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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with

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Speaker 1: you as well today. So nice to have you with

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Speaker 1: a senator. I know you're really excited about this idea

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Speaker 1: that was put out there a couple of days ago

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Speaker 1: entitled in the Atlantic, let's declare a pandemic amnesty and

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Speaker 1: let's focus on the future and fix the problems that

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Speaker 1: we still need to solve. I'm not buying it. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going forward. Maybe you want to do this, but

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Speaker 1: I say I have two words in response, Hell no.

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Speaker 1: Look that this is, you know, a leftist writing this

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Speaker 1: article saying, let's just forgive and forget everything that happened

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Speaker 1: on COVID. It's all okay now. And it actually that article,

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Speaker 1: in turn, was then tweeted out by Randy Weingarten, who

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Speaker 1: is the you know, the head of one of the

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Speaker 1: big teachers unions, and she said, I agree, we ought

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Speaker 1: to have a COVID amnesty. And they basically what she's

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Speaker 1: saying is okay, Look, my policies were an absolute disaster.

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Speaker 1: They hurt tens of millions of kids. Because I was

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Speaker 1: a shameless partisan hack, I got Democrats and the Biden

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Speaker 1: White House to support school closures for over a year.

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Speaker 1: We now have national reading scores. We now have national

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Speaker 1: writing or math scores that our kids scores have plummeted

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Speaker 1: because Democrats shut down schools, because the teachers Union and

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Speaker 1: Randy Weingarten in particular pushed it. We also know that

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Speaker 1: the racial gap, the gap and test scores between black

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Speaker 1: kids and white kids grew by the largest amount in

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Speaker 1: the last year of any time in history. All of

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Speaker 1: that was predictable, And it wasn't just predictable, it was predicted.

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Speaker 1: Many of us, myself included, were screaming from the mountaintops

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Speaker 1: when this was happening last year. In the middle of

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Speaker 1: the school shutdowns, I forced vote after vote after vote

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Speaker 1: to try to stop it. I forced to vote on

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Speaker 1: the Senate floor to cut off new funds to schools

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Speaker 1: if they were still shut down. Every single Democrat voted no.

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Speaker 1: Just a couple of months ago, I forced to vote

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Speaker 1: on the Senate floor to stop the District of Columbia

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Speaker 1: schools from enforcing a COVID vaccine mandate, which would result

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Speaker 1: in throwing out of school twenty percent of the kids

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Speaker 1: and forty percent of the African American kids. Once again,

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Speaker 1: every Democrat voted no after two years of unbelievably abusive

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Speaker 1: policies and abusive policies running the gamut from shutdowns that

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Speaker 1: destroyed stores and small businesses and jobs to people being

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Speaker 1: fired for making their own choices about whether or not

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Speaker 1: to take the COVID vaccine, to shutting down schools and

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Speaker 1: damaging kids in all likelihood for the rest of their

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Speaker 1: lives with the educational loss that was inflicted. These democrats

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Speaker 1: now want everyone just forgive and forget. Never mind they

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Speaker 1: ignored welfare. I don't think anyone's willing to do so.

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Speaker 1: And we've talked about why this election is going to

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Speaker 1: be such a big red wave. This is a big

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Speaker 1: part of it. People are furious. People who are not

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Speaker 1: engaged in politics are furious about the policies these petty

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Speaker 1: tyrants put in place that hurt them, and the idea

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Speaker 1: that there should be no accountability that is absolutely wrong.

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Speaker 1: When we take the majority, there needs to be real accountability.

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Speaker 1: I don't want a COVID amnesty. I want everyone who

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Speaker 1: hurt people and did so because of politics, I want

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Speaker 1: them to be held accountable for those decisions. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's some decision, Senator that obviously we should learn from, right,

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Speaker 1: mistakes that were genuine mistakes early on in the pandemic

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Speaker 1: that we would learn from. But as you mentioned, many

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Speaker 1: of the mistakes that were made were one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: a political decision where people got drunk on power. People

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Speaker 1: decided that their lives and their livelihoods they should get

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Speaker 1: paid from working from home. They didn't want to educate kids.

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Speaker 1: They didn't look at the harm they were doing to children.

