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Speaker 1: and so it has jurisdiction. I'll just read you what

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Speaker 1: coast Guard, over coastal zone management. Over all communications, so

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Speaker 1: the SCC, televisions, telephones, the Internet, all communications. It has

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Speaker 1: jurisdiction over highway safety, inland waterways, interstate commerce, marine and

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Speaker 1: Regulation of interstate common carriers and that includes railroads, that

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Speaker 1: includes buses, trucks, vessels, pipeline and civil aviation, all airlines,

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Speaker 1: science engineering, technology research, sports. Regulation of sports squarely within

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Speaker 1: the Committee's jurisdictions. Standards of measurement, transportation, and transportation and

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Speaker 1: jurisdiction of the committee. It's about fifty percent of the

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Speaker 1: It's obviously very very very important, to say the least,

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Speaker 1: when you look at everything that's on there, and that's

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Speaker 1: what's up for grab in these midterms. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: the bus tour for a minute. Center. You're not up

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Speaker 1: for reelection in this midterm, but what you have done

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Speaker 1: has quickly committed yourself to making sure that other Conservatives

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Speaker 1: I think as a team to make sure you have

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Speaker 1: the majority come November. Are really come January, but win

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Speaker 1: in November in the House and the Senate. And that's

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Speaker 1: why you're busing, barnstorming all over the country to help

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Speaker 1: others get elected. I think it's incredible work that you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about the bus tour and how

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Speaker 1: So the bus tour is a month long and it's

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Speaker 1: a seventeen state tour. We're doing thirty five stops all

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Speaker 1: From there, we went to New Mexico, did a big

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Speaker 1: for two congressional candidates. You joined us for that, a

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Speaker 1: great opportunity to retake both the Senate and to win

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Speaker 1: Utah right now. After that, we're headed to Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia,

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Speaker 1: think Senator one of the problems we've seen is there's

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Speaker 1: talk about Donald Trump Tree. We're trying to make this

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Speaker 1: which is exactly what they should be talking about. They

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Speaker 1: And that brings me to this foreign policy I call

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Speaker 1: it a blunder, and I want to get your reaction

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Speaker 1: to Scott Kirby today try to go on TV and

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Speaker 1: clean up Joe Biden warning the world, warning America of

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Speaker 1: a nuclear armageddon amid Putin's threats. And this is what

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Speaker 1: Let's start with President Biden's comments saying we are facing

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Speaker 1: the potential of a nuclear armageddon. I know the White

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Speaker 1: House has said these are consistent with comments it's used

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Speaker 1: stark as this. So as the president, right, are we

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Speaker 1: facing a potential nuclear armageddon? The President was reflecting the

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Speaker 1: very high stakes that they're in play right now, Martha,

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Speaker 1: when you have a modern nuclear power and the leader

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Speaker 1: of that modern nuclear power willing to use irresponsible rhetoric

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Speaker 1: the way that mister Putin has several times in just

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Speaker 1: the fact that the stakes are very high right now. Senator,

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Speaker 1: you've been briefed, You get national security issues across your desk,

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Speaker 1: you hear the White House now saying in Biden warning

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Speaker 1: then you got Kirby going out there trying to somewhat

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Speaker 1: This is absurd. Let's go back to reality. What is

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Speaker 1: your reaction having the president it's America. I clearly think

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Speaker 1: that's a political ploy right before the election saying hey,

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Speaker 1: and there's armageddon. You don't want to switch and a

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Speaker 1: Republican's in charge. Now, how shocked are you by this,

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Speaker 1: these statements in the White House? You know, sadly, I'm

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Speaker 1: things going on. Number one, everybody knows now that this

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Speaker 1: He's seriously unable to stay engaged, and so he says

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Speaker 1: things every single day the White House has to send

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Speaker 1: out staff to clean up something Biden said, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's the old clean up on Aisle six. That that's

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Speaker 1: what what Biden is doing. He just shoots off his mouth.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't you know, this is a guy that shakes

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Speaker 1: hands with the empty air. He's not. I've known Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden a long time. He was vice president when I

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Speaker 1: was first elected. Joe swore me in ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't a rocket scientist, but he didn't have full

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Speaker 1: on dementia. What we see now is really dangerous because

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Speaker 1: nobody knows what he's going to say today or tomorrow

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Speaker 1: or the next day. And that is not a good

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Speaker 1: thing for the commander in chief. Now, put on top

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Speaker 1: of that the reality that this administration on foreign policy

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Speaker 1: They've made such a mess of it. The disturbing thing is, look,

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Speaker 1: Biden is not crazily wrong. He is risky, nuclear armored

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Speaker 1: greatest extent since the Cuban missile crisis under JFK. And

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Speaker 1: this is Biden's fault. He's causing the crisis. You know,

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Speaker 1: before the election, Biden and all the Democrats said we

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Speaker 1: I've got to say, these numbskull adults, they've surrendered to

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Speaker 1: Every enemy of America is stronger. They've abandoned and undermind

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Speaker 1: our friends and allies. And what's utterly bizarre, the Biden

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Speaker 1: All of our friends, nations like Israel, nations like the

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Speaker 1: goes out of their way to undermine, to ridicule, to

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Speaker 1: attack Saudi Arabia. He said, We're gonna make Saudi Arabia pariah,

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Speaker 1: over backwards to surrender, to to send billions of dollars

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Speaker 1: to and the result is the chaos we have. You know,

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Speaker 1: I hear Biden saying that my reaction is boy, that's

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Speaker 1: the heck of an advertisement for the foreign polo See

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Speaker 1: Even Larry Summers now from Harvard Kennedy School today he said,

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Speaker 1: if you look at the actual definition of recession, we're

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Speaker 1: not a recession yet. But listen, I think it's more

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Speaker 1: target levels of around two percent without some kind of recession. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that means we're going to have something

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Speaker 1: the other side of that is likely to be a downturn.

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Speaker 1: I love how it gives us explanation and says it's

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Speaker 1: the scary part is he's basically saying, all right, for

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Speaker 1: the next two years, we're gonna be in a recession.

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Speaker 1: I think that's not going to come out of it,

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Speaker 1: probably anytime in the next eighteen months. But he refuses

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Speaker 1: to put this at the doorstep of the Biden administration.

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Speaker 1: And it's like he's not willing to tell you it's bad.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna say it's gonna be bad in the future,

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Speaker 1: but not right now because we've got to get through

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Speaker 1: the election before I can tell you the truth. Well, look,

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Speaker 1: I gotta say what Larry Summers has been saying is extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Larry Summers is someone who's been a Democrat

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Speaker 1: He was the director of the National Economic Council under

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Speaker 1: Barack Obama. He was president at Harvard University. I mean,

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Speaker 1: They used to exist in Washington. What's happened in the

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Speaker 1: And what Larry Summons has pointed out is said, look,

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Speaker 1: you can't spend fourteen trillion dollars and not have runaway

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Speaker 1: same goods. That has been basic economics one oh one

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Speaker 1: they want to ignore that reality. You look at a recession,

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Speaker 1: a long time definition of a recession is two consecutive

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Speaker 1: At the last two quarters we have had negative GDP growth.

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Speaker 1: This White House is so craved and cynical they sent

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Speaker 1: It's whatever this committee of expert says it is, as

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Speaker 1: recession because we got an election coming up. Recession, in

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Speaker 1: in charge. I gotta say it's ridiculous. I'm glad Larry

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