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Speaker 1: Pretty unbelievable. Um, everybody is writing me about this New

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Speaker 1: I think it's beautiful. You do not think that picture

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Speaker 1: And what's the headline? It's um, how far will Sean

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Speaker 1: That's not even the worst of anything that we have.

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Speaker 1: the people in New York, New Jersey, California, Illinois that

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Speaker 1: keep putting into office these politicians that just spend and

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Speaker 1: spend and their corrupt bureaucracies everywhere from Sacramento to Albany

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Speaker 1: to Trenton and in between, Well then you know it's

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Speaker 1: really subsidizing at the states that don't benefit from that

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Speaker 1: deduction of state and local taxes. Well, those are the

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Speaker 1: people in Florida, and those are the people in Texas,

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Speaker 1: and why should they be punished and in part subsidizing

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Speaker 1: a kickback to those people that live and high tax eights.

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Speaker 1: That was stupid enough to elect big spending liberal Democrats

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Speaker 1: in in the City of New York, that's on top,

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Speaker 1: all right, So it's three point five to three point

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Speaker 1: eight percent. So in New York, for example, the top

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Speaker 1: marginal rate federally the state income taxes ten percent. Then

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Speaker 1: it's three point eight percent. That's forty percent. That that's

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Speaker 1: my income tax bill when you add federal, state, and

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Speaker 1: local income taxes, because I live in the stupid state

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Speaker 1: of New York. So the top rate is what nine

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Speaker 1: point nine and then you've got New York City income

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Speaker 1: tax that goes up to three point eight percent. That's

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Speaker 1: another four percent. Then you've got sales tax that goes

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Speaker 1: up to nine. Property taxes insane. In the state of

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Speaker 1: New York. You got a forty five uh sent per

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Speaker 1: gallon gas tax a little more if you buy diesel.

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Speaker 1: And I live in the second highest property tax any

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Speaker 1: in the country. And you know what I get for it?

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Speaker 1: I get a road that they've been trying to fix

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Speaker 1: for three years. When did Hurricane Sandy come a long ago?

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Speaker 1: Was that what two thousand eleven? Kay? Guess what they're

457
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Speaker 1: still fixing the road. Listen. The only good thing that's

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Speaker 1: come out of that one road. And then what they

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Speaker 1: did is the it was it had a I guess

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Speaker 1: one of the retaining walls broke. So instead of just

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Speaker 1: fixing that, they decide, all right, we're gonna fund the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. The only good news. And they have now

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Speaker 1: done it in stages. So you go through six months

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Speaker 1: you have no there's only one road out and to

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Speaker 1: go the back way. Alright, alright, just yeah. It was

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Speaker 1: just before the election with Mitt Romney, and of course

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Speaker 1: we had the Chris Christy Obama hug. He swears it's

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Speaker 1: not a hug. It was a hug. And anyway, so

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Speaker 1: they've been fixing this road for over four years, over

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Speaker 1: four years, and that means twenty extra minutes each way. Actually,

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Speaker 1: one time called the town whatever he is, manager, supervisor

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Speaker 1: of executive or whoever he is, and I said, can

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Speaker 1: you do me a favor? Stop fixing my road? Just stop?

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Speaker 1: I said, I don't want them. I don't care if

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Speaker 1: I ride on pebbles and and deep dirt, I don't

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Speaker 1: care if it's a red dirt road. I'd rather write

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Speaker 1: on that. It's a great Brooks and Done song. By

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Speaker 1: the way, you haven't heard of red dirt road, so

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Speaker 1: good that pull it up there, Jason, don't play a

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Speaker 1: little bit of it. That's where I drank my first beer,

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Speaker 1: where I met Jesus, and I wrecked my first car,

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Speaker 1: and I tore it all the pieces. I learned the

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Speaker 1: Road to Heaven that's in the song. You never heard

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Speaker 1: red dirt road, So I'm asking for a red dirt road.

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Speaker 1: I'm the only person I'm sure that ever called and said,

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Speaker 1: don't fix the road. I don't care about fixing the road.

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Speaker 1: Don't fix it. The only good thing is because I

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Speaker 1: don't follow the rules and they have the cones up

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Speaker 1: and you're not supposed to go through the road ode.

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Speaker 1: I've had my alignment on my car done literally seven

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Speaker 1: separate times, and I have to get the card detailed

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Speaker 1: like once a week. Hang on, we'll get to that

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Speaker 1: in a second, you know. But think about this, they

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Speaker 1: alignment because it's all holes. And the great thing is

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Speaker 1: I got to know all the workers and they're like, oh, hey,

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Speaker 1: is Hannity again breaking the rules. And I just say, listen, guys,

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Speaker 1: can I buy you a lunch? I'm gonna rush, please please,

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Speaker 1: And they're like the deal. So I just but they're

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Speaker 1: great guys. That's The one thing I can tell you,

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Speaker 1: the guys that are doing the work are great people,

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00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: and I got to know them, and they're really nice.

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Speaker 1: I think one day my son was going through and

503
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Speaker 1: I said, really, well, your dad at least buys us

504
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Speaker 1: launch once in a while. It was funny, but they

505
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Speaker 1: worked hard, but it's the longest project in the history

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Speaker 1: of projects. I'd prefer the red dirt Road. All right,

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Speaker 1: So I'm sitting here really wasting time because we've been

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Speaker 1: told any minute now, one minute warning, the President's gonna

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Speaker 1: speak one minute before or after you do your Friday

510
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Speaker 1: sermon all Darryl Scott. What do you mean when I

511
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Speaker 1: went to do the preaching at Darryl Scott that song

512
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Speaker 1: is all about finding Jesus and sinners and believers, which

513
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Speaker 1: quite frankly, if you believe in sin then you are

514
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Speaker 1: you would you would love the song. I believe it's

515
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Speaker 1: a great, great song by that. And then they got

516
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Speaker 1: really fun songs and you know, rock and tunes and

517
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Speaker 1: and h Ronnie Dunne has an amazing Ronnie Ronnie Dunne

518
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Speaker 1: has an amazing set of pipes, just like the guys

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Speaker 1: at Rascal Flats. And Jason is a country music DJ.

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Speaker 1: Were you how many years? Oh? Goodness? And I think

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Speaker 1: it was like three or four that you like it? Yeah? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what, it was my first real radio job,

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Speaker 1: and I figured, you know, if you can't go into

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Speaker 1: it's saying you just hate the music, and I learned

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Speaker 1: to like it. It is good, right. Yeah, Now you're

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Speaker 1: stuck with me. What I'd rather listen to Boots Scoot

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Speaker 1: and that's one of their songs. All right, So we

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Speaker 1: have another missile fired North Rio will stay on that issue.

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Speaker 1: We've got the President having met with Republican leadership about

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Speaker 1: the tax bill. Will get an update the President speaking

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Speaker 1: in the next half hour. Mark Meadows, chairman of the

532
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Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus, is more insight than anybody else up there

533
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Speaker 1: is too in terms of what can actually get done.

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Speaker 1: We'll check in with him. Also an investigative report. Katherine

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Speaker 1: Herridge joins us, and we'll get a lot of your

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Speaker 1: calls in straight ahead eight nine, one shot Pulfrey telephone

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Speaker 1: number if you want to be a part of this extravaganza. Alright,

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Speaker 1: the President has gone into the Roosevelt Room where the

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Speaker 1: media is and uh there with him is Paul Ryan

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Speaker 1: and others. The headline, by the way, on MS Trump

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Speaker 1: flanked by empty chairs. Okay, that's the headline. Now here's

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Speaker 1: what the President has to say about the meeting with

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Speaker 1: Senate Republicans today and the North Korean missile that was

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Speaker 1: fired earlier and wondered for a lot of other things.

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Speaker 1: But the military is always second to them. The military

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Speaker 1: to me number one, we won't be here without our

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Speaker 1: powerful military, and we're building it up stronger, bigger, better

548
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Speaker 1: than ever before. In general matters can testify to that.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing. They want tax increases and we

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Speaker 1: want major tax decreases. So they decided not to show up.

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Speaker 1: They've been all talk and they've been no action, and

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Speaker 1: now it's even worse now it's not even talk. So

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Speaker 1: they're not showing up for the meeting. I will say

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Speaker 1: this in light of the missile launch, probably they'll be

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Speaker 1: here fairly quickly, or at least discussions will start taking

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Speaker 1: place fairly quickly. I think that we're in a very

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Speaker 1: good position in terms of the meeting we just had

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Speaker 1: over at the Capitol with the Republican senators, who was outstanding.

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Speaker 1: I think we have tremendous support. I was just informed

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Speaker 1: by Mitch that we had a unanimous vote from the

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Speaker 1: Republican side. At least we had a united them his

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Speaker 1: vote on the tax bill, and it goes now the

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Speaker 1: next step, and I think we're going to get it passed.

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to pass, and it's going to

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Speaker 1: be very popular. It's going to have lots of adjustments

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Speaker 1: before it ends, but the end result would be a very,

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Speaker 1: very massive, the largest in the history of our country,

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Speaker 1: tax cut, and lots of good things are going to happen,

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Speaker 1: including the bringing back to our country of it probably

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Speaker 1: will end up being over four trillion dollars money offshore

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Speaker 1: that's stagnant, that companies and we're just not able to

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Speaker 1: bring it back. So I think it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a number over four trillion dollars. Corporate will be able

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Speaker 1: to compete now against the world if you look at China,

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Speaker 1: if you look at it so many other countries. To

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Speaker 1: look at many of the countries China is they're lower

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Speaker 1: than us. We're getting it down to a level that

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Speaker 1: is either going to be lower or right in the ballpark,

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Speaker 1: so that we can compete much better with Our companies

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Speaker 1: are great, great companies, and that means jobs and it

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Speaker 1: means lots of other things. I'm very happy to see

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Speaker 1: that the consumer confidence level is just about the highest

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Speaker 1: it's ever been. In fact, I don't want to make

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Speaker 1: any mistakes in front of the press because you'll get

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Speaker 1: me on it. But to the best of my knowledge,

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Speaker 1: it's the highest it's ever been. Consumer confidence has been

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Speaker 1: setting records. They have confidence in the people leading their country.

