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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Gerber, the pulse of the people. We need

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Speaker 1: America's Voice Live starts now. Welcome to America's Voice Live.

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Speaker 1: I'm Terrence bateson for Steve Gruber. It is what is today?

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Speaker 1: Today is Wednesday the sixteenth, So good to see you.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get it right into today's top stories.

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Speaker 1: President Trump addresses concerns about the Epstein List, calling it

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Speaker 1: a hoax brought on by Democrats. While some are calling

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Speaker 1: for full transparency, other want to move on to other

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Speaker 1: more pressing issues. So what do you the American people

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Speaker 1: think about all of this? Plus, the Senate could vote

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Speaker 1: on President Trump's recisions package as soon as today. I

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Speaker 1: had a tax expert joins US to discuss what cutting

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Speaker 1: more than nine billion dollars in federal spending means for you,

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Speaker 1: the taxpayer. And then later President Trump secures another round

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Speaker 1: of investments for America, paving the way for American energy

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Speaker 1: dominance coming out the latest from Tuesday's High Powered Energy

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Speaker 1: and Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. First, though, do the

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Speaker 1: dollars being spent on USAID and PBS makes sense? Happening

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Speaker 1: right now? The US Senate is debating President Trump's more

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Speaker 1: than nine billion dollar recisions package aimed at rolling back

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Speaker 1: wasteful government spending. However, after three Senate Republicans voted against

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Speaker 1: the measure getting out of committee, Vice President JB. Vance

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Speaker 1: had to step in Tuesday night and break the fifty

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Speaker 1: to fifty tie. The proposal claus back billions of dollars

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Speaker 1: in previously appropriated funding to the aforementioned agencies and more.

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Speaker 1: A marathon session of amendments and votes is expected to

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Speaker 1: this is Congressman Rudy Yackham of Indiana's second congressional District Congressman,

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Speaker 1: good to see you. Appreciate you taking out some time

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Speaker 2: Terrence, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Of course, always a pleasure. So I'm curious what your

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Speaker 1: they're working their way through this Decisions package.

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Speaker 3: Well, from my perspective, the most ideal scenario is that

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Speaker 3: the Senate passes the package as his and it goes straight.

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Speaker 2: To the President's desk.

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Speaker 3: Of course, if they make any amendments to that package,

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Speaker 3: you will have to come back to the House. We

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Speaker 3: will then absolutely pass that package and send it to

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Speaker 3: the President's desk.

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Speaker 2: So we will get this Recisions package done.

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Speaker 3: Because let's be clear, the nine billion dollars that is

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of the money to the Hoosiers that

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Speaker 3: I represent back in Indiana Second District. Most Americans feel

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Speaker 3: that the federal government is actually too big and we

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Speaker 1: It does just that this Recisions package. While it makes

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Speaker 1: symbolic really kind of laying out a groundwork for future

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Speaker 1: cuts and for really making sure that you and your

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Speaker 3: Well, we need to be responsible stewards of the American

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Speaker 2: We take their money, and so we have to be

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Speaker 3: This first nine billion dollars, which is ninety billion over

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Speaker 2: So this first one is a bit of a test.

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Speaker 3: We've got to get it done over there in the Senate,

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Speaker 2: Our hope is that the President will send us another

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Speaker 1: Okay, say this this does pass, which I think most

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Speaker 3: Well, of course, on these things, the crystal balls can

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Speaker 2: But my hope would be that we go even bigger

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Speaker 3: Fraud, and abuse inside of the federal government that just

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Speaker 2: It is the recisions process.

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Speaker 3: And so my hope would be that when we get

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Speaker 1: All right, I understand you've had a pretty busy day

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Speaker 1: already that you actually introduced a new bill today that

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Speaker 1: Explain that to us a little bit and what motivated it.

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Speaker 3: Well, what this particular bill does is it says that

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Speaker 3: Hoosiers that I represent, they shouldn't have to pay for

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Speaker 2: They shouldn't have collect unemployment benefits.

