:34,120
Speaker 2: guide on how to argue with your relatives. This Thanksgiving,

1633
01:40:34,160 --> 01:40:37,600
Speaker 2: we get to that and more, including a truly hilarious

1634
01:40:37,640 --> 01:40:42,040
Speaker 2: almost self parody. USA Today columnists stay tuned We're coming

1635
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:43,280
Speaker 2: right back in just a second.

1636
01:40:44,640 --> 01:40:47,800
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Dan O'Donell Show.

1637
01:40:47,840 --> 01:40:54,519
Speaker 2: It is classical conservatism and contemporary style. We of course

1638
01:40:55,560 --> 01:41:01,240
Speaker 2: think the world of you. Our listeners understand that you

1639
01:41:01,320 --> 01:41:07,240
Speaker 2: are intelligent. We understand that you truly get the issues

1640
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:11,400
Speaker 2: that face this state and face this country. And other words,

1641
01:41:12,360 --> 01:41:17,360
Speaker 2: we think the exact opposite of you that Democrats apparently

1642
01:41:17,479 --> 01:41:23,320
Speaker 2: think of their supporters and their voters. Why else would

1643
01:41:23,400 --> 01:41:26,720
Speaker 2: they constantly and I mean every year. I have been

1644
01:41:26,880 --> 01:41:31,040
Speaker 2: doing this radio show for almost a decade, ladies and gentlemen.

1645
01:41:31,160 --> 01:41:35,519
Speaker 2: Before that, I was filling in for other radio shows,

1646
01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:41,560
Speaker 2: and I noticed something that every year, right before Thanksgiving,

1647
01:41:41,720 --> 01:41:46,120
Speaker 2: we would get a barrage of pretty much the exact

1648
01:41:46,120 --> 01:41:50,000
Speaker 2: same story in liberal media outlets, and that was how

1649
01:41:50,040 --> 01:41:55,320
Speaker 2: to talk to your conservative uncle about X. I first

1650
01:41:55,360 --> 01:42:01,280
Speaker 2: noticed this when the issue du jour was Obamacare. Every

1651
01:42:01,439 --> 01:42:05,160
Speaker 2: single year I look for stories like these and I

1652
01:42:05,200 --> 01:42:10,639
Speaker 2: am not disappointed. Well, would you believe that the State

1653
01:42:11,040 --> 01:42:15,760
Speaker 2: Senate Democratic Committee is getting in on the act with

1654
01:42:16,040 --> 01:42:25,040
Speaker 2: its own Thanksgiving dinner talking points on healthcare, on affordability,

1655
01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:29,280
Speaker 2: on veterans, and on the State Senate majority. They right

1656
01:42:29,560 --> 01:42:31,920
Speaker 2: before you head to the dining room table. We want

1657
01:42:31,960 --> 01:42:35,960
Speaker 2: to make sure you have all the facts about GOP nonsense.

1658
01:42:36,000 --> 01:42:40,440
Speaker 2: We present to you the twenty twenty five Thanksgiving talking points.

1659
01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:45,679
Speaker 2: Here's one in particular that struck me. Republicans from DC

1660
01:42:45,840 --> 01:42:49,799
Speaker 2: to Madison are only making matters worse by actively fighting

1661
01:42:49,800 --> 01:42:53,080
Speaker 2: to raise healthcare costs and acting tariffs that are ricking

1662
01:42:53,160 --> 01:42:56,880
Speaker 2: havoc on our local economies and turning their backs on

1663
01:42:57,040 --> 01:43:01,800
Speaker 2: hard working Americans. Enough is enough, ladies and gentlemen. Who

1664
01:43:01,840 --> 01:43:09,679
Speaker 2: is primarily responsible for inflation high prices? Trump's tariffs are

1665
01:43:09,880 --> 01:43:17,240
Speaker 2: probably responsible for maybe half a percent. Maybe Biden's inflation

1666
01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:23,880
Speaker 2: reduction and American Rescue Plan acts themselves are responsible for

