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Speaker 1: hear about it in President Trump's first State of the

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Speaker 1: Union address in his second term. Welcome to the Tuesday

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Speaker 1: edition of The Dan o'donald Show. Now to answer your question,

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Speaker 1: because I know you were thinking it. Last year, he

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Speaker 1: on all the top stories that we are following. House

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Speaker 1: Speaker Mike Johnson, after formally inviting the President to give

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Speaker 2: You mean the entire country. We'll hear an update on

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Speaker 1: We will have a preview pretty much throughout the show

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Speaker 1: a half hour we will talk with Wisconsin Congressman Scott Fitzgerald,

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Speaker 1: in the five o'clock hour. Just a couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: ago in the Oval Office, President Trump greeted Team USA Hockey.

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Speaker 4: I know, guys, good, thank you.

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Speaker 1: The entire team, save for one player, is going to

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Speaker 1: The President rather famously, or if you're a leftist, infamously

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Speaker 1: And tonight they will be the President's special guests at

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Speaker 1: This is the most popular team in the world right now,

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Speaker 1: one that you remember from the Olympics. Yes, of course,

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Speaker 1: Alyssa Low's performance to win the gold was absolutely flawless.

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Speaker 3: She hates you. No, she doesn't.

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Speaker 3: It's devoted to figure skating.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, you're saying she thinks differently than I do

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Speaker 3: Peep my Donald.

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Speaker 9: Trump will deliver the State of the Union. We know

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Speaker 9: Our constituents are facing economic ruin because of his policies.

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Speaker 1: Of course, by law, they are not allowed to sit

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Speaker 1: Obama Trump byden they have all followed Ronald Reagan's lead.

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Speaker 1: As part of their speech, they will have people in

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Speaker 1: And they're called Scutnick's in honor of Lenny Scutnick. At LEAs,

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Speaker 1: Democrats are doing? Do you know the Skutnicks that they're bringing.

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Speaker 1: They're bringing Jeffrey Epstein victims now dutifully National Public Radio,

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Speaker 1: which is just continuing to cover itself in glory. I'm

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Speaker 1: being sarcastic here after they famously said, here's why we

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty presidential election, because we believe that it's Russian misinformation. No,

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Speaker 1: they never actually believed it was Russian misinformation. They believed

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Speaker 1: cover the absolutely true laptop. They put out a patently

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Speaker 1: Epstein related crime involving President Trump. It is verifiably provably false. Now,

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Speaker 1: why did they do this today? Because it was obviously

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Speaker 1: leaked to them, Ladies and gentlemen. This is how opposition

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Speaker 1: research works. If you ever see these last second smear

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Speaker 1: In political circles, it's known as opposition research or OPO.

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Speaker 3: These are stories.

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Speaker 1: These are stories, compiled data, compiled video clips, whatever that

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Speaker 1: candidates put on their opponents. They create what are known

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to break for justice. Second, I was planning

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Speaker 1: my notes for this. I'm going to thoroughly debunk this story.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to take too long, and then we

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell Show. The story's claims sensational. The Department

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Speaker 1: three pages of FBI investigative files into a thirteen year

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Speaker 1: old girl's claims that Donald Trump in nineteen eighty three

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Speaker 1: According to her claims, he forced her into quote oral contact,

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Speaker 1: Katie Johnson hoax, and in fact Katie Johnson that was

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Speaker 1: a pseudonym. It was a Jane Doe lawsuit filed in

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Speaker 1: But wouldn't you know it, after President Trump won the election,

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Speaker 1: the lawsuit was again withdrawn in November of that year.

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Speaker 1: There is absolutely no evidence in the Katie Johnson lawsuits,

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Speaker 1: also a Katie Johnson style hoax that says a thirteen

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three, that President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein

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Speaker 1: assaulted her. Now, this supposedly happened in South Carolina, and

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Speaker 1: this is critical because there is absolutely no record that

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Speaker 1: only that, there is no evidence whatsoever none that the

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Speaker 1: standard issue exemption victim privacy protection. It might be grand

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Speaker 1: jury material. There might be some form of privileged communication,

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Speaker 1: it might be a duplicate. There's just there's no reason

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Speaker 1: that this would be intentionally withdrawn. The story, in other words,

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Speaker 1: is a complete fabrication. There is nothing substantive here. Not

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Speaker 3: The content of.

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Speaker 1: These records is a woman who called the FBI with

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Speaker 1: a cropt photo of a widely disseminated picture of Epstein

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Speaker 1: and Trump. There was another claim from a woman who

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Speaker 1: sued the Epstein estate, but her claims were dismissed in

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Speaker 1: there was no substance to this whatsoever. This was a

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Speaker 3: In pre Nazi Germany. Oh, why Truff is dangerous because.

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Speaker 10: He's evil.

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Speaker 5: America Today's unhinged liberal of the day could really be

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Speaker 5: reasons say they're not going to attend President Trump's State

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Speaker 5: of the Union address tonight. But we've got to give

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Speaker 5: it today to Angie Craig for her colorful description of

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Speaker 11: And I'll just end with this, I would rather stick

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Speaker 11: But this is the people's house, and I will not

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Producer Andrew just actually pointed out something that I had

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Speaker 11: Again, and I'll just end with this, I would rather

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Speaker 11: stick forks in my eyes than be here tonight to

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Speaker 11: listen to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: You know, you need your eyes to listen to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: She could have forks in her eyes, she could have

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Speaker 1: It just seems like a little bit of a mixed metaphor.

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Speaker 1: Good catch on that, Producer Andrew, Angie Craig, Democrat congresswoman

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Speaker 1: though she would rather be mutilating her own body. She

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Speaker 1: is your unhinged liberal of the debt. Coming up in

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Speaker 1: the Daily Trump Date, we will hear more from House

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Speaker 1: Speaker Mike Johnson, just going off on Democrats for these stunts.

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Speaker 1: If you noticed. Do you remember what the biggest controverse

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Speaker 1: Was it Roberts when he mouthed not true when President

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Speaker 1: Obama was saying And then there was one Republican who

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Speaker 1: That was like a week long controversy. Do you remember

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Speaker 1: last year when you had Texas's Al Green get up

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Speaker 1: dragged out of there by Capitol police officers. The whole

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Speaker 1: whole point is they want to distract from what is

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Speaker 1: going to be a bang up policy speech, and there's

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Speaker 1: going to be incredible stagecraft, especially having to do with

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Speaker 1: Team USA hockey, who is going to be in attendance tonight.

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Speaker 1: Daily Trump Day coming up next right, we're on the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show eight o'clock. Tonight's State of the Union

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. President Trump delivers his annual address to Congress.

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Speaker 1: Coming up in just a couple of minutes. We'll get

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Speaker 1: a preview from someone who is going to be there,

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Congressman Brian Style, great friend of the program. We'll

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Speaker 1: join us live via the phone from Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: listen to podcast. Time now for the Daily Trump Day.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna win so much you may even get tired

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Speaker 4: of winning.

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Speaker 3: Comp just keeps waiting. It is a win for the administration.

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Speaker 3: It's also a big win for the United States. We

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Speaker 3: have to keep winning. We have to win more. We're

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Speaker 1: The President's spending the afternoon meeting with Team USA's gold

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Speaker 1: will be his special guests at Tonight's State of the Union.

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Speaker 1: The President said the speech is going to be longer

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Speaker 1: saying he's going to focus primarily on the economy, which

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Speaker 1: figures to be the biggest issue in the upcoming midterm elections. Now,

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Speaker 1: while all Republican members of Congress are expected to attend,

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Speaker 1: at least those who are physically able to dozens of

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Speaker 1: Democrats say they are skipping the President's address. House Speaker

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Speaker 2: Democrats, meanwhile, are going to host count them five separate

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Speaker 2: counter events rallies of some sort, they call him in

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Speaker 2: lieu of tonight's address. For all of these theatrics, it

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter how many little gatherings they have, or where

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Speaker 2: They have nothing to offer, nothing but their TDS agenda,

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Speaker 2: the Trump arrangement syndrome, and it's on full display. All

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Speaker 2: they can say, all they can tell you about is

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Speaker 2: how they opposed President Trump and thwart his agenda and

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Speaker 2: joint address to basic immigration enforcement, and they obstruct any

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Speaker 2: meaningful progress for the sake of obstruction. It's the same

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Speaker 2: tired playbook that they run for a decade now. It's

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Speaker 2: shameful that they would boycott an address. We don't do that.

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Speaker 2: Republicans don't do that. It doesn't matter if there's a

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Speaker 2: constituents want and need us to be here.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I can't think of the last time a

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Speaker 1: It just isn't really done well. Speaker Johnson said. It

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Speaker 1: and and realize that Republicans obviously have a better one.

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Speaker 2: Republicans have a far simpler and far superior message for

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Speaker 2: Americans watching at home. We're putting more money back in

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Speaker 2: your pockets. We're restoring peace through strength. We're defending our

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Speaker 2: border into porting criminal illegal aliens. We're standing up for

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Speaker 2: American industry and manufacturing, and we're making American workers, not

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Speaker 2: foreign countries, the clear winners in this American economy. Those

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Speaker 2: are not talking points. That is what we have delivered.

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Speaker 2: It's called Republican results, and we are proud to run

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Speaker 2: on that message in this faithful midterm election year.

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Speaker 1: Now, in a rather hilarious exchange on Fox News Today,

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Speaker 1: anchor Bill Hemmer asked the chairman of the Democratic National Committee,

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Speaker 1: Ken Martin, whether his members, whether Democrats in Congress, are

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Speaker 3: Are you about members acting out?

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Speaker 12: Well, look, again, it's not my job to tell members

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Speaker 12: of Congress what to do and how to act. At

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Speaker 12: the end of the day, they're going to have to

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Speaker 12: make their own decisions again whether or not to attend

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Speaker 12: and what they do and say during the speech.

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Speaker 3: I love the framing there.

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Speaker 1: Are you worried that your three year old Democrats are

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Speaker 1: going to act out? Are you worried that they're going

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Speaker 1: to be up past their bedtime, that they're going to

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Speaker 1: need a juice box, maybe some milk and cookies and

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Speaker 1: they're blankie, that they're going to be acting out throughout

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Speaker 1: the speech that, ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump Date.

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Speaker 1: Now with more of a preview, we go to Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. And we talk with Wisconsin Congressman. Great friend

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Speaker 1: of the program, Brian Style joining us on the phone. Congressman,

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Speaker 1: great to have you back. How you doing this evening?

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Speaker 7: Dan? Thanks for having me on exciting night tonight.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, are you concerned that Democrats are going to act

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Speaker 1: out like three year olds tonight?

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Speaker 7: I just recognize it as a reality. And if there's

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Speaker 7: any blessing, it's that we will not have to look

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Speaker 7: at Nancy Pelosi sitting behind the president and watch her

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Speaker 7: pair of at speed. It's one of the reasons all

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Speaker 7: of us should be united making sure that Republicans hold

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Speaker 7: the House of Representatives in the upcoming midterms.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that I will never forget that. What

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Speaker 1: was that the twenty twenty State of the Union address

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Speaker 1: where she was Speaker of the House famously tore up

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Speaker 1: this speech. Oh yes, Democrats, please lecture us about tact

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Speaker 1: and decorum. Are you actually kind of glad that something

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Speaker 1: like fifty Democrats aren't going to be there to behave

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Speaker 1: like a bunch of jackasses fitting for the logo of

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Speaker 1: their party.

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Speaker 7: But I don't know that that will actually prevent those

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Speaker 7: that want to be disruptive and difficult from doing exactly that.

