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Speaker 1: Let's all get politics at Wendy Schili from Brownie Diversity

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Speaker 1: joins me once a week. Good morning, Wendy, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Have you been to Doblas No I want to go.

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Speaker 2: No, not particularly.

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Speaker 1: We'll go over there, rub Elbows with all the you know,

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Speaker 1: the illuminati, all the moves and shakers, the people who

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Speaker 1: really run the world, Douvos Trump.

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Speaker 2: Still over there, Dovas. Remember when you know Assden, they

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Speaker 2: all used to go to ask in the summer and

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Speaker 2: it was like a big deal in the media covered

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Speaker 2: it and they all hung out together for a week

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Speaker 2: and Askden. It seems to have disappeared. You know, it

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Speaker 2: seems like they're so in a bubble, you know, the

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Speaker 2: world's leaders and all the wealthy people, like they're just

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Speaker 2: in a bubble, Like it's just a bigger bubble, and

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Speaker 2: it just seems to be more and more removed from

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Speaker 2: what people are worrying about every day.

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Speaker 1: None of the bankers, the Wall Street people, theyre the

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Speaker 1: ones that run the world. Remember Ramanda wanted to go

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Speaker 1: when she was governor and the money was coming. If

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Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken from a group associated with you, our

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Speaker 1: of alumni group of something and the whole thing blew

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Speaker 1: up in her face. Remember that she wanted to go

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Speaker 1: to Douglas. She won his Commerce secretary, but as governor

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Speaker 1: she backed on. Remember that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's a it's a pretty

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Speaker 2: important time. You know, Europe is not you know, we

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Speaker 2: do a lot of business with China trade, but Europe's

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Speaker 2: our second biggest trading partner. They just kind of deal

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Speaker 2: with a lot of countries in Latin America to expand

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Speaker 2: their trading. And you know, we don't want to get

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Speaker 2: into a fight with too many people economically, you know,

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Speaker 2: we don't want to because America sells. America is a

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Speaker 2: productive country that sells a lot of things to a

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Speaker 2: lot of countries. So and the tariffs, you know, the

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Speaker 2: President has used the tariffs in his mind strategically. He

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Speaker 2: has actually modified a lot of tariffs to bring him

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Speaker 2: down when countries have done the same thing for us.

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Speaker 2: So overall, I don't think the tariff policy has hurt

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Speaker 2: us the way that people thought it would. But that's

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Speaker 2: because he's been willing to moderate, you know, go up,

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Speaker 2: go down, go up to it when he cuts a deal.

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Speaker 2: You know, but now you pick a big fight with Europe,

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Speaker 2: you know that's going to hurt American producers, so we

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Speaker 2: can to figure out how to avoid that.

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Speaker 1: Talking about Greenland and slapping tarriffs because they won't cooperate

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Speaker 1: with Greenland. Now, you know, it's interesting, Georgia Maloney.

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Speaker 2: The cooperate.

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Speaker 1: Europe at Europe is making a mistake fighting Trump.

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Speaker 2: On this, She said that why Gene, explain to me,

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Speaker 2: just explain in thirty seconds, why do we why ay,

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Speaker 2: why do we have the right to go take somebody

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Speaker 2: else's piece of somebody else's country. We're like putin taking crimea.

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Speaker 2: The second is, what do we tell me? What do

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Speaker 2: we need it for? You know, forget the first question.

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Speaker 2: What is the second answer? The second question, why do

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Speaker 2: we need Greenland?

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Speaker 1: Well, all right, I'll just give you the I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on Greenland, but he asked me

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Speaker 1: the question, so I'll answer it. Greenland is strategic because

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Speaker 1: it's in between US and Russia and the submarines from

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Speaker 1: Russia come out that way. It also has rare earth

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Speaker 1: minerals and we need it. And by the way, Trump's

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Speaker 1: not the first press Every president talk about Greenland, including Eisenhower.

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Speaker 2: So when you say we need it. So we're like,

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Speaker 2: you say we need it. If you rush through the statement, no,

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Speaker 2: you rush through the statement we need it, Explain.

