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Speaker 1: That's exactly what the America First Agenda does by ending inflation,

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Speaker 6: Justin, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 7: Donald Trump famously cut the grant to the Wuhan Lab

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Speaker 5: Justin, Your team with the White Coat Waste project was

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Speaker 8: Thank you guys.

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Speaker 5: Explain for us what you've been seeing in regards to

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Speaker 8: Well, we've been seeing two different tracks.

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Speaker 8: So I think that what the President is doing is correct,

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Speaker 2: But clearly there are many in the City.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think that's why the Trump administration has declared

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Speaker 3: This seem like this recent resistance is simply being politicized?

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Speaker 8: It's a real disservice to our city and to our

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Speaker 5: You're so right, Well, Alderman, I've got to ask, are

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Speaker 8: Well, I think eighty six percent of Chicagoans don't agree

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Speaker 2: And what I know is.

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Speaker 8: This is that I regardless how people come to my city,

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I believe you've described it in the past as

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Speaker 4: One way or another. I also understand that you had

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Speaker 8: Without a doubt, they've been able to work well together,

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Speaker 8: That's what got us into this point, playing politics with immigration,

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Speaker 5: Alderman, we only got thirty seconds left. But you know

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Speaker 8: Well, I think at the end of the day, common

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Speaker 5: Agreed, and hopefully common sense will prevail. Alderman, thank you

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Speaker 5: His very own Brian Glenn was in the White House

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Speaker 5: Briefing Room yesterday for Press Secretary Caroline Levitt's first day

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Speaker 5: when we come back. Welcome back to Special Reports. Yesterday

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Speaker 6: Let's take a look.

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Speaker 9: Yes, welcome, you look great. You're doing a great job.

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Speaker 10: You talked about transparency, and some of us in this

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Speaker 11: Absolutely, I'll echo the answer that the President gave on

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Speaker 11: This signifies peace through strength is back. And this president

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Speaker 3: While we certainly haven't seen this much transparency from the

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Speaker 4: Is the one the only. Brian Glenn, thanks for being

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Speaker 9: So you are the crowd.

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Speaker 3: You're in drel on Monday night listening to President Trump,

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Speaker 4: What was it like? How did Caroline leve it perform?

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Speaker 9: She really, you know, surprised all of us.

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Speaker 9: And Caroline Levitt and the.

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Speaker 5: you know, Brian Trump seemed to shed no tears speaking

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Speaker 5: Caitlyn Collins is going to be? Will she take that

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Speaker 5: same adversarial posture or do you think she'll actually be

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Speaker 5: a journalist.

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Speaker 9: I don't think she will.

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Speaker 12: I actually had a few moments with her earlier today

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Speaker 12: before we went into the East room for that signing.

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Speaker 12: I think that she is going to be very professional.

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Speaker 12: I think she they understand. I think everyone at CNN

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Speaker 12: understands that the game has changed a little bit as

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Speaker 12: far as the I think the people expect little bit

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Speaker 12: more of kind of a journalistic approach to covering the issues,

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Speaker 12: and that maybe some of the stories they didn't shine

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Speaker 12: a light on, and some of the stories that they

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Speaker 12: might exaggerated on it didn't work out well and they

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Speaker 12: were turned out to be false. So I think she

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Speaker 12: will do a better job than Jim did here at

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Speaker 12: the White House. But you know, I'm not gonna be

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Speaker 12: one to you know, cast a stone at her or

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Speaker 12: anything like that. But let's just see how Let's see

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Speaker 12: how all the media handles us. I mean, because now

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Speaker 12: here's the thing I learned the other day. The stakes

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Speaker 12: are high in this country and we are suffering. I

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Speaker 12: think they realize that that some of these gotcha questions,

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Speaker 12: some of these gotcha moments that they're looking for, which

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Speaker 12: I think Jim was looking for. I don't think that

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Speaker 12: applies anymore. I think they really want information and they're

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Speaker 12: going to get it from this administration. And hopefully Caitlin

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Speaker 12: I think she'll do hopefully a great job of asking

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Speaker 12: the right questions.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean something is certainly going to have to change.

