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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray w BZ cast New Radio.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna title politics here today. After much speculation, former

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Speaker 2: Republican Senator John Sunu Uh, the brother of former New

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Speaker 2: Hampshire Governor Chris Sonunu UH and the son of former

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Speaker 2: New Hampshire Governor John soun whose namesake Dad, decided he's

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Speaker 2: gonna try to take the seat that's being uh left there,

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Speaker 2: leaving from former Uh current US Senator Jean Shaheen.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: This is Republican politics in New Hampshire. It's it's unbelievable. Uh.

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Speaker 2: Sonunu ran for the US Senate in let's put it.

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Speaker 2: He was a member of Congress. He was born in

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty four and he went to Congress at the

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Speaker 2: ripe age of thirty two. He defeated a Democrat. There

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Speaker 2: was an open seat. A Republican congressman decided to run

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Speaker 2: for governor of New Hampshire. I believe he lost, But

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Speaker 2: Sonunu defeated a Democrat and one reelection in ninety eight,

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Speaker 2: two thousand, and two thousand and two, and then he

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Speaker 2: decided that well, he won reelection, I should say in

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Speaker 2: ninety eight and two thousand, he decided in two thousand

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Speaker 2: So he has run against prior Republican incumbent Bob Smith,

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Speaker 2: who he defeated, and then he defeated the incumbent Democratic

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Speaker 2: Governor Jean Shaheen in two thousand and two, but then

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Speaker 2: she came back and she defeated him, both of them

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Speaker 2: fairly close elections. In two thousand and eight. Johnsonunu went

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Speaker 2: off into the private sector and has been in the

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Speaker 2: private sector since two thousand and eight. So he served

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Speaker 2: six terms in the House and one term six years

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Speaker 2: So he made his announcement today rob Let's play Coat

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Speaker 2: two A. He's been out of politics, although his brother

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Speaker 2: Chris has been a major figure in New Hampshire politics

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Speaker 2: for the last ten years. He's been out of politics

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Speaker 2: since at two thousand and eight. Long time, long time,

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Speaker 2: eighteen years. Well at this point seventeen years. This has

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Speaker 2: cut a twenty A. Former Senator John Sununu saying he's

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Speaker 2: going to seek the Republican nomination and will therefore have

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Speaker 2: to run against Scott Brown to win the Republican nomination,

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Speaker 2: sets up a real interesting battle in New Hampshire. This

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Speaker 2: is a cut number twenty eight. Rob.

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Speaker 4: It's been a while since you elected me to serve

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Speaker 4: New Hampshire, and boy of things changed. Washington's never been perfect,

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Speaker 4: It's not meant to be. But when I was there,

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Speaker 4: people with different opinions could get together, work things out

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Speaker 4: and come to solutions. That made a real difference. But

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Speaker 4: now Congress seems loud, dysfunctional, even angry. But granted, staters

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Speaker 4: still talk. We don't always agree, but we respect one

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Speaker 2: Okay, So he's taking an appeal and saying let's get

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Speaker 2: back to the good old days. Now. We have invited

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Speaker 2: John Sanunu too. Again I have to say the candidate,

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Speaker 2: not the former governor, but we have invited him to

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Speaker 2: join us. We've invited Scott Brown to join us because

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Speaker 2: it's not often, especially in a small state like New Hampshire,

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Speaker 2: that you have two Republicans. Now, Snunu has done this before.

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Speaker 2: He ousted an incumbent Republican, Bob Smith, when he got

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Speaker 2: elected in two thousand and two to the US Senate.

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Speaker 2: So he's been away for a while, but he's stepping

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Speaker 2: back in and it's a big battle. The people who

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Speaker 2: generally when Republicans battle, there's some hard feelings. Let me

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Speaker 2: give you another part of his announcement a little longer.

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Speaker 2: This has cut twenty b as in Boston.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you're surprised to hear that I'm running for the

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Speaker 4: Senate again. I'm a bit surprised myself. Why would anyone

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Speaker 4: subject themselves to everything going on there right now? Well,

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Speaker 4: somebody has to step up and lower the temperature. Somebody

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Speaker 4: has to get things done. Laser focus on the economy, jobs,

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Speaker 4: our debt, and making our lives more affordable. Somebody has

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Speaker 4: to protect Medicare, do a better job for our veterans,

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Speaker 4: and really tackle our health care costs. And on social Security.