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Speaker 1: Why that says we need it? What Eisenhower said we

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Speaker 1: needed Every president has talked about greening.

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Speaker 2: But you think, do you think we should go?

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Speaker 1: But it's not a new time.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask something, do you think we should send

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Speaker 2: US service people military personnel to go invade and take Greenland?

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Speaker 1: But no? My answer to that would be no, No,

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: Should we don't make a deal.

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Speaker 1: Should we buy it?

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Speaker 2: No. If he wants to negotiate a treaty where we

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Speaker 2: get preferential treatment on shipping lanes, that's something I think

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Speaker 2: is a reasonable thing that President of States to ask for. Right,

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Speaker 2: negotiate a treaty and say, listen, we want we want

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Speaker 2: first DIBs on the shipping lianes. Because of climate change,

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Speaker 2: the Arctic is melting, so therefore we're going to have

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Speaker 2: open more open trade, more shipping lianes. It'll be cheaper

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Speaker 2: for our people to send their goods over overseeees if

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Speaker 2: people are willing to trade with us. So that's a

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Speaker 2: reasonable thing. Negotiate a deal. Thomas Jefferson negotiated a deal.

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Speaker 2: He bought the Louisiana purchase. It was a deal with

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Speaker 2: fifteen million bucks. I think, so negotiator a deal them,

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Speaker 2: perhaps they're willing to They have to be willing to

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Speaker 2: sell it.

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Speaker 1: Listen, I don't know a lot of money. Half a

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Speaker 1: million if we get that high.

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Speaker 2: Half a billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: No, half a million ahead, fifty? How many there?

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Speaker 2: So all I know is that I know people who

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Speaker 2: are facing healthcare premium raises. We're all facing more expensive

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Speaker 2: health care, and Americans probably want Trump to spend the

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Speaker 2: money on them. So that's going to be a question

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Speaker 2: for the Republican party in Congress. You know, what are

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Speaker 2: you gonna do? You're gonna help people buy health insurance

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Speaker 2: the way the Trump wants it to, or are you

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Speaker 2: going to buy greenland?

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Speaker 1: And what I'm not backing. I'm not backing him on

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Speaker 1: the greenland policy. You asked me a question. Why why

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Speaker 1: does he want to gave you an answer he thinks

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Speaker 1: are strategically important. Other presidents have said the same thing,

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Speaker 1: less crudely, less overtly. There are reasons why.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well he should negotiate a deal. I'm not starting

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Speaker 2: to take it well and he's good.

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Speaker 1: You know, well, how about this. You know, the Greenlanders,

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Speaker 1: they all live at the edge. It's a very narrow

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Speaker 1: want the land though they actually live over Why don't

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Speaker 1: we just say, you guys live on the edge and

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Speaker 1: give us from the edge up. Yeah, that's a compromise,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be interesting. You know, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: have three terms in the midterm elections. Greenland, well, maybe Venezuela,

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Speaker 2: but we backed off on sending troops to Venezuela. Again,

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Speaker 2: we have Greenland, we have Epstein, and we have healthcare.

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Speaker 2: That's really what's going to dominate the next couple of months.

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Speaker 2: That's going to be very interesting to see how that

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Speaker 2: all plays out. I don't know how it all play out.

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Speaker 1: You don't think immigrations will dominate it?

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Speaker 2: I think no. I mean the Trump has I mean

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Speaker 2: Trump has closed the border specially. I mean he promised

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Speaker 2: coming and closed down the border, and he did. He's

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Speaker 2: don't have a very big bore flow. He said he

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Speaker 2: would do it, and he's done it. The question is

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Speaker 2: now with deportations. You know, I think you know Obama

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Speaker 2: total in total deported two point four million people and

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Speaker 2: he Trump has not even reached that total yet. But

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Speaker 2: the tactics were somewhat different. So the question is does

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Speaker 2: he continue to do what he's doing tactic wise like

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Speaker 2: we've seen in Minneapolis, or does he continue to de

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Speaker 2: poor people but just back off a little bit on ice.

