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Speaker 2: And I saw what I went to Michael's trip dot

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Speaker 1: It's very disappointing.

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Speaker 3: Well, just watch me stumble out of the studio when

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Speaker 2: That, especially on Friday, after all the shots that you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm ahead of schedule today. Start to worry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't stop whether they keep getting the large

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Speaker 4: No, they have a name for it. What is that

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Speaker 3: They have small, medium, large, and hang on, just hang on,

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Speaker 3: nobody cares. Here's Route forty four. Route forty four.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah that was important enough to install a show.

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Speaker 3: My brain got stuck on it, and I wasn't going

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just like the laptop story. Yeah, totally worth it.

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Speaker 4: It's Friday, and I don't care.

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Speaker 3: Here's anybody else, everybody else just supposed to get through

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Speaker 4: And go home and have a nice.

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Speaker 1: Weekend and watch the Broncos beat the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: The Raiders on Sunday and listen to the Weekend with

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Speaker 2: I was a little worried that the Broncos Raiders game

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Speaker 3: Is that state even Vegas actually finished or are they

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Speaker 3: The United States Supreme Court, in this case involving the

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Speaker 3: You're obviously you the judges are obviously playing politics. Now,

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Speaker 3: Now, there are several strands of existing doctrine and institutional

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Speaker 4: Hallelujah. We need to focus on that more.

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Speaker 4: It's this is a political issue.

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Speaker 4: But no, no, not going to do that at all.

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Speaker 3: Finally, the majority emphasizes that they didn't supply that viable

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Speaker 3: we don't find any evidence. And you were given ample opportunities.

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Speaker 4: So what the plan does.

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Speaker 3: It creates or shores up several Republican leaning districts around Dallas,

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Speaker 4: Also, that brings me back to this point.

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Speaker 3: The Supreme Court just acknowledge that right. I'd love to

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Speaker 4: I wondered if maybe you'd be the first contributed to

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Speaker 2: You just need to pull a little bit from your

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Speaker 3: No, But you would think that a decent manager, that

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Speaker 3: Even batter, you know, just a nice bottle of Artie

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Speaker 3: And if you've survived, what which you know? I still

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Speaker 3: But congressional Democrats won't let it go. One congressional Democrat

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Speaker 3: continue to insist that the follow up attack will unwarranted.

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Speaker 3: Quote what this is Jim Hines, a Democrat from Connecticut.

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Speaker 3: What I saw in that room was one of the

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Speaker 3: most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service. Yes,

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Speaker 3: they were carrying drugs, but they were not in the

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Speaker 3: position to continue their mission in any way.

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Speaker 4: That's just blatantly ignored. First, let me just say this.

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Speaker 3: I think this is a guy that's never seen or

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Speaker 3: even watched, say, Saving Private Ryan. I mean, we got

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Speaker 3: enough video, h and we got enough war footage that

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Speaker 3: you ought to know that war is ugly, that's horrible.

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Speaker 4: Yea.

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Speaker 3: And have you never been to a car wreck? You've

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Speaker 3: never been to a car wreking, seeing people's guts hanging out.

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Speaker 2: But Michael, those are just theatrics when you go to

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Speaker 2: Saving Private Ryan and seeing on os.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's why I use the car example, the car

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Speaker 3: wreck example. That's like real world stuff.

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Speaker 2: And everybody's seen a Michael Bay movie. As soon as

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Speaker 2: two cars, you know, bumpers hit each other, just just

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Speaker 2: of course.

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Speaker 3: The spontaneous combustion, they yeah, Okay, yeah, we'll take a

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Speaker 3: break here, then I'll finish my point about this dumb

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Speaker 3: ass congressman.

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Speaker 4: Is that redundant? Next?

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Speaker 3: And of course they've never served in the military, because

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Speaker 3: if you served in the military, you wouldn't question the

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Speaker 3: chain of command.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is just bs.

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Speaker 3: And that's the point I want to get to. You know,

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Speaker 3: I made an offhand remark which I tend to make

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Speaker 3: a lot about earlier, about you know, I wish Congress

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Speaker 3: would or is Congress redundant? I forget to do something,

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Speaker 3: or they're redundant and they are just running off to

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Speaker 3: their cocktail parties and blah blah blah. If somebody sent

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Speaker 3: me a text message and they said, you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: really in fact, let me just pull it up and

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Speaker 3: tell you what they said, because it's actually it's actually

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Speaker 3: kind of.