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Speaker 3: And so what this bill does is called the Shield

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Speaker 3: Act HR forty four to twenty four. It says that

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Speaker 3: unemployment benefits. You're welcome to go on strike, that's fine,

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Speaker 3: but you can't collect unemployment benefits while you're on strike.

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Speaker 1: I suspect that's probably not going to go over well

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Speaker 3: Well, again, labor unions are okay going on strike, but

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Speaker 3: Working Americans should not have to pay for other Americans

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Speaker 3: it should be controversial. I just think it's common sense.

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Speaker 1: No, it sounds common sense to me, we'll see what

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Speaker 1: kind of tracks your bill gets. Appreciate you filing that.

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Speaker 1: Before I let you go, I've got to ask you

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Speaker 1: if you will your take.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, My general take is that Americans deserve transparency. I'm

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Speaker 3: I released the files. We should have transparency along the way.

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Speaker 3: I'm a big believe in that. And you know, whatever's

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Speaker 3: from there. But I just generally believe that Americans deserve

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Speaker 1: Are you buying the d OJ's argument that there's nothing

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know yet.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that it's time to fully move on yet.

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Speaker 3: But again, I just think that we should have transparency.

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Speaker 3: That's what I ran on. That's what a number of

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Speaker 3: let's just be transparent, let's be accountable. Americans deserve and

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Speaker 3: want a government that's transparent and accountable, and that's what

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Speaker 2: You know, when we should shine lights on.

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Speaker 3: Things where there's a lack of clarity, where things are opaque, we.

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Speaker 2: Should just you know, again, just be transparent. That's what

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Speaker 1: Congressman Yackam. We appreciate your time. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Darreuch for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. Sir. All right, folks, Well, if you're

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Speaker 1: when we come back. President Trump making headlines today, as

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Speaker 1: in the Oval Office, the Commander in Chief calling the

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Speaker 4: It's been run by the Democrats for four years. You

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Speaker 4: had Christopher Ray and these characters and call me before him,

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Speaker 4: and it's a bad group. It started actually at the

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Speaker 4: Steele Dussier that turned out to be a total hoax.

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Speaker 4: The fifty one Agency intelligence so called intelligence agents, was

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Speaker 4: a hoax. It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated

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Speaker 1: However, the President is in support of Attorney General Pam

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Speaker 1: Bondi releasing what he calls credible files on the case.

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Speaker 1: Here with me to discuss is the executive executive editor,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, of the Washington Examiner magazine, Jim Ansell. Jim,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon, Good to be here with you. All right,

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Speaker 1: So what do you make of the President's assertion there

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Speaker 4: to get the drugs in and it's incredible, but we've

437
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Speaker 4: stopped them. I've also directed the Department of Justice to

438
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Speaker 4: seek maximum sentences for fentanyl traffickers.

439
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Speaker 7: Who're going to absolutely do the maximum.

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Speaker 4: Since my inauguration, the DOJ has seized over four five

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Speaker 4: hundred pounds of fentanyl, which is a record, including with

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Speaker 4: the enormous Sineloa cartel bust in May, one of the

443
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Speaker 4: toughest cartels out there, the largest fentanyl bust ever in

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Speaker 4: the United States history, And now with the signing of

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Speaker 4: the Halt Fentanyl Act in just a few moments, we

446
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Speaker 4: are delivering another defeat for the savage drug smugglers and

447
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Speaker 4: criminals and the cartels who have a tremendous amount to

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Speaker 4: say about Mexico.

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Speaker 7: If you want to be nice about it, I'm trying

450
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Speaker 7: to be nice about it.

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Speaker 4: They have very strong controls of a Mexico and we

452
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Speaker 4: have to do something about that. Can't let that happen.

