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Speaker 1: Good morning, cooner country. How the tables have now turned

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Speaker 1: in a very dramatic development, actually just a couple hours ago.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it really broke last night, but they had

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Speaker 1: to arrange a vote. It took a while. Finally, though

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Speaker 1: the vote now cleared sixty to forty. They are on

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Speaker 1: their way to reopening the government. It's still going to

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Speaker 1: take a few more procedural hurdles. It's not gonna happen today,

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Speaker 1: may take a few more days, but in the end,

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Speaker 1: the government shutdown is over and the Democrats have caved.

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Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. This is not even just

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Speaker 1: the opinion of the cooner Man. This is now the

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Speaker 1: reaction from most Democrats, in particular the Burnie Sanders AOC

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Speaker 1: Mamdani wing, the far left so called progressive wing, the

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Speaker 1: socialist communist wing of the Democratic Party is denouncing this

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Speaker 1: deal as the mother of all betrayals, the mother of

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Speaker 1: all sellouts. And so here is now exactly the context

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Speaker 1: of what took place by Friday going into Saturday. The

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Speaker 1: fact that so many air air traffic controllers had not

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Speaker 1: been paid. Many of them said we just we can't

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Speaker 1: them were doing side jobs, driving ubers, lifts, anything to

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Speaker 1: put food on the table, and they many of them

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Speaker 1: just stopped coming to work. And so with the longest

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Speaker 1: probably going to be a couple more days before it

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Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of flights had to be canceled and

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Speaker 1: people were stuck in airports. Air travel now was basically

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Speaker 1: and people were getting angry. People were getting frustrated, and

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Speaker 1: angry at the Democrats. And the question began to be asked,

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Speaker 1: do the Democrats want the planes to fall out of

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Speaker 1: the sky. They voted fourteen times to not reopen the government.

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Speaker 1: They voted fourteen times to shut the government down. And

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Speaker 1: now it was becoming reckless, it was becoming irresponsible. They

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Speaker 1: were literally now playing jeopardizing the lives, playing with the

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving is what two weeks away, a couple weeks away,

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Speaker 1: whatever it may be. So with Thanksgiving around the corner,

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Speaker 1: there was now talk that the shutdown would ruin Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: and who would be known as the grinch who ruined Thanksgiving?

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Speaker 1: Chuck U Schumer and the Democrats, And so the pressure

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Speaker 1: built there. Furthermore, even though a judge had ruled that

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Speaker 1: Trump had to spend the rest of the contingency funds

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Speaker 1: for SNAP benefits, there was about five billion dollars in

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Speaker 1: that emergency fund, it still wouldn't even cover most of

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Speaker 1: the benefits. It's about eight to nine billion to fund

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Speaker 1: it properly every month, So they were only now partially

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Speaker 1: paying people SNAP benefit. By December first, there would literally

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Speaker 1: So faced with the prospect of real hunger for forty

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Speaker 1: two million people on SNAP on food stamps, the pressure

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Speaker 1: began to build even more. But then something else happened.

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Speaker 1: President Trump decided to apply maximum leverage, maximum leverage and

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Speaker 1: throughout the entire forty days. The reason why the Republicans

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Speaker 1: now have won this shutdown battle, and make no mistake

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Speaker 1: about it, Chuck Schumer's career, I believe is now finished

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to get to that in a second.

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Speaker 1: This is a massive blow to Chuck Schumer, and it's

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Speaker 1: Trump came out with the proposal in which he said,

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Speaker 1: instead of giving because remember, the entire stated reason for

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Speaker 1: the government shut down by the Democrats was to extend

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Speaker 1: what's called the ACA, the Affordable Care Act Obamacare, the

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Speaker 1: insurance premiums, sorry, the subsidies, my bad, the subsidies, the

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Speaker 1: They wanted to extend the subsidies and the tax credits,

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Speaker 1: Trump turned around and said, why are we giving it

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Speaker 1: health insurance companies hundreds and hundreds, literally hundreds of billions

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Speaker 1: to keep premiums relatively down. It's incredibly corrupt. It's lining

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Speaker 1: the pockets of the big insurance companies. They're making money

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Speaker 1: And so Trump said, no, let's take those hundreds of

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Speaker 1: In other words, this would smash Obamacare as we know it.

