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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics,

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Speaker 1: where we discussed the top political headlines with some of

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Speaker 1: today's best minds, and Democrats hold a ten point advantage

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Speaker 1: on the generic ballot. According to Emerson, we have such

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Speaker 1: a great show for you today. MS. Now step Rule

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Speaker 1: talks about our record low consumer confidence and what it's

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Speaker 1: going to do to Donald Trump's economy. Then we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to Bail Dalton about his run against Congressman Cory Mills.

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Speaker 1: But first the news.

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Speaker 2: You know, Molly, as you know, I really hate these

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Speaker 2: predictive betting markets. But you want to know the safest

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Speaker 2: bet that you could have made that the Supreme Court

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Speaker 2: would overturn voting rights.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is the Supreme Court's voting rights law.

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Speaker 1: This is sort of the death now of the voting

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Speaker 1: rights law the Conservatives. It was a six to three decision,

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Speaker 1: and what it means is that there are an additional

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Speaker 1: nineteen House seats that were created as a minority majority

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Speaker 1: seat to make it so the people of color would

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Speaker 1: have safe seats in Congress. Now, what happens, well, what

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Speaker 1: happens now is that these Republican governors in the South

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Speaker 1: get together and start taking those seats away. We already

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Speaker 1: have seen the Tate Reeves, the governor of Mississippi, who

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Speaker 1: you may remember from doing all sorts of really really

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Speaker 1: sketchy stuff with the sports center right building the sports center.

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Speaker 1: That guy is already called a special session to try

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Speaker 1: and take away any of the majority minority seats. This

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Speaker 1: is going to be more redistricting wars. Now, Republicans are

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Speaker 1: happy because they think they'll pick up a lot of seats,

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Speaker 1: because it says that they could pick up as many

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Speaker 1: that this is a problem that Republicans have with the

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Speaker 1: jerry mandering, is that when you do this, when you

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Speaker 1: jerrymander like this, when you cut up the districts like this,

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Speaker 1: what happens is that if Donald Trump performs at the

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Speaker 1: same ratios he performed in twenty twenty four, then maybe

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Speaker 1: you keep a seat, right like he made huge inroads

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Speaker 1: with Latino voters, et cetera, et cetera. But here's what

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Speaker 1: could happen. We're seeing a generic with a D plus

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Speaker 1: of these seats that are now you know that went

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Speaker 3: If it's a.

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Speaker 1: Generic ten, then Democrats pick up some of those seats.

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Speaker 1: And that's what's called the dummy mander, is where you

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Speaker 1: jerrymander yourself so much that you ultimately you flip those

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Speaker 1: seats to Dems. Again, remember it still votes that determine this, right,

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Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot of movement behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes now, a lot of state House movement, a lot

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Speaker 1: of fights, a lot of people losing seats. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of these seats can't be changed before the election,

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Speaker 1: but some will be. And again, this is a Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court getting involved in our elections.

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Speaker 2: Yep. You know those judicial activists we always heard about

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Speaker 2: through the Bush and Obama years really really are showing

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Speaker 2: their heads these days. But so Pete Haiksith is in

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Speaker 2: Congress set of hearing today and one of the things

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Speaker 2: we've learned is how much this Iranian war has cost

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Speaker 2: have a really amazing statistic from front of the show,

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Speaker 2: Spencer Ackerman here, Malli, that's how much the surge cost, right.

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Speaker 1: Well, and we knew this was true because we had

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Speaker 1: been seeing that they were using these very expensive munitions

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Speaker 1: they could have learned a lot of stuff from the Ukrainians,

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Speaker 1: that like, there were many ways in which Republicans who

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Speaker 1: do that. They've just spent so much money and they

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Speaker 1: want more money. And these are your tax dollars which

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Speaker 1: But instead it's going to just more money for the Pentagon.

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Speaker 2: It's so stupid. Yeah, And the thing that really does

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's also this is a pretty interesting

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Speaker 1: resolution because we have Ruben who is was an infantry man,

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Speaker 1: I think it's good to see Adam Schiff out there

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Speaker 1: from using military force to topple Cuba's regime. There's a

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Speaker 1: Susan Collins, who typically votes to give Congress more authority.