1667
01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:28,600
Speaker 2: roughly four percent year over year inflation. In fact, we

1668
01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:32,519
Speaker 2: spiked at nine point two percent year over year. The

1669
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:37,240
Speaker 2: overwhelming majority of price hikes that we are experiencing now

1670
01:43:37,640 --> 01:43:43,200
Speaker 2: were under Biden. But the Democrats want you to know

1671
01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:46,240
Speaker 2: that they have your back with the talking point. Use

1672
01:43:46,320 --> 01:43:48,840
Speaker 2: this they right, just in case your uncle tries to

1673
01:43:48,880 --> 01:43:51,880
Speaker 2: tell you that the Wisconsin GOP is not anti choice,

1674
01:43:52,360 --> 01:43:55,879
Speaker 2: or your aunt tries to say Republicans are protecting our veterans.

1675
01:43:56,240 --> 01:43:59,559
Speaker 2: We want you to have the facts right. We actually

1676
01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:03,800
Speaker 2: have a pickure of that because it is so freaking hilarious.

1677
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:07,559
Speaker 2: Up on social media at Dan O'Donnell's show on X

1678
01:44:07,640 --> 01:44:12,040
Speaker 2: on Facebook, on Instagram as well, we also found quite

1679
01:44:12,120 --> 01:44:17,439
Speaker 2: possibly the single best example of how to talk to

1680
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:21,680
Speaker 2: your MAGO relatives journalism this year now, a lot of

1681
01:44:21,720 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 2: the commentary is how to avoid.

1682
01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:27,280
Speaker 21: Politics at the Thanksgiving table. We just want everybody to

1683
01:44:27,320 --> 01:44:32,640
Speaker 21: get along, how to avoid talking about uncomfortable subjects. Not

1684
01:44:32,960 --> 01:44:36,320
Speaker 21: Rex Hookkey of USA Today.

1685
01:44:37,479 --> 01:44:41,960
Speaker 2: He puts this out, ask MAGA Thanksgiving guests this, how

1686
01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:45,960
Speaker 2: is your life better? I get the desire to set

1687
01:44:45,960 --> 01:44:49,479
Speaker 2: disagreements aside for the holidays. I understand the importance of family,

1688
01:44:49,479 --> 01:44:52,160
Speaker 2: but at this moment, I reject avoiding a subject that

1689
01:44:52,280 --> 01:44:55,080
Speaker 2: envelops virtually every aspect.

1690
01:44:54,720 --> 01:44:55,799
Speaker 1: Of our lives.

1691
01:44:56,040 --> 01:45:01,240
Speaker 2: No, it envelops your life if you are, like Rex Hupkey,

1692
01:45:01,439 --> 01:45:07,240
Speaker 2: insanely obsessed with politics. Here's what he writes, with Thanksgiving,

1693
01:45:07,280 --> 01:45:09,559
Speaker 2: we have reached the season of oh, we just don't

1694
01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:12,920
Speaker 2: talk about politics. For many, that's the best or only

1695
01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:16,040
Speaker 2: way to deal with relatives who still support President Donald

1696
01:45:16,040 --> 01:45:20,519
Speaker 2: Trump and his increasingly unpopular MAGA movement. I understand the

1697
01:45:20,560 --> 01:45:23,919
Speaker 2: desire to set disagreements aside for the holidays. I understand

1698
01:45:23,920 --> 01:45:26,519
Speaker 2: the importance of family, but at this moment in history,

1699
01:45:27,040 --> 01:45:30,559
Speaker 2: I wholly reject avoiding a subject that, thanks to Trump's

1700
01:45:30,560 --> 01:45:36,720
Speaker 2: extremism and unquenchable thirst for attention, envelops virtually every aspect

1701
01:45:36,800 --> 01:45:40,800
Speaker 2: of our lives. Not talking politics with your maga relatives

1702
01:45:40,840 --> 01:45:43,800
Speaker 2: is letting them off the hook. When a president is