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Speaker 4: We keep our promises to seniors, all of them over

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Speaker 4: twelve years. I never voted to cut benefits and I

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Speaker 4: never will. I'd be honored to have your support and

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Speaker 4: return to the Senate to help calm the waters. As Senator,

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Speaker 4: I'll have just one job, stand up for the people

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Speaker 4: of New Hampshire every single day. The New Hampshire Way

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Speaker 4: needs to be the American way. Thanks for considering me.

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Speaker 4: I'll see you around.

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Speaker 2: So it's a very homey opening presentation by John Sounu. Again,

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Speaker 2: John Souna, the former Senator, wants to go back to

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Speaker 2: I would love to hear from as many callers as possible.

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Speaker 2: If you're from New Hampshire, particularly if you're not from

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Speaker 2: New Hampshire, you would think, I mean New Hampshire right

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Speaker 2: are five five not statewide races, but five major positions governor, Senate,

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Speaker 2: their act together and say, Okay, I'll run for this,

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Speaker 2: you'll run for that. To have Scott Brown against Johnsonunhu, now,

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Speaker 2: I don't know enough about the backgrounds of either of them. Well,

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Speaker 2: I know a lot about the background of each of them,

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Speaker 2: but I don't know what their interpersonal background is. I

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Speaker 2: know Chris Sonunu really well, uh and he really is

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Speaker 2: a great guy. I've told you that I thought he

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Speaker 2: and I and that's how I felt. Uh. And I

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Speaker 2: will be interested to see if Scott Brown and John

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Speaker 2: Sounu can run. They both have served in the US Senate,

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Speaker 2: Brown from Massachusetts, Sonunu from New Hampshire, not at the

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Speaker 2: same time. They didn't overlap. But I find it interesting

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Speaker 2: make way for this candidate. They're both qualified candidates. I mean,

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Speaker 2: if if the qualification is having served in the US Senate,

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Speaker 2: they both qualify. Uh. But so I want to hear

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Speaker 2: do you who do you favor at this point if

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Speaker 2: Chris Pappus Uh. I think he will probably run, if

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Speaker 2: not unopposed, he won't have any other member of Congress

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Speaker 2: But we'll see maybe a race between Sonuna and Brown

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Speaker 2: will make them both better candidates. I don't know. That's

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Speaker 2: why I'm leaving it up to you. Six one, seven, two, five,

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Speaker 2: Both the nine three, one ten thirty lines are tied up.

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Speaker 2: Bernie and Jay, you will be first and second. We

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Speaker 2: con back the lines that are open. Six one, seven, two, five,

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Speaker 2: night's ide talking a little politics. Scott Brown versus John Sanunu.

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Speaker 2: We'll hopefully have both of them on in the not

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Speaker 2: I misspoke, the New Hampshire does have a Republican governor finally,

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Speaker 2: Kelly Aart, a former senator herself. They play musical chairs

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Speaker 2: two senators, two members of the House by a Republican governor,

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Speaker 2: there for a while. We'll be back on Nightside. Let's

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Speaker 2: have a little bit of fun with this. Coming back

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Speaker 2: on nightside.

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Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, so we're kind of testing the waters for

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Speaker 2: Scott Brown and John Sanunu. Again, I keep having to clarify,

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Speaker 2: we're not talking about the former governor, talking about the

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Speaker 2: former US Senator. And again, apologies to Kelly Aart. I

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Speaker 2: blanked over the fact that she's now the governor of

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Speaker 2: New Hampshire. So they have a Republican governor, but two

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Speaker 2: House of Representatives. Where we got to go next, Let's

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Speaker 2: go to Bernie in New Hampshire. Bernie, welcome back. Next

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Speaker 2: on Nightside, you now have a multitude of qualified US

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Speaker 2: Senate candidates of the Republican side. Is that a good

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Speaker 5: Well, for me, it's a good thing. I mean I

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Speaker 5: was number one. I was very impressed with Scott Brown's

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Speaker 5: interview on your station. I thought he articulated himself.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 5: I was very happy to hear what he had to

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Speaker 5: say and moving forward going towards the race, I was

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Speaker 5: excited that, you know, we would get a Republican into

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Speaker 5: the Senate from New Hampshire, which would be a good thing.