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Speaker 1: She and Ran Paul voted for the Democratic War Powers Act,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so federal Appeals Court won't rehear Trump's appeal of

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Speaker 2: Eugene Carroll's eighty three million dollar jury award.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, another win for Robbie Kaplan Yeah right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: luckily Trump has kleptoed so much money that he can

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Speaker 1: just pay for it with some of his klepto ballroom

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Speaker 1: money or something. But the majority of judges of the

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Speaker 1: US Court of Appeals for the Second District denied Trump's

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Speaker 1: that has resulted in two Sybil trials, one where Trump

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Speaker 1: love to see Robbie kapwan when that is really a delight. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I believe very soon we will have another case.

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Speaker 2: She took on on this podcast that is a very

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Speaker 2: interesting one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Steph Rule is the host of the Eleventh Hour

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Speaker 1: with Stephanie Rule, airing weeknights at eleven pm EST on

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Speaker 1: ms now. She is also the co host of the

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Speaker 1: ms now YouTube series It's Happening with Belshian Rule. Welcome, Welcome,

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Speaker 1: Stephanie Rale.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. I dressed up for you.

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Speaker 1: As long as it's fleece, that's all that matten.

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Speaker 4: It's fleece, slide, I tell you for this sweatsuit was

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Speaker 4: in a Salvation army bag that my daughter left outside

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Speaker 1: So yes, whoever thought they.

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Speaker 4: I'm wearing a seventh grade girls two small sweatsuit today.

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Speaker 3: I'm wearing it every day for a week. Right, it is.

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Speaker 4: And you know, spring is the worst season because it's

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Speaker 4: just it's it's like the guy that like never actually

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Speaker 3: I'm colder in the spring than I am in the winter.

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Speaker 1: I too, am freezing. So let's talk about the American

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Speaker 1: people though, who are any which way unhappy. There's this

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Speaker 1: Gallop survey that you had wanted to talk about. I

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Speaker 1: the economy that we see that all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: for the first time in a very long time, Democrats

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Speaker 4: Democrats of the edge because Republicans are failing at it.

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Speaker 4: And the thing that's extraordinary about this Gallop pole is

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Speaker 4: people feel worse about the economy today than they did

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Speaker 4: so we have to pull apart why that is because usually,

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Speaker 4: presiding over, but it's usually not the president's fault. In

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Speaker 4: this case, almost all of the negative things happening to

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Speaker 3: So you can say to me, seventy, why are people

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Speaker 4: The recession when we saw scores of people lose their homes.

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Speaker 4: Obviously during COVID, America was home massive layoffs, massive unemployment,

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Speaker 4: But why do people feel so bad. Now, well, look

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Speaker 4: what the president has done right. The trade war made

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Speaker 4: Pete Agseth is asking for one point five trillion dollars

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Speaker 4: And now our gas is four dollars and eighteen cents

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Speaker 4: When you bring up affordability, he says, is an old

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Speaker 4: Not to mention the quiet storm, which is on one level,

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Speaker 4: So when you talk about the gallup pole, the gallup

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Speaker 1: I don't know that there's a historical president for a

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Speaker 3: Who've caused gas prices to go up. And here's the thing.

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Speaker 4: So, like I cover investors and even some investors, you know,

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Speaker 4: he got Venezuela. Iran's a horrible actor, which they are,

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Speaker 4: government bailing out Spirit Airlines, which was already an airlines

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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that.

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Speaker 4: Look what happened to all the oligarchs, Right, They chummed

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Speaker 4: And the reason I bring it up is for two reasons.

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Speaker 3: And now they're saying, why in God's name are you

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Speaker 3: And many of those voters are directly Donald Trump's original base,

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Speaker 1: But that was Lindsey Graham. I mean, that was just

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Speaker 4: However, there are these moments, right the country is desperate

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I also wonder if yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 4: We are not as energy dependent on the Middle East

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Speaker 4: to sign a document that basically said, the only thing

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Speaker 4: we are going to report are press releases that the

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Speaker 4: Pentagon hands us every day, and they're going to walk

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Speaker 4: to our cameras and read them to the American people.

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Speaker 3: That's state run media.

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Speaker 4: And not only did basically the entire press corps tell

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Speaker 4: him to go fish. The reporting that is coming out

444
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Speaker 4: of the Pentagon is amazing. And remember those people who

445
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Speaker 4: are leaking, aren't some there's different kind of leaks. When

446
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Speaker 4: you and I covered Trump in the first administration, that

447
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Speaker 4: White House was filled with senior advisors and administration officials

448
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Speaker 4: who couldn't wait to have some crazy meeting with the president.