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Speaker 1: And I will say that I think it's going to

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Speaker 1: go better and better. And I do believe that this

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Speaker 1: vote on taxes, which are really tax cuts and reform,

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Speaker 1: is going to be very, very important. So we had

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Speaker 1: a good day today. We had a phenomenal meeting with

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Speaker 1: the Republican senators. We had. It was very special that meeting.

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Speaker 1: In many respects, I wish you could have been inside

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Speaker 1: that room. It was very very special. The camaraderie to

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Speaker 1: somewhat of a love fest. They want to see it happen.

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Speaker 1: They want to see it happen not only for the

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Speaker 1: Republican Party, I think much more importantly than to see

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Speaker 1: it happen for the country, because they know how important

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Speaker 1: to this for us to compete and win. And with that,

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Speaker 1: I maybe we'll start with Paul Ryan to say a

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Speaker 1: few words about where we stand with different things, and

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Speaker 1: then I'll ask, Okay, I'll just briefly say I think

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Speaker 1: it's regrettable that our Democratic colleagues and leadership chose not

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Speaker 1: to join us today. For a bill to become of all,

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Speaker 1: Congress has to pass a bill and the President signs

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Speaker 1: a bill. That means Congress in the White House always

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Speaker 1: negotiate legislation. We have important work to do, we have

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Speaker 1: big deadlines to meet, we have a military in need

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Speaker 1: of our support, and that work needs to happen now.

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Speaker 1: And I just think it's very regrettable that our Democratic

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Speaker 1: colleges and leadership chose to not participate, because we have

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Speaker 1: to negotiate these bills to get this work done for

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Speaker 1: the people who represent and especially to help our military

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Speaker 1: with these tyficult situations we have. And I just hope

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Speaker 1: that our friends in leadership on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the aisle will choose to participate so we can get

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Speaker 1: the people's work done. Send in this position under a

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Speaker 1: couple of previous presidents, I can't recall ever turning down

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to go down to the White House. As

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Speaker 1: a speaker mentioned, only one person in America can sign

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Speaker 1: a bill at the law and then the President United States.

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Speaker 1: You cannot negotiate the year and the of the spending

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Speaker 1: bill without the person who signed the bill in the room.

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Speaker 1: So I think the Democratic leaders in the House and

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Speaker 1: Senate I need to understand the whey the government works,

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Speaker 1: and we administration has to be a part of the

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Speaker 1: ultimate negotiation over what the spending level is going to

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Speaker 1: be for the next year. But we are very far

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Speaker 1: apart because our views are in crime and our views

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Speaker 1: immigration and the military, so many are different. But a

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Speaker 1: lot of things have happened, even over the list two

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Speaker 1: hours with respect to the missile launch. We want our

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Speaker 1: military funded, and we wanted funded now. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be bigger, better, stronger, and already is than ever before.

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Speaker 1: But we want to get going on that now. So

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Speaker 1: that is a difference. That also is from this morning

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Speaker 1: when I told them that we're way way far away.

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Speaker 1: And with that, I may just have General Matters say

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Speaker 1: just a couple of words about what he has found out. General,

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Speaker 1: do you want to say just a couple of little

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Speaker 1: pieces of information in the President Senator Speaker. A little

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Speaker 1: over two and a half hours ago, North Korea launched

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Speaker 1: an intercontinental ballistic missile. It went higher, frankly than any

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Speaker 1: previous shots they've taken. It's a research and development effort

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Speaker 1: on their part, continued building ballistic missiles that could threaten

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Speaker 1: everywhere in the world. Basically, and in response, the South

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Speaker 1: Koreans have fired some pinpoint missiles out into the water

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Speaker 1: to make certain North Korea understand that they could be

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Speaker 1: taken under fire by our ally. But the bottom line

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Speaker 1: is it's a continued effort to build a threat sir

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Speaker 1: ballistic missile threat that endangers world peace, regional peace, and

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Speaker 1: certainly the United States. Thank you, General, and we will

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Speaker 1: take care of that situation. Thank you all very much.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you. All right, So let me

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Speaker 1: reiterate that was the President talking about a good meeting

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Speaker 1: on the tax bill with the Republicans. Of course, Democrats

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Speaker 1: didn't even bother to show up. They do nothing, Democrats,

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Speaker 1: and they're just out complaining, of course about everything. The

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Speaker 1: more serious issue I'm pressing issue, I think at the moment,

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Speaker 1: is the fact that North Korea launched this i CBM.

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Speaker 1: It flew in the air for fifty minutes. Hang on,

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Speaker 1: the President's taking a few questions pouring into the country.

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Speaker 1: No border wall, which everybody wants. I got elected partially

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Speaker 1: because of the border. Uh. You look at the military.

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Speaker 1: We want strong funding for the military. They don't so

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Speaker 1: many things. As an example, they want high taxes, we

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Speaker 1: want cut taxes. We're gonna cut taxes. We're going to reform,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna simplify. They want high taxes, we want low taxes.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of big differences. So we'll see

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Speaker 1: what happens. As to shut down, we'll see. But right

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Speaker 1: now things have changed over the last two hours because

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Speaker 1: two hours ago and missile was launched. I think that

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Speaker 1: will have a huge effect on Schumer and Pelosi. I

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Speaker 1: think we'll see little learn very soon. They should be

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Speaker 1: calling immediately and said we want to see you, but

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Speaker 1: probably they won't because nothing to them is important other

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Speaker 1: than raising taxes. That's the only thing they like doing

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Speaker 1: is raising taxes. Thank you o very much for sat

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Speaker 1: thumbing you after your Thank you very much, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you. All right, all right, there was mad Dog Maddis.

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Speaker 1: General Maddis was in there, as was McConnell and Paul Ryan.

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Speaker 1: And the meeting went well, and of course the Democrats

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Speaker 1: He's right. All they do want to do is raise taxes,

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Speaker 1: and they're putting out insane demands. I think the bigger

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Speaker 1: issue right now is this North Korean flight. Uh, this

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Speaker 1: North Korean mission missile launch just off the sea, just

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Speaker 1: outside the coastal areas of Japan. That is a flight

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Speaker 1: record for them. It is an intercontinent continental ballistic missile

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Speaker 1: and it flew for fifty minutes. South Korea did make

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Speaker 1: targeted strikes back. Um, this was about six hundred miles

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Speaker 1: this missile flew. And that's saying that we're now getting

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Speaker 1: to the point is as General Maddis said, it can

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Speaker 1: reach any place in the world. And North Korea now

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Speaker 1: completing their nuclear force and um, yes, the President saying

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Speaker 1: they will address soon. And it goes back to what

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Speaker 1: I said at the start of the program. Here there

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Speaker 1: are no good options here. You know. The Japanese Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister has now ordered an emergency meeting of their cabinet

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Speaker 1: members following this launch and a missile being launched from

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Speaker 1: North Korea appears to have landed within Japan's exclusive economics home.

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Speaker 1: Now the question is this is China's region of the world.

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Speaker 1: President recently got back from China apparently had a good relationship,

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Speaker 1: has a good relationship with the president of China, so

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Speaker 1: we'll be watching that. Um. It was an interesting story

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Speaker 1: by Cokey Roberts. You know, she actually admitted that she's

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Speaker 1: known for years that John Conyers, uh could have been

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Speaker 1: abusing female aids. Town Hall reports that Cokey Roberts, speaking

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Speaker 1: in ABC's This Week, confessed that every female in the

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Speaker 1: press court knew to avoid being in an elevator with

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Speaker 1: John Conyers and apparently has known about this for years.

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Speaker 1: She said, don't get in an elevator with him. You know,

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Speaker 1: every female in the press court knew that, right, don't

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Speaker 1: get in the elevator with him. Now people are saying

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Speaker 1: it out loud, and I think that that does make

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Speaker 1: a difference. Robert said that while this has been the

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Speaker 1: status quot for decades, she believes that things should change. Now, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean? Don't get in an elevator with somebody? Um.

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Speaker 1: By the way, so that a lot was made over

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Speaker 1: the president, the fake news media ginning up the you know,

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Speaker 1: one Trump scandal after another for the past twenty four hours,

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Speaker 1: breathlessly reporting the use of the term Pocahontas and Uh

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Speaker 1: for Elizabeth Warren, who tried to pass herself off as

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Speaker 1: a minority. Well, anyway, the President said, referred to her

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Speaker 1: again as pocahonas in this meeting that he had yesterday.

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Speaker 1: The media became apoplectic. Senator Warren took the queue and

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Speaker 1: and of course she says, well, it's code word. It's racist.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a racist. Well, one of the code

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Speaker 1: talkers who the President was supposedly offending, actually said the

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Speaker 1: Pocahona's remark wasn't offending in the least anyway. Thomas Beggy

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Speaker 1: Eats broke his silence and uh literally said the Marines

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Speaker 1: made a shell geronimo when we jumped out of planes.