1703
01:45:43,920 --> 01:45:48,919
Speaker 2: routinely bombing boats in international waters, ordering massed federal agents

1704
01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:54,360
Speaker 2: to round up hard working immigrant families, and sidestepping Congress

1705
01:45:54,400 --> 01:45:58,640
Speaker 2: while slapping tariffs on countries willy nilly, those who disagree

1706
01:45:58,680 --> 01:46:02,960
Speaker 2: with such things have our responsibility to speak up. Staying

1707
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:06,400
Speaker 2: quiet in the interest of feigned komittee over a meal

1708
01:46:06,840 --> 01:46:11,960
Speaker 2: under the present circumstances seems an unreasonable luxury. Yes, Rex

1709
01:46:12,040 --> 01:46:16,280
Speaker 2: Hukky really is that insane. Now one of the guys

1710
01:46:16,320 --> 01:46:21,240
Speaker 2: who is actually responsible for the very first iteration of

1711
01:46:21,280 --> 01:46:24,960
Speaker 2: the how to talk to Your Republican Uncle at Thanksgiving

1712
01:46:27,760 --> 01:46:33,799
Speaker 2: genre of journalism. Dan Pfeiffer over at the White House.

1713
01:46:33,960 --> 01:46:36,640
Speaker 2: He was when of President Obama's speech writers. He's now

1714
01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:40,040
Speaker 2: one of the co hosts of Podsave America. He has

1715
01:46:40,080 --> 01:46:43,479
Speaker 2: his own sub stack, which basically if you can't make

1716
01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:47,439
Speaker 2: it in journalism or you get fired, you either start

1717
01:46:47,479 --> 01:46:51,080
Speaker 2: a podcast like Don Lemon, or you start a substack

1718
01:46:51,600 --> 01:46:54,880
Speaker 2: if you are both ugly and have a terrible voice

1719
01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:58,760
Speaker 2: like I guess I would have said Brian Stelter, but

1720
01:46:58,800 --> 01:47:00,600
Speaker 2: they got him back on C and then now he

1721
01:47:00,640 --> 01:47:04,880
Speaker 2: had his own substack for a while. Pfeifer rights how

1722
01:47:04,920 --> 01:47:08,759
Speaker 2: to handle your maga uncle at Thanksgiving without ruining dinner.

1723
01:47:09,400 --> 01:47:12,519
Speaker 2: It's Thanksgiving, the Great American holiday where families gather to

1724
01:47:12,520 --> 01:47:15,639
Speaker 2: eat turkey, watch football, and give thanks And since Trump

1725
01:47:15,800 --> 01:47:18,880
Speaker 2: rode down that escalator a decade ago, Thanksgiving has also

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Speaker 2: become a holiday filled with awkward political conversations. Over the years,

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01:47:23,400 --> 01:47:26,960
Speaker 2: Podsave America listeners and message box readers have asked me

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01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:30,160
Speaker 2: for talking points or guidance on how to win an

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01:47:30,240 --> 01:47:33,799
Speaker 2: argument with the maga relatives seated next to them. My god,

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01:47:34,200 --> 01:47:38,040
Speaker 2: they really are this pathetic, ladies and gentlemen. I've generally

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01:47:38,120 --> 01:47:41,400
Speaker 2: resisted this request because my primary piece of advice is

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01:47:41,680 --> 01:47:44,920
Speaker 2: you don't have to talk to talk about politics at Thanksgiving.