449
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Speaker 4: Call us on their way out, treat us for lunch somewhere,

450
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Speaker 4: stab each other in the back, like I mean, next

451
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Speaker 4: level that are coming out of the Pentagon. These are

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Speaker 4: career department officials. Yes, okay, these are people from the military,

453
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Speaker 4: and the reason they're blowing a whistle is because they're

454
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Speaker 4: panicked about our national security. That's a different kind of leaking,

455
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Speaker 4: and the reporting that we're getting is extraordinary. When those

456
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Speaker 4: people are sounding the alarm, that's a lot more than

457
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Speaker 4: Jared versus Bannon, versus Minuchin versus John Kelly. That's a

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Speaker 4: totally different game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a really good point. And that's what

461
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Speaker 1: we're seeing it from government at large too, is people

462
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Speaker 1: who are worried about you know, hsas or I mean

463
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Speaker 1: it is so I have a lot.

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Speaker 4: Less reporting this time because those career civil servants who

465
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Speaker 4: work in the government who are saying this is a crisis,

466
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Speaker 4: are different from people in the last administration, Like I

467
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Speaker 4: can't stand him.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you what he said today.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I think and I think we see that

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Speaker 1: in the reporting right that there's is least but I

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Speaker 1: do think that you know, we saw Hegseth today today

472
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Speaker 1: hess on the hell trying to explain what's going on

473
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Speaker 1: with the war, and the clips are are pretty amazing,

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Speaker 1: and he does seem.

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Speaker 4: You what if you were a military parent, Okay, so

476
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Speaker 4: what has Pete Hegseth done this week, made some videos,

477
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Speaker 4: spent some time with Kid Rock.

478
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Speaker 3: With Kid Rock what is he doing today?

479
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Speaker 4: Sending out a funny a cartoon of him as Franklin,

480
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Speaker 4: you know, with Franklin the Turtle before he goes into

481
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Speaker 4: this hearing we've got men and women serving our country.

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Speaker 4: How would you feel if you were a military parent

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Speaker 4: watching this.

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Speaker 1: I have a kid who is ro OTC or about

485
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Speaker 1: to be ROTC. I do not like it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's very isn't that super sad?

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Speaker 4: Like you, I just want to take a moment to

488
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Speaker 4: have a child who wants to pursue ro OTC should

489
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Speaker 4: be such an incredible point of pride, pride as a patriot, pride.

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Speaker 4: And now you're sitting here going I don't feel good

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Speaker 4: about this.

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Speaker 1: That's terrible. It's really scary. I mean, and I think

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Speaker 1: what we've seen from this war is there a military

494
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Speaker 1: is incredible. Our politicians are deeply flawed at best. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: you know, Steph Rule, Thank you, thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you.

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Speaker 3: For having mere.

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Speaker 1: That's great. Bail Dalton is a candidate for Congress in

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Speaker 1: Florida's seventh district. Welcome, Welcome to Fast Politics. Bail Molly.

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Speaker 5: Great to be here. I'm a long time listener, so

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Speaker 5: it's awesome to be on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's exciting might be the wrong word, but it's cool.

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Speaker 1: But we get to interview members. I feel like I'm

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Speaker 1: one of the few places where I can interview members

505
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Speaker 1: of Congress who are running for seeds and really get

506
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Speaker 1: to know them, which is really cool.

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Speaker 5: Well, hopefully I'll do my part to make it exciting and.

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Speaker 1: Cool because we know them to talk about it exciting.

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Speaker 1: And there was a year when we interviewed all the

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Speaker 1: members of the House of Delegates in Virginia and boy,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you so, but you are running in

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Speaker 1: the great state of Florida, which is wild. You're running

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Speaker 1: against someone who I have long had very very mixed

514
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Speaker 1: feelings about. So talk us through what the story is here?

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Speaker 5: Well, sure thing, and I would ask, where are your

516
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Speaker 5: feelings mixed or are you pretty sold on the fact that.

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Speaker 1: Aim that he needs to be out of office? So

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Speaker 1: tell us who you're running against and what the story is.

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Speaker 5: My name's Baal Dalton. I'm a longtime Navy veteran twenty

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Speaker 5: three years in the Navy and Navy Reserve as a

521
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Speaker 5: helicopter pilot, supporting special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn

522
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Speaker 5: of Africa, and throughout the Pacific. I worked for Florida's farmer,

523
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Speaker 5: Senator Bill Nelson on his DC staff, doing national defense,

524
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Speaker 5: foreign policy, and of course veteran services near and dear

525
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Speaker 5: to my heart. And then I also got the chance

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Speaker 5: to help lead NASA as the deputy chief of Staff

527
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Speaker 5: and chief of staff. There over ten thousand researchers, scientists, engineers, astronauts,

528
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Speaker 5: you know, showing the world what America can accomplish every

529
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Speaker 5: day when we actually work together.

