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Speaker 1: I'm thrilled today to be joined by state Representative Gloria Johnson,

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Speaker 1: who is running against Marshall Blackburn from the Great State

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Speaker 1: of Tennessee for the United States Senate.

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Speaker 2: See.

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Speaker 1: Gloria Johnson is from eastern Tennessee from the city of Knoxville,

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Speaker 1: represents that area in the state legislature. We're thrilled to

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Speaker 1: have per with us today on the warning as we

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Speaker 1: continue to bring unfiltered some of the leading Democrats in

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Speaker 1: on the Acela court or media because they are not

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Speaker 1: incumbents yet in the United States Senate. So when you're

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Speaker 1: a challenger running against an incumbent, it's a hard road.

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Speaker 1: But when you're more than one hundred days out Gloria

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Speaker 1: Johnson in a tight race behind but in striking distance,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to be like Trump in this business

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Speaker 1: where you have your best day one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: days before the election. You want to have it on

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Speaker 1: election Day. And you know one thing I would say,

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Speaker 1: you know to Tennessee voters that are that are listening.

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Speaker 1: I said this to John McCain as he was climbing

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Speaker 1: last in the Republican primaries in two thousand and seven

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Speaker 1: to be ahead on exactly one day, and that was

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Speaker 1: top of the mountain on that day. Now, election day

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Speaker 1: voting and all of that stuff, which warning viewers are

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Speaker 1: familiar with. But no matter all of that, Gloria Johnson

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Speaker 1: has momentum them and she's running against really a person

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Speaker 1: that it astonishes the imagination that the very same state

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Speaker 1: that would send Al Gore Senior to the United States Senate,

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Speaker 1: Al Gore Junior to the United States Senate, Howard Baker

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Speaker 1: to the United States Senate Lemoar Alexander to the United

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Speaker 2: Bill Frist to the United States Senate.

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Speaker 1: People of astonishing character, astonishing accomplishment, astonishing intellect both parties.

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Speaker 1: You get Marsha Blackburn, whose list of crazy statements is

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Speaker 1: longer than the Mississippi River. And with that, it's really

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Speaker 1: my pleasure to introduce someone who represents better for Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: which is important because Tennessee is a vital state of

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Speaker 2: Gloria Johnson, welcome to the warning.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're going to correct that mistake in the Senate this

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Speaker 3: election cycle in November. So we are excited about that.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I ran Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign in two thousand and six,

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Speaker 1: which was a terrible Republican year. We won decisively by

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Speaker 1: seventeen points. So you can do this in Tennessee. This

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Speaker 1: is good news for you now that Kamala Harris is

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Speaker 1: on top of the ticket. It's energized Democrats, it will

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Speaker 1: energize women voters, young women voters, energized black voters to

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Speaker 1: turn out. So all of these things are are good

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Speaker 1: for you at a foundation level, because you know, politics

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you have the wind with you.

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Speaker 1: it's a you're a Democrat in Tennessee right after the

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Speaker 1: after the debate, not good news. You're in a you're

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Speaker 1: in a much better position. But you're running against a

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Speaker 2: Right that, Hey, we.

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Speaker 1: Want to put you know, this person into the Senate

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Speaker 1: in no way. But you know, she's a Marjorie Taylor

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Speaker 2: Vance is, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, out there out there on the on the French

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Speaker 1: Tell us your story, introduce yourself, and just take as

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Speaker 3: Sure, absolutely, Well, you know, I decide I've been in

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Speaker 3: They've redistricted my district once I want it, after it

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Speaker 3: I'd been thinking about this from January of twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 3: do that. People say that a Democrat can't win in Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: We are not a red state. We're a non voting state.

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Speaker 3: We are typically fiftieth or fifty first in voter turnout.

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Speaker 3: Marshall Blackburn won in twenty eighteen by two hundred thousand votes.

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Speaker 3: There are three hundred thousand Democratic voters who haven't voted

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Speaker 3: We're talking to those voters. We're not operating on the

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Speaker 3: And that's what we're going to do. And they're helping

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Speaker 3: That they're putting women and girls in danger in the state,

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a different story for Tennessee this year.

