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Speaker 1: You and I are filming this Sunday afternoon. Tonight's the

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Speaker 1: Holy cow, we're up to four now. So we had

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Speaker 1: that would be the Chinese by balloon that we were ignoring.

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Speaker 1: So that was number one. That one they shot down

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Speaker 1: espionage most of the way. The second one was one

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Speaker 1: Number one, you asked, has this been happening for a while? Yes. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: So let's be clear. The one we shot down we

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Speaker 1: most heavily concentrated in China. Look, could it conceivably be Russia? Possibly?

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Speaker 1: Are there other bad actors a North Korea and Iran

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Speaker 1: that would want to do this? Yes, I'm less confident

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Speaker 1: they have the capability. North Korea money off. North Korea

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Speaker 1: has put satellites, and they put satellites that have crossed

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Speaker 1: the United States multiple times. So I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's impossible that North Korea is trying this. Also, it

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Speaker 1: does seem make such a securely speculating here, So I

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Speaker 1: want to put that marker down that I know nothing

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Speaker 1: on that question other than what I've read in the

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Speaker 1: paper and then just speculating. Canada had a very interesting week.

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Speaker 1: They're heavily involved in this story. Then another story pops up.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be I think now clearly a rift between

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Speaker 1: Canada the US. You have illegal immigrants and are now

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Speaker 1: getting one way tickets to wherever they want to go.

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Speaker 1: That's how they're spinning at New York City. For all

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Speaker 1: the illegals that have been many of them bust there

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Speaker 1: and others have just shown up, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: them have been going to Canada. Now, Canada doesn't like it.

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Speaker 1: They don't like this idea that all these illegal immigrants

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Speaker 1: are coming into their country. The Mayor of New York

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Speaker 1: City is like, we're tired of dealing with him right

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Speaker 1: there their sanctuary city. Look at what he had to

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Speaker 1: say on TV. Those who are seeking to go somewhere else,

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Speaker 1: not we're pushing or forcing. If they're seeking to go

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Speaker 1: somewhere else. We are helping in the reticketing process of

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Speaker 1: what we found that people had other destinations, but they

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Speaker 1: would be compelled only to come to New York City.

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Speaker 1: And we are assisting an interviewing those who seek to

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Speaker 1: go somewhere else. Someone want to go to Canada, someone

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Speaker 1: wants to go to warmer states, and we are there

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Speaker 1: for them as they continue to move on with they

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Speaker 1: pursue up this dream. I wish reticketing center was this easy.

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Speaker 1: When I'm doing it with the aero lines, when I

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Speaker 1: get a flight that's canceled. I love how he's like,

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Speaker 1: it's like they're a travel agency in New York. Now,

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Speaker 1: So I want you to be clear that is a

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Speaker 1: liberal Democrat, yeah, who proudly proclaims New York City a

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Speaker 1: sanctuary city, a loving, welcoming sanctuary city, who says that

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Speaker 1: all the Republicans concerned about illegal immigration are mean, evil,

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Speaker 1: racist bigots, that it's terrible, it's heartless. And then when

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Speaker 1: Texas began sending illegal aliens to New York City, suddenly

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Speaker 1: he lost his lunch. He has been freaking out, demanding

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Speaker 1: federal dollars, demanding federal dollars, declaring, it's a crisis. We've

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Speaker 1: had five point five million people cross illegally since Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden became president, most of them in the state of Texas.

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Speaker 1: A few thousand go to New York City, and he's

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Speaker 1: practically reduced to a puddle of tears Martha's vineyard. Never

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Speaker 1: don't forget that they brought in fifty and they actually

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Speaker 1: called up more National Guardsmen to come deal with fifty

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Speaker 1: than the number of illegal immigrants that were shipped there.

