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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is verdict of Center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you.

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Speaker 1: The big announcement drop.

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Speaker 2: Senator Joe Biden announced with a massive live event, huge

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Speaker 2: audience at a sold out auditorium that he was running

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Speaker 2: for president of the United States of America today for

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Speaker 2: re election. It was a big crowd. Let's just just

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Speaker 2: kidding now, none of that happened. It was a video

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Speaker 2: that probably took about one hundred hours to edit. You

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Speaker 2: watched the video Center, Your initial reaction to this lackluster announcement.

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Speaker 3: Well, they had three minutes for him to read from

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Speaker 3: a teleprompter. I'm sure it took one hundred takes to

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Speaker 3: get him to read those three minutes. And his three

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Speaker 3: minutes were let's keep getting the job done. And I

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Speaker 3: got to say, that is a weird message. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you look at the last two years, the disaster of

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Speaker 3: what is unfolded under Joe Biden. Take the economy. We

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Speaker 3: have the worst inflation of our lifetime. So you have

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Speaker 3: to go back to when you were sparkle in your

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Speaker 3: daddy's eyes and I was a little kid to find

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Speaker 3: a time when the inflation was this bad. You have

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Speaker 3: crime rates exploding, across the country, murder rates, carjacking rates

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Speaker 3: all over the country. You have the worst illegal immigration

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Speaker 3: in the history of our nation. You have a relentless

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Speaker 3: assault on our constitutional rights, on religious liberties, on the

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Speaker 3: Second Amendment, on the rights to life. And then as

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Speaker 3: bad as the domestic policy is, as bad as the

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Speaker 3: foreign policy is, you have a national security policy that

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Speaker 3: is an utter disaster. Every single region of the world

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Speaker 3: is worse. We are facing the first major land war

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Speaker 3: in Europe since World War Two, facing China stronger, North

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Speaker 3: Korea stronger, I Ran stronger, Cuba stronger, Nicaragua stronger, every

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Speaker 3: enemy of America stronger. And what does Joe Biden say,

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Speaker 3: give me four more years, Let's do more of this?

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Speaker 3: Like holy cow, how could you possibly want more of this?

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Speaker 3: This is if Madison Avenue put together an ad campaign

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Speaker 3: that had zero to do with substance. It could not

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Speaker 3: have been more apropos for this announcement video than what

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Speaker 3: we saw today.

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Speaker 2: I rarely laugh at late night anymore, and you and

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Speaker 2: I have talked about that before on this show. But

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Speaker 2: last night someone sent me the clip of Jimmy Fallon

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Speaker 2: and he said this idea that you know, let's get

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Speaker 2: the job done like this slogan. He's like, you've had

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Speaker 2: over fifty years man, and the audience died, laughing. A

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Speaker 2: liberal audience sitting in the you know, with Jimmy Fallon,

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Speaker 2: He's like, how much more time do you need to

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Speaker 2: get the job done? You've been in office for fifty

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Speaker 2: plus years. And real polling is backing up that joke

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Speaker 2: in the sentiment of that CBS News poll has a

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Speaker 2: new pull out, and the question was things in the

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Speaker 2: US are out of control. Seventy two percent of responding

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Speaker 2: said that things in the US are out of control.

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Speaker 2: Reasons that you think things are out of control seventy

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Speaker 2: one percent said Joe Biden, seventy five percent US culture

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Speaker 2: and values, eighty five percent the economy, and eighty eight percent.

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Speaker 1: State of US politics.

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Speaker 2: The fact that seventy one percent say the top answer

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Speaker 2: among those who are thinking the reasons out of control

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Speaker 2: seventy one percent state's Joe Biden. The other thing that

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Speaker 2: I think is going to be very interesting to see

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Speaker 2: how this plays out is saying Biden is among the

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Speaker 2: reason things are out of control. Thirty three percent of

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Speaker 2: Democrats are responding said they believe the reason why things

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Speaker 2: are out of control is because the guy they voted for,

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden, is the president of the United States of America.