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Speaker 7: My note before, right, I mean, Speaker Pelosi had shown

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Speaker 7: the way, and we get more and more Democrats I

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Speaker 7: want to act out. There's a clear Trump derangement syndrome

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Speaker 7: amongst many Democrats and the House representatives. And instead of

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Speaker 7: being in the chamber and acting professional like adults and

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Speaker 7: listening to the successes that we've had from securing the border,

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Speaker 7: to unleashing American energy, to a foreign policy with peace,

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Speaker 7: true strength returning, they're going to return to antics and

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Speaker 7: we just accept that is a basic premise of how

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Speaker 7: they operate.

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Speaker 1: What does that say that we do accept that as

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Speaker 1: a basic premise that we're sitting here talking about not

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Speaker 1: policy or even Team USA hockey, but whether alleged adults

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Speaker 1: are going to actually have tantrums while a grown man

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Speaker 1: is speaking.

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Speaker 7: Well, it shows that that's how they're going to get

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Speaker 7: attention in clicks. So let me tell you, I do

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Speaker 7: think one of the greatest moments in the night tonight

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Speaker 7: will likely be when President Trump recognizes the gold medal

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Speaker 7: hockey team who will be in attendance. And so it's

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Speaker 7: that in highlighting other American successes that is one of

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Speaker 7: the true strength of President Trump in delivering a speech.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, that is going to be an absolute blast.

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Speaker 1: You haven't gotten a chance to meet any of the

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Speaker 1: guys yet. They're not just like walking around Washington, DC,

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Speaker 1: still chugging beers on the National Mall, are they.

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Speaker 7: Well they well, maybe chugging beers. But I do hope

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Speaker 7: to get an opportunity to see some of them later

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Speaker 7: this evening. It's just a great night all around. I

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Speaker 7: think it's just going to be a huge platform for

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Speaker 7: the President to talk about the successes that we've had

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Speaker 7: in these the gold medal hockey win over Canada. One,

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Speaker 7: it was a great game, but two it shows you

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Speaker 7: the brilliance of President Trump in inviting real world Americans

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Speaker 7: into the chamber tonight to be able to highlight how

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Speaker 7: the policies of this administration and Republicans are moving everyone forward,

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Speaker 7: from people who are living and earning tips from your

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Speaker 7: hairdresser to your bartender, to people that are working overtime

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Speaker 7: and slogging it out to make extra money for their family.

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Speaker 7: They're going to be beneficiaries in a tax on overtime,

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Speaker 7: and so it's going to be an ability to really

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Speaker 7: highlight the wide array of successes, including the athletic success

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Speaker 7: that we had with the gold medal win.

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Speaker 1: Congressman Bryan Style joining me on the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the biggest success of the first

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Speaker 1: year of the second Trump term is been.

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Speaker 7: I think it's hands down the success that we have had.

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Speaker 7: It's securing the US Mexico border.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Heading into the last presidential election, so many Democrats would

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Speaker 7: say it was either impossible or you needed this or that. No,

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Speaker 7: you needed a new president and he needed a president

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Speaker 7: with the backbone to get it done. And President Trump

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Speaker 7: had two things. He had the knowledge and understanding of

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Speaker 7: what was required, but he also had the guts to

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Speaker 7: do it. There was people that said, no, we can't

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Speaker 7: build the wall, No we can't do this. President Trump

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Speaker 7: came in and said, look, on day one, I'm going

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Speaker 7: to do four things. I'm going to stop abuse the

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Speaker 7: parole system. I'm going to stop and release, I'm going

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Speaker 7: to reinstate stay in Mexico, and we're going to restart

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Speaker 7: border wall construction. And he immediately got situational control of

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Speaker 7: the US Mexico border. We've held that for fourteen months,

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Speaker 7: and the impact of that in communities from Kenosha to

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Speaker 7: Superior is hard to overstate. You can just look at

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Speaker 7: the massive drop in the crime rate over the past

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Speaker 7: fourteen months. Is one keeth of the success of the

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Speaker 7: securing of the border.

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Speaker 1: Now, obviously that is correct, and as somebody who's spent

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Speaker 1: many vacations in Porto Arata and is just heartbroken to

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Speaker 1: see the drug cartels destroying that beautiful city, you can

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Speaker 1: see the benefit of President Trump securing that border and

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Speaker 1: keeping those animals who run those cartels and are just

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Speaker 1: slaughtering National Guard troops and terrorizing American citizens who had

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Speaker 1: the misfortune of being on vacation at the wrong time

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Speaker 1: in the wrong city. You can certainly see that One

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Speaker 1: thing that President Trump did say in his first re

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Speaker 1: election effort in twenty twenty is that he really couldn't

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Speaker 1: run on the border because he did such a good

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Speaker 1: job that it wasn't a front of mind issue for Americans. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the president's team was briefed by pollster Tony Fabrizio about

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Speaker 1: a week ago. We reported on this about the midterm message,

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Speaker 1: it's all about the economy. What do you hope to

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Speaker 1: hear from Trump tonight in terms of rallying the troops,

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Speaker 1: so to speak, in your caucus to really hammer home

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Speaker 1: the economic successes that we've seen under the first year

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Speaker 1: of this second term.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think tonight's speech is going to have three

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Speaker 7: major pieces. I think he's going to give the report

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Speaker 7: card and show the success that we've had, as I mentioned,

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Speaker 7: securing the border piece through strength, unleashing American energy with

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Speaker 7: gas prices that you can actually afford to drive to

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Speaker 7: a summer vacation this year. Then I think he's going

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Speaker 7: to set the stage and say here's what we still

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Speaker 7: need to do. We passed the Save America Act Election

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Speaker 7: Integrity in the House. We need to get that through

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Speaker 7: the Senate. We have to do more and continue our

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Speaker 7: work to hold insurance companies and others accountable to bring

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Speaker 7: down healthcare costs. And then I think we have a

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Speaker 7: huge opportunity with a piece of legislation that I have

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Speaker 7: which would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. And

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Speaker 7: so I think he's going to set that up of

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Speaker 7: what do we need to do next? And then the

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Speaker 7: third piece is I think he's going to spend a

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Speaker 7: little bit of time reminding the American people how absolutely

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Speaker 7: crazy the Democratic Party remains, from boys and girls' sports

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Speaker 7: to driving up tax rate to crazy spending, to electing

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Speaker 7: effectively Democrats, socialists mayors, and what they want to do

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Speaker 7: if they ever got back in charge. And so if

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Speaker 7: he does the look back the look ahead and reminds

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Speaker 7: the American public how absolutely radical the Democrats are, I

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Speaker 7: think that's going to be a heck of a successful

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Speaker 1: You know, I mentioned that that briefing from Tony Fabrizio.

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Speaker 1: In fact, your bill, Sir, was one thing that he

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Speaker 1: actually highlighted. The Congressional ban on trading stocks is something

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Speaker 1: that apparently pulls very very well. What is the status

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Speaker 1: of that bill? Do we see that signed in a

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Speaker 1: law by the end of the year.

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Speaker 7: I am optimistic that we will get there. We did

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Speaker 7: pass my legislation through committee. It polls well because it's

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Speaker 7: so common sense. Yeah, and so I am optimistic that

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Speaker 7: the President speaks to this tonight. I don't know if

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Speaker 7: he will or not, but this is our opportunity to

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Speaker 7: move it to the House floor, pass it overwhelmingly, to

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Speaker 7: functionally force the Senate to take the legislation up and

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Speaker 7: pass it themselves. This is a common century form that

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Speaker 7: I think the American people understand their member of Congress

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Speaker 7: should not be going to Washington to trade stocks to

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Speaker 7: potentially profit off of any insider information they gain. Their

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Speaker 7: member of Congress would be coming here to serve them

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Speaker 7: and drive forward an American first agenda.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, could not possibly agree more, Sir, Congressman Brian Style,

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Speaker 1: he is going to be in attendance for this State

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Speaker 1: of the Union addressed tonight, Sir, have a wonderful time.

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Speaker 1: If you do get any selfies with members of Team USA,

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Speaker 1: you text him to me.

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Speaker 7: Okay, you got a deal, Dan.

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Speaker 1: All right, sir, have fun tonight. I know it always

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Speaker 1: is a great time. You're listening to the Dan o'

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Speaker 1: donald show. We will be back in just three minutes

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Speaker 1: with more conservative thought and not just talk. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the Dano Donald's show coming up tonight. Of course,

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Speaker 1: President Trump's State of the Union address. I think Congressman

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Speaker 1: Brian's style is absolutely correct that a big focus should

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Speaker 1: be yes. I know it's a tad self serving, it

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Speaker 1: should be on his bill to ban congressional stock trading.

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Speaker 1: I believe President Trump is going to urge members of Congress,

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Speaker 1: and in fact, I can almost guarantee he's going to

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Speaker 1: urge members of Congress to pass what he's calling the

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Speaker 1: Save America Act. It did pass the House of Representatives,

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Speaker 1: and basically all it really focuses on is ensuring that

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Speaker 1: we have proof of United States citizenship before we turn

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Speaker 1: someone loose.

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Speaker 3: Set the polls. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Supposedly there are fifty Senators who are willing to sign

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Speaker 1: on as co sponsors in the Senate, meaning there are

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Speaker 1: fifty votes in the Republican Party for this bill. All

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Speaker 1: Senate Majority Leader John Thune needs to do is to

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Speaker 1: in some way alter the filibuster rule. And I have

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Speaker 1: been remarkably consistent over the course of the last decade

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Speaker 1: plus in talking about this. I believe that we should

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Speaker 1: simply go back to what's known as the standing or

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Speaker 1: talking filibuster, this notion that you can just say, okay,

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Speaker 1: I intend to filibuster a bill, and then the bill

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Speaker 1: just effectively dies until the supporters of it can manage

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Speaker 1: sixty votes.

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Speaker 3: That's been toxic.

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Speaker 1: And since the threshold for cloture what's known as klocher,

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Speaker 1: the stopping of a filibuster, since that was dropped to

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Speaker 1: from two thirds a majority needed to get klocher on

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Speaker 1: a bill and to end debate. Since that was dropped

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Speaker 1: to sixty votes, three fifths of the Senate filibusters exploded

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Speaker 1: in popularity, because why not all you need to do

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Speaker 1: to kill a piece of legislation is to say, I

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Speaker 1: want a filibuster, and unless it's something that nobody is

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Speaker 1: going to find any fault with, nobody is going to

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Speaker 1: find any controversy with, you're going to need sixty votes. Well,

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Speaker 1: for the first one hundred plus years of this country's existence,

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Speaker 1: all the way up until nineteen seventeen, we actually forced

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Speaker 1: you to do a filibuster if you wanted to filibuster.

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Speaker 1: To be like and everybody always says the classic example,

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Speaker 1: mister Smith goes to Washington.

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Speaker 3: I didn't just watch that movie.

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Speaker 1: I was in an acting class when I was at

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Speaker 1: Marquette University many many years ago. One of the reasons.

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Speaker 1: I just I loved my time at Marquette. I took

874
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of courses that just they interested me,

875
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: you know, And one of them was acting, and there

876
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: was a very very talented acting teacher. He was with

877
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Speaker 1: the old do you remember Theater X, the experimental theater

878
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 1: company most famous for Willem Dafoe was in Theater X

879
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,879
Speaker 1: and the guy who basically was running it at the time.

880
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Speaker 1: I believe it's now defunct. I believe it ended probably

881
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 1: about fifteen years ago or so, but it was a

882
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:45,280
Speaker 1: community mainstay for years.

883
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Speaker 3: And years and years.

884
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 1: He was my teacher, and we had to do for

885
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Speaker 1: one of our projects, I believe for our final exam,

886
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: we had to do a big monologue and I did

887
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: the filibuster scene from Mister Smith Goes to Washington. And

888
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,720
Speaker 1: my wife just reminded me that one of we were

889
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: just talking to my son, who's now, you know, on

890
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Speaker 1: his way out the door. He's heading to college next year,

891
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,399
Speaker 1: and you know, we said, we're you know, we're talking

892
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: about the a lure of parties and everything, and well,

893
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: we were dating at the time, and she said one

894
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:23,720
Speaker 1: of her favorite nights was we essentially snuck into Marquette's theater.