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Speaker 1: It would end the Affordable Care Act as constructed by

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Speaker 1: was absolutely genius on the part of Trump. So, now

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Speaker 1: faced with the prospect of a revolt among the American people,

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Speaker 1: now that the food stamps will completely run out by

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Speaker 1: December first, there'll be nothing left in the emergency fund.

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Speaker 1: And now that they are going to lose Obamacare and

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Speaker 1: Democrats knew the ballgame was over, this thing is over.

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Speaker 1: Trump out maneuvered them, Trump defeated them. And so Chuck

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Speaker 1: two senators from New Hampshire Jean Shaheen, Maggie Hassen, senators

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Speaker 1: Tim Kane, a Senator from Virginia. Eight of them went

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Speaker 1: to Schumer and said, this thing is over. Our constituents

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Speaker 1: our popularity. They're starting to blame us, they're blaming the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: It's time now to throw in the towel. And when

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Speaker 1: Schumer heard that, now John Thune the Senate Majority leader

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Speaker 1: now to Chucky Schumer. He saw the writing on the wall.

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Speaker 1: Roll cut five Mike.

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Speaker 2: Premiums will spike by thousands of dollars a month. Millions

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Speaker 2: will lose insurance. Democrats have sounded the alarm. We have

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Speaker 2: demanded for months to meet with the Republican leadership, but

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Speaker 2: negotiate it. We've asked him to meet in the summer

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Speaker 2: and threw out the shutdown. To this day, Republicans still

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump has taking the American people hostage, from cutting

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Speaker 1: That was a temper tantrum. I mean, most of it

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Speaker 1: is all bs, but that was a temper tantrum. Now

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Speaker 1: I don't have time to play the next cut. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna play it at the other side. Of the break.

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Speaker 1: But Schumer's at one point he starts banging his fists

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Speaker 1: Boston's bulldozer. The government shutdown. It's going to take a

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Speaker 1: few days. There's some procedural hurdles and parliamentary gimmicks they

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Speaker 1: which has effectively now broken Chuck Schumer's filibuster. Eight Democrats,

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Speaker 1: the shutdown. Now, just to lay it all out for you,

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Speaker 1: this is exactly now what they have agreed to. They

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Speaker 1: are going to pass a continuing resolution, basically a funding bill.

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Speaker 1: It's a stopgap measure that will fund the entire government

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Speaker 1: the end of January next year. However, they are going

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Speaker 1: to attach what's called a minibus as approached to an omnibus.

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Speaker 1: What's a minibus, Jeff, you may ask. It's three bills

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Speaker 1: that funds parts of the government for the entire fiscal year.

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Speaker 1: Fiscal year ends October first, So these three bills will

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Speaker 1: So what are they It's called a permanent funding, not

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Speaker 1: permanent as in forever, but permanent, meaning for the whole year.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be for the military, military housing, the

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Speaker 1: construction of military housing, and of course military benefits, pay veterans,

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Speaker 1: the VA, the legislative branch. I swear to you, they're

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Speaker 1: paying themselves and their staffers. So their staffers are going

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Speaker 1: So they're all getting paid. I swear to God, these weasels.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, let that go. And the big one is

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Speaker 1: the US Department of Agriculture. Now, why, Jeff, why is

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Speaker 1: food stamps will be fully funded until next October. Wick

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Speaker 1: So that was a kind of sweetener to get some

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Speaker 1: Democrats have number one, and this was primarily to get

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Speaker 1: the Demo the Republicans agreed to reverse all of those

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Speaker 1: until January thirty first. What happens then we shall see.