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Speaker 1: We didn't. That didn't offend me either. There is a

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Speaker 1: new poll out by Change Research. I don't know who

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Speaker 1: they are in Alabama that chose Roy more more up

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Speaker 1: by five. So we'll watch that. Um. In other news,

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Speaker 1: we have today now the GOP tax plan, according to

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Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal, and I know that there are

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Speaker 1: those opposing it and now complaining by the way that

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Speaker 1: it increases the national debt by one point four trillion

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Speaker 1: over ten year period. But what the critics won't tell

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Speaker 1: you is the CBO assumes a growth rate at an

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Speaker 1: anemic one nine that was the g d P under

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Speaker 1: Obama under Trump or aheaded for three plus g d

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Speaker 1: P growth and if that holds for ten years, that

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Speaker 1: will that would be more than can't that would more

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Speaker 1: than cancel out the one point four trillion and additional debt.

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Speaker 1: It's all how you do the math and do you

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Speaker 1: want economic growth? And the President also very clear in

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Speaker 1: this press conference at you know, he'll let the government

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Speaker 1: shut down rather than flood the US with illegal immigrants.

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Speaker 1: And he said meeting with Chuck and Nancy today about

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Speaker 1: keeping government open and working. You know, the problem is

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Speaker 1: they wanted illegal immigrants flooding into our country, unchecked their

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Speaker 1: week on crime, and they want to substantially raise taxes.

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Speaker 1: I don't see a deal. I don't see the President

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Speaker 1: giving in on that either. And the government never shuts

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Speaker 1: down anyway. Alright, eight one seawan are toll free telephone

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Speaker 1: number if you want to be a part of the program.

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Speaker 1: We'll get your reaction to all this when we get back.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's set our businesy phones here, all right. UM,

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are angry over this,

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Speaker 1: this tax bill, and I want to deal with some

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Speaker 1: of this. Um let's say hi to Angela's in Virginia.

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Speaker 1: What's up, Angela? How are you today? I'm good? What's

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Speaker 1: going on? Okay? Well, I sit down and did some

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Speaker 1: figuring on this new tax thing, the Best Act, and

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Speaker 1: tell my adjusted growth income those up and not down.

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Speaker 1: We're just, you know, middle class, both of both my

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Speaker 1: husband and I work. I'm not I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: be nosy. How do we define middle class? That's always

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Speaker 1: a question you gotta ask. I mean, um, well we

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Speaker 1: make about sixty I mean, maybe we're lower middle class

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Speaker 1: for that matter. I don't know exactly where it falls,

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Speaker 1: but I know Mr Meadows is coming on soon. And well,

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Speaker 1: you're in your case, you should absolutely be getting a

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Speaker 1: tax cut. Why do you why do you add that

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Speaker 1: it's a tax increase? Explain it to me, Sean. They're

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Speaker 1: getting rid of the exemptions, the dependent exemptions. You know,

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Speaker 1: right now you can claim four thousand and fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: a person. So they upped your standard deduction, which no

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Speaker 1: longer we will we will no longer be able to

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Speaker 1: itemize since they're upping the standard deduction. But we lose

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Speaker 1: our exemptions are dependent exemption. Um, so our justic of

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Speaker 1: growth income will go up with this tax plan. My understanding,

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Speaker 1: my understanding, it was a net plus for people in

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Speaker 1: your category. And and and that's after reading an awful

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Speaker 1: lot about it, because you know, look, a lot of

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Speaker 1: things are in play here. I can tell you my case.

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Speaker 1: For sure, my taxes go up, even though I might

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Speaker 1: even end up with a lower rate based on the

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Speaker 1: lack of deductions. Now, I gotta imagine what does the

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Speaker 1: stating come tax in the Commonwealth, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: off top of my head, I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's not high, though it's it's not bad. It's maybe

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Speaker 1: two or three percent. It's not like New York or

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Speaker 1: California or something. Oh no, no, it's not like that.

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Speaker 1: The Virginia is a great place to live. And even

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Speaker 1: despite you know, our leadership here, um, we we love Virginia,

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Speaker 1: you know. But because because a family that's I don't know,

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Speaker 1: that makes say twenty four couples that make four thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars a year, you're not gonna pay any taxes on

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Speaker 1: your first twenty four thousand. So taxes you might might

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Speaker 1: pay would be after the fact. But you're saying that

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Speaker 1: you're losing a specific deduction that kind of offsets that.

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Speaker 1: Is that what you're telling me exactly? To me, it's

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Speaker 1: just a slight of hand. They raised the standard deduction,

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Speaker 1: but they got rid of the four thousand dollars. Listen,

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Speaker 1: in tomorrow, I'm gonna get a tax expert on and

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Speaker 1: we'll go over all of that. Particularly, I'll bring your

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Speaker 1: case up personal blowback to me, to my family, to uh,

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Speaker 1: my office. I've heard people say this is overblown. I've

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Speaker 1: heard people say this is much ado about nothing. Had

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Speaker 1: the information been released, there would have been harm to

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Speaker 1: national security, so putting lives at risk, absolutely sources and methods,

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Speaker 1: lives operations. He read through these affidavits very thoroughly, and

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Speaker 1: he said this is extremely reckless. And he mentioned something

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Speaker 1: about the campaign would have uh, we'll have heartburn about

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Speaker 1: that or something. All of a sudden, I became a

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Speaker 1: shill of the right. I was told by members of

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Speaker 1: Congress be careful, you're losing your credibility where people out

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Speaker 1: to get you. There was certainly a coordinated strategy that I,

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Speaker 1: in fact I not only think it, I think it

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Speaker 1: very very much so based on evidence. Yes, there was

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Speaker 1: an effort on the certainly on the part of the campaign,

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Speaker 1: to mislead people into thinking that there was nothing to

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Speaker 1: see here. It's frankly the thing that disappointed me the

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Speaker 1: most was the president saying there's classified and then there's classified.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people in the intel community spend a

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Speaker 1: lot of time keeping secrets secret, and to sort of

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Speaker 1: inject that sense of confusion into people, I don't think

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Speaker 1: was was altogether responsible. It was told that we would

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Speaker 1: be the first two to be fired with her administration,

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Speaker 1: that that was definitely going to happen. Is that how

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be? No, I was in this context

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Speaker 1: the whistleblower. I was explaining to Congress. I was doing

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Speaker 1: exactly what they had expected me to do, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden I was the enemy. McCully is cooking

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Speaker 1: you of retaliating against him. What's your response to them

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Speaker 1: from I G. Charles McCullough is accusing you of retaliating

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Speaker 1: against him regards the Clinton email investigation, which responsed, I

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Speaker 1: have no idea what he's talking about. Did you try

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Speaker 1: to get into resign from this position in regard to

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Speaker 1: the investigation? No, not at all, Not that I know

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Speaker 1: of did you co sign a letter to do so?

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Speaker 1: I don't remember, all right? That was Kerry Pickett asking

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Speaker 1: that question of Diane Feinstein. So what you have is

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Speaker 1: an Obama appointed inspector general saying he was marginalized and

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Speaker 1: threatened when he raised the alarm about former Secretary of

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Speaker 1: State Hillary Clinton and a private email server. Charles McCullough,

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Speaker 1: who oversaw the intelligence community, said that he contacted then

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Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about this specific issue,

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Speaker 1: and McCulloch was told later told who not to report

854
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Speaker 1: his concerns to Clapper and receive personal blowback to his

855
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Speaker 1: family and his office and emails beyond top secret passed

856
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Speaker 1: through that unsecured server. Anyway, Katherine Herrihage of the Fox

857
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Speaker 1: News channel is the one that broke the story wide

858
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Speaker 1: opened and she joins us, Now, Katherine, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much for having me. Okay, let's start at

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Speaker 1: the beginning here. You've got a government watchdog playing a

861
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Speaker 1: role in the email investigation during the Obama era that

862
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Speaker 1: his family and staff faced intense backlash. Tell us the

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Speaker 1: whole story. Okay, So, Charles McCullough, U is someone who

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Speaker 1: devoted twenty six years to government service. He's someone who

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Speaker 1: is highly specialized in investigations. He worked for the FBI,

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Speaker 1: the Treasury Department, the National Security Agency before becoming the

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Speaker 1: internal watchdog for the US intelligence community. So this is

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Speaker 1: someone with a lot of experience and a lot of credibility.

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Speaker 1: His job with the Clinton emails was to the findings

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Speaker 1: of the different intelligence agencies that reviewed them, and then

871
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Speaker 1: to collect them and then to report them as fact.

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Speaker 1: So it wasn't Charles McCullough saying these emails are classified,

873
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Speaker 1: these emails are not. It was the CIA telling him

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Speaker 1: this is our information. We got the information, we have

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Speaker 1: finalcy on the information, and this was top secret at

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Speaker 1: the time it hit the Clinton server, and it based

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Speaker 1: on our reporting and covering this issue now for a

878
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Speaker 1: couple of years. To me sewn, it's a case of

879
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Speaker 1: almost shooting the messenger. He was the one with the

880
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,799
Speaker 1: findings from the intelligence community, and when he delivered it

881
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Speaker 1: to Congress, he says he was immediately marginalized as in

882
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Speaker 1: his words, a shill of the right, when he was

883
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Speaker 1: doing exactly what they had confirmed him to do, which

884
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Speaker 1: was to report the findings, the independent findings of the

885
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Speaker 1: intelligence agency into this exposure of classified information on the

886
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Speaker 1: Clinton server. It seemed like though a web is cast

887
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Speaker 1: much wider as your report that he was told by

888
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Speaker 1: members of Congress, you better be careful. You're losing your credibility.

889
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: You need to be careful. There are people out to

890
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Speaker 1: get you. And meanwhile, he is talking about a vulnerability

891
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Speaker 1: of really severe proportions and national security issues that are

892
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Speaker 1: at stake because he's saying that things beyond top secret

893
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Speaker 1: will put on that server, and they had information to

894
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Speaker 1: confirm all of that, and the right thing to do

895
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Speaker 1: would have been to put a stop to it, wouldn't it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the listen. The intelligence community confirmed that there were at

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Speaker 1: least twenty two emails beyond top secret or top secret,

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Speaker 1: and including what they call SAP programs. These are special

899
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Speaker 1: access programs. These are the most closely held government programs.