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Speaker 5: I was really impressed with him, and I was kind

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Speaker 5: of surprised today let the Republican Party like of New Hampshire.

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Speaker 5: I mean, not that they have a say, but they

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Speaker 5: must have some type of let's say, why would we

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Speaker 5: do this when we have a good candidate already in

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Speaker 5: a good position to beat Bappos.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, I'm just kind of maybe you said, maybe,

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Speaker 5: just you know what, maybe the stronger guy comes out stronger,

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Speaker 5: you know, and that would be a bad thing. And

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Speaker 5: the difference between like my I grew up in Mass,

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Speaker 5: I work in Mass, and my friends in Mass so

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Speaker 5: quick to tell me that New Hampshire is just an

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, it wasn't always that way already, back back,

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Speaker 2: you know, when I first started in TV, which a

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Speaker 2: And slowly but surely it changed up there. You know.

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Speaker 2: Warren Rudman was a senator from up there there. You know,

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Speaker 2: which is you know, that's a rare opportunity in my opinion,

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Speaker 2: So we'll have to see how it works out. I

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Speaker 2: hope that that both Brown and Sanoonu realize that the

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Speaker 2: real prize is not the nomination. The real prize for

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Speaker 2: We don't other than Susan Collins, there's no other Republican

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Speaker 2: US senator in New England. So we have six states,

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Speaker 5: Right that's my fair is that they beat each other

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Speaker 5: up and lose sight of that instead of looking at

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Speaker 5: a voice of Leason instead of League in. Because it's great,

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Speaker 5: we have to have the two party system and that

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Speaker 5: works for the state. You know that they are actually

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Speaker 5: serving some of the state because of that. But I'm

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Speaker 5: like in mass where it's an all Democrat all the time,

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Speaker 5: and you guys lose your voice. Found me a lot

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Speaker 5: because of that, especially at the state level.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we used to have a tradition in Massachusetts

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Speaker 2: and maybe it will come back of electing Republican governors.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know Bill Weld and Paul Salucci, Mitt Romney,

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Speaker 2: Charlie Baker, even before that, Frank Sergeant John Vopie, people

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Speaker 2: like that. So Massachusetts always like to have a Republican

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Speaker 2: in the corner office. Yeah. True, that's not so much lately.

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Speaker 5: No, no, but then it's thanks for your time.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Time is precious and I appreciate you.

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Speaker 5: Let me get my point of view, and you have

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Speaker 5: a good evening.

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Speaker 2: How's your son doing? Everything still okay down there, and they.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, excellent, excellent, Thanks so much, Bernie. I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Rolling here on nights, I'm going to go

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Speaker 6: Even though I'm not too crazy about him. I gotta say,

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Speaker 6: No, no, I find you know, they're really textbook rhinos

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, all that stuff, all that stuff when when

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Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you again. I appreciate it. I think Scott Brown,

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Speaker 2: thank you. I like that.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: Have a good night you too.

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Speaker 2: The only line opened six one, seven, nine, three, ten thirty.

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Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling here. I got Laurie who is in Ohio,

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Speaker 2: but is a New Hampshire native. I have learned that

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Speaker 7: Laurie not in Ohio.

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Speaker 2: I said Idaho, right, or did they say Ohio? Oh?

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Speaker 6: No, Ohio. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why. I don't know why. I'm Laurie

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Speaker 2: in Idaho. Yeah, but the New Hampshire native. Go ahead, Laurie,

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Speaker 2: what what's your thought of that?

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Speaker 8: Well? You had me think I was losing my mind

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Speaker 2: No, oh yeah, yeah, I've had a rough night. It's

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Speaker 8: Okay, So I don't I I am a little bit baffled.

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Speaker 8: I'm guessing Scott Brown was not counting on this.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't think not.