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Speaker 2: Talk to me about that.

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Speaker 1: On the ground, the extremism of all of this with

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Speaker 1: the Ken Ryan campaign. I was deeply in It's the

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that a lot of women have made

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Speaker 3: But since we don't give all women access to health care,

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Speaker 1: Marcia dreamism is well documented? How do you think about

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Speaker 2: This is this is the most astonishing thing.

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Speaker 1: Howard Baker was obviously a legendary Tennessee senator, statesman, chief

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Speaker 2: And it's silly. And I don't mean.

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Speaker 1: And how far afield she has gone from the tradition

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, she's just nowhere close to where the average

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Speaker 3: And she doesn't talk to the people either. She hasn't

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Speaker 3: this on this tour, I'm going to all ninety five counties.

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Speaker 3: In my whole day, I talked to Republicans all day long.

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Speaker 3: I say that all the time about the State House

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Speaker 3: And how are they going to know what I'm doing

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Speaker 3: if I refuse to talk to the press, or if

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Speaker 3: I refuse to talk to constituents. It's remarkable to me

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Speaker 3: that everything they want to do, they want to hide

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Speaker 3: from the press, and they want to hide from the people.

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Speaker 3: I guess if I had the policy and brought the

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Speaker 3: policy they did, I'd want to hide to But we

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00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: should expect our elected officials to be upfront, to answer

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Speaker 3: questions and be transparent about what they are doing.

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Speaker 1: Representative Johnson, have you ever used the secret passage?

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Speaker 2: I would use it all the time.

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Speaker 1: I would still talk to the people, but I would

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Speaker 1: use it all the time.

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Speaker 3: I've just shown it to people and I one time

447
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 3: there was a voucher vote and there was somebody back

448
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Speaker 3: in those hallways pulling the strings. I went back to

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Speaker 3: see who was full of the strengths.

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Speaker 2: I would.

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Speaker 1: I would do a hybrid approach. I would let me

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Speaker 1: let me ask you this question. So the Republican high

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Speaker 1: card right as far as an issue where they are

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Speaker 1: on the right side of majority opinion in the country

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Speaker 1: is on the question of the border, and I had

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Speaker 1: a I had a consistent position on this personally, going

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Speaker 1: back to the nineties, right, I was always a very

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Speaker 1: pro immigration Republican and the deal that I always supported

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Speaker 1: Bush McCain, the Kennedy compromise, you know, was that you

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Speaker 1: had a population in the country illegally. They were here

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Speaker 1: illegally because they were let in without much difficulty, and

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Speaker 1: everybody understood that the labor market required this workforce that

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Speaker 1: was there. People wanted the border secured, they didn't want

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Speaker 1: anyone punished, and.

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Speaker 2: They just couldn't get it done in Washington.

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Speaker 1: You have, whatever the number may be, the biggest issue

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Speaker 1: that the Republicans have to go at a Democrat in

468
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Speaker 1: a red state, right in terms of its most recent

469
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Speaker 1: dispositions electorally, is immigration. So what do you say about

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Speaker 1: immigration about the border, and do you recognize as a

471
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Speaker 1: Democrat how important honesty is as an issue. And I'll

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Speaker 1: give you two examples. When Senator Menandez is arrested gold

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Speaker 1: Barson in the jacket, Chuck Schumer responds, he's been a

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Speaker 1: great representative for the people in New Jersey, Right, you know,

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Speaker 1: say that it's a native New Jersey. And when when

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Speaker 1: Alexander Myorci says border's never been more secure, you understand,

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Speaker 1: Or you're a center on TV who was looking at

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Speaker 1: Biden the aftermath of debate, usually now he's the wisest

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Speaker 1: guy in the land. He's never looked better. That you

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Speaker 1: lose honesty as an issue to a side filled with

481
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Speaker 1: extreme fascists who run on an architecture of LIFs. How

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Speaker 1: how important that is? And I just I just wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask you about that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think that I would I would not

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Speaker 3: feel the same development in this, you know. I think

486
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Speaker 3: that it doesn't matter when our guys break the law.