900
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Speaker 1: You have to sign in and then be briefed, and

901
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Speaker 1: then you sign out of the program. So this is

902
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Speaker 1: a very compartmentalized piece of nation. By the way, SAP

903
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Speaker 1: or what we call special Access program information, and that

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Speaker 1: that is the highest level of confidentiality, top secret that

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Speaker 1: you can have. Correct, that's right, this is I mean

906
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Speaker 1: to so I don't want to be um music cliche,

907
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Speaker 1: but sort of the crown jewels of the U. S.

908
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: Intelligence community. These are the most closely held programs. And

909
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Speaker 1: some of this information was identified in the Clinton emails,

910
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Speaker 1: not by Charles McCullough as the Inspector General, but by

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Speaker 1: the agencies that own the information and got the information.

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Speaker 1: And you're alluding to I think one of the most

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Speaker 1: important headlines in the interview, which is that this issue

914
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Speaker 1: of national security became immediately politicized once the agency said

915
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Speaker 1: there was classified information in the Clinton emails. And if

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Speaker 1: you go through some of the Podesta emails, as I

917
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Speaker 1: sort of refreshed my memory on Wiki leaks, what you

918
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: can see is that the campaign had really nailed down

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Speaker 1: their talking points that there was nothing classified, nothing marked,

920
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Speaker 1: class suffied, Nothing sent you received at the time was classified.

921
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Speaker 1: Even though this review of emails had had barely begun,

922
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Speaker 1: they had reached their own conclusion because that was was

923
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Speaker 1: the talking point for the campaign. This was not a

924
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Speaker 1: reflection of the facts the amount of classified information and

925
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Speaker 1: how this spillage really impacts national security. Charles McCulla sean said,

926
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Speaker 1: you know, people put their lives on the line to

927
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Speaker 1: protect the information and it's it's not a political issue,

928
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: it's alives on the line issue. And he took great

929
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: offense that the campaign only approached it politically, and then

930
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: he said to us in the interview he felt several

931
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Speaker 1: senior Democrats also politicized the issue as well and pushed

932
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Speaker 1: the national security piece into the background. You know, I

933
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: really just have to wonder as I looked through all

934
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Speaker 1: of this. You know that Clapper you quote in your

935
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Speaker 1: article saying this is extremely reckless, and then he mentioned

936
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Speaker 1: something about the campaign. I assume the Hillary campaign will

937
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: have heartburn about this. So he's acknowledging that it's dangerous, reckless,

938
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Speaker 1: and didn't we at Fox. I think it was Brett

939
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Speaker 1: Bear who first reported that likelihood that that foreign intelligence

940
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Speaker 1: agencies had picked up information from that private server. We

941
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Speaker 1: reached out to the former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper,

942
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Speaker 1: with our questions, does any work for CNN? Now uh,

943
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Speaker 1: he does, But um so, in a case such as this,

944
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Speaker 1: I would always reach out to them, because I would

945
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Speaker 1: never put a story out with the gravity of this

946
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Speaker 1: information without getting the questions to him. And I can

947
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Speaker 1: confirm I got the questions to him, but in this

948
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Speaker 1: particular case, um, he chose not to respond, but you know,

949
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Speaker 1: extremely reckless. I don't know what the differences between extremely

950
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:56,799
Speaker 1: reckless and gross negligence. But McCullough says that Clapper was

951
00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: also very unsettled about what was happening with these emails.

952
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: And you know, only D and I Clapper can really

953
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 1: explain whether he knew there was an effort to marginalize

954
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: McCullough at that time, or whether he took additional steps

955
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:17,760
Speaker 1: to try and support this investigation. All right, what about

956
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: do we have any confirmation that the two top secret

957
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: Clinton emails deemed to be too classified to release under

958
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: any circumstances according to McCullen and according to standard operating

959
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: procedure and protocol. Do we have any belief knowledge that,

960
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: in fact they ended up in the hands of foreign entities.

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Speaker 1: There's been no confirmation of that. But what I would

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Speaker 1: say is that when you look through these are the

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Speaker 1: entire calendar, if you will, often, you can see that

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Speaker 1: virtually every network was under cyber attack at that time.

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Speaker 1: So it would be quite striking if the Clinton Surfer

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Speaker 1: was the only river that was not somehow attacked or

967
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Speaker 1: compromised during that period. Unbelievable I mean, this is so

968
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Speaker 1: big and so blockbuster, you know, one of the things,

969
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: and I guess people would say that I politicized it,

970
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: but I mean, I don't know. And I've never heard

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00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:20,399
Speaker 1: of a case where Congress subpoenas thirty thousand emails and

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00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: they get deleted, and just to make super sure, they

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00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: use bleach bit to delete it. And then devices like

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00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 1: blackberries they take a hammer too and smash them into

975
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Speaker 1: smith ens. And all the FBI got that was handed

976
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Speaker 1: over and correct me if I'm wrong, was a BlackBerry

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Speaker 1: without a SIM card. Well they got a little bit

978
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: more than that, you know, they got this the server

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Speaker 1: or servers as it turned out, and they got these

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00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:46,760
Speaker 1: thumb drives from Hillary Clinton's um lawyer, David David Kendall.

981
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Speaker 1: But the bigger issue here is to me at least,

982
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: is that you have someone who is confirmed into this

983
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:59,720
Speaker 1: position to be truly independent. I mean, that is their job.

984
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 1: And when they are independent and they present facts that

985
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: were certainly very inconvenient for the Democratic nominee, he says

986
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: that really the tide turned against him so so much

987
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: so that sort of word was put out through the

988
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 1: system that if Hillary Clinton became president that he would

989
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: be among the first to be fired. And and that

990
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: really raises a question over whether there was in fact

991
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: an abuse of power right using the government for political payback.

992
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: And I asked the Clinton campaign, their former spokesman to

993
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: respond to our questions, and he he did not respond

994
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: um either. But I think that's a really legitimate issue

995
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: to pursue further. And mccola is someone you know, almost

996
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: thirty years in the government, working in public service, trying

997
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: to do the right thing. But then the facts made

998
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 1: it very difficult for people to get their arms around

999
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: these issues. And I can tell you, as a reporter

1000
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: who works in intelligence, I felt I sort of crossed

1001
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: over into some of the politics, you know, the sort

1002
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: of political coverage. But so much was said to reporters

1003
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: that really was extremely misleading, like terms such as retroactively

1004
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: classified or upgraded classified. Remember the emails weren't classified at

1005
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 1: the time, but then when they were reviewed they were

1006
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: found to be classified. This is um, this is not

1007
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: the norm, This is really the exception. This is just

1008
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 1: not how it happens. In fact, if you think about

1009
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Speaker 1: it logically, over time, as the intelligence gets older, in fact,

1010
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: it becomes less and less classified, right, it doesn't get

1011
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: more and more class, right, So I I just I

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00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 1: look at it now, and I look at the terms,

1013
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: and I look at what happened, and um, Charles mccalluugh

1014
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 1: himself said he felt that there really was an effort

1015
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: to mislead the public. So it became a kind of

1016
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: nothing to see. Um here. But the public, you know,

1017
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: the American public is very smart and they have a

1018
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: way to see through a lot of things that make

1019
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,040
Speaker 1: up their um own minds. But Charles McCulloch I think

1020
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: deserves a lot of credit for stepping forward and really

1021
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 1: I think speaking very candidly about his sort of eyewitness

1022
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Speaker 1: to history and what happened in amazing reporting as usual.

1023
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Speaker 1: Katherine Herridge colleague at the Fox News Channel, and by

1024
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Speaker 1: the way, she has I never I've never known one,

1025
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: not one. I owed a where you're stay in politically.

1026
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Speaker 1: I've never asked you. I appreciate that. All Right, we'll

1027
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Speaker 1: take a break. We'll come back more with Katherine Herridge

1028
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Speaker 1: of the Fox News Channel. Hi. Katherine Herridge continues with

1029
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Speaker 1: US investigative reporter with the Fox News Channel. Um, if

1030
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Speaker 1: I could just see one last thing about Senator Feinstein. Um,

1031
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: what what I wanted to make clear is Charles McCulloch

1032
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Speaker 1: told us that in March of six, he and the

1033
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Speaker 1: Inspector General at the State Department, so the State Department's

1034
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Speaker 1: internal watchdog, they received a letter from seven senior Democrats

1035
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: and they said they had serious questions over whether this

1036
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 1: review was impartial, whether there was an anti Clinton um bias,

1037
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: and the Democrats are you know, absolutely within their lane

1038
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: to send a letter like that and to raise these questions.

1039
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 1: Is our system works. But let me just say he

1040
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: was under tremendous pressure to respond to that letter, and

1041
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: about six weeks before the election, he said he told

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01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: Diane Finstein's chief of staff that he would not respond

1043
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: to the letter. It was too close to the election.

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01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: It would hyper politicize the issue. Remember we're coming right

1045
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 1: off the comy statement in the summer, And he said,

1046
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:36,439
Speaker 1: you can tell her that I will resign if that's

1047
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: what's required. So that's how that all went down. And

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01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: and I did not receive a response from Senator Feinstein's

1049
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 1: office either to our to our questions, and um that's

1050
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 1: really worthy of additional exploration. But he, you know, he

1051
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: was trying to do the right thing, you know, six

1052
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: weeks before the election, He's like, I'm I can't. I

1053
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 1: can't weigh in on this now, you know, we we

1054
01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: can't do that. That's not how we operate. And he

1055
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: threatened to resign and that's you know, this is no

1056
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Speaker 1: small thing for someone who had been in the government

1057
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Speaker 1: for twenty five years. Unbelievable work. Katherine Herridge, reporter r

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Speaker 1: d C reporter of Fox News Channel. Thank you for

1059
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:14,800
Speaker 1: sharing the great work that you've done. Great great leg

1060
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Speaker 1: work on on all of this, coming up next our

1061
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:21,920
Speaker 1: final news round up and information overload our and I

1062
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: do believe that this vote on taxes, which are really

1063
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: tax cuts and reform, is going to be very very important.

