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Speaker 2: about that. But first, as we reconsider who the members

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Speaker 1: The Texas redistricting case which is now at the US

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Speaker 2: The new maps. Yep, that's the law.

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Speaker 4: A clear signal would be an extension of Justice Alito's

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Speaker 2: Michael American, I've been announcing almost fifty that they will

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Speaker 3: I've been more than Michael good to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: How is Congress different than you expected it? And what

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Speaker 3: I would probably say some of the biggest challenges up here.

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Speaker 5: Two teams battling for both a conference championship title and

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Speaker 5: Simmons has it at the fifteen yard line. All right,

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Speaker 5: a little bit of breaking news here. We'll get you

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Speaker 5: While you're away, Simmons had the Return of the year,

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll get you back out to the Game

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Speaker 5: But first, another source has just confirmed that fried catfish

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Speaker 5: This time, the Wildcats scored a touchdown and the Bulldogs

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Speaker 5: The Game of the Year, it's over on espno show

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Speaker 2: Yes, you gotta love the passion of the college football fan. Well,

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Speaker 2: Who are one and eleven on the year. This is

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Speaker 2: Happened in Washington, d C. Were a man named Ramanuala

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Speaker 2: a different approach to crimes of passion, crimes of immediacy.

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Speaker 2: If a spouse walks in the door to change clothes

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Speaker 2: and his wife is laid up under another man and

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Speaker 2: he proceeds to blast him, that is, or at least historically,

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Speaker 2: has been treated very differently because the crime of passion,

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Speaker 2: he's raging. You know, a person is unreasonable at that moment.

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Speaker 2: They're not is my grandmother say not at his self,

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Speaker 2: but this was clearly a level of premeditation and plan.

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Speaker 2: That's a long way to drive, That's a very long

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Speaker 2: way to drive, and to do so over forty hours.

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Speaker 2: You've got a level of hate in your heart to

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Speaker 2: sustain you and drive you literally and figuratively that distance

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Speaker 2: to carry out this crime. And for what what do

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Speaker 2: you gain? So this individual, Lachenwall from Afghanistan, was in

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Speaker 2: the US under a humanitarian parole as part of the

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Speaker 2: Biden administration's Operation Allies Welcome Home, part of the botched

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Speaker 2: withdrawal of the Forever War in Afghanistan that President Trump

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Speaker 2: extricated us from. He said, we're not continuing in the

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Speaker 2: forever wars. Dick Cheney, Dan Crenshaw, Lindsey Graham, all of

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Speaker 2: you neocons who love wars that continue forever. We did

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Speaker 2: this in Vietnam, we did this in Iraq. We're not

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Speaker 2: going to stay there. We're getting out. We're not accomplishing anything.

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Speaker 2: Your sons were being killed in Afghanistan. Now, how long

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Speaker 2: did we need to be there? Did we need to

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Speaker 2: be there at all? Well, we had to get Osama

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Speaker 2: bin Laden. He was in Pakistan so why were they

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Speaker 2: there so that the major defense contractors could get rich?

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Speaker 2: Was that byproduct a glitch in a system or was

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Speaker 2: it by design? Either way, it happened, and those individuals

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Speaker 2: have great influence on Capitol Hill. So you stay in

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Speaker 2: Afghanistan for decades, and when you're there, your men are

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Speaker 2: at great risk, and so they have to learn to adapt.

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Speaker 2: They have to build friendships. Some cases you buy friendships,

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Speaker 2: but certainly you build friendships because you need help from

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Speaker 2: locals for protection or assistance for guidance. Where are the

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Speaker 2: bad guys? Where are the terror cells? Now? If you

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Speaker 2: don't involve yourself in forever wars, you don't have to

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Speaker 2: make deals with the devil, because, as it turns out,

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Speaker 2: many of those people who are perceived to be allies

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Speaker 2: turned out simply to hate the Taliban but are part

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Speaker 2: of their own group. In any case, I've never understood

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Speaker 2: the desire to relocate these people into the United States.

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Speaker 2: But at least if you were going to you'd be

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Speaker 2: very restrictive and you would ensure that the people who

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Speaker 2: you brought here were not terrorists themselves, so that now

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Speaker 2: not only are your men fighting them in Kandahar. Hell

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Speaker 2: Mood province, the mountains and valleys and the sand and

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Speaker 2: the dirt. Not only are you battling them there as

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Speaker 2: warriors in combat, you're bringing at least some of them

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Speaker 2: to this country. We were assured by Jen Psaki at

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Speaker 2: the time that no, no, not, these were carefully vetted.

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Speaker 2: Biden administration made sure that only the best, those who

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Speaker 2: helped our men. We owed them that there are our allies.

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Speaker 2: It has emerged during this administration and a revelation through

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Speaker 2: review of the files that no, in fact, they weren't vetted.

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Speaker 2: Lots of people were just scooped up. So we've seen

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Speaker 2: rashes of rape and pedophilia, violence and terrorism breakout. Surprise,

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Speaker 2: A low IQ individual who is illiterate, didn't speak English,

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Speaker 2: but very well trained in the hard, scrabbled dirt war

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Speaker 2: that he has lived for ten generations. That's all Afghanistan

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Speaker 2: has ever been his war. Why they can't develop anything?

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Speaker 2: They're actually pretty darn good at it. Ask the British

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Speaker 2: er read Kipling's poem about an Englishman dying in the

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Speaker 2: Afghan desert. Ask the Russians who when they engage the Mujahadeen,

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Speaker 2: The Russians didn't just kill their men when they captured

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Speaker 2: them in the middle of the battlefield, they would drag

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Speaker 2: them back to their side, cut their wiener off, strip

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Speaker 2: them down naked, and push them back out go run

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Speaker 2: to the other side. And so the Russians would have

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Speaker 2: to watch their men come running out, spurting blood, psychological

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Speaker 2: pain of what's happening butt naked. Do you just stand

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Speaker 2: there and let your buddy you leave him behind, or

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Speaker 2: do you rush out to grab him and bring him

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Speaker 2: back so that you expose yourself and they can kill you.

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Speaker 2: It's very harsh people. And so you started asking questions, well, well,

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Speaker 2: how did this happen? How do we relocate so many

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Speaker 2: of these people? The neo cons A few Republican senators

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Speaker 2: voted for it, Lindsey Graham, John Kennedy, and of course

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Speaker 2: John Cornyn. What about members of Congress? Two Democrats are

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Speaker 2: on record official letters to majorcas to accelerate the program

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Speaker 2: and not just bring them back. They didn't bring them

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Speaker 2: to DC, they didn't bring them to some other where America.

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Speaker 2: You had two Republicans from the Greater Houston area on

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Speaker 2: the record with a letter pushing to relocate these people.

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Speaker 2: The kind of people who shoot these national guardsmen, but

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Speaker 2: that's not the only ground. That was Democrat Sylvia Garth

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Speaker 2: and surprise Republican Dan Crenshaw. Because Dan Crenshaw loves people

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Speaker 2: from Afghanistan and other countries. He loves to send money

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Speaker 2: to Ukraine, but don't ask him to defend our country

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Speaker 2: from the illegal invaders at our border where he was

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Speaker 2: supposed to be chairing the committee when he came back

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Speaker 2: from Mexico for what reason.

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Speaker 3: Again,