487
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 3: Their guys break the law. You've broken the law, and

488
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Speaker 3: that's the way it is. I think we do need

489
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Speaker 3: to definitely be honest about that. I think that that's

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Speaker 3: critically important, and to be honest about the fact that

491
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Speaker 3: we do have a serious situation at the border and

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Speaker 3: we do need to fix it. But the thing is

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Speaker 3: we can't.

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Speaker 2: And there, like you.

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Speaker 3: Talked about, there have been deals in the past, it

496
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 3: always breaks down, and right now we know that it's

497
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Speaker 3: broken down because they need to use it in this campaign.

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Speaker 3: I firmly believe that it is something that gens up

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Speaker 3: Tennessee Republicans, but we have to be honest about you know,

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Speaker 3: what's really happening. Do we need more security, yes, Have

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00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 3: we tried to put more security? Yes. I think that

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Speaker 3: the last bill that was offered had pretty much everything

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Speaker 3: in it the Republican wanted. They had a problem with

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00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 3: one piece of it, and they were misinterpreting that piece

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Speaker 3: as I understand it. But it seems like we can

506
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Speaker 3: at least get some measures going so we can get

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Speaker 3: the work started, having to pass the citizenship and also

508
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Speaker 3: making things more secure at the border. And I think

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Speaker 3: that there are enough people that should be able to

510
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Speaker 3: come to agreement. Sadly, it may not be you know,

511
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Speaker 3: or it will be after the election. But that's why

512
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 3: this election is so important. Let's get people in believe

513
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Speaker 3: who believe it actually doing the work and not just

514
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Speaker 3: keeping it out there as an issue to run for

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Speaker 3: office on. But we're supposed to be doing the work

516
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Speaker 3: of the people, and the people want solutions. But this idea, oh,

517
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Speaker 3: they're taking our jobs. It's just not true because there

518
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 3: are so many jobs out there, there are not enough people.

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Speaker 3: When on my ninety five County tour. I was just

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Speaker 3: in Granger County, Tennessee, and Granger County is famous for tomatoes.

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Speaker 3: And three year old immigrant came to my event and

522
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Speaker 3: I asked her what her day was like, and twenty

523
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Speaker 3: three year old young woman, she said, well, she has

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Speaker 3: to get her mother to work at the far more.

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Speaker 3: She works at six am and then she goes to

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Speaker 3: work and then she works until the sun goes down

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Speaker 3: at nine o'clock. And I thought, who in Granger County

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Speaker 3: wanted that job? You know, I don't think that most people,

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Speaker 3: most Americans, would take that job. And there are plenty

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Speaker 3: of those jobs to have if they wanted them. The

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Speaker 3: reality is folks are coming here, they're working really hard

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Speaker 3: at jobs that we desperately need. We don't need our

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Speaker 3: plants and our food to die on the vine. And

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Speaker 3: so we've got to create that path for folks who

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Speaker 3: come in here, come here and are doing everything right.

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Speaker 3: But we can also secure the border and do all

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Speaker 3: of those things. And that's the type of legislation we

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Speaker 3: need to see to solve this problem. But to dehumanize

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00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 3: and not respect the human dignity of these folks are

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Speaker 3: coming over here to improve their lives and work hard

541
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Speaker 3: and love this country, and we have to do better.

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Speaker 3: We have to do better for us and for them.

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Speaker 3: Because I live I think about growing up. I think

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Speaker 3: about even fifteen years ago, twenty years ago. In Tennessee,

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Speaker 3: we didn't ask where you came from, We didn't ask

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00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 3: how you worshiped it, we didn't ask who you loved.

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00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 3: We just pitched in with our community and helped everybody together,

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Speaker 3: working together. It didn't matter if you were different religion,

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Speaker 3: it didn't matter if you were a different race. I'm

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Speaker 3: not saying there has an in bigotry and racism. There

551
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Speaker 3: has been, but it's been. It was a shameful thing

552
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 3: to be, you know. But most people just work together

553
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Speaker 3: and didn't care if the fact that two women down

554
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 3: the street are married has absolutely nothing to do with

555
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Speaker 3: how your family is doing. If your family is struggling,

556
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 3: it's not because two women down the street are married.