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Speaker 3: I think what you just described has contributed to what

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Speaker 3: I think we're seeing is the slow death of the

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Speaker 3: mainstream media. But that leads me to this question, what

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Speaker 3: did the briefing room look like in terms of composition?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you have all these usual suspects, but the

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Speaker 3: White House has really opened up to more independent kind

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Speaker 3: of news outlets like Real America's Voice, for example, just

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Speaker 3: the news even war room. We've got correspondents in there.

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Speaker 3: That's quite a change in chemistry. Has anyone been denied

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Speaker 3: access that previously had it?

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Speaker 4: Any new faces?

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Speaker 12: I don't know yet, But that's how she opened up

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Speaker 12: that press conference. If you remember, she did address the

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Speaker 12: changing of the press room, and some of the seats

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Speaker 12: will be flipped and some people that were sitting in

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Speaker 12: the back might perhaps be sitting.

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Speaker 9: In the front.

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Speaker 12: Some people that were standing on the side, well they

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Speaker 12: might have a seat. Now we'll find out that. I

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Speaker 12: think we're going to have a press conference either tomorrow

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Speaker 12: or Friday, and we'll see how that plays out. Even

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Speaker 12: Axios got a shout out in the very beginning of

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Speaker 12: having a seat up front. Now that's not considered to

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Speaker 12: be a conservative outlet, So I think it's fair that

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Speaker 12: she's opening up to everyone.

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Speaker 9: And she even gave a website for people to go on.

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Speaker 12: So if you're a content creator, you're a TikToker, and

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Speaker 12: you like to report factual news, you could be sitting

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Speaker 12: in the press room here shortly.

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Speaker 5: I just need to make a reminder real quick to

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Speaker 5: apply for that so I can get next to Brian

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Speaker 5: Glenn at the next white House Prescott, come on, no,

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Speaker 5: you're you are our guy, and you do such a

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Speaker 5: great job at asking Again, it's about asking the right questions.

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Speaker 5: And look, this is democracy and action, transparency democracy, this

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Speaker 5: is what it's all about.

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Speaker 6: It's not giving preferential treatment.

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Speaker 5: I got to ask you, Brian about RFK, because I

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Speaker 5: want to know how he's faring in today's hearings, because

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Speaker 5: it seems he is facing some tough scrutiny. Here was

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Speaker 5: a testy exchange with Bernie Sanders. Let's take a look

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Speaker 5: at this.

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Speaker 13: Now that you are pro vaccine, that you're going to

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Speaker 13: have your organization take these products off.

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Speaker 14: The market, Senator, I have no power over that organization.

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Speaker 14: I'm not you've heard of it from the board.

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Speaker 13: I was just a few months ago you founded that.

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Speaker 13: You certainly have power you could make that. How are

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Speaker 13: you supportive of this?

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Speaker 14: I have had nothing to do with you supportive of

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Speaker 14: these onesies? I'm supportive of vaccines.

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Speaker 13: Are you supportive of these this clothing which is militantly

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Speaker 13: anti vaccine?

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Speaker 14: I am supportive of vaccines. Well, I want good science

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Speaker 14: and I want to protect But you will.

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Speaker 13: Not tell the organization you founded not to continue selling

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Speaker 13: that product.

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Speaker 9: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: Interesting to me, Brian, that Bernie is so concerned about

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Speaker 5: a onesie that seems to be at the top of

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Speaker 5: his mind. I don't understand that. Seems like he wanted

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Speaker 5: to just make a statement. But let's talk about how

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Speaker 5: RFK is doing. Because earlier today, rfk's former running mate,

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Speaker 5: Nicole Shanahan has threatened to fund primary challenges to anyone

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Speaker 5: who votes against him. That's a pretty bold thing to

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Speaker 5: do because she is a billionaire. So what did you

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Speaker 5: make of that?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, well, we knew going in he was going to

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Speaker 12: be facing some tough criticism. And I think it's ironic

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Speaker 12: that some of the most unhealthy people in DC are

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Speaker 12: the ones that are so critical of trying to clean

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Speaker 12: up or a food supply and perhaps get some science,

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Speaker 12: more science and documentation behind these vaccines. It's gonna be tough,

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Speaker 12: and of course, you know, there are some hardcore conservatives

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Speaker 12: that don't necessarily like.

