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Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show where the mission where

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Speaker 1: mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence.

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Speaker 1: Make no mistake American, You're a great American. Again the

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy. Seton no

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Harland Hill back

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Speaker 1: in the Freedom Hut, filling in for Buck while he's

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Speaker 1: on assignment in China. As always, I want to thank

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Speaker 1: him for trust me with this microphone. It's actually an honor.

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Speaker 1: On this Wednesday, the fifteenth of May twenty nineteen, we

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Speaker 1: have a lot of ground to cover. This show is

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Speaker 1: going to be all about twenty twenty to be about

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Speaker 1: the issues that will decide the election. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be about the contenders competing for the Democratic nomination to

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Speaker 1: take on President Trump in the general election. For those

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Speaker 1: of you that don't know, once again, my name is

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Speaker 1: Harland Hill. I run a political consulting and advocacy firm

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Speaker 1: called Logan Circle Group. I also sit on the advisory

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Speaker 1: board for President Donald J. Trump's reelection campaign. And when

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Speaker 1: I have some spare time, you'll find me in places

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Speaker 1: like this on radio or on Fox News Channel or

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Speaker 1: CNN as a story Gate for the President. Obviously, I

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Speaker 1: spent a lot of time thinking about this movement, And

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Speaker 1: for three years, the Democrats and the media had pedal

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories about Russian collusion. They've for three years told outrageous,

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Speaker 1: fantastic lies that President Donald J. Trump was even a

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Speaker 1: Russian agent. For three years, they undermined the credibility of

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Speaker 1: our elections and our democracy and the presidency simply because

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Speaker 1: they hate President Donald J. Trump. They called for an investigation,

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Speaker 1: a special counsel, and they got it. And after that investigation,

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Speaker 1: which was the largest and most expensive investigation of its

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Speaker 1: kind in American history, completely and totally exonerated President Trump

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Speaker 1: and everyone on the twenty sixteen campaign. They kept lying

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Speaker 1: to you. They kept lying to you the voter, and

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Speaker 1: slandering President Trump and the rust of Team Trump. There's

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Speaker 1: a lesson here, and it goes beyond the Russian hoax.

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Speaker 1: But the Russian hoax itself, let's focus on that for

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Speaker 1: a second. Is what happens when you take on the establishment.

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Speaker 1: The swamp will stop at nothing to destroy you and

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Speaker 1: everyone around you. That's not melodrama. It's true. They've forgotten you,

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Speaker 1: they don't care about you. They're focused on the issues

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Speaker 1: that matter on the coast, and so so many people

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Speaker 1: have had their lives and reputations tarnished by these false accusations,

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Speaker 1: and irreparable damage has been done to our democratic institutions

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Speaker 1: in the process, all because they don't like President Trump

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Speaker 1: and what he stands for. If the Establishment wins in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, they will retake control like you've never seen before.

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Speaker 1: America as you know it will be dead. Freedom and

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Speaker 1: justice will be reserved for a few select people. Your

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Speaker 1: liberty and your rights will be eroded, and together with

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Speaker 1: their accomplices and then dishonest, fake news media, the establishment

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Speaker 1: will never allow America to be great again. Now, at

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Speaker 1: this point, you may be asking yourself, Harlan, isn't the

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Speaker 1: Russian hoax nonsense? Isn't that over? Well, I'm not just

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Speaker 1: focused on this once. This one is a gross abuse

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Speaker 1: it applies to everything they're doing right now. Everything Democrats

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Speaker 1: at the expense of American democracy, liberties, and freedoms. And

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Speaker 1: there is no better example of this than the democratic

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Speaker 1: rhetoric designed to divide us into ever smaller insular minority groups.

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Speaker 1: Just this Tuesday, Linda Sarsour, the nasty and offensive anti

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Speaker 1: tweeting quote, while folks are debating tactics to respond to

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Speaker 1: George's heartbea bill, let's remember that seventy six percent of

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Speaker 1: white women and Georgia voted for Brian Kemp over Ccy Abrahams.

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Speaker 1: That's where the work needs to happen, she continues, White

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Speaker 1: women continue to uphold the patriarchy, joining me to discuss

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Speaker 1: this is the daily Color News foundations. Henry Rogers, Henry,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? Man? Hey, Harlan, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me absolutely so. Henry helped me make

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Speaker 1: sense to the meaning. It just seems like they're focused

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Speaker 1: a real, comprehensive solution to the nation's problems. Yeah, without question.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Linda Star is a known anti Semitic, as

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Speaker 1: How do the Democrats think they have any chance of

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Speaker 1: I think, I mean, how does this sake any sense?

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Speaker 1: Like this didn't work? Lass go around like trying to

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Speaker 1: it didn't work last time. Is you know you talked

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Speaker 1: you're a reporter for the Daily Caller, a news foundation.

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Speaker 1: Have you noticed any change in tactic over there? Or

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of it's kind of just a mosson

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Speaker 1: saying the same things. They all have the same message,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they all happen, they all have the same message.

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Speaker 1: just it's it's stuff like that. That's where the Democratic

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Speaker 1: And it seems very shortsighted for Democrats that they're unwilling

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Speaker 1: telling you, Harlan, this is it's gonna be a slaughter

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Speaker 1: a total message for the party because we don't have

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Speaker 1: they want to talk about. The want to talk about wages.

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Speaker 1: They want to talk about healthcare. They want to talk

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Speaker 1: about fixing a broken immigration system. They want to deal

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Speaker 1: with the student loan crisis we have in this country.

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Speaker 1: They want to implement a practical gun reform policies similar

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Speaker 1: to what we've seen past thousands of the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 1: I think people want to deal with environmental issues. Nobody

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Speaker 1: wants to not have clean running water. I'm sorry to

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Speaker 1: I think people want to fix affordable housing, and I

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Speaker 1: think people really want to get back to a sense

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Speaker 1: of decency and honesty in the White House. And I

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Speaker 1: think there are some within my party, in fact, I

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Speaker 1: think all of my party and even a lot of

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Speaker 1: in your partner how they will agree that we have

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Speaker 1: and behavior we've seen from North House. So I think

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Speaker 1: in totality, the underlying message that I'm hearing from candidates

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Speaker 1: for president on the Democratic side is a lot of

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Speaker 1: socialist policies that address those issues that you've talked about,

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Speaker 1: whether it's healthcare, um or else wise. M do you

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Speaker 1: the general election? I think I think it just depends

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Speaker 1: on how you just find a socialists. And I know

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Speaker 1: that's the word that they were polands elector throw around.

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Speaker 1: But if you've seen every conversation when you when Democratic

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Speaker 1: candidsts who who've been asked with accepting the burnest anders

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Speaker 1: to say do you agree with socialism or your socialists,

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Speaker 1: all of them has said no. And if you don't,

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Speaker 1: that's because they poled the word socialism and they know

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Speaker 1: that it's a dirty word. That doesn't mean that they

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Speaker 1: don't like socialist policies. You know, it's difference. Find social

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Speaker 1: socialist policies as a policy position that's alternative Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: that may be bold and progressive, then call a socialists.

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Speaker 1: But I can just tell you, as a first generational

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Speaker 1: college student with six figured debt after when I finished

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Speaker 1: loan crisis by taxing those who earn a little more

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Speaker 1: like yourself, Harlem, I think that is not a socialist policy.

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Speaker 1: I think that is a bold, progressive step in the

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Speaker 1: right direction policy. When you talk about protecting pre existing

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Speaker 1: conditions and making sure that hospitals don't closed like the

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Speaker 1: five half in rural South Carolina because Repolicans did not

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Speaker 1: expand MEDICA, I don't call that a socialist policy. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I mean you can, you can rebrand it all you want, um,

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Speaker 1: but it is what it is. I mean, you're looking

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Speaker 1: to tax the rich more, which is fine. You're standing

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Speaker 1: behind it, you're saying it. I respect that you know

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Speaker 1: you're you're being honest about it, and you're looking to

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Speaker 1: expand UM diverment programs I'm assuming you want medicare for all?

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Speaker 1: Is that right? I never said I've seen on the record. Uh,

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Speaker 1: maybe not with you, but I was telling the record

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Speaker 1: for saying that I am a more or less fixed

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Speaker 1: the ACA. Uh, let's protect pre existing conditions. Uh, let's

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Speaker 1: look at the medicative population. Found that where we can

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Speaker 1: have some fixes. But let's look at opportunities to really

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Speaker 1: strengthen the ACA. You won't find me um singing the

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Speaker 1: song of medicare fall. We'll see. That's so your perspective

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Speaker 1: on this, I think it's compatible with Republicans. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Republicans want to come up with a solution to the ACA.

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Speaker 1: They do, the President said, Because that's not true. The

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Speaker 1: President said that the Republicans wanted to repeal and replace

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Speaker 1: the ACA. When you all hit the commis, that was

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Speaker 1: what your campaign offer for eight years. But the president

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Speaker 1: the President also said that everyone should be taken care

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Speaker 1: of and including pre existing conditions. I mean and no, no,

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Speaker 1: that was the Remember that was legislation found by Repolicans

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Speaker 1: pre existing by But it's the Repolican party and he

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Speaker 1: as a result, the voters in the mid term election

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Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, because that was the number one issue

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Speaker 1: on their mind, really punished the Republicans back to the

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Speaker 1: majority for their for their political sin, we'll see. I

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Speaker 1: think we're actually tapping into something that's really important. I mean,

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Speaker 1: on one hand, I don't think that UH Medicare for

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Speaker 1: all is a good policy, but I think that it's inevitable.

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Speaker 1: I think that we are on a tradractory that's a

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Speaker 1: collision course with socialized medicine. I think that just the

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Speaker 1: trends in American politics, we're heading to that point because

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Speaker 1: unfortunately Republicans as a whole don't have real long term

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Speaker 1: solutions to address the exploding cost of healthcare, and Democrats

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Speaker 1: are looking to just solve this problem once and for

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Speaker 1: all by expending medicare. I'll you know the NHS in

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Speaker 1: the UK, and so I think that's that's inevitably where

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Speaker 1: we're going. When you look at something you were talking

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Speaker 1: about college tuition earlier, I mean, there's no question that

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Speaker 1: costs have exploded to a point that people can no

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Speaker 1: longer afford it without incurring massive debt, and that's not

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Speaker 1: a good thing. For society. The one solution of that

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Speaker 1: problem is to try to drive down the costs of

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Speaker 1: higher education through technology and other means. The democratic solution

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Speaker 1: to the problem is for the government to absorb all

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Speaker 1: the costs of it, which is basically a bank blank check,

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Speaker 1: which means that costs will continue to explode without our

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Speaker 1: outcomes even being considered. So let me give you a

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Speaker 1: thought process on that. In South Carolina, our home state,

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Speaker 1: Senate Democrats implemented a strategy to do free technical college

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Speaker 1: for those at certain levels above the poverty above them

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Speaker 1: below the poverty index in the state because there's there

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Speaker 1: are more jobs than they are people looking for jobs.

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Speaker 1: So I'm sorry, there are people there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of jobs that cannot be felled because they do not

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Speaker 1: have the necessary skill sets to feel them. So when

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Speaker 1: you offer free technical college for poor people, I'll just

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Speaker 1: say sail that way. People with certain income levels, it

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Speaker 1: gives them an opportunity to be pulled out of poverty,

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Speaker 1: but it also positions them to sell some of the

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Speaker 1: whole jobles that we have in this country and sow.

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Speaker 1: While people want to criticize it because it hasn't worked free,

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Speaker 1: it has been working very well, and it received democratic

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Speaker 1: and Republican support and it's been a growing, expanded program,

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Speaker 1: and that's why we have of the best technical college

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Speaker 1: systems in the country in South Carolina. If you look

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Speaker 1: at a Republican state like Tennessee, they too have free

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Speaker 1: technical college and so well, you may bark at the

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Speaker 1: fact of the word free college because it's because it's

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Speaker 1: sexty to do on your Saturday out, but in some

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Speaker 1: cases that is not a bad thing, and then it

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Speaker 1: fixes some of the problems that we have because we

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Speaker 1: know education, crime, and pavey all have one common thing.

