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Speaker 1: Seven oh six here at fifty five KRCD Talk station.

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Speaker 1: Very Happy Friday, e to you extra special welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the fifty five krc Morning Show. It's always a

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Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on. Congressman Warren Davidson's Good morning, Sir.

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Speaker 2: Brian. It's always an honor to join you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. You were there State of the Union address.

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Speaker 1: What was it like? What was your reaction? We can

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Speaker 1: talk into some of the details on it, but I

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Speaker 1: just want to get your initial response to it. Congressman Davidson.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's always an honor to be there

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Speaker 2: president on the floor for the State of the Union,

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Speaker 2: but this one was pretty exceptional. I thought, you know,

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Speaker 2: President Trump made a great case. I mean, I think

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Speaker 2: the theme of the speech probably should have been normal

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Speaker 2: versus crazy, and he summed it up, I think, really

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Speaker 2: succinctly when he said, you know what a difference a

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Speaker 2: president makes because you know, for the most part, what

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Speaker 2: he's done is apply existing law. People say, oh, we

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Speaker 2: got to have different laws for everything else, and no,

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Speaker 2: we didn't need a different law to secure the border.

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Speaker 2: He just applied the law and secured the border. We

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Speaker 2: don't need a different law to remove people from the

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Speaker 2: United States, which Democrats are still fighting for and have

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Speaker 2: the government shut down over He's just using the same

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Speaker 2: process and frankly the same guy, Tom Homan, to lead

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Speaker 2: ice and remove people who are here illegally. You look

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Speaker 2: at some of the things we did need a law

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Speaker 2: on we got done. We passed a big, beautiful bill

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Speaker 2: to get tax reform done, and that made it is

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Speaker 2: making a real difference for you know, everyday Americans. No

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Speaker 2: tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on

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Speaker 2: social security. And so I think he's made a great

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Speaker 2: case for things that are normal, good policy things that

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Speaker 2: but it pivoted what he's talking about crime and partially

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Speaker 2: on illegal immigration and just talking about how you know,

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Speaker 2: when Arena's root Skill was murdered in Charlotte for writing

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Speaker 2: public transportation. Basically this crazy, I mean, horrific crime and

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Speaker 2: painful to make yourself watch it and see it. But

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Speaker 2: in about twelve seconds, this young lady's got her throat

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Speaker 2: slit and stabbed and dies. And you know, this monster

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Speaker 2: who's been repeat offenders, has let out a no bail,

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Speaker 2: no bail and to be in a position to commit

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Speaker 2: the crime. And we see those kind of soft on

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Speaker 2: crime policies in Cincinnati all over Hamilton County, but you

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Speaker 2: go one county away, judges aren't doing that. And so

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Speaker 2: these are the things. And it was probably just a

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Speaker 2: mind blowing moment for anybody watching. But it was insane

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Speaker 2: in the room to look at Arena Ziruzka's mother, who's

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Speaker 2: up there grieving her daughter and being recognized for you know,

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Speaker 2: we're doing something about this by the President of the

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Speaker 2: United States. And what the Democrats were doing is sitting

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Speaker 2: on their hands. They wouldn't even stand for that. And

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Speaker 2: you know, President Trump's just like, how do you not

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Speaker 2: stand for that? I mean, this is crazy. And it

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Speaker 2: was like that for a lot of things. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I was grateful they did stand for the hockey team

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Speaker 2: and the two Medal of Honor winners. Those were real

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Speaker 2: high points and unifying things. But just you know, locally,

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Speaker 2: I don't think people really, regardless of your political persuasion,

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Speaker 2: someone who lost their daughter, regardless of how but an

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Speaker 2: illegal immigrant comes in and stabs her dozens of times

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Speaker 2: and kills her. I mean, how do you not show sympathy?

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Speaker 2: For that, But that's the difference Democrats. They're sitting on

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Speaker 2: their hands versus locally, I think everybody's looking at that

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Speaker 2: with a sense of outrage, like, how could this happen

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, not standing for a number

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Speaker 1: of those the points he brought up was really kind

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Speaker 1: of strange. Well, I mean I think that they created

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Speaker 1: a great campaign ads for the Republicans going in November

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Speaker 1: with some of their antics on the state of the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's the other part is, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think, look, why would it be an effective ad

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Speaker 2: because I think the country, you know, these are like

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Speaker 2: But then you see, you know, Democrats in Ohio act

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Speaker 2: like Ohio doesn't have voter ID for example. Well, you know,

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Speaker 2: There's only fourteen states where you don't have voter ID,

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Speaker 2: got to have voter ID to vote already the law

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Speaker 2: to show you're a citizen. Well, pretty straight up stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's already been passing the House. You guys

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Speaker 1: did that last year, Am I right?

