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Speaker 1: Financial Network Summit for Women Advisors here in Nashville, TENNESSEEE.

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Speaker 1: Last night, many people were watching the next ten presidential

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Speaker 1: Democratic candidates debate each other in Florida. There was a

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Speaker 1: very different tone in this debate. A lot of policies discussed.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen to some snippets from the event. And

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Speaker 1: we have got to pass a Medicare for all single

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Speaker 1: play as system. We have to make sure we understand

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Speaker 1: that the return dignity to the metal class. They have

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Speaker 1: to have insurance that is covered and they can afford it.

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Speaker 1: Everybody who says Medicare for all, every person in politics

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Speaker 1: who allows that phrase to escape their lips, has a

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Speaker 1: responsibility to explain how you're actually supposed to get from

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Speaker 1: here to there. Yes, they will pay more in taxes

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Speaker 1: but less in healthcare for what they get. There was

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Speaker 1: that question when the Republicans and Donald Trump passed a

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Speaker 1: tax bill bit that benefits the top one just says

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Speaker 1: and the biggest separation at the typing. Donald Trump has

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Speaker 1: put us in a horrible situation. We do have enormous

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Speaker 1: income inequality. And the one thing I agree on is

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Speaker 1: we can make massive cuts in the one point six

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Speaker 1: be going about eliminating Donald Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy.

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Speaker 1: We've been listening to the voices of former Vice President

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden, Senators Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, among others,

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Speaker 1: in that debate. Joining us now to unpack what we

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Speaker 1: heard is Doug High, Republican strategist and former RNC communications director,

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Speaker 1: Doug So glad that you could join us. My main

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Speaker 1: question is who are the Republicans. Who is Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: most scared of? Uh? Coming out of these two nights

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Speaker 1: a discussion in the inside the Trump campaign of what

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Speaker 1: is it a change agent, somebody who represents something completely different.

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Speaker 1: I think last night we saw that Kamala Harris has

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Speaker 1: That should certainly send uh, some some worry into the

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Speaker 1: who could learn further to the left. Um, and that

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Speaker 1: is a ground that Republicans want a campaign on. That

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Speaker 1: is exactly the contrast with the Trump campaign would love

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Speaker 1: that's something Democrats need to be careful of. So, Doug,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly where I wanted to go. You know, my

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump wont so, Doug, It's it's interesting. Do you

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Speaker 1: Being from North Carolina, I know I could have that

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your insights. Doug High is a Republican strategist,

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Speaker 1: Talking about the Democratic debate. Joining us is Maria Considine

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Speaker 1: Commonwealth Financial Network. Maria, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Just give us a sense of why this summit is

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Speaker 1: important for the women advisors a Commonwealth. Yeah. Absolutely, So,

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Speaker 1: you know, this month is a momentous month for Commonwealth

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Speaker 1: with with us? Yeah, it is a bit unusual. Um. Lynchburg,

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Speaker 1: has been dry, which simply means there are no liquor

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Speaker 1: you know, starting in nineteen fifty seven, Jack Daniels was

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Speaker 1: really a small, mostly regional brand. Um, it was not

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Speaker 1: you know, we've had a lot of help with growing

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Speaker 1: our brand. Of course, we meant great whiskey here in Lynchburg.

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Speaker 1: But um, you know, back in the fifties our brand

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Speaker 1: during that same time, the rest of the American whiskey

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Speaker 1: spirits and um. For for whatever reason, we were fortunate

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Speaker 1: enough here at Jack Daniels to continue to grow uh

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Speaker 1: and things that really um. Over the last now ten,

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Speaker 1: the fifteen years have come full circle. American whiskey as

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Speaker 1: a whole is as popular as ever uh And of

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Speaker 1: course we're enjoying this rise in popularity just like our

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Speaker 1: other whiskey makers here in the US. Chris Fletcher, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for being with us. Chris Fletcher, Assistant

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Speaker 1: Master Distiller at the Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee.

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