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Speaker 4: The Mexican authorities are petrified. They're petrified to show up

454
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Speaker 4: at their office, they're petrified to go to work because

455
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 4: the cartols cartels have a tremendous grip on Mexico and

456
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Speaker 4: the politicians and the people that get elected. For years,

457
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Speaker 4: the Monsters who manufacture illicit fentanyl have sought to skirt

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Speaker 4: legal restrictions by making minor variations of the chemical compound,

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Speaker 4: and in the process, they've developed even more toxic versions

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Speaker 4: of the drug. One common variant, known as car fentanyl,

461
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Speaker 4: is a very it's becoming more and more common. It's

462
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Speaker 4: one hundred times more potent than the original version of fentanyl.

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Speaker 4: Can you imagine look at what you have to suffer

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Speaker 4: with the original. I mean, this is one hundred times

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Speaker 4: more potent. And it's happening stronger, stronger.

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Speaker 7: More and more and more and more dangerous as you know.

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Speaker 4: And I have a very good relationship with Presidency of China,

468
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Speaker 4: but I imposed a twenty percent tariff on China because

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Speaker 4: of the fentanyl, and I call it a penalty. It's

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Speaker 4: a penalty because China delivers much of the fentanyl.

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Speaker 7: Some people would say all of it.

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Speaker 4: They deliver it into Mexico and even into our own country.

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Speaker 4: We have a twenty percent, so they pay billions of

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Speaker 4: dollars and billions of dollars and damages for what they've done.

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Speaker 4: And I think we're going to work it out so

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Speaker 4: that China is going to end up going from that

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Speaker 4: to giving the death penalty to the people that create

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Speaker 4: this fentanyl and send it into our country, whether it's

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Speaker 4: through other countries or directly.

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Speaker 7: I believe that we would have had that deal long

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Speaker 7: time ago.

482
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 4: I shook hands with him, and then we had a

483
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Speaker 4: rigged election and we had somebody else come in and

484
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 4: they didn't know anything about a deal for the death penalty.

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Speaker 4: The death penalty is going to be imposed on people

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Speaker 4: from China that make fentanyl and send it into our country.

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Speaker 7: I believe that's going to happen soon.

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Speaker 4: But as if today, all fentanyl related substances will be

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Speaker 4: banned forever and those who traffic in these deadly poisons

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Speaker 4: will be put behind.

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Speaker 7: Bars for a very long period of time.

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Speaker 4: Were joined today by just a few of the millions

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Speaker 4: of families ravaged by this scorge, including Greg Swan from Michigan,

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Speaker 4: who carries with him the heartbreaking loss of his beautiful

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Speaker 4: son Drew. Drew became addicted to opioids after being prescribed

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Speaker 4: painkillers following a sports injury.

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Speaker 7: Got injured and this is happening so much.

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00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 4: Got injured in sports and ends up you leave the

499
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Speaker 4: hospital a week later and you're addicted. But he fought

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Speaker 4: through it and got himself clean. Then one day Drew

501
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Speaker 4: took a pill laced with fentanyl.

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Speaker 7: He took it just.

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Speaker 4: Casually, thought it would be okay. Took a chance and

504
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 4: he said he'd be okay, and it didn't work out.

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Speaker 4: Then he tragically lost his life. And I'd like you

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Speaker 4: to come forward and if you could just say a

507
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Speaker 4: few words about your wonderful, wonderful son.

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Speaker 7: Please, thank you, mister President.

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Speaker 9: Honor of my life. Thank you very much, thank you,

510
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 9: thank you so much, mister President. I will be brief.

511
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Speaker 9: It's the honor of my life to be here. And

512
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Speaker 9: Drew was the happiest day of my life was when

513
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 9: he was born, and he always called me his hero.

514
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 9: To the day he died and his passing ruined, I

515
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 9: thought my life and every parent back here that I

516
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 9: meet and in the audience, so some of my friends,

517
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 9: their life is gutted when they lose a kid. There's

518
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 9: despair and there's hopelessness. But we've been able to find

519
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 9: some repose in going out and advocating. And we want

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00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 9: to hit every school in America. There's twenty six, seven

521
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 9: hundred and twenty seven of them. We want to go

522
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 9: into everyone the kids are silent when they hear we

523
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 9: lost somebody to this, and we tell our story and

524
00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 9: they leave unequivocally ready to run away from fentanyl. I

525
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Speaker 9: would just like to say thank you, mister President, for

526
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Speaker 9: stopping the border crossings. Full stop, mic drop. I'll step back,

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Speaker 9: and but I just it was amazing what you did.

