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Speaker 1: again sitting in for our vacationing friend Sean Hannity. We

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Speaker 1: that Republicans in Congress should be pushing for term limits

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Speaker 1: it's required, right, because if it's not required, you're not

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's no leadership in Washington right now that's

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Speaker 1: we will have to pay the bill literally and figuratively

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Speaker 1: operate in a vacuum here and that's the end of it.

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Speaker 1: That's right. And you look at because we've spent so

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Speaker 1: certainly doesn't. He certainly doesn't. Well, and you add all

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Speaker 1: are can see plainly on television. And he's responsible for this.

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Speaker 1: I just you know, where is the federal government and

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Speaker 1: doing all of this? And you've got all these people

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Speaker 1: for that. We're paying the price every day. I don't

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Speaker 1: housing these migrants, in transporting these migrants, in providing Medicaid

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Speaker 1: have crossed over the line. And you know, there's a

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Speaker 1: misconception that they're all from Mexico. I've said for a

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Speaker 1: the United State, they're already here. These people are from Africa,

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Speaker 1: And that's an unfunded mandate on the school system when

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Speaker 1: for them. So the expense to the taxpayers is enormous.

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Speaker 1: And then you throw in the fentinall that's coming across

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Speaker 1: you can't even put a price tag on it. But

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Speaker 1: yet here we all in Congress and the Senators can't

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Speaker 1: agree on even doing anything to try to Let's give

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Speaker 1: it title forty two, which is the one tool in

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Speaker 1: the toolbox. Well, Congressman, I hate to say this, but

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Speaker 1: we've got a run. But thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: coming on the show. Have a merry Christmas, and we

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Speaker 1: will be watching you next year for sure, and good luck.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Congressman. James Comer from Kentucky. This is Jeffrey

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Speaker 1: Lord sitting in for Sean Hannity. And you can see

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Speaker 1: my potty. He listened to my podcast at the Word

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Speaker 1: of the Lord but with Jeffrey Lord. And also my website,

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Speaker 1: the Jeffreylord dot com. And of course there's my book

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Speaker 1: Swamp Wars, Donald Trump and the New American Populism versus

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Speaker 1: the Old Order, and boy are we seeing that play out.

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Speaker 1: See you on the other side. This is Jeffrey Lord

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Speaker 1: in for Sean Hannity. We have a great show coming

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Speaker 1: up with Michael Schellenberger. We're gonna talk about Twitter and

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Speaker 1: all the things that he has discovered, So please stay

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Speaker 1: tuned for that, and then we will uh, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: keep talking about jeff We're gonna keep talking, rushing it.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna find out about Twitter drop number seven, Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Lord yeah, right exactly, and not to mention the

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