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Speaker 1: They all loop in with each other well and listen.

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Speaker 1: I'm receptive to that. I think we just have different

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Speaker 1: points of view on how to solve the problem. I

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Speaker 1: want to reduce costs for healthcare overall. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: clear when you look at the trend lines for how

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Speaker 1: expensive higher education college has gotten. I mean, it's way,

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Speaker 1: it's blunt, it's it's not in line with inflation at all.

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Speaker 1: It blows it out of the water. So there's some

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Speaker 1: reason that costs are exploding. And I don't think that

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Speaker 1: we address the problem by having government assume all the costs.

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Speaker 1: But we'll move on because we don't have that much time.

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Speaker 1: Who do you think the dark horses on the Democrat

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Speaker 1: excited about? Somebody we're not talking about. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: have a long list of people here, you know, everybody

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Speaker 1: from Boody Judge to Jilla brand a book or cash.

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Speaker 1: I mean, who who are yang who's in contention here

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Speaker 1: that we're not talking about that could make a real

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Speaker 1: run at this Yeah, We're hard to say, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's uh polugical matter of practice or anyone to

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Speaker 1: kind of predict the mood of this race. Who are

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Speaker 1: now needed to be when I even hearing the candidates

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Speaker 1: on them for the first debate, uh to at this

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Speaker 1: point it's hard to say. But what I can tell

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Speaker 1: you is that you have in this business and you

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Speaker 1: know this because you I would savor to a political

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Speaker 1: expert on your side of the out. Uh. In this

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Speaker 1: business in a primary, peaking at the right time is

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Speaker 1: so important. And while there's some people who are under

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Speaker 1: poland under performing in the eyes of something, uh, they

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Speaker 1: have room to grow uh and way a long ways

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Speaker 1: to go, and so they can continue to slowly raise

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Speaker 1: their profile and slowly get get attention and sustain that.

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Speaker 1: I think there could be multiple dark courses in this race.

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Speaker 1: I think that I do think Kamala Harris has extensive potential.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the intensity that black women bring

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Speaker 1: to the Democratic primary nominating process, they are the more

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Speaker 1: dominant force. Numbers do not lie about that. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know. In my political at times there hasn't been

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Speaker 1: a credible, more visible candidate as a female Black female

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Speaker 1: she is one of that could be dark horses. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: we're talking a lot about Mayor Pete. We don't know

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Speaker 1: the impact of somebody of US governor bullet who entered

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Speaker 1: the race, what yesterday or today, what he will bring

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Speaker 1: But I do think there are a lot of them

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Speaker 1: who have potential to hang around for a while if

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Speaker 1: they can continue to raise their profile peak at the

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Speaker 1: right time. In the words of Mike Tyson, love it,

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Speaker 1: Love it anwine, where can we keep up with your work?

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Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter actively tweet, but I will tell you

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Speaker 1: I don't know, so I won't even talk about Facebook.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Antwin, and you guys can also catch him

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Speaker 1: on Fox News. That dude's on there like all the time.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, Antwine, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this quick break with more.

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Speaker 1: That's eight four four and nine hundred buck. As I

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Speaker 1: That's no smart part because the unprecedented bold tax cuts

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Speaker 1: it's Paul Blair, the director of Strategic Initiatives at Americans

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Speaker 1: Are Tax From Paul, how you doing other than the

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Speaker 1: grim prospect of Democrat being in the White House after

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, I'm doing well, well, good, good. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: is it fair to say that every Democratic contender for

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Speaker 1: is there somebody that's an outlier that's more of a

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Speaker 1: moderate and reasonable No. I think that's a very fair

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Speaker 1: assessment of where the I don't know how many dozens

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Speaker 1: of candidates are running at this point, but certainly among

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Speaker 1: the top contenders or those who register above one percent

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Speaker 1: in the national polls, have all in some way suggested

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Speaker 1: that they would either repeal the Republican tax cuts, the

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Speaker 1: Tax Cuts in Jobs Act, or they've come up with

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Speaker 1: their own creative tax plans of their own that rate

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Speaker 1: taxes by hundreds of billions or multiple trillions of dollars

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Speaker 1: to pay for their kind of inventive spending schemes on

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Speaker 1: whatever the priority of the time is. So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's a fair assessment to suggest that if a

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Speaker 1: Democrat is elected president in two thousan twenty that among

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Speaker 1: their top priorities will be raising taxes on nearly every

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Speaker 1: American in the United States. I mean, that's incredible. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you've reversed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, you're

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Speaker 1: getting rid of the doubling of the child tax Credit,

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Speaker 1: which has truly helped to lessen the financial burden of

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Speaker 1: raising a family in this country. How can Democrats, who

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Speaker 1: are ostensibly supposed to be the party of the little man,

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Speaker 1: right so they've they've they've they've they've held them up

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Speaker 1: to be themselves up to be for a long time.

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Speaker 1: How can they run on raising taxes on families. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's break it down even further as to

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Speaker 1: what a repeal, a full repeal of the tax cuts

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Speaker 1: and job Zach would do. And the reason I say

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Speaker 1: we've got to break it down based on a full

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Speaker 1: repeal is that maybe eight nine months ago, there would

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Speaker 1: have been Democrats that said, well, we've got to raise

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Speaker 1: the corporate rate or we've got to raise the top

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Speaker 1: income tax rate, because the tax cuts and job Zach

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Speaker 1: certainly helped a couple of few a few hiers. But

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks, specifically in the last

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Speaker 1: two months, we've had a number of Democrats come out

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Speaker 1: and say that they either on day one, by some

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Speaker 1: I guess magical mechanism, they would do a full repeal.

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Speaker 1: And so here's what that would mean. A family of

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Speaker 1: four earning median income of just over seventy thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: a year would see a two thousand dollars tax increase.

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Speaker 1: Single parent, and this goes to your point about the

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Speaker 1: child tax credit. A single parent with one child making

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Speaker 1: about a little over forty thousand dollars a year would

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Speaker 1: see a thirteen hundred dollars tax increase. This isn't only

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Speaker 1: a few risk folks who live you know India, Cla

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Speaker 1: Corridor or in New York and you know the West Coast.

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Speaker 1: These are families, small businesses, and low and middle income individuals,

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Speaker 1: tens of millions of them who would face an immediate

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Speaker 1: tax increase if many of if not any, of the

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Speaker 1: Democrats for running for president we're elected. What's interesting, I

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Speaker 1: think is if we look back to I don't know,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, Joe Biden, for example, at least

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, Democrats campaigned on promising to

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Speaker 1: not raise your taxes. Now, of course we knew that

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Speaker 1: they were lying, and it didn't take very long for

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Speaker 1: us to find out that they were doing just that,

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Speaker 1: but at least they pretended that they weren't going to

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Speaker 1: raise taxes. We are in a much different position twelve

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Speaker 1: years later, with essentially every single candidate campaigning on running

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Speaker 1: low and middle income, raising low and middle income taxes

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Speaker 1: on family, small businesses, and individuals. It's extraordinary to me

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Speaker 1: because for the first time in a long time, well

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Speaker 1: over a decade, Americans are just finally starting to get ahead.

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Speaker 1: The economy is starting to show signs of booming. We're

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Speaker 1: not just the people in the SLA Corridor, to your point,

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Speaker 1: but people in the heartland. And this is what people

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Speaker 1: voted for. This is what the Trump Revolution was about.

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Speaker 1: This is why these tax cuts are in large part

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Speaker 1: why we've exceeded three percent growth quarter to quarter. It's

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Speaker 1: in large port why we've you know, we're knocking on

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Speaker 1: five million new jobs since the President Trump was elected.

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Speaker 1: It's why we have record low African American unemployment, Hispanic unemployment,

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Speaker 1: Asian unemployment, and female unemployment. And so I really truly

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Speaker 1: reject the notion that Democrats can win running on this,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure you do it too. And I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: where they're going to have that epiphany they're they're not

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Speaker 1: self aware. I don't think that they truly are plugged

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Speaker 1: into the American voter because at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: it's the economy that matters. And I think that people

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Speaker 1: intrinsically know that if you add more regulations and you

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Speaker 1: add more taxes, it's going to hurt the economy and

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Speaker 1: their wallets. Yeah, I mean, look, I think that their

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Speaker 1: calculation is they can promise to spend a lot of

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Speaker 1: money on a wide range of programs that may seem

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Speaker 1: popular at a base level. So whether that's Medicare for all,

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Speaker 1: Bury Sander's Plan, a Green New Deal, whatever that includes,

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Speaker 1: but it only takes one question asked by any fair

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Speaker 1: and reasonable person in the press or at a town hall,

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Speaker 1: and that is, how are you going to pay for it?

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Speaker 1: I will at least give Bernie Sanders some credit for

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Speaker 1: admitting that he's going to raise taxes by over fourteen

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Speaker 1: trillion dollars over the next ten years to pay for

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Speaker 1: something like Medicare for all. But that's the point at

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Speaker 1: which I think all of these Democrats plans becomes unpopular.

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Speaker 1: It's when we begin to ask questions about Look, you

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Speaker 1: can propose and promise to spend all of this money

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Speaker 1: on all these programs, and you can give free college

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Speaker 1: and free whatever across the board, but how do you

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Speaker 1: pay for it? And what we've seen from Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: to Bernie Sanders to Elizabeth Warren is that any tax

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Speaker 1: that exists in some form, they probably want to raise.

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Speaker 1: And so whether that's bringing back the individual mandate as

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Speaker 1: part of Obamacare, whether that's new payroll taxes for employers

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Speaker 1: and employees, or whether it's full appeal to tax effects

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Speaker 1: and jobs act. I think when we get to the

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Speaker 1: question to tax and separated from spending, that's where I

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Speaker 1: think they've made a very significant miscalculation about how popular

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Speaker 1: their plans overall are going to be with Middle America.

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Speaker 1: With But it isn't the problem Hanson in Pennsylvania. Isn't

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Speaker 1: the problem that they they have sold this notion that

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Speaker 1: we are going to raise taxes on only the rich,

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Speaker 1: not you, and you will be the recipient of all

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Speaker 1: of these free programs, and I put free in quotations

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Speaker 1: and so it's sort of the otherization of how do

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Speaker 1: I pay for this? And so people are willing to

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Speaker 1: write it off and not worry about it, and they

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Speaker 1: don't think about the economic implications to them of taxing

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Speaker 1: job creators. There might be a disconnect there that they

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Speaker 1: might work for Democrats politically. Absolutely. Look, this is where

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Speaker 1: this is where kind of the Democrat position on taxes

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Speaker 1: shipped in January when they took over the House with

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Speaker 1: Alexander Accazy Cortez and then Bernie Sanders on well, we're

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Speaker 1: just going to raise taxes on the top one percent.

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Speaker 1: We're going to increase the top marginal tax rate to

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Speaker 1: seventy percent and that's will pay for a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 1: What's fun about those sort of things is that if

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Speaker 1: you discount the discouragement that takes place as a result

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Speaker 1: of those high taxes, they're only going to generate something

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Speaker 1: like fifty one billion dollars with the seventy percent tax bracket.