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Speaker 2: You've run for election. You look at internal poll numbers.

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Speaker 2: If you're Joe Biden right now or his team, and

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Speaker 2: you see thirty three percent of your own party saying this,

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Speaker 2: how concerned you have to be.

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Speaker 4: They should be very concerned. Listen.

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in November

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Speaker 3: of nineteen seventy two. In November nineteen seventy two, I

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Speaker 3: was one year and eleven months old. I was not

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Speaker 3: even two. I was I assume, still wearing diapers.

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Speaker 4: Then you weren't.

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Speaker 1: Alive then I was not eighty one baby.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember November of nineteen seventy two, but Joe

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Speaker 3: Biden charged in to Washington. You know, it's interesting trivia question.

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Speaker 3: You know how old Joe Biden was when he's elected

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Speaker 3: a Senate.

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Speaker 1: How old was he?

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Speaker 3: So the constitutional minimum to be a senator is thirty

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Speaker 3: years old. Take a guess how old Joe Biden was.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to guess right A thirty, then twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 3: He was elected at twenty nine and he turned thirty

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Speaker 3: before he was sworn in. So he was a young guy.

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Speaker 3: But he was a young guy when I was in

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Speaker 3: diapers and you weren't alive. And he has been there

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Speaker 3: since forever, like nineteen seventy two, he was there before

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Speaker 3: disco like, and he's been doing this forever. And he's like,

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Speaker 3: let's finish the job. Seriously, can you screw America any more?

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Speaker 4: Please?

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Speaker 3: Do not finish the job of screwing America. And I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna ask a question, And I say this slightly tongue

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Speaker 3: in cheek, but not much. If you're objective, If you

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Speaker 3: sat down and said I've got a plan, I want

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Speaker 3: to spend two years, I want to destroy this nation,

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Speaker 3: then what would you have done differently than Biden and

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Speaker 3: the Democrats have done.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to destroy the country, you do exactly

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Speaker 2: what his administration has done, and they've done it to perfection.

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Speaker 3: Look, it's actually a bizarre question because what we've seen,

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Speaker 3: the assault on jobs, the regulatory assault, the assault on

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Speaker 3: US oil and gas production, the assault on our national security,

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Speaker 3: opening up our borders and creating the worst illegal immigration

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Speaker 3: in history, the assault on law enforcement. Where do you

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Speaker 3: think this crazy crime came from? Democrats? Saying defund the police,

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Speaker 3: Democrats supporting George Soros, DA's releasing violent criminals from jail,

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Speaker 3: The assault on our fundamental constitutional rights, the assault on

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Speaker 3: America as an institution, the assault on the Constitution, the

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Speaker 3: assault on the Bill of Rights, the assault on look

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Speaker 3: every enemy of America. Israel is a strong ally of America.

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Speaker 3: Biden spent to years undermining Israel relentlessly. The United Kingdom

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Speaker 3: is a strong ally of America. Biden spent two years

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Speaker 3: spent two years giving weakness and appeasement to China. Russia

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Speaker 3: is an enemy of America. Biden spent two years giving

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Speaker 3: weakness and appeasement to Russia, including waving sanctions on Nordstream two.

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Speaker 3: I say this in all seriousness. If your objective was

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Speaker 3: to destroy the nation, I don't know what else you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great point.

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Speaker 2: And the White House, by the way, they seemed lost

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Speaker 1: White House Press.

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Speaker 2: Secretary on the day that Biden announces he is gonna

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Speaker 2: run for reelection. This is her response to like, how

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Speaker 2: did he get to this decision?

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Speaker 1: She didn't have an answer.

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Speaker 5: Again, going to be very careful here at twenty twenty

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Speaker 5: four election, I actually don't have anything to share like

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Speaker 5: behind the scenes on his decision making. I think the

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Speaker 5: President spoke to this himself when he was asked before

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Speaker 5: And so I will refer you back to what he

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Speaker 5: has said more explicitly when he had those interviews. So

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Speaker 5: I don't again don't want to say much more than.