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Speaker 1: So they temporarily get their jobs back with back pay,

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Speaker 1: and that's why he then ended up supporting ending the shutdown.

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Speaker 1: The other thing that Thune gave, and this was a

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Speaker 1: is going to allow, in fact, he's going to guarantee

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Speaker 1: a vote in the Senate to extend the Obamacare premiums okay,

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Speaker 1: to the subsidies, to extend the Obamacare subsidies and tax credits.

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Speaker 1: Now they're going to have a vote. There's no guarantee

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Speaker 1: because part of the problem with it is it provides billions,

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Speaker 1: hundreds of billions in taxpayer funding to illegal aliens, free

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Speaker 1: get a vote. They're probably going to lose the vote,

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Speaker 1: but they're gonna get the vote. So and that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be by the second week in December. So that's it. Literally,

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Speaker 1: that's it. So what did the Republicans give up? This

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Speaker 1: is a forty day shutdown. The Democrats get a vote

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Speaker 1: to extend the ACA subsidies, but they're most likely not

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Speaker 2: A Mike, I must vote no. This healthcare crisis is

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, senior citizens are on Medicare. But you know,

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Speaker 3: Tonight, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them

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Speaker 1: There you go, and it's the same it's the same

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Speaker 4: Jeff, how are you.

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Speaker 1: Good after last night? Very good? CJT.

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Speaker 4: Oh God, God, I'm Okay, before I get to the point,

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Speaker 4: I want to say I'm a big fan of the

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Speaker 4: cooner Man. I'm very loyal listener. I was with Trump

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Speaker 4: the two thoy fifteen when the real pure conservatives was

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Speaker 4: saying he wasn't conservative enough. So that's a little background.

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Speaker 4: But on this issue, I want to be a little

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Speaker 4: contrary Cheff.

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Speaker 1: If you don't mind, go ahead, go aheadj all right, thank.

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Speaker 4: You, sir, Thank you, sir. Up until the morning of

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Speaker 4: November fifth, I'm gonna have to say, you know, I

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Speaker 4: really get the edge to the Democrats and this I'm sorry,

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Speaker 4: but after that they overplayed their hand, and what seemed

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Speaker 4: to turn the tide was these air line shut down

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Speaker 4: stale line cancellation fifteen hundred a day, so you know,

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Speaker 4: they overplayed their hand. I think what Chuck Schumer should

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Speaker 4: have done was actually voted to end this. Sometimes you

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Speaker 4: need to just declare victory and end something. And you know,

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Speaker 4: I still think there's gonna be some type of extension

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Speaker 4: on these on me subsidies. I'm sorry to say it.

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Speaker 4: They did not extended forever, but it would not surprise

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Speaker 4: me if they extended until the follow elections in twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty six. So you know, I think our side needs to,

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Speaker 4: you know, not to declare that much of a victory

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Speaker 4: in this. I mean, up until November fifth, we were

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Speaker 4: but we were behind the eight ball according to all

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Speaker 4: the polls, and the Democrats overplayed their hand. And then

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Speaker 4: you know that's that's brilli it. I mean, Trump is great,

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Speaker 4: but you know one because of uh former and different

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Speaker 4: and disaffected Democrats that crossed over to him. Elon Musk

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Speaker 4: bought over a lot of people. RFT Junior, Kelsey Gabart.

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Speaker 4: Trump's a former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, former Democrat. I know

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Speaker 4: he's got gone, but s I just needs to you know,

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Speaker 4: a little tough love, That's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Jeff, Well, look c J T. Look, you may be right.

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Speaker 1: If there's going to be a vote, that's the one

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Speaker 1: concession that Soon gave them, which is you're going to

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Speaker 1: get a vote. Now. Thune is telling his entire side

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Speaker 1: to vote against it. So technically, from if we talk

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Speaker 1: right now, they don't have the votes. But you may

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Speaker 1: be right. You know, the rhinos always stablished in the back,

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Speaker 1: and so we may get that one year extension on

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Speaker 1: these Obamacare subsidies now, if they do do that, I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you the Republicans are going to lose the midterms

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Speaker 1: because what kept them strong wasn't just Trump and jayde Vance.