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Speaker 1: And that's the part we should never say, you know,

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Speaker 1: let's just hit pause and move on from We need

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Speaker 1: to make sure there's accountability so that never happens again.

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Speaker 1: Because even right now, we have seen Democratic candidates running

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Speaker 1: in different parts of country over the last week who

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Speaker 1: have said they would even remask children. This happened in

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Speaker 1: Florida recently. One of the Democrats said, Hey, I will

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Speaker 1: listen to the scientists. They tell me to remask the

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Speaker 1: kids in the schools, I'll do it. Well. One of

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Speaker 1: the things we learned is that many of our institutions

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Speaker 1: have become hopelessly politicized and rendered corrupt. You know, you

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Speaker 1: look at someone like Anthony Fauci, who has described self says,

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Speaker 1: I am science, I am body science. When people are

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Speaker 1: criticizing me, they are criticizing science. That number one, delusional

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Speaker 1: grandeur is really bizarre. But number two, I don't know

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Speaker 1: of an individual in modern times who has done more

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Speaker 1: medical institutions that out anthy Fauci because he deliberately said

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Speaker 1: things he knew were lies, and he's admitted he knew

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Speaker 1: they were lies. He said, at first, mass don't work.

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Speaker 1: Then he said, you gotta use him, and he went

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Speaker 1: back and forth and back and forth. He insisted, No,

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Speaker 1: the COVID virus was not did not escape from the

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Speaker 1: Wuhan Institute of Virology. It did not escape from the lab.

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Speaker 1: It was not man made. Then oh well maybe it did. No,

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Speaker 1: the US government did not fund gain a function research

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Speaker 1: that may well have created did the COVID virus in

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Speaker 1: that Chinese lab? Then the NIH puts out, well, yes,

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Speaker 1: we actually did fund that research. The repeated lies and

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Speaker 1: also the correspondence that has come out between the Biden

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Speaker 1: administration and the teachers unions where the teachers unions were

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Speaker 1: the ones who drove the school shutdown. It wasn't based

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Speaker 1: on studies about infection and kids. It wasn't based on

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Speaker 1: on fatality rates, which we know that that the COVID

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Speaker 1: virus was much much, much less serious among kids that

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Speaker 1: it was with the very elderlier people with severe additional

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Speaker 1: health issues. It wasn't science at all. It was a

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Speaker 1: political decision, and I got to say, going forward, we're

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Speaker 1: going to need to talk about you know, we will

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Speaker 1: have some other health crisis at some point in our lifetimes,

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Speaker 1: and it could be, you know, last time it was COVID,

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Speaker 1: maybe next time it's you know, God forbid, something like

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Speaker 1: our institutions now, I don't know what the answer is

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Speaker 1: how you actually get an institution to focus on science

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Speaker 1: once it's been politicized, and I think the damage that

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Speaker 1: was done it may be permanent. I worry that it's permanent. Senator,

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Speaker 1: maybe much more straightforward, are just not going to trust

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Speaker 1: the health officials of the United States government. And the

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Speaker 1: reason why is because the way that they try to

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Speaker 1: reminder of how Faucci wanted to divide this country into

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Speaker 1: two groups of people. This was last Christmas. He said this.

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Speaker 1: If someone in your family isn't vaccinated, she asked them

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're dealing with a serious enough

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Speaker 1: another time when this is all over. Centator. That wasn't

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Speaker 1: based in science. That was based in dividing this country

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Speaker 1: a vaccinated individual that is indoctrinated by the government, or

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Speaker 1: you're an outcast in an outlier in society where you're

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Speaker 1: not welcome. Yeah. Look, these people got drunk on power,

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Speaker 1: and Fauci was the drunkest of all, and it was

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Speaker 1: whatever he decreed. Now, mind you, we also saw the

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Speaker 1: videos of him going to the Nationals game and happily

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Speaker 1: taking his mask off right when he was ordering everyone else,

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Speaker 1: you must where you're ask at all times. Listen that

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Speaker 1: the hypocrisy Senate Democrats, routinely behind closed doors when they

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Speaker 1: I remember going to Bob Dole's funeral, and Bob Doo's

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Speaker 1: endangering the lives of his fellow senators, how dare he

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Speaker 1: do this? Now here's the ridiculous part. Ben the senators

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Speaker 1: But once a TV cameras there, then the virtue is strong.