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Speaker 1: That, say much more than that. Center.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like he didn't even know that he was

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Speaker 2: running for reelection. They just threw they're a video together

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Speaker 3: Look The reason that I think Biden is running for reelect.

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Speaker 4: I've actually thought for a year Biden would not run

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Speaker 3: Because he is so obviously diminished. He's too old to run.

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Speaker 3: Just even in the last two years, his mental faculties

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Speaker 3: They have been not that great for Ron De Santis politically.

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Speaker 3: The Santus's numbers have gone down. Trump's numbers have gone up,

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump. I think Democrats with jettison Joe Biden, they'd say, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I think what Democrats have said they believe Trump's going

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Speaker 3: the nominee, We're not gonna run on Joe Biden's record.

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Speaker 3: We're not gonna talk about Joe Biden's record. We're not

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Speaker 3: we're going to talk about is our guy is not Trump.

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Speaker 3: That's their whole campaign, and by the way, they did

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Speaker 3: think they're playing right now is Joe Biden will not

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Speaker 3: leave the White House for the entirety of the campaign.

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Speaker 3: They'll hide him in the basement.

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Speaker 2: COVID this time Senator to hide him with. I mean

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Speaker 2: that was they don't have time.

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Speaker 4: That they don't care.

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Speaker 3: This last cycle twenty twenty two, they didn't have COVID,

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Speaker 3: and yet Katie Hobbs, the governor of Arizona, never did

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Speaker 3: a debate. They hid from the process. I believe if

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Speaker 2: But he under I mean you can hear her just

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Speaker 3: And understand clearly, if God forbid, Biden is reelected, everything

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Speaker 3: We're not fighting bent over little stuff. We're not fighting

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Speaker 2: You mentioned illegal immigration, and I think that's going to

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Speaker 2: Just center, that's a lie. You've said this one hundred

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Speaker 2: Channel heard lie. Yeah, six point three man, illegal immigrants

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Speaker 3: Every month, we are setting records for the highest rate

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Speaker 1: And courly, Senator, you're not the only one.

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Speaker 2: Seventy percent of Americans don't want Joe Biden to run,

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Silicon Valley Bank, and let's do a

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Speaker 3: Well, Silicon Valley Bank had enormous assets primarily from venture

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Speaker 3: but not on actually watching the deposits, the deposits of

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Speaker 3: their depositors. Now, it's one thing to have some Silicon

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Speaker 3: Valley bankers who lose sight, but who are the regulators

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Speaker 3: who's in charge of watching the fox and the henhouse. Well,

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Speaker 3: in the case of Silicon Valley Bank, it was the

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Speaker 3: San Francisco Office.

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Speaker 4: Of the Federal Reserve.

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Speaker 3: They were the bank regulators that had supervisor authority, and

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Speaker 3: the San Francisco Office of the Federal Reserve didn't do

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Speaker 3: a damn thing, sat there while Silicon Valley Bank had

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Speaker 3: this enormous exposure, this enormous risk. By the way, the

447
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Speaker 3: San Francisco Office of the Federal Reserve was engaged in

448
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Speaker 3: the same nonsense, the same esg, the same DEI, the

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Speaker 3: same politically correct virtue signaling instead of doing their damn job.

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Speaker 3: So I'm the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee.

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Speaker 3: I sent an oversight letter announcing an investigation into the

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Speaker 3: San Francisco Fed's oversight a Silicon Valley Bank. The San

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Speaker 3: Francisco Fed essentially said, go jump in a lake. We're

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Speaker 3: not going to answer your questions. So I just recently

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Speaker 3: teamed up with Jim Jordan. Jim is in the House

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Speaker 3: of Representatives. He is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,

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Speaker 3: and so the two of us together are demanding of

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Speaker 3: Silicon Valley Bank answer our questions. Did you know about

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Speaker 3: this exposure? If so, why didn't you act? If you

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Speaker 3: didn't know, why the hell weren't you doing your job?