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Speaker 1: So now the liberal Democrat mayor of New York City

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Speaker 1: is buying bus tickets and plane tickets to send illegal

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Speaker 1: immigrants in New York to Canada and send them by

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Speaker 1: the hundreds. And by the way, he's paying New York

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Speaker 1: City tax dollars to transport them out, to say, get

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Speaker 1: them the heck out of our city. Cheap earth in

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Speaker 1: the hotels they've been putting them in, and it is

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Speaker 1: fairly amazing. You know, Mayor Adams, I think as presidential aspirations,

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Speaker 1: he's not in the top tier of Democrats, but he's

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Speaker 1: looking at it. He's looking at it. He's ambitious. So

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Speaker 1: you can see as he's talking there to the reporters,

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Speaker 1: he's trying to walk the sort of fine line of Oh,

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Speaker 1: we want them all here, but here's the ticket, please leave,

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Speaker 1: please leave. And what's funny is like he's he's you know,

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Speaker 1: some of the people they're sending or people like from Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: I gotta say, sending someone from Venezuela to Canada. The

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Speaker 1: first winner they hit, Holy caw. That's a that's a

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Speaker 1: wake up and I will you know, as you know,

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Speaker 1: I was born in Canada and Calgary, and my parents

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Speaker 1: are the oil and gas business, and I came down

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Speaker 1: to Texas when I was four. My mom was American,

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Speaker 1: my dad was Cuban. I was an American citizen by birth,

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Speaker 1: but I came to America when I was four. And

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of liberals who are still pissed

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Speaker 1: at Canada and our poorous border for letting me in.

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Speaker 1: And so maybe this is the revenge is the mayor

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Speaker 1: of New York City circle right? You know you didn't

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Speaker 1: keep cruise in Canada, so we want to send all

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Speaker 1: of our illegal aliens to Canada. And what is interesting

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Speaker 1: is listen, Justin Trudeau and the Canadians have all of

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Speaker 1: this rhetoric about how we love illegal immigrants too, and

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Speaker 1: their view is changing as knowing that they're going to

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Speaker 1: change the way they did immigration with the United States

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Speaker 1: of America and how they're going to secure their border

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Speaker 1: if they do that, there's a high level of partners.

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Speaker 1: There's an old line that a conservative is a liberal

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Speaker 1: who got mugged. And what is fascinating is all of

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Speaker 1: these lefties love illegal immigration until it shows up on

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Speaker 1: the door of their country club, and then they lose

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Speaker 1: their minds. Governor Abbott, I know you've known him for years.

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Speaker 1: You guys have worked together, a close friend. He took

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Speaker 1: a lot of heat when he started busting illegal immigrants

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Speaker 1: to Washington. See when they into New York City, to

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Speaker 1: Martha's Vineyard and I, and they said it was a

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Speaker 1: stunt and it was mean spirit, and I said, it's

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Speaker 1: not a stunt. It's brilliant to let the left understand

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Speaker 1: what we're dealing with on a very very small scale,

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Speaker 1: Like you said, five million plus crossings in Texas. You

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Speaker 1: look at the numbers under this administration, they've hit every

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Speaker 1: record basically you can hit on the number of legals

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Speaker 1: come across, the number of legals caught, the number of

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Speaker 1: legals that are apprehended, the number of illegals that have

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Speaker 1: criminal records that are caught. They've blown every record out

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Speaker 1: of the water. Is there a tide do you think

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Speaker 1: turning in this country in general on this issue? Finally? Oh, look,

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Speaker 1: I think it's an issue the American people are overwhelmingly

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Speaker 1: unhappy with the chaos at the southern border South Texas.

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Speaker 1: They're incredibly unhappy. It's an issue that if you look

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Speaker 1: to the substance, the Democrats can't defend. Their only defense

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Speaker 1: is hoping the media ignores it. And I do think

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Speaker 1: there are some Democrats who realize that it's dangerous for

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Speaker 1: them politically, But I think the reality is they've handed

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Speaker 1: their agenda over to the extremes and the extremes on

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Speaker 1: this issue want open borders. They look at every one

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Speaker 1: of those people coming in as a Democrat voter and

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Speaker 1: they want them all in. And so I wish I

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Speaker 1: were optimistic that things are going to get better in

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Speaker 1: the next two years, and I'm not. I think this

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Speaker 1: administration is going to continue to do everything they can,

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Speaker 1: not just to fail to secure the border, but to

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Speaker 1: speed up illegal immigration, to facilitate it, to act as

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Speaker 1: the last mine. I look, Joe Biden is the biggest

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Speaker 1: human trafficker in the world. And I said that a

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Speaker 1: it made a bunch of press statements. But listen, that's

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Speaker 1: not political rhetoric. That is an objective fact. There is

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Speaker 1: no human being on planet Earth who has trafficked more people,

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Speaker 1: more children, more women, more people who are vulnerable than

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Speaker 1: get to New York City and the last last mile

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Speaker 1: that's Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden has gone on offense. We