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Speaker 1: All of this is to say that you're way too

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Speaker 1: qualified observing Congress, Yes.

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Speaker 5: You know, I think we can. You know, I think

533
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Speaker 5: that's part of what we need to be looking at

534
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Speaker 5: long term here is that our politics have gotten into

535
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Speaker 5: this performative dance of you know, who can stay close

536
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Speaker 5: to power, who's got the information, you know, who's more

537
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Speaker 5: willing to tell stories, you know, inventive stories to divide

538
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Speaker 5: us in order to serve this addiction to power or

539
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Speaker 5: addiction to the limelight that that folks seem to have.

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Speaker 5: And it's incredibly disappointing. And that's one of the reasons

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Speaker 5: why I'm in the race. Like, look, Florida seven. Here

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Speaker 5: in central Florida, it's just north and east of Orlando

543
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Speaker 5: out to Port Orange versus just south of Daytona Beach

544
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Speaker 5: down to New Smyrna Beach on the East coast, and

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Speaker 5: then basically take that line over to I four, where

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Speaker 5: we've got Maitland, Altamont, Sanford, DeBerry and others. I don't

547
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Speaker 5: want to leave anybody out, but that's sort of the

548
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Speaker 5: rectangle there. And you know, for the last two terms

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Speaker 5: we've had Congressman Corey Mills be air representative. I mean,

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Speaker 5: first of all, this is a guy, guy who's barely

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Speaker 5: a Floridian, lives in Washington, d C. In a twenty

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Speaker 5: five hundred dollars a month penthouse apartment that he also

553
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Speaker 5: doesn't pay rent on in some cases, which was in

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Speaker 5: the news there for a while. But you know, as

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Speaker 5: we talked about at the top of the show, Molly,

556
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Speaker 5: you know, this guy with a long history of corruption

557
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Speaker 5: and fraud and just an inability to tell the truth

558
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Speaker 5: about a lot of things, just and very interesting relationship

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Speaker 5: he has with facts. The show's not long enough to

560
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Speaker 5: do the whole thing, but you know, he's got a

561
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Speaker 5: problem with his treatment of women and domestic violence allegation.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing that I am not a fan of.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and we've seen more reporting on that particular incidenty

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Speaker 5: in Washington, d C. Where you know, one woman who's

565
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Speaker 5: not his wife that was apparently living with him in

566
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Speaker 5: his penthouse in DC called the police and made domestic

567
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Speaker 5: violence allegations. And we've seen reporting just last week that

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Speaker 5: you know, there's a lot more to that. You know,

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Speaker 5: Apparently Congressman Mills, you know, told her that she should

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Speaker 5: change her her story. Apparently, you know, some favors might

571
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Speaker 5: have been full pulled in the AUSA office to prevent

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Speaker 5: an arrest warrant being issued against Congressman Mills. So you know,

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Speaker 5: that just got you know, we're twofold here, right, we

574
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Speaker 5: got a problem with the treatment of a fellow human being,

575
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Speaker 5: and also just such an addiction to keep you know,

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Speaker 5: away from any kind of allegations that they're willing to,

577
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Speaker 5: you know, use these corrupt means to stay out of trouble. Right.

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Speaker 5: They don't play by the same rules that that we're

579
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Speaker 5: expected to play as average you know, everyday citizens. And

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Speaker 5: you know that's only one of the things that's been

581
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Speaker 5: in the news. Of course. Aflorida judge issued a restraining

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Speaker 5: order on behalf of a Florida woman, another woman not

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Speaker 5: also not his wife, because Corey Mills was deemed to

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Speaker 5: be a danger to her and had blackmailed her with

585
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Speaker 5: revenge porn, basically trying to share you know, pictures and

586
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Speaker 5: videos of intimate moments that they had had with people

587
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Speaker 5: that she wanted to go on and date. And she

588
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Speaker 5: had to ask Congressman Mills eleven different times to stop

589
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Speaker 5: contacting her, and he refused to listen, and that's what

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Speaker 5: landed him in court and got the got the restraining

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Speaker 5: order against them. So, you know, I can't imagine. I

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Speaker 5: can't imagine what she must have felt like with that

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Speaker 5: kind of intrusion into her personal life and her trying to,

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Speaker 5: you know, carry on with what she's trying to do,

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Speaker 5: you know, with this person who thinks the rules don't

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Speaker 5: apply to him, and Corey Mills just just bashing her

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Speaker 5: via text all the time. So you know, we got

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Speaker 5: a problem with treatment and women like we again, Molly,

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Speaker 5: we don't have enough time because you know, he's also

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Speaker 5: got a problem with his company. He's a foreign arms dealer.