895
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Speaker 1: We snuck into the auditorium. I'm still not sure how

896
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Speaker 1: we did that. We somehow just got in. It was

897
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: like a Friday night, and we rehearsed that scene and

898
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Speaker 1: it was just it was. It was a lot of fun.

899
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: But neither here nor there. You'll have to forgive it.

900
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: Belling was back in the building today. I have to

901
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 1: get a little old school by just a complete segue

902
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: into random stuff in in Mark's honor.

903
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 3: No, he was.

904
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Speaker 1: He was recording an episode of the Mark Belling Podcast.

905
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Speaker 1: He's taken a brief hiatus from his hiatus. I guess

906
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: it was a short podcast to remind people. He is

907
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: going to be back for season two of the Mark

908
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: Belling Podcast in May.

909
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 3: Jay Weber starts up his.

910
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:12,840
Speaker 1: Podcast after retiring from Daily Radio on April seventh. We

911
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: are very pleased to have Jay back on the digital airwaves.

912
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: But the talking filibuster was something that was just sort

913
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: of understood. You hold the floor until you can physically

914
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: no longer hold the floor, and then you basically are done.

915
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:38,280
Speaker 1: The legislation moves forward. The framers of the Constitution never

916
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: anticipated that you would need sixty votes to pass any

917
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:48,280
Speaker 1: legislation through the Senate. It was always a simple majority. Now,

918
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,799
Speaker 1: don't get me started on what the Senate should actually be.

919
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: I actually think we should abolish what is that, the

920
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: seventeenth Amendment. We should go back to the state legislature

921
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,760
Speaker 1: picking senate. That was the entire purpose of the Senate. Again,

922
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Speaker 1: I am getting way too far afield of what we're

923
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Speaker 1: actually talking about, and that's the Save America Act, which

924
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: clearly has to be entrined in federal law.

925
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Speaker 3: There's no reason for it.

926
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Speaker 1: Do you want me to prove how insane opposition from

927
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Speaker 1: Democrats is to the Save America Act? Oh my gosh.

928
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: Women will not be able to find their marriage certificates

929
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,439
Speaker 1: and their birth certificates. They can't be They can't get

930
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 1: two forms of ID, multiple forms of ID.

931
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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? They can't do it. They can't

932
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Speaker 3: do it.

933
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Speaker 1: So you know how we've been reporting that there was

934
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Speaker 1: a nor'easter that dropped blizzard levels of snow on New

935
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Speaker 1: York City. Well, socialist may Zoron Mamdani put out a

936
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Speaker 1: call for shovelers, shovel snow. Do you know what you

937
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: need to shovel New York City? Over the past couple

938
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Speaker 1: of days, not one, but two forms of ID. So

939
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Speaker 1: Democrats are perfectly fine with requiring two different forms of ID,

940
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Speaker 1: which we are told women and minorities by those same

941
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Speaker 1: Democrats are simply unable to obtain. It is impossible for

942
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Speaker 1: women and black people to get multiple forms of ID.

943
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 1: But if women and black people want to shovel snow

944
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Speaker 1: for the city of New York after the blizzard, they're

945
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Speaker 1: going to need two forms of ID. Not to vote,

946
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Speaker 1: not to vote, absolutely not to vote, but to shovel snow.

947
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Speaker 1: Everyone knows the real reason Democrats don't want citizenship requirements

948
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Speaker 1: to vote. And by the way, there are already citizenship

949
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: requirements to vote all over federal law. It is illegal

950
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 1: to cast a ballot as a non citizen. All the

951
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Speaker 1: SAVE Act is saying, look, you just need to demonstrate

952
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: rate that you're actually an American citizen. The overwhelming majority

953
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Speaker 1: of people in this country, ninety seven percent of the

954
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Speaker 1: voting public, has easy access to some document that would

955
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: be able to prove their citizenship, or fifty percent of

956
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: them already have passports. People can just simply go get

957
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: a passport. It shows that you're an American citizen. It

958
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: is beyond easy. It takes maybe five clicks of a mouse.

959
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: You can get a copy, a digital copy of your

960
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 1: birth certificate. It is staggeringly easy to do. Well, Dan,

961
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Speaker 1: do you know where your birth certificate is?

962
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Actually I do.

963
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: It is in a file cabinet in my home and

964
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Speaker 1: also a copy of it is in Milwaukee County's records.

965
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Speaker 1: Just like ninety seven percent of the rest of the

966
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Speaker 1: voting public in this country, I have easy access to it.

967
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Speaker 1: No Democrats understand that they are the beneficiaries of some

968
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Speaker 1: level of people voting who aren't supposed to be voting.

969
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's outcome determinative fraud, but they clearly

970
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: understand that there is an advantage that would be taken

971
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Speaker 1: away by the passage of the Save Act. Coming up

972
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Speaker 1: next here on The Dan o'donald Show, we talked to

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Congressman Scott Fitzgerald ahead of President Trump's State of

974
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Speaker 1: the Union address. Stay tuned, we'll be right back after this.

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Speaker 1: A tour de fource of truth. It is The Dan

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01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 1: o'donald Show. Welcome back to it. We are so pleased

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Speaker 1: to have back on the line. Wisconsin Congressman Scott Fitzgerald,

978
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Speaker 1: who is in Washington, D C. Right now. He is

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the State of the Union address. Congressman,

980
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: great to talk to you again. What's the atmosphere like

981
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 1: in Washington, D C?

982
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 3: Right now?

983
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 8: Very exciting, very charged. A lot of people in DC

984
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 8: ready for this speech. Most members are trying to figure

985
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 8: out what the over under is on how long the

986
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 8: President's going to go this evening. He's already told people

987
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 8: he's over two hours, so most of the bets are

988
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 8: at about one hundred and twenty three minutes.

989
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: Right now, two hours and three minutes. Have you have

990
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: you taken a nap?

991
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 3: I don't know.

992
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 12: Are you?

993
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:15,439
Speaker 3: Are you waiting for a late night?

994
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 7: No.

995
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 8: I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be great.

996
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 8: I think the atmosphere is going to be great. Having

997
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 8: the US men's hockey game is just going to be

998
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 8: I think electric and off the charts, and everyone's really

999
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 8: looking forward to that. The President probably'll you know, you'll

1000
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 8: give the Supreme Court the evil eye most most of

1001
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 8: the evening as well. In the front row, and we're

1002
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 8: hearing the Democrats are going to be m I A, yeah,

1003
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 8: you know, it should be kind of a unique situation,

1004
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 8: and the room will be uh, the room will be

1005
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 8: interesting to watch.

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01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: So this is actually the first that I have heard

1007
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 1: it's it's going to be a two plus hour speech.

1008
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: You're really going with two hours and three minutes, because

1009
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: if President Trump says it's a two hour speech, you

1010
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be a whole lot of applause in there.

1011
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a whole lot of trump What does

1012
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,720
Speaker 1: he call it where he kind of goes off topic

1013
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: and then gets back to it. He's got a word

1014
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 1: for it, the weave. He calls it the weave. You

1015
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be some weave, all right, you know

1016
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some weaving. I'm actually thinking this might

1017
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: be closer to two and a half.

1018
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 8: Oh, you may lose me at that point. I'm here.

1019
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,800
Speaker 8: We'll see if if you're on you know, if you're

1020
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:36,960
Speaker 8: watching it on c SPAN, you may see a few

1021
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 8: older members probably not out at some point.

1022
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: At some point, are you allowed to like sneak out

1023
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom?

1024
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 3: How does that work?

1025
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 8: No? No, No, it's security's super tight. No, nobody can

1026
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 8: leave until the speech is over.

1027
01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 7: Oh yeah for a while.

1028
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:52,880
Speaker 8: Too, So yeah, yeah, it'll be interesting.

1029
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'll tell you what you probably need to, like,

1030
01:02:56,080 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: go to the sauna or something, sweat out everything, don't

1031
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: don't have anything to drink, Congressman after like five pm,

1032
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 1: I guess that would be six pm your time. So

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01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 1: you mentioned Team USA Hockey. I can imagine a whole

1034
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Speaker 1: lot of members are buzzed about having them be in attendance.

1035
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: That that's got to add a whole nother level of

1036
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 1: excitement to this.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely.

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01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:26,440
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think everyone that I've spoken to is anticipating

1039
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 8: that'll kind of steal.

1040
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 7: The entire show.

1041
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 8: Actually, so it's we're not sure how they're gonna do it,

1042
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:34,160
Speaker 8: if they're gonna bring them in through the gallery or

1043
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 8: onto the floor. But but we're hearing everyone's participating in

1044
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 8: every It looked like a lot of a lot of

1045
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 8: them were at the White House earlier this afternoon.

1046
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office.

1047
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 3: Hopefully.

1048
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 1: I've actually made Congressman style promise that if he got

1049
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: any selfies with any of them, you've got to send

1050
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 1: him on over to me tonight. So I'm going to

1051
01:03:56,120 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: hold you to the same account. Now on Paula, See

1052
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: what do you hope President Trump says in those four

1053
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 1: and a half hours that he's up there talking when

1054
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: you're just going to be desperate to go to bed

1055
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: in the bathroom. What do you hope that he really

1056
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: what do you hope that he covers?

1057
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Speaker 8: I mean the immediate kind of topic would be the shutdown. Yeah,

1058
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 8: and I hope he calls out Senator Schumer and really

1059
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 8: kind of that whole group over there that's been completely

1060
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 8: disingenuous and just mucking things up for homeland security right now.

1061
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 8: You know it, once again, we find ourselves in a

1062
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 8: situation where, unfortunately, it's like the American public has to

1063
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 8: pay the price for the absolutely ridiculous amount of politics

1064
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:48,320
Speaker 8: that's happening over some of these issues.

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Speaker 7: So I'm sure I'll address that.

1066
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Speaker 8: I'm you know, I kind of said it jokingly, but

1067
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Speaker 8: I'm you know, he's so upset about the global tariff stuff. Yeah,

1068
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 8: that now that he's rolled out the fifteen percent, I'm

1069
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 8: sure he'll probably walk through that and describe exactly what

1070
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 8: his thoughts are there.

1071
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 3: What do you just to tell them? Oh, so I'm

1072
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Speaker 3: sorry to interrupt.

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Speaker 1: I actually you're you're so measured and I think you

1074
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 1: sort of balanced being a free trader at heart, with

1075
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 1: the reality of why those sort of tariffs were needed

1076
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 1: in the first place, to sort of get other countries

1077
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:29,400
Speaker 1: back in line with where the United States is on tariffs.

1078
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 1: What do you make of the president's strategem after the

1079
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 1: emergency tariffs were lifted.

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01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, they must have seen it down with

1081
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 8: the attorneys, and I can't believe they didn't strategize this

1082
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:45,120
Speaker 8: before the Supreme Court made their final decision, because they

1083
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 8: said they had enough time to do that. But it

1084
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 8: sounds like, you know, when the Supreme Court blocked the

1085
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 8: Trump tariffs under the international Emergency Economic Powers, that really

1086
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Speaker 8: almost is like they haven't thought the whole thing through.

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Speaker 7: But like I've said before, I mean.

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Speaker 8: You know, the President is operating in the moment, and

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Speaker 8: you've got a Supreme Court that is so static and

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Speaker 8: unable to really have much flexibility when it comes to

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Speaker 8: something that's moving as quickly as the shite house is

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Speaker 8: right now. No matter how they rule on something like this,

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Speaker 8: there's always going to be the ability to kind of maneuver,

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Speaker 8: and certainly under Section one twenty two.

