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Speaker 1: Chuck Ingram fifty five K see the talk station. It's

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Speaker 1: like nothing to it, right, Chris Smitheman is with us

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Speaker 1: in studio this morning, and when Chris Smithaman is here,

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Speaker 1: the celebrity hotline just blows up. So we just got

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Speaker 1: done talking with a vike Ramaswami. Now we turned to

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Speaker 1: the former congressman. Well, I guess I'm never really a

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Speaker 1: former congressman, but you know it's all. It's my pleasure

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Speaker 1: to welcome in brad Winstrip to the show today and Congressman,

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Speaker 1: how are you today?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing fine. Thank you. It's been a pleasure to

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Speaker 2: listen to two of my friends, top common Sense, actually

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Speaker 2: three with the Veke coming on there.

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Speaker 1: He's terrific. You know, we were talking about a little

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Speaker 1: bit about Amy acting and what was going on during

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Speaker 1: the Wuhan, and I was telling Chris, it was several

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Speaker 1: months ago when your committee came out with the report

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Speaker 1: on what happened during the COVID nineteen and just how

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Speaker 1: eye opening and how revealing that report was. And I

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Speaker 1: still remember that day. You sat right across from me

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Speaker 1: and we had an hour in the studio to talk

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Speaker 1: about that and really only scratch the surface of what

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Speaker 1: was revealed during that time, But the educational aspect of

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Speaker 1: this is something that I think gets overlooked a lot.

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Speaker 1: And the damage that was in They talked about that,

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Speaker 1: the damage that was done to these kids by the

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Speaker 1: way they were handled during the Wuhan and really how

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Speaker 1: they were poorly served. The Teachers' Union was probably served

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Speaker 1: just fine, but when it came to actually dealing with

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Speaker 1: the kids, they got the short end of the stick.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was interesting. We had Randy Weingarten and

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Speaker 2: for an open hearing, and the day before her people

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Speaker 2: came in, counted how many seats are in the hearing room.

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Speaker 2: They made sure that they brought in all their people

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Speaker 2: and took up every seat in the hearing room to

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Speaker 2: be there to support her. But you know, we conducted

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Speaker 2: the entire two year pandemic review in a way that

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Speaker 2: you don't see very often in two years. On the

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Speaker 2: Republican side, we didn't mention Republican or Democrat. One time.

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Speaker 2: We didn't. We didn't talk about political party. But you know,

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Speaker 2: when she was in there, she was getting kudos from

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Speaker 2: the Democrats. But as we went through things and we

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Speaker 2: were able to go through their emails during this time

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Speaker 2: and what they were talking about. One of the things

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Speaker 2: that stood out with the conversations amongst the teachers' union

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Speaker 2: leadership was that they said we need a trigger to close.

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Speaker 2: Not once did I find anything that said we need

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Speaker 2: to get the kids back in the classroom. It's important

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Speaker 2: that we get them caught up. They're never going to

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Speaker 2: be able to succeed if we don't get them in

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Speaker 2: the classroom and teaching them one way or another.

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Speaker 1: Well don't I don't want to interrupt you. But was

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Speaker 1: that the hearing where she was trying to rewrite history

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Speaker 1: where she was saying I never advocated for schools to

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Speaker 1: be closed. We were the ones who were trying to

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Speaker 1: get them reopen. Was that was that the hearing where

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Speaker 1: she was trying to do that?

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Speaker 2: She she did have statements like that, And then I

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Speaker 2: think there was some group they worked with, maybe in

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts later to talk about school reopenings, But that was

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Speaker 2: way late in the whole situation. And what you guys

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Speaker 2: were talking about is fair. You know, there was a

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Speaker 2: there were the schools, and I would tell you my

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Speaker 2: rural schools were open too, and the district that I

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Speaker 2: rural schools they went to class, they went to class.

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Speaker 2: It was more city based than anywhere else, but it

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Speaker 2: was it was a problem for sure. And they've done nothing,

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Speaker 2: and they still that I know, have not addressed how

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Speaker 2: we're going to get our kids up up to speed.

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Speaker 2: And we're falling terribly behind other countries as we know.

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Speaker 2: I saw recently one that said a seventh grader in

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Speaker 1: How about that. Let me let me ask you another

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Speaker 1: question about something that has come up recently, and Scott Assent,

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Speaker 1: the Secretary of the Treasury, said it was probably three

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Speaker 1: six hundred billion dollars every year. Brad winstrip that gets

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Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars, it's a fraud in this country. Does

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Speaker 1: that shock you or surprise you at all? The number

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Speaker 2: Not at this point it might. It might have surprised

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Speaker 2: see exactly why this was happening in so many fronts.