601
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Speaker 5: That refuses to disclose which countries he sold weapons to.

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Speaker 5: He's got a factory where he's furloughed his workers right

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Speaker 5: before Thanksgiving of last year. He's got a business that's

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Speaker 5: in debt to a foreign firm, while he sits on

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Speaker 5: the Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Armed Services Committee.

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Speaker 5: So we got a lot of problems with conflict adventures there.

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Speaker 5: And you know, last but not least, since this is

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Speaker 5: near and dear to my heart as a veteran, you know,

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Speaker 5: there's a lot of questions about the stories that he

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Speaker 5: tells about his own personal service in the Army. And

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Speaker 5: then right after the Army, when he tried to be

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Speaker 5: employed by Diyne Corp. He told them that he had

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Speaker 5: all these different qualifications which were not true, and when

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Speaker 5: they called him out on it, he walked off the job. So, anyway,

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Speaker 5: long story long on Corey Mills. This is a guy

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Speaker 5: that you don't want anywhere near your family. You don't

617
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Speaker 5: want anywhere near making decisions for you or representing you

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Speaker 5: in any capacity, much less being in Congress. And so

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Speaker 5: we're going to give the folks of Central Florida, you

620
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Speaker 5: know where I grew up, my friend's family neighbors a

621
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Speaker 5: better choice than November.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Corey mil stuff is really scary. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's in ethics investigation. We've seen him in and out core.

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Speaker 1: Like the structural problems of Corey Mils come from a

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Speaker 1: Congress it does not have the kind of ethics committee

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Speaker 1: that it should, that does not have the teeth that

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Speaker 1: it needs. I wonder if you would commit to trying.

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Speaker 1: Nobody likes to police itself, but don't you think that

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Speaker 1: when you get to Congress, if you get to Congress,

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Speaker 1: that that should be something that you're focused on.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, I would say that one of the big

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Speaker 5: reasons why you know, I decided to run for Congress

633
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Speaker 5: is because of this you know, blatant corruption that we've seen,

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Speaker 5: in fact, just more and more of the body, right.

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Speaker 5: We could certainly, we certainly know that there are some

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Speaker 5: good people there that are trying their best to do

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Speaker 5: whatever they can for their constituents. But the percentage of

638
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Speaker 5: people who just doesn't, that's not anywhere close to their

639
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 5: mind has grown and grown in my lifetime. And so yes, absolutely,

640
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Speaker 5: you know, committed to trying to solve some of these

641
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,919
Speaker 5: problems which either can lead good people astray or let

642
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 5: bad people just play by a different set of rules

643
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Speaker 5: than we do. I mean this trading on insider information

644
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Speaker 5: to enrich yourself, trading on insider information to make yourself

645
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Speaker 5: more important than you may be, which is, you know,

646
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Speaker 5: possibly you know, against operational security and putting troops and

647
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Speaker 5: operations in danger just to show people how important you

648
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Speaker 5: are and brag. It's such a shameful indication of what

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Speaker 5: drives people there in DC, you know. And I mean

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Speaker 5: you asked you specifically about the Ethics Committee. I mean again,

651
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Speaker 5: everybody should have some ability to police itself. I mean

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Speaker 5: Congressman Mills, though he's been under investigation since twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 5: You know, he likes to talk about referring himself to

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Speaker 5: the committee in November of last year. Well we all

655
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 5: know that that was a body taken by the you know,

656
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 5: a vote taken by the entire body of the House.

657
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Speaker 5: You don't refer yourself, and that was just for the

658
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 5: domestic violence allegations. He's been under investigation for these ethics problems,

659
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 5: these fraud and corruption, you know, since twenty twenty four.

660
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Speaker 5: So it's obviously not working and the way that folks

661
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 5: would would intend it to because it's not working fast enough.

662
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Speaker 5: Now we could we could say maybe the committee just

663
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 5: hasn't had enough time because of Corey's body of work.