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Speaker 7: You know there is there's some room there to.

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Speaker 8: Kind of be able to make some changes that probably

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Speaker 8: the Supreme Court won't be able to respond to again,

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Speaker 8: so it's he's got I think the President really has

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Speaker 8: kind of a little bit of the upper hand on

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Speaker 8: this whole issue at this point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're probably right, especially with respect to

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Speaker 1: the unfair trade practices that he would be able to under.

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Speaker 1: I believe it's section three oh one of one of

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Speaker 1: the Act sixty two or seventy one that does give

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Speaker 1: him broad power as the Trade Representative can investigate. And

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Speaker 1: if there's a determination that a foreign country has unfair

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Speaker 1: trade practices, which China is practically swimming in, then obviously

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Speaker 1: there could be tariffs as a means of deterring that behavior.

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Speaker 1: On the economic message that figures to be this central

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Speaker 1: point heading into the midterms, what do you hope the

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Speaker 1: President says as a way of telling the American people, Hey,

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Speaker 1: things are a lot better than they were over the

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Speaker 1: last four years, and you really need to re elect

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Speaker 1: Republicans so we don't start backsliding immediately into the bad

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Speaker 1: old Biden years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: I mean, he's obviously going to go for the line

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Speaker 8: that he's been using for some time, which is we

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Speaker 8: inherited quite a mess from the Biden administration, and then

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Speaker 8: I think from there he moves quickly into kind of

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Speaker 8: addressing the affordability stuff. I mean, I think there's some

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Speaker 8: bigger themes that I hope he focuses on and we

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Speaker 8: don't end up in kind of this situation where he's

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Speaker 8: simply talking about the price of gas and the price

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Speaker 8: of eggs and the price of whatever that consumer good

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Speaker 8: might be, Because you know, there is a there's a case

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Speaker 8: to be made that right now there are some bigger

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Speaker 8: ticket items that really is bogging down the economy. And

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Speaker 8: we have right now this twenty first century home bill

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Speaker 8: that's being rolled out that we think, you know, that

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Speaker 8: in combination with maybe the FED continuing to and he'll

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Speaker 8: take his shots at the Fed.

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Speaker 7: I'm sure, Oh right, all right.

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Speaker 3: How about this?

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Speaker 1: How about this for betting? How about this for betting?

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Speaker 1: More shots at Jerome Powell or the Supreme Court justices

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Speaker 1: who voted against him.

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Speaker 8: Uh, he's not He doesn't like the chairman very much,

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Speaker 8: So I think he might actually go after after the chairman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's I think it's Powell for sure.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, And you know, there's some bigger ticket items we

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01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:05,760
Speaker 8: talk about this all the time. I mean, if you're

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Speaker 8: paying twenty four hundred dollars a month to rent a

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Speaker 8: two bedroom apartment, ye, or if your mortgage rate is

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Speaker 8: three thousand dollars a month. I mean, that's something that

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Speaker 8: pulls a lot more revenue out of somebody's pocket than

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Speaker 8: the cost of eggs or some of these consumer goods.

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Speaker 8: And that's where I think the focus needs to be.

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Speaker 8: You know, we came out of COVID that was a disaster,

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Speaker 8: and now we find ourselves kind of with the Biden

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01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:34,679
Speaker 8: administration not really doing much other than pumping more cash

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Speaker 8: into the system. So you know, I don't know who

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Speaker 8: expected this thing to turn around in a year, but

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Speaker 8: you know, I think that's why he needs to continue

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01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:47,680
Speaker 8: to remind people kind of what happened under the Biden administration.

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Speaker 1: And also, do you think there's going to be a

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Speaker 1: push for a senators to pass the Save Act?

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Speaker 8: You know, I hope he does call him out on it.

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Speaker 8: I know that Senator Lee right now is probably you know,

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Speaker 8: the one that's leading the charge on the idea that

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Speaker 8: if you're gonna do a filibuster, you need to stand

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01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 8: on the floor and shially capture you know, you can't.

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Speaker 8: You can't do a filibuster and then get on a

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Speaker 8: jet and fly to a security conference in Europe. You know,

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's it's ridiculous kind of the way that

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Speaker 8: Saul is playing out. But you know, I've listened around

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01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 8: Johnson a couple of times talk about it, and you know,

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01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:30,240
Speaker 8: right now, it seems that Soon doesn't believe that that

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Speaker 8: they can kind of pull this off in any way,

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Speaker 8: which is really sad. And I think the other thing

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Speaker 8: that Senator Johnson's saying right now, which you know he

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01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 8: knows better than I being in the Senate, is that

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Speaker 8: the Dems are gonna do it anyways. It's gonna get

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Speaker 8: full control to flip it, just like Harry Reid did

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01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 8: on the judicial appointees.

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Speaker 7: So you know, it's uh and then everyone's gonna yep.

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Speaker 1: Congressman Fitzgerald looks like we lost a lot of time.

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Speaker 1: I believe he's in the Capitol right now. There are

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of thick, thick walls in there.

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Speaker 3: That's that's fine.

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01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,599
Speaker 1: We actually have to move on anyway, bring you the

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01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 1: unsung here of the day.

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Speaker 3: We do.

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01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: Oh wait, he's calling back. Let's put him right back

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Speaker 1: on you can just answer the phone, because I'm going

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01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:21,600
Speaker 1: to take a while. Guess that this is Congressman Fitzgerald

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01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:25,280
Speaker 1: and not somebody asking about the property that I most

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01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:28,719
Speaker 1: definitely do not own at one two three Elm Street.

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Speaker 3: Okay, good, Yes, it's me. All right back. You're not

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Speaker 3: you're not calling.

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Speaker 1: You're not calling about my vehicle's extended warranty, sir.

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Speaker 3: Are you right now?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry you were saying, you were saying you got

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Speaker 3: cut off.

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Speaker 8: No, I'm just saying, you know, I think overall, what

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Speaker 8: you're gonna see is is kind of the President laying

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Speaker 8: out not only his plan for the next three years,

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Speaker 8: but also him kind of summarizing that, Hey, listen, we

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Speaker 8: are cleaning up the mess that we were handed and

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Speaker 8: and I you know, I think there's a good, good

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Speaker 8: portion of the American public that are willing to give

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01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:09,599
Speaker 8: any president kind of a you know, a path on

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01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 8: some of this stuff until they actually have the amount

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Speaker 8: of time that they need to strain it out.

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Speaker 1: Well, sir, best of luck to you staying up for

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01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:21,800
Speaker 1: all seven hours of President Trump's speech. He's bringing back

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01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 1: the philibuster tonight. I heard he's going to do a

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01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 1: talking Philibuster worre Teas and I know it's going to

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01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:30,880
Speaker 1: be an electric atmosphere. Team USA in the House. State

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01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:34,520
Speaker 1: of the Union addresses are always fun for the audience

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01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 1: at home. I can only imagine what it's like being

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Speaker 1: there on the floor of the house, Sir, enjoy every

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01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 1: moment of it. We always do appreciate you giving us

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01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:43,719
Speaker 1: an update.

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Speaker 7: Thanks Dan, good to be with you, You too.

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Speaker 3: My friend.

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Speaker 1: We will name the unsung hero of the day coming

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01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 1: up next, and then we dive into one of the

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Speaker 1: more frivolous lawsuits I have seen filed in Wisconsin in

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Speaker 1: many years. School districts in Wisconsin and partner with a

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01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 1: left wing law firm to file one of the most

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Speaker 1: frivolous suits I think I have seen in quite some time.

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01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:12,440
Speaker 1: They're suing the legislature over the way the legislature appropriates

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01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:16,720
Speaker 1: funds for schools. This needs to be laughed out of

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01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:21,599
Speaker 1: court immediately. Why because we are spending more on education

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01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:25,360
Speaker 1: per student than we have ever spent in the state's history.

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Speaker 1: We will dive into that lawsuit. Also, a truly disturbing

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01:13:31,439 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 1: story out of Madison East High School. Yes, even more

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01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 1: disturbing than the drag show that we reported on a

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01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, an autistic nonverbal student forced.

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Speaker 3: To eat dog food. That's the allegation.

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Speaker 1: Suffice it to say, I'm a little skeptical. We will

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Speaker 1: get to all of that coming up in the five

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Speaker 1: o'clock hour here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Right now, though,

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Speaker 1: the unsung hero of the day. Today's unsung heroes are

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Speaker 1: two heroes who seem destined for each other, Skeeter Black

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Speaker 1: and Jet Blue.

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Speaker 3: These are real names.

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Speaker 1: Skeeter Black is a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer who

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Speaker 1: adopted a dog known as Jet Blue, who was abandoned

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01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:31,880
Speaker 1: by his owner after she tried to board a Jet

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Speaker 1: Blue flight with the dog on February second, falsely claiming

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Speaker 1: it was a service animal. She was denied boarding because

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Speaker 1: the required documentation was it of course, properly completed, and

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Speaker 1: instead of taking the dog back, she tied him to

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Speaker 1: a metal carry on baggage sizer at the Jet Blue

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Speaker 1: ticket counter and then walked away to board her flight alone.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas officers responded. The dog initially taken to animal control,

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Speaker 1: then fostered by Retriever Rescue of Las Vegas. The story

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01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:08,720
Speaker 1: went viral, and after a mandatory hold period and a

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Speaker 1: review of applications, jet Blue was officially adopted over the

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Speaker 1: weekend by Skeeter Black, one of the Las Vegas Police

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Speaker 1: officers who helped rescue him that day, as well as

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Speaker 1: Officer Black's family. The rescue group and police department sharing updates,

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Speaker 1: calling it a fitting conclusion where the pupp gets a

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01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:36,240
Speaker 1: loving home with someone who stepped up when jet Blue

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Speaker 1: needed it the most. Just a very very cool story

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01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 1: and a happy ending to a story that makes you

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01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:47,720
Speaker 1: want how are people allowed to own dogs that they

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01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 1: are not clearly going to care for. I mean, maybe

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01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,200
Speaker 1: getting a puppy a couple of months ago has made

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Speaker 1: me an old softie. But good for you, Officer Skeeter Black.

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Speaker 1: You also have one of the coolest names in the

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Speaker 1: history of names. We'll be right back after this. So

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Speaker 1: I just went to the little market place that we

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Speaker 1: have here at the Pristine iHeartMedia Studios in Milwaukee, the

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee area technically, and realized that I didn't even think

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Speaker 1: about it. I got myself a pepsi. Now we have

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Speaker 1: pretty much every soda known de mankind in the little

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Speaker 1: vending machine area. I realized I am like an oddity,

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01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:32,960
Speaker 1: and I was thinking about a segment. I don't know

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01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:37,000
Speaker 1: if we ever really did this on the program, but

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01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 1: I have been talking about it for a while. Dan's

1276
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 1: oddly controversial opinions that I have very very weird opinions

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01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 1: that most people find insanely controversial.

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01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:50,480
Speaker 3: Not on politics.

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01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:53,680
Speaker 1: Everybody obviously should agree with me on politics, as you

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01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:56,320
Speaker 1: folks all know, but just on random stuff like, for instance,

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Speaker 1: for instance, my worst one. I am a millennial. I'm

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01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 1: an older millennial. I grew up in the eighties and nineties.

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01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 1: I hate The Goonies. I think The Goonies is an

1284
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:13,720
Speaker 1: awful movie, and all it is is.

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01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:15,400
Speaker 3: A bunch of kids screaming at each other.

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01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:18,760
Speaker 1: Okay, the woman who plays Ma Beagle or whatever the

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01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 1: hell her name is, the Fortelli, Ma Fortelli, It's fantastic.

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01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 1: Joe Paneliano, obviously, as one of the Fortellies, is tremendous.

