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Speaker 1: Continuing our monitoring of the situation here on Twin Cities

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Speaker 1: News Talk Am eleven thirty one oh three five, And

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Speaker 1: in fact, my name is John Justice and the master

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Speaker 1: control booth is Sam. We have Liz Colin from Alpinuz

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Speaker 1: joining us at the bottom of the hour. I don't

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Speaker 1: know about you, but it's wild to me that we're

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Speaker 1: at war right now, and I don't think most people

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Speaker 1: further because I really do believe that it was pretty

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Speaker 1: brilliant on Trump's part to not go and brief Congress.

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Speaker 1: I have some audio from Marco Rubio that I'll share

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Speaker 1: here in a moment where he lays out the justification

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Speaker 1: for this. I know Congress is going to go and

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Speaker 1: debate the War's Power Act, and when Congress does begin

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Speaker 1: that debate, it will provide the example of exactly what

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Speaker 1: I'm about to share with you, because had Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: gone and taken this to Congress, it would have been

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Speaker 1: a mess for exactly the same reason that you had

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Speaker 1: Angie Craig, as we talked about in the first hour

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Speaker 1: of the show, and if you missed to be sure

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Speaker 1: Epic Theory. But you have Angie Craig saying that she

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Speaker 1: regrets her vote on the Lake and Riley Act. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how ridiculous is that? All because the base of the

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Speaker 1: Democrat Party is so radicalized to the point where anything

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Speaker 1: that is perceived to be supported by or pushed by

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Speaker 2: Looked at as a negative.

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Speaker 1: So if Trump had taken this whole debate about whether

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Speaker 1: or not we should go to war with Iran to Congress,

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Speaker 1: it just would have given Democrats the opportunity to form

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Speaker 1: false narratives. Watch the reaction online to the debate, group

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Speaker 1: think to form among those on the left, and suddenly

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Speaker 1: And that's important now you have, for the most part,

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Speaker 1: Democrats have remained largely quiet over the issue. Why because

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Speaker 1: they don't know how it's playing with the base. They

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Speaker 1: don't have a gauge yet which way to go. None

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Speaker 1: of that, their reactions are never authentic. It's always driven

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Speaker 1: by politics. But just like I've not seen a single video,

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Speaker 1: that the US and Israel is attacking Iran right now,

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Speaker 1: I have seen a lot of the opposite. And I

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Speaker 1: have accounts on social media platforms that are created to

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Speaker 2: Right because the.

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Speaker 1: Platforms that I use, they're going to feed me what

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Speaker 1: The algorithm is going to feed me a lot of

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Speaker 1: conservative talking points, and I want to hear what.

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Speaker 2: The other side is saying. And apart from.

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Speaker 1: The arguments of it being an illegal war, there really

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Speaker 1: isn't much that the left has latched onto against what

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Speaker 1: is taking place right now. That would not have happened

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Speaker 1: if Trump had gone and taken this to Congress. It

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Speaker 1: would have been endlessly debated. They would have come up

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Speaker 1: with every excuse in the book, and the group think

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Speaker 1: in this debate now that may still unfold, but right

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Speaker 1: now we actually have the best opportunity to find out

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Speaker 1: what the court of public opinion actually believes and feels

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Speaker 2: And just as a side note.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how bad a is our American military to

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Speaker 1: Every time I think about that, I just go I

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Speaker 1: can't wait for the movie version of this. And I

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Speaker 1: mean no disrespect. Right, We're tragically losing individuals in this

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Speaker 2: But I'll continue to say it.

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Speaker 1: I'm proud of this country right now, and I have

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Speaker 1: get too far ahead of myself. President Donald Trump said

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Speaker 1: actions taking place. He accused them, of those that have

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Speaker 2: He's absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: In a post on truth social he said, the fact is,

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Speaker 1: These people are sick, crazy and demented, But America despite

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Speaker 2: They have what's called a Trump derangement problem. Have you

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Speaker 2: heard about that problem?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Now Congress is preparing to open a war powers debate

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Speaker 1: over Trump's authority to strike Iran, even with the bombing underway.