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Speaker 1: they by China because the family's business deals. There's new

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Speaker 1: polling out that says there was sixty four percent of

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Speaker 1: Americans believe that Joe Biden's involved with his son's business

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Speaker 1: dealings and it could put them in a negative, basically

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Speaker 1: You better stop seeing these Dan balloons. So you now

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Speaker 1: have the House looking into all this. When you see

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Speaker 1: all these different areas coming together, how big of a

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Speaker 1: deal do you think the story can become? Well, look,

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Speaker 1: if sixty four percent of Americans believe Joe Biden was

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Speaker 1: involved in his son's business dealings, then thirty six percent

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Speaker 1: of Americans either aren't paying attention or are such partisans

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Speaker 1: obvious that Joe Biden was involved and quite possibly deeply

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Speaker 1: involved in Hunter's business dealings. Hunter's business, I believe was

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Speaker 1: lucrative business. Now, I will say the whole investigation in

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Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden has taken an interesting turn because we

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Speaker 1: talked about the last podcast how Hunters lawyers getting very aggressive,

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Speaker 1: They also took an odd stance. So the House Oversight Committee,

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Speaker 1: James Kohmer is the chairman of it, sent a request

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Speaker 1: documents that they're examining, and Hunter's lawyer wrote back and

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Speaker 1: essentially said, go jump in a lake. Screw you, We're

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Speaker 1: not doing it. You don't get no frigging documents for me,

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Speaker 1: and it's across the board. It's just hell no. I

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Speaker 1: think that was a really stupid move for Hunter Biden's

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Speaker 1: legal team. It's stupid politically and it's stupid legally. Why

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Speaker 1: what's going to happen next? What's going to happen next?

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Speaker 1: And I think this will be in a matter of days,

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Speaker 1: if not weeks. Is you're going to see the House

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Speaker 1: Oversight Committee subpoena those documents. And if and when Hunter

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Speaker 1: Biden defies the subpoena, which is what he said he's

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Speaker 1: going to do, I think you will see the House

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Speaker 1: of Representatives hold Hunter Biden in contempt. And the reason

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Speaker 1: that is I think such a massive strategic mistake on

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Speaker 1: their part is during the prior administration, when the House

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Speaker 1: subpoenaed Steve Bannon, and Steve Bannon refused to comply and

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Speaker 1: the House held him in contempt. What happened The Department

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Speaker 1: of Justice prosecuted Steve Bannon for that contempt, arrested him,

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Speaker 1: arrested him, prosecuted, and brought criminal charges. What Hunter Biden's

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Speaker 1: legal team is setting up for is the same thing

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Speaker 1: to happen to Hunter Biden. And if you're Merrick Garland,

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Speaker 1: how the hell do you explain? Well, when Steve Bannon

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Speaker 1: know about. We should bring light to it. It's one

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Speaker 1: that I think is really interesting. It goes back over years.

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Speaker 1: It deals with the country. You have ties to your

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Speaker 1: father leaving Cuba and an individual out of Cuba and

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Speaker 1: the possible renaming of a street after his name in Washington, DC.

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Speaker 1: This is pretty interesting. No one's talking about the media,

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Speaker 1: so let's talk about why this matters and why you're

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Speaker 1: working on this. Sure. So as wald Upaya was a

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Speaker 1: democracy activists in Cuba. He is a hero. He was

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Speaker 1: someone who stood up against the Castro regime. He had

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Speaker 1: incredible courage. He spoke up for human rights, he spoke

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Speaker 1: up for free speech, he spoke up for democracy, and

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Speaker 1: he was murdered. He was murdered by the Castro communist

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Speaker 1: July twenty, twenty twelve, there was a very suspicious car

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Speaker 1: crash where outside observers it seems clear the Cuban police

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Speaker 1: basically drove his car off the off the road and

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Speaker 1: killed him. Wow. I've met multiple times with his daughter,

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Speaker 1: Rosa Maria and one of the things that I've done

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Speaker 1: is I've filed legislation to rename the street in Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. In front of the Cuban Embassy Oswaldo Paya Way. Now,

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Speaker 1: a couple of things are interesting on this one. Oddly enough,

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Speaker 1: in the last ten years, I've actually had a strange

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Speaker 1: body of work, legislative work and legislative success on street namings. Now,

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Speaker 1: how is that. Let me go back to the first one.