664
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Speaker 5: He's got an amazing drunch of problems that probably takes

665
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Speaker 5: a long time to investigate. But you know, when you

666
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 5: see these the other three members who have taken it

667
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,439
Speaker 5: upon themselves the resign when some allegations came to light,

668
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 5: you know, none of those problems happened anywhere as far

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Speaker 5: back as Corey's had, So I don't know why he's

670
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 5: still there. But you know, again, I think there's a

671
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 5: lot of people in central Florida who will like to

672
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 5: send the message to Congressman Mills themselves with their vote

673
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 5: in November, saying we're not going to have it anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. For sure Florida, there's like a redistricting

675
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: battle that DeSantis has gotten involved in. He would like

676
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Speaker 1: to draw with less seats for Democrats. It seems as

677
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Speaker 1: if that goes against the Florida Constitution. What you're sent to.

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Speaker 5: That, absolutely it goes against the Florida Constitution. You know,

679
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 5: we do have a part of our constitution from back

680
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 5: in twenty ten where you know, the people spoke to

681
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 5: add this to our Constitution and the fair Fair Districts

682
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 5: are Fair re Districting Act. And you know, unfortunately, I

683
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 5: think what we've seen in Tallahassee has been a microcosm

684
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 5: of what's going on in Washington, d d C. Where

685
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 5: you've got politicians who are uninterested in actually listening to

686
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Speaker 5: their constituents. I mean, this is a perfect case of

687
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 5: you know, Republicans have been in power in Florida for

688
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 5: for almost twenty years. There's a supermajority in the House

689
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 5: and in the Senate, and obviously the governor's mansion has

690
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,720
Speaker 5: been you know, Republican for now going on sixteen years.

691
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 5: These problems that people are facing incredible cost of living emergency,

692
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 5: whether we're talking about groceries and cost of goods or

693
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 5: we're talking about housing. I mean, even if you can

694
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Speaker 5: get to the point where you can afford a mortgage

695
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 5: here in Florida, you've got exponentially rising utility costs, home

696
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 5: insurance costs with very little coverage, and property tech. So

697
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 5: the Republicans here in Tallahassee are truly breaking our constitutional

698
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:31,720
Speaker 5: requirement to not jerymander districts because they're unable to create

699
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 5: the policies to keep in office, so they have to

700
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,720
Speaker 5: pick their districts in a way that the voters get disenfranchise.

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Speaker 1: You are like the expert of your district because you're

702
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Speaker 1: around leading constituents. What are they saying?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the folks of Central Florida are mad

704
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 5: as hell. So a lot of what I've said, and

705
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Speaker 5: the tenor of which i've said it here to you, Molly,

706
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 5: is what I'm hearing in the district as well. You know,

707
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 5: we were promised a government that would be working more efficiently.

708
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 5: That's not happening. We were promised an economy that would

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00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 5: be headed in the right direction. That's not happening. We

710
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 5: were promised, you know, a focus on what's going on

711
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 5: here in America, you know, the safety of our neighborhoods

712
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,919
Speaker 5: and communities, reinvesting in our businesses and industries, and we're

713
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 5: not seeing that happen either, with you know, a billion

714
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 5: dollars a day being spent in our latest that you

715
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 5: know overseas adventure that's got no long term goal, that's

716
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 5: been espoused by you know, this administration. You know those things,

717
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 5: you know, whether Republican, Democrat, Independent, those are what people

718
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 5: voted for and expected they're getting zero returned on that

719
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 5: right now. And so I say that is the leading

720
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 5: cause of frustration there. And the second is what we've

721
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 5: been talking about for the most part of this conversation,

722
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 5: which is just completely fed up with the corruption and

723
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 5: grift that they see, especially in our district with Congressman Mills,

724
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 5: and they just they're just not going to have it anymore.

725
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Speaker 5: And the good news is is they don't have to

726
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 5: take it anymore. You know, it's like the you know

727
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 5: the old movie, right, We're mad as hell, we're not

728
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 5: going to take it anymore. Well, a lot of people

729
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 5: are out shouting out their windows right now.

730
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the things that they're the most worried about

731
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: are inflation. Will you talk to us about the insurance

732
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: problem in Florida?

733
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So, you know, I think people are scared. People

734
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 5: are worried to the point of fear and angst that

735
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 5: something's going to happen in their life. Right They're one

736
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 5: thing away, one sickness away, one injury away, one health

737
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 5: emergency away from a catastrophic result to themselves of their family.