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Speaker 2: Part of it is that the agencies don't really have

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Speaker 2: when we went through the COVID era, for example, on

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Speaker 2: and taking care of those benefits and getting all that out,

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Speaker 2: the Democrats insisted on self attestation. In other words, you

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Speaker 2: And we thought that and they insisted on no, you

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Speaker 2: kind of goes with the voting thing. You don't have

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Speaker 2: to prove really who you are. And I don't get this,

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Speaker 2: but it's created a lot of mayhem and certainly has

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Speaker 2: ripped off the taxpayers. So everyone who goes to work

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Speaker 2: and pay taxes need to know that it's these types

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Speaker 2: only in this country that are committing fraud, but overseas.

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Speaker 1: As you look at why it has become in pops

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Speaker 1: to pass legislation that would deal with voter identification, why

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Speaker 1: has this debate gone the way it's gone.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that they have their reasons. They'll they'll

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Speaker 2: try and throw out everything is is Jim Crow and

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Speaker 2: this and that, but they know that they can go

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Speaker 2: around and rally people to vote in California, you know,

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Speaker 2: going door to door. The policies are somewhat crazy and

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Speaker 2: requiring an ID would make it more difficult for them

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Speaker 2: But there really is no good reason. Everything requires an

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Speaker 2: real American citizens, people that care about this country, people

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Speaker 2: that value their citizenship, will be the ones to say, yes,

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Speaker 2: you should value your citizenship the same way I do,

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Speaker 2: and prove that you are a US citizen and you

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Speaker 2: are who you are. And I think the majority of people,

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Speaker 2: has high value, and I don't understand why they want

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Speaker 2: to keep pursuing just the opposite. It doesn't even make.

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Speaker 1: Eighty plus percent of Republicans agree with this. Seventy six

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Speaker 1: seventy seven percent of Democrats want this. You've got Hispanics

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Speaker 1: and the notion that we can't get the Save America

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Speaker 1: Act through and have common sense legislation that says, you know,

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Speaker 1: we want American citizens to vote in our elections and

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Speaker 1: we don't want illegal aliens voting in our elections. It

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Speaker 1: just if you would have told me ten years ago

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Speaker 1: that we'd be having a problem getting legislation like this approved,

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Speaker 1: especially when Republicans have control of the White House, the House,

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Speaker 1: and the Senate, I would have said that you're crazy

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Speaker 2: Well, of course, the problem predominantly lives in the Senate.

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Speaker 2: And let's just face it, there are just too many

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Speaker 2: people in the Democrat Party that if Donald Trump says

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Speaker 2: he's in favor of something, they will be against it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just you watch it visibly during the State

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Speaker 2: of the Union. I mean, the wonderful things that he

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Speaker 2: was pointing out many times they couldn't even applaud because

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Speaker 2: he said it. And when you let your hatred dominate

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Speaker 2: your common sense and overrule your common sense, it's really

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Speaker 2: a problem for us as a country, especially if you're

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Speaker 2: in a position of leadership serving in the House of

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Speaker 2: the Senate. That is a problem for America today. And

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Speaker 2: I'm ashamed that some people can't get over it. And

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Speaker 2: it's been interesting to hear the comments from John Fetterman,

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Speaker 2: Democrat senator who seems to be going in the other

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Speaker 2: direction from many of his Democrat colleagues.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's turned out to be a bit of a surprise,

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Speaker 1: and it turned out to be actually courageous in the

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Speaker 1: fact that and he's not doing anything that's all that radical.

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Speaker 1: He's simply looking at the facts and the truth of

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Speaker 1: the situation and speaking truth to what's actually going on.

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Speaker 1: But brad Winstrip, we're up against the clock. We gotta run.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for checking in this morning, and

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Speaker 1: Chris Smitheman has something for you real quick.

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Speaker 2: Congressman, thank you so much for coming on. Great and

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Speaker 2: I and and both both Dan Carroll and I and

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Speaker 2: I think I thanked him for his service, and we

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Speaker 2: thank you for your service, your military service to our country.

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Speaker 2: Well Dame of you fellows. Thank you so much, God

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Speaker 2: bless you

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Speaker 1: All right, Brad,