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Speaker 9: His stance on his pro choice stands.

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Speaker 12: He's not completely pro life, and I think that does

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Speaker 12: skew a little bit in people resenting, hesitating getting one

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Speaker 12: hundred percent behind him.

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Speaker 9: But she might be right.

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Speaker 12: You know, we've got the first you know, the first

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Speaker 12: Bank of Elon Musk as well. That can come into

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Speaker 12: play on some of these primaries of these people who

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Speaker 12: don't necessarily confirm these nominations.

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Speaker 9: So it's it's gonna be interesting to watch it play out.

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Speaker 12: But that's you know, hey, that's that's the twenty twenty

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Speaker 12: five Trump administration is. They are going to stop it

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Speaker 12: as much as they can. But I think at the

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Speaker 12: end of the day, though, bo I think he does

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Speaker 12: get confirmed.

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Speaker 5: That's what I was going to ask you, just as

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Speaker 5: a quick follow up, what's the vote tally like? Is

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Speaker 5: this something JD may have to break a tie for

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Speaker 5: Do you.

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Speaker 12: Think I'm likely? I'm thinking that's likely going to be

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Speaker 12: the outcome there. I haven't you know, I haven't paid

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Speaker 12: a close attention today to find out if anybody's you know,

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Speaker 12: skewed one way or the other changed positions on it.

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Speaker 12: But we could be looking at a Vice president Jeddie

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Speaker 12: Vance breaking the tie on that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that will certainly we'll be keeping a close eye

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Speaker 3: to see how all of that plays out. And Brian,

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Speaker 3: it is going to be a busy week two in

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Speaker 3: the Trump White House.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they are just getting so much accomplished. I

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Speaker 4: think the one thing that we know is going to

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Speaker 4: stay the same. It's going to be windy and cold

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Speaker 4: in DC. But what is about to change. What is

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Speaker 4: on Trump's agenda this week?

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Speaker 9: Well, I've got to get it. We will get it

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Speaker 9: pushed out either later tonight or tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 12: As far as what is on his schedule for the

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Speaker 12: rest of the week, but I know that he will

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Speaker 12: be in communication with Speaker Johnson and a lot of

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Speaker 12: the House leadership. If they've just wrapped up their three

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Speaker 12: day meetings today down in Durrau.

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Speaker 9: We'll see.

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Speaker 12: If we can't, they'll they'll probably, I would think, meet

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Speaker 12: with some of those leaders and talk about some of

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Speaker 12: the things they accomplished. And really President Trump wants to

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Speaker 12: make sure that this GOP conference is all collected.

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Speaker 9: They're all together on.

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Speaker 12: This because we do have some deadlines coming up next month,

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Speaker 12: and you know what, you can't waste time debating on

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Speaker 12: whether or not no tax on tips is something we

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Speaker 12: should get behind and some of these other changes. And

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Speaker 12: the President Trump today once again really hammered down on

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Speaker 12: there will be no cuts in Social Security or Medicaid

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Speaker 12: things like that. Is he is not he is committed

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Speaker 12: to staying strong on funding those those two elements and

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Speaker 12: many more things. Because there's been so much information in

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Speaker 12: the last couple of days on these executive orders and

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Speaker 12: some of these halting of these funding to certain organizations.

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Speaker 12: There a lot of misinformation. So I would imagine if

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Speaker 12: he doesn't speak tomorrow, then he'll come out on Friday

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Speaker 12: and have probably a short press conference on that before

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Speaker 12: he has olf from one understand though he is due

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Speaker 12: to go back tomorrow Lago on Friday.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's so interesting, Brian.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what the history on this is, but

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Speaker 5: at the last time a Republican president nominated a Democrat

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Speaker 5: for a secretary position that all Republicans pretty much going

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Speaker 5: to vote for and maybe all Democrats oppose. That's an

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Speaker 5: ironic thing, but it's a it's a special thing. So

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Speaker 5: you know, common sense once again must prevail.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you're right, you know.