557
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 3: Your family is struggling because you live an hour and

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00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 3: a half from a hospital, you don't have access to

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Speaker 3: affordable healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, you don't have a

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Speaker 3: well resourced classroom from child for your child, and you're

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Speaker 3: making minimum wage. In Tennessee, which is the federal bent

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Speaker 3: On wage, which is seven twenty five an hour. You're

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Speaker 3: working two and three jobs to try to keep food

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Speaker 3: on the table. Those folks don't have time to follow politics.

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Speaker 3: They're trying to stay alive. They're trying to keep the

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Speaker 3: lights on and food on the table. And Marsha Blackburn

567
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 3: doesn't believe in raising the wage. How do you make

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Speaker 3: seven dollars an hour or ten dollars an hour even

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Speaker 3: and paid chalk care fifteen dollars an hour hour? The

570
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 3: math does not work. They have no concern for regular families.

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Speaker 3: Marsha Blackburn works for lobbyists in corporations. We just finished

572
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Speaker 3: a quarter of fundraising. More than seventy percent of the

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Speaker 3: money I raised comes from Tennessee. Only forty percent of

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Speaker 3: the money she raises comes from Tennessee. Much of it

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Speaker 3: comes from Texas. Who does she represent? Tennessee Families need help,

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Speaker 3: They need someone working for them, not for lobbyists, not

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Speaker 3: for big Pharma in the NRA and big oil. That's

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Speaker 3: who she's working for.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine that. People who spend forty years in

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Speaker 1: the United States Senate, and I've been around it as

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Speaker 1: an institution, right It's mind blowing. And you know, I

582
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 1: think about it, right, you know, if it was something

583
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Speaker 1: if I wound up in the US Senate, you think

584
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: about even three terms, right, eighteen years is a long time, right,

585
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Speaker 1: but like you know, twelve years whatever. As you point out, right,

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Speaker 1: she's been there for twenty years. She hasn't done the

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Speaker 1: town hall in seven and.

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Speaker 2: A half years. Why does she do this? Like do

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00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 2: you ever think about that? Like? What do I can

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00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 2: tell you that she makes? She makes one hundred sixty

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Speaker 2: seven thousand dollars a year. What a what a what

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Speaker 2: a senator makes?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: She would she would make more as a lobbyist. It's

595
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Speaker 2: a what does she? What does she dig about this?

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Speaker 2: What's so great about it?

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't she I think you mentioned she's

598
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Speaker 3: an odd person. I mean, we were on we were

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Speaker 3: on the same airplane. I had already been seated, and

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Speaker 3: I saw this woman walking past, and I was like,

601
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Speaker 3: who is that. I was like, oh, my goodness, that

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00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 3: is Marsha. And so I thought, well, it's stupid for

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Speaker 3: us to be on the same plane and not to

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Speaker 3: say hello or anything like that. So as we were

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Speaker 3: getting off the plane, I waited at the top of

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Speaker 3: the jetway, and you know, she came up and I said, high,

607
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Speaker 3: Senator Blackbird. I just wanted we're running against each other.

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Speaker 3: Just wanted to said my name, I said, just wanted

609
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Speaker 3: to say hello. It would be silly for us not

610
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Speaker 3: to say hello when we're sitting on the same plane.

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Speaker 3: And she just dared at me and just like, and

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Speaker 3: I mean, how do you just not say hello? But

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Speaker 3: it was as if she had no idea what to do.

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Speaker 3: And I'm thinking, you're a US senator, you meet constituents

615
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Speaker 3: all the time. Technically I'm a constituent of hers, and

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Speaker 3: she couldn't even say hello, and then she felt so awkward.

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Speaker 3: I tried to make light of the situation, and I said, hey,

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Speaker 3: why don't we take a picture together and we can

619
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Speaker 3: both both post look who I met on the plane.

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Speaker 3: And then she looked at me and she said, oh,

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Speaker 3: I can't do that, and start walking away.

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Speaker 4: It was just the strangest interaction, you know, and I

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Speaker 4: just don't I don't know how you couldn't just stop

624
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Speaker 4: and say hello and make you know, pleasantryce with somebody.