738
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Speaker 5: You know, people are with the health insurance. I mean,

739
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 5: look like the ACA subsidies expiring that is a crisis

740
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 5: of Congress's own making that could be fixed tomorrow if

741
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 5: enough people could get the backbone to say, okay, fine,

742
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 5: we can have a conversation what a different long term

743
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 5: solution may be, but we can't leave people suffering in

744
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Speaker 5: the interim. I mean, in District seven, forty five thousand

745
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 5: people are now without health insurance period because of the

746
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 5: ACA subsidies expiring, and over one hundred and fifty thousand

747
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 5: people just in this district, we'll see their premiums go

748
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 5: two times, three times, or even four times. So a

749
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 5: family of four that was paying you know, twenty five

750
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 5: hundred dollars a month is now paying upwards of you know,

751
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 5: fifty five hundred and six thousand dollars a month. That's

752
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 5: not sustainable. And as I kind of talked about before, right,

753
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 5: you've got all these buckets at the end of the month, right,

754
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 5: all these checks you've got to write out, whether it's

755
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 5: you know, your utility bill, you know, the groceries, your insurance,

756
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 5: whether it's you know, property insurance or health insurance, and

757
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 5: your mortgage. All of those buckets here in Florida are overflowing.

758
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 5: And that's for everybody that's not a political comment. That is,

759
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 5: people forced to make decisions with their money at the

760
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 5: end of the day which they ought not have to

761
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 5: be made if they are, you know, playing by the

762
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 5: rules and working hard and trying to do better for

763
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 5: their families. There's no hope right now of that having

764
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 5: a long term effect to make the future better. And

765
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 5: so people aren't even able to have the moment in

766
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 5: time to think aspirationally because we've got policies in our

767
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 5: economy right now which are driving the cost of everything up,

768
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 5: whether it's you know, like I said already gas or groceries.

769
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 5: And sorry to be on a rant here, but it

770
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 5: makes me mad because you know, these small businesses, they're

771
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 5: getting squeezed from both ends, right They've got raw goods

772
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 5: that are more expensive because of this chaotic you know,

773
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 5: tariff program, and so now they've got to you know,

774
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 5: raised menu prices or raise you know, the prices of

775
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 5: their items. So they're losing customers. When they lose customers,

776
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 5: they can't keep employees on. Employees if they don't have

777
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,919
Speaker 5: a job, are unable to get health insurance. I mean,

778
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 5: it's just a spiral of a cost of living emergency

779
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 5: here that it's been you know, created by the chaos

780
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 5: that we see coming out of Washington.

781
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely so shocking. So tell us

782
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: what your primary is and what you need and what

783
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: it looks like.

784
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure they I mean, it's Florida. So with the

785
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 5: redistricting ballot qualification, usually what happened in April, it doesn't

786
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:20,720
Speaker 5: happen now until June. And you know, the redistricting effort

787
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 5: has not yet been voted on in Tallahassee, though we

788
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 5: expect that this week, and we expect there to be

789
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 5: a judicial challenge if the districts will go through, for

790
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,479
Speaker 5: the reasons that we spoke about before on the unconstitutionality

791
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 5: of it. So we've got, you know, a few more

792
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 5: things here. But look, we're running strong, and we're running

793
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 5: hard for November, and you know, against Corey Mills or

794
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 5: whomever else might come out of the woodwork, because right now,

795
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 5: you know, again and people are fed up with the

796
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 5: status quo, which they see, as you know, addicted to

797
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 5: power and addicted to this corruption and grift. And I

798
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 5: can't argue with them. I agree, I'm in the same boat.

799
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 5: So you know, primaries and in Florida are late, they're

800
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 5: in August, but we were We're blessed to have an

801
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 5: incredible amount of support here. Vote Vets has endorsed, New

802
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 5: Politics has endorsed. We have the endorsements of probably ten

803
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 5: or twelve sitting members of Congress now, and I think

804
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 5: more specifically, you know here in Florida, you know my

805
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 5: old boss, Senator Nelson has endorsed the race. And then

806
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 5: former Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy, who represented much of this district previously,

807
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 5: remember her, Yeah, yeah, so she she has endorsed the

808
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 5: race as well.

809
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 1: What a fuck up? I mean, this really was a

810
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: d seed.

811
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was very it was neutral. It was really

812
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 5: more neutral before the twenty twenty census. And by the way,

813
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 5: you're gonna hear some ridiculous comments out of you know,

814
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 5: some of the Republicans in Tallahatsee about this census. I

815
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 5: mean they're calling it the Biden census.