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Speaker 1: So we had a good day today. We had a

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Speaker 1: phenomenal meeting with the Republican senators. They want to see

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Speaker 1: it happened, not only for the Republican Party, I think

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Speaker 1: much more importantly, they want to see it happen for

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Speaker 1: the country because they know how important it is. But

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Speaker 1: we are very far apart because our views are in

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Speaker 1: crime and our views on immigration and the military, so

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Speaker 1: many are different. They want high taxes, we want cut taxes.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna cut taxes. We're gonna reform, We're gonna simplify.

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Speaker 1: They want high taxes, we want low taxes. So there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of big differences. So we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: As to shut down, we'll see if the President isn't

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Speaker 1: interest in addressing the difficult ear agenda and wants to

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Speaker 1: make the government shutdown, we'll work with those Republicans who

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Speaker 1: are interested in funding the government, as we did in April.

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Speaker 1: We have so many things to do. We have to

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Speaker 1: fund the government. We have DOCCA, we have the children's

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Speaker 1: health insurance program. We must reinstate cost sharing for health

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Speaker 1: premiums and out of pocket costs. We have to deal

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Speaker 1: with disasters. We have to fund our defense and our

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Speaker 1: non defense sides of the government in a reasonable way.

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Speaker 1: There's so much to do. We're eager to get that

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Speaker 1: done in a bipartisan way. Obviously the President isn't, but

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Speaker 1: hopefully Leader McConnell and Speaker Ryan are. They got nothing done.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, that was Senator cry baby Chucky Schumer whining

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Speaker 1: and complaining. Well, I'm gonna meets trying to divide the

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Speaker 1: Republican Party. I'll meet with the leadership, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to meet with the President, and he literally just

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Speaker 1: said no to meeting with the president. All right, As

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Speaker 1: I told you yesterday, the next three and a half

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Speaker 1: weeks are going to be very, very crucial in terms of,

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Speaker 1: you know, whether or not the Republicans are gonna have

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Speaker 1: any identity and the Senate and get anything done. And

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Speaker 1: on a lot of fronts. There's about eight senators who

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Speaker 1: are gonna decide whether this tax reform bill is going

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Speaker 1: to go through, this tax cut bill will go through.

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Speaker 1: And joining us now to tell us the state of affairs.

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Speaker 1: And on Capitol Hilly is the Freedom Caucus Chairman Congressman

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Speaker 1: Mark Meadows of North Carolina. How are you, sir? I'm

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Speaker 1: doing well, Sean. It's great to be with you. I

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Speaker 1: tell you, I must admit the picture of you on

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Speaker 1: the front of the New York magazine. How how far

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Speaker 1: will Sean Hannity you go? I mean, listen, it's very

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Speaker 1: becoming of you, my friend. Do you think they could

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Speaker 1: have picked a more realistic picture of me? Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: It makes you out to be like Uhlan off of

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Speaker 1: Batman or something. You know. The funny thing is, and

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Speaker 1: so I you sit there, they take like a thousand

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Speaker 1: pictures And in the beginning I was joking. I said, here,

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Speaker 1: this is the shot you want and I and I

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Speaker 1: did it on purpose, and they actually chose that shot,

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Speaker 1: I mean, because that's how they that's how they want

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Speaker 1: to portray conservatives. Well, it is exactly how they want

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Speaker 1: to portray conservatives. Let me, if they realized exactly what

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Speaker 1: was behind the man's face, in his brain and how

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Speaker 1: he indeed loves America, perhaps they would have put a

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Speaker 1: different picture. But you know this is uh, this is

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Speaker 1: the liberals view of who you are, Sean, but I

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Speaker 1: can tell you America knows better it was. I must

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Speaker 1: confess that. Uh, I was taken back by the picture

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Speaker 1: on the front of the magazine. Well, I kind of

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Speaker 1: like Bannon's quote that I am the voice of the

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Speaker 1: deplorable because I'm one of them. And uh, look, we've

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Speaker 1: got a lot to get done. This to me, is

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Speaker 1: now the most serious time for the Publican party. Either

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have some without a doubt, and I'm not confident.

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Speaker 1: You've got eight Republican senators that are indicating that they

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Speaker 1: could vote against this tax pill. And from what I

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Speaker 1: hear is going on, I mean, Ron Johnson is not convinced.

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Speaker 1: Corker is not convinced. Steve Danza Montana, John McCain, of course,

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Speaker 1: Senator Langford of Oklahoma, Susan Collins, Jeff Snowflake of Arizona,

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Speaker 1: Lisa Murkowski, got Senator Iran and Mark Arrubio who said

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Speaker 1: that he's not decided yet. Yeah, You've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of people that that are up in the air Sean

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Speaker 1: and listen, Failure is not an option, you know that. Uh, Listen,

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Speaker 1: If we can't put this on the President's desk by

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Speaker 1: December twenty one and have him sign in the law,

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Speaker 1: there is no reason to have a Republican majority. The

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Speaker 1: American people know that. I mean, if we can't do

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Speaker 1: things differently than the previous administration and actually allow the

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Speaker 1: House and Senate to pass this bill, uh, shame on us.

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Speaker 1: I can't you that I am, but I am optimistic.

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Speaker 1: We need to keep the pressure on the Senate. I

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Speaker 1: talked to Senator Lankford this morning on the backstop idea.

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Speaker 1: I think it's something that has merit. If if we

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Speaker 1: can do that, maybe we get Flake in the Senator Lankford,

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Speaker 1: Senator Corker, Uh, you know, some of the more deficit

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Speaker 1: hawks on board, but we've got to keep the pressure.

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Speaker 1: And obviously the President has been all hands on deck

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Speaker 1: to try to make me sure we get this done.

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Speaker 1: But it's you know, I'm pointed this out last night.

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Speaker 1: If you if you look at, for example, the confirmation

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Speaker 1: process in the Senate, well they have only confirmed in

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Speaker 1: a year fifty of the appointments that the President has made.

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Speaker 1: I know that Mitch McConnell is whining that expectations are

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Speaker 1: too high. We know that the failed spectacularly on repealing

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Speaker 1: and replacing Obamacare. You guys in the House have passed

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Speaker 1: what four bills and resolutions and they haven't taken up

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Speaker 1: a one of them and gotten it passed. And and

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Speaker 1: good laws by the way, Kate's Law and sanctuary cities.

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Speaker 1: You did pass the repeal and replace bill in large

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Speaker 1: part because of your efforts behind the scenes to get

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Speaker 1: that done. It passed by one vote, but you got

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Speaker 1: it done. And it's none of this has happened in

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Speaker 1: the Senate. And I'm just wondering if if these few

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Speaker 1: senators are willing to let the whole Republican Party bear

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Speaker 1: the brunt of political payback at the polls and eighteen

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Speaker 1: if they fail here, well they if we will actually

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Speaker 1: have received the blunt in two thousand eighteen, and maybe

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Speaker 1: the Senate won't, but I can tell you the House will.

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Speaker 1: And for Mitch McConnell to say the expectations are too high,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you the expectations, in my mind are

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Speaker 1: too old. We've got to find a way to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we actually do what we say we're going

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Speaker 1: to do when we're on the campaign trail, and that

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Speaker 1: is is not only repeal and replace Obamacare, cut taxes

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Speaker 1: for for all of your listeners and those who do

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Speaker 1: most of the the hiring and the firing across the country,

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Speaker 1: making sure that we actually do a welfare reform bill,

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Speaker 1: cut regulations, you know, and and god forbid, uh, we

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Speaker 1: actually reduced the size of government. Alongside of that, we've

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Speaker 1: we've got to make sure that we actually promote the

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Speaker 1: Trump agenda that so many Americans, both Republicans and Democrats,

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Speaker 1: voted for on November eight You know, if you look

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Speaker 1: at the things I mean, just by getting rid of

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Speaker 1: burdensome regulation, which the President has been able to do

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Speaker 1: on his own, you know, we've made a lot of progress.

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Speaker 1: And you know what I know there's been a lot

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Speaker 1: of fighting against the president's agenda, and there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of hatred, especially among some senators here. But you know,

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Speaker 1: you had Forner and thirteen bills and and joint resolutions

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Speaker 1: you passed out of the House. They haven't taken those up.

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Speaker 1: Of the president's five and fifteen nominations, only two D

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Speaker 1: forty nine have yet to be approved in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: And in spite of all of that, we've had a

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Speaker 1: pretty big amount of success on the economy as it

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Speaker 1: relates to the president. And that means, you know, we've got,

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Speaker 1: for example, he appointed Neil Gorst's. The economy is booming.

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Speaker 1: You know, two sixty one thousand jobs created in October alone.