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Speaker 3: Why were you asleep at the switch? I can tell

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Speaker 3: you Ben. On top of that, I've also joined This

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Speaker 3: is going to surprise you. I've joined in bipartisan legislation

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Speaker 3: with Elizabeth Warren to make the regional offices of the

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Speaker 3: Federal Reserve subject to FOYA subject to the federal laws

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Speaker 3: that makes them under the oversight of Congress and the

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Speaker 3: American people.

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Speaker 4: Right now they're exempt from Foyle.

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Speaker 3: And I got to say, it's an amazing thing that

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Speaker 3: Elizabeth Warren and I are on the same page saying,

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Speaker 3: these fed banks that are laughing at Congress, that are

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Speaker 3: laughing at the American people, that are saying, we are

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Speaker 3: unaccountable even though a multi billion dollar cluster just unfolded

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Speaker 3: on our watch.

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Speaker 4: We need to hold them to account.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's important legislation. Now, the question is who's going

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Speaker 2: to block it and why. There are a lot of

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Speaker 2: Democrats that wanted to protect Silicon Valley Bank because they

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Speaker 2: were also a lot of the people that had their money.

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Speaker 1: There were big donors of Democratic Party apps.

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Speaker 2: Is that going to be part of the politics that

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Speaker 2: plays out in this unquestionably?

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Speaker 3: And look, the dynamic we're in right now is Silicon

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Speaker 3: Valley Bank. The Biden administration ran to step in and

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Speaker 3: do a multi billion dollar bailout. Why because the depositors

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Speaker 3: were overwhelmingly politically well connected left wing Democrats. They were

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Speaker 3: supporters of Joe Biden, they were supporting of the Democrats

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Speaker 3: and the Senate and the Democrats.

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Speaker 4: In the House.

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Speaker 3: And so immediately the White House said, all right, we

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Speaker 3: got your back. You're fully covered. And by the way,

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Speaker 3: when they covered that, they covered it from funds that

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Speaker 3: are paid by everyone else's banks. So if you're not

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Speaker 3: a politically well connected venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, if

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Speaker 3: you're a main street if you run a dry cleaner,

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Speaker 3: if you have a restaurant, if you have a car dealership,

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Speaker 3: if you have a small business in main street America,

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Speaker 3: you're paying for the Democrat bailout of Democrat donors. And

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Speaker 3: the press, of course doesn't want to cover that, but

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Speaker 3: it is completely indefensible how they've decided. All right, if

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Speaker 3: you're a well connected Democrat, we got your back. And

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Speaker 3: by the way, one of the really negative consequences of

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Speaker 3: this is we're seeing a flight of capital of individuals,

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Speaker 3: of small businesses that have invested in have their deposits

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Speaker 3: in community banks, smaller and mid sized banks, and a

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Speaker 3: very significant number of those depositors are taking their money

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Speaker 3: out and moving it to one of the gigantic banks

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Speaker 3: because the lesson they've taken from Joe Biden's response to

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Speaker 3: this is if you're a giant bank that's too big

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Speaker 3: to fail, all the deposits will be guaranteed. But if

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Speaker 3: you're a mid sized or smaller bank, you're out of lock.

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Speaker 3: And one of the great strengths of our economy is

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Speaker 3: the thousands upon thousands of community banks we have. You

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Speaker 3: look at other countries where they have three, four, five

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Speaker 3: giant banks that bank everyone America is blessed. We've got thousands,

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Speaker 3: tens of thousands of banks at the community level, and

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden is happy to bankrupt all of them and

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Speaker 3: to benefit his buddies on Wall Street. The handful of

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Speaker 3: giant banks.

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Speaker 2: Quickly for re for context point here, Senator, People that

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Speaker 2: don't realize how the FDIC is supposed to work and

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Speaker 2: ensuring your depositors, your deposits.

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Speaker 1: It's only up to a certain amount of money.