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Speaker 1: And right now we have smoke rising over Israel amid

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Speaker 1: Iranian strikes. And there was a headline this morning that

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Speaker 1: Iran right now is on the brink of a complete

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Speaker 1: and total regime change. And if you have been monitoring

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Speaker 1: for Congress. The article says, which alone has the constitutional

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty one after Pearl Harbor during the Vietnam era,

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Speaker 1: Congress created the War Powers Resolution as a last resort

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Speaker 1: First off, asked why President Donald Trump did not notify

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Speaker 5: We notified Congress. I mean we notified the Gang of Eight.

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Speaker 5: I think the notification went today, but we did notify

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Speaker 5: they can do that. They've done that, They've done that

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Speaker 5: no presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act

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Speaker 2: Not Republican presidents.

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Speaker 5: Not democratic presidents that said we have followed a notification

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Speaker 2: We're here today.

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Speaker 5: I've done more Gang of Eight briefings than I got

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Speaker 5: was a member of the Gang of Eight. All that said,

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Speaker 1: We've let's get to a few of your thoughts from

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Speaker 6: John.

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Speaker 7: I think Harry S. Truman was the last president to

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Speaker 7: use the War Power Act.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jim, I want to stop you there. You're correct,

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Speaker 1: and we stated that from the article.

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Speaker 1: It's just a little difficult to hear your talk back.

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Speaker 1: I think your window might have been open there. Either

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: If they want to come down to the president for

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Speaker 8: acting unilaterally within his war powers, then there need to

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Speaker 8: be some punishment among members of Congress who, when they

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Speaker 8: because there's so many Chinese agents, pro Muslim agents, and

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Speaker 8: they just love leaking stuff. So fine, you want to

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Speaker 2: Away, Yep, let's go here.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, John. I think Congress is upset because they

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Speaker 3: sometimes you got to go in as a blind attack

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Speaker 1: If you trust the advent, let me let me, let

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Speaker 1: me rephrase this. I'm not going to talk about you.

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Speaker 1: Let me just talk about my view, Okay. I trust

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Speaker 1: that this is a golden opportunity for Republicans, and I'll

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Speaker 1: I have another clip from Marco Rubio that I will

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Speaker 11: Audience to know that if I'm the president, we will

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Speaker 6: We're already substantially ahead of our time projections.

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Speaker 6: Whatever it takes.

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Speaker 7: To go far longer than that.

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Speaker 6: Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, President wants

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Speaker 7: No, we don't get bored. I never get bored.

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Speaker 1: There's a great piece out of Daily Wire this morning.

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Speaker 2: Didn't do this.

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Speaker 1: Ben Dominich, in this piece, says Trump didn't sell America

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Speaker 1: Speaks to why I think that Trump has handed a

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Speaker 1: Wrapping up this piece, Ben Domenich goes on to say,

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Speaker 2: You simply cannot do that.

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Speaker 1: What we're talking about is driving people out to vote.

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Speaker 1: We still don't have passage of the Save America Act.

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Speaker 1: And one last piece of audio before we talk with

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Speaker 1: But for those milk toast fair weather Trump supporters that

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Speaker 2: We're talking forty years.

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Speaker 1: This is President Donald Trump back in nineteen eighty talking

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Speaker 13: When you get the respect of the other countries, then

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Speaker 7: The Iranian situation is a case in point.

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Speaker 13: That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous.

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Speaker 13: been angry with us, And we had every right to

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Speaker 13: do it at the time.

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Speaker 7: I think we've lost the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And again, President Donald Trump forty years ago back in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, Liz Collin from ALFA News joins us next

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Speaker 1: right here on Twin City's News Talk AAM eleven thirty

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Speaker 1: and one oh three five FM.

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Speaker 10: Good morning, and I love your show here in Minnesota

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Speaker 10: Politics Sehn Justice has it covered every morning on twainas

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Speaker 10: City's News Talk.

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Speaker 9: I just want to make a point that every single

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Speaker 9: president for the last forty to fifty years has done

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Speaker 9: something similar to this. Clinton did it in the nineties

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Speaker 9: with Somalia, or Obama did it in the in the

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Speaker 9: twenty tens with several different countries.

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Speaker 2: So for them to come.