528
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 9: We were being gas lit and you came and lit

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Speaker 9: a fire to that story, and we're a lot safer

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Speaker 9: for it. Thank you so much, thank you, thank.

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Speaker 10: You, thank you.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you.

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Speaker 7: That's tough stuff.

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Speaker 4: We're also grateful to be joined by California native Anne Fundner,

535
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Speaker 4: who lost her beautiful eldest son Weston Defend it All

536
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Speaker 4: when he was just fifteen years old, exactly one year

537
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Speaker 4: ago today, and delivered a moving tribute to Western at

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Speaker 4: the Republican National Convention. People that saw it have not

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Speaker 4: forgotten it. And then I'd like you to please come

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Speaker 4: up and say a few words about you. A wonderful boy.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, please, that's an honor.

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Speaker 8: Good afternoon, mister President, and distinguished guests. My name is

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Speaker 8: Anne Fundner. I'm going to hope, thank you, and I'm

544
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Speaker 8: an angel parent. One year ago today on July sixteenth,

545
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Speaker 8: I stood in front of America and told the story

546
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Speaker 8: of my son weston the RNC and about how he

547
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 8: was a beautiful, loving had a wonderful life. We did

548
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 8: everything right, but one pill, one mistake given by a

549
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 8: friend under peer pressure, took his life.

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Speaker 10: In the last four.

551
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Speaker 8: Years, Fenton al became the number one killer Americans. Ages

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00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 8: fifteen to forty eight and children under fourteen are the

553
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Speaker 8: fastest growing demographic. President Trump, for four years, we felt ignored.

554
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Speaker 8: But you've changed that. We appreciate that so much. You've

555
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 8: closed the borders, sanctioned cartels, imposed tariffs, closed shipping loopholes.

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Speaker 8: Most people don't know about that. That was a big

557
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 8: one dealt with countries where it's coming from. You mobilize Treasury,

558
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Speaker 8: Justice Apartment, Homeland Security, lawmakers, legislators, and today the signing

559
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Speaker 8: of the Fentanyl Act, bipartisan and overwhelmingly supported by everybody,

560
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Speaker 8: making fentanyl a schedule when drugged, to strengthen the criminalization

561
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Speaker 8: and prosecution of people who peddle this. It is a

562
00:32:55,120 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 8: life line for families across America and keeping our family safe.

563
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 8: And that's all you always want to keep America safe.

564
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 8: And thank you so much. Thank you for keeping America

565
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Speaker 8: safe and for our children. And this is what we

566
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Speaker 8: voted for, mister President. God bless you, God bless our

567
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Speaker 8: angel families who are all here with us today, and

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Speaker 8: all of you sitting up here with us, and God

569
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Speaker 8: bless America.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 8: You can have that, would you like that?

572
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Speaker 11: I would love to get pet me.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. It's just

574
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 4: crazy that we have to even be doing this. It's

575
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 4: so sad, should be so unnecessary that we stand.

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Speaker 7: Here for years and years doing the same thing over

577
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Speaker 7: and over.

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Speaker 1: It's terrible.

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Speaker 7: A friend of mine, long.

580
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Speaker 4: Time friend of mine, is Jackie Siegel and her beautiful children.

581
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Speaker 7: Her husband David just passed away.

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Speaker 4: David Siegel is a great developer, great great developer, great guy,

583
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 4: friend of mine. But her children, Jordan, Jacqueline and Drew

584
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 4: come from Florida. Jackie lost her beautiful daughter Victoria to

585
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Speaker 4: drugs when Victoria was just eighteen years old, a beautiful person.

586
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Speaker 4: And this April, Jackie lost her sister Jessica to fentanyl

587
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Speaker 4: and her daughter's honor. Jackie founded Victoria's Voice, And I'd

588
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 4: like to ask Jackie to come up and say a

589
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 4: few words about her daughter, her husband or family. She's

590
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 4: comes from a great family and they've been fighting this

591
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 4: scourge for a long time.