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Speaker 1: The first one that happened was when you're by the

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Speaker 1: way when you Reinforsted. I'm sure you never thought that

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Speaker 1: was going to be something one would work on ithim

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Speaker 1: to be very successful one. Well, so the first one

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Speaker 1: that happened, You're right, I would not have thought. That

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Speaker 1: was back about eight years ago. I think it was

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen and I was dealing with China and I

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Speaker 1: introduced legislation to rename the street in front of the

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Speaker 1: Chinese embassy Lujabo Plaza. Lujabo was a Nobel Peace Laureate,

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Speaker 1: was a democracy activist in China. He was wrongfully imprisoned

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Speaker 1: in China, and my legislation was to rename the street

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Speaker 1: in front of him. I actually got the idea this

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Speaker 1: was not Maybe it was a hairbrained idea, but it

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Speaker 1: was hairbrained. It was not my hairbrained idea. It was

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Speaker 1: actually Ronald Reagan's hairbrained idea. So during the Cold War,

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Speaker 1: Reagan renamed the street in front of the Soviet embassy

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Speaker 1: Sakarov Plaza, after the famed human rights and dissident Sakarov

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Speaker 1: in the Soviet Union, and it was it was part

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Speaker 1: of a broader strategy of winning the Cold War, of

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Speaker 1: calling out the evil Empire. My strategy was the same

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Speaker 1: on China. And look, on some level you might think,

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Speaker 1: all right, a street name, it's not that big a deal,

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Speaker 1: But then pause and think about it. If you change

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Speaker 1: the street name, it means anyone who wants to write

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Speaker 1: to the Chinese embassy has to write to that address,

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Speaker 1: has to write lu Java Plaza. So you have to

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Speaker 1: acknowledge that lu Java exists, that this dissident, this nobel

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Speaker 1: laureate who's been wrongfully in prison, that he is real.

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Speaker 1: You know, you've got someone who wants to go find

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Speaker 1: the embassy. You got to go on Google or map

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Speaker 1: quest and look for it. You get the address, or

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Speaker 1: if you have a meeting there, you know the website,

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Speaker 1: the Chinese website. If they want to put their damn address,

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Speaker 1: they have to acknowledge the name of the dissident. It's why,

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Speaker 1: It's why Reagan did it. It's powerful. So what happened

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Speaker 1: with lu jabal Plaza is I introduced legislation. I went

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Speaker 1: to the Senate floor and sought to pass it by

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Speaker 1: unanimous consent. Diane Feinstein stood up and objected, and we

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Speaker 1: had a debate on the Senate floor. And Di Fi,

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Speaker 1: by the way, everyone calls her Difi's that's the nickname

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Speaker 1: she has. Difi stood up. She said, you don't understand this.

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Speaker 1: This will make the Chinese government angry. And I laughed.

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Speaker 1: I said, no, no, I actually I do understand. That's

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Speaker 1: a feature, not a bug. That is the objective is

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Speaker 1: to force them to confront they're horrific evil. Well, she objected.

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Speaker 1: I tried it again, tried to pass about unanimous consent.

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Speaker 1: She objected again. And so what I did, and this

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Speaker 1: is now twenty fifteen, is I put a hold on

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Speaker 1: every state department nominee, stopped them all. The Obama administration

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Speaker 1: was freaking out because they wanted their state department nominees

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Speaker 1: to move forward. I had holds on all of them.

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Speaker 1: They came to me. They said, how can we get

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Speaker 1: you to lift the holds. I said, very easy, get

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Speaker 1: Difi to lift or hold pass my bill. They said no,

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Speaker 1: no, no no, no, we don't want to do that. I said, okay.

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Speaker 1: They said, how about't we just pass a resolution, this

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Speaker 1: non binding. I said, no, pass my bill. Finally they blinked.

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Speaker 1: The Obama White House went to Diane Feinstein, leaned on her,

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Speaker 1: got her to withdraw her objection. So my legislation passes

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Speaker 1: the Senate one hundred to nothing, unanimously passes. I'd say,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think anyone would be on the wrong side

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Speaker 1: of that. So two epilogues to that story. Epilogue number one.

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Speaker 1: Did it pass into law? No? Why? Maddeningly because the

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Speaker 1: Republican House of Representatives wouldn't take it up and pass it. Wow.