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Speaker 2: And what happened with Silicon Valley Bank is it turned

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Speaker 2: from a certain amount of money to unlimited money. And

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Speaker 2: that's the reason why you mentioned A lot of people

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Speaker 2: are saying, all right, well, if I'm in a community

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Speaker 2: bank or a smaller bank or a regional bank that

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Speaker 2: doesn't have the political connections to these types of bailouts,

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Speaker 2: I'm at much higher risk with my deposits than if

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Speaker 2: I go to a woke bank or a massive bank

532
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Speaker 2: like many are switching over because you're not supposed to

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Speaker 2: have unlimited funds secured in these banks. That's the whole

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Speaker 2: point of having an up to amount.

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Speaker 3: Correct, right, No, that's exactly right. When the FDIC was established,

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Speaker 3: initially the threshold was one hundred thousand, that your deposits

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Speaker 3: up to a hundred thousands are guaranteed by the FDIC,

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Speaker 3: guaranteed by the government. That was in recent years upped

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Speaker 3: from a one hundred thousd to two hundred and fifty thousand.

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Speaker 4: Now two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is a lot

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Speaker 4: of money.

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Speaker 3: Most of us don't have that much money and cash

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Speaker 3: and a bank, But the FDIIC guarantees to everyone, whatever

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Speaker 3: bank you're at, if you have two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars or less, your your deposits are guaranteed. What

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Speaker 3: happened at Silicon Valley Bank is you had depositors, both

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Speaker 3: individuals and companies that had millions of dollars, that had

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Speaker 3: tens of millions of dollars, that had hundreds of millions

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Speaker 3: of dollars, and the federal government stepped in and said,

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Speaker 3: never mind the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars limit,

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Speaker 3: We're going to guarantee all of it, even though the

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Speaker 3: depositors didn't pay attention when their bank went eight months

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Speaker 3: without a risk officer, when their bank was not watching

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Speaker 3: the stability of their balance sheets. And listen if instead

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Speaker 3: of Silicon Valley Bank, this were Texas Oil and Gas Bank,

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Speaker 3: this were a bank that that that that that provided

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Speaker 3: capital and liquidity to oil and gas drillers. The ode

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Speaker 3: that the Biden administration would guarantee those deposits are zero

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Speaker 3: points zero percent. This was political favoritism. This was if

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Speaker 3: you were political allies and donors to Democrats, we got

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Speaker 3: your back, and if not, you're screwed. And by the way,

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Speaker 3: if you're neither, if you're just an ordinary individual or

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Speaker 3: small business, you know what, the fees that your bank

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Speaker 3: pays into the FDIIC are going to go up to

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Speaker 3: pay for the bailout of these Democrat donors.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost like the response that you mentioned the

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Speaker 2: banks that if it was a bank in Texas that

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Speaker 2: was dealing with orang gas, they'd be treated like the

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Speaker 2: people were in Pennsylvania when you had that train derailment.

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Speaker 1: It was all it was Trump country. It's conservative.

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Speaker 2: We don't have to worry about them, and that's why

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Speaker 2: so many people, like you said, are switching banks right now.

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Speaker 1: That's also not good for the system.

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Speaker 1: It is an incredible facility.

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Speaker 2: And you're now demanding answers because Walter Reed Medical Center

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Speaker 2: has ended a contract with a Catholic group.

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Speaker 1: Fill its in on that well.

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Speaker 3: Walter Reed Medical Center is one of the premier military

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Speaker 3: hospitals in America and in the world, and we have

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Speaker 3: a great many of our veterans who are injured, who

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Speaker 3: are ill, who are treated at Walter Reed.

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Speaker 4: Now, one of the ass.

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Speaker 3: Of our military hospitals is that they have pastoral care.

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Speaker 3: They have pastoral care because, look, people who are facing

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Speaker 3: horrific injuries, people who are facing life threatening illnesses. They

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Speaker 3: are naturally thinking about end of life. They're thinking about

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Speaker 3: the fate of their soul, and that has been an

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Speaker 3: important part of caring for our veterans, caring for our

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Speaker 3: active duty military from the beginning of the United States.