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Speaker 1: It was people like you, people like me, honestly, Kooner

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Speaker 1: Country and Maga that kept saying, no, this time you're

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Speaker 1: going to win a shutdown battle. No you're not going

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Speaker 1: to blink first. No you're not gonna capitulate first. This

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Speaker 1: time they're gonna cave. And that's what eventually happened. So frankly, look,

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Speaker 1: this is the only shutdown in my entire life that

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Speaker 1: I've witnessed. And I'm fifty six years old now, cejt

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Speaker 1: that the Democrats lost. Like, I'm stun The rhinos always

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Speaker 1: cave this time now many wanted to cave, but Trump

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Speaker 1: wouldn't let him cave. But okay, it doesn't matter. The

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Speaker 1: fact is now. And that's why Schumer can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: That's why Schumer is stunned. He's like, but they always cave.

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Speaker 1: They're like, what's going on? And I think he underestimated Trump.

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Speaker 1: And I think he also frankly underestimated jd. Vance Vance.

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Speaker 1: He was very low key, but he kept sending Vance

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Speaker 1: to the Senate. Vance was basically Trump's guys. Trump was

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Speaker 1: making deals around the world. It was JD that kept

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Speaker 1: going to the Senate talking to Thune, and Thune kept

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Speaker 1: giving him like, literally, you know, proposal after proposal. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's give Schumer this, or let's give the Democrats this,

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Speaker 1: or let's give him that. And JD kept saying no, no, no, no, listen, no, John, no, no.

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Speaker 1: The answer is no. So you know, it was Vance

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Speaker 1: and Trump really fortified the spines of the Republicans. Now,

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Speaker 1: if they give that extension in that vote, if enough

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Speaker 1: Republicans cross over, they're gonna lose them at terms. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I CJT. I'm just telling you. Look, Obamacare is a disaster.

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Speaker 1: The only way they can keep premiums reasonable, and even

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Speaker 1: then they're high but reasonable, is to keep spending hundreds

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Speaker 1: of billions of dollars, which they give to the insurance companies,

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Speaker 1: who frankly pocket most of the money. It's incredibly corrupt.

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Speaker 1: The insurance companies are the ones who really win in Obamacare,

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Speaker 1: and they own the Democrats, lock stock and barrel. That's

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Speaker 1: why the Democrats don't want to end the ACA, the

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Speaker 1: Affordable Care Act. Well, when Trump turned around with this

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Speaker 1: proposal to basically create these flexible savings accounts, saying, no, man,

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Speaker 1: take what is it, three hundred billion? We give them. No,

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Speaker 1: take the three hundred billion and write every single person

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Speaker 1: who's on Obamacare, write them a check. Don't give it

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Speaker 1: to the insurance companies. Give it straight to the people

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Speaker 1: on Obamacare. Write them a check, and say, get the

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Speaker 1: healthcare that you want. In other words, this would destroy Obamacare.

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Speaker 1: It's repealing and replacing Obamacare without even actually having to

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Speaker 1: vote for it. And I'm telling you that's when the

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Speaker 1: republic the Democrats said, holy blank, you know, Holy Toledo,

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Speaker 1: let's clean it up. Holy Toledo. Guys, it's over. It's over,

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Speaker 1: and this shutdown now. And so we'll see. But look,

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Speaker 1: part of their extending of the Obamacare subsidies, CJT, is

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Speaker 1: to give taxpayer funded quote unquote free it's not free,

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Speaker 1: we're paying for it, but free healthcare to illegal aliens.

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Speaker 1: If the Republicans support that, they're done. I'm just telling you, CJT,

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Speaker 1: they're committing political suicide. So if they know what's good

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Speaker 1: for them, let them have their vote to extend the premiums.