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Speaker 11: Thank you very much, Jackie, Thank you, mister President's an

593
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 11: honor to be here today on behalf of our family,

594
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,240
Speaker 11: my late husband, and all of the other affected families

595
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Speaker 11: for this important signing on this bipartisan issue. Ten years

596
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 11: ago when our daughter eighteen years old passed, Victoria, she

597
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 11: was eighteen, she passed away of a drug overdose. We

598
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 11: formed the Victoria's Boys Foundation, and the Trump administration was

599
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 11: very helpful in passing the Kara Act, which saved many

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Speaker 11: lives back then bringing out the narcan and we are

601
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Speaker 11: so honored. Well, actually after when my husband passed away,

602
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 11: thank you for the phone call and your love and support.

603
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Speaker 11: Our family loves you, mister President. That day, when my

604
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 11: sister found out of my husband's passing, she did a

605
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 11: line of cocaine that she thought was cocaine and it

606
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 11: was fentanyl. So I lost both of them in the

607
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 11: same day. And it's been a very rough time, but

608
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 11: it's turned me into more of a fighter to carry

609
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Speaker 11: on my husband's legacy and the other family's legacies of

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Speaker 11: saving lives, and so I'm turning my pain into passion.

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Speaker 11: And also on top of this, with the signing of

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Speaker 11: this important the act that you're doing, we are joining

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Speaker 11: with Victoria's Voice, is joining with Founding Fathers, and we're

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Speaker 11: going to start the Angel Army. So we're even growing

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00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 11: even more under this Trump administration and we're going to

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Speaker 11: spend the rest of our lives doing this. Thank you,

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Speaker 11: mister President.

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Speaker 7: Thank you very expecting.

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Speaker 4: That army will be very effective. Knowing jack so thank

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Speaker 4: you very much, Jackie. Everyone knows someone touched by the

621
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 4: incredible crisis that we've all been watching.

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Speaker 7: All over the world.

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Speaker 4: They're watching and other countries have the problem, but I

624
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 4: don't think there are too many that have it more

625
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 4: seriously than us. They come here, they rip us. They

626
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 4: rip us so badly, the cartels and all of the others,

627
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 4: because we're sort of a rich country and that's where

628
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 4: the money is.

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Speaker 7: So it happens. People say, why is it so much?

630
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 4: Because we have money, we're richer than other countries, So

631
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 4: they come here more. They take the money like taking

632
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 4: candy from a baby. So did they in behalf of

633
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 4: all Americans who have lost a loved one to opioids.

634
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 4: We renew our vow to liberate America from this horrible plague.

635
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Speaker 7: And I hope you're going to do a fantastic job.

636
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 7: You have no idea how important you are. You have,

637
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 7: like maybe the most important job just about out in government.

638
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 4: There's nothing more important than what you're doing. So I

639
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 4: wish you a lot of luck and we'll be there

640
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 4: to help you all the way along. Okay, what's you

641
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 4: going to want to thank Congress for passing this important

642
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 4: bill or for all the work you've done over.

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Speaker 7: The last two weeks, all of you, What a job

644
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Speaker 7: you've all done.

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Speaker 4: It's uh, it was the congressmen and women and the

646
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 4: Senate has been unbelievable. And i'd like to ask if

647
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 4: you want stand right up here while I signed the bill,

648
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 4: and then we're going to get you right back so

649
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 4: you can keep passing other bills and.

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Speaker 7: Make America great again. Right, Okay, thank you very much.

651
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 7: It's great to have you.

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00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:52,240
Speaker 8: Upset.

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Speaker 1: Ok I.

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Speaker 2: Want to make sure it's not people behind you.

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Speaker 7: And this is not an auto pen, right, that's for sure.

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Speaker 4: That's great, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: That's a.

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Speaker 7: You can't stand out. You'll give some to the back to.

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Speaker 2: Tell you what you spec Thank you very much everybody.