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Speaker 3: It was weird to me.

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Speaker 1: The answer to that question, I can answer this question,

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Speaker 1: answer the why now that I have that information, is

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Speaker 1: that people would come up to me during like the

629
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Speaker 1: peak of House of Cards, and a friend of mine,

630
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: Guyam J. Carson, was like really involved and conceiving of

631
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: the show and you know, helping make it realistic. But

632
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 1: people would be like, is all this like House of Cards?

633
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: And I'd be like, no, it's like Veep.

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Speaker 2: It's like Veep. Right, National politics is.

635
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: Like a giant deep episode, right if you detach and

636
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: sit back and watch it. And she's like a us,

637
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: like a character Inveep, you know, cloistered voting against the

638
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 1: interests of the state, which is a gigantic state. And

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00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: let me just say again, right for people who haven't

640
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: spent time in Tennessee that will watch this, uh, you

641
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:20,280
Speaker 1: know from around the around the country. Big distance between

642
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: Knoxville where you're from, and the Mississippi River and Memphis,

643
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: and so you need to tie a ribbon right across

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Speaker 1: the state to a different part of the state. About

645
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: about these ideas, Why do you talk about that? Just

646
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: what it's like to campaign? What is your day? Like

647
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: how many hours a day are they torturing you with

648
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: fundraising calls? That will increase you know, if you become

649
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Speaker 1: the nominee here of course, and what is that?

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Speaker 2: What is that day like?

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Speaker 1: Getting around, doing the doing of things you need to do.

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Speaker 1: And as you as you look at this from a

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Speaker 1: forward basis, you know, if you're the nominee and you

654
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Speaker 1: have you know about you know, let's you know, three

655
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Speaker 1: months or so, you know, in real time to to

656
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Speaker 1: run the campaign about her, just talk about how you're

657
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Speaker 1: gonna how you're gonna build on what you've been doing

658
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Speaker 1: in order to bring that, in order to bring that home,

659
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Speaker 1: how to embrace the underdog, you know, status capitalize it

660
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Speaker 1: against somebody who's been there too long, who's become too

661
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:40,720
Speaker 1: strange by their time and power, that you know, lives

662
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Speaker 1: like they're a character in the Hunger Games. Often panem

663
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Speaker 1: completely walled off from the from the regular people. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I I just think that that's such a

665
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Speaker 1: huge part of this is her aloofness from reality, from normalcy,

666
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Speaker 1: from unity, as she lives in this terrarium, you know,

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Speaker 1: under the capitol though.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know absolutely, And it's gonna make a difference

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Speaker 3: because what people know about me is I get out

670
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Speaker 3: and talk to folks. I've flipped red districts multiple times,

671
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Speaker 3: because I'm not afraid to talk to people and talk

672
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Speaker 3: to people across the AIP. I have talked to so

673
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Speaker 3: many people in this trail who wanted to see her

674
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Speaker 3: were in DC, but she wouldn't see them because of

675
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Speaker 3: whatever their belief if it was Mom's demand action or

676
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Speaker 3: some of these folks that she just refused to see.

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Speaker 3: And I don't do that in my office in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: I don't refuse anyone if we can't sit down and

679
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Speaker 3: have a conversation and disagree, and I can tell you

680
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 3: what my position is and I can listen to your position.

681
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's what it's about. And people,

682
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Speaker 3: certainly the people in my district in Knox will know

683
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Speaker 3: that's who I am. I have people all the time

684
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Speaker 3: tell me, Gloria, we don't agree on much, but I

685
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Speaker 3: do trust you and I know that you will listen

686
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Speaker 3: to me, and so that goes a long way. But

687
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Speaker 3: she has no revertoire like that with the people. And

688
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Speaker 3: so my day, you know, yesterday, it started at seven o'clock.