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Speaker 1: Of course, now if you take into consideration or a

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Speaker 1: suppression of investment in economic growth, the government actually loses

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Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars when you raise the top

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Speaker 1: rate to seventy percent. And so yeah, look, they can

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Speaker 1: say that all of their tax plans and proposal only

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Speaker 1: hit the top one percent, but if you break it

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Speaker 1: down and try to figure out how to actually pay

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Speaker 1: for their programs, there is no discernible way to pay

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Speaker 1: for anything like Medicare for all or de Green New Deal,

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Speaker 1: or any other other free college tuition for all without

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Speaker 1: sacking middle class taxpayers. And that's why they have to

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Speaker 1: go deeper to do things like bring back the individual

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Speaker 1: mandate or increase the employer employee payroll tax. And those

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Speaker 1: are things that don't hurt rich folks, but that do

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Speaker 1: significantly and meaningfully hurt middle income taxpayers. My concern, and

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Speaker 1: this is why I think Medicare for all is actually

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Speaker 1: inevitable politically here in the United States. Is that you know,

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Speaker 1: entitlements are inevitably popular, and it's never stopped Democrats from

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Speaker 1: bad policy. You know, the question, how do we pay

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Speaker 1: for this? We continue to rack up debt, we continue

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Speaker 1: to suspend your responsibly, we continue to promise things that

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Speaker 1: we can't pay for. And we have history decades long

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Speaker 1: at this point of increasing the social safety net. And

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Speaker 1: I think that in absence of a solid plan on

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Speaker 1: the Republican side to address the healthcare the exploding healthcare

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Speaker 1: costs in this country over the last a couple of decades,

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Speaker 1: that eventually Americans are gonna throw their hands up in

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Speaker 1: the air and say, you know what, somebody take care

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Speaker 1: of this for us. We've seen it happen in other countries,

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Speaker 1: and I think that it's it's going to happen here

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Speaker 1: because I'm not hearing enough in the way of solid

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Speaker 1: policy on the Republican side of the aisle to present

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Speaker 1: an alternative. Because at least, even though it might be

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Speaker 1: a bankrupt idea, at least the Democrats are are are

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Speaker 1: articulating what their solution to the healthcare costs are. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean like you can. And this goes to something

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Speaker 1: called the Overton window in terms of shift reception of

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Speaker 1: radical ideas, and that is that, you know, something like

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Speaker 1: the Green New Deal or Metacre for All among mainstream Americans, Conservatives, Republicans,

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Speaker 1: moderates may seem unattainable, but it shifts the Overton window

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Speaker 1: to suggest that, well, maybe a part of it, maybe

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Speaker 1: the government dealing with a little bit more in healthcare,

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Speaker 1: or a little bit more in education, or a little

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Speaker 1: bit more and you know, whatever the field and program is,

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Speaker 1: makes sense. And so I do think there's a certain

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Speaker 1: part of that which is correct, because although most Americans

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Speaker 1: may view these proposals as radical, it does shift the

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Speaker 1: window of what seems reasonable, and whether that's more taxes

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Speaker 1: or whether that's more spending. It is a threat that

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Speaker 1: in less aggressively encountered by Republicans, whether that's in a

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Speaker 1: new reformed healthcare proposal, which Democrats and Republicans deeply care about.

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Speaker 1: If you know, the twenty eighteen Shy indicated that because

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Speaker 1: we didn't effectively run on tax cuts in the economy,

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Speaker 1: that unless we aggressively not only respond by batting down

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Speaker 1: their bad ideas, but coming up with some better ones ourselves.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right, and that is the risk that

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Speaker 1: we run the moment that Democrats have unified control of

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Speaker 1: Congress in the White House again, which god willing isn't

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Speaker 1: anytime soon. But you know, you never know what. Um,

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Speaker 1: we've addressed the Democratic side of the aisle. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they want higher taxes. Many of them are actually openly

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Speaker 1: running on it at this point. Okay, put them to

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Speaker 1: the side. How strong is the Republican base right now

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Speaker 1: in Congress, you know, in terms of cutting taxes, you know,

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Speaker 1: not raising taxes. Um. You know, are we still on

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Speaker 1: the same team? Are we on the same page on

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Speaker 1: the Republican side of the aisle? And I asked that

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Speaker 1: because the Republican Party has been in a shift over

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Speaker 1: the last three years, and so I'm I'm curious if

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Speaker 1: you've seen a change in h and how we view

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Speaker 1: taxation on the right. I do think so largely because

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Speaker 1: of our success in passage of the Tax Cuts and

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Speaker 1: Jobs Act. I mean, most Republicans maybe perhaps different than

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Speaker 1: it was ten years ago. Given the chance, we'll cut

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Speaker 1: your taxes now, that doesn't mean they're also going to

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Speaker 1: cut spending. That's a totally different, and most Democrats, given

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Speaker 1: the opportunity, we'll raise your taxes. This is true at

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Speaker 1: the state level and it's true at the federal level.

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Speaker 1: I do think that President Trump's aggressive pursuit of tax cuts,

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Speaker 1: and I need aggressive in a positive way. I think

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Speaker 1: solidified the Republican base and solidified the Republican Party as

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Speaker 1: the party that we'll cut your taxes given the chance.

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Speaker 1: But we've done that now, and there's certainly some more

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Speaker 1: things that we can do, like indexing the capital gains

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Speaker 1: tax to inflation, or making the middle class tax cuts permanent.

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Speaker 1: There's more things that Republicans can do, but I do

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Speaker 1: think largely Republicans are on the same page now. Every

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Speaker 1: once in a while, I think we're going to have

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Speaker 1: some outliers that flirt with stupidity on issues like a

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Speaker 1: carbon tax. We're going to have an outlier here or

861
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Speaker 1: there where where folks contemplate some some dumb ideas. But

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Speaker 1: you know, if we're in the range of ninety five

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Speaker 1: to ninety nine percent Republicans rejecting these sort of ideas,

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Speaker 1: I think we're in a much different position than we

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Speaker 1: were in the early two thousands when we had Republicans

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Speaker 1: that voted against tax cuts under President Bush, and so

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Speaker 1: I do think we've seen a ship in positive direction.

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Speaker 1: Are there any names you'd be willing to drop about

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Speaker 1: Republicans in support of a carbon tax? Are there? We absolutely, Look,

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Speaker 1: Francis NY in Florida is kind of out there on

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Speaker 1: his zone in pushing what maybe the most significant national

872
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Speaker 1: energy tax has ever been causing plays. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: have proposal before Congress that has something like thirty seven

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Speaker 1: Democrats and one Republican. Again Francis Ready from Maples, Florida,

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Speaker 1: that is pushing a multi trillion dollar tax increase so

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Speaker 1: the government collects significantly more in gas taxes, utility bills,

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Speaker 1: and energy costs, and then would send what I would

878
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Speaker 1: call green energy welfare apology to chats to most families

879
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: to compensate for those higher costs. Now, of course it

880
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be one hundred percent, but he's kind of out

881
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Speaker 1: there alone on this. You know, in the prior Congress,

882
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Speaker 1: Carlos Carabello Southern Florida was also one who took the

883
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Speaker 1: lead on pushing this, but voters kind of saw through

884
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Speaker 1: it kicked him out of office. And so again, well

885
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have ninety five to ninety nine percent of

886
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Speaker 1: Republicans reject things like a national energy tax. And it's

887
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Speaker 1: not a new idea. We went through this on cap

888
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Speaker 1: and trade ten years ago and folks like Bobb Englist

889
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,800
Speaker 1: and South Carolina were primary and loss as a result

890
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Speaker 1: of it. And we're going to have to push back

891
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Speaker 1: as aggressively as possible against these sort of silly ideas.

892
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Speaker 1: But again, I do think we're in the range of

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Speaker 1: ninety five to ninety nine percent of folks were rejecting that.

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Speaker 1: We just have to ensure that if Democrats are in

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Speaker 1: charge again, we don't have a few of these kind

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Speaker 1: of moderate squishes joined with Democrats to impose those sort

897
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Speaker 1: of disastrous ideas. Well, take away from this is that

898
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Speaker 1: we need somebody down there primary Congressman Rooney in Naples, Florida.

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Speaker 1: If if we don't already have some I don't think

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Speaker 1: that would be a bad idea, idea the ideas. I

901
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Speaker 1: think there are a few policies he's are wrong on

902
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Speaker 1: good good and I think that voters, given the chance

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Speaker 1: might select someone else well. Paul Blair, the director of

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Speaker 1: Strategic Initiatives at Americans for Tax from where can we

905
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Speaker 1: learn more about your work? You check out our website

906
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Speaker 1: at ATR dot org or follow us on Twitter at

907
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Speaker 1: Tax Reformer. Thank you so much, Paul. We'll be right

908
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Speaker 1: back after this quick break with more. The phone lines

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Speaker 1: are open. We'll be taking calls later in the show.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call at eight four four nine hundred

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Speaker 1: two eight two five. That's eight four four nine hundred buck.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned to the Buck Sexton Show. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Freedom Hight. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show.

914
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Speaker 1: I'm Harlan Hill filling in for Buck. The phone lines

915
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Speaker 1: are open. We will get to those calls, so give

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Speaker 1: us a call at eight four four nine hundred two

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Speaker 1: eight two five. That's eight four or four nine hundred buck.

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Speaker 1: We obviously covered a lot of ground, but we have

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Speaker 1: some great guests up ahead as well. Doctor Marion mass

920
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Speaker 1: is coming up in the next block. She's great. She's

921
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Speaker 1: going to help break down the opioid crisis. She's seen

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Speaker 1: this firsthand. We're going to address how we fix it

923
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Speaker 1: and what it means for us politically in twenty twenty.

924
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Speaker 1: This is an issue that I wish I knew more about.

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Speaker 1: It is something that particularly in the heartland of America

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Speaker 1: is affecting many people, and unfortunately, in a media landscape

927
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Speaker 1: dominated by the East and West Coast, I don't think

928
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Speaker 1: we hear enough about it, But voters, do you care

929
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Speaker 1: about it? So we're going to talk to an expert

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Speaker 1: on that. We also have a Republican consultant and twenty

931
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Speaker 1: sixteen Trump campaign alum who is in Ohio right now

932
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Speaker 1: with his ear to the ground on how the president

933
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Speaker 1: is performing and what we have to look forward to

934
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, because I believe that Ohio is a

935
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Speaker 1: bellweather for how the rest of the Rust Belt states.

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Speaker 1: For lack of better term, we'll go. We also have

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Speaker 1: probably one of the pre eminent experts on energy that

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Speaker 1: we could get for it for today's show, and he's

939
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Speaker 1: going to break down energy means for the twenty twenty

940
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Speaker 1: race and what the Trump administration has done thus far

941
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Speaker 1: to deliver enormous results, to pay enormous dividends for the

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Speaker 1: America's national security and economic security. I also want to

943
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Speaker 1: go back to something that I mentioned previously, but we

944
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Speaker 1: didn't have a whole lot of time to address it.

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Speaker 1: The President and the Trump administration is doing something great.

946
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Speaker 1: They've opened up an online form where Americans can share

947
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Speaker 1: instances in which they've been censored by social media platforms

948
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Speaker 1: like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter. This is really important, guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean, because we've been we've been talking a lot

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Speaker 1: about this problem, but we haven't heard very many solutions

951
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Speaker 1: to it. Finally, the Trump administration is going to start

952
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Speaker 1: compiling examples of manipulation by the major social media companies,

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Speaker 1: a major tech firms, and we're going to start coming

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Speaker 1: up with solutions to the problems. I love that the

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Speaker 1: President is not sitting back and looking people complain about it.

956
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Speaker 1: He's taken this issue by the horns and we're going

957
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Speaker 1: to fix it. So if you go over to the

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Speaker 1: White House website whitehouse dot com, you can now finally

959
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:07,879
Speaker 1: file a complaint about your freedom of speech being violated

960
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: by social media platforms. You can include screenshots and everything else.

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Speaker 1: This is a really important issue, you guys, because if

962
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Speaker 1: we lose the fight on social media, we're going to

963
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Speaker 1: lose the fight overall. Once again, this is the Buck

964
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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. We'll be right back after this break. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in. He's back with you now.

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Speaker 1: Because when it comes to the fight for truth, the

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Speaker 1: fuck never stops. Welcome back. You're listening to the Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. I'm Harland Hill filling in for Buck while

969
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Speaker 1: he's on assignment in China. The phonelines are open and

970
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:49,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna be taking calls later in the show, So

971
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Speaker 1: give us a call at a four four nine hundred

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Speaker 1: two eight two five. That's a four four to nine

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Speaker 1: hundred buck. According to the nh NIH National Institute on

974
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Speaker 1: Drug Abuse, drug overdose is killed over seventy thousand people

975
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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen alone, and countless more are impacted every year.