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Speaker 1: Let it go down. In flames, and then the Democrats's

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Speaker 1: defeat will be complete if they're smart. But then again,

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Speaker 1: one of the Republicans ever been smart? Uh? CJT. I

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Speaker 1: want to give the last word to you. What say you?

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Speaker 4: Okay? All I can say is, Jeff Things, thank you

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Speaker 4: for all the sexual and insight our site. You know,

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Speaker 4: like us, but we also need to learn some lessons

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Speaker 4: from this, and say Joan, and that's it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, CJT. Thank you very very much. Look, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Republicans are geniuses at snatching defeat from the jaws

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Speaker 1: of victory. Okay, but look, let's be clear. I'm really

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Speaker 1: I'm being serious. This wasn't John Thune who won this standoff.

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Speaker 1: You know this, This wasn't the Senate Republicans who won

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Speaker 1: the standoff. This was Trump in vance that those are

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Speaker 1: the people that won the standoff. This is Trump's victory.

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Speaker 1: Let's be clear. No. Look, I want to bring it

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Speaker 1: back to the we'll talk. It's all on the table, obviously,

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Speaker 1: but I just want to ask all of you this

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Speaker 1: one question. You're just an ordinary person out there. You're

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Speaker 1: not very partisan, Okay, maybe you're just an independent or

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Speaker 1: you know, some elections you vote Republicans. Some elections, you

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Speaker 1: vote Democrat. You're just trying to feed yourself in your family.

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Speaker 1: And you're looking at this now for forty days and

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Speaker 1: you say, well, the Democrats shut the entire government down

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Speaker 1: for what the Democrats are going to have to answer

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Speaker 1: this question, because remember they voted against reopening the government

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Speaker 1: fourteen tanks. I mean that's just a fact. So you

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Speaker 1: put the country through all of this pain and suffering.

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Speaker 1: You literally weaponized hunger. You know, people had flights canceled.

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Speaker 1: I mean you want to talk about you know, chaos

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Speaker 1: in the air, flights delayed, hell, airports were closed for

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Speaker 1: four or five six hours at a time. I mean

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Speaker 1: it was pandemonium at many airports. People's lives were really

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Speaker 1: inconvenienced by this. Some people did not get their full

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Speaker 1: snap benefits, their full food stamps. I could go on.

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Speaker 1: People lost their jobs and you're like for what what

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Speaker 1: was what was it all for to get a vote

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Speaker 1: on extending the ACA subsidies, which looks like you're gonna

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Speaker 1: lose that's it, that's what that's it. Ai ya yai

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Speaker 1: ai ya yai. I'm just saying ay ya yai. See

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Speaker 1: they're gonna look they're gonna demand heads are gonna roll

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Speaker 1: over this. That's another reason why I think Schumer's in

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Speaker 1: big trouble, and maybe even HACKEM Jeffries. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: I'm a rank and file Democrat, I'm like, we just

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Speaker 1: got our clocks cleaned, and what did we get for it?

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Speaker 1: It's time to fire the coach. Six one seven two

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Speaker 1: six six sixty eight sixty eight Ross in Boston, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for holding Ross and welcome.

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Speaker 5: Good morning Corn the country.

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Speaker 1: Right, buddy, all right, it took a while, but you know, Trump, fight, fight, fight,

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Speaker 1: and eventually you keep fighting, you win. And that's what

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Speaker 1: Trump did it, baby, He held the line and he won.

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Speaker 5: The question is well mass voters learn anything from the shutdown?

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Speaker 5: Catherin Klark, let the cat out of the bag. They

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Speaker 5: did this to gain leverage against Donald Trump, and they lost,

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Speaker 5: and the Democratic Party could care less about how many

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Speaker 5: people suffer. They are definitely not for the working man

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Speaker 5: as they were fifty years ago and before. Okay, so

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Speaker 5: all they do is care about power and greed. That's

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Speaker 5: how they care about power and greed, power and greed.