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Speaker 1: Unemployment is out of seventeen year low, consumer confidence of

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Speaker 1: seventeen year high, existing home prices for all housing types

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Speaker 1: up in October eight point seven percent, the stock markets

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Speaker 1: at an all time high. You have the lowest number

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Speaker 1: of participants and food stamps in seven years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these are all good numbers that all show and economy

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Speaker 1: is just set to roll. And I'm just trying to

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Speaker 1: understand what what part of this isn't Republican is in conservative? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean all of the economy rolling is conservative. But

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Speaker 1: sadly the President is out working in the Congress. And

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm hearing when I go back home. That's

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Speaker 1: what you're hearing from your listeners. And and truly the

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Speaker 1: people that are so frustrated, they're saying the President is

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Speaker 1: doing his part. Isn't it time that Congress gets involved

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Speaker 1: in it. Just left a meeting with the number of

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Speaker 1: leading economists and the they are so optimistic about what

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Speaker 1: you just went over is just all the indicators are

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Speaker 1: looking at extremely good for our economy. And if we

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Speaker 1: can get this tax reform package is signed into law

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Speaker 1: this year, I think we'll see economic growth that we

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Speaker 1: haven't seen since, you know, for the last two decades.

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Speaker 1: And here here's my one criticism though, in many ways,

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Speaker 1: I think that the Republican Party is so fearful of

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Speaker 1: how the Democrats position them. In many ways, I love

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Speaker 1: the corporate tax, I love the middle class tax cut,

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Speaker 1: I love repatriation. I love the President and Congress moving

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Speaker 1: towards energy independence because that will create millions of high

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Speaker 1: paying career jobs. But when it comes to the issue

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Speaker 1: of of Reagan across the board, supply side economics all

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Speaker 1: brackets get greatly reduced. It seems the Republican Party has

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Speaker 1: abandoned that, and I think that's a big part of

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Speaker 1: the equation. I think you'll get a lot of economic

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Speaker 1: growth out of out of the corporate tax cut, middle

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Speaker 1: class tax cuts, for patriation, and energy. But you get

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Speaker 1: more if you would cut taxes for everybody. Well, you're

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Speaker 1: spot on, Sean. I can tell you that the President

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Speaker 1: and you and I agree on this. Uh. In fact,

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Speaker 1: he believes we need to be more aggressive on these

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Speaker 1: individual rates, getting them down. Uh. That we've fallen fallen

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Speaker 1: into a narrative that says that we we can't give

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Speaker 1: everybody tax cuts because you know that we need to

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Speaker 1: pick the winners and losers. And that is a Democrat

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Speaker 1: talking point. We need to make sure lower taxes stimulate

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Speaker 1: the economy. They always have. Uh, just like lower capital gains.

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Speaker 1: I was sharing with this economic group. Any time that

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Speaker 1: you lower capital gains, it actually increases the amount of

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Speaker 1: investment and revenue you get. It only works of the time.

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Speaker 1: So why why do we sit here and play around

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Speaker 1: the edges to talk about what we should and shouldn't

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Speaker 1: do with Democratic talking points? Uh? At least I believe

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Speaker 1: that Republicans need to be bold in this. They also

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Speaker 1: need to understand it. If there are political consequences for

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Speaker 1: doing the right thing, at least they can go home

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Speaker 1: and rest assured that they've done the right thing for

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Speaker 1: the people that they represent. So well said, We'll continue.

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Speaker 1: Mark Meadows, Congressman North Carolina. He's the chairman of the

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Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus eight nine one. Shawn is our number right

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Speaker 1: as we continue. Mark Meadows is with us. He is

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Speaker 1: the chairman of the Freedom Caucus. Um, where are we

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Speaker 1: with all these investigations that I know get started and

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Speaker 1: we never get them concluded as it relates to Hillary

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Speaker 1: and her email server, Hillary and the dossier that she

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Speaker 1: paid for with phony Russian propaganda and lies in the

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Speaker 1: lead up to the election, Hillary and the uranium one deal,

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Speaker 1: what's going on in Congress? And is there an appetite

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Speaker 1: now amongst the leadership to do the right thing and

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Speaker 1: maintain equal justice under the law. Well, I don't know

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Speaker 1: that there's an appetite among the leadership, but there certainly

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Speaker 1: is an appetite with your listeners, with a few members

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Speaker 1: in the House. Jim Jordan and I, as you know,

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Speaker 1: really said, we've got to actually look into the details

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Speaker 1: of not only the uranium one deal, but also the

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Speaker 1: docier that actually, uh, in my mind was was helped

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Speaker 1: funded potentially by the FBI itself. And so Jim and

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Speaker 1: I and Matt Gates and a few others have actually

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Speaker 1: worked on this, uh over the last of four weeks

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Speaker 1: or so, and I can tell you more formal investigations

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01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:38,480
Speaker 1: are gonna happen. Jim and I are actually uh preparing

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01:13:38,800 --> 01:13:43,720
Speaker 1: an investigative strategy on who to interview, what documents to get, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: But the more we look into it, Sean, the scarier

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Speaker 1: it is. I mean, you have the FBI actually reimbursing

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Speaker 1: Christopher Steele, who was originally hired by the Clinton uh

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Speaker 1: Clinton campaign by the df By the way, Fusion GPS

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01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:06,480
Speaker 1: was hired by a Republican But Christopher Steele was hired

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Speaker 1: by the Democrats by Hillary's campaign, and that's where the

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01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: phony Russian dossier came in, not when the Republicans used

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Speaker 1: Fusion GPS. That's an important distinction. And I appreciate you

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01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:19,719
Speaker 1: you're showing the clarification because you're exactly right. What happened

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01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 1: is is once Trump got the nomination, the Republican kind

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01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:28,440
Speaker 1: of left it by the wayside. Fusion GPS then approaches

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01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 1: the Clintons and and so you've got the d n C,

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01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:37,759
Speaker 1: the Clintons, uh, perhaps even the Obama campaign that actually

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01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 1: started at the same exact time to give nine hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars to the same law firm that that hired

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01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 1: this uh. Uh what I would say is a hit

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01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:53,400
Speaker 1: piece on on the president. And yet here's the thing

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Speaker 1: that is most troubling to me. You've got the FBI

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01:14:57,200 --> 01:15:01,680
Speaker 1: actually having uh a reimburst. They tried to pay and

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01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 1: then reimbursed this person that was originally hired by a

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01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:10,799
Speaker 1: political operative. I mean, why would the SBI be involved

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01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:13,800
Speaker 1: in that? And then you have the infamous tarmac meeting

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01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:16,639
Speaker 1: that goes out. I think at the end of the day,

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01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: we will start to see all kinds of connections to

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01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: the Clinton Foundation to uh, certainly to uh a number

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01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: of people that that it is more than an email scandal.

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01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 1: It really is about uh influence at the highest levels

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01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:38,000
Speaker 1: of of really elected officials and those that weren't elected

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01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 1: trying to change the outcome of an election. So, what

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01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:44,720
Speaker 1: has been the narrative about going after the president now

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01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 1: we'll actually uh and go after the accuser. We have

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01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:51,439
Speaker 1: a big report we're gonna be breaking tonight on Hannity

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01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:54,559
Speaker 1: at nine. Uh. Congressman, you're the good guys. I mean,

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01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 1: the only people are really trusted Washington now are the

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01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus members and a couple of others, not many more.

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01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:03,519
Speaker 1: And without you, guys there, there would be zero hope

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01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:07,720
Speaker 1: of of getting anything that represents our values completed. So

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01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 1: we always thank you for coming on, sharing your thoughts

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01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 1: and uh and helping us and helping move this whole

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01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 1: agenda along. Without you were in trouble. So thank you

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01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: very much. It's always a pleasure to be in the

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01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:21,000
Speaker 1: fight with you, because no one loves his country more

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01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 1: than you, and your listeners need to know that. So

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01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 1: it's great to be in the fight with you. We

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01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 1: need to win this fight because a lot of our

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01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: fellow Americans are suffering needlessly because of bad governance. Anyway, Congressman,

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01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:35,840
Speaker 1: thank you appreciate it. Eight Shun will continue. What's the

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01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:38,479
Speaker 1: breaking news? I didn't ask for breaking news? Sounder? Why

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01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:40,760
Speaker 1: are you playing the breaking news? Sounder? Jason, you didn't

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01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 1: hear what this big news today? Big big news? Oh?

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01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 1: Here we go. I'm just teasing you, just for any

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01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: of our just for any of our listeners who are

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01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 1: just tuning in who may not have seen the Drudge report.

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01:16:51,479 --> 01:16:53,240
Speaker 1: I think you got I think you gotta go with

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01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 1: the poll that we talked about earlier and put it

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01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:59,320
Speaker 1: up on Hannity dot com. Do you think they chose

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01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 1: this picture on purpose? Of course they did. And what

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01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: is the purpose. The purpose is to show conservatives that

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01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:07,880
Speaker 1: they look mean and angry. Well, I was working on

1341
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:09,519
Speaker 1: that pole. But now that he said that that, that

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01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:11,400
Speaker 1: puts a lot of bias, you know, I mean, what

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01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: are people going to say? It's like you want them

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01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 1: to say, it's just look at the picture. I'm stating

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01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:18,640
Speaker 1: the all three of them. Oh well, there's three if

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01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 1: you get on the inside. But the cover of the

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01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 1: New York Times magazine? What does this mean? How? What

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01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 1: does he? How far will Sean Hannity go? What is

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01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:31,000
Speaker 1: that supposed to meet? Well, I mean, I I personally

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01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:35,080
Speaker 1: think it's a double how far will he go? Over

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01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:37,800
Speaker 1: the other there's that there's how far will he go?

1352
01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:40,760
Speaker 1: And then there's how will he go? Like how far

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01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 1: will he will he go? And his successful run to

1354
01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: the top, and then there's how far will he go?