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Speaker 4: Well, Walter Reed right.

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Speaker 3: Now today does not have any Catholic pastoral care. So look, Ben,

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Speaker 3: you and I are not Catholics, but there are millions

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Speaker 3: of Catholics in America. There are great many Catholics in

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Speaker 3: our military. Walter Reed had a contract with the Holy

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Speaker 3: Name College, Friary, with a Catholic pastoral care organization that

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Speaker 3: provided if you were a Catholic, you were a service member,

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Speaker 3: your activity, you were a veteran, you're at Walter Reed,

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Speaker 3: and you needed to pray with the priest, you were

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Speaker 3: facing death, you wanted your last rites. They would have

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Speaker 3: a priest who would show up and provide Catholic pastoral care.

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Speaker 3: And what did the Biden administration do it It declined

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Speaker 3: to renew its contracts. So right now there is no

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Speaker 3: Catholic pastoral care at Walter Reed. That is outrageous. And

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Speaker 3: by the way, Joe Biden says he's a Catholic. Like

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Speaker 3: explain to me. Why the hell a president who says

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Speaker 3: he's a Catholic would preside over an administration that allows

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Speaker 3: Walter Reed, a premier military hospital to have zero Catholic

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Speaker 3: pastoral care. It is wrong. And listen, do I think

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Speaker 3: Biden knows about this?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: I don't think Biden knows what day it is. I

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Speaker 3: don't think he knows what's going on. So I don't

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Speaker 3: think this is his personal decision. But I think the

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Speaker 3: zealous he's put in his administration hate people of faith.

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Speaker 3: What it is the Democrat Party, when faced with a conflict,

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Speaker 3: they have elevated the radical transgender ideology above all other groups.

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Speaker 3: And so, because people of faith often have concerns about

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Speaker 3: embracing either the radical transgender ideology or the radical abortion

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Speaker 3: on demand ideology, the Democrat Party has decided faith is

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Speaker 3: no longer acceptable.

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Speaker 4: You know, you think back to John F. Kennedy. John F.

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Speaker 3: Kennedy, a Democrat president, would have been chased out of

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Speaker 3: the Democrat Party today because he was an observant Catholic.

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Speaker 3: He believed in his faith, he defended principles of his faith.

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Speaker 3: That is no longer allowable. And so I've sent a

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Speaker 3: letter in my oversight capacity in the Senate to Walter Reid, saying,

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Speaker 3: why do you no longer have Catholic pastoral care? Our

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Speaker 3: servicemen and women deserve that. If they are Catholic, they

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Speaker 3: deserve to have a priest. If they're facing the end

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Speaker 3: of life, they deserve to have last rites from a

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Speaker 3: Catholic priest. And if the Biden administration valued religious liberty

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Speaker 3: and religious faith, they would fix this, and they'd fix

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Speaker 3: this yesterday.

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Speaker 1: As much money as we spend.

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Speaker 2: You look at the national debt right now, and I

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Speaker 2: go back to this, if they claim this is about money,

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Speaker 2: right look at the national debt clock right now. We

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Speaker 2: were at thirty one trillion, seven hundred and six billion,

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Speaker 2: seven hundred and two million. That's ninety four thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: per debt per citizen or two hundred and forty seven

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Speaker 2: thousand per taxpayer. Don't tell me we can't afford this.

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Speaker 2: And my point is apparently this administration can afford anything

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Speaker 2: and everything and run the debt up to the point

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Speaker 2: that I just mentioned.

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Speaker 1: What is their excuse? Have you gotten one yet?

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Speaker 3: So I have not yet gotten an answer from Walter Reed,

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Speaker 3: but I'll bet dollars to donuts it's not about money.

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Speaker 3: They don't care about money. This is an administration that

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Speaker 3: spent seven trillion dollars last year. They've blown the budget out.