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Speaker 12: In't it interesting how this Trump administration shaped out and

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Speaker 12: some of the people that would if you went back

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Speaker 12: three years ago and you mentioned some of these names,

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Speaker 12: you said, there's no way they have any place in

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Speaker 12: the Trump administration.

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Speaker 5: Well, cat with you soon and follow up a little

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Speaker 5: bit more. Thanks so much, Brian, All right, We'll.

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Speaker 3: Be right back after this break. Welcome back to special reports.

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Speaker 3: The AI industry has been dominating headlines, with news reports

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Speaker 3: suggesting that Chinese startup deep Seek may have harvested large

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Speaker 3: amounts of data from American company open Ai. Deep Seek

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Speaker 3: sent US financial markets into his tail spin this week,

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Speaker 3: claiming they could perform just as well as other AI

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Speaker 3: tech companies, but by using less resources.

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Speaker 4: Now, investigations are underway.

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Speaker 5: And we want to welcome in Birch Gold Group's precious

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Speaker 5: metal specialist Philip Patrick to the show. So Philip, please

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Speaker 5: give us some more insight on what's going on here

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Speaker 5: with deep Seek and what that means for gold prices.

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Speaker 15: Of course, look, the AI revolution, of course, is reshaping

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Speaker 15: the global tech landscape, but I think these recent developments

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Speaker 15: have highlighted how quickly the playing field can change. Deep

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Speaker 15: Seek has shown, as you mentioned, results on par with

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Speaker 15: the best models that we've developed, and the concerning part

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Speaker 15: is it's done at a fraction of the price, with cheaper,

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Speaker 15: low tech chips that consume significantly less data. For some context,

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Speaker 15: America's top four tech companies spent just under a quarter

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Speaker 15: of a trillion dollars last year on AI Data Center's

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Speaker 15: deep seat cost about six million dollars to produce. A

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Speaker 15: few decades ago, innovation out of China on this scale

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Speaker 15: would have been unthinkable. But today we're realizing that the

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Speaker 15: competition is fierce, and I think it's a sign of

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Speaker 15: the shift in global economic balance, and I think a

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Speaker 15: stark reminder that American dominance, even in key industries, isn't

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Speaker 15: guaranteed anymore. This has bled into financial markets in video

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Speaker 15: and others getting hit quite big, But it's the broader

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Speaker 15: concept that has me concerned.

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Speaker 5: Well, Philip, we also want to get your reaction to

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Speaker 5: the Federal Reserves meeting today. Chairman Drome Power announced interest

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Speaker 5: rates will remain at the same level set last month,

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Speaker 5: despite President Trump's request for cuts.

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Speaker 6: What does that mean for Americans?

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Speaker 15: Look, it's just going to make President's Trump's job a

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Speaker 15: little bit harder. They had positive employment numbers towards the

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Speaker 15: end of last year, which really doesn't give the Fed

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Speaker 15: the catalyst to lower interest rates. We've got inflation, high

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Speaker 15: employment numbers looking good. That doesn't bode well for President Trump. Obviously,

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Speaker 15: the number one job here is to grow the economy

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Speaker 15: as fast as possible. Really, we want lower interest rates,

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Speaker 15: lower oil and gas prices to do that, So we'll

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Speaker 15: have to see how it shapes out. Markets haven't responded

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Speaker 15: well so far. And like I said, it's working again

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Speaker 15: Trump's supply side growth plan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that Trump was putting some pressure on

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Speaker 3: the FED to cut rates. Obviously that didn't ultimately happen.

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Speaker 3: But do you think that Trump's economic policies are going

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Speaker 3: to drive the price of gold up this year?

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Speaker 4: Is now the time to buy? Is it the time

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Speaker 4: to have a little more stability?