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Speaker 3: We had to be in Overton County, which is for

690
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Speaker 3: two hours from where I am, so we had to

691
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Speaker 3: we had to get up and be there by ten

692
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Speaker 3: o'clock and then we spent an hour and fifteen minutes,

693
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Speaker 3: hour and a half with those folks. Then we drove

694
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Speaker 3: forty minutes to the next county and spent an hour

695
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Speaker 3: to hour and a half with those folks, talking to them,

696
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Speaker 3: asking questions, finding out what, you know, what were the

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Speaker 3: biggest issues in their community that they felt like. And

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Speaker 3: then I got in the car, drove another hour to

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Speaker 3: our next stop in Cannon County and met with folks

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Speaker 3: there and did the same thing. Talked again about everything

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Speaker 3: in their particular were community, what they saw. And then

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Speaker 3: of course our last stop was at five point thirty

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Speaker 3: last night in Rutherford County and spend an hour and

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Speaker 3: a half there talking to folks, and it was really great.

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Speaker 3: There were so many young people there and one of

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Speaker 3: the fascinating things that I find as young people. Most

707
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Speaker 3: of these meetings are very often senior citizens, but we've

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Speaker 3: got a lot of young people showing up as well,

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Speaker 3: and the young people are engaged, they're paying attention, and

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Speaker 3: so I love it when they come. And people always

711
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Speaker 3: get excited when the young folks are there. But they're

712
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Speaker 3: excited about this race, and I'm seeing more excitement about

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Speaker 3: this race than I have seen across the state of

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Speaker 3: Tennessee in a long time. I go around. I'm not

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Speaker 3: new to visiting counties across the state. It's five and

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Speaker 3: a half hours to Memphis from Knoxville, and it's three

717
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Speaker 3: hours or two and a half hours up to Upper

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Speaker 3: each corner, so eight hours or you know, eight or

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Speaker 3: nine hours across the whole state. And we've been traveling

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Speaker 3: the whole thing. But really it's about listening to people

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Speaker 3: and trying to to educate them on some of the

722
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Speaker 3: issues that they don't quite completely understand. Legislation that's been

723
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Speaker 3: passed that that they rarely get to hear about. They

724
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Speaker 3: pass bills so quickly here in the Tennessee State legislature.

725
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Speaker 3: No one knows about them until it affects them. And

726
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 3: they don't want to debate these bills. They've they've almost

727
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 3: gotten rid of debate on legislation. I guess it's because

728
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 3: they are ashamed to really hash out their ideas because

729
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 3: they're not. It's mostly hate legislation and it doesn't help

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Speaker 3: regular families. But you know, Marcia is not getting this

731
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Speaker 3: experience and talking to this people that she thinks she

732
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Speaker 3: can show up with an arb Besider name and win

733
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Speaker 3: this election. And it's not going to be like that

734
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Speaker 3: this year because people are not happy with what she

735
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Speaker 3: is doing and they're paying more attention than ever. And

736
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Speaker 3: so I'm making sure that I'm talking to as many

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Speaker 3: people as possible, listening to as many people as possible,

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Speaker 3: and I won't ever stop doing that. Every year i

739
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Speaker 3: am in DC, I will continue to visit every county.

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Speaker 3: I can't tell you how appreciative people are when they say,

741
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Speaker 3: thank you so much for coming to our county. Nobody's

742
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 3: been to our county in years. No one has done

743
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Speaker 3: a nine five, a true ninety five county tour that's

744
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Speaker 3: posted that anyone can come to. And it's sad because

745
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 3: these rural counties have needs and everybody when they're running

746
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Speaker 3: for office, oh, we're going to help the rural counties,

747
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 3: but they never do. And if you don't know the

748
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Speaker 3: faces and you don't have conversations with those people, you

749
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Speaker 3: know what they need. She doesn't get to tell people

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Speaker 3: what they need. She doesn't get to listen to lobbyists

751
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Speaker 3: and corporations that fund her campaign, and she doesn't learn

752
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Speaker 3: from them. But the Tennessee, hard working Tennessee families in

753
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Speaker 3: her district need. She has no idea. She hasn't had

754
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Speaker 3: to struggle to make a light bill, she hasn't had

755
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Speaker 3: to struggle to put food on the table. And if

756
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Speaker 3: you don't listen to folks, how do you even understand

757
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Speaker 3: that I've struggled to pay a light build. I mean,

758
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Speaker 3: that's just a fact, and I'm not ashamed of that.