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Speaker 4: It's really an honor, very important, one of the more

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Speaker 4: important things.

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Speaker 2: That will ever sign.

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Speaker 7: I suspect, and thank you all for the great spend.

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Speaker 7: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: The President Trump. They're signing a new bill cracking down

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Speaker 1: on the use of fentanyl in this country. Of course,

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Speaker 1: as you can see, surrounded by lawmakers both from the

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Speaker 1: House and Senate. Those senators, many of them are going

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Speaker 1: to have to go back to Capitol Hill though, as

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Speaker 1: they are still discussing the recisions planned the President Trump

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Speaker 1: sent them. They're still ongoing debate on that issue, so

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Speaker 1: they'll be heading back. But again President Trump cracking down

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Speaker 1: on the use of fentanyl and the distribution of fentanyl.

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Speaker 1: Also having a number of family members speak there doing

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Speaker 1: the ceremony who have been affected by the use of fentanyl,

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Speaker 1: that deadly drug that of course has become a scourge

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Speaker 1: across the country. Will of course continue to have coverage

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Speaker 1: on this as we move on throughout the day here

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Speaker 1: on Real America's Voice. In the meantime, a future with

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Speaker 1: financial stability is an important value for many Americans, and

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Speaker 1: with the fluctuating state of taxes, stock markets, and general

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Speaker 1: economic conditions, one can be left wondering what the future holds,

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Speaker 1: not only for the American dollar, but also for their retirement.

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Speaker 1: And that's where the Birch Gold Group comes in to

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Speaker 1: help customers invest in gold, which is an asset with

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Speaker 1: the high economic future that takes the guesswork out of

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Speaker 1: financial woes, especially in the future. Joining me now is

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Speaker 1: Precious Metal Specialists for the Birch Gold Group, Philip Patrick. Philip,

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Speaker 1: good to see you, my friend. As always, good to

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Speaker 1: see you in Terrence. So let's talk about the overall economy.

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Speaker 1: There's been so much happening, from bricks recently meeting trying

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Speaker 1: to destabilize the US dollar, to President Trump's tariffs, which

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Speaker 1: quite honestly is bringing some uncertainty to the very markets

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Speaker 1: around the country. How important is it rooling oneself if

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Speaker 1: you will, in gold in these times of uncertainty?

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Speaker 10: I mean, I would say it's more important today than

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Speaker 10: it's been in our lifetimes. And you know, you mentioned

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Speaker 10: a few things, but it's almost the perfect storm right

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Speaker 10: now for precious metals. We're seeing global volatility, not just

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Speaker 10: financial markets here in the US, but across the world.

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Speaker 10: Inflation and debt persistent issues and of course, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 10: the bricks actively dedollarizing. President Lula in Rio came out

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Speaker 10: and said that they were committed to de dollarizing and

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Speaker 10: that they would move peace by peace until it was consolidated.

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Speaker 10: So this is the broader economic picture, a lot of volatility,

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Speaker 10: and gold precious metals in general really suit that climate.

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Speaker 10: It's why central banks have set another record for gold

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Speaker 10: purchasing in the first half of this year, and it's

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Speaker 10: why gold's up almost in the last twelve months. We

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Speaker 10: expect it to continue.

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Speaker 1: What are the economic consequences of, as you call it,

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Speaker 1: d dollarising.

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Speaker 10: Listen, you know global reserve currency status. I think it's

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Speaker 10: okay for now, but longer term it's it's at risk, right,

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Speaker 10: And the more people dedollarize it does a number of things.

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Speaker 10: First of all, it devalues the dollar and it fuels

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Speaker 10: inflation domestically for us, the bigger issue is it puts

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Speaker 10: a real squeeze on the debt as well. The less

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Speaker 10: demand there is for our debt, the higher interest we

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Speaker 10: have to pay on that debt, and obviously interest payments

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Speaker 10: are already the second biggest item in the federal budget.