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Speaker 1: I just I never watched it. When I was a kid,

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Speaker 1: I was one of the few kids in my generation

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01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:36,040
Speaker 1: that didn't watch The Goonies, and as a as a result,

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Speaker 1: my wife was says, you gotta watch the Goonies, you

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01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:40,880
Speaker 1: gotta watch it. So we watched it. I was like

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01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:44,240
Speaker 1: twenty five, maybe thirty, and I'm like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: this is awful.

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Speaker 3: And when I.

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Speaker 1: Tell people that at parties, you would think like I

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Speaker 1: kicked their puppy. You would think I insulted their dead mother.

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01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 1: That the reactions I get. One of my friends jokingly

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Speaker 1: for an entire night said he wanted to fist fight me.

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Speaker 3: At least I think he was joking.

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Speaker 1: My oddly controversial opinion, I will almost always prefer Pepsi

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01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 1: than coke.

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Speaker 3: Now before before you people.

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01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:20,679
Speaker 1: Dive in on me, first of all, my wife actually

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01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:23,040
Speaker 1: just got me. I love coca and a glass bottle.

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01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 1: Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it.

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01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:29,519
Speaker 1: I cannot get enough coca and glass. But it's just

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Speaker 1: it tastes way better than any other type of coke,

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Speaker 1: save for maybe McDonald's coke. McDonald's coke is like right

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01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:40,320
Speaker 1: up there with uh coca and glass. But I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they're still putting cocaine in it. But McDonald's

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01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 1: coke just tastes way better than other can coke. Eh,

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01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:51,599
Speaker 1: restaurant coke that's not McDonald's coke.

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Speaker 3: EH. I like PEPSI.

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Speaker 1: I prefer PEPSI, just so you know, you people probably

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01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 1: prefer pepsi too, you just don't know it. Pepsi always

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01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 1: dominates blind taste tests. You remember when they did their advertising,

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01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:13,919
Speaker 1: I think pretty consistently throughout the nineties was the Pepsi Challenge.

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Speaker 1: Remember that one where they would get coke drinkers and

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01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:19,400
Speaker 1: they would do a blind taste test. Well, they knew

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01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:21,719
Speaker 1: people were going to if they didn't, if they weren't

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01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:25,559
Speaker 1: able to immediately recognize coke, like they drank enough of

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01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:28,879
Speaker 1: it where they're able to tell, they would pick pepsi

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01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:32,760
Speaker 1: because it's sweeter. But yeah, my oddly controversial opinion is

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01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 1: that I prefer pepsi And the reason for that it

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01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:38,719
Speaker 1: actually it's kind of sweet. It's my late grandfather. When

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01:19:39,479 --> 01:19:43,480
Speaker 1: I would cut his grass. He lived sort of across

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01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: across Forest Home. We grew up right by Saint Mary's

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01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: Hill's corners, which is why I went to that school.

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01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: And he lived literally right across Forest Home near the

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01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:58,719
Speaker 1: River Parkway, and I would ride my bike and cut

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01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: his grass. My brother and I we split the job,

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01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:04,280
Speaker 1: and every other week one of us would go and

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01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,320
Speaker 1: cut the grass. We cut his grass weekly and he

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01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 1: would have a pepsi waiting for us. Afterwards, we'd sit

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01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:14,760
Speaker 1: and we'd smell the freshly cut grass and we would

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01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 1: drink pepsi. So every time it just reminds me of

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01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 1: being a kid and cut my grandpa's lawn. So assuming

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01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 1: also it tastes better. All right, top stories we are following. Obviously,

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01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:27,920
Speaker 1: we are now three hours away from President Trump's State

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01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:31,520
Speaker 1: of the Union address. He spent much of the afternoon

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01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:35,040
Speaker 1: greeting the Team USA gold medal winning hockey team.

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01:20:35,120 --> 01:20:41,679
Speaker 3: Today. He says he knows every one of them.

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01:20:43,320 --> 01:20:57,840
Speaker 1: Guys. Thank you, He said, Wow, these are big guys.

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01:20:58,080 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 1: I knew these guys when they were peanut, he said

1347
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:03,360
Speaker 1: to one of the players, and now they're big stuff.

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01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:07,719
Speaker 1: Fantastic picture floating around social media right now of all

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01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:10,760
Speaker 1: of Team USA crowding around President Trump sitting at the

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01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:13,760
Speaker 1: Resolute desk in the Oval Office, Very very cool. He

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01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 1: is obviously going to give them a big shout out

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01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:20,599
Speaker 1: during tonight's speech, and according to House Speaker Mike Johnson,

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01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:24,680
Speaker 1: he is also going to make talk about the promises

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01:21:24,720 --> 01:21:26,240
Speaker 1: he made and promises he.

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Speaker 2: Can the night, President Trump will demonstrate that Republicans are

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01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:32,320
Speaker 2: the only team working seriously to bring common sense back

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01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:35,519
Speaker 2: to a broken system. It's promises made, promises cat.

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01:21:36,040 --> 01:21:38,680
Speaker 1: And that is because most Democrats aren't even going to

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01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 1: be there upwards if fifty of them say they are

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01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:46,680
Speaker 1: going to boycott the event for various other alternative programming.

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01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:50,960
Speaker 1: By the way, one of the responses is going to

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01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:54,720
Speaker 1: be given by new Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger.

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01:21:54,760 --> 01:21:56,400
Speaker 3: A very very good friend.

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01:21:56,960 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 1: By the name of Jim just texted me what can

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01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 1: span Bauer span Burger possibly say tonight?

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01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:07,160
Speaker 3: Is it span Burger or span Bauer?

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01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:09,719
Speaker 1: I went to grade school with a guy named span Bauer,

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01:22:09,760 --> 01:22:12,880
Speaker 1: good friend Abigail span Berger. I believe it is yeah,

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01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:16,679
Speaker 1: span Burger. Okay, now he's confusing me. Span Bauer must

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01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 1: be a popular Wisconsin. What can span Berger possibly say tonight?

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01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:23,639
Speaker 1: In her dem response, her Craig great taxes on everything

1372
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:30,559
Speaker 1: have got to have her constituents going WTF, Yes they are, Jim.

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01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:35,600
Speaker 1: Democrats retook control of all three branches of power, the

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Speaker 1: Virginia Lower House, which I believe is called the House

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01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:41,879
Speaker 1: of Delegates, the state Senate, and they also now control

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01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:46,519
Speaker 1: the governor's mansion. After the very very popular Republican governor,

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01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:52,800
Speaker 1: there was term limited out and they immediately enacted all

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01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 1: manner of liberal insanity, and people were like, hey, wait

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01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 1: a second, Wait a second, I thought span Berger was you.

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01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:01,920
Speaker 1: She campaigned on being a normal dem She was like

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01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:05,400
Speaker 1: a John Fetterman Democrat, like a traditional Democrat, not like

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01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:08,360
Speaker 1: one of these crazy sociopaths that they have in New

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01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 1: York and let's face it, pretty much everywhere else in

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01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:15,360
Speaker 1: this country. Well, that's the old bait and switch that

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01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: you get. Yeah, what exactly is she going to say?

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01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:23,040
Speaker 1: But clearly Democrats are positioning her to be a big

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01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:30,599
Speaker 1: future star, because that's what this spot typically entails. That

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01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 1: whoever it is that they believe is next man up,

1389
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:38,200
Speaker 1: whoever they want to really elevate the standing of they

1390
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: have them do the response to the state of the Union.

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01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:43,559
Speaker 3: I always think it's a thankless job.

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01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:46,640
Speaker 1: If I made this very quickly, we'll get into this

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01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 1: lawsuit against the Wisconsin legislator. I have been licking my

1394
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:54,880
Speaker 1: chops trying to dismantle this thing from a constitutional and

1395
01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: legal perspective pretty much all show long. But the response

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01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:02,360
Speaker 1: to the state of the un is always thankless because

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01:24:03,200 --> 01:24:06,720
Speaker 1: you just can't match the stagecraft.

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01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:07,040
Speaker 3: I know.

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01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 1: I keep using that word today stagecraft, stagecraft, stagecraft. It's

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01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 1: all about stage, the majesty of the floor of the

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01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:17,240
Speaker 1: House of Representatives the United States Capital.

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01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 3: You've got a huge crowd.

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01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:22,800
Speaker 1: Cheering for you, and then you go to the response

1404
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 1: and it's some woman sitting in her kitchen. Didn't they

1405
01:24:26,080 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 1: do that with Katie Britt giving the Republican response a

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01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:32,599
Speaker 1: couple of years ago to old man Biden, and even

1407
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:37,040
Speaker 1: Biden fumbling and stumbling his way through the speech still

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01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:42,719
Speaker 1: casts sort of a grand shadow that the response always

1409
01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:47,920
Speaker 1: feels small being underneath if you follow me, So good

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01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:50,719
Speaker 1: luck to the Dems, of course, whatever it is, span Berger.

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01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:54,760
Speaker 1: Spanbauer says tonight, the media will tomorrow say that she

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01:24:54,920 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 1: is absolutely a star and she perfectly refuted everything Trump said. That,

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01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: by the way, is why we do every single day

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01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:06,720
Speaker 1: at four pm, we do the Daily Trump Date, and

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01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:10,520
Speaker 1: we will always try to have soundbites, oftentimes longer soundbites

1416
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:13,400
Speaker 1: than we normally play on the show, because we want

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01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:17,400
Speaker 1: you to actually hear what it is that President Trump,

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01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:20,360
Speaker 1: members of his cabinet Republicans say, because we know you're

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01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:23,599
Speaker 1: not going to hear that on the nightly news. You're

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01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:26,799
Speaker 1: likely not going to read that in the morning paper

1421
01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:30,200
Speaker 1: for the five of you who still actually read physical newspapers,

1422
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:32,840
Speaker 1: or you're not going to get an accurate picture on

1423
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:37,840
Speaker 1: social media by traditional left wing news sources. So we

1424
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:40,840
Speaker 1: try to bring you the unfiltered truth, all right, the

1425
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:45,600
Speaker 1: unfiltered truth about a lawsuit that was filed in o

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01:25:45,760 --> 01:25:51,559
Speaker 1: Claire County Circuit Court today by the Wisconsin PTA, the

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01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:56,840
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Parent Teachers Association, Green Bay, Beloit, o'claire school districts,

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01:25:56,880 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: and along with a number of other districts, teach unions

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01:26:01,160 --> 01:26:06,640
Speaker 1: of course, and various individual parents. It alleges in a

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01:26:06,720 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 1: suit against the Wisconsin legislature that Wisconsin's public school funding

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01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:20,160
Speaker 1: system is unconstitutional under Article ten, section three, which requires

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01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:24,760
Speaker 1: that public schools not charge any tuition and have uniform

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01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:31,799
Speaker 1: instruction and equal opportunity for a quote sound basic education.

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01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:37,000
Speaker 1: That is the central claim. Because some schools get more

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01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:42,439
Speaker 1: funding than other schools, they allege this violates Article ten

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01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:48,280
Speaker 1: section three. I don't think I have ever heard something

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01:26:48,439 --> 01:26:52,439
Speaker 1: so stupid, So I started thinking, Okay, who is it

1438
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:55,839
Speaker 1: that's making this insane argument?

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01:26:56,400 --> 01:26:56,639
Speaker 7: Oh?