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Speaker 2: We did it last year. We did it again this

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Speaker 1: Well, I am. It was widely reported. I pointed this

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Speaker 1: out yesterday. We need to be lighting up Mitch McConnell's

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Speaker 1: And why why would Mitch McConnell hold the advancement of

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Speaker 2: He's an anti Trump guy at this point. That's the

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Speaker 2: best explanation I've heard but you know, the Thune goes

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Speaker 2: out and says, you know, we just don't have the

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Speaker 2: votes to go to the real filibuster, which is you

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Speaker 2: get a hold floor time. I mean, it's really an

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Speaker 2: adaptation of the filibuster to go with the sixty vote

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Speaker 2: should say, well, I would do that. Well I would

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Speaker 2: is different than I did, you know, right, And so

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Speaker 2: we're trying to make them actually use the real filibuster

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Speaker 2: and be on the floor and hold floor time to

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Speaker 2: get us a vote on that. But even if they

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Speaker 2: a vote on cloture, which okay, isn't the same as

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Speaker 2: a vote on the bill. But let us know who

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Speaker 2: the obstructors are. Put it on the floor, senator. So

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Speaker 2: Thune won't put it on the floor, and well I

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Speaker 2: don't have the votes, we'll show us who where the

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Speaker 1: I agree, I agree completely. We need to know. And

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Speaker 1: again this is one of the eighty twenty issues you're

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Speaker 1: talking about. Everybody can get a photo ID. You gotta

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Speaker 1: this is the hill the Democrats want to die on

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Speaker 1: when we are the only developed country in the world

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Speaker 1: that doesn't require it.

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Speaker 2: We're also one of the only developed countries. Of course,

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Speaker 2: the EU and Democrats are governed the same way, the

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Speaker 2: same invasion operation to flood the country with people that

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Speaker 2: aren't really supposed to be here. And we have a

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Speaker 2: very generous way to be here legally. I won't say

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Speaker 2: it's a perfect way, but we have lots of I mean,

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Speaker 2: no country brings in as many people legally as the

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Speaker 2: to tear down America. They're working to undermine this country

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Speaker 2: right and left, and not all Democrats, but the National Party,

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Speaker 2: the people that are advancing the policies out there. They

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Speaker 2: to do it by keeping a hyphen or an abridgment

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Speaker 2: look at all the things that we've done. No country

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Speaker 2: You know, without US, no win in World War One,

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Speaker 2: Fifty percent of the world's invested capitals invested in the

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Speaker 2: be here. And these guys can't stop trash in America.

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Speaker 2: They wouldn't even stand to say the chief duty of

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Speaker 2: the United States of America is to defend its citizens,

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Speaker 2: not illegal aliens.

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Speaker 1: That's that was quite hard.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't stand for that.

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Speaker 1: That was unbelievably revealing right there, And I think that

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Speaker 1: disappointed a whole lot of folks. We're going to continue

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Speaker 1: the decision and the impact on that. Are we going

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Speaker 1: Brent Thomas. The Congressman Warren Davidson, pivoting it away from

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Speaker 1: the specifics of the state of the Union over to tariffs.

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Speaker 1: outcome of the Supreme Court overturning his tariff decision six

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: I saw Shared Brown, the Congressman Davidson, calling for a

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Speaker 1: A lot of claims have been placed on paper Sharf

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Speaker 1: overspent by thirteen hundred and thirty six bucks. I know

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Speaker 1: all households do not spend equally, but clearly he's trying

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Speaker 1: to this bell going to be unwrung. Congressman Davidson.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think there's a huge fallacy that all of

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Speaker 2: Trump's tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court, and

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Speaker 2: that should be obvious that he took immediate action to

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Speaker 2: just use different authorities for some of the tariffs. There

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Speaker 2: was the AIPA tariffs that were passed in the seventies,

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Speaker 2: the authority for IEPA, and they are saying, you can

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Speaker 2: use AEPA to turn trade on or off, but you

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Speaker 2: which you know, there were seven different opinions. There's only

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Speaker 2: nine justices. Seven of them wrote opinions. So I think

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Speaker 2: the real problem is that particular law was very ambiguous,

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Speaker 2: and you know, President Trump read into it the maximum

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Speaker 2: amount of things that you could read into it. And

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Speaker 2: I think Gorsich made some very good points, which is,

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Speaker 2: you know, Congress needs to pass a law, and we

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Speaker 2: have passed other laws that are very clear. You know,

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Speaker 2: three h two tariffs, two thirty two tariffs. President Trump's

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Speaker 2: using those to revitalize our steel industry, for example, which

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Speaker 2: is essential for national security. And you know, so there

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Speaker 2: are things like that but yeah, nevertheless, you know, I've

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Speaker 2: introduced legislation that would make it clear, Look, you've got

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Speaker 2: a US trade representative for a reason. You can't have

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Speaker 2: That's job of the executive branch. But at some point

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Speaker 2: Congress does need to lock them in. And the example

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Speaker 1: I know, I thought it was a laughable suggestion, just

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Speaker 2: You know that's the that's the socialist mindset is you

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Speaker 2: now you get five votes.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I got an interject because we talked about

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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, this is a genuine problem on our hands.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's massive. I mean, look, that was one of

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Speaker 2: And I will say that was the promise of Doge,

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Speaker 2: you know, it does not compute, does not compute. You said, Doge,

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Speaker 1: I think we're already there, Congressman Davidson, Real quick, Here

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was one of the things I think we

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Speaker 2: Even Venezuela was different than this because Venezuela was targeting Maduro,

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Speaker 2: Thank you, you know, and I wouldn't want to send you,

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Speaker 1: I take great comfort in hearing that from you, sir,

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Speaker 1: I truly do. I thank you for your service to

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Speaker 1: you do. I look forward to having me back on

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Speaker 2: Thanks Brian GeV bless you and all your listeners.

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Speaker 1: And you seven twenty seven right now, signal ninety nine

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Speaker 1: ready to go? What about the fire DEAs? Why is