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Speaker 5: But Jeff, I want to ask all conservatives, peers have

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Speaker 5: patients with Everything that Donald Trump is doing on the

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Speaker 5: international stage will benefit the US and the survival of

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Speaker 5: the free world. Everything that he's doing, we must get

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Speaker 5: in more and more countries as allies to defend ourselves

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Speaker 5: against China and possibly Russia too. And the more allies

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Speaker 5: that we have, the better off we are, and we

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Speaker 5: can keep the communists at bay.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm with you all the way, Russ. Look, and

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Speaker 1: I think this is now going to be a big

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Speaker 1: feather in his cap. This is now a big victory.

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Speaker 1: It really is. And look, Russ, I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think when you saw Kathleen Clark, you know, this

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Speaker 1: is the number two Democrat in the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 1: But then there were so many other Democrats who were

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Speaker 1: openly admitting, yeah, we have to cause pain. Yeah we're

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Speaker 1: going to make family suffer, no question, But that's our

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Speaker 1: only leverage. When they began to leverage and openly admit

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Speaker 1: that they were using people's hunger, people's loss of their livelihoods,

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Speaker 1: people's loss of work, people's fear, people's anxiety, people's fear

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Speaker 1: they're suffering, and they were going to use that as

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Speaker 1: quote unquote leverage, that really unmaster the Democrats for who

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Speaker 1: and what they are. They don't care about the working class,

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Speaker 1: they don't care about ordinary people. And even on this

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Speaker 1: whole Obamacare, you think they care about people's health insurance. No,

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Speaker 1: what they care about is keeping the hundreds of billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars of taxpayer money flowing to the big insurance companies.

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Speaker 1: In other words, they're donors. And that's one thing that

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Speaker 1: the big it's all coming out now. The big insurance

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Speaker 1: companies told Schumer, you better make sure that you get

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Speaker 1: this thing extended. That's what we're paying you, so you

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Speaker 1: better deliver. And that's why Schumer went and launched a shutdown.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't for people on you know, and supposedly, you know,

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Speaker 1: children dying of cancer and all the other ridiculum, senior

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Speaker 1: citizens are gonna die. No, your donor said, keep the

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Speaker 1: money flow going, keep that spigot open, or we're not

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Speaker 1: going to give you money anymore. And basically we'll throw

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Speaker 1: it to AOC. She'll if you won't deliver, she will.

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Speaker 1: So that so all of this to prevent a primary

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Speaker 1: challenge from the radical left of his party. That's ultimately

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Speaker 1: why they put this whole country through this. And I

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Speaker 1: think most Americans now are realizing it. Russ as always,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for that call. Look really shameful, disgusting, immoral.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I could go on and on, so you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this though. This is not the Democrats

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Speaker 1: of old. I remember, man, they would if they had

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Speaker 1: to go a year with a shutdown, they would. This

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Speaker 1: time they folded, and they folded pretty quickly and decisively.

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Speaker 1: I know it was the longest shutdown in history, but

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Speaker 1: many you could see the crocks forming even a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, because ultimately they had no cards to play.

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Speaker 1: And Trump called her bluff. And once you call, you

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Speaker 1: know you're playing poker, and you know the other guy

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Speaker 1: doesn't have the cards, you just call that person's bluff

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Speaker 1: and it's over. And that's what Trump and then he

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Speaker 1: just kept putting more into pot. He just kept loading

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Speaker 1: up the pot more more more. Okay, I'm all in,

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Speaker 1: I'm all in. Come on, you want to go all in,

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Speaker 1: Let's go all in. And that's when they said, Chuck

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Speaker 1: gets over. It's a fold, Chuck, It's time to fold. Mike.

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Speaker 1: How much time left? All right, I'm gonna continue to

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Speaker 1: take your calls. Six one seven two six six sixty

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Speaker 1: eight sixty eight. Are you happy with the way the

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Speaker 1: Republicans performed during the shutdown