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01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:50,599
Speaker 1: Because I'm an angry liberal. Can you imagine when this actually,

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01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 1: you know, most people get their news online, now, very true. Okay,

1357
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,640
Speaker 1: So but the newspaper, the Sunday New York Times is

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01:17:57,680 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 1: gonna show up on people's doorsteps with that beautiful picture,

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01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 1: and they're gonna look at that picture, which, by the way,

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01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 1: I mean, in one sense you gotta say it's out

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01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:10,519
Speaker 1: of the ordinary, because everybody else gets flattering pictures all,

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01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:14,160
Speaker 1: not really everybody, but you. They often use that black

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01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: and white, you know, so you see every flaw in

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01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 1: your face. But it's got like my hands they look

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01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:25,160
Speaker 1: like monster hands. And so we did the shoot for Lee,

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01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 1: a thirty minute shoot, and the photographer was, you know where,

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Speaker 1: world renowned apparently, and he did the cover of Serena

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01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,680
Speaker 1: Williams when she was on in the cover of the

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01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:39,759
Speaker 1: New York Times Sunday magazine and it was a beautiful shot.

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Speaker 1: She looked amazing. Actually see this expression being like you're

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01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 1: John McEnroe. You know you're hitting from the back of

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01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 1: the court. It's thirty Let me tell you what happened.

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01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,760
Speaker 1: It's it's simple, what happened? And this is not my

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01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: first rodeo. I'm gonna I'm gonna explain this tonight on

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01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:55,599
Speaker 1: TV too. Not your first tennis it's not my first

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01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 1: tennis match or rodeo. But if when I worked at

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Speaker 1: the Huntsville radio station in the Huntsville Times, comes in

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01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:08,120
Speaker 1: and they're doing a full page for profile on me

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01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 1: that was on the front cover of the Living section

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Speaker 1: of the Huntsville Times, and I let the guy take

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01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,880
Speaker 1: pictures for the whole three hours I was on the air.

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01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:19,720
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what, yeah, I'm so, I was listening. You're

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01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:22,679
Speaker 1: a different person, clearly, alright, thirty years ago. You gotta

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01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:25,960
Speaker 1: cut me some slack seven years ago. So I let

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01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: the guy take pictures and I'm thinking, all right, I'm

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01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: sure he's gonna pick a good one. And it's basically

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01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 1: the worst picture. My hands out wide, my my mouth

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01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:41,920
Speaker 1: wide open, like look like I'm screaming. So after that day,

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Speaker 1: I would just say the photographers, you've got five minutes.

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01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:46,320
Speaker 1: Here's the shot you want to go, and I would

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01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 1: just pose that way. And I said that and did that,

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01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 1: not thinking that they were gonna run it. And there

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01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:55,759
Speaker 1: you go. You can see the love the New York Times.

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01:19:56,320 --> 01:20:00,479
Speaker 1: You know, magazine photo editors have for Sean Hannity line. Trust,

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01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 1: I don't care. None of this bothers me. You know

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01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:05,400
Speaker 1: a lot of my friends like, oh man, are you

1397
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:09,759
Speaker 1: okay today? Are you okay? Uh? Keith writes me, Wow,

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01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 1: I'm not. I have nothing to say. You're having a

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01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:14,200
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm not having a pet Bustin Golsby

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01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 1: was thrilled that he did. Did he did he actually

1401
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:20,920
Speaker 1: read it or do you just look at the pictures?

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01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:22,920
Speaker 1: I think he was looking at the pictures, but you know,

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01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:25,240
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll read it later. Listen. I am glad.

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01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of pictures of when I

1405
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 1: was a baby, very few, as a matter of fact.

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01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:32,040
Speaker 1: I mean my sister had to dig that one up. Uh.

1407
01:20:32,040 --> 01:20:33,880
Speaker 1: And I actually ended up tweeting out, did you like

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01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:37,559
Speaker 1: my baby picture of me on the high chair? What

1409
01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:39,880
Speaker 1: do you mean? It's a baby in a high chair.

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01:20:39,880 --> 01:20:41,840
Speaker 1: That's what you're supposed to be surprised? I had colored

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01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:47,479
Speaker 1: photos back then in that day. All right, are you done? Seriously? Jason?

1412
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:50,800
Speaker 1: You're starting in alright, eight hundred dying for one? Sean?

1413
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:52,679
Speaker 1: You want to be a part of the program. Missy

1414
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:54,840
Speaker 1: is in West Virginia. What's up, missy? How are you

1415
01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:58,240
Speaker 1: glad you called? Hi? How are you? I'm good? What's happening?

1416
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:01,040
Speaker 1: I just saw the article on the Drudger You like

1417
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 1: a rabbit dog. I'm kind of scared now. Oh my gosh, Uh,

1418
01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:07,479
Speaker 1: that's so funny. I do, right, I do look like one.

1419
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:10,720
Speaker 1: I was calling to talk about the truth will the

1420
01:21:10,760 --> 01:21:14,559
Speaker 1: lack thereof in the media. Yes. I watched the press

1421
01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:17,879
Speaker 1: releases Sarah did yesterday, and they ask all the typical questions,

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01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:20,200
Speaker 1: why did you replace mulvanny, Well, because they thought he

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01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:22,599
Speaker 1: was better stuited for the position. Well, so they didn't

1424
01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:25,599
Speaker 1: like so and so. No, they thought he was he

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01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:28,759
Speaker 1: was better stuited for the position. You ask a question,

1426
01:21:28,920 --> 01:21:32,280
Speaker 1: they tell you the truth, you don't believe it. You

1427
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:34,759
Speaker 1: report what you want to report. We tell you the truth,

1428
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: you don't believe it. You spin it. That's true. Let

1429
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 1: me tell you. We want to put the truth up there.

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01:21:42,280 --> 01:21:44,439
Speaker 1: They want to put out there. What is going to

1431
01:21:44,479 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 1: get clicks? What is going to get people stirred up?

1432
01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 1: Because if people weren't stirred up, there's no news. Listen.

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01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:53,080
Speaker 1: I don't I absolutely believe. I mean, this is just

1434
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:55,320
Speaker 1: supposed to be The New York Times though, you know,

1435
01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:59,679
Speaker 1: the great, fair and balanced, the objective of discerning real

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01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:04,320
Speaker 1: news organization. And I have I have absolutely zero doubt

1437
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:06,639
Speaker 1: why they put that photo on the cover. For example,

1438
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 1: It's because they want people to click on it. You know,

1439
01:22:10,479 --> 01:22:13,639
Speaker 1: what's that lunatic? Really like? That's what that that was there?

1440
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 1: That's their clickbait, as they call it. And this happens

1441
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:20,720
Speaker 1: with everything, don't you agree. I mean, media journalism is

1442
01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:25,160
Speaker 1: dead in America, dead and buried, doesn't exist. They're not

1443
01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:28,519
Speaker 1: reporting excuse me, they're not reporting the news. They're not

1444
01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: looking for the truth. They don't want the truth up.

1445
01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:35,640
Speaker 1: They want the agenda to continue Trump on a daily basis.

1446
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:41,759
Speaker 1: Nothing but their fire all they do to tell the truth.

1447
01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:43,880
Speaker 1: What are they going to be outraged about. I mean,

1448
01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:45,880
Speaker 1: look at what we what we had to play for

1449
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 1: Poor Mike Huckabee, what the media says about his daughter.

1450
01:22:49,080 --> 01:22:52,799
Speaker 1: She makes a pecan pie is a pec pecan pie,

1451
01:22:53,320 --> 01:22:55,760
Speaker 1: and she gets questioned over you didn't make that, you

1452
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:58,639
Speaker 1: tweeted out of it, and she ends up she did

1453
01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:01,800
Speaker 1: make the pie. It's not that hot. Hard to make

1454
01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:03,680
Speaker 1: a pie. For crying out loud of what you do

1455
01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:08,160
Speaker 1: is you know Google directions pecan chocolate pie, and it's

1456
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 1: right there, and you have to be an idiot if

1457
01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:12,720
Speaker 1: you can't follow the directions. It's not hard to make

1458
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:15,240
Speaker 1: a pecan pie, and whether it's a great one is

1459
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:18,320
Speaker 1: a different story. Anyway, Thank you, missy, We appreciate it.

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01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:21,640
Speaker 1: Back to our busy telephones here, let's say hi to

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01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:24,559
Speaker 1: Donna in Staten Island. Donna, longtime friend of the program.

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01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:27,559
Speaker 1: What's up, Donna? How are you glad you called? How

1463
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:31,080
Speaker 1: are you? I'm good? What's happening? Nice picture of you

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01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: in the times? Huh oh yeah, that's why I think

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01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: the finest picture I've ever seen of it the last

1466
01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 1: time that when I decided to cut my own bangs

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01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:48,160
Speaker 1: the day before high school year. Both photos. You know, Listen,

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01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:51,599
Speaker 1: who cares? It doesn't? Does it really impact my life

1469
01:23:51,680 --> 01:23:54,120
Speaker 1: that they put the worst picture imaginable up? I mean,

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01:23:54,240 --> 01:23:57,200
Speaker 1: I honestly, it doesn't phase me even the slightest pit

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01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:00,120
Speaker 1: and other people around me are upset about it, and

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01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 1: I'm not listen. We all know how handsome you really

1473
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:06,200
Speaker 1: are anyway, so it's irrelevant what they think. Wait a minute,

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01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:09,320
Speaker 1: can we make make a promo out of that. We

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01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:13,759
Speaker 1: know how I'm gonna have to get your eyes checked again.