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Speaker 4: Funny what they said. Uh, where did it go?

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Speaker 3: I hear this reference to Congress attending all these cocktail parties,

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Speaker 3: the guys that used to command your time slot. Mike

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Speaker 3: Rosen called them liquor and social lubricant. I do not

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Speaker 3: think it is for our elected officials to be making

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Speaker 3: decisions they affect the American public while they're attending cocktail

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Speaker 3: parties and aren't inebriated, we should demand sober lawmakers.

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Speaker 4: Well, let me I'm not going to deny.

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Speaker 3: That I've never been to a cocktail party where a

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Speaker 3: US Senator or a US Congressman might have been a

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Speaker 3: little inebriated, But I would say that that is the exception,

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Speaker 3: not the rule, And I'm not trying to defend them.

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Speaker 3: I'm just pointing out that my offhanded comments about running

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Speaker 3: off the cocktail parties doesn't mean that they're always inebriated

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Speaker 3: and drunk at these parties. In fact, the majority of

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Speaker 3: the time they're not. But the reason they're not is

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Speaker 3: not going to make you any happier. The reason they're

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Speaker 3: not is because one, those cocktail parties are almost ninety

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Speaker 3: nine point nine percent of time fundraising events, and you

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Speaker 3: don't want to be drunk when you're trying to get

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Speaker 3: somebody to make a contribution of one thousand of five

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Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars to your political campaign. And the

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Speaker 3: other thing that's going on is the lobbyists are there

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Speaker 3: and they're trying to bend your ear. Now, you may

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Speaker 3: want to get drunk because you're tired of listening to

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Speaker 3: there you know everybody's you know, you know, you got

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Speaker 3: the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the

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Speaker 3: other shoulder telling you about what you ought to do,

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Speaker 3: and maybe you'd just rather have some of that hmm

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Speaker 3: art the tequila instead of having listened to all that

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Speaker 3: bull crap. I get that because to some degree, the

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Speaker 3: undersecretary is the undersecretary. I got the same thing. Why

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Speaker 3: don't you do it this way? Why don't you do

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Speaker 3: it that way? The point, though, is they live in

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Speaker 3: a different world. So, for example, I was I was

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Speaker 3: at my doctor's office yesterday because I'm getting ready for,

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Speaker 3: you know, my annual physical and this same nurse that

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Speaker 3: took care of me yesterday was present when I had

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Speaker 3: a lipoma removed from my arm. And she's fascinated by

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Speaker 3: the fact that I sat and watched as the doctor,

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Speaker 3: you know, he draped my arm and then he took

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Speaker 3: the album, made the incision. Of course, he deadened everything,

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Speaker 3: and I'm watching him remove this life home off my arm.

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Speaker 3: I watched him cut through everything, and she was fascinated

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Speaker 3: by that, and she said, didn't it bother you?

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Speaker 4: They're cutting into your arm?

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Speaker 1: I'm like, no, you know, as.

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Speaker 3: A hunter you're kind of accustomed to. You're gonna draw

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Speaker 3: a quarter an animal, you know, or you can clean

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Speaker 3: a fish. My point meaning that most of these people

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Speaker 3: have no connection to reality. Watching him slice open my

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Speaker 3: arm was nothing, nothing at all.

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Speaker 4: Was it kind of interesting? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Oh that's what it looks like under the skin. Oh yeah, Oh,

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Speaker 3: you gotta cut here, you gotta cut there, You gotta

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Speaker 3: cut around that little muscle.

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Speaker 4: You gotta do. I found it fascinating.

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Speaker 3: They'd probably puke because, well, they're too busy at the

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Speaker 3: cocktail party. So for a congressman to bitch and moan

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Speaker 3: about what I saw in that video was the worst

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Speaker 3: thing I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 4: Tells me you don't live in the real world.

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Speaker 3: And when he said that they were not in a

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Speaker 3: position to continue their mission in any way, also tells

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Speaker 3: me you just see what you want to see. Are

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Speaker 3: they getting back in the boat because they want to

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Speaker 3: save their own lives, of course, but they're also getting

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Speaker 3: back in the boat because they know that if they

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Speaker 3: don't do every effort they can to preserve those drugs,

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Speaker 3: that product and let the other speed boats come and

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Speaker 3: pick it up, well, the cartails are going.

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Speaker 4: To kill them.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, so they are still in the fight no matter

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Speaker 3: what you say, your dumbass congressman,