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Speaker 1: This is an epidemic in our own country, and we

977
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: hardly hear a worse whisper of it on cable news.

978
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Speaker 1: Joining me to cast away with some of the mystery

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Speaker 1: and to address this tremendously consequential issue is doctor Marion Mass,

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Speaker 1: the co founder of Practicing Physicians of America and a

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Speaker 1: practicing physician in the Philadelphia area. Doctor Mass, how are

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Speaker 1: you doing? I am great, Harlan. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for having me. Oh, thank you for joining me. So first,

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Speaker 1: can you just break down for us how critical this

985
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Speaker 1: issue has gotten. I mean, I'm sure you see it

986
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Speaker 1: in the field all of the time. Oh, tremendously critical.

987
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Speaker 1: And as a pediatrician, I see the youngest victims. You know,

988
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Speaker 1: the babies that have been exposed in the womb and

989
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:51,879
Speaker 1: children that are now in foster care or struggling to

990
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Speaker 1: go back in sports between foster care, and you know,

991
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Speaker 1: children that are living in homes that have the epidemic

992
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Speaker 1: within the homes. Heartbreaking, it's it's terrible. So it's no

993
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Speaker 1: secret that Americans are paying more and getting less for healthcare.

994
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Speaker 1: How does that tie back to the opioid crisis and

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Speaker 1: what should our approach be? Wow, so I may have

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Speaker 1: to take a little bit of a subcuitous route to

997
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 1: get us there, if that's okay, But you hit the

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Speaker 1: nail on the head. And this is actually my specialty

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Speaker 1: if it were, because I've made a point of dissecting

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Speaker 1: the healthcare system. And why because as a practicing physician,

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Speaker 1: I and many many thousands of physicians across the nation

1002
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Speaker 1: are facing our patients every day and we see their frustration.

1003
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Speaker 1: It's palpable. So they are paying more and getting less.

1004
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 1: What we really need to do is to pull back

1005
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Speaker 1: to curtain and dissect why. And when you do that,

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Speaker 1: it's really interesting because two of the main cost drivers

1007
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Speaker 1: are the costs of hospitalization and the cost of drugs

1008
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Speaker 1: and supplies. And it seems as though it's unrelated, but

1009
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Speaker 1: it really truly is related. America knows well enough that

1010
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Speaker 1: the insurance companies are a bit of a problem, and

1011
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 1: they know that the pharmaceutical companies are making money. But

1012
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Speaker 1: what they don't realize, many of them, is there's pharmaceutical

1013
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 1: and hospital supply middlemen that are draining two hundred billion

1014
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Speaker 1: dollars out of the healthcare system every year. And as middlemen,

1015
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Speaker 1: they're not manufacturing drugs, they're not doing any research, and

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Speaker 1: they're not even distributing any medications. And it's outrageous that

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Speaker 1: they're making so much money. And part of the reason

1018
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Speaker 1: is why is our government in the nineteen eighties and

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Speaker 1: again in the early two thousands granted to these two

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Speaker 1: giant industries. One is called PBMs, or pharmacy benefit managers,

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Speaker 1: and the others called GPOs or group purchasing organizations. They

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Speaker 1: granted the both of them the legal right to accept

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Speaker 1: a kickback. Functionally, they call them rebates, and you've heard

1024
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Speaker 1: them all over the news for the PBMs. Now, these

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Speaker 1: pharmacy benefit managers are PBMs, who are allowed to accept

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Speaker 1: money from pharmaceutical companies are making the very formularies that

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Speaker 1: decide what medications are paid for by your insurance company

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Speaker 1: and at what level. Astounding right, they're receiving kickbacks or

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Speaker 1: so called rebates. In the hospital side, the group purchasing organizations,

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Speaker 1: and they're much less known. You're not hearing about them,

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Speaker 1: and they control ninety percent of the hospital supply. Four

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Speaker 1: large companies also allowed to receive kickbacks or they call

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Speaker 1: them rebates. And what this has done over time is

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Speaker 1: it's created a pay to play environment, and in both

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Speaker 1: the outpatient pharmaceutical world and the inpatient pharmaceutical and supply world,

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Speaker 1: we're having not only extraordinary costs, but because it's paid

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Speaker 1: to play, over time, the manufacturers have started to purchase

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Speaker 1: either near or sole source right to the formularies or

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Speaker 1: to the hospital supplies. Yes, and so what we have

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Speaker 1: seen is a shortage of several interesting medications. Would you

1041
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Speaker 1: like to hear more? Well, I got to ask you,

1042
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Speaker 1: I mean, what are some of the low hanging fruit

1043
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Speaker 1: that we could tackle for us to drive down costs?

1044
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Speaker 1: Because I think this is going to be a major

1045
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Speaker 1: political issue going into twenty twenty. You look at how

1046
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Speaker 1: healthcare polls with Democrats, it's a number one issue. You

1047
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Speaker 1: look out, it's increasing and pulling with independence. It's a

1048
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Speaker 1: number one issue. You look out, it's pulling with Republicans.

1049
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Speaker 1: Not quite the number one issue. Immigration and taxes are

1050
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Speaker 1: still up there, but it will increasingly become it because

1051
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Speaker 1: healthcare costs are are astronomical and so my thesis has

1052
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Speaker 1: been for a while and I actually we're talking about

1053
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Speaker 1: this earlier in the show, is that, unfortunately, I think

1054
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Speaker 1: medicare for all and socialized medicine is inevitable because in

1055
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Speaker 1: the absence of real, meaningful solutions to the cost, the

1056
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Speaker 1: exploding cost of healthcare, a lot of voters are going

1057
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Speaker 1: to stand up and just demand any sort of solution.

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Speaker 1: And Republicans, unfortunately haven't articulated what that solution is. For

1059
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Speaker 1: a while, it was to repeat in a place Obamacare. Um,

1060
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Speaker 1: you know, we haven't done that. That's not going to happen.

1061
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Speaker 1: And Democrats solution might be bankrupt, both literally and figuratively,

1062
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Speaker 1: but m at least they're providing a solution to the problem.

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Speaker 1: So an absence of that, because I don't think that

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Speaker 1: it really anybody reasonable wants medicare for all, um. But

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Speaker 1: in absence of that, what is the solution to drive

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Speaker 1: down the cost of healthcare and and sort this? Well,

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Speaker 1: you you mentioned low hanging fruit, so I'll tackle that first.

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Speaker 1: How about get rid of the two hundred billion dollars

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Speaker 1: industry of legalized kickbacks, you know. And I'm not suggesting

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Speaker 1: that we get rid of these middlemen industries. I'm just

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Speaker 1: simply suggesting that they play by the same rules as

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Speaker 1: everyone else, um, you know. So that will have a

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Speaker 1: lot of down downward decreasing cost effects as well, because

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Speaker 1: these kickbacks are stifling manufacturing since only one company is

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Speaker 1: making a various drug or a supply and it's causing shortages.

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Speaker 1: And the shortages themselves are causing problems in hospitals that

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Speaker 1: are causing extended stays, more complicated care and needed because us,

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Speaker 1: we as physicians and our friends and nurses are jerry

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Speaker 1: rigging the way around these shortages. So getting rid of

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Speaker 1: legalized kickbacks is one way that's really important to drive

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Speaker 1: down costs. And I ask you a quick question about

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Speaker 1: those kickbacks. I mean, are are they driving the decisions

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Speaker 1: that positions and insurance companies make about what to prescribe,

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Speaker 1: oh naturally, because we're only going to be able to

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Speaker 1: prescribe something that the patient's insurance kind of drivers, you know,

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Speaker 1: So that's what we you know, check the box or

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Speaker 1: put on the prescription or in the hospital setting, you know,

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Speaker 1: I will give you three large classes of medications that

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Speaker 1: are in shortages because of the legalized kickbacks, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's what we have available in the hospitals. So the

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Speaker 1: one area is in maternal and feet medicine. Women that

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Speaker 1: go into premature labor, they come in with maybe high

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Speaker 1: blood pressure and they need to get a bolus of

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Speaker 1: bulus is just us giving them id fluids of sailing saltwater,

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Speaker 1: sterilized saltwater. We're short on sailing salt water because there's

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Speaker 1: only one major company making it. So then this particular

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Speaker 1: woman who comes in in labor early, the next drug

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Speaker 1: that you would give her or medication is magnesium, a

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Speaker 1: very simple salt. It's in shortage and by the way,

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Speaker 1: it's used to protect that woman from having seizures, which

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Speaker 1: is very dangerous for the baby. So your next step

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Speaker 1: would be to put this woman into labor and we

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Speaker 1: use potocin to do that. Oxytocin it's been around for decades,

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Speaker 1: all of these medications and solutions have it's in shortage.

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Speaker 1: So now we have to take this woman and send

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Speaker 1: her to the operating room and deliver by c section,

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Speaker 1: preferably by spinal that's the best way to do it,

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Speaker 1: the most safe way for the mother and the baby.

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Speaker 1: But we can't do it because we're lacking the anesthetic.

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Speaker 1: It's in shortage. That's the most safe one to use.

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Speaker 1: And even before she delivers, we really should be giving

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Speaker 1: her two shots of steroids to mature her baby's lungs,

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Speaker 1: which provides the most protection and is the number one

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Speaker 1: driver of the baby having medical problems later. Well, guess what,

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Speaker 1: that's steroids in shortage too extraordinary. Nobody knows. I mean,

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Speaker 1: people are outside of your profession. I think I have

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Speaker 1: no idea that this is as pervasive a problem as

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Speaker 1: it as. It is terrible. I wanted to get back.

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Speaker 1: So it's clear at this point that we have extraordinary

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Speaker 1: shortages that are unnecessary. It's clear that we have exploding

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Speaker 1: costs of healthcare that can and should be addressed. It

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Speaker 1: seems like there's some low hanging fruit that we could tackle,

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Speaker 1: at least in the interim to drive down these costs

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Speaker 1: and to address these drugs shortages. But can we get

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Speaker 1: to the opioid crisis because I'm trying to understand how

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Speaker 1: we got to this point. Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, So

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Speaker 1: what are the origins of Yeah? What's what are the

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Speaker 1: origins of the abuse of drugs and opioids in the setting? Right? Well?

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Speaker 1: And when you say in the setting, how appropriate because

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Speaker 1: you know we had opium dens in you know, the

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Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds in China. They're very well described. I mean,

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Speaker 1: people were abusing opioids at the beginning part of this

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Speaker 1: century in America. Um. Why now I think we're in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the perfect storm. You know, you have

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Speaker 1: the OxyContin uh, kind of pushed on us by the

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Speaker 1: Sackler family produce Pharma, and they certainly have made quite

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Speaker 1: a good bit of money off of it. Isn't there

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Speaker 1: a wing in the Metropolitan Museum up there named after them?

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Speaker 1: But so they're busy pushing at a time when a

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Speaker 1: lot of our legacy medical organizations Institute of Paying Medicine,

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Speaker 1: the American Medical Association or the ama UM, we're all

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Speaker 1: telling us in the nineteen nineties that we were under

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Speaker 1: pres driving narcotics. They're safe, they're fine, you're under prescribing.

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Speaker 1: We had to treat patients pain. And this was all

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Speaker 1: growing up at a time when we had pain scores

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Speaker 1: instilled in hospitals and a time when we were starting

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Speaker 1: to rely on patient satisfaction scores, and remarkably, Medicare money

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Speaker 1: to hospitals was in part based on satisfaction scores, so

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Speaker 1: if patients were happy and pain free, they gave higher scores.

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Speaker 1: We started getting more opioids. But I think the two

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Speaker 1: other things that and that, you know, push this storm

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Speaker 1: or three other things. I'll give three. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: fault my own profession here. We are creatures of habit.

