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Speaker 2: Cassie is in the house. He will join us probably

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Speaker 3: Donovan Jackson did not participate in practice today. He has

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we are. We're all very frustrated, are we not.

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Speaker 2: what we have further confirmation of is if you support me,

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Speaker 5: It's happening that what you describe is happening daily.

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Speaker 4: And here is what makes me very cynical. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 5: If you have more to read about it, that's plenty,

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Speaker 2: The is it pronounced genteel, David Genteel. The commutation Trump

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Speaker 5: And why would did the President Trump say he's pardoning

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Speaker 2: In for it.

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Speaker 5: What was about to happen in the United States, something

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Speaker 5: We don't know why is this happening. It's been escalating

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Speaker 5: He is talking about with Somali Minnesotan's, maybe we should

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Speaker 5: They will focus on two three four hundred Somalis who

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Speaker 2: of the other stories with Pat Kessler. After a very

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Speaker 2: It's the Bumper to Bumper show wrap. Kessler is in

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Speaker 2: He did confirm to me, oh that he might have

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Speaker 2: True, you have great parking. Yes, so what's freaky? Doing?

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Speaker 5: why don't you just buy some tickets? I mean that's

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm not sure you did you actually buy

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Speaker 4: Come on, coy, yeah, season ticket. Older man.

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Speaker 2: You and Michelle calm Helgan, it has it stop bad?

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Speaker 4: And and then you drive, then you drag the family

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Speaker 2: Well the subject came up again recently. I wanted to

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Speaker 3: You let Hank get a hot dog in the Norseman

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Speaker 2: Right there does Chris Maddele, who I know reasonably well,

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Speaker 5: No. I think he is a formidable candidate with a

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Speaker 5: I've already seen who is the Republican.

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Speaker 2: already dismissed Mattel. Do you know how? You know why

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Speaker 2: I've here about this? The basis was he has contributed

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Speaker 2: Do you want to have an actual chance to win?

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Speaker 5: And I think when you're in in a position like

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Speaker 5: You know who else one of my favorite people who

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Speaker 4: You know I say, don't don't dismiss that.

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Speaker 5: have been pled guilty or been convicted. I mean, at

437
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Speaker 5: some point Minnesota has to reckon with what has happened

438
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Speaker 5: over the last couple of years here and so far,

439
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Speaker 5: I don't think the Democrats have really done it.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Andy Lueger is going to be back

441
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Speaker 2: in studio with us tomorrow. The original plan was Tuesday,

442
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Speaker 2: and then I had to be reminded that Tuesdays Yesterday's

443
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Speaker 2: are to Toys for Tots Day. So Luger is going

444
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Speaker 2: to be in studio tomorrow. A lot of discussion about

445
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Speaker 2: New York questions. Yeah, yes, there's a lot to discuss

446
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Speaker 2: with them.

447
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Speaker 5: A lot well, talking about the good news is that, hey,

448
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 5: Minnesota's on the front page of the New York Times,

449
00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 5: and a lot of bad news is.

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Speaker 4: About how bad we are.

451
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Speaker 2: A lot of it has been reported locally, so this

452
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 2: was sort of the national perspective on although there were

453
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 2: some interesting quotes in there that are extremely damning. There's

454
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Speaker 2: no question about that. So we'll see exactly where that

455
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: where that goes. You know, it was within just the

456
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Speaker 2: last how many weeks ago was it that tepaw was

457
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Speaker 2: on with my former partner Hartman Chad and basically said, yeah,

458
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of you know, there are a lot

459
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Speaker 2: of Republicans. I know that they want me to run,

460
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 2: but I I'm not an idiot. I will not be

461
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Speaker 2: accepted by the current Republican Party in the state of Minnesota.

462
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Speaker 2: And as long as that's the case, I got nowhere

463
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Speaker 2: to go. And we've kind of talked about this before.