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Speaker 15: I think it certainly is. And look, I'm happier than

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Speaker 15: almost anyone that we have President Trump at the helm,

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Speaker 15: but we have to understand the scale of the task

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Speaker 15: in front of them. He's assembled a very strong team,

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Speaker 15: but we're running two trillion dollar deficits every single year,

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Speaker 15: and I think it's going to be hard to curb

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Speaker 15: that deficit. Spending gold is predicted by most analysts out there,

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Speaker 15: most of the big fundhouses, to be over three thousand

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Speaker 15: dollars announced by the end of the year, and that's

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Speaker 15: around the median projection. Let's not forget gold did fifty

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Speaker 15: three percent under Trump in his first term. I think

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Speaker 15: we have a more conducive climate for gold this time around.

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Speaker 15: So everything suggests a strong market for precious metals.

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Speaker 5: And Philip, is gold the literally the gold standard when

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Speaker 5: it comes to precious metals. How does it pair up

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Speaker 5: with the other metal, say silver, for instance? Is gold

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Speaker 5: still the one that is that the least prone to vulnerability?

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Speaker 15: Gold is the least volatile, it's steady. Idiot's a wealth

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Speaker 15: preserver and gold is the asset that you go to

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Speaker 15: when you have concerns with currency debt, which we're seeing

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Speaker 15: on a global scale. Silver very attractive, it's undervalued. It's

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Speaker 15: an industrial metal, so it's more of a longer term

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Speaker 15: growth play. So both good, just different.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know, I feel like some of these topics

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Speaker 3: can get a little bit confusing for viewers. What lessons

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Speaker 3: if you could just boil it down real quickly, what

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Speaker 3: lessons should everyday American families take away from this discussion

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Speaker 3: about gold.

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Speaker 15: Look, I think the key here is we have to

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Speaker 15: understand the scale of the job in front of President Trump.

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Speaker 15: I am rooting for him more so than most right,

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Speaker 15: but the position we are in no country, no president

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Speaker 15: has ever got us back from in history, ever from

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Speaker 15: this sort of levels of debt and deficit spending. Debt

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Speaker 15: service is a head of defense spending. No empire has

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Speaker 15: come back from that. So the one lesson or the

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Speaker 15: one thing I would say is we root for President Trump,

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Speaker 15: we root for America, but we have to have a

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Speaker 15: hedge in place just in case he can't quite pull

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Speaker 15: it off. And precious metals are the most important hedge

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Speaker 15: in climates like this, for problems like this.

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Speaker 6: Well, thank you so much, philp We really appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: You always do a great job of boiling this down

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Speaker 5: for our viewers because it can get a little convoluted,

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Speaker 5: but we always appreciate your seguine responses and being very

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Speaker 5: cerebral about it at the same time.

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Speaker 6: Thanks so much, Philip, appreciate it.

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Speaker 9: Thank you guys.

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Speaker 6: Coming up, what is.

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Speaker 5: The proper use of a militia according to the Second

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Speaker 5: Amendment of our Constitution? We discussed with the commander of

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Speaker 5: a militia in Virginia, Dan Abbott. We'll be right back

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Speaker 5: in just a moment, and welcome back to Special Reports.

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Speaker 5: You know, the Second Amendment has language that is sometimes debated.

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Speaker 5: The text reads a well regulated militia being necessary to

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Speaker 5: the security of a free state. The founders understood that

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Speaker 5: standing armies were a threat to a free people, especially

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Speaker 5: when controlled by authoritarian governments.

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Speaker 3: Under federal law, we have an organized militia, which is

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Speaker 3: the National Guard, and we have unorganized militias, which most

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Speaker 3: states have provisions for consistent with Federalist number twenty nine.

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Speaker 3: We welcome Dan Abbott, commander of the Campbell County Militia

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Speaker 3: in Virginia and also a staff sergeant in the Army

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Speaker 3: National Guard.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the show. Dan.

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Speaker 5: Hey, guys, thanks for having me on, absolutely and thanks

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Speaker 5: for bringing light to this interesting issue. You know, Dan,

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Speaker 5: the Constitution and even the Code of Virginia create the

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Speaker 5: lawfulness of your Campbell County Militia. But you're also a

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Speaker 5: staff sar in the National Guards. So I suppose you

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Speaker 5: were part of both the organized and the unorganized militia.

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Speaker 5: In what sense did you feel Virginia needed the Campbell

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Speaker 5: County Militia and what are its aims?

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Speaker 9: Sure?