816
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: Which Biden was president.

817
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 5: Biden wasn't president. I mean, I actually, my let me

818
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 5: just hammer on this point for a second, because it's

819
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 5: one of the things that infuriates me. Right, we're in

820
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 5: in the arena now, we're in area of our country's

821
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 5: history where apparently our elected officials have such disdain for

822
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 5: the people that they're supposed to represent that they just

823
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 5: blatantly lie and blatantly, you know, talk about things that

824
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 5: they think enough time has passed that we would forget that, right,

825
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 5: Like twenty twenty is a date, like the census was

826
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty. And the other thing that's interesting about that,

827
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 5: right is that you know Florida, you know a lot

828
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 5: of Florida politicians no matter what party, talk about, Hey,

829
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 5: there may have been an undercount in Florida. All right, yeah,

830
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 5: got it. Maybe there was an undercount in Florida. Well

831
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 5: you need to go back in time and figure out

832
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,879
Speaker 5: why that might have happened, because there might have been

833
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 5: some people who were not interested in answering the census

834
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 5: because there were restrictions on it, or you know, things

835
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 5: that were coming out of the administration that might cause

836
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,919
Speaker 5: people to not want to fill out a census. That's

837
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 5: why you're going to get an undercount. And second, undercounting

838
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 5: the people and our districts has nothing to do with

839
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 5: why you should redistrict now. But again, we're just getting

840
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 5: fed this poor shit, and you know, I think people

841
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 5: are tired of eating it. It is infuriating that we're continued,

842
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 5: you know, to be you know, like we used to

843
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 5: say as junior officers in the navy, right, you know,

844
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,479
Speaker 5: kept in the dark and fed shit like voters aren't

845
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 5: going to take that anymore.

846
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: Bail, thank you, thank you, thank you for joining me.

847
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much for having me. Like I

848
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 5: said a long time listener, so this is especially exciting

849
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 5: for me, but also thanks for giving us the opportunity

850
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 5: to talk about, you know, this race, and it's important

851
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 5: regardless of redistorting. Right, this Florida seven doesn't look like

852
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 5: it's going to change, whether the maps are upheld or

853
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 5: new maps come. So we know what's in front of us.

854
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 5: By the numbers, this is the most flippable seed in Florida.

855
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 5: So you know, check us out at Bail Dalton dot

856
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 5: com and give us some support if you got it. Yeah,

857
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 5: pay attention because we are on track to get one

858
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 5: of the most corrupt members of Congress out of there.

859
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, Bail, thank.

860
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 5: You, Molly. You have a great rest of your day.

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00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: No moment secret. Jesse Kadden Smillie.

862
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 2: We saw a very predictive Supreme Court decision on voting

863
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 2: rights today, but there is another one that you could

864
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,240
Speaker 2: always predict, which is them siding with crisis pregnancy centers.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so faith based pregnancy center. Why do you need

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Speaker 1: church in your uterism? Well, you know it's always so.

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Speaker 2: Where they say faith based, the faith you're putting in

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Speaker 2: it is when they lie to you to your face,

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Speaker 2: They trick you into going these things, they tell you

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Speaker 2: all these laws, but faith.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, what is a faith based pregnancy center? It's

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Speaker 1: First Amendment concerned about our investigation whether it must lide

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Speaker 1: people to discourage abortions. If you are a faith based

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Speaker 1: pregnancy center, you're misleading people into discouraging abortions. That's why

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Speaker 1: they exist. So the High Court's unanimous ruling is a

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Speaker 1: procedural victory for First Choice women's resource Centers, which is

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Speaker 1: challenging a New Jersey investigation into his practices. The conservative

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Speaker 1: majority court has given abortion opponents high profile wins in

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Speaker 1: recent years, including overturning Rugby Wade. Because these guys are

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Speaker 1: very religious. The Supreme Court's decision let's First Choice sue

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Speaker 1: over a state issued subpoena in federal court, though the

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Speaker 1: ruling does not resolve the underlying case. So again, you

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Speaker 1: know this is just this Supreme Court, which like this administration,

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Speaker 1: is filled with partisan acs, is quite anti choice and

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Speaker 1: gives lots of wins to the anti choice world. So

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Speaker 1: as much as this is extremely annoying and disconcerting and

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Speaker 1: problematic in every which way, it should not be surprising.

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Speaker 1: And here we are. That's it for this episode of

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