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Speaker 3: I am in the same category as far as you know,

760
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Speaker 3: earning as the majority of Tennesseeans. She's far and above

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Speaker 3: that and doesn't understand how the majority of Tennesseeans live.

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Speaker 3: You know, in all these politicians, well I'm going to

763
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Speaker 3: cut taxes, Well, what they need to ask her is

764
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Speaker 3: who whose taxes are you going to cut? Marsha, Because

765
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Speaker 3: she's gonna cut taxes for the wealthy incorporations. It's exactly

766
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Speaker 3: what they're doing here, and we've seen her do it there.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's helping hard working families with their taxes. Democrats want

768
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Speaker 3: to do that, and people need to understand that, need

769
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Speaker 3: to understand that raising the wage and giving people access

770
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Speaker 3: to health care lifts up your state, lifts up your economy.

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Speaker 3: And if you don't understand simple economics, you can't help

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Speaker 3: the people that need it the most, and we have

773
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Speaker 3: a lot of vulnerable people in Tennessee. She wants to

774
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Speaker 3: get rid of the federal Department of Education. What are

775
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Speaker 3: they fund in Tennessee. They fund free and reduced lunches

776
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 3: for so many children in Tennessee that go to bed Hungary.

777
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Speaker 3: They fund special education. I taught special ed for twenty

778
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Speaker 3: seven years. My students, because of federal programs, got the

779
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Speaker 3: services they needed. My special ed students, I had a

780
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Speaker 3: higher graduation. Ninety five percent of my special ed students

781
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Speaker 3: graduated because they got the services they need. That's a

782
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Speaker 3: higher graduation rate than the whole high school with regular kids.

783
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Speaker 3: And so when we provide these services for kids, they

784
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Speaker 3: get what they need. I had kids going to college

785
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Speaker 3: going straight into careers because we did work study their

786
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Speaker 3: last semester. And you can't say that about the entire school.

787
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Speaker 3: So and then that money also, the third pot of

788
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Speaker 3: that money goes to fund Title I, which is making

789
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Speaker 3: sure we have equity in our under resource schools, to

790
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Speaker 3: make sure that those under resource schools have the resources

791
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Speaker 3: they need to have a well resourced classroom, to have

792
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Speaker 3: more social workers because they need more of those services.

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Speaker 3: That's what those federal dollars do, and she wants to

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Speaker 3: shut it down. The Speaker of our House, Cameron Sexton,

795
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Speaker 3: in Tennessee, wanted to refuse the federal funding. It basically

796
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Speaker 3: came down to, if you don't take the federal dollars,

797
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Speaker 3: you don't have to follow civil rights guidelines. This is

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Speaker 3: who they are. It's it is remarkable they do not

799
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Speaker 3: care about the average family in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: I had a visit to Washington a couple months back,

801
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Speaker 1: and I was at this premiere and I sat next

802
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Speaker 1: to a Democratic congressman and he was sitting next to

803
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Speaker 1: another Democratic congressman.

804
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Speaker 2: I was like, how you doing.

805
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Speaker 1: He was like, good he is, but you know he

806
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Speaker 1: is I'm much better than than than his colleague. And

807
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Speaker 1: he is this guy, this impressive guy he is, you know,

808
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Speaker 1: Rhodes scholar, Harvard put himself through, came up from nothing.

809
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Speaker 2: He goes he's got the same job as Lauren Bobert.

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Speaker 1: And a few months ago I spent time with Keem

811
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Speaker 1: Jefferies and Tim Ryan, who was in the Congress for

812
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Speaker 1: twenty years. A lot of like in terms of just

813
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Speaker 1: absolutely unflappable, like the like like the Yoda, right you know,

814
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Speaker 1: like the Buddha calm temperaments. And I thought about myself right,

815
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Speaker 1: like in the house and the day that I broke

816
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Speaker 1: a board over like.

817
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Speaker 2: Mac Gates's head.