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Speaker 16: Well, yeah, I mean I guess you could say that

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Speaker 16: I am part of both, and I would argue that

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Speaker 16: everyone who is a member of the organized militia is

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Speaker 16: also part of the unorganized militia, because if you look at.

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Speaker 2: Like the Virginia Constitution.

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Speaker 16: It prescribes unorganized militia as being the whole body of

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Speaker 16: the people trained to arms, and I think it specifies

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Speaker 16: military aged males. But the idea there, you know, is

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Speaker 16: that this is the whole body of the people. And

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Speaker 16: that's an idea that is central to making America what

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Speaker 16: it is today. Is we do have this concept of

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Speaker 16: citizen soldiers in America. And you know, I think that's

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Speaker 16: very very important. Going back to your question as far

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Speaker 16: as why we think that's important or why I felt

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Speaker 16: it was necessary to have unorganized militia in addition to

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Speaker 16: the organized militia. You know, there's a if you look

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Speaker 16: at the Second Amendment and you are just reciting it there,

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Speaker 16: which which most people don't know because we're trying to

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Speaker 16: overcome a doctrination. They don't realize that the Second Amendment

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Speaker 16: says well regulated militia. But we definitely don't realize that

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Speaker 16: the Constitution actually tells us what the purpose of militia

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Speaker 16: is or why we should have it. If you look

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Speaker 16: at Article one, Section eight, clause fifteen says Congress shall

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Speaker 16: call forth the militia to execute the Laws of the Union,

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Speaker 16: repel invasion and suppress insurrection. And I think if we

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Speaker 16: understand what the purpose of militia is, in addition to

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Speaker 16: just being told that we should have it, I think

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Speaker 16: that sheds a lot of light on why it's so important.

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Speaker 2: And you know, really, I.

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Speaker 16: Would make the argument that there are there's only two

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Speaker 16: real forces or powers on earth if we exclude the

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Speaker 16: power of God.

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Speaker 14: And.

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Speaker 2: One of those, of course's violence.

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Speaker 16: We see that acted out all over the world, and

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Speaker 16: we have really since the beginning of time with canaan Abel.

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Speaker 16: The only other force or power on earth, in my opinion,

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Speaker 16: that can stop, restrain, or prevent violence is what Teddy

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Speaker 16: Ruisvelt captured perfectly when he said walk softly, but carry

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Speaker 16: a big stick, which is its threat of force or

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Speaker 16: threat of violence. And I firmly believe that that is

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Speaker 16: what is being intended and captured by the Second Amendment,

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Speaker 16: is that the American people, the citizen soldiery, would possess

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Speaker 16: that passive threat of violence, that force of arms. And

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Speaker 16: I think it accomplishes all three of those missions very

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Speaker 16: very effectively through a threat or a passive threat.

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Speaker 4: Wow, and certainly really really interesting. I do just want

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Speaker 4: to move on here quickly.

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Speaker 3: The militia's website, it says that the cornerstones seem to

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Speaker 3: be integrity, honor, and community. A community surely needs safety

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Speaker 3: and a bond in it to thrive.

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Speaker 4: You talk about having immediate.

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Speaker 3: Responders and your militia explain for us why that is

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Speaker 3: so important.

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Speaker 16: Sure, you know so for I don't know, fifteen, maybe

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Speaker 16: going on twenty years now, I've been involved in fire

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Speaker 16: and ems and you know, all of that first respond

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Speaker 16: or stuff, and that stuff is great and is very

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Speaker 16: very important. And I think that men in America who

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Speaker 16: are committed to being American and being Christian men should

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Speaker 16: be involved in stuff like that. But there's a difference

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Speaker 16: between first responders who can arrive in response to something

813
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Speaker 16: and immediate responders, and that's the people that are there

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Speaker 16: when something happens. And you know, the reality is we

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Speaker 16: live in a world where bad things do happen, and

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Speaker 16: I think that we as an Americans carry a responsibility

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Speaker 16: to be trained and equipped to deal with bad things

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Speaker 16: when they inevitably happen. And that, I think is really

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Speaker 16: a driving force behind the purpose of militia and of