464
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Speaker 2: And look, you don't have to love Temple Lenti, you

465
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 2: know you really don't. And you could say, well, he's

466
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Speaker 2: not conservative enough for me, whatever you want to say,

467
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Speaker 2: but I'm still stunned. I guess that the political the

468
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Speaker 2: report publican political operatives in this state, just from a

469
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 2: practical standpoint, say we want to get in there or not,

470
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 2: and if we do, then he represents exactly the section

471
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Speaker 2: of the party that we need to emphasize again or

472
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Speaker 2: to reintroduce. Maybe and maybe that's incompatible with in a

473
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Speaker 2: maga world. Maybe that's the bottom line is the two

474
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,239
Speaker 2: sides won't look but cannot coexist. But he has as

475
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 2: much said, and he ain't exactly a lefty Tepau.

476
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Speaker 4: Has said absolutely not.

477
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Speaker 2: I can't. I can't win here. I can't.

478
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Speaker 4: They don't.

479
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Speaker 2: This isn't this isn't me, this isn't I'm not going

480
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 2: to do the ideological purity test that you're looking for

481
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 2: or get into some of the social issues that I

482
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 2: don't think are are worthy of our time. But that,

483
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Speaker 2: to me continues to be the essential question within this

484
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Speaker 2: state about the Republican Party. Is there anybody mature enough

485
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Speaker 2: to say I want to win and if that means

486
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Speaker 2: I have to quote unquote compromise a little of my maganus,

487
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 2: I'd rather do that. And to me, I don't know,

488
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 2: maybe Tipa wouldn't win anyway after the fact. Now maybe

489
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 2: it's too far past him, but what he represents is

490
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 2: exactly where to me the party has to go, because,

491
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Speaker 2: as you said, I think deep down there's a lot

492
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Speaker 2: of Democrats who wish that Walls was not running. That's

493
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Speaker 2: absolutely true, and there's never there's never been I think,

494
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Speaker 2: greater vulnerability for a lot of reasons. But you're back

495
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Speaker 2: to are you gonna if you can't capitalize on this now,

496
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Speaker 2: I don't know that you're ever going to have a

497
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Speaker 2: better chance.

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Speaker 5: Well, for those who don't know or have forgotten, the

499
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Speaker 5: Governor Polenti, Tim Polenti is the last Republican to win

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Speaker 5: statewide in the state of Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: How many years was that? Twenty years ago?

502
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Speaker 5: And the last state wide winner, and he states something

503
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Speaker 5: that is absolutely true that the cont the party has

504
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 5: been taken over by Trump supporters and mega but there

505
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 5: is absolute room for someone who is a moderate who

506
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 5: can and he's thread the needle very very well, supporting

507
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 5: trumps policies and gently pushing back when he had to

508
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 5: against some of the craziness coming out of Washington. Somebody

509
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 5: who can gain the moderate Republicans, a lot of the Independents,

510
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 5: and perhaps some more conservative Democrats. But the guy knows

511
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Speaker 5: how to count, he knows what's up, what the real

512
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 5: story is, So he would be somebody who would be kind.

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Speaker 4: Of interesting to run for the United States Senate.

514
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Speaker 5: I do think Republicans have some people like him, if

515
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Speaker 5: they can unchain themselves and somehow appease the right wing

516
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 5: of the party and yet appeal to the independence and

517
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 5: moderate Democrats. That's the only way you're going to win,

518
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 5: because all the Democrats, all the votes, most of the

519
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 5: votes are in Duluth, twin cities, Rochester, and that's where

520
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:56,239
Speaker 5: the votes are.