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Speaker 2: And it doesn't look like he's backing off on ice.

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Speaker 2: And I do think that will become more of an

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Speaker 2: issue depending on where he goes next.

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Speaker 1: This Minnesota is blowing up. Not going to argue that.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Let's just quickly recap. It's

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Speaker 1: Trump in office one year. One year apart from today.

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Speaker 1: The stock market has been pretty robust. We're flirting with

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Speaker 1: almost fifty thousand at some but again, apart from today, caveat, caveat,

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Speaker 1: Apart from today, the Wall Street Wall Street has been robust.

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Speaker 1: If you have a four oh one k, you've made money.

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Speaker 1: He's closed the border. Has it been a bad year, Wendy.

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Speaker 2: I mean for first year president. I think he's accomplished

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Speaker 2: what he wanted to accomplish. I don't think it was

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Speaker 2: I think it's a scessful year in terms of the

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Speaker 2: Trump agenda. The question is, you know, has has the

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Speaker 2: Trump administration toge out how to pivot the things that

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Speaker 2: people are worried about now, which continue to be the

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Speaker 2: price of groceries and the price of housing. The president

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Speaker 2: is trying to pivot in that direction. And healthcare, not

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Speaker 2: just affordability, which is so important, but availability. There's two things.

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Speaker 2: It's healthcare, it's affordability and availability. And I don't see

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Speaker 2: anything they let the subsidies from the Biden administration lapse.

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Speaker 2: You know, we'll see what that implication is. It may

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Speaker 2: not be quite as catastrophic as they're saying as people

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Speaker 2: are saying, but maybe it will. I don't know. But

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Speaker 2: the question is can you pivot? And that's what people

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Speaker 2: People are pretty unhappy generally right with the state of

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Speaker 2: the direction of a country. I mean, that number is

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Speaker 2: like sixty seventy percent, So that's you know, that's a

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Speaker 2: big number to faith if you're the Republicans. But Trump

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Speaker 2: himself isn't on the ballot and he's not running for anything,

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Speaker 2: so it doesn't really hurt Donald Trump. The question is,

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Speaker 2: you know, what can you do with the Democrats to

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Speaker 2: take the House back.

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Speaker 1: Paul I saw the other day. Most Republicans who voted

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Speaker 1: for him would vote for Hi McGain. Inflation anemic, great

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Speaker 1: numbers on inflation, great numbers on growth, wendy gases below.

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Speaker 1: We haven't a gas prices this low in years one,

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Speaker 1: two or three. Good. You can count a punch if

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Speaker 1: you want.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I mean I think that's right. Inflation

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Speaker 2: is steadied. It's about two two point five, two point

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Speaker 2: six percent. It's definitely steadied. But and also part of

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Speaker 2: it is we don't have another influx in influx of

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Speaker 2: federal dollars. Right, COVID those subsidies really just exploded inflation. Right.

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Speaker 2: We were just paying between Ppe loans and COVID sending

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Speaker 2: so much more cash into the economy, right, and then

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Speaker 2: we had supply chain shortages, so everything blew up. There's

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Speaker 2: no question about that. And that is calm down, you know.

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Speaker 2: And he can take credit for that. I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: you know, that's something he's going to take credit for.

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Speaker 2: But the productivity economy, you know, does that come with

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Speaker 2: expensive job? So the question is can you find a job?

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Speaker 2: And unemployment is pretty low historically, no question about it,

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Speaker 2: but it's creeping up a little bit and so do

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Speaker 2: you feel like the economy is giving you an opportunity?

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Speaker 2: So you can say the GDP is decent and over

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Speaker 2: three percent is decent, But the question is does that

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Speaker 2: translate into voters feeling like they have an economic future?

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Speaker 2: And that's what the Republicans have to figure out if

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Speaker 2: they want to keep the House.

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Speaker 1: All right, Wendy, good to talk to you. Talk to

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Speaker 1: you next week. Okay, take care Bye,