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Speaker 1: So when we were taught you're not treating pain, you know,

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Speaker 1: staunchly enough, you know you should be writing prescription. Make

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Speaker 1: sure the patient has plenty of pain meds. We got

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Speaker 1: in the habit of writing prescriptions. You know, give thirty.

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Speaker 1: You know oxyconton tablets, and you know you were taught

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Speaker 1: this by residents. You write the number thirty, You write

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Speaker 1: the number thirty. We had to break those habits, and

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Speaker 1: I think that we're starting to have good faith efforts

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Speaker 1: to do that, you know, minus the revolting pill mill

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Speaker 1: doctors to give our profession a bad name. I find

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Speaker 1: that reprehensible. And the other the other two areas that

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Speaker 1: I would say are you know, we had a terrible

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Speaker 1: crisis economically in our country and people have lost jobs.

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Speaker 1: They have at a time when they're paying more for healthcare.

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Speaker 1: It's demoralizing, and I think people turned to cover up

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Speaker 1: their pain at a time when pain medications were more

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Speaker 1: available because we're writing more, because people are doing more

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Speaker 1: prescriptions because we have been trained to do so. And

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Speaker 1: then you see a setting it's interesting I've seen, I

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Speaker 1: guess I would call parenting has changed over the last

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Speaker 1: twenty to thirty years. And I don't say this to

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Speaker 1: be judgmental to parents, but I often will tell them

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Speaker 1: when they come in and they're said about their child's fever,

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Speaker 1: the child's pain, or the problem with the child is

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Speaker 1: going through. Of course I addressed those issues, but I

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Speaker 1: always tell them, you know, your number one job as

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Speaker 1: a parent is to learn teach your child how to

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Speaker 1: deal with adversity, and pain is a sort of adversity.

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Speaker 1: So it's not our job as doctors to try to

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Speaker 1: rid your body or pain or your child's body of pain,

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Speaker 1: but to make you comfortable, help you get through it,

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Speaker 1: and teach you how to cope with the pain that

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Speaker 1: maybe we don't want to completely take away because we

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Speaker 1: do not want to snow you so much and give

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Speaker 1: you so much pain medication that we're going to create

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Speaker 1: a downstream problem. Fascinating. Well, this is obviously a tremendous

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Speaker 1: problem that we need to take at one and I

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Speaker 1: think a combination of public policy and you know, some

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Speaker 1: collaborative effort among physicians could finally make a dent in this.

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Speaker 1: But let's let's hope that that happens. Doctor Marion Mass,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Doctor Mass is

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Speaker 1: a Philadelphia area pediatrician and the co founder of Practicing

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Speaker 1: Physicians of America and a member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society,

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Speaker 1: and she serves as as a leadership on a leadership

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Speaker 1: position for the Physicians against Drug Shortages. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: doctor Mass. It's a pleasure. Thank you so much. Anytime.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this quick break with more.

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Speaker 1: The phone lines are open to give us a call

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Speaker 1: at eight four four and nine hundred two eight two five.

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Speaker 1: That's eight four four to nine hundred buck. Stay tuned

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Speaker 1: to the Buck Sexton Show. Welcome back, you're listening to

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Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Harland Hill filling in for Buck.

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Speaker 1: The phone lines are open. We're gonna be taking those calls,

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Speaker 1: So give us a call at eight four four nine

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Speaker 1: hundred two eight two five. That's eight four four nine

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Speaker 1: hundred Buck. So the Democrats have been seeking these nanny

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Speaker 1: state policies that voters resoundingly rejected in twenty sixteen, and

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Speaker 1: they still haven't figured been In large part, it's the

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Speaker 1: repudiation of those nanny state policies that President Barack Obama

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Speaker 1: ran on, that he governed on that led to the

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Speaker 1: rise of Donald Trump. Good example of this is Senator

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren, she, you know, is running for president the

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Speaker 1: United States. She's a radical progressive lawmaker, and she recently

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Speaker 1: wrote an opinion piece for none other than CNN. She

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Speaker 1: made the case that nobody in this country quote succeeds

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Speaker 1: on their own because everybody relies on the government in

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Speaker 1: some way. But one could still easily argue that Americans

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Speaker 1: seed despite clumsy government efforts. I mean, we saw this

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Speaker 1: with Obamacare. There's no better example of this. The purpose

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Speaker 1: of Obamacare was to drive down costs and to make

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Speaker 1: healthcare available to more people. Okay, didn't work out. Healthcare

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Speaker 1: costs are through the roof, through the roof, and the

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Speaker 1: only reason that more people were insured because of Obamacare,

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Speaker 1: it's primarily because people were for us to how or

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Speaker 1: they would have to pay a fine. So that's a

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Speaker 1: perfect example of an any state policy actually leading to

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Speaker 1: the adverse effects that we were promised would never happen.

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Speaker 1: These ubiquitous federal programs do not even Josh to find

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Speaker 1: their existence, much less their expansion. So as Warren wishes

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Speaker 1: to do um, you know, she's struggling to articulate the

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Speaker 1: reason that her policies have any sort of mainstream appeal.

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Speaker 1: So on most of her points, she's quite simply wrong.

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Speaker 1: Americans do not need government to come to their rescue

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Speaker 1: with a fifteen dollar minimum wage. Companies are already doing

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Speaker 1: that on their own, as the economy under President Don

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Speaker 1: Trump has given them the chance to start growing again.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if you remember, but after

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Speaker 1: the tax cuts, we saw a wave of corporate big

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Speaker 1: corporate fortune one hundred companies all the way down to

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Speaker 1: small businesses saying we're going to raise wages because governments

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Speaker 1: can out of the way. We're reducing regulations, reducing taxes,

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Speaker 1: we can afford to pay our workers more. Period, And

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Speaker 1: labor unions are increasingly unnecessarily the economy with wages rising

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Speaker 1: just as fast as non union workers have risen wages

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Speaker 1: for their employers. So unions aren't justifying their existence either.

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Speaker 1: And in the manufacturing sector sector, non union workers have

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Speaker 1: seen their wage increase by almost twice as much over

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Speaker 1: the past twelve months. So Democrats, they've predicated their entire

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Speaker 1: agenda on division, they predicated their entire agenda on the

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Speaker 1: nanny state. Voters rejected it in twenty sixteen. And based

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Speaker 1: on the data that I'm seeing right here and what

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Speaker 1: I've just reported to you, I don't see that changing.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot more to cover. We've got a

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Speaker 1: really interesting segment coming up about the President's prospects in

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Speaker 1: the rustbout states, which are essential to us maintaining the

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Speaker 1: White House um in twenty twenty and so I'm looking

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Speaker 1: forward to that. Make sure you call in. We've got

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Speaker 1: the phone lines open eight four four nine hundred two

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Speaker 1: eight two five. Stay tuned to the Buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Remson. Decoding the news and disseminating information is

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Speaker 1: actionable intelligence. Mag no mistake. You're a great American again.

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Speaker 1: This is the buck Sexton Show. Analysts, I can't know

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Speaker 1: welcome back. You're listening to the buck Sexton Show. I'm

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Speaker 1: Harland Hill filling in for a buck. The phone lines

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Speaker 1: are open to give us a call at eight four

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Speaker 1: four nine hundred two eight two five. I promise we're

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Speaker 1: gonna take those calls soon. I'm gonna be joined here

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Speaker 1: in a moment by Alan Betts. He's a really good

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Speaker 1: friend of mine and a political consultant and a Trump

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen alum who ran one of the most successful

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Speaker 1: districts for the President in Ohio last time around. The

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Speaker 1: reason I wanted him to join us today is because

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Speaker 1: Ohio is a bellweather for the rest of the rust

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Speaker 1: Belt states, which President Trump needs to win. So Alan,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. Yeah, thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me based on your experience, because I know you're currently

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Speaker 1: running campaigns there in Ohio right now. What's the mood

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Speaker 1: on the ground with voters and activists and volunteers. Yeah, sure, so,

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Speaker 1: as you know, and twenty sixteen, the President carried the

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Speaker 1: state almost by ten percentage points, and there was a

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Speaker 1: lot of excitement, especially in the grassroots, door to door,

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Speaker 1: going to events, rallies, things like that. And I can

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Speaker 1: see the same environment happening now. I mean there's people

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Speaker 1: that have been reaching out already that they're telling me

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Speaker 1: that they are ready for twenty twenty. They're ready to

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Speaker 1: hit the pavement to do whatever's necessary to get the

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Speaker 1: president elected again. What do you think the takeaway was

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Speaker 1: from the twenty eighteen general election or midsim election where

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Speaker 1: I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, almost every statewide

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Speaker 1: candidate on the Republican side won the election. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was pretty big for Ohio. The only person that kind

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Speaker 1: of threw that off was Shared Brown getting re elected,

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Speaker 1: but the Republicans swept all the statewide candidate races and

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Speaker 1: it was a, if you will, a read wave in Ohio.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I know a lot of people, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people now are are shifting their focus and not

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Speaker 1: calling Ohio a swing state. I've seen a couple in

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Speaker 1: a couple of areas where they're calling Ohio pretty much

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Speaker 1: solid red you know right now, or at least leaning

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Speaker 1: red right. Why do you think the president is so

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Speaker 1: popular in Ohio, in a rust belt state like Ohio

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Speaker 1: that you know, Democrats used to perform very well in,

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Speaker 1: particularly in presidential years. Yeah, I think it has a

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Speaker 1: lot to do with the economy. I mean, people are

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Speaker 1: seeing the benefits of the tax cuts, the industry that

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Speaker 1: the left Ohio. A lot of it's coming back. And

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Speaker 1: we saw that in the Hinge counties in the north

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Speaker 1: east portion of the state that have went Democrat for

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Speaker 1: years and they bore a Pennsylvania and they flipped for

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Speaker 1: Trump and it bled into Pennsylvania actually, and it kind

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Speaker 1: of the blue collar, hard working instruction workers, factory workers,

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Speaker 1: things like that, they really resonate with Trump and they

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Speaker 1: feel that that he has their best interest in mind

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Speaker 1: as president. And are they seeing like a positivelopment in

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Speaker 1: country because you know, earlier in the show, I mean

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Speaker 1: I was rattling off all the economic achievements of the

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Speaker 1: of the Trump administration. I mean, record low unemployment across

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Speaker 1: the board, regardless of you know, gender, ethnicity, etc. I Mean,

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Speaker 1: it seems like everybody's benefiting from the Trump economy. Um,

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Speaker 1: so are people geographically? Are people feeling that in Ohio?

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Speaker 1: Because there a palpable difference in the economy and in

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Speaker 1: a sense of optimism there. Yeah, well I was never

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Speaker 1: necessarily one of the lower states on that spectrum, but

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Speaker 1: they are seeing advances in those areas, and like I said,

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Speaker 1: especially in those areas in the northeastern part of the

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Speaker 1: state where it's a lot of factories and things where

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Speaker 1: I know the big one where they laid off all

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Speaker 1: the workers out by Youngstown. But in general, people are

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Speaker 1: seeing more money in their pay checks from the tax cuffs.

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Speaker 1: They're seeing these jobs coming back to vote. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: the rost belt areas of the state, right. Well, and

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Speaker 1: so let's let's let's kind of take this back to

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Speaker 1: why this matters, because I think you're right that Ohio

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Speaker 1: is solidly read the President's going to carry it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we can't take it for granted, can't take any state

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Speaker 1: for granted that we won last time. But I think

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Speaker 1: the reason that this matters is because there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of commonality between voters that we need in Ohio and

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Speaker 1: the voters that we need to turn out in Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: in Michigan, in Wisconsin. And so what I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be interested to see is, you know, if those sactorary

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Speaker 1: workers that feel like they have benefited from the Trump

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Speaker 1: economy in Ohio, you know, and they turn out to vote.