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Speaker 9: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: No, Yeah, So I don't know what to say. I mean,

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Speaker 9: Make of it.

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Speaker 8: I mean, did did you know did he talk with

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Speaker 2: Don't think it again, No, I think that Chris said

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Speaker 6: And I do believe that.

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Speaker 2: I believe that, yeah, yeah, And I think Chris had

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Speaker 2: And and I think that if he had decided to run,

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Speaker 2: He decided that he wouldn't run.

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Speaker 8: So which I think is it's I think that's actually

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Speaker 8: a good thing. But I don't know where this john

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Speaker 9: Maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 8: Hopefully it's a good contest. And you're right, they don't

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Speaker 2: Even by the way, if if Johnson and again I

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Speaker 2: eighteen years if he gets re elected. But he's younger

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Speaker 8: Wait, when was Scott brownborn?

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Speaker 2: Wow, Scott was I'm guessing fifty three or something like that,

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Speaker 2: So I would bet that Scott no, no, Scott might

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Speaker 8: Yeah, but Scott Brown, when's the charisma?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think most people would agree with that. They

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Speaker 9: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I really caught me by surprise. It will be interesting

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Speaker 2: Sixty Scott is sixty six. He was born in fifty nine. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they both they both have advanced degrees. They

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Speaker 2: I'll bet it's been a while.

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Speaker 8: Not just has Scott lived in New Hampshire before he

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Speaker 2: Yes, Scott will tell you that I believe that that

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Speaker 8: Up there you can have the local sneering at him

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Speaker 2: I certainly will thank you, Laurie from Idaho. Thank you much.

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Speaker 2: We don't get many calls from Idaho. That's why I

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Speaker 2: How are you tonight?

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Speaker 7: Well, greetings from Shutdowntown.

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Speaker 2: Yes, shut Downtown.

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Speaker 9: I like that.

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Speaker 2: That's good. That's good, Patrick.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. I try to stay out of it as out

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Speaker 5: I can.

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Speaker 7: I can do my job without having to go inside

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Speaker 6: such a thing.

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Speaker 7: As Trump Country. And if you go into Baltimore City,

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Speaker 7: it's it's it's a lot different than Brandon Scott territory.

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Speaker 7: I will, I will, I will let you know that

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Speaker 7: it is completely different than that. So it's necessary to

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Speaker 7: clean up Baltimore. It it needs a little it needs

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Speaker 7: a little kick in the butt to get going.

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Speaker 2: All right. So we're talking about Johnsonunu and Scott Brown

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Speaker 2: running for the same seat. Both of them have served

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Speaker 2: in the US Senate. I can't think of another time

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Speaker 2: when two non incumbent former US Senators relying for the

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Speaker 2: same Senate seat.

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Speaker 7: This is one of the reasons that this subject matter

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Speaker 7: prompted me just to call it is very interesting. It's

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Speaker 7: very interesting. It's solid each of those each of those candidates,

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Speaker 7: each of these men have you know, solid footing for

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Speaker 7: the US Senate. That's not bad at all. My concern

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Speaker 7: when I look at this, if I was a member

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Speaker 7: in New Hampshire and I wanted to vote for a

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Speaker 7: person for the US Senate as a Republican. I would

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Speaker 7: look for the one who who can war. I hate

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Speaker 7: to bring that subject up, you know, I mean, you

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Speaker 7: know war, but you know things are pretty rough out there,

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Speaker 7: and we're going to have some conflicts and I want

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Speaker 7: I need somebody, We need the Congress to have a

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Speaker 7: backbone for war, and that's how we prevent it. But

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Speaker 7: it may come.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you told me, I think you said to me

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Speaker 2: an email today that there was some member of Congress

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Speaker 2: who said they.

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Speaker 7: Thought that of the Republican Party in Maryland, and he

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Speaker 7: said that No, Putin's not interested in piece because he

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Speaker 7: wants all the resources that he can get out of Ukraine.

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Speaker 7: He wants the land. He wants Ukraine, right, and the

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Speaker 7: only way that we're going to stop him is to

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Speaker 7: stop him, and I don't.