818
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Speaker 1: Right, It's not like the media would be that I'm

819
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Speaker 1: going to get a riven or something for restraining myself

820
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 1: for like eight hundred days, right until like I finally

821
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Speaker 1: did it. And the reason I asked the question is

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Speaker 1: you're subjecting yourself to a level of self abuse, right

823
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Speaker 1: by doing this, Right, That victory means, right, you're gonna

824
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: be like hanging out with Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz,

825
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Speaker 1: that your colleagues will be some of the worst Americans

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Speaker 1: out of three hundred and thirty million people, right, which

827
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: is like really bad people who aren't currently incarcerated for

828
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Speaker 1: violent crimes, right, some of the wackiest, most hypocritical Americans.

829
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Speaker 1: Right that there are amongst all of us villainous characters,

830
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Speaker 1: some of them. And I just wonder, you know, you

831
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Speaker 1: seem like a perfectly normal person right about this on earth?

832
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Speaker 2: Why on earth would you want to do it to yourself? Right?

833
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Speaker 2: And then we'll leave it there.

834
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Speaker 1: But it's been a real, a real pleasure hosting you

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Speaker 1: Representative Gloria Johnson. We'll put up all your information to

836
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Speaker 1: get involved and be involved in your campaign. Real pleasure

837
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Speaker 1: hosting you.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you. And I do have to say twenty

839
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Speaker 3: seven years teaching me most behavior disordered teenagers has prepared

840
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Speaker 3: me for this work.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I was just talking to my daughter.

842
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Speaker 1: We're on a long road trip, and we're talking about

843
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: the days when I was a kid. You know, there

844
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: were no seatbelts, no shoulder straps, right front seat, right

845
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: middle seat, laying down in the back. We were talking

846
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Speaker 1: about school, right, and we were talking about emotionally disturbed

847
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: right out of fashion today. But like the problem kid

848
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Speaker 1: of that era was called the emotionally disturbed kid, right

849
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Speaker 1: that you know, that would be the threat. You know,

850
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Speaker 1: if you misbehaved or go to the emotionally disturbed classroom, right,

851
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: it would hang over You'd be like, oh my goodness.

852
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Speaker 1: But that is America's epicenter of emotional disturbance, Right, is

853
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Speaker 1: the United States Senate Josh Holly right, frauds of such

854
00:55:54,160 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: epic titanic dimensions. Right, They're they're almost fictional characters. But

855
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Speaker 1: but but this is this way you'd be signing.

856
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Speaker 3: Up for well and it's it's it's pretty much what

857
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,760
Speaker 3: I'm doing here, and and and the meanness is something.

858
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Speaker 3: You know, we have a seventy four Republicans and twenty

859
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 3: five Democrats, and uh in addition to being drunk with

860
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 3: power and authoritarians there, they're just mean their retaliatory. You know.

861
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Speaker 3: The first the first year that Cameron Sexton was up

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Speaker 3: for Speaker, I said, I refused to vote for him.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm not voting for a Republican speaker. And

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Speaker 3: I'm certainly not voting for the Republican speaker who was

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Speaker 3: instrumental in stopping medicaid expansion in Tennessee, who also fought

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Speaker 3: tooth and nail to keep the bust of Nathan Bedford

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Speaker 3: forrest in a place of honor in our capital. Said

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Speaker 3: I'm not doing it.

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Speaker 2: And one founder of the ku Klux Klan yes.

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Speaker 3: And slaughtered three hundred folks who were surrendering at Fort Pillow.

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Speaker 3: So I was the only one out of ninety nine

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Speaker 3: to vote against him for speaker. And I was giving

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Speaker 3: given a closet for an office. And then not only

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Speaker 3: was I given a closet for an office, but across

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Speaker 3: the hall outside my door, I look outside my door

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Speaker 3: and I see the empty member office across the hall.

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Speaker 3: And that was intentional, and that was all all about

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Speaker 3: punishment and retaliation because I didn't step in line with

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Speaker 3: what they wanted. And guess what, I'm never going to

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Speaker 3: unless what they want is right, and most often it

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Speaker 3: is not. And that's why it's so important that we

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Speaker 3: stand up and that we push back against these extremists

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Speaker 3: and against this hate. And that's why we have to

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Speaker 3: win this US Senate seat in Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Perfect place stand it. Thank you for your time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I appreciate you have me on.

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