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Speaker 1: You know, will we be able to turn out those

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Speaker 1: those same voters in those other states? And the other

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Speaker 1: thing that I'm interested in is do you think that

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Speaker 1: there's the opportunity for the Trump campaign to mobilize more

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Speaker 1: resource in those states as compared to to Ohio, because

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Speaker 1: you know, we think that it's it's solidly in our column. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was gonna say. Is that even

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Speaker 1: bigger than getting the eighteen electoral votes from Ohio and

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Speaker 1: carrying the state. And we all know the history if

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Speaker 1: you carry Ohio, you and the president's the presidency. Um.

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Speaker 1: But on top of that, like you said, I think Ohio,

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Speaker 1: besides Florida, it was the second most trafficed state during

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Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen elections, So there was a lot of events,

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of rallies, stuff like that, And

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Speaker 1: I just think if you reallocate those resources from Ohio

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Speaker 1: into these areas like you're talking Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. And

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Speaker 1: I even kind of throw in Virginia into that because

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Speaker 1: if you recall, Virginia wasn't called very early in the

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Speaker 1: night of twenty sixteen, and I think Tim Kaine had

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Speaker 1: a lot to do with that and being on the ballot,

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Speaker 1: And I think that that could be another states that

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Speaker 1: the campaign should look at. But reallocating these resources from

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Speaker 1: Ohio and like he said, not taking it for granted,

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Speaker 1: but kind of being smart statistically and placing it in

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Speaker 1: these areas in Michigan, Pennsylvania, doing more stuff out there,

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Speaker 1: more rallies, and I think I think that could very

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Speaker 1: well benefit the campaign if you had to look at

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Speaker 1: the map and nationally, I mean, if we're looking to

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Speaker 1: reallocate resources, and I know you studied the polls a lot.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Virginia as a state that you know we

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Speaker 1: lost last time, but we might be able to carry

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Speaker 1: this time. I mean, what do you think the most

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Speaker 1: prime virgin territory? Where where is it for our campaign

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Speaker 1: if we're looking to do on the offensive and not

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Speaker 1: just played defense on the map that we carried last time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think Virginia is probably number one. I think, like

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Speaker 1: I said, Tim Kane was on the bat I think

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Speaker 1: that helped a lot. It was very very close. People

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Speaker 1: thought it was going to be called at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the night. They waited and waited and waited. It

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Speaker 1: was it was a mail bier. Yeah, and um, Hillary

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Speaker 1: Clinton was able to squeak it out. But I think

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Speaker 1: that's where I would I think Virginia is then the

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Speaker 1: number one. And I also think we did carry North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: but I think we need to, um kind of act

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Speaker 1: like North Carolina was lost. I think you need to

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Speaker 1: demographics have changed there so rapidly, um that it is,

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Speaker 1: it does cause some concern. I mean George is the

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Speaker 1: same way. I mean, you're seeing massive influx of of

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Speaker 1: uh of migrants within the country, but then also a

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Speaker 1: lot of illegal immigrantion that are now converting into voters

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Speaker 1: in places like Georgia. So it is a concerning trend

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Speaker 1: that I think. I think you're right, we got to

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Speaker 1: take seriously and probably treat a couple of those states

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, um uh, Georgia. But those four

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Speaker 1: states are are a good examples of states that yes,

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Speaker 1: we carried, but they're by no means um shoe wins um.

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Speaker 1: And so what what keeps you awake at night? Politically?

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Speaker 1: When we looked at twenty twenty, I mean, is it

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Speaker 1: the economy? I mean's you know, say, what do you

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Speaker 1: think the X factor could be that catapults one of

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Speaker 1: these Democrats into contention? Because right now, I mean, it

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Speaker 1: looks like the president's unstoppable, right and I think I

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Speaker 1: think that's exactly what we need to be careful of.

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Speaker 1: I think I don't think we need to get too

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Speaker 1: cozy and like we were being a little hesitant about

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Speaker 1: taking Ohio for granted. I don't want to take anything

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Speaker 1: for granted this next election. I don't I feel like

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Speaker 1: there's some people that, like you said, think the president's

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Speaker 1: invincible and you know you don't have to do anything.

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Speaker 1: I still think we need to hit the ground running,

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Speaker 1: like twenty sixteen. Get involved locally, get involved with the state,

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Speaker 1: knock doors, do whatever you have to do to get

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Speaker 1: the word out, and not take anything for granted. Because

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Speaker 1: we're talking about states like Virginia going on the offense. Well,

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Speaker 1: we need to protect states that we've already won that

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Speaker 1: we need to reassure. So I want your help kind

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Speaker 1: of drilling down here, because you spent you have some

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Speaker 1: really valuable experience. I mean, you have worked with a

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Speaker 1: lot of activists at the local level that support the president,

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Speaker 1: and you understand what motivates them. How to motivate those

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Speaker 1: people you understand why they support the president and why

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Speaker 1: they view him as sort of a transformational candidate. How

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Speaker 1: do we keep them energized? You know, what are they

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Speaker 1: saying to you on the ground, you know literally in

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Speaker 1: specific terms, like what are you hearing from people? Well,

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Speaker 1: in Ohio it's a little different because, like in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: I already said that the Republicans swept a very very

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Speaker 1: good job red wave in Ohio and Trump wasn't on

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Speaker 1: the ballot, but a lot of these candidates linked themselves

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Speaker 1: with Trump, and I think voters started to realize that

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Speaker 1: vote for a Republicans vote for Trump. I think that

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Speaker 1: the president who's done a very good job of associal

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Speaker 1: themselves with these down ballot Republicans and we need to

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Speaker 1: get them elected in office. And in Ohio people were

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Speaker 1: not as energized in twenty eighteen is twenty sixteen, but

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Speaker 1: they still hit the voting boosts and that's what matters.

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Speaker 1: And I believe that the economy. I've always been a

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Speaker 1: believer that the economy is what drives people. I think

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Speaker 1: if you have more money in your pocket, that's how

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Speaker 1: you vote. If you have more money in your pocket

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Speaker 1: since the last election, you're going to go with the

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Speaker 1: same thing. People generally don't like change. So I think

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Speaker 1: that just looking at the tax cuts, the business coming back,

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Speaker 1: the trade deals that the President has successfully negotiated, and

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Speaker 1: he's working on China right now, I think those are

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Speaker 1: key things that people, especially in that area of the

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Speaker 1: country Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, like we were talking, they want

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Speaker 1: those jobs coming back. They see the progress is being made,

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Speaker 1: and they believe that President Trump is getting the job done. So, UM,

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Speaker 1: let's take a look at the Democratic field. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of Democrats here, but there's someone

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Speaker 1: there's some that are relevant to Ohio and I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: curious to get your take on how they might impact, um,

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Speaker 1: the President's performance there in twenty twenty. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: could have somebody like Shared Brown as a running mate, right,

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Speaker 1: you could have Tim Ryan. These are both Ohio born

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Speaker 1: and bread um Democrats that appeal to more moderate voters,

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Speaker 1: independents and even some moderate Republicans. UM. Now, I've heard

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Speaker 1: a lot of people speculate that, you know that they

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Speaker 1: could have some sort of impact on the vote in Ohio.

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Speaker 1: UM if they were on the ballot in UM twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that there's any truth there? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned that Sheared had been the only Democrat to

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Speaker 1: win a statewide office in twenty eighteen. UM. Are those

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Speaker 1: concerns overplayed or or or what are you hearing? I

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Speaker 1: think they're a little overplayed for Ohio at least UM

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Speaker 1: like somebody like Tim Ryan, I think would do a

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Speaker 1: lot better if if his name recognition was a little

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Speaker 1: better throughout the state. He's very well known in the

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Speaker 1: Northeast and its people know who he is and know

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Speaker 1: a little bit about him, but he's not really Uh.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't come up, he's not on TV a lot.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't come out and introduce crazy bills or anything.

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Speaker 1: So people aren't really they don't recognize Tim Ryan now

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Speaker 1: shared Brown, on the other hand, has had an approve

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Speaker 1: of rating of fifty percent or higher for the last

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Speaker 1: whatever years, and he's always been, you know, a shoe

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Speaker 1: in as a as a getting reelected and things like that.

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Speaker 1: But like you said, he's the only one that the

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Speaker 1: only Democrat that UM one in twenty eighteen. And what

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01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:50,880
Speaker 1: I would say about that is he didn't win by

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01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:52,920
Speaker 1: that much. I mean, he didn't win as much as

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01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:55,559
Speaker 1: people were speculating. People thought he was, you know, it

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01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 1: was gonna be a landside victory. I think he m.

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01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:01,800
Speaker 1: I'm not sure the exactly he squeaked it. I mean

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01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:04,599
Speaker 1: it was it was like four points, yeah, yeah, five

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01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:08,200
Speaker 1: percentage points or something. Um, So it wasn't. It wasn't.

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Speaker 1: I think it shocked a lot of people. And I

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01:24:10,439 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 1: think it really tells the tale of how twenty twenty

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01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 1: is going to go. Even if you do have one

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01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 1: of these people on the boat, the people are still

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01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:21,000
Speaker 1: shifting because if this was you know, twenty fourteen, twenty twelve,

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01:24:21,080 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 1: something like that, shared Brown would have won by you know,

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01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:27,120
Speaker 1: ten fifteen percentage Yeah, and and and and there's no

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01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: question I mean you can go back and you actually

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01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 1: look at him he was. Um. So things have without

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01:24:31,280 --> 01:24:34,519
Speaker 1: question changed in in uh in Ohio. And in fact,

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01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 1: I mean I've talked to some people that say that

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01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:39,479
Speaker 1: Ohio is more conservative now than even a state like

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01:24:39,479 --> 01:24:41,840
Speaker 1: like Texas. Um. And when you look at the makeup

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01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:43,759
Speaker 1: at the state legislature there, I mean there's a good

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01:24:43,960 --> 01:24:47,080
Speaker 1: argument to be made for that. So, um, it's pretty extraordinary.

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01:24:47,120 --> 01:24:49,720
Speaker 1: But anyway, Alan, where can people find you. You have

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01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 1: Twitter account that the people can go follow you on. Yeah,

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01:24:53,280 --> 01:24:57,439
Speaker 1: Alan D bet it's Alan with two l's all right,

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01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:00,479
Speaker 1: thanks Alan H. We will be right back after this.

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01:25:00,760 --> 01:25:04,639
Speaker 1: Stay tuned to the Buck Sexton Show. Welcome back. You're

1515
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:07,080
Speaker 1: listening to the Buck Sexton Show. We're in the last

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01:25:07,080 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 1: hour here. I'm Harlan Hill filling in for Buck while

1517
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 1: he's on assignment in China. So the new economic numbers

1518
01:25:14,439 --> 01:25:16,759
Speaker 1: are out and the vertices is clear, and we've touched

1519
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:18,760
Speaker 1: on this quite a bit tonight. The US economy is

1520
01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:22,840
Speaker 1: on fire and the Democrats claims of economic armageddon, which

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01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:26,760
Speaker 1: you heard endlessly in twenty sixteen, and the promises of

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01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:33,960
Speaker 1: a coming recession they've never materialized. Democrats are desperate. They're

1523
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:38,880
Speaker 1: desperately attempting to explain away economic reality by falsely claiming

1524
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:42,200
Speaker 1: that the Trump economy is benefiting only the rich, and

1525
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:45,960
Speaker 1: when they can't do that, by falsely claiming that the

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01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:50,880
Speaker 1: Trump economy is because of Barack Obama, who's widely realized

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01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 1: to be disastrous, whose economy was widely viewed to be disastrous.

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01:25:58,080 --> 01:26:02,400
Speaker 1: As with their dire forecast of economic doom, their claims

1529
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:05,799
Speaker 1: are easily disproven the Trump boom is in fact benefiting

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01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: Americans in every demographic group. We beat that to death tonight.