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Speaker 2: So there's an article in the Wall Street Journal tonight

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Speaker 2: that somehow Zelinsky has gotten a hold of Tomahawk missiles

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Speaker 2: and the White House. We may talk about that later.

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Speaker 2: The White House is saying that that is not true.

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Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal tends to nail their stories down there,

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Speaker 2: pretty credible newspapers, So we'll have to see how that

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Speaker 2: works out. I wonder if somehow, some way missiles Dunblack

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Speaker 2: missiles have gone to Zelenski through a third party to

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Speaker 2: give us a credible deniability.

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Speaker 7: So that is my outlook. If I was a Republican

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Speaker 7: in New Hampshire and I had these two candidates, I

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Speaker 7: would look at the one who had the background of

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Speaker 7: the war.

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Speaker 2: And who would that be? In your mind?

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Speaker 7: Is this the sunity that comes from the bushes, that

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Speaker 7: was working in the bushes?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, the dad former Governor johnson Unhu.

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Speaker 2: These he has two well he is I think it's

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Speaker 2: several children, but two of them. One is Governor Chris

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Speaker 2: Snunhu and the other is former Senator John Snunu, who

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Speaker 2: is trying to get back into the Senate after an

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Speaker 2: absence or what will be an absence of eighteen years.

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Speaker 7: Okay, well let's let's see. I don't know. I mean

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Speaker 7: Scott Scott Brown was rather, in my opinion, a little lamboyant.

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Speaker 7: Is that is that?

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Speaker 3: A good little but dad?

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Speaker 2: I mean, he was a I to think of him

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Speaker 2: as being personable sort of. You know. It's one of

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Speaker 2: those things where when you talk about people, I'll say

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Speaker 2: my friend Patrick is very stubborn, and someone will say

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Speaker 2: to me, well, well, what are you. Then I'll say, well,

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Speaker 2: I'm adamant. You know, it's a it's a it's a

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Speaker 2: stubborn is a pejorative term. They kind of mean the

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Speaker 2: same thing.

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Speaker 7: So he's Rother. He does have charismas you know, he

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Speaker 7: does have personality, and I don't know.

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Speaker 2: And well, remember they had the actor John Haam play

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Speaker 2: him on Saturday Night Live, and he was you know,

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Speaker 2: he was you know, he was. This was in twenty ten.

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Speaker 2: There were a lot of people who thought that he

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Speaker 2: might actually be the candidate to run for president in

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Speaker 2: twenty twelve. Of course, it turned out to be his

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Speaker 2: at that time, his fellow Massachusetts person Mitt Romney. But

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Speaker 2: the Romney people were a little concerned that Scott Brown

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Speaker 2: was going to swoop in once he defeated once he

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Speaker 2: defeated Martha Cokeley up here to succeed uh you know

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Speaker 2: Ted Kennedy, Uh, that that he had a potential to

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Speaker 2: really go national very quickly. But anyway, Hey, I gotta

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Speaker 2: let your one because they've got to keep rolling here. Patrick,

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Speaker 2: thank you, he's always got it. We talk to you soon, Thanks, Patrick,

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Speaker 2: have a great night. Six two five. We got one

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Speaker 2: line there and one line at six one seven n

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Speaker 2: I'm more than happy to take this into the next hour,

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Speaker 2: or we can change topics. It's always decided by the

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Speaker 2: callers tonight's side, So fill up these lines and we'll

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Speaker 2: continue to move here. John Sounu are former Senator John

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Speaker 2: Sounhu or former Senator Scott Brown in the Republican primary

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Speaker 2: that will be what now eleven months from now, Boy,

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Speaker 2: that'll be a race that will be highly contested. Good

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Speaker 2: for the New Hampshire TV stations and also Boston TV

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Speaker 2: and radio stations. Ten thirty back on Nightside right after.

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Speaker 1: This, you're on night Side with Dan Ray on w

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Speaker 1: b Z, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Back to the phones, who go, let me go back

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Speaker 2: to New Hampshire and we'll talk to Steven Merrimack, New Hampshire.