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01:26:56,800 --> 01:27:02,200
Speaker 1: Yes, Law Forward, the left wing Madison based law firm

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01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:07,599
Speaker 1: that will take any suit and make any insane argument

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01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:15,360
Speaker 1: for a reasonable fee. They claim that underfunding of schools,

1443
01:27:15,560 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 1: combined with outdated revenue limits on what it is that

1444
01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:25,439
Speaker 1: schools are able to essentially charge in property tax levies

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01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:30,080
Speaker 1: and a diversion of funds to voucher and charter schools,

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01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:36,439
Speaker 1: as well as declining student outcomes, prevent schools from meeting

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01:27:36,479 --> 01:27:42,639
Speaker 1: their constitutional standards and thus providing anything but a sound

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01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:50,439
Speaker 1: basic education that is uniform and provides equal opportunities. I

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01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:54,240
Speaker 1: don't even know how you make that argument with a

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01:27:54,280 --> 01:27:59,160
Speaker 1: straight face. Do you know why? Because we are now

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01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 1: funding public schools at a higher rate than we have

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01:28:03,120 --> 01:28:05,639
Speaker 1: ever funded them before.

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01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:06,880
Speaker 3: Ever.

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01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:14,200
Speaker 1: Ever, the US average is roughly sixteen thousand, five hundred

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01:28:14,240 --> 01:28:18,280
Speaker 1: dollars per k twelve student. Do you know what our

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01:28:18,439 --> 01:28:23,080
Speaker 1: average now is what we pay to educate a single student?

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01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:31,440
Speaker 1: It is roughly sixteen thousand, five hundred dollars. Nominal spending

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01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:34,679
Speaker 1: has now caught up within it. We have always been

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01:28:34,840 --> 01:28:37,439
Speaker 1: very competitive in terms of the national average. In fact,

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01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: some estimates now say that we are well over seventeen

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01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:46,880
Speaker 1: thousand dollars per student statewide, including our friends at Wisconsin

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01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:53,000
Speaker 1: Manufacturers and Commerce. In their recently released Competitiveness report, they

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01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:57,040
Speaker 1: put the average at seventeen thousand, four hundred dollars per student.

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01:28:57,360 --> 01:29:01,400
Speaker 1: Now that is up. That is well more than doubled

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01:29:02,200 --> 01:29:06,360
Speaker 1: what we spent twenty five years ago. Not only that,

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01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:13,360
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you noticed, but Governor Evers allegedly constitutionally,

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01:29:13,479 --> 01:29:17,080
Speaker 1: through a four hundred year partial veto back in twenty

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01:29:17,120 --> 01:29:22,080
Speaker 1: twenty three, authorized a three hundred twenty five dollars per

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01:29:22,280 --> 01:29:27,519
Speaker 1: student per year revenue limit increased through the year twenty

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01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:31,759
Speaker 1: four to twenty five, which enables school districts to raise

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01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:36,160
Speaker 1: roughly two hundred and seventy million dollars more per year

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01:29:36,280 --> 01:29:38,840
Speaker 1: via local taxes that they never ever have to go

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01:29:38,880 --> 01:29:43,760
Speaker 1: to referendum to increase. This is an ongoing, massive, and

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01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:48,559
Speaker 1: I mean massive funding hike that plaintiffs never even mentioned

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01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:51,120
Speaker 1: at any point in their lawsuit. Why do you suppose

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01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 1: that is they are fully funded. They are more than

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01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:56,920
Speaker 1: fully funded for the next four centuries.

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01:29:58,040 --> 01:30:00,040
Speaker 3: Four centuries.

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01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 1: By the way, in case you're wondering why we have

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01:30:04,560 --> 01:30:07,120
Speaker 1: revenue limits, if you haven't been in Wisconsin or been

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01:30:07,200 --> 01:30:11,120
Speaker 1: following Wisconsin politics for that long, They've been in place

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01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:16,120
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety three. And what they do is effectively,

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01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:20,000
Speaker 1: what governor evers did they protect taxpayers from just unchecked

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01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 1: hikes and constant referendums. Well, wouldn't you know it, schools

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01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:30,080
Speaker 1: are going to referendum at a nearly annual rate. I

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01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:34,600
Speaker 1: am truly shocked at how often school districts go to

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01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:37,679
Speaker 1: referendum people. By the way, we're putting together what we're

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01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:40,480
Speaker 1: calling here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, the Ultimate Conservative

1489
01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:44,360
Speaker 1: Voter Guide ahead of the spring election, where we're telling

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01:30:44,400 --> 01:30:47,800
Speaker 1: people who the conservative candidate is, and I've had a

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01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:50,280
Speaker 1: number of people chime in and say, well, Dan, what

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01:30:50,320 --> 01:30:52,760
Speaker 1: do you think about this revenue? Or excuse me, what

1493
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:57,519
Speaker 1: do you think about this referendum? Just assume I am

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01:30:57,560 --> 01:31:00,479
Speaker 1: going to say vote no on the reference that the

1495
01:31:00,520 --> 01:31:05,040
Speaker 1: conservative choice is vote no. If they didn't get enough

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01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:08,599
Speaker 1: money in three hundred and twenty five dollars per student

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01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:12,599
Speaker 1: per year for the next four centuries, then Heaven help you.

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01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:16,280
Speaker 1: You have got a school district that truly does not

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01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:24,920
Speaker 1: know how to handle money. The other central claim here

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01:31:26,720 --> 01:31:32,200
Speaker 1: is that somehow diverting funds to voucher schools, private school

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01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:41,960
Speaker 1: independent charter schools, that this undermines the public school system. Okay,

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01:31:42,479 --> 01:31:49,559
Speaker 1: public districts retain almost all of the money there so

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01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:53,280
Speaker 1: any money like for example, school District at Green Bay

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01:31:53,479 --> 01:31:58,000
Speaker 1: is the third biggest school district in Wisconsin, behind Milwaukee

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01:31:58,040 --> 01:32:02,240
Speaker 1: Public Schools Madison Metropolitan School District. They claim in this

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01:32:02,400 --> 01:32:07,879
Speaker 1: lawsuit that they suffer a fifteen million dollar loss because

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01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:12,080
Speaker 1: that money that might otherwise go to their district is

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01:32:12,200 --> 01:32:18,800
Speaker 1: diverted to private and charter and voucher schools. That's more

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01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:25,679
Speaker 1: than offset by reduced enrollment costs. In other words, because

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01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:29,840
Speaker 1: they don't have to educate nearly as many students, they're

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01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:35,519
Speaker 1: saving a traditional traditional an insane amount of money. The

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01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:41,439
Speaker 1: traditional format for providing revenue is on a per pupil basis.

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01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:45,599
Speaker 1: But because the per pupil basis has increased exponentially year

1514
01:32:45,640 --> 01:32:51,000
Speaker 1: after year after year, while by the way, educational outcomes

1515
01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:56,679
Speaker 1: have decreased, there is no argument whatsoever. Not only that,

1516
01:32:57,520 --> 01:33:03,160
Speaker 1: going back to the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Co WMC study

1517
01:33:04,439 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 1: that was released a couple of weeks ago, we made

1518
01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:08,000
Speaker 1: a huge deal out of it here on the Dan

1519
01:33:08,040 --> 01:33:10,400
Speaker 1: O'Donnell Show because it was so eye opening, and quite

1520
01:33:10,439 --> 01:33:13,439
Speaker 1: possibly the most eye opening claim of all is that

1521
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:16,880
Speaker 1: since two thousand from two thousand to I believe the

1522
01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:19,200
Speaker 1: numbers went up to twenty twenty three or twenty twenty four,

1523
01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:25,360
Speaker 1: so almost a full quarter century. Wisconsin has sixty five

1524
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:32,599
Speaker 1: thousand fewer students. Okay, so far fewer students to educate,

1525
01:33:33,120 --> 01:33:36,680
Speaker 1: far fewer costs associated with educating each student. But of

1526
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:41,040
Speaker 1: course our per pupil per student numbers have gone up significantly.

1527
01:33:42,600 --> 01:33:46,519
Speaker 1: You would assume that schools that have to make some cuts,

1528
01:33:46,640 --> 01:33:49,240
Speaker 1: and sure enough, there have been about two to three

1529
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:52,160
Speaker 1: thousand teacher jobs that have been lost. We have two

1530
01:33:52,240 --> 01:33:54,320
Speaker 1: to three thousand fewer teacher I believe the number was

1531
01:33:54,320 --> 01:33:57,880
Speaker 1: something like twenty seven hundred fewer teachers in Wisconsin than

1532
01:33:57,880 --> 01:34:02,280
Speaker 1: we did in the year two thousand. Would you believe

1533
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:08,439
Speaker 1: we have eight thousand more non teaching school staff members

1534
01:34:08,479 --> 01:34:12,799
Speaker 1: than we did in two thousand? How exactly does that work?

1535
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:18,840
Speaker 1: Sixty five thousand students, three thousand fewer teachers to educate

1536
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:25,160
Speaker 1: those students, but eight thousand more bureaucrats to just suck

1537
01:34:25,200 --> 01:34:30,439
Speaker 1: off the public teat and collect typically six figure or

1538
01:34:30,520 --> 01:34:36,400
Speaker 1: more salaries. We will dive back into this insanely frivolous

1539
01:34:36,439 --> 01:34:40,000
Speaker 1: lawsuit when the Dan O'Donnell show returns in just three minutes,

1540
01:34:40,880 --> 01:34:43,640
Speaker 1: a couple of State of the Union updates. Just in

1541
01:34:43,680 --> 01:34:48,400
Speaker 1: the last couple of minutes, we now have seventy different

1542
01:34:48,479 --> 01:34:51,519
Speaker 1: Democrats who are saying that they are not going to

1543
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:57,760
Speaker 1: attend the speech tonight. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin says she

1544
01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:01,360
Speaker 1: had to basically heak her head out of the ground

1545
01:35:01,439 --> 01:35:06,280
Speaker 1: like the groundhog, just kind of once every February. She

1546
01:35:06,479 --> 01:35:11,559
Speaker 1: will make people remember that she exists. And she is saying, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1547
01:35:11,560 --> 01:35:14,519
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear anything, but I'm going to

1548
01:35:14,560 --> 01:35:17,519
Speaker 1: be there because if I'm not, that's like retreating, and

1549
01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:20,519
Speaker 1: I Am not going to ritreat. All so stunning, so brave,

1550
01:35:21,280 --> 01:35:25,519
Speaker 1: Senator Baldwin. But seventy Democrats at least are not going

1551
01:35:25,560 --> 01:35:29,600
Speaker 1: to be there, and frankly, that's fantastic. This is a

1552
01:35:29,640 --> 01:35:33,280
Speaker 1: speech for grown ups, and you know the kids. The kids,

1553
01:35:33,960 --> 01:35:36,600
Speaker 1: they can watch Nickelodeon in the other room. You know,

1554
01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:39,760
Speaker 1: they put on some Mister Beast videos for the Democrats.

1555
01:35:40,400 --> 01:35:42,840
Speaker 1: You know, give them some Kraft macaroni and cheese, let

1556
01:35:42,920 --> 01:35:45,800
Speaker 1: them play on the iPad for a little bit. They

1557
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:48,839
Speaker 1: can you know, kick and scream and have temper tantrums.

1558
01:35:48,880 --> 01:35:52,479
Speaker 1: If it's past their bedtime and they're getting bored by

1559
01:35:52,520 --> 01:35:54,040
Speaker 1: the man they don't like speaking.

1560
01:35:54,479 --> 01:35:55,720
Speaker 3: That's just fine by me.

1561
01:35:55,800 --> 01:36:02,440
Speaker 1: Another update, a Republican in who is like the definition

1562
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:07,960
Speaker 1: of rhino Republican in name only. Thomas Massey is from Kentucky.

1563
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 1: He is going to be sitting with the Democrats to

1564
01:36:12,400 --> 01:36:18,760
Speaker 1: quote show unity on the Epstein Files. Now, Massey was

1565
01:36:19,479 --> 01:36:23,160
Speaker 1: a classic guy who just claimed to be more conservative

1566
01:36:23,200 --> 01:36:25,520
Speaker 1: than everybody, and the reason that he would.