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Speaker 1: This was always about power. There's a question that I

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Speaker 1: you've gotten asked this question a lot. How is it

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Speaker 1: the doctor Fauci and I believe based in facts that

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Speaker 1: he has clearly lied under oath before Congress on going

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Speaker 1: to a function research on Wuhan Lab on different issues

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Speaker 1: is it if he did lie? There's no accountability for lying,

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Speaker 1: is fundamentally corrupt and partisan and political. I have repeatedly

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Speaker 1: called on the Department of Justice to appoint a special

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Speaker 1: He came in and he testified flat out that the

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Speaker 1: federal government did not fund gain a function research in

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Speaker 1: the Wuhunt Institute for Virology, and subsequently the NIH admitted

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Speaker 1: in writing, yes, it did fund gain a function research

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Speaker 1: at the Wuhunt Institute of Virology. The two statements are

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Speaker 1: at this meeting that happen in March, with this FBI

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Speaker 1: officials warning of this threat of this information right the

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Speaker 1: submersive information that could quote undermine support for the US government.

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Speaker 1: In attendance, we're senior executives Center from not only Twitter,

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Speaker 1: but also JP Morgan Chase. Why would a financial institution

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Speaker 1: like JP Morgan Chase be in on this type of

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Speaker 1: meeting that scares the hell out of I think of

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Speaker 1: a lot of the people that have bank accounts with

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Speaker 1: JP Morgan Chase or financial accounts with them. Well, we

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Speaker 1: are unfortunately seeing corporate America more and more becoming the

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Speaker 1: enforcers for the woke left. And we're seeing that with

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Speaker 1: the Fortune one hundred. We're seeing that with big banks

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Speaker 1: where they're trying to cut off customers that they disagree

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Speaker 1: with their politics, whether they happen to be a gun

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Speaker 1: store and supporting our Second Amendment rights, or whether they

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Speaker 1: happen to have political views that are out of favor

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Speaker 1: with the current White House. And I think the left

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Speaker 1: is all about power and using power to extort to

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Speaker 1: force you to comply, and I will say it is

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Speaker 1: deeply concerning. Look, when we talk about energy, Wall Street

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Speaker 1: plays a big part in cutting off the cash for

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Speaker 1: US energy production, and they do so at the active

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Speaker 1: urging and at the behest of the Biden administration, whether

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Speaker 1: it's the banking regulators or the SEC. We're seeing these

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Speaker 1: green New Deal radicals trying to cut off all the

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Speaker 1: debt they can and all the equity they can for

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Speaker 1: new oil and gas production. They're doing this on multiple fronts,

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Speaker 1: because if they can't get it through legislation, they're willing

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Speaker 1: to use power and power over your livelihood, power over

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Speaker 1: your ability to earn revenue if it's demonetizing a tech platform,

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Speaker 1: or power over your ability to to have banking services,

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Speaker 1: and all of that I think is a complete abuse

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Speaker 1: of power. Ever since you went on the View, they

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Speaker 1: seem to have really been unhinged by your appearance, Senator,

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Speaker 1: and now Sunny hosting on the View has said something

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Speaker 1: today that I think is racist. I think it's disgusting.

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Speaker 1: She equated white suburban women Republican voters as roaches. I

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Speaker 1: want to play this for everybody. This was a real

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Speaker 1: conversation on the View Republicans. But what's also surprising to

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Speaker 1: vote Republican. Why it's almost like roaches voting for raid, right,

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Speaker 1: it's their own okay, so we democracy or not? Because

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Speaker 1: just saying that it's it's insulting to the voter. People

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Speaker 1: make up decisions on what's white for their family, and

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Speaker 1: the idea that well you should have a save I

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Speaker 1: mean Senator. When you equate white Republican suburban women voters

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Speaker 1: as roaches voting for raid, not only I think is

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Speaker 1: the View. Uh, this was even a new low for them. Well,

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Speaker 1: I guess it's the new war on women. Um, look

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Speaker 1: the View. They are all rich, they are all hard leftists,

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Speaker 1: this country. Sonny unfortunately says nasty, offensive, insulting things on

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Speaker 1: a day basis. But if you look at this comment,

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Speaker 1: so she's saying, all right, if you're a woman, you're

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Speaker 1: not allowed to be concerned about inflation, that you can't

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Speaker 1: afford to fill your car or your truck or your minivan,

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Speaker 1: you can't afford to pay your bills. You're not allowed

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Speaker 1: to be concerned about crime, even though you and your

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Speaker 1: family are at greater risk and you're seeing outside your

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Speaker 1: door perhaps crime rates going up and up and up.