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Speaker 2: Steve love to know what you think of this development

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Speaker 2: as someone from New Hampshire.

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Speaker 3: Well, Dan, I really support Scott Brown. I've met him,

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Speaker 3: he knows me. I think that he's got the experience

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Speaker 3: he was, especially on the international scene because he was

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Speaker 3: the former ambassador to New Zealand. He is a Trumpster,

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Speaker 3: he does get along with Trump. I think that John E.

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Speaker 3: Sanunu is more of the bush variety. George W. Bush,

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Speaker 3: who really did not like Trump at all. And as

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Speaker 3: I recall going way back twenty years ago, you know,

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Speaker 3: he was front and center when it came to all

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Speaker 3: the war is that we got involved in both Afghanistan

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Speaker 3: and Iraq. And also when George W. Bush left office,

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Speaker 3: as you know, it was right in the heart of

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Speaker 3: the Great Recession. That's probably one of the reasons why

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Speaker 3: he didn't beat Shaheen, you know, back in two thousand

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Speaker 3: and eight. And I would have to describe him as

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Speaker 3: a has been. I don't think he's you know, really

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Speaker 3: relevant in this day and age. I think it you know,

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Speaker 3: Scott Brown is he may be older, but I think

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Speaker 3: his ideas are younger. And I think if he's going

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Speaker 3: to ride the tide of what Trump does over the

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Speaker 3: next eleven months, you know, Trump has a really successful

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Speaker 3: twenty six which I hope he does, and I think

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Speaker 3: he'll do very well. But as far as the battle

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Speaker 3: of two heavyweights, I don't know. I think it's going

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Speaker 3: to come down to a few debate appearances and you

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Speaker 3: know what will they debate?

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Speaker 2: And yeah, well it's it's a long time between now.

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Speaker 2: In September, there's a poll up in New Hampshire that

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Speaker 2: show John Sanunu with a higher favorability rating than Scott Brown.

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Speaker 2: But those numbers are always numbers that can change or

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Speaker 2: they could stay the same. Obviously, Kris Sanunu has really

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Speaker 2: distinguished himself in also the family name. I think he

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Speaker 2: was a really good governor. I don't live in New Hampshire,

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Speaker 2: but follow Fred.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've met Scott Brown, I've met Kristen. I

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Speaker 3: think Kris Sennina would be Actually I kept calling his

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Speaker 3: office when he was his governor. I said, boy, he

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Speaker 3: would be a great president. Actually, I would love to

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Speaker 3: see him, you know in the international I mean the

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Speaker 3: national scene as president, and he would do a good job.

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Speaker 3: He gets along with everybody, and he's got the energy.

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Speaker 3: You haven't seen this guy, how much energy he has.

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Speaker 3: He's got all O.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know Kristan very well. I probably know

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Speaker 2: Kris Sanunu as well as I know any major politician.

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Speaker 2: He has a lot of energy, this no doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: He also is a very quick and sharp mind. And

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Speaker 2: he also was a great personality. I mean, Kristinuu, well,

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Speaker 2: whoever you are, it's tough not to like Kristinunu. I mean,

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Speaker 2: there are also Democrats who have charm and uh and

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Speaker 2: and are likable people, and then there are people on

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Speaker 2: both sides who are not likable. So you know, so

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Speaker 2: you're with Scott Brown, Steve. Okay, I got it down.

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Speaker 2: I got it down. I thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see what happens. But it's interesting that he

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Speaker 3: would declare now I'm wondering why.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think there are some questions about that I share.

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Speaker 2: I share some of those questions. So we'll we'll keep

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Speaker 2: on top of it. I promise, Thanks, Steve, please keep

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Speaker 2: calling show a great night.

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Speaker 3: Good night.

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Speaker 2: Let me go to Tom and Melrose a little closer

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Speaker 2: back home here, Tom, you are next time nights.

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Speaker 9: I go right ahead, Hi, dam I think the first

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Speaker 9: time I've called.

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Speaker 2: You, first time caller. Well, Tom, welcome, welcome to get

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Speaker 2: a run of the art of applause from our digital

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Speaker 2: studio audience. You go right ahead.