1531
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 1: We've proven that doesn't matter who you are, where you

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01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,160
Speaker 1: come from, where you live, whether a man or a woman,

1533
01:26:17,200 --> 01:26:20,599
Speaker 1: whether you're African American or white, whether you're Asian or Latino,

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01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:23,799
Speaker 1: you have benefited from this Trump economy. That's not my opinion,

1535
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 1: that's data. Economists pulled by the Wall Street Journal had

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01:26:28,280 --> 01:26:30,400
Speaker 1: predicted that the US economy would generate just one hundred

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01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:33,479
Speaker 1: and ninety thousand new jobs last month and three point

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01:26:33,520 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 1: eight percent unemployment rate. Those would be very strong results

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01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:41,479
Speaker 1: and cause for optimism, But as has become the norm

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01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 1: in the Trump economy, the April numbers job report crushed

1541
01:26:46,040 --> 01:26:50,879
Speaker 1: these expectations. Many economists just simply didn't think it was possible.

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01:26:53,080 --> 01:26:55,519
Speaker 1: From this moment that he took office, President Trump has

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01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:58,559
Speaker 1: implemented a straightforward, an effective economic agenda based on four

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01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:04,559
Speaker 1: core strategies ta taxcuts, deregulation, fair trade, and domestic energy production.

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01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:08,760
Speaker 1: As a result, the economy is added two hundred and

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01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:13,280
Speaker 1: sixty three thousand jobs in April one, pushing the unemployment

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01:27:13,360 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 1: rate down to a fifty year low of three point

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01:27:16,240 --> 01:27:20,200
Speaker 1: six percent. The unemployment rate for adult women is at

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01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:24,439
Speaker 1: just three point one percent. It's crazy. More women are

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01:27:24,439 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 1: employed now on average or as a percentage of the

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01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 1: workforce than men. This is extraordinary and the thing that

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01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 1: I really want to make sure that every one of

1553
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:36,880
Speaker 1: you here because the Democrats don't want to admit it.

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01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:39,920
Speaker 1: In one of our guests earlier today, I think was

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01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:45,240
Speaker 1: surprised to learn this. The average hourly earnings rose three

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01:27:45,280 --> 01:27:48,200
Speaker 1: point two percent for the year, for the ninth consecutive month,

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01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:51,759
Speaker 1: with a three percent or better year over year increase.

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01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:54,400
Speaker 1: So people, let gonna break that down. People are making

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01:27:54,479 --> 01:27:58,160
Speaker 1: more that's a fact. More people are employed, we have

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01:27:58,240 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 1: fewer people on unemployment benefit. The people that are employed

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01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:05,639
Speaker 1: are making more money. Satisfaction amongst consumers is at an

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01:28:05,640 --> 01:28:10,120
Speaker 1: all time high. Unemployment is at a fifty percent a

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01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:13,080
Speaker 1: fifty year or low. This is extraordinary. This is an

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01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:17,200
Speaker 1: impressive labor market. And once again, this isn't my opinion.

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01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 1: These are facts. You may not like it. If you're

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01:28:21,080 --> 01:28:22,800
Speaker 1: a Democrat, you may not like it. If you're a

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01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 1: Democrat running for office, you may not like it. If

1568
01:28:25,120 --> 01:28:27,719
Speaker 1: you're a member of the lying media. But you can't

1569
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:31,120
Speaker 1: run away from these facts, and you can't tell people

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01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:34,200
Speaker 1: that feel better today than they did four years ago

1571
01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:37,560
Speaker 1: that they're wrong, because they see it in their bank accounts,

1572
01:28:37,560 --> 01:28:40,040
Speaker 1: they feel it in their wallets. Those trolls run are

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01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:43,320
Speaker 1: better off for it. It's extraordinary. Now, we still have

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01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:45,000
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do, and that's why we

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01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:50,240
Speaker 1: have to reelect President Donald J. Trump. In the next segment,

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Speaker 1: I have a great energy expert joining me, and we're

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01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:57,479
Speaker 1: going to break down everything that the President has done

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01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 1: to ensure that we have energy independence for both national security,

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01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:05,559
Speaker 1: economic reasons, and to explain how that impacts and benefits

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01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:08,880
Speaker 1: every single American. I'm Harlan Hill and for Buck Sexton.

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01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:11,000
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show. I'll be right back.

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01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: Welcome back. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm

1583
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 1: Harland Hill filling in for Buck. The phone lines are

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01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:17,320
Speaker 1: open to give us a quality eight four four nine

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Speaker 1: twenty eight twenty five. That's eight four four nine hundred Buck.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned in the last hour, under President Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Trump's leadership, we're finally achieving energy independence that's critical to

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01:29:27,520 --> 01:29:31,080
Speaker 1: our national and economic security. US oil production is at

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01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:34,400
Speaker 1: its highest level in American history. The United States is

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01:29:34,400 --> 01:29:37,680
Speaker 1: now the largest crude oil producer in the world, and

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01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:40,320
Speaker 1: the US has become a net neutral gas exporter for

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01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:42,920
Speaker 1: the first time in six decades. Joining me to break

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01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 1: all of this down because this complex issue is the energy.

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01:29:46,040 --> 01:29:49,440
Speaker 1: King of Washington and one of my good friends, Anthony Plaglie,

1595
01:29:49,479 --> 01:29:52,160
Speaker 1: a former senior member of the Trump administration and chief

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01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:55,920
Speaker 1: of staff at FIRK. Anthony, how are you doing. I'm great,

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01:29:55,960 --> 01:29:58,720
Speaker 1: thanks for having me on. So, first of all, help

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01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:01,720
Speaker 1: me break all this down. So first, how critical is

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01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:05,320
Speaker 1: the president's portfolio of accomplishments and how does it affect

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01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:10,280
Speaker 1: every American? So it's a great question. Energy right now

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01:30:10,479 --> 01:30:13,960
Speaker 1: really is the linchpin and a lot of the president's

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01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:19,120
Speaker 1: foreign and economic and domestic economic agenda. So right now

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01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:23,479
Speaker 1: we have Secretary Perry and Secretary Pompeo, and as they

1604
01:30:23,479 --> 01:30:27,200
Speaker 1: are traveling around the world, really the number one issue

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01:30:27,240 --> 01:30:30,000
Speaker 1: that they were talking about right now is energy and

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01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:34,559
Speaker 1: how we can do a better job of stabilizing various

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01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:38,719
Speaker 1: regions of the country, how we can promote US energy jobs,

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01:30:39,439 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 1: and also how we can do better job of balancing

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01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:47,760
Speaker 1: adversarial countries like Russia and China and others from dominating

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01:30:47,840 --> 01:30:50,479
Speaker 1: various regions of the world. Well, and I thought that

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01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:54,040
Speaker 1: based on what Obama told us, these are jobs of

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01:30:54,080 --> 01:30:57,479
Speaker 1: the past. And if you look at what the President's

1613
01:30:57,479 --> 01:31:02,479
Speaker 1: done in two short years, the industry's booming. So what's

1614
01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:04,880
Speaker 1: the discrepancy here? Like, what the different what's the difference

1615
01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:08,080
Speaker 1: between the Democratic Party's agenda? Because I think this is

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01:31:08,120 --> 01:31:10,480
Speaker 1: relevant because we're going into twenty twenty and the Republicans.

1617
01:31:10,520 --> 01:31:14,759
Speaker 1: How vast is the discrepancy between the two parties on energy?

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01:31:15,640 --> 01:31:18,240
Speaker 1: It's like night and day. Um right now, you know,

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01:31:18,360 --> 01:31:22,200
Speaker 1: I'll use myself as an example, coming from Pennsylvania. We

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01:31:22,320 --> 01:31:26,120
Speaker 1: have just such a boom from an economic perspective, and

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01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:28,639
Speaker 1: a lot of it it has to do with energy,

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01:31:29,360 --> 01:31:32,000
Speaker 1: but it all has to do with really with President

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01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:35,840
Speaker 1: Trump really unleashing the United States economy. And that's what

1624
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:38,800
Speaker 1: this is all about, is trying to find ways to

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01:31:39,280 --> 01:31:44,360
Speaker 1: utilize the resources that we have, do that in an environmentally, uh,

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01:31:44,520 --> 01:31:48,519
Speaker 1: you know, a responsible manner. But the end of the day, Um,

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01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:52,320
Speaker 1: you know, our job is not to work against business

1628
01:31:52,439 --> 01:31:55,040
Speaker 1: and try to find more ways to put more obstacles up.

1629
01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:58,240
Speaker 1: President Trump is trying to find ways to make things

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01:31:58,240 --> 01:32:00,880
Speaker 1: more efficient and a lot all that has to do

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01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:06,960
Speaker 1: with energy deregulation, with looking at various policies, whether it

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01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:11,639
Speaker 1: be at place like Department of Transportation, the Department of Defense,

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01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:15,720
Speaker 1: Department of Energy, all these various places that have just

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01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:20,360
Speaker 1: hundreds and thousands of regulations and trying to identify how

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01:32:20,439 --> 01:32:23,639
Speaker 1: they are hindering economic growth. And he's doing a phenomenal

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01:32:23,680 --> 01:32:27,120
Speaker 1: job at it. Got it well. You know, energy is

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01:32:27,479 --> 01:32:31,120
Speaker 1: one of these these complex issues that I think, you know,

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01:32:31,240 --> 01:32:34,920
Speaker 1: we often as voters probably want to leave up to

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01:32:34,960 --> 01:32:38,080
Speaker 1: other people to understand because we're talking about geopolitics, we're

1640
01:32:38,080 --> 01:32:41,759
Speaker 1: talking about national security, economics, you know, we're talking about currency.

1641
01:32:41,840 --> 01:32:44,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a very very complex issue in a

1642
01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:49,360
Speaker 1: global marketplace. But what keeps you up at night when

1643
01:32:49,400 --> 01:32:52,519
Speaker 1: you think about this industry, the thing that keeps me

1644
01:32:52,640 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 1: up most is the national security aspect of things. There

1645
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:58,559
Speaker 1: are a number of countries right now that are trying

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01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:02,160
Speaker 1: to take advantage and to blackmail a lot of other

1647
01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:06,480
Speaker 1: countries using energy. You look at a country like Russia,

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01:33:06,720 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 1: the really the the from an economic respect of what

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01:33:10,120 --> 01:33:13,679
Speaker 1: keep it, what's keeping them going right now is their energy,

1650
01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:18,280
Speaker 1: their exporting energy and the idea of the United States

1651
01:33:18,360 --> 01:33:22,519
Speaker 1: coming in more and more around the world due to

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01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:25,400
Speaker 1: a lot of our llergy export terminals and the llergy

1653
01:33:25,400 --> 01:33:29,880
Speaker 1: applications that we're working on places like Firk Department of

1654
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:35,559
Speaker 1: Energy and others. This is a very serious issue that

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01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:39,200
Speaker 1: folks like Russia and others are are less than pleased about.

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01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:44,000
Speaker 1: And so um when we are putting in jeopardy UM

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01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:49,640
Speaker 1: really the last major economic driver for their economy, you know,

1658
01:33:49,760 --> 01:33:52,559
Speaker 1: they are going to retaliate. And so whether that be

1659
01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:57,240
Speaker 1: um you know, looking at you know, cybersecurity issues, trying

1660
01:33:57,280 --> 01:34:02,680
Speaker 1: to um infiltrate eight various scatus systems, whether it be

1661
01:34:02,760 --> 01:34:06,799
Speaker 1: trying to manipulate uh, you know, how we transport energy

1662
01:34:06,840 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 1: back and forth. These are all really serious issues that

1663
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:16,280
Speaker 1: our intelligence community is dealing with every single day. And

1664
01:34:16,360 --> 01:34:19,680
Speaker 1: as we continue to play a larger role in the

1665
01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:23,880
Speaker 1: geopolitical world, especially in regards to energy, those threats are

1666
01:34:23,920 --> 01:34:27,479
Speaker 1: only increasing and it's something that really is keeping myself

1667
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:31,800
Speaker 1: and others in similar positions like mine up up at night.