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Speaker 1: You're not allowed to be worried about that. You're not

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Speaker 1: allowed to be worried about nearly five million illegal immigrants

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Speaker 1: thousand ft and all overdoses. Nope, Nope, you're not a woman.

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Speaker 1: If you're worried about the people your kid's dying of

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Speaker 1: a drug overdose, that's your woman card is revoked. According

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Speaker 1: to Sonny and the elite leftist, the only thing you

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Speaker 1: were allowed to care about if you're a woman, according

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Speaker 1: to the view, is you must be an abortion maximalist.

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Speaker 1: You must believe that abortion should be legal in every instance,

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Speaker 1: no matter what, up until the ninth month of pregnancy.

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Speaker 1: Anything else be damned, and that has to be the

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Speaker 1: only thing you care about them that Look, there's a

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Speaker 1: reason why across the country we talked about on the

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Speaker 1: last podcast that suburban women had moved twenty six points

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Speaker 1: away from Democrats and towards Republicans because the policies coming

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Speaker 1: from Democrats are hurting suburban women, they're hurting suburban men,

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Speaker 1: they're hurting they're hurting just about everybody. And the approach

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Speaker 1: of the Democrats is not, oh yeah, I can see

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Speaker 1: how not being able to pay your bills and provide

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Speaker 1: for your family and keep your kids safe would be

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Speaker 1: a problem. Maybe we should do something about it. No,

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Speaker 1: what do they do. They insult you. You're a cockroach.

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Speaker 1: That's their answer. You're a cockroach unless you obey us. Now,

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Speaker 1: look personally, I think the Democratic National Committee how to

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Speaker 1: take Sonny's comments and pay to run them on every

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Speaker 1: TV station in America, because I think that's really a

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Speaker 1: great political strategy. Just call the voters you want to get,

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Speaker 1: called them all cockroaches, and that they'll clearly understand that

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Speaker 1: you have their best interest in mind and vote to

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Speaker 1: keep you in power. For that, you know, It's it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I think how bad the closing argument has been for Democrats.

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Speaker 1: You saw the President give his speech in prime time.

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Speaker 1: This was something that obviously was very important to the president,

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Speaker 1: and they said to come out and kind of give

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Speaker 1: this closing argument. There were a lot of lies in

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Speaker 1: that closing argument, and make no mistake about it, him

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Speaker 1: claiming that the deficits drastically down him claiming that people

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Speaker 1: were better off now than they ever were before. But

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Speaker 1: even Biden's chiefest staff Ron Klain, said that that Biden

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Speaker 1: his speech last night was quote a final warning. Take

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Speaker 1: a listen. The President decided a few days ago that

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Speaker 1: it was important to issue one final warning on this issue,

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Speaker 1: to make very clear, to leave no doubt that we

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Speaker 1: have people out there still peddling the big lie people

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Speaker 1: now raising the issue of election denial in this election.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's still going back to January sixth, Obviously,

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Speaker 1: he's still going back to election deniers, denial and trying

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Speaker 1: to make the entire election about something from several years ago.

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Speaker 1: This was a terrible closing argument for him, which is

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Speaker 1: the reason why I think a massive red wave is coming.

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Speaker 1: New Herschel Walker numbers have just come out. Walkers leading

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Speaker 1: the Democrat Raphael Warnock now over the fifty percent threshold,

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Speaker 1: which is needed. You and I talked about not wanting

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Speaker 1: to have a runoff there, which is very important, and

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Speaker 1: now look at where we are. Well listen, I will

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Speaker 1: say in defense of the Biden White House, they demonstrated

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Speaker 1: that they are capable of learning. That they did one

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Speaker 1: thing right, which is from their previous speech. This time

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Speaker 1: they didn't bathe Biden and red light and have him

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Speaker 1: do his oppression of the Emperor Palpatine from from Star Wars.