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Speaker 9: I appreciate them, and I appreciate you. I'm a Democrat,

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Speaker 9: but I've always the times i've tuned in, I always

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Speaker 9: find you fair minded, trying to treat everyone respectfully, and

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Speaker 9: there we don't have enough of that these days.

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Speaker 2: So well, thank you. I appreciate that that's what I

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Speaker 2: try to do. Maybe I don't succeed in it all

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Speaker 2: the time, but I do try.

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Speaker 9: That's what leads me to my question, Frum. I fold

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Speaker 9: your assistant who was screening the call, that I didn't

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Speaker 9: know what the topic was when I first called in.

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Speaker 9: I didn't know it was strictly about Sindana and Brown.

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Speaker 9: It seemed to be about general New England politics. And

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Speaker 9: I wanted to know what you thought if you ever

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Speaker 9: thought of Graham Plattner, whom you probably know, but I

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Speaker 9: don't know if your listeners know that.

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Speaker 2: He's the guy in Maine. Right he's a.

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Speaker 9: Marine and an oyster farmer, and he's a democratic socialist,

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Speaker 9: and yet he tries so hard to be to get

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Speaker 9: his followers to be respectful of Trump supporters. In other words,

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Speaker 9: do you think of the guy that's going to try

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Speaker 9: to bring peop together as a centrist?

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Speaker 2: The only thing I know about him now, the only thing,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not I don't know much about him. He

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Speaker 2: apparently had some sort of tattoo on his body. You

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Speaker 2: know the story that I'm talking about.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I noticed no, but he had a tattoo on

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Speaker 9: his body, which apparently was a.

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Speaker 2: Tattoo that was popular with the German army during World

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Speaker 2: War Two. I think he claimed that he was he

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Speaker 2: got that tattoo. He didn't know the significance of it

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Speaker 2: while he was stationed in Slovakia. But whenever he's running

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Speaker 2: as a Democrat, I believe for the US Senate seat

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Speaker 2: that Susan Collins holds in Maine. And of course the

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Speaker 2: governor of Maine, Governor Mills, is running for that seat

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Speaker 2: up there as well. So i'd have to know more

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Speaker 2: about this gentleman before I really offered. I could just

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Speaker 2: tell you that he's been in the news the last

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Speaker 2: couple of days for all the wrong reasons.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 9: Well, you know, anybody who starts to become a bit

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Speaker 9: of a sensation gets attacked from all sides. But I

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Speaker 9: think he's doing what you're trying to do. He is

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Speaker 9: trying so hard to bring everyone together. You seek such

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Speaker 9: of him. If people say anything against Trump, he'll shut them,

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Speaker 9: he say, hear me out.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can only say I have no tattoos anywhere

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Speaker 2: on my body, and the last thing that you would

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Speaker 2: find with me would have a Nazi tattoob So I'm

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Speaker 2: willing to to do whatever I have to do. I'm

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Speaker 2: not running for office, so I don't have to worry

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Speaker 2: about that. Hey, Tom, I loved you, Carl. It was

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun chatting with you. We'll find out

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Speaker 2: more about this gentleman and if he's someone who has

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Speaker 2: a strong position as a democratic socialist, but he also

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Speaker 2: wants to try to get along with people. I think

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Speaker 2: we need more politicians, more people like that.

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Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, and you're one of them.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Tom. I appreciate your call. Thank you very thank

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Speaker 2: you a nice compliment, and I hope you come back

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Speaker 2: as a more regular caller. This is your first call call,

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Speaker 2: very thoughtful. Talk to you soon, all right. I will

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Speaker 2: love to stick with this, Thanks Tom. Love to stick

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Speaker 2: with this. Scott Brown Johnson. I think it's fascinating, but

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Speaker 2: maybe you don't. And we can go to a couple

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Speaker 2: of other topics if you'd like. You as the audience

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Speaker 2: decide six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six

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Speaker 2: one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty. Light the lines

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Speaker 2: up and we'll stick with this. If not, we will

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Speaker 2: move on. Anyone who's on the line. I will take

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Speaker 2: your call on the other side of the eleven o'clock

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Speaker 2: News