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Speaker 9: Out and say, oh, this is a legal this is illegal,

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Speaker 9: everybody's correct, and saying that if this is any other

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Speaker 9: president other than Trump, they would.

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Speaker 12: I have been monitoring situation with the Democrats, and I've

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Speaker 12: come to the conclusion that because of all their contrarian

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Speaker 12: nonsense against Trump, they're suffering from oppositional defiance disorder. It's

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Speaker 12: a mental problem that children have.

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Speaker 2: That's a good point.

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Speaker 1: Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven thirty one oh three

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Speaker 1: five FM.

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Speaker 2: As we monitor the situation. My name is John Justice.

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Speaker 1: We've got Sam and the Master control booth next door,

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Speaker 1: and from Alpha News. Someone who knows a few things

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Speaker 1: about monitoring the situation, Liz Colin.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Liz, how are you Hey.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, John. How is the new studio?

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Speaker 14: This was a little different of a setup, but it

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Speaker 14: seems like it's going well.

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Speaker 4: Hunts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I almost don't want to tell you

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Speaker 1: because you need to come find out for yourself.

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Speaker 4: That's fine.

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Speaker 14: Oh, I'll be I'll be there with gifts, not Torri.

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Speaker 14: I want to sit in that chair that Ak was in.

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Speaker 14: That's the only well, it's right over here.

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Speaker 1: I can make it the Liz Collins chair if you'd

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Speaker 1: like us to keep it them up when we got

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Speaker 1: k get some new ones suits, so number ones I

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Speaker 1: face the wall. Yeah, number of different items from Alphanus.

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Speaker 1: Who want to share this morning? I want to start

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Speaker 1: off with a with the post first online, Liz. Somebody

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Speaker 1: had submitted to you that students are being handed whistle

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Speaker 1: kids at a local school. I'm assuming this is relating

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Speaker 1: to ice and not the typical way in which school

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Speaker 1: children would have normally gone and used whistles for enjoyment

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Speaker 1: and entertainment.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, there's actually a sign on the table that's you

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Speaker 14: can't blow these whistles in school. But yes, this is

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Speaker 14: an ice awareness booth that went up yesterday Bloomington Jefferson

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Speaker 14: High School. A student who was not a fan of this,

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Speaker 14: sent this in to us, which I think says a lot.

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Speaker 14: But I'll have to also note that awareness is AWA

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Speaker 14: r n e SS on the sign, so spelled correctly

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Speaker 14: at the high school.

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Speaker 4: I know you're shocked where.

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Speaker 14: The poke is on things like this, but yes, this

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Speaker 14: is just kind of this ongoing anti ICE rhetoric that

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Speaker 14: they're spreading in public schools, and I have a podcast

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Speaker 14: kind of focused on that topic coming up this evening

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Speaker 14: with Christian Trojan. But just all the kind of details

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Speaker 14: all the things that have changed in Minnesota public education

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Speaker 14: under Governor Tim Walls, and what legislators can do about

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Speaker 14: it this session to get some of this stuff out

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Speaker 14: of here.

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Speaker 1: Wells, you really you couldn't script this out if you

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Speaker 1: wanted to, and as I often say, if you did,

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Speaker 1: Hollywood would probably reject it because it's so ridiculous. But

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Speaker 1: the fact that they misspelled awareness and you you couple

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Speaker 1: this with the Leering Center and the reading and the

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Speaker 1: math rates of the graduates here in Minnesota being as

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Speaker 1: abysmal as they are and just further evidence of that.

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Speaker 2: You just can't face palm hard enough. Liz Colin.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, and we've done just so much stuff on all

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Speaker 14: of this anti ice weather. It's that we had a

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Speaker 14: walk out we posted about last week where there's students

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Speaker 14: clearly running away from the building. They wouldn't even come back.

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Speaker 14: That this was in middle school. They've decided not to

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Speaker 14: do walkouts now, moving moving forward, But yeah.

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Speaker 4: It just seems to be seems to be never ending.

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Speaker 1: I copy and pasted as part of this these whistle kits,

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Speaker 1: I know. They have little pamphlets and cards of which

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Speaker 1: you can go in hand to individuals federal authorities. One

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Speaker 1: of these read I do not wish to speak with you,

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Speaker 1: answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents

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Speaker 1: based on my Fifth Amendment rights under the US Constitution.