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01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:20,000
Speaker 1: How handsome you are? Thank you, Donna. It's irrelevant, but seriously,

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01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:22,479
Speaker 1: I just wanted to break your chops about that. Look

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01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:25,240
Speaker 1: it's my high school. My high school yearbook picture is

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Speaker 1: still pretty hideous, so don't worry about it. You know,

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Speaker 1: there was a quote in the article that actually said,

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Speaker 1: you want to make Hannity mad show him pictures when

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Speaker 1: he first went on Fox News. He hates it, and

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Speaker 1: that's so true. I absolutely hate it. But Donna, we

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Speaker 1: love you. I want to see the picture of you

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Speaker 1: when you got your banks cut. Send them in. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we'll take the worst picture contest and give out a carriage,

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Speaker 1: give out another curing coffee machine. We could do that,

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Speaker 1: all right, Donna, God bless you appreciate it. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to uh. Paul isn't also in Queens, New York The

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Speaker 1: all New AM seven ten w O are the talk

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Speaker 1: of New York. How are you all right? Sean? It's

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Speaker 1: a great honor to speak to you. I think you're

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Speaker 1: a great journalist. And if it weren't for you and

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01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:11,040
Speaker 1: w R and Fox News, there'd be no honest news

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01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:14,559
Speaker 1: available to anybody. You're very kind. We're trying every day.

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Speaker 1: I can promise you that we're working hard. No, no,

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Speaker 1: I think you're a great American resource. I agree with

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Speaker 1: you on most things, and I'm a lifetime Republican. Of course,

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Speaker 1: I agree with President Trump on most things, but one

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Speaker 1: area where I disagree is the new tax bill. I'm

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Speaker 1: an upper middle class individual. I'd pay about forty seven

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01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 1: percent of my total income in state, local, and federal taxes.

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Speaker 1: Under this new bill, with state and local taxes going

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01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:45,679
Speaker 1: out with the absence of deductions, I'm going to pay

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01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:49,320
Speaker 1: in the high fifties. And it's just gonna um, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna cut into my support for the Republican Party. I

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01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:54,280
Speaker 1: devote a lot of my time and money to the

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Speaker 1: Republican Party, and I'm just kind of disgusted. As a

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01:25:57,760 --> 01:26:00,080
Speaker 1: New Yorker in my particular, tell you get your in

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01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:03,599
Speaker 1: the worst because you're getting hit with a federal income tax.

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01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:07,320
Speaker 1: They may drop it to thirty five, but it doesn't

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01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:10,320
Speaker 1: matter because now the state taxes you pay in the

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Speaker 1: local taxes you pay are no longer deductible, So you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be You're gonna quote have a lower rate of

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Speaker 1: pay a lot more. Now, there's two arguments here. Now, Paul,

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Speaker 1: we live in a communist dictatorship here in New York.

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Speaker 1: And I'm kidding, but you know what I'm saying. We

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Speaker 1: live in a far left wing state, a deeply blue state,

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Speaker 1: and our friends and neighbors in New York, they vote

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Speaker 1: for higher taxes, they have no problem paying. There all

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01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:38,800
Speaker 1: of this money in taxes, those that pay, and they've

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Speaker 1: keep voting for this again and again. And when we

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Speaker 1: get that state and local federal income tax break, well,

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01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 1: the people that are benefiting that aren't benefiting from it

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Speaker 1: are people that vote in politicians that don't have state

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Speaker 1: income taxes. And in many ways you can argue that

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Speaker 1: the rest of the country is subsidizing in terms of

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01:27:00,960 --> 01:27:06,120
Speaker 1: federal income tax those states that are deeply blue that

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01:27:06,200 --> 01:27:08,760
Speaker 1: allow that tax people to death. If you we get

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01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:11,120
Speaker 1: a tax deduction for that, well, the people in Texas

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01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 1: don't get that tax deduction, and the people in Florida

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01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:16,880
Speaker 1: don't get that tax deduction, and the people in other

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Speaker 1: low tax states don't get that deduction. And so in

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Speaker 1: other words, we're getting a benefit that they don't get.

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Speaker 1: And it's not their fault that we keep elect electing

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01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:29,040
Speaker 1: stupid people that take so much of our money. That

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Speaker 1: makes sense? Can I say, I hate to disagree with you,

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Speaker 1: because I love you so much, But New York proportionately,

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01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:39,760
Speaker 1: in states like New York, pay a much bigger percentage

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Speaker 1: of our taxes back to the federal government, and people

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01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:47,040
Speaker 1: in the higher tax back brackets, say a significantly higher

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01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:52,519
Speaker 1: proportion of federal taxes. So to take loyal Republicans in

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01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 1: that tax brackets such as myself and I'm assuming yourself

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01:27:56,320 --> 01:27:59,720
Speaker 1: and others like us and penalize us, I think is

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01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:04,120
Speaker 1: really unfair and it wasn't thought out properly, and I

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01:28:04,240 --> 01:28:07,160
Speaker 1: just wish that. But the problem is, but what do

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Speaker 1: you do. Let's say you lived in Texas, and I

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01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 1: lived in Texas, and New York, New Jersey and Illinois

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01:28:13,360 --> 01:28:16,759
Speaker 1: and California continue to get the deduction of their state

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01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:20,160
Speaker 1: and local income taxes and they get to continue to

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01:28:20,200 --> 01:28:22,840
Speaker 1: do that. Well, in that sense, those people are getting

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01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 1: a break, and it ends up being a subsidies from

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Speaker 1: from the states that that are diligent in electing politicians

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Speaker 1: that don't do this to their states. In other words,

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01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:39,080
Speaker 1: they're they're suffering a financial penalty because they're much wiser

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Speaker 1: with their money. I can see there are Their side

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01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:46,040
Speaker 1: of the argument is powerfully strong. But what's going to

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01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:49,640
Speaker 1: happen is is Congressman Issa and Congressman King and some

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Speaker 1: of the great Republican congressman in New York, in Connecticut,

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01:28:53,800 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 1: and they're they're I mean, admittedly there are a minority,

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Speaker 1: but there are not in California, New York. Conneciqutt. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna offer at the polls for this particular tax act,

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01:29:02,800 --> 01:29:05,600
Speaker 1: and it's gonna it could actually mean the difference in

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Speaker 1: the majority of the communiss Well, I don't it maybe,

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Speaker 1: I mean, but Ice is not voting for Peter King

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01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: is not voting for it because he's he rightly is

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01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:16,360
Speaker 1: looking out for his own constituency. I have no problem

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Speaker 1: with their votes on this at all, and I understand

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Speaker 1: completely but I but I will say this, the the

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Speaker 1: better answer would be for blue states like New York,

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01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:29,559
Speaker 1: New Jersey, Illinois, California to vote for politicians that don't

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01:29:29,640 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 1: reach so deep into their pocket that they don't care

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01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:35,360
Speaker 1: they are spending too much money. How does Florida live

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Speaker 1: without a state income tax? How does Texas do it?

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Speaker 1: On New York, New Jersey, California, and Illinois ought to

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Speaker 1: be learning from those states because you've got a better

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Speaker 1: quality of life in both Texas and Florida, just using

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Speaker 1: those two states as an example. And they don't need

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Speaker 1: that thirteen and a half percent that we're giving them,

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01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:55,960
Speaker 1: or the ten percent of New York that we're giving them.

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01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:59,479
Speaker 1: And we we've just been taxed to oblivion. Look, I've

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Speaker 1: always said, if you take away if everybody actually got

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Speaker 1: their real paycheck every week, and I mean everyone gets

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01:30:06,400 --> 01:30:08,640
Speaker 1: the real paycheck and then you have to write a

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01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 1: check to the State of New York and the federal

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01:30:11,120 --> 01:30:15,719
Speaker 1: government and FICA and your local New York City government

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01:30:16,080 --> 01:30:18,760
Speaker 1: Pete did, there would be a tax revolution tomorrow. But

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01:30:18,840 --> 01:30:21,360
Speaker 1: people say, you know, that's they're so used to the

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01:30:21,400 --> 01:30:24,200
Speaker 1: government taking their chunk before they have seen their check

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Speaker 1: that they have no idea what they're paying. Oh, I'm

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01:30:27,479 --> 01:30:29,960
Speaker 1: getting a refund on my taxes of a thousand dollars.

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01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:34,679
Speaker 1: Meanwhile you paid fifty in taxes. It's ridiculous. The answer

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01:30:34,800 --> 01:30:37,920
Speaker 1: the real problem is Albany in your case. In my case,

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01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:41,400
Speaker 1: the real problem is Sacramento out in California. The real

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01:30:41,439 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 1: problem in New Jersey is Trenton Sun. I see your point,

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01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:47,720
Speaker 1: and I like you so much that I'm going to

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01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:49,920
Speaker 1: cease and desist. I'll let I'll let you have the

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01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:52,160
Speaker 1: last word on that. All right, my friend, mort Listen,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I don't want you to pay more

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Speaker 1: in taxes. You know why you deserve your hard earned money.

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01:30:56,800 --> 01:30:59,840
Speaker 1: You're paying enough, you really do. And it's and yeah,

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01:31:00,120 --> 01:31:04,240
Speaker 1: this fundamentally it sucks that Republicans, you know, don't want

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01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:06,439
Speaker 1: to drop the tap top marginal rates. That's why I'm

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01:31:06,479 --> 01:31:09,160
Speaker 1: saying in Washington too, they need to do what Reagan

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01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:11,720
Speaker 1: did and across the board tax cut. He went from

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01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:15,280
Speaker 1: seventy for the top marginal rates. That's missing in this bill.

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Speaker 1: We'll continue, alright, new breaking investigative report, John Solomon, Sarah

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Speaker 1: Carter exclusively on Hannity tonight, Kelly and Conway, Dr Gorka,

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Speaker 1: and Leslie Marshall. That's nine Eastern. Great show tonight, Hope

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Speaker 1: you'll make it, and we'll have the very latest out

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01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:34,000
Speaker 1: of Washington and the pushed these three and a half

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Speaker 1: weeks to actually do something in the US Senate. Have

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Speaker 1: a great night. Seat back here to marrow seat tonight

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Speaker 1: at nine