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Speaker 1: We passed it through a Democrat Senate, but the Republican

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Speaker 1: House wouldn't take it up. It was infuriating, so it

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Speaker 1: didn't pass. And I will say I had some harsh

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Speaker 1: words for the Republicans involved in not taking it up

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Speaker 1: at the House at the time that I expressed very

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Speaker 1: directly to them. But the second epilog, and this is

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Speaker 1: very interesting beginning of the Trump administration. Twenty seventeen. I'm

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Speaker 1: having breakfast with Rex Tillers in the new Secretary of State.

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Speaker 1: I'm at foggy bottom in the State Department, and we're

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Speaker 1: talking about a whole host of issues, and we're talking

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Speaker 1: about China. And he said that he had just had

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Speaker 1: a meeting with his counterpart, the foreign minister in China.

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Speaker 1: And he said they came and they said they had

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Speaker 1: three top priorities at the time, foreign policy priorities. And

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Speaker 1: he said, ted is the damnedest thing. One of their

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Speaker 1: top three priorities is to stop you from passing your

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Speaker 1: legislation to rename the street in front of their embassy.

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Speaker 1: He's like, I think it's idiotic, but that's what they list.

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Speaker 1: And I laughed. I thought it actually speaks volumes about

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Speaker 1: the weakness of a tyrannical regime, just how vulnerable they

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Speaker 1: are to sunshine, to being called out. But what I

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Speaker 1: told Rex at the time, I said, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: So at the time, Luja Beau had passed away, he

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Speaker 1: was no longer alive, but his widow, lu Shah was

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Speaker 1: still in China. They wouldn't let her go. And actually,

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Speaker 1: Lucia Bou was entitled to I think it's like one

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Speaker 1: point four million dollars for winning the Nobel Peace Prize

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Speaker 1: as a cash prize that comes with it. They'd never

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Speaker 1: gotten it because they wouldn't let him out of China. Wow.

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Speaker 1: So I told Rex, I said, I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: you tell China if they release Lucia, if they let

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Speaker 1: her leave, I'll stop pushing this. And I said, make

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Speaker 1: me the bad guy, but you tell them. If they don't,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to keep pushing it, I'm going to pass

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Speaker 1: it and get it done. And I said, listen, I've

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Speaker 1: already passed the Senate one hundred and nothing once and

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Speaker 1: so you can let them know I'll get it done

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Speaker 1: this time, and they're going to see this law pass

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Speaker 1: in the law and the sign changed. A couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks later, they released Lucia. So the streets Sign literally

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Speaker 1: resulted in freeing a prominent democracy producy. Yeah. So that's

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Speaker 1: street Sign Legislative Portfolio number one. Here's Legislative Portfolio number two.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever see the movie Hidden Figures? Oh? Yeah, awesome,

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Speaker 1: fabulous movie. Yeah. Hidden Figures is about the African American

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Speaker 1: women who worked at NASA, who if you've never seen

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Speaker 1: the movie, everybody should watch. It's unbelievable, true story. It's

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Speaker 1: a true story. They're mathematicians who help help NASA go

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Speaker 1: to the moon. And so I took I took Heidie

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Speaker 1: to see it. I took both our daughters to see it,

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Speaker 1: and I took my mother to see it. So all

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Speaker 1: of them we went in Houston together to the theater

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Speaker 1: to see it. And afterwards I was talking with my

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Speaker 1: girls and it was an interesting interesting time. Number one,

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Speaker 1: so first time they'd seen a movie that showed segregation.

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Speaker 1: Like there's a great scene where you know, they had

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Speaker 1: tragically segregated bathrooms and Kevin Costner gets a sledgehammer and

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Speaker 1: slams down and knocks down the sign that says color restrooms,

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Speaker 1: knocks it down and it's and I remember my girls

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Speaker 1: were like so puzzled, Why would why would we do that.

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Speaker 1: We had a very good, long conversation about the tragic

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Speaker 1: history of segregation, but they'd never seen it depicted the movie,

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Speaker 1: But we were also talking about So my mother, she

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Speaker 1: came out of Rice in nineteen fifty six and she

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Speaker 1: went to work at Shell as a computer programmer. She

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Speaker 1: was a mathematician, a computer programmer, but then she went

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Speaker 1: to work at the Smithsonian. And the opening scene of

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Speaker 1: the movie Hidden Figures, they're computing the trajectory of Sputnik,

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Speaker 1: the Russian satellite launched that started the whole space race.