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Speaker 1: So I guess that's an improvement that that that that

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Speaker 1: that they you know, avoided, you know, Actually, the Palpatine

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Speaker 1: lighting would have been better if they had Kamala Harris

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Speaker 1: just laughing in the background. I'm per cackle would have

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Speaker 1: made it really frightening. But look for a closing argument. Nationally,

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Speaker 1: if you look at the polling, the number one issue

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Speaker 1: in the country is inflation. What did Biden say about inflation?

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Speaker 1: Not a damn word. The number two issue in the

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Speaker 1: country is crime. What did Biden say about crime? Not

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Speaker 1: a damn word. The number three issue in the country

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Speaker 1: is illegal immigration. What did Biden say about it? Illegal immigration?

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Speaker 1: Not a damn word? Instead, what did he do to

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Speaker 1: use ron Klain's language, He gave one final warning. Look,

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Speaker 1: this is Biden doing the same thing Sonny did, calling

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Speaker 1: the voter's cockroaches. And it's a really troubling shift in

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Speaker 1: political rhetoric. It is not uncommon for politicians to attack

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Speaker 1: each other. Biden attacks me frequently. It's not uncommon. We

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be surprised that Biden calls Trump an s ob

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Speaker 1: and that Trump calls Biden a sob. That as long

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Speaker 1: as we've had elections, one candidate has said nasty things

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Speaker 1: about the other candidate, that that's to be expected. What

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Speaker 1: is new is demonizing the voters. You know the Palpatine

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Speaker 1: speech where Biden stood up and said, half of America,

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Speaker 1: anyone who voted for Donald Trump, anyone who voted Republican,

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Speaker 1: is a semi fascist. Normally, you don't go after the voters.

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Speaker 1: You don't attack the voters. You may attack your opponent.

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Speaker 1: My opponent's a big jerk. But but it is a

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Speaker 1: strange new threshold where the voters are the bad guys.

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Speaker 1: And that's what was saying. If you vote, you're a cockroach.

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Speaker 1: You're a semi fascist cockroach. You know. Kathy Hawckell, the

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Speaker 1: Democrat governor of New York, her comment a couple of

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Speaker 1: months ago where she said, if you vote Republican, if

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Speaker 1: you vote for Trump, get out of the state. You're

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Speaker 1: not a New Yorker. I mean, that's a bizarre statement.

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Speaker 1: I don't know of Look, I've been actively following politics

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Speaker 1: pretty much my entire life. I literally do not know

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Speaker 1: of another analog of any elected official telling a big

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Speaker 1: chunk of his or her voters get the hell out,

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Speaker 1: you do not belong in my state. Listen. I say

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Speaker 1: this as a person who is elected to represent thirty

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Speaker 1: million Texans. There are a lot of liberal Texans. There

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Speaker 1: are a lot of Democrats. There are millions of Democrats

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Speaker 1: in the state of Texas. Thankfully they're more Republicans. But

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Speaker 1: I represent both the liberal Democrats in Texas. It's my

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Speaker 1: job to represent them. No, that doesn't mean that I

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Speaker 1: agree with them on every issue. That's why we have elections.

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Speaker 1: I lay out what I believe and the voters can

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Speaker 1: decide if they want a representative that follows through on

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Speaker 1: those beliefs. But it is my job every day been

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Speaker 1: to fight for the rights of the Democrats in Texas.

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Speaker 1: Fight for their liberties, fight for their free speech, fight

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Speaker 1: for their religious liberty, fight for their safety, fight for

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Speaker 1: good job. All of that that is my job. I

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Speaker 1: cannot imagine saying what the Democrats are saying, which is,

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Speaker 1: you people are cockroaches. Get out of the state if

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Speaker 1: you don't agree with me, if you don't comply, you

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Speaker 1: are otherised. And you know this goes back to doctor Fauci,

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Speaker 1: and you're not welcome to come to Thanksgiving your Christmas

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Speaker 1: dinner either. Yeah, it is truly shocking that this was

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Speaker 1: their closing argument, but it is their closing argument center

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Speaker 1: that we'll have one more show before election day. Want

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