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Speaker 10: So given debt and everything else, we need demand for

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Speaker 10: the dollar to remain globally to give President Trump the

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Speaker 10: chance he needs to grow the economy out of the

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Speaker 10: situation we're in, but he needs time.

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Speaker 1: I have to say, it's almost inconceivable to me, just

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Speaker 1: as a that the dollar would not be the world's

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Speaker 1: reserve currency. Yes, there is a move towards that. We

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Speaker 1: understand that, we realize that there are countries out there

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Speaker 1: seeking to destabilize the US dollar, but it almost feels

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Speaker 1: like from the outside looking in that it's wishful thinking

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Speaker 1: on their part that there's no way they will be successful.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned over time, like what kind of time

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Speaker 1: period are we talking about in which this potentially could happen.

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Speaker 10: That's the key, Listen, there isn't any other currency ready

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Speaker 10: to dethrone the dollar is global reserve in terms of

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Speaker 10: death liquidity of the dollar market. There's nothing there that

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Speaker 10: combats it. But there's a couple of things to look at.

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Speaker 10: Number one, central bank gold buying, Ricks nations and others

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Speaker 10: are using gold as a means to de dollarize. Essentially,

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Speaker 10: they're dumping US dollars and buying gold that gives them

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Speaker 10: the stability that they need for currency. So when we

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Speaker 10: talk time frames. I believe that dollar's position as global

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Speaker 10: reserve is not under threat short to medium term, next

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Speaker 10: three to five years, I don't see a challenge. Longer term,

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Speaker 10: next five to ten or beyond, I do start to

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Speaker 10: see challenges. However, the dollar doesn't have to lose global

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Speaker 10: reserve currency status to lose value. What I think will happen,

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Speaker 10: and by the way it's happening already, is we start

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Speaker 10: to move into a more multi polar world. You know,

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Speaker 10: different countries signing bilateral trade agreements that circumvent the dollar.

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Speaker 10: Dollar demand over a longer period of time starts to wane.

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Speaker 10: And as that happens, you know, I think the argument

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Speaker 10: for the dollar as global reserve will start to wane

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Speaker 10: longer term. So again I don't see this shorter term

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Speaker 10: at all. But the trend now is concerning lots and

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Speaker 10: lots of bilateral trade agreements already signed circumventing the dollar.

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Speaker 10: I saw, just as a quick point on this, Nicholas Taleb,

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Speaker 10: who's the author of black Swan, he was on Bloomberg

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Speaker 10: the other day. He said to the presenter, in no

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Speaker 10: uncertain terms, the dollar is losing global reserve currency status,

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Speaker 10: and the presenter sort of looked back and said, what

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Speaker 10: evidence do you have for that? And he said, look

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Speaker 10: at central bank gold buying and look at gold's performance,

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Speaker 10: and it shows you the direction they're heading.

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Speaker 1: Take into account all of the circumstances you just described.

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Speaker 1: Does that strengthen President Trump's argument to drown power that

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Speaker 1: he needs to drop interest rates in order to not

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Speaker 1: only support the US economy, but potentially also the value

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Speaker 1: of the US dollar. Potentially that could help.

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Speaker 10: Look, lowering interest rates should weaken the value of the dollar,

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Speaker 10: not strengthen, right, Keeping rates should strengthen. Look, there is

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Speaker 10: an argument for the Fed to lower rates now. Right

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Speaker 10: up until yesterday's CPI number, inflation was coming down. We

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Speaker 10: saw a first quarter of negative GDP growth. There was

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Speaker 10: a strong argument to do it. The Fed are showing

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Speaker 10: themselves to be a little political, right if they're saying, hey,

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Speaker 10: inflation isn't cooling, we need to keep it rates up.

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Speaker 10: They should have done that under Biden, but they didn't,

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Speaker 10: So it feels like there's a political element here. There

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Speaker 10: is a strong argument to lower rates to stimulate economic growth.