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Speaker 1: When my mother was at the Smithsonian, one of her

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Speaker 1: job responsibilities was writing the computer program or helping write

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Speaker 1: the computer program to track the orbit of Sputnik. Wow.

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Speaker 1: And so I told our girls, I said, Mimi, They

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Speaker 1: of those pioneering mathematicians and computer programmers, and she was

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Speaker 1: actually doing it ten years earlier. She was doing it

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Speaker 1: in the fifties, whereas the movie said in the sixties.

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Speaker 1: So it's ten years later. And I asked my mom,

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Speaker 1: And she thought it was very realistic, just sort of

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Speaker 1: the challenges women faced in that era in science and

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Speaker 1: computers and math. And I told her, I said, you know, Mom,

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Speaker 1: one of the things that I thought sounded weird just

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Speaker 1: to the modern ear was they referred to these women

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Speaker 1: as as computers. Yeah, and we think of a computer

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Speaker 1: as a hunk of metal. They were actually the women.

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Speaker 1: It was a job of profession, a computing of the numbers,

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Speaker 1: and my mother laughed. Her very first job title at

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Speaker 1: Shell was computer and she had a business card that

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Speaker 1: said eleanor Dara Computer. And so it's for years. I

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Speaker 1: was the chairman of the Space Subcommittee of the Senate

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Speaker 1: Commerce Committee, and so I'm very active in space. I

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Speaker 1: passed a lot of space legislation. So I introduced legislation

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Speaker 1: to rename the street in front of NASA headquarters Hidden

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Speaker 1: Figures Way. That's awesome. Now it gets even more interesting.

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Speaker 1: I introduced the legislation, and oddly enough, a Democrat member

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Speaker 1: of the DC City Council sees my legislation and thinks

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Speaker 1: this is a really good idea, so he introduces it

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Speaker 1: in the DC City Council. The City Council passes it,

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Speaker 1: and so if you go today to the NASA headquarters,

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Speaker 1: it is on one Hidden Figure's Way. And I have

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Speaker 1: in my office the streets sign, the actual street sign,

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Speaker 1: another a replica copy of it. But I went to

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Speaker 1: the dedication and I spoke at the dedication. The dedication,

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Speaker 1: the DC City Council members of Democrat spoke and I spoke,

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Speaker 1: I talked about my mom, and I said, look, on

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Speaker 1: one level, you might think of KA street sign not

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Speaker 1: that big a deal. But at another level, fifty years

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Speaker 1: from now, one hundred years from now, some little girls,

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Speaker 1: some little boy is going to come to DC, is

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Speaker 1: going to want to see the NASA headquarters and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna look up and see the sign. I'm gonna say,

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Speaker 1: what is that? What is hidden figures what is? And

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Speaker 1: they're going to hear the story of these heroes, these

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Speaker 1: African American women who never got recognized in history, who

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Speaker 1: did something historic. So that is done and accomplished, which

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Speaker 1: leads us back to where we started this whole thing,

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Speaker 1: which is Oswaldo Payahweh. So I introduced that legislation last Congress,

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Speaker 1: and much like Lujabau, it passed the Senate one hundred

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Speaker 1: to nothing. So it's bipartisan legislation. Bob Menendez, Democrat from

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, Cuban American, he's joined with me. So it's

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Speaker 1: the Cruise Menendez legislation. It passed the Senate one hundred

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Speaker 1: to nothing. In the last Congress. It was a Democrat Congress.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't get the House to pass it. I've got

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Speaker 1: real optimism number one, Bob, and are going to pass

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Speaker 1: it again in the Senate. I believe we did it

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Speaker 1: last Congress, so I think it's quite likely, and I

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Speaker 1: think there's a very good chance the House will pass

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Speaker 1: at this time too. I hope. I hope too. Just

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Speaker 1: like I was at NASA for the dedication, I hope

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Speaker 1: to be at the Cuban Embassy, which I've never been

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Speaker 1: to in DC. I'm not a fan of the Cuban government,

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Speaker 1: but I will happily attend the dedication of the street

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Speaker 1: sign so that every day those communist bastards go into

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Speaker 1: work can look at us Waldo Paya and have to

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Speaker 1: confront the courage of standing up for freedom. It's such

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Speaker 1: a cool story. Keep us update on it. I love

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