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Speaker 2: Got to get them six or five. I had a

522
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Speaker 2: bunch of attacks. I've responded to some them, but not

523
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Speaker 2: all of them, and a couple of people have acknowledged

524
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 2: my response and grudgingly agreed. If the allegation is that

525
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 2: this program, whether you're on or not, has not discussed

526
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 2: in depth, frequently defeeding our future scandal and several other

527
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 2: scandals in the state of Minnesota, to the point where

528
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Speaker 2: one of the T shirt possibilities we had for the

529
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Speaker 2: State Fair was Land of ten thousand Scandals. Yes, then

530
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Speaker 2: you're you're you're living in that that that make believe

531
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Speaker 2: world where you want to lash out and pretend that

532
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Speaker 2: that subject is being ignored. As I mentioned, Andy Lueger

533
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Speaker 2: is going to be back on it tomorrow, and he's

534
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 2: been front and center through all of this stuff. So

535
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Speaker 2: we've had plenty because the text we're getting kind of is,

536
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Speaker 2: I guess you don't want to have Kessler comment on

537
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Speaker 2: the billions of dollars a fraud committed by the Somali

538
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Speaker 2: Where have you my community as Somali community. It's rationale

539
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Speaker 2: for targeting these individuals. Now here's the problem with that.

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Speaker 2: You're not asking if you were asking that those individuals

541
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Speaker 2: responsible for crimes would be would be targeted by the

542
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Speaker 2: FEDS in this case, starting with Andy Lueger, and that

543
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 2: was a Joe Thompson afterwards, Yep, you'd say, yeah, that's

544
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Speaker 2: what you do. The issue is in front of us is.

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Speaker 2: Many of the texts are well on the basis of

546
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Speaker 2: that story in which there was there were many Somalis involved.

547
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Speaker 2: As a New York Times story laid out with a

548
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 2: couple of interesting quotes, means that everybody with any Samalian

549
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Speaker 2: connections get.

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Speaker 4: Them out of here.

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Speaker 2: That's madness, that's stupidity. That's for me, insanity, And in fact,

552
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Speaker 2: I think it damages the case in going after the

553
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Speaker 2: individuals responsible for stealing millions and millions into probably, you know,

554
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 2: eventually billions of dollars. So I don't think that should

555
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 2: be that difficult to be able to separate those two issues,

556
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Speaker 2: but for a lot of people it's impossible.

557
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Speaker 4: Well, a couple of things can be true at once.

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Speaker 5: Number one, for those who are just waking up to

559
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 5: this story now since it was on the front page

560
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Speaker 5: of the New York Times and then the County Highway

561
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 5: the Christopher RUFO website. For those of you who are

562
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 5: just waking up to it, Minnesota media and this program

563
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 5: have done hundreds of stories about this over the years.

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Speaker 4: So that is true.

565
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Speaker 5: But something else could also be true. And this is

566
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 5: something that you kind of got to get at. Why

567
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 5: is this fraud still happening. What is it about this

568
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 5: that allows this fraud to continue happening? And is there

569
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 5: something endemic in our state government? And I don't think

570
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 5: that story has really now we haven't really gotten to that.

571
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Speaker 4: Is it because we.

572
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 5: Are all in this state such super liberals, lefties that

573
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Speaker 5: we don't want to offend the Somalis or people of color.

574
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Speaker 5: That has been suggested is because the Somalis come from

575
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Speaker 5: a lawless country refuge here, and the President suggests that maybe.

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Speaker 4: That's part of it. I mean, what is it, right?

577
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 2: I still still a story to be done.

578
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 4: You're right?

579
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 5: I mean so that too, yes, But finally that has

580
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 5: nothing to do with people of color from Somalia being garbage,

581
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 5: as the President is saying, So all of these things

582
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 5: can be true, and all of our listeners and we're

583
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 5: all smart enough, we can we can have some nuance here,

584
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 5: should be able to say some stuff is real and

585
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 5: something else can be real. At the same time, I

586
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 5: don't think we've gotten to the bottom of why all

587
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:39,719
Speaker 5: this happened.

588
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 4: Oh well, I think that's a good story.

589
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 2: Andy has talked about it before. I do think a

590
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Speaker 2: component of it was there was great fear the time

591
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Speaker 2: story suggested, well, these are democratic votes that we might

592
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Speaker 2: be losing. That's another thing that needs to be explored.