1668
01:34:32,560 --> 01:34:34,519
Speaker 1: So um, you know, we kind of tackled this at

1669
01:34:34,560 --> 01:34:36,760
Speaker 1: a high level, but I'm looking to drill down, I

1670
01:34:36,840 --> 01:34:39,400
Speaker 1: guess now and one of the first stats that I

1671
01:34:39,439 --> 01:34:42,920
Speaker 1: throughout is that your soil production is at its highest

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01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 1: level in American history. Um, why is that? I mean,

1673
01:34:46,160 --> 01:34:48,120
Speaker 1: have we gotten regulation out of the way. I mean,

1674
01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:52,479
Speaker 1: what specifically are we doing to to open up the

1675
01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:58,200
Speaker 1: American reserves? George, That's exactly right. We are. One of

1676
01:34:58,200 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 1: the very first things that President Trump did when he

1677
01:35:02,040 --> 01:35:04,559
Speaker 1: became an when he came into office, was he put

1678
01:35:04,600 --> 01:35:08,720
Speaker 1: forward an executive order mandating that for everyone regulation that

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01:35:08,760 --> 01:35:13,840
Speaker 1: we implement, we removed tom and there are. This has

1680
01:35:14,080 --> 01:35:18,720
Speaker 1: been so impactful in every aspect of the economy. But

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01:35:18,960 --> 01:35:23,879
Speaker 1: really it's it's hard to imagine a more profound example

1682
01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:28,080
Speaker 1: of its impact than in energy. We have so many

1683
01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:32,280
Speaker 1: various agencies that play a role in this. In order,

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01:35:32,320 --> 01:35:37,280
Speaker 1: for example, to just get one pipeline in to from

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01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:40,240
Speaker 1: let's say Pennsylvania to the New England States or whatever

1686
01:35:40,280 --> 01:35:42,960
Speaker 1: else that might be, you're gonna have to go through

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01:35:43,479 --> 01:35:46,320
Speaker 1: just on the federal level, there's probably going to be

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01:35:46,439 --> 01:35:51,320
Speaker 1: the Department of Energy, Department of Interior, the Forestry. Um,

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01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:55,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna have the Beer of Land Management Firm, and

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01:35:55,800 --> 01:35:58,040
Speaker 1: then you're gonna have the pipeline has some Material Safety

1691
01:35:58,080 --> 01:36:01,400
Speaker 1: Administration and Department of Transportation, and a number of others.

1692
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:04,000
Speaker 1: UM and that's just on the federal side. And so

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01:36:04,120 --> 01:36:07,240
Speaker 1: when you start looking at all these various aspects, UM,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of notorous regulations that have just been

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Speaker 1: put in there by the last administration and others who

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Speaker 1: are trying to slow down the industry. And President Trump

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Speaker 1: has reversed those tactics and allowing us to succeed both

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Speaker 1: domestically and uh internationally. So when we looked at twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: what do you think the major issues and energy are

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Speaker 1: going to be? I mean, you touched on the national

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Speaker 1: security part. You know where um, foreign actors like the

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Speaker 1: Russians in the Chinese are trying to manipulate um, you know,

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Speaker 1: for foreign policy and um, you know, abuse their power

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Speaker 1: in such a way. But beyond that, UM, what issues

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Speaker 1: do you think are going to be relevant in the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty Democratic primary and then in the general election?

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Speaker 1: Because I know that the Democrats are going to be

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Speaker 1: harping line renewable energy and all of that, and you

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Speaker 1: know that that's fine, you know, even nuclear um, But

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Speaker 1: you know what, where is the topic of conversation going

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Speaker 1: to be driven in twenty twenty by the Democrats and

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Speaker 1: then in the general election? So right, you have Right now,

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Speaker 1: you have a lot of individuals talking about the Green

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Speaker 1: New Deal, and clearly that's where the Democrats right now,

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Speaker 1: at least, especially in regards to energy, are focusing on UM. Realistically,

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Speaker 1: I think anybody that's spent any sizable time in this

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Speaker 1: industry would tell you that the Green New Deal is

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Speaker 1: impracticable and is not realistic right now. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: ensuring that we are doing things in an environmentally sound

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Speaker 1: manner and moving towards you know, carbon neutral are things

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Speaker 1: that we should strive to do, and President Trump has

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Speaker 1: been very successful in doing so. You look at UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, emissions they were they were going down right

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Speaker 1: now while production is going up. So you can have

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Speaker 1: it both ways if you do it in an environmentally sound,

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Speaker 1: economically sound perspective. The what you're seeing from the Republicans

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Speaker 1: side right now is growth. Again. I was talking about

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania for example. You know a lot of these industries,

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Speaker 1: whether it be energy or transportation or whatever else it

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Speaker 1: might be. We're gonna need some of these old manufacturing jobs.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna need additional steel production, all these types of things.

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Speaker 1: And that's what President Trump realizes. You look at in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen. One of my favorite examples is

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Speaker 1: President Trump was outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was saying

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Speaker 1: We're going to bring his steel jobs back to Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: and everybody mocked them. They laughed at them, said these

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Speaker 1: jobs are gone, they're never coming back. But right now,

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Speaker 1: in that nearly the exact same area, we have a

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Speaker 1: steel plant moving from China back into the United States,

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Speaker 1: specifically in the exact same area around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These

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Speaker 1: are jobs that are back. They're fan with sustaining jobs,

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Speaker 1: and that's what's going to make sure that Trump President

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Speaker 1: Trump gets reelected in twenty twenty. Gotcha. So if you

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Speaker 1: had to put money on it at this point in time,

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Speaker 1: and I know you're a little by, it's because you

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Speaker 1: run the Trump administration. You're a longtime support of a

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Speaker 1: president from early on. Have you had to put money

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Speaker 1: on it, you think the president wins reelection in twenty twenties,

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Speaker 1: that right, I do. I think that at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, people are going to decide by their pocketbooks,

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Speaker 1: and you know, there are issues that people care about

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, making sure they can

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Speaker 1: put food on the table for their families. And whether

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Speaker 1: they can are able to get jobs to provide is

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Speaker 1: what people care about, and so the main issues people

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Speaker 1: are going to look back and say, am I better

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Speaker 1: off now than I was four years ago? And I

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Speaker 1: think the answer is clearly yes under President Trump's leadership.

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Speaker 1: All right, Anthony, thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Where can we find more information about you? We can

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Speaker 1: go online at forty five group dot com and also well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess forty five group dot com. Okay, that's a

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Speaker 1: good place to start. All right, Thank you so much, Anthony.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this quick break. Thank you

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Speaker 1: guys so much. Stay tuned to the Buck Sexton Show. Hello,

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Speaker 1: this is Roland Hill. Thank you so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the Buck Sexton Show. It's always a privilege that

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Speaker 1: Buck will lend me his mic when he is on

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Speaker 1: assignment elsewhere. He is in China currently and you know,

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01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:17,479
Speaker 1: doing some very important work there. So I appreciate the

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Speaker 1: enormous honor that he's bestowed me once again by letting

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Speaker 1: me speak to you all tonight. You know, in my

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Speaker 1: spare time, I spent a lot of time thinking about

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Speaker 1: this movement, the Trump movement. My time today on air

1775
01:40:30,160 --> 01:40:32,000
Speaker 1: was really broken into a few different parts. How we

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Speaker 1: got here as a movement, how we're doing as a movement,

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Speaker 1: and how we keep the MAGA movement alive. How we

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Speaker 1: reelect the president in twenty twenty one of the most

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Speaker 1: central issues to that where there's immigration, energy, a national

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Speaker 1: security and so on. But I'm reminded every day that

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Speaker 1: I'm here in Washington that we are behind enemy lines.

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01:40:51,439 --> 01:40:54,720
Speaker 1: Washington feels like a city that's under occupation. And you

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01:40:54,760 --> 01:40:57,879
Speaker 1: cannot understate or overstate they've agree to which the establishment

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01:40:57,920 --> 01:41:01,040
Speaker 1: Republicans in DC hate Donald Trump. You can't under overstate

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Speaker 1: the degree to which Democrats hate him, the degree to

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Speaker 1: which the media hates him. He's a threat to their

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Speaker 1: vision of the country. Concepts of open borders, cheap labor,

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Speaker 1: and trade policy almost killed the American middle class before Trump.

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Speaker 1: Those bankrupt ideas are all shared by the ruling elites,

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Speaker 1: regardless of party. This isn't a fight between left and right.

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Speaker 1: It's not a political fight. It's not an ideological fight.

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Speaker 1: It's a fight between those with power and privilege and

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Speaker 1: those that were left behind. That's why this drained the

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Speaker 1: swamp stuff. They hate it the most. We look at

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Speaker 1: the bastions of liberalism, the Northeast corridor, on the West coast.

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Speaker 1: Things are great here. Cities are booming, There's a construction

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Speaker 1: crane on every corner. You go to the middle of

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Speaker 1: the country, the forgotten bits of the country, and you'll

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Speaker 1: see the country has been rotting from within. And finally

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Speaker 1: the American voter stood up and said that enough is enough.

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Speaker 1: Not so unlike what we saw on Brexit in the UK.

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Speaker 1: And the American voter slammed their fist on the on

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Speaker 1: the voting booth, and they said, look at us, pay

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Speaker 1: attention to us. You have forgotten us for so long.

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Speaker 1: You've sold us out for your own interests, and you've

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Speaker 1: left us behind. And it was clear, it was it

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Speaker 1: was evident that, especially when the alternative of the president

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Speaker 1: was a woman with a thirty year track record of lies,

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Speaker 1: to seat and fraud, Hillary Clinton, that this was a

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Speaker 1: fork in the road. What the President's done is amazing,

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Speaker 1: because they said earlier in the show, this is the

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Speaker 1: most ambitious political revolution and generations. Our expectations were really high,

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Speaker 1: but we've accomplished a lot. The economy is booming, we

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Speaker 1: have enormous growth, succeeded three percent four million plus new jobs.

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Speaker 1: More Americans are pointed now than ever in history, and

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Speaker 1: many of those shops where jobs that Democrats said that

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Speaker 1: will never come back, whether it's the five hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: new manufacturing jobs, one hundred thousand new oil and gas jobs,

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Speaker 1: the wages that are going up, and even the New

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Speaker 1: York Times said to admit that the President was right.

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Speaker 1: The wages are finally going up for the first time,

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Speaker 1: They're meaningfully going up for the first time in a decade.

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Speaker 1: And no one's been left behind by the MACA movement.

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Speaker 1: Black unemployment is plunging, Hispanic unemployment has plunged four point

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Speaker 1: five percent, Asian American unemployment has plunged two percent. Female

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Speaker 1: unemployment has plunged, it's near three percent. This is extraordinary

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Speaker 1: what we've done, and it's in no small part because

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Speaker 1: of the tax cuts that we've We've initiated to the

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Speaker 1: largest and generation, repealing the Obamacare mandate, negotiating and renegotiing

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Speaker 1: better trade deals. Is the President promised, investing in oil

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Speaker 1: production so that we finally have our energy independence, investing

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Speaker 1: in our military, standing with our allies in Israel, with

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Speaker 1: drawing from the Iran Deal, bringing peace to the Korean peninsula,

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Speaker 1: doing what we can to peacefully topple the Venezuelan dictatorship,

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Speaker 1: defeating ISIS responding to the chemical weapons of the Syrian regime,

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Speaker 1: about committing troops keeping Russia at bay. The President has

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Speaker 1: done an amazing job, and that's why he deserves the

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Speaker 1: enormous popularity that he has, and that's why I feel

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Speaker 1: incredibly optimistic about our prospects going into twenty twenty. The

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Speaker 1: state of this movement is incredibly strong, and I hope

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Speaker 1: that that was your takeaway from today's show. Once again,

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Speaker 1: my name's Harland Hill. You can find me on Twitter

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Speaker 1: at Harlan. This is the Box Sexton Show.