1567
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:27,679
Speaker 3: Thwart every Republican bill that.

1568
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:31,040
Speaker 1: Would come before him was because it just wasn't conservative

1569
01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:36,160
Speaker 1: enough to him for him. Well, the Epstein Files did

1570
01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:42,599
Speaker 1: a fantastic job in revealing the craziness and the inner

1571
01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:47,280
Speaker 1: lib that exists. I think with Look, there's a reason

1572
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:51,280
Speaker 1: that lib can be short for both liberal and libertarian,

1573
01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:57,320
Speaker 1: because there is a very fine line. And Thomas Massey

1574
01:36:57,479 --> 01:37:02,000
Speaker 1: just hoola dances all over. He's going to be sitting

1575
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:06,160
Speaker 1: with his best buddy row Kana as they are going

1576
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:10,320
Speaker 1: to be talking about Epstein all night to anybody who

1577
01:37:10,360 --> 01:37:10,840
Speaker 1: will listen.

1578
01:37:10,880 --> 01:37:11,479
Speaker 3: So he's going to be.

1579
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:15,160
Speaker 1: Sitting with the Democrats. He sounded like a Democrat on

1580
01:37:15,240 --> 01:37:17,840
Speaker 1: the Epstein Files. By the way, the last time we

1581
01:37:17,880 --> 01:37:22,400
Speaker 1: heard from the Dynamic duo of Massey and Kana. They

1582
01:37:22,439 --> 01:37:26,160
Speaker 1: were naming people who just happened to be in a

1583
01:37:26,240 --> 01:37:30,880
Speaker 1: police lineup with Jeffrey Epstein and had absolutely no tie

1584
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:34,000
Speaker 1: to the case. That's why their names were redacted. While

1585
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:38,240
Speaker 1: these two bumbling morons demanded that those names get unredacted,

1586
01:37:38,240 --> 01:37:41,200
Speaker 1: they were, and they read them into the congressional record,

1587
01:37:41,400 --> 01:37:44,960
Speaker 1: even though these people are completely and totally innocent of

1588
01:37:44,960 --> 01:37:47,000
Speaker 1: any crime. Now I would say they should sue the

1589
01:37:47,120 --> 01:37:49,719
Speaker 1: pants off of these two. But if you read something

1590
01:37:49,720 --> 01:37:55,160
Speaker 1: into the congressional record, whatever you say on the floor

1591
01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:57,959
Speaker 1: of Congress, you are absolutely immune from any.

1592
01:37:57,760 --> 01:37:58,439
Speaker 3: Sort of lossit.

1593
01:37:58,439 --> 01:38:03,240
Speaker 1: There is an absolute community protection there because it essentially

1594
01:38:03,280 --> 01:38:06,559
Speaker 1: functions like a sovereign immunity. We want congress representatives to

1595
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:08,479
Speaker 1: be able to say whatever it is they want is

1596
01:38:08,479 --> 01:38:12,240
Speaker 1: the people's representatives, without any fear of any sort.

1597
01:38:12,080 --> 01:38:13,240
Speaker 3: Of legal repercussion.

1598
01:38:13,320 --> 01:38:15,880
Speaker 1: Obviously, if they say, hey, yeah, I was actually the

1599
01:38:15,920 --> 01:38:18,919
Speaker 1: one who kidnapped Nancy Guthrie, there would be some criminal

1600
01:38:18,960 --> 01:38:22,960
Speaker 1: repercussions there. By the way, the latest update on that

1601
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:26,960
Speaker 1: when the family is now offering a million dollars to

1602
01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:30,400
Speaker 1: the media to once again obsess over the Nancy Guthrie

1603
01:38:30,439 --> 01:38:32,439
Speaker 1: geat no, no, no, no, no, no. They're offering a

1604
01:38:32,479 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 1: million dollars for the safe return of Nancy Guthrie. I

1605
01:38:39,120 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 1: know they cleared all the family members, it's still there

1606
01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:45,880
Speaker 1: is still something that just does not sit right with

1607
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:49,000
Speaker 1: me about this case. No, I don't believe there's ever

1608
01:38:49,080 --> 01:38:51,679
Speaker 1: really been a kidnapping at all. I believe she was murdered,

1609
01:38:52,320 --> 01:38:57,120
Speaker 1: and I you know, I think this story just does

1610
01:38:57,160 --> 01:38:57,680
Speaker 1: not make a.

1611
01:38:57,600 --> 01:38:58,760
Speaker 3: Whole heck of a lot of sense.

1612
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:02,679
Speaker 1: It's like the lawsuit against the Republicans in the state

1613
01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:08,919
Speaker 1: legislature for the supposedly unconstitutional funding mechanism for state schools.

1614
01:39:10,760 --> 01:39:14,280
Speaker 1: Biggest bar to this is going to be, well, first

1615
01:39:14,320 --> 01:39:18,320
Speaker 1: of all, there is long standing precedent that courts in

1616
01:39:18,360 --> 01:39:23,839
Speaker 1: Wisconsin have interpreted Article ten, Section one, very very section three,

1617
01:39:24,400 --> 01:39:28,000
Speaker 1: very very narrowly. And just because you're unhappy with the

1618
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:31,040
Speaker 1: amount of money that your school district is getting, that

1619
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:36,640
Speaker 1: isn't actually grounds for a lawsuit. You aren't actually entitled

1620
01:39:37,120 --> 01:39:41,040
Speaker 1: to recover damages because you're not getting as much money

1621
01:39:41,040 --> 01:39:44,920
Speaker 1: from the state as you think you should. What Article tens,

1622
01:39:44,920 --> 01:39:49,639
Speaker 1: section three provides is that schools need to be free.

1623
01:39:49,880 --> 01:39:52,880
Speaker 1: You have to have tuition free schools, and you need

1624
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:57,680
Speaker 1: to do pretty much everything you can to have equal outcomes,

1625
01:39:57,720 --> 01:40:02,120
Speaker 1: to educate each child held as equally as possible. I

1626
01:40:02,160 --> 01:40:05,800
Speaker 1: believe it's sound basic instruction is the.

1627
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:08,360
Speaker 3: Standard.

1628
01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:11,759
Speaker 1: I dare you to tell me with a straight phase

1629
01:40:12,439 --> 01:40:17,200
Speaker 1: that Milwaukee Public Schools is providing sound basic education. Now,

1630
01:40:17,320 --> 01:40:21,080
Speaker 1: which district in the state is by far the best

1631
01:40:21,160 --> 01:40:28,880
Speaker 1: funded Milwaukee Public schools? So how exactly does that one work?

1632
01:40:29,680 --> 01:40:32,680
Speaker 1: We are spending more money than we ever have on

1633
01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:36,160
Speaker 1: school funding and will be for the next four hundred

1634
01:40:36,240 --> 01:40:41,720
Speaker 1: years thanks to our idiot governor who launched an incredibly

1635
01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:46,920
Speaker 1: unconstitutional veto, which of course was upheld by his sycophants

1636
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:50,320
Speaker 1: on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. You want to talk about

1637
01:40:50,320 --> 01:40:53,719
Speaker 1: why we focused so hard the last couple of years

1638
01:40:53,760 --> 01:40:57,080
Speaker 1: on control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, It's stuff like

1639
01:40:57,280 --> 01:41:02,080
Speaker 1: this upholding the four hundred year veto. Well, ironically enough,

1640
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:06,280
Speaker 1: because of that court's action three hundred and twenty five

1641
01:41:06,320 --> 01:41:10,360
Speaker 1: dollars per pupil per year for the next what is

1642
01:41:10,400 --> 01:41:14,679
Speaker 1: it now, three hundred and ninety eight years, the court

1643
01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:19,080
Speaker 1: that hears this particular lawsuit o'clare County Circuit Court will

1644
01:41:19,120 --> 01:41:21,519
Speaker 1: have no choice but to throw it out that there's

1645
01:41:21,640 --> 01:41:27,439
Speaker 1: nothing unconstitutional about the way the state legislature is doling

1646
01:41:27,479 --> 01:41:33,200
Speaker 1: out millions and million billions of dollars for increasingly horrible

1647
01:41:33,760 --> 01:41:34,679
Speaker 1: public schools.

1648
01:41:35,120 --> 01:41:36,080
Speaker 3: I'm not saying all.

1649
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:38,559
Speaker 1: School all public schools are horrible. My kids go to

1650
01:41:38,560 --> 01:41:41,240
Speaker 1: public school, and they happen to go to an excellent

1651
01:41:41,360 --> 01:41:44,040
Speaker 1: public school, one of the very best in the entire state.

1652
01:41:45,600 --> 01:41:49,720
Speaker 1: There is probably not a whole lot of coincidence there

1653
01:41:50,040 --> 01:41:54,240
Speaker 1: that their district is not joining this asenine lawsuit. Speaking

1654
01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:58,280
Speaker 1: of bad school districts, we go to Madison where Madison

1655
01:41:58,400 --> 01:42:02,320
Speaker 1: East forced a kid to eat dog food. The mother

1656
01:42:02,600 --> 01:42:07,160
Speaker 1: of a nonverbal autistic student at Madison East High School

1657
01:42:07,479 --> 01:42:13,000
Speaker 1: is claiming that the school fed her son dog food

1658
01:42:13,560 --> 01:42:19,320
Speaker 1: for lunch this month. Dog food, now, folks. This is

1659
01:42:19,439 --> 01:42:23,960
Speaker 1: the same Madison East High School that we reported exclusively

1660
01:42:24,040 --> 01:42:28,760
Speaker 1: a week or so ago was hosting a student pro

1661
01:42:29,200 --> 01:42:32,800
Speaker 1: drag show where they invited professional drag queens from the

1662
01:42:32,880 --> 01:42:38,200
Speaker 1: community as well as students, presumably underage students to shake

1663
01:42:38,280 --> 01:42:41,800
Speaker 1: their moneymakers on stage in a drag performance that you

1664
01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:45,400
Speaker 1: actually needed an ID to get into. So Democrats do

1665
01:42:45,479 --> 01:42:49,120
Speaker 1: not want an ID for voting, but they do require

1666
01:42:49,240 --> 01:42:54,160
Speaker 1: IDs to get into their underage drag shows. Now, obviously,

1667
01:42:55,920 --> 01:42:59,400
Speaker 1: I have been very critical of Madison East High School,

1668
01:42:59,600 --> 01:43:06,160
Speaker 1: very very recently. Let's just say I'm skeptical of the

1669
01:43:06,280 --> 01:43:10,599
Speaker 1: claims that staff members fed this kid dog food. Take

1670
01:43:10,640 --> 01:43:16,280
Speaker 1: the list. Listen from this report. This was WISC TV

1671
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:17,000
Speaker 1: Channel three.

1672
01:43:17,040 --> 01:43:18,120
Speaker 10: We can't be safe as school.

1673
01:43:18,120 --> 01:43:19,080
Speaker 3: Where would you be safe?

1674
01:43:19,520 --> 01:43:22,679
Speaker 13: That's Deborah Hawk's reaction after she learned what her son

1675
01:43:23,160 --> 01:43:23,960
Speaker 13: had for lunch.

1676
01:43:24,160 --> 01:43:27,280
Speaker 10: If it was an accident, why and.

1677
01:43:30,360 --> 01:43:31,720
Speaker 3: It can't be an accident.

1678
01:43:31,840 --> 01:43:35,240
Speaker 13: Hawk's son, Jaden Hawks, is a freshman at Madison East.

1679
01:43:35,400 --> 01:43:38,200
Speaker 13: He has autism and is non verbal, Deborah said. A

1680
01:43:38,240 --> 01:43:40,719
Speaker 13: few weeks ago, staff sent her this picture.