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Speaker 10: The big reason President Trump wants to lower rates is

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Speaker 10: to ease the debt burden. Right, it's interest rates stay high,

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Speaker 10: interest rates on the debt stay high, so there's an

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Speaker 10: argument to do it. But I think yesterday's CPI numbers

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Speaker 10: we saw a spike in inflation. That may be the

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Speaker 1: So it seems to me the lesson to be learned

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Speaker 1: in all of this is to look out for oneself

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Speaker 1: as a consumer, and the best way to do that

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Speaker 1: is to invest in gold.

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Speaker 10: Listen, I am banking on President Trump pulling this off, right,

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Speaker 10: I am a Trump guy. I have been shouting from

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Speaker 10: the rooftops for the last four years. However, people have

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Speaker 10: to understand if Trump pulls it off from where we

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Speaker 10: are today, he will do what nobody in world history

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Speaker 10: has managed to do. So for me personally, I'm banking.

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Speaker 10: I'm hoping. I'm praying President Trump can pull it off.

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Speaker 10: Hedging my exposure as well, gold is the best way

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Speaker 10: to do that. What I would tell everyone, take what

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Speaker 10: I say with a pinch of salt. If central banks

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Speaker 10: around the world for three and a half years have

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Speaker 10: set consecutive records, by the way, first half of this

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Speaker 1: Follow suit.

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Speaker 10: They know currency better than anyone else.

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Speaker 1: Philip Patrick, it's always a pleasure to talk to you,

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Speaker 1: always very informative. Good to see you, you too, Thank

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll have a story that reminds

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Speaker 1: us of just how wonderful America is. Plus, we'll have

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Speaker 1: your answers to our America's Voice question of the day.

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Speaker 1: There it is on your screen. Do you think that

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Speaker 1: the Epstein files will go public? Why or why not?

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to your thoughts. We are back with what

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Speaker 1: makes America Wonderful. It's a segment we do every single

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Speaker 1: day in hopes of having you leave our show with

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Speaker 1: a smile on your face. Today's story comes to us

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Speaker 1: from the Great State of Georgia, where a teacher's mission

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Speaker 1: to help students in need succeeds and carried on even

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Speaker 1: in the afterlife. Elementary school teacher Tammy Waddell unfortunately lost

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Speaker 1: eight years old. Her students and colleagues described her as

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Speaker 1: Tammy asked that instead of flowers being brought to her funeral,

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Speaker 1: When one finds a cause to devote to entirely and

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Speaker 1: to carry that devotion on even in death certainly admirable

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Speaker 1: and also indicative of one of the many things that

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Speaker 1: Voice question of the day. Here it is, do you

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Speaker 1: think that the Epstein files will go public, Why or

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Speaker 1: why not. Debrelyn Anseio writes, I'm not sure, but I

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Speaker 1: know this. Maxwell is going to take advantage of this

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Speaker 1: to get out, and Kim Spielman Howard writes, well, I

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Speaker 1: think the American people want to see what kind of

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Speaker 1: scumbags we are dealing with. Interesting perspective there, Jane May.

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Speaker 1: We also want to thank you for chiming in writing no,

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Speaker 1: too many wealthy people from around the world, and Billy

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Speaker 1: Holloway ads yes, Maxwell's little black book that lives in

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Speaker 1: an evidence locker and all the incriminating video as well.

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Speaker 1: I know it will be harsh, there will be some

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Speaker 1: difficult realities, but for the health of our nation, it

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Speaker 1: must be done. Maybe even turn his island into a

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Speaker 1: new Alcatraz after it's bulldozed. Kent Gallagher writes, No, like

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Speaker 1: the Kennedy files, they'll be kept under wraps for national

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Speaker 1: security purpose or whatever reason they use. And finally, Katie

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Speaker 1: Conley writes, I do not I think they have international

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Speaker 1: implications and would crumble our elected officials, and that's why

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Speaker 1: this is happening. She writes, thanks to each and every

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Speaker 1: one of you for chiming in. We really appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Being part of the show and letting us know what

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Speaker 1: you think. We also want to thank you for tuning

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Speaker 1: in today. We'll see you back here first thing tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: same time, same place. Take care of everyone, have a

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Speaker 1: great afternoon.