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Speaker 16: the reason that it belongs at the local level as

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Speaker 16: opposed to you know, the organized militia being a state

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Speaker 16: level organization that it's a lot faster than some organizations,

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Speaker 16: but a lot slower than others, and being able to

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Speaker 16: mobilize and respond to a crisis in a community whereas

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Speaker 16: the people who live in that community, they're the immediate responders.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So on that note, you know, and this is

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Speaker 5: a perfect segue into my next question. When you look

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Speaker 5: at communities like Los Angeles and the recent fires, or

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Speaker 5: the Carolinas with the hurricanes, would these communities have been

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Speaker 5: better served by militias like your own that can be

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Speaker 5: a first line of rapid response rather than say, waiting

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Speaker 5: helplessly for FEMA.

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Speaker 16: Yes, absolutely, nonequivocally. In fact, I had a pretty large percentage.

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Speaker 16: I think we had one group that was about twenty five,

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Speaker 16: and then a whole bunch of smaller groups that were

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Speaker 16: down there extensively in North Carolina. I mean, we're Virginia,

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Speaker 16: We're not that far away, and spent an enormous amount

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Speaker 16: of time down there, and yeah, we're we're definitely able

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Speaker 16: to move, mobilize faster and honestly more efficiently than an organization,

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Speaker 16: a giant federal organization like FEMA can.

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Speaker 2: And you know, they very clearly dropped the ball in

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Speaker 2: a big way. So yes, you know, I'll be honest,

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 16: Really believe that it's the federal government's responsibility to handle that.

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Speaker 16: I think that we the people should be the ones

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Speaker 16: who are primarily concerned with and are going to be

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Speaker 16: the most dedicated to taking care of our fellow Americans

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Speaker 16: and our neighbors.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think President Trump would actually agree with you.

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Speaker 3: When he was in California, that's what he talked about.

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Speaker 3: He talked about potentially eliminating FEMA, having it be a

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Speaker 3: state response to natural disasters like that. I think it's

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Speaker 3: great that you guys sent some people to your fellow

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Speaker 3: state to help out. But you know, we've been talking

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Speaker 3: so much about these natural disasters.

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Speaker 4: What about when it comes to crime.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we've seen rampant crime ravage the United States

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Speaker 3: and a place like Chicago or New York for instance.

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Speaker 4: Do you think there's a need for.

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Speaker 3: Militias to aid police another law enforce agencies to protect citizens.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a community based enforcement at that point.

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Speaker 2: Right it is?

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Speaker 16: That that's kind of a tricky question. Article one, section

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Speaker 16: eight Colust fifteen does say that Congress shall call forth

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Speaker 16: the Militia to execute the laws of the Union. When

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Speaker 16: I hear that, I think, well, the supreme law of

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Speaker 16: the land is the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,

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Speaker 16: which is really law that applies to governments. Now, you know,

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Speaker 16: militia is not a law enforcement agency per se. You know,

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Speaker 16: we're not the sheriff's department, we're not the city police department,

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Speaker 16: we're not the Virginia State Police where none of those things.

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Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean.

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Speaker 16: That we can't help and assist those guys in in

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Speaker 16: doing their job. You know, can we Are we gonna

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Speaker 16: you know, suit up and go make arrests and no,

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Speaker 16: certainly not. But can we help out to you know,

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Speaker 16: maintain road closures or direct traffic? Yeah, we can absolutely

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Speaker 16: do that. Now, what about if you know, if we

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Speaker 16: look back to the U all the riots that we had,

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Speaker 16: you know previously, that's that's an enormous tax on law

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Speaker 16: enforcement and on law enforcement manpower. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 16: not law enforcement, but I am military. And you know,

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Speaker 16: one thing that I'm always thinking about if I'm deployed

884
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Speaker 16: or called out with the military is who's looking after

885
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Speaker 16: my family? Who's looking after my wife and my kids,

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Speaker 16: And I can't do law enforcement's job, but I can

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Speaker 16: certainly look after their wife and kids while they're doing

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Speaker 16: their job. Give them some freedom of maneuver, take one

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Speaker 16: thing off of their plate and off of their mind,

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Speaker 16: that they know that that my guys are looking after

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Speaker 16: their family that were you know, parked at the end

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Speaker 16: of the driveway or you know, at the corner of

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Speaker 16: the block or whatever, and that they've got cell phone

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Speaker 16: numbers for my guys, they can reach out to them immediately.