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01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:48,519
Speaker 2: There is no obligation to ruin the holiday by getting

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01:47:48,520 --> 01:47:50,840
Speaker 2: into a big argument with someone who is unlikely to

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01:47:50,960 --> 01:47:54,920
Speaker 2: change their mind, no matter how persuasive you are. Okay,

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01:47:54,960 --> 01:47:57,920
Speaker 2: if they're begging Dan Pfeiffer for talking points, I'm going

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01:47:57,960 --> 01:47:59,240
Speaker 2: to go out on a limb and say they're not

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01:47:59,439 --> 01:48:03,120
Speaker 2: very persue at all. Partisanship is a powerful drug, and

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01:48:03,160 --> 01:48:06,040
Speaker 2: one of its side effects is motivated reasoning. There is

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01:48:06,080 --> 01:48:08,400
Speaker 2: no set of facts or talking points that will move

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01:48:08,439 --> 01:48:10,479
Speaker 2: your uncle or cousin who showed up in a Trump

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01:48:10,520 --> 01:48:14,080
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight hat, or let's go Brandon's shirt. It's

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01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:18,000
Speaker 2: not worth spiking your blood pressure or ruining everyone's meal.

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01:48:18,400 --> 01:48:20,400
Speaker 2: But as many of you have pointed out over the years,

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01:48:20,439 --> 01:48:23,240
Speaker 2: sometimes you don't have a choice. The conversation comes whether

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01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:25,479
Speaker 2: you like it or not. So here are some basic

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01:48:25,600 --> 01:48:28,080
Speaker 2: messages and facts to push back on the talking points

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01:48:28,080 --> 01:48:31,559
Speaker 2: you may hear at Thanksgiving or anywhere else. And ladies

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01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:34,120
Speaker 2: and gentlemen, I can tell you that it took me

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01:48:34,160 --> 01:48:37,759
Speaker 2: a grand total of about forty five seconds to read

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01:48:37,920 --> 01:48:43,280
Speaker 2: through and pick apart every single talking point. Unfortunately we

1752
01:48:43,360 --> 01:48:46,920
Speaker 2: do not have the time to do so here, but

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01:48:47,000 --> 01:48:50,639
Speaker 2: suffice it to say, if you're turning to a White

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01:48:50,680 --> 01:48:56,320
Speaker 2: House Obama flunky for your talking points, or some washed

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01:48:56,479 --> 01:49:02,880
Speaker 2: up USA Today columnist, to to make trumpers stew in

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01:49:02,960 --> 01:49:06,479
Speaker 2: their own juices, then probably you're not going to win

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01:49:06,520 --> 01:49:11,360
Speaker 2: an argument with me or even your uncle Jim. After

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Speaker 2: five corps lights, you're listening to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 2: On this day before Thanksgiving, got an email here from

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01:49:24,200 --> 01:49:28,919
Speaker 2: loyal listener Jamie. Would you consider wishing my father, Connie

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01:49:29,160 --> 01:49:33,280
Speaker 2: Muth of Muskigo, a happy eighty seventh birthday. It falls

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01:49:33,280 --> 01:49:35,800
Speaker 2: on Thanksgiving this year, as it has many times during

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01:49:35,800 --> 01:49:38,120
Speaker 2: his life. My dad has been a loyal listener since

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01:49:38,160 --> 01:49:41,320
Speaker 2: you started. It's no wonder he's as sharp as attack

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01:49:41,439 --> 01:49:43,759
Speaker 2: and he's the one who told me about you. Little

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01:49:43,800 --> 01:49:46,880
Speaker 2: did I know at the time our kids would attend

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01:49:46,920 --> 01:49:50,280
Speaker 2: school together and become friends. Would it help if I

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01:49:50,400 --> 01:49:55,000
Speaker 2: shared that My mother said you were dashingly handsome when

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01:49:55,000 --> 01:49:57,080
Speaker 2: I showed her a picture of us.

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01:49:57,280 --> 01:49:57,759
Speaker 1: Lol.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for considering I know how you are. That

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01:50:00,920 --> 01:50:05,559
Speaker 2: comes from a great friend, Jamie. And yes, Connie, happy

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01:50:05,720 --> 01:50:09,519
Speaker 2: eighty seventh birthday and I am very thankful that you

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01:50:09,600 --> 01:50:12,880
Speaker 2: are a longtime listener and I wish you many many

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01:50:13,000 --> 01:50:17,760
Speaker 2: more happy birthdays. I also want to talk about my

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Speaker 2: great friends over at Built Right furniture, leather and mattresses.