1681
01:43:40,880 --> 01:43:43,080
Speaker 10: He looked like he ate a little bit as on

1682
01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:44,759
Speaker 10: at least three, four or five bites.

1683
01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:48,760
Speaker 13: Staff also called Deborah confirming someone gave Jayden this can

1684
01:43:48,760 --> 01:43:50,000
Speaker 13: of dog food for lunch.

1685
01:43:50,080 --> 01:43:51,479
Speaker 10: And then when you give it to him, you give

1686
01:43:51,520 --> 01:43:56,679
Speaker 10: an autistic child a can again that we could cut

1687
01:43:56,720 --> 01:44:00,240
Speaker 10: hisself with a plastic four And can you mind well

1688
01:44:00,320 --> 01:44:03,760
Speaker 10: gave him a metal fork if you gonna give him

1689
01:44:03,760 --> 01:44:04,439
Speaker 10: a metal can?

1690
01:44:05,560 --> 01:44:10,960
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's examine the claims here. Jaden is nonverbal,

1691
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:14,960
Speaker 1: He's very autistic. He has a special needs i EP

1692
01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:20,520
Speaker 1: Individualized Education plan. Presumably he has somebody because he's nonverbal,

1693
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:23,920
Speaker 1: because he's so autistic, he has somebody who is with

1694
01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:27,559
Speaker 1: him pretty much all day long. Right, I'm just going

1695
01:44:27,600 --> 01:44:33,040
Speaker 1: to assume, and in fact, my producer Andrew was you

1696
01:44:33,040 --> 01:44:36,200
Speaker 1: were a special needs teacher. Yeah, you were a special

1697
01:44:36,240 --> 01:44:40,639
Speaker 1: needs teacher in another life. So no chance this kid

1698
01:44:40,680 --> 01:44:42,840
Speaker 1: is just sort of wandering the halls or going into

1699
01:44:42,880 --> 01:44:47,519
Speaker 1: the cafeteria alone, right, just none. So you got a

1700
01:44:47,600 --> 01:44:51,120
Speaker 1: teacher who is assigned to him, probably pretty much full time.

1701
01:44:51,200 --> 01:44:55,599
Speaker 1: That there is a special needs coordinator teacher, there is somebody.

1702
01:44:55,640 --> 01:44:58,360
Speaker 1: There is somebody who is with him at all time.

1703
01:44:59,080 --> 01:45:01,640
Speaker 1: Now I don't know if she had a vacation day,

1704
01:45:01,680 --> 01:45:07,400
Speaker 1: if she was in the bathroom, but somebody who happened

1705
01:45:07,439 --> 01:45:11,599
Speaker 1: to have a can of dog food at school. I'm

1706
01:45:11,600 --> 01:45:13,120
Speaker 1: just going to go out on a limb here that

1707
01:45:14,720 --> 01:45:17,200
Speaker 1: there aren't a lot of dogs in a school. Now,

1708
01:45:17,439 --> 01:45:21,120
Speaker 1: there might be, you know, a service animal, sure, okay,

1709
01:45:21,520 --> 01:45:23,880
Speaker 1: and that would make sense that if there's a service

1710
01:45:23,920 --> 01:45:26,599
Speaker 1: dog in the building for some other student or maybe

1711
01:45:26,720 --> 01:45:30,120
Speaker 1: Jaden as a service dog. But it didn't sound like

1712
01:45:30,160 --> 01:45:32,960
Speaker 1: this was dog food for Jaden's dog. There was no

1713
01:45:33,080 --> 01:45:35,719
Speaker 1: mention of Jaden having a service dog in the story.

1714
01:45:37,640 --> 01:45:40,360
Speaker 1: Dog food is not something that you will typically find

1715
01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:47,320
Speaker 1: at school. Could it be that other students gave Jaden

1716
01:45:47,400 --> 01:45:51,760
Speaker 1: dog food? No, staff members said Another staff member like

1717
01:45:51,840 --> 01:45:54,760
Speaker 1: I could see as cruel and as awful and as

1718
01:45:54,840 --> 01:45:58,000
Speaker 1: much as I would want criminal charges against any kid

1719
01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:02,320
Speaker 1: who fed dog food to ann verbal autistic student as

1720
01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:08,000
Speaker 1: a pranks at just a cruel joke, it's sort of

1721
01:46:08,240 --> 01:46:11,200
Speaker 1: hard for me to see adults doing that.

1722
01:46:11,320 --> 01:46:11,599
Speaker 3: Now.

1723
01:46:11,920 --> 01:46:17,960
Speaker 1: Look, adults, especially adults in schools, do all manner of

1724
01:46:18,439 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 1: truly horrible things. Don't get me wrong. There is just

1725
01:46:24,520 --> 01:46:29,040
Speaker 1: something about this story that has nagged at me all day,

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Speaker 1: and that is nobody thought they were going to get

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Speaker 1: caught doing this, so they clearly brought a can of

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Speaker 1: dog food from home, opened up the can of dog

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Speaker 1: food with a can opener, and decided what it would

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Speaker 1: be funny to see if the kid would eat the

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Speaker 1: dog food. Look, I'm not saying it didn't happen, and

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Speaker 1: Madison Metropolitan School District says it's investigating. I there is

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Speaker 1: just something about this story that makes me question. And no,

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Speaker 1: it's not the fact that the mother waited a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks, you know, maybe she's been trying to get

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Speaker 1: answers from the school, and then finally says, Okay, I've

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Speaker 1: got to talk to somebody. I'm going to talk to

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Speaker 1: the media. I'm going to get the news involved. There

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Speaker 1: was no police report feeding a kid dog food that's

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Speaker 1: child abuse like that. There was there was no criminal investigation.

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Speaker 1: Madison Metro says, it's investigating, but the police have not

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Speaker 1: been involved at all. Like this has been known about

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Speaker 1: for several weeks and nobody thought to call any sort

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Speaker 1: of law enforcement at all. Again, far be it from

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Speaker 1: me to trust the judgment of the exact same high

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Speaker 1: school that we caught running an underage drag show in

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Speaker 1: the school's auditorium a week or so ago. Far be

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Speaker 1: it from me to side with them or to say, hey, yeah,

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Speaker 1: these people have totally sound judgment. I just I'm having

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Speaker 1: a difficult time. Let's just say, my spidey senses are

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Speaker 1: tingling that this might be there might be a little

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Speaker 1: more to this than people might initially assume. I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna leave it at that. Watch the story yourself. It's

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Speaker 1: on my social media. Make up your own mind. Fox

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Speaker 1: news coverage of the President's State of the Union address

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Speaker 1: will begin in a little more than one hour on

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Speaker 1: your Fine Dan O'Donnell show stations. President Trump said to

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Speaker 1: begin his remarks at eight o'clock Central Time, and Team

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Speaker 1: USA Hockey is going to be in attendance. Also, we

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Speaker 1: learned earlier today Erica Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 1: and the president of Talking Point Talking Point Turning Point USA.

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Speaker 3: Talking Point ussay is what.

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Speaker 1: Democrats get sent every morning when they all sound the

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Speaker 1: exact same in discussing pretty much anything. I still can't

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Speaker 1: believe that poor woman has been the subject of conspiracy

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Speaker 1: theories that she killed her husband in order to take

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Speaker 1: over his organization. It that poor family. Candice Owens needs

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Speaker 1: to do some serious soul searching. And I say this

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Speaker 1: as someone who has had Candace on this show. I

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Speaker 1: was on Candice Owens documentary about Stephen Avery. I've been

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Speaker 1: on the Candas Owens Show years and years and years ago.

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Speaker 1: I do not understand obviously the President is going to

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Speaker 1: be talking about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And I

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Speaker 1: mean this comes just this State of the Union address

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Speaker 1: comes after they got somebody who traveled all the way

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Speaker 1: from North Carolina with a shotgun and a can of gasoline.

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Speaker 1: They got him at mar Lago and shot him dead

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Speaker 1: as he was apparently radicalized by the Epstein files. He

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Speaker 1: had told family and co workers as recently as as

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Speaker 1: late last year that President Trump was a great leader,

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Speaker 1: but apparently in the last couple of months he became

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Speaker 1: obsessed with the Epstein files and the conspiracy theory that

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump was part of a global pedophile ring, a

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theory that Democrats are trying to put front and

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Speaker 1: center in this State of the Union address by having

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Speaker 1: Epstein victims who have nothing to do with Trump, and

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Speaker 1: by the way, Epstein victims who can say literally what

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Speaker 1: they want without fear of defamation. Their buddy buddy, the

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Speaker 1: one woman has been following around Roe Conna for the

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Speaker 1: last several months. She's going to be I forget her name.

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Speaker 1: Conna can simply call her as a congressional witness. She

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Speaker 1: can say whatever she wants. There's a reason these people

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Speaker 1: are not saying anything because their claims are simply not true,

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Speaker 1: and they don't have the bombshell evidence that Democrats are

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Speaker 1: essentially bluffing that they have. We just debunked an NPR

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Speaker 1: story in which some woman claimed she was a thirteen

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Speaker 1: year old girl back in nineteen eighty three when Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump attempted to force himself out of There's no evidence

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Speaker 1: for that whatsoever. And NPR saying, well, the documents were

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Speaker 1: redacted by the Department of Justice, so as they're trying

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Speaker 1: to cover up for Trump raping.

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Speaker 3: This thirteen year old girl.

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Speaker 1: Well, the problem with this is the FBI thoroughly investigated

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Speaker 1: this and determined it to be not credible. In fact,

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Speaker 1: this has all the hallmarks of the quote unquote Katie

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Speaker 1: Johnson misinformation operation in the twenty sixteen presidential election when

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Speaker 1: she could not remember when exactly she was thirteen years old?

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Speaker 1: Was it nineteen ninety four, was it nineteen ninety six

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Speaker 1: when Donald Trump raped her as a young teenager. Every

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Speaker 1: time she refiled the case, it was a different year.

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Speaker 1: Wild Katie Johnson, by the way, was a pseudonym. We

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Speaker 1: have no idea who filed this lawsuit. In fact, it's

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Speaker 1: my very strong suspicion there was no Katie Johnson. Lawsuit

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Speaker 1: was dismissed multiple times because it was improperly filed. There

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Speaker 1: was no evidence whatsoever, And wouldn't you know it? That

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Speaker 1: girl also claimed, oh she was thirteen, Trump raped her.

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Speaker 1: It was false, It was demonstrably false. Trump gets elected

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Speaker 1: president of November twenty sixteen. What do you know, she

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Speaker 1: miraculously withdraws the lesson. It's almost like she filed it

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen solely so that it would be used

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Speaker 1: against Trump to try to keep him from being elected president.

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Speaker 1: When that didn't work, well, there's no need for Katie

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Speaker 1: Johnson's lawsuit anymore, so it just sort of disappeared. There

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Speaker 1: was no redaction of anything in these fifty three pages,

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Speaker 1: nothing based on any effort to hide Donald Trump's child rapes,

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Speaker 1: no credible evidence this actually happened. In fact, all the

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Speaker 1: available there's no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein had ever gone

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Speaker 1: to South Carolina where this woman alleged that this took place.

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Speaker 1: But now no, no, Rocanna is going to be there anyway.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, I didn't mean to go on

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Speaker 1: that Epstein rant. It's just there has been nothing that

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Speaker 1: has infuriated me more than the conspiracy mongering over Erica

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Speaker 1: Kirk and Jeffrey Epstein on both sides of the political

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Speaker 1: including ours, over the past couple of months, because really

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Speaker 1: it is about the most smooth brained room temperature IQ

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Speaker 1: fear monitoring that there is. I'm gonna be watching the

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Speaker 1: State of the Union address. We'll have a full recap

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Speaker 1: tomorrow right here on The Dan O'Donnell Show.