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Speaker 1: I do not give you permission to enter my home

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Speaker 1: based on my Fourth Amendment rights. Yeah, signed by a

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Speaker 1: judge or magistrate with my name. Unless you have a warrant,

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Speaker 1: you can sign it under the door. I do not

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Speaker 1: give you permission to search any of my belongings based

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Speaker 1: on my Fourth Amendment rights. So you know, I'm just

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Speaker 1: glad that they're focused in our schools on the matter

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Speaker 1: on the most important aspects of education exactly. So tell

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Speaker 1: us about this former bus driver I know you had

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Speaker 1: a conversation with him and exclusive up on Alpha News

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Speaker 1: working for a company ended up getting let go for

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Speaker 1: just talking with Ice.

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Speaker 2: What happened here, Liz, Yeah.

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Speaker 14: This kind of goes hand in hand with all this

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Speaker 14: anti ICE nonsense. But we've been this is another thing

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Speaker 14: we've been covering, just the bus protocols that drivers have

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Speaker 14: been given all across the state Duluth.

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Speaker 4: We received some information Rochester. This is a white bear

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Speaker 4: Lake school bus driver.

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Speaker 14: But turns out he noticed when Operation Metro Surge started

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Speaker 14: that some students needed to be picked up basically right

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Speaker 14: at their doorways rather than at bus stops, which he

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Speaker 14: thought was strange. Then he noticed that school employees were

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Speaker 14: there in the morning.

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Speaker 4: And in the afternoon.

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Speaker 14: These were according to students, they said they were school employees.

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Speaker 14: They had the lanyards on and whatnot. So they thought,

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Speaker 14: this is strange. Why are district employees, you know, seeing

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Speaker 14: kids to and from school. And then he noticed ICE

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Speaker 14: agents in the area that he wanted to kind of

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Speaker 14: talk to, you know, hey, are you looking for somebody

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Speaker 14: at what's going on?

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Speaker 4: So he drops all of his students off.

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Speaker 14: He simply goes back and he speaks to the ice

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Speaker 14: agents just pulls over and sort of just talks to

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Speaker 14: them about what they're they're doing.

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Speaker 4: No students are.

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Speaker 14: On the bus, nobody's there, everybody's been been dropped off.

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Speaker 14: But he's called into the office. Everything is recorded and

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Speaker 14: on camera, which he knew, but it was called into

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Speaker 14: the office and it's first student to the busing company

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Speaker 14: that he worked for, and basically said he was being

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Speaker 14: put on leave.

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Speaker 4: And he's like, because I spoke to the ice.

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Speaker 14: Agents a few hours ago, that kind of thing, and

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Speaker 14: then he was terminated just a couple of days later.

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Speaker 14: So Jeff Two's is his name, and he talked about

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Speaker 14: he you know, drove bus for a couple of years,

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Speaker 14: really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: Has a bunch of Christmas cards from the kids. Obviously

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Speaker 4: the kids liked him.

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Speaker 14: But it seems that he violated policy by talking to

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Speaker 14: ice agents and was fired.

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Speaker 4: Just a really really crazy story.

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Speaker 2: What do we know?

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Speaker 1: What the I mean, what's the Paul see? Just that

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Speaker 1: he's not allowed to speak with them, do we know?

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Speaker 4: Well, the the bus company.

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Speaker 14: When we reached out for comment, they simply said it

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Speaker 14: was a personnel matter. They would not comment. In the

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Speaker 14: school district would not comment as well. But he was

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Speaker 14: an employee of First Student, Inc. So I think there

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Speaker 14: might be more to come here. He's picked up his

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Speaker 14: personnel file or nothing in it, you know that would

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Speaker 14: but the bus the protocol basically says, you know, keep

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Speaker 14: driving to schools. If an ICE agent approaches you, you know,

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Speaker 14: sort of the way to go.

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Speaker 4: About talking to them.

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Speaker 14: We've seen some protocols that say don't talk to ice

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Speaker 14: agents at all, just keep going to the school. But

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Speaker 14: Jeff was more just curious than anything else and want

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Speaker 14: to and talk to them. But that obviously seemed to

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Speaker 14: be a big mistake on his partner.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys receive a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of tips over at at Alphanus talking with Liz Colin.