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Speaker 1: I am very.

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01:50:22,640 --> 01:50:26,559
Speaker 2: Thankful to have them as an incredible sponsor of the show.

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Speaker 2: Their million dollar clearance and their Black Friday deals, well

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Speaker 2: they're going on right now. This is the best time

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Speaker 2: of the year to get an incredible deal. They've got

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Speaker 2: legitimate sale prices. They don't play that sales game where

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Speaker 2: the sale price is actually what they always sell it at. No,

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Speaker 2: when it's on sale, it is on sale, and you

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Speaker 2: can get an incredible value on just truly great furniture.

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Speaker 2: We most recently bought a big dining room table from

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Speaker 2: Built Right. I mean, my goodness, our entire house is

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Speaker 2: furnished by I Built Right. We have been loyal customers

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Speaker 2: of them. My entire extended family has been loyal customers

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Speaker 2: of them long before they were sponsors of this show,

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Speaker 2: and we just love them. They are celebrating ninety seven

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Speaker 2: years in business. They have been a family owned Wisconsin

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Speaker 2: institution since nineteen twenty eight. They are located on fifty

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Speaker 2: fourth and Layton in Greenfield, just off of.

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Speaker 1: I ninety four.

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Speaker 2: Real easy to get to and they have got holiday

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01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:35,280
Speaker 2: hours this week. As always, they are open Monday through

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Speaker 2: Saturday ten am to six pm.

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Speaker 1: That obviously is going to.

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01:51:39,520 --> 01:51:43,200
Speaker 2: Change with Thanksgiving Sunday, they are closed to be with family.

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01:51:43,240 --> 01:51:44,679
Speaker 1: It is a very cool tradition.

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01:51:44,880 --> 01:51:49,000
Speaker 2: They give all of their employees off every single Sunday

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01:51:49,040 --> 01:51:53,320
Speaker 2: to spend time with their families. And from our family

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Speaker 2: and the Built Right family, we say Happy Thanksgiving and

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01:51:57,800 --> 01:52:00,760
Speaker 2: I'm saying you gotta get to Built Right today. Tell

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Speaker 2: them Dan Senscha Built Right fifty fourth and Layton in Greenfield.

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01:52:05,680 --> 01:52:09,720
Speaker 2: We have come to about the end of the day

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01:52:09,760 --> 01:52:15,280
Speaker 2: before Thanksgiving show. Unfortunately, some tragic events got in the way.

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01:52:15,320 --> 01:52:18,120
Speaker 2: We had to cover the shooting and we are very

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01:52:18,160 --> 01:52:21,160
Speaker 2: thankful that it was not a double homicide of two

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01:52:21,240 --> 01:52:26,639
Speaker 2: National Guard soldiers in what's being described as a targeted ambush.

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01:52:26,080 --> 01:52:27,640
Speaker 1: Attack in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: So we didn't get a chance to get to a

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Speaker 2: lot of the Thanksgiving stuff. Have no fear, though, We

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01:52:33,160 --> 01:52:36,679
Speaker 2: are going to have a whole lot of Christmas themed

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01:52:37,520 --> 01:52:42,400
Speaker 2: programming once this long Thanksgiving weekend is over. Of course,

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01:52:42,479 --> 01:52:44,680
Speaker 2: Christmas bumper music and that sort of stuff, And of

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01:52:44,680 --> 01:52:47,599
Speaker 2: course we're going to be doing as we do every

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01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:51,680
Speaker 2: day every season of the year, the conservative thought and

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01:52:51,720 --> 01:52:55,360
Speaker 2: not just talk. You have come to expect on this

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Speaker 2: radio show, Ladies and gentlemen, Before we break for Thanksgiving,

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01:52:59,520 --> 01:53:02,280
Speaker 2: I want to say how thankful I am to have

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Speaker 2: each and every one of you as listeners. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you again on Monday here on the

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Speaker 2: Dan o'donald Show.