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Speaker 2: And part of it was as soon as some of

594
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Speaker 2: the pushbacks started, there was a concern about, well, I'm

595
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Speaker 2: going to be branded, despite my blue blood politically as

596
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Speaker 2: a racist. Yes, if we go after this, and as

597
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 2: Luger has said, you have to dismiss that on the

598
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Speaker 2: you cannot be cowed by that because in the end,

599
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: a lot of people who needed these services and help,

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Speaker 2: and many of them may have been people of color, lose.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So one of the things about this, and that's absolutely true,

603
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Speaker 5: do we get to the part where we didn't want

604
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Speaker 5: to investigate this as state government because of that, And

605
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 5: in fact, we talked a few weeks ago about there

606
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Speaker 5: is some evidence that the Democrats actively kept this from

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Speaker 5: being heard in the Minnesota legislature and committees. I was

608
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Speaker 5: startled by the Minnesota Watchdog legislative auditor who said this

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Speaker 5: in the Star Tribune.

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Speaker 4: So there are many, many different parts of it.

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Speaker 5: I still think there's little or no evidence, as one

612
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Speaker 5: of these stories is saying that the money from feeding

613
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Speaker 5: our few future ended up with al Shabob, the terrorist.

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Speaker 2: No evidence, but about it again. Let's see it exactly, and.

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Speaker 5: The I gotta believe the Feds somebody as capable as

616
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Speaker 5: Joe Thompson, uh Andy Lueger or the current US Attorney

617
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 5: Rosen if that was there, they would prosecute that. I

618
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Speaker 5: gotta believe it. But if I'd love to see if

619
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Speaker 5: that's actually true.

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Speaker 2: That's all very true. So you're on your way to

621
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 2: Golden Gopher to the barn?

622
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Speaker 4: Why not? Why not?

623
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Speaker 2: Guards of your minds us that we lost our point

624
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 2: guard right he's out for the season.

625
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Speaker 4: We're down to is it? Seven players?

626
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Speaker 5: We don't deserve anything? Apparently, we don't think. Yeah, well

627
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Speaker 5: I got that alone, I alone.

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Speaker 4: The three of us have it?

629
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Speaker 2: Are you a barn loft guy?

630
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Speaker 4: Much better? I figured, you know, why don't you be?

631
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Speaker 4: Why don't I'm gonna watch.

632
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 5: What's I think it's btn take your wallet, retrieve it

633
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 5: from the bottom of the Dame of Cosca and that's cheap.

634
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 4: And just to spend a little money on some basketball tickets?

635
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 4: How about that?

636
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 5: No?

637
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 4: Would that work for you?

638
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 2: That's the answer. I think PJ said it.

639
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 4: No, I'm not going to do that. That's so good.

640
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 2: That is so I'm going to save my money for

641
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 2: which ball are you you rooting for? Well, I want

642
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 2: a warm Weather Bowl. I'm asking Guardan. I'm rooting for Vegas.

643
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 2: But they're not going to get it.

644
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 4: I would.

645
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,919
Speaker 2: They'll be back in Arizona, Arizona. How about New York?

646
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 3: How about the That's a possibility, but I don't think

647
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 3: they're going to end up there, and we don't have to.

648
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 4: You have to about to Detroit, right, correct? We don't

649
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 4: want New York. I've been there, I know you. But

650
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 4: no warm Weather. That's that that would be awesome.

651
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 2: You would take well, it doesn't matter if you go.

652
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 2: You'll end up ditching Guardia anyway once you get it

653
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 2: means nothing to me.

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Speaker 4: In New York, remember that.

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Speaker 2: a drink with you guys after and you left where

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Speaker 2: and I were talking in the bar in New York.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. That's fake, just god fake fact in fiction.

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Speaker 2: As Mace, that's what he said.

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Speaker 4: Piggy there it is all right.

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Speaker 2: We're today for a Golden Gopher men's basketball action Indiana

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Speaker 2: in town to take on the Golden Gophers. We are

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Speaker 2: back tomorrow, beginning at three o'clock, and we certainly certainly

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Speaker 2: will hope that you will join us. Then.

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Speaker 4: I'm incredibly humble, little knidbits. Johnson