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Speaker 1: One of the arguments that has been made by the

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Speaker 1: school districts has been at least during the time of

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Speaker 1: the opera of Operation Metro Surge when it was ongoing,

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Speaker 1: was this abundance of ICE agents that were lingering around

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Speaker 1: the around the schools. This would seem to point to

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Speaker 1: this this happening. But I'm wondering if you have any

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Speaker 1: sort of backstory on those those claims and why the

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Speaker 1: ICE agents may have been doing that or whether or

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Speaker 1: not they were doing that at the length of which

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Speaker 1: the Democrats had been saying that this had been happening,

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Speaker 1: or the school administrators had been saying this was happening.

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Speaker 14: No, I think that's a that's a really good point

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Speaker 14: and part of this sort of fear mongering.

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Speaker 4: I don't think.

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Speaker 14: I think there was one instance where ice agents went

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Speaker 14: on school property and it was like in a you know,

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Speaker 14: like a field or something along those lines, not even

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Speaker 14: in the school itself, and we heard borders are Tom

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Speaker 14: Homan talk about that. We've never been in school, I've

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Speaker 14: never went to church. Everybody needs to calm down. This

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Speaker 14: is what's happening. And even in this instance, these ice agents,

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Speaker 14: they weren't there looking at Jeff's bus stop. They were

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Speaker 14: just in the neighborhood, you know, just sort of he

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Speaker 14: you know, saw a couple the and went to go

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Speaker 14: talk to them. He wasn't looking at the kids. They

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Speaker 14: weren't looking at the kids. I should say that wasn't

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Speaker 14: even part of it, part of it at all. But

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Speaker 14: I think that's a that's a really good point to

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Speaker 14: bring up, John, because again, this just kind of goes

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Speaker 14: to the fear mongering that we've seen that has gone

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Speaker 14: on for months.

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Speaker 2: We've had this and not behind the scenes.

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Speaker 1: It's been it's been a news story, but in the

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Speaker 1: wake of so many other larger stories, has kind of

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Speaker 1: taken a back seat. But we've had this, this ongoing issue,

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Speaker 1: and I firmly believe regarding the truck drivers, immigrants driving

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Speaker 1: these trucks, it's just been a matter of time since

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Speaker 1: after the Biden administration, what they allowed in terms of

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Speaker 1: individuals to be able to get there their licenses to

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Speaker 1: drive these big rigs. We're now seeing the ramifications of that.

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Speaker 1: We had a circumstance here for those that may have

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Speaker 1: seen it, you people may not have, but a truck

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Speaker 1: driver that it turns out, was actually holding a Minnesota

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Speaker 1: a CBO commercial driver's license driving the wrong way for miles.

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Speaker 1: This was called on video on a Missouri highway. I

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Speaker 1: know you guys have a have a story of laying

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Speaker 1: out the details on this, but what can you tell

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Speaker 1: us about this wrong way semi truck driver out of Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, really a scary situation.

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Speaker 14: Lucky that nobody was hurt in It went pretty viral

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Speaker 14: late last week, but yeah, happened in Missouri.

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Speaker 4: But this was a Minnesota, someone who lived in Minnesota, Minnesota.

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Speaker 14: Man, I guess is the way that the mainstream media

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Speaker 14: tried and try to spend this. But basically this is

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Speaker 14: a truck driver again caught on camera going the wrong

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Speaker 14: way in his semi But I wanted to get to

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Speaker 14: the detail here in this story. So Ibraham Ali is

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Speaker 14: his name. He had his CDL license. What was interesting

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Speaker 14: is Jenna and doing the research found that his basically

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Speaker 14: his company traced to an apartment in Minnesota. His LLC,

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Speaker 14: so that, you know, raises some eyebrows right there. We

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Speaker 14: know some lawmakers are involved in asking more questions about

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Speaker 14: all of this, and Secretary as Sean Duffy also highlighted

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Speaker 14: the story, as well as the Transportation Secretary.

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Speaker 4: But I think you're right.