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Speaker 3: No amount of money matters to them. This is about

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Speaker 3: faith doesn't matter to them. And the problem is they

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Speaker 3: fill this administration not just the cabinet level, but at

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Speaker 3: the sub cabinet level with zealots who despise faith. And

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Speaker 3: so if you ask a radical left wing zealot who

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Speaker 3: hates faith, who hates Catholics, should we renew our contract

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Speaker 3: with the Catholic Pastoral Care Group, their answer is, of

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Speaker 3: course no, And it's not money. They don't care about

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Speaker 3: money at all. If you ask them, do you support

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Speaker 3: creating a giant pile of money, pouring gasoline on it

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Speaker 3: and lighting it on fire, they'd probably say yes. This

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Speaker 3: is about not valuing faith, not valuing people of faith,

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Speaker 3: and having a deep seated animosity of faith, and that

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Speaker 3: is really inconsistent with who we are as an American people.

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Speaker 2: Last thing doesn't deal with politics, Senator, I'm learning this

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Speaker 2: about you. This is my first season doing this podcast

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Speaker 2: with you during the NBA playoffs, which means you're a

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Speaker 2: night I'll staying up late who do you like so far?

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Speaker 2: And you better at least mention my my hometown Memphis Grizzlies.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna confess honestly. So I love hoops.

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Speaker 1: You play several times a week. People may not know that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I play twice a week. I play typically. I

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Speaker 3: play Sunday evenings in Houston with some good friends of mine,

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Speaker 3: and then I play usually Tuesday afternoons. You and I

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Speaker 3: are recording this late Tuesday evening. I will be playing

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Speaker 3: at seven thirty in the morning. On Wednesday, from seven

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Speaker 3: thirty to nine thirty.

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Speaker 4: I'll play.

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Speaker 3: I typically play twice a week, once a week in Houston,

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Speaker 3: once a week in DC.

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Speaker 4: And listen.

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Speaker 2: And that's your workout, that's your exercise. This is that

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Speaker 2: your passion.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I go to the gym and I

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Speaker 3: left also, but I much prefer I like sports. I

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Speaker 3: get bored. I hate running. Running bores me. I feel

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Speaker 3: like a gerbil on a treadmill. I like competition. You

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Speaker 3: and I play tennis. We played tennis a number of times.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately Ben is a thousand times better than I am

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Speaker 3: because he was actually like a college tennis player at

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Speaker 3: Old Miss. But I enjoy it. I'm a very mediocre

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Speaker 3: tennis player. I am a slightly less mediocre basketball player.

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Speaker 3: I was an Okay, I was. I was a mediocre

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Speaker 3: high school varsity basketball player, and I would say at

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Speaker 3: fifty two, i've maintained those skills about the same. But

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Speaker 3: I got to tell you, the truth of the matter

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Speaker 3: is I am a diehard Houston Rockets fan. The Rockets

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Speaker 3: are out of it, and so I'm vaguely watching the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: but I don't really give a damn if the Rockets

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Speaker 3: aren't in it. It's like I'll watch the finals when

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Speaker 3: they happen, but I'm not watching the You know you

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Speaker 3: sent me a text the other day saying, holy craft,

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Speaker 3: did you see Jimmy Butler's numbers? And I saw Sports

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Speaker 3: Center for a minute and I watched.

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Speaker 4: A little bit of it.

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Speaker 3: But if the Rockets aren't in it, I find it.

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Speaker 3: I'm hard pressed to watch the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Look will adopt you, no problem. Grizzlies will adopt you

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Speaker 2: for the playoffs. We're down right now to the Lakers,

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Speaker 2: and I know you can't be a big Lakers fan.

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Speaker 2: So tomorrow night, if you're bored, you should be rooting

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Speaker 2: for my hometown Grizzlies.

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Speaker 4: There you go.

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Speaker 2: I like it, Senator, always a pleasure. Don't forget we

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Speaker 2: do the show Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. Make sure you

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Speaker 2: get that subscriber auto download button so that you get

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Speaker 2: every single episode, and we will see you back here

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Speaker 2: in a couple of days