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Speaker 16: So there there are definitely areas that we can fill

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Speaker 16: in for law enforcement to help lighten the load a

897
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Speaker 16: little bit more. For fire and ems, we've actually done

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Speaker 16: a ton of that, you know, clear and roads cut

899
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Speaker 16: in trees and stuff like that for fire trucks and ambulances.

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Speaker 16: You know, really anytime we have a bad windstorm or

901
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Speaker 16: bad ice storm, we end up clearing roads for for

902
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Speaker 16: fire and ems, which you know is fantastic.

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Speaker 5: Well, we don't have a ton of time with you left,

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Speaker 5: but I do want to ask you this to look

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Speaker 5: at this with a different land lens. Let's hypothetically, what's

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Speaker 5: to say that a gang, for instance, considers itself a

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Speaker 5: well regulated militia that protects its turf from other warring gangs,

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Speaker 5: albeit rather violently. I think they would argue that they

909
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Speaker 5: are a militia, and surely they are well armed, no doubt.

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Speaker 5: But is that a constitutional militia as designed.

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Speaker 2: No, I would certainly say that it's not.

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Speaker 16: You know, one of the things that I think is

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Speaker 16: essential for an organization to be a constitutional militia, to

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Speaker 16: be well regulated, is that they are at least doggedly

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Speaker 16: pursuing a relationship with with local government, because you know,

916
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Speaker 16: we have this, we have this concept of America that

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Speaker 16: really our constitutional republic was built around, which is the

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Speaker 16: doctor of the lesser magistrate, and the idea there is

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Speaker 16: that power would reside at the lowest level where it's

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Speaker 16: most easily accessed by and most easily influenced by the people,

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Speaker 16: which should be county and city government. And so I

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Speaker 16: understand that there are some localities that have very liberal

923
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Speaker 16: local government and they're probably not going to be willing

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Speaker 16: to entertain the idea of having a relationship with with

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Speaker 16: constitutional militia. But I don't think that absolves militia of

926
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Speaker 16: the responsibility to be doggedly pursuing that relationship with their

927
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Speaker 16: local state and federal representatives. I think that's part of

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Speaker 16: what provides legitimacy, and it helps put the right people

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Speaker 16: in the right places. As far as leadership is to concern,

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Speaker 16: because you know, like we talked about that that idea

931
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Speaker 16: of threat of violence is a real power. And I

932
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Speaker 16: think it's of paramount importance that the finest men in

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Speaker 16: our community are those that lead those organizations and steer

934
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Speaker 16: those ships, because that's what prevents an abuse of power.

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Speaker 16: That your solid Christian men are the ones that are

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Speaker 16: leading those organizations. And I think those men are already identified.

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Speaker 16: They already sit on boards of supervisors and city councils

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Speaker 16: and our sheriffs and chiefs of fire departments and things

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Speaker 16: like that.

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Speaker 2: They're already leaders.

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Speaker 16: We just need to help them understand that they have

942
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Speaker 16: an additional responsibility when it comes to well regulated militia, which, incidentally,

943
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Speaker 16: well regulated militia is the only thing that the Constitution

944
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Speaker 16: or the Bill of Rights calls necessary.

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Speaker 2: It's the only organization that considers necessary.

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Speaker 5: Well, thank you Dan so much for your time, and

947
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Speaker 5: thank you for enlightening us on the concept of a

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Speaker 5: constitutional militia.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Dan, absolute pleasure.

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Speaker 5: Thank you guys, Thank you and thank you for watching

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Speaker 5: Special Report, and make sure you're following us on Getter

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Speaker 5: and all of our social media tomorrow. On the show,

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Speaker 5: Congressman Louis Gomer joins us, you won't want to miss it.

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Speaker 5: Stay tuned now for war Room, and we'll see you

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Speaker 5: tomorrow

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