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Speaker 14: It's like, you know, we've read these stories kind of

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Speaker 14: all across the country. And I'll remind your listeners too.

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Speaker 14: You had this happy no name given. If you remember

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Speaker 14: that story who murdered a man in Wyndham.

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Speaker 4: He was he's for some reason.

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Speaker 14: He was here illegally, but he had his commercial truck

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Speaker 14: driver's license from California and stopped in Wyndham, Minnesota and

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Speaker 14: killed someone over on.

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Speaker 4: New Year's eve.

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Speaker 14: So yeah, you're right, there's sadly more and more of

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Speaker 14: these stories out there.

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Speaker 1: Before we move on to this story of Governor Tim

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Speaker 1: Walls and the Office of Inspector General, I do want

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Speaker 1: to go to the iHeartRadio apps and talkbacks roll then,

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Speaker 1: as we talked with Liz Collin from Alpha News this

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Speaker 1: morning here on Twin City's News Talk.

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Speaker 15: Liz, I want to say thank you to Liz for

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Speaker 15: all the hard work she is doing and congratulations and

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Speaker 1: I imagine I'm sure there's a lot of fans of

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there are those that are none too pleased

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Speaker 14: credit for John.

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Speaker 16: So so that's part of the Alpha News group chat

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Speaker 16: a little bit maybe some online chatter, but it really

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Speaker 16: hasn't gone anywhere sometimes people start these like crazy petitions

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Speaker 16: or you know, something along those lines. But I've you know,

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Speaker 16: I've been canceled so many times it doesn't really face me.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, we're proud to be a sponsor.

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Speaker 14: Hockey fans are pretty normal people, so and we love America.

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Speaker 4: So nothing wrong with that.

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Speaker 1: Well, we as we continue to keep our eye on

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Speaker 1: fraud here in Minnesota. I know there was another conviction

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Speaker 1: of an individual something like who started the fraud, like

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Speaker 1: a twenty two years old they're now twenty eight. There

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Speaker 1: was up in a Saint Cloud that finally got convicted

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Speaker 1: in autism fraud. But we still have this battle over

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Speaker 1: getting a proper office of Inspector General that actually has

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Speaker 1: some law enforcement power. But you know, Governor Tim Walls

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Speaker 1: continues to not want that to come to fruition. I

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Speaker 1: know you guys have a coverage of this available over

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Speaker 1: at alphanus dot org.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, just on the fraud thing to sidetrek here just

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Speaker 14: for a second. But yesterday there was some testimony at

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Speaker 14: the Capitol which was pretty shocking about how you know,

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Speaker 14: there's been warnings, you know for years, like we've heard,

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Speaker 14: but this non emergency medical transportation an EMT is what

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Speaker 14: it's known as. And they said that these any MT rides,

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Speaker 14: they've decreased by sixty two percent because of scrutiny of fraud,

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Speaker 14: meaning six sixty two percent reduction in rides where they go,

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Speaker 14: So sixty two percent of them are fraudulent.

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Speaker 4: Is that the the takeaway? Which seems to be the case.

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Speaker 14: And there's they say there are more than seventy investigations

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Speaker 14: into companies in Minnesota now and we've profiled a lot

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Speaker 14: of these these drivers and companies as well. But yes,

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Speaker 14: we should here allegedly should hear more tomorrow from Governor

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Speaker 14: Walls and Attorney General Keith Ellison.

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Speaker 4: Ellison will be back in DC and this time Walls is.

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Speaker 14: Supposed to be there as well as part of the

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Speaker 14: House Oversight and government will. Yes, the the long title

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Speaker 14: of the committee to tomorrow, I guess we just call

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Speaker 14: it House Oversight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, another House over SI Affairs Committee committee. I know,

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Speaker 1: I just all at all, you know words lose all meeting.

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Speaker 1: There's they're going to go to Congress, they're going to talk,

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Speaker 1: they're going to get their political points in, and I'll

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Speaker 1: have a lot of audio to share on the show.

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Speaker 1: That's basically the g just yes, yeah, with tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Morning, we'll be we'll be streaming live.

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Speaker 14: Uh. Governor Walls will have his diet Mountain dew and yeah,

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Speaker 14: it'll be a whole lot of nada is my thought.

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Speaker 14: But we'll be uh, we'll be streaming it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, not a whole lot of nada is available

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Speaker 1: right now over at alphanus dot org.

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Speaker 2: Anything else you want to promote before I cut you

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Speaker 2: loose this morning? Lest call it?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, a couple of good podcasts, like I said, including

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Speaker 14: tonight kind of focusing on education in Minnesota and also

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Speaker 14: some other things happening at the session with men still

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Speaker 14: being allowed to live with women at Shokopye Women's prison

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Speaker 14: and some pretty horrific things that have taken place. So

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Speaker 14: we're continuing to tackle that story since mainstream media has

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Speaker 14: completely ignored that as well. So that's coming up on Thursday.

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Speaker 14: But yes, stay tuned to alph News this week and hey.

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Speaker 2: Go wild, go wild, go off the news and go wild.

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Speaker 2: How's that for you? All right?

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Speaker 15: Great?

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Speaker 4: Thank you, John.

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Speaker 1: I look forward to showing you the new studio sometime soon.

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Speaker 1: And thank you so much Liz for the time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Great speaking with you as always.

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Speaker 4: Yes see they're in person soon. Welcome to the New Digs.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much so.

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Speaker 1: Governor Tim Walls ended up in national news. I had

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Speaker 1: this was on Fox News. I couldn't find this anywhere

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Speaker 1: locally until this morning. He joined the chorus of Democrats

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Speaker 1: criticizing the Trump administration strikes on Iran.

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Speaker 2: I saw the post.

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Speaker 1: He got rutally mocked for it, though, as he should have.

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Speaker 1: So as Operation Epic Fury got underway, taking out right

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Speaker 1: the dictator Kamanie, Walls posted his objection on x simply

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Speaker 1: stating no new Wars. Now, this ended up setting off

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Speaker 1: a world win of blowback. None of this is surprising, right.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's Hope Walls. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how much of this is actually Walls writing on his account,

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Speaker 1: But for him to go and talk about no new wars,

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Speaker 1: especially with everything that's transpired and his own words multiple

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Speaker 1: times during Operation Metro Surge here in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: And it's clear. Look, I don't know.

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Speaker 10: I don't think any government history has had to fight

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Speaker 10: a war against the federal government every single day.

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Speaker 2: Well, I said this yesterday. We've never been at war

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Speaker 2: with our federal government. Yeah, but here he is going

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Speaker 2: no new wars. Everybody, he's a crown.

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Speaker 1: What individual online wrote, aron started this war forty seven

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Speaker 1: years ago when they took Americans hostage. Honestly, can people?

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Speaker 1: Can people to crack open a book before posting any

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Speaker 1: of this nonsense. This came from an individual whose bio

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Speaker 1: includes time add an Israeli mission to the United Nations.

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Speaker 1: Representative Randy Fine, Republican out of Florida, to the top

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Speaker 1: of pro Israel voice in Congress says, will this affect

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Speaker 1: your Somali kickbacks?

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Speaker 2: Ooh burn.

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Speaker 1: Cam Hickbey, a videographer who was on the ground during

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Speaker 1: the unrest, tweeted videos of what had been going on,

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Speaker 1: say didn't you just try to start a war with

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Speaker 1: Trump a month ago? And of course, others properly and

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Speaker 1: more seriously criticized Walls for alleging his hypocrisy involving a

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Speaker 1: prior meeting with the Ukrainian President Zelenski and his tweet

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Speaker 1: at the time saying that Minnesota stands with the people

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Speaker 1: of Ukraine as they fight to defend freedom and democracy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Walls doesn't care, He's a hypocrite. I found it funny

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Speaker 1: coming up. Well, turn our attention over to Operation Metro Surge,

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Speaker 1: and specifically how it is that the Democrats right now

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Speaker 1: are attempting to do everything they can to exploit Operation

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Speaker 1: Metro Surge. Now that it's over, I have some never

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Speaker 1: ending parade of stupid articles that I want to share

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Speaker 1: with you ahead of our special guest in studio. I'll

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Speaker 1: let you know who that is coming up just after

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Speaker 1: eight o'clock this morning, and we'll get to your comments

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