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Speaker 3: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 4: Welcome everybody.

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Speaker 2: Wednesday edition of The Clay Travis and Buck section Show

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Speaker 2: kicks off right now. We are stacked with stories and

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Speaker 2: with some big guests. Today little roadmap of all things

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Speaker 2: play and book. On February seventh, twenty twenty four. I

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Speaker 2: can't believe how the time is flying already in this year.

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Speaker 2: We have in the second hour of the program the

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Speaker 2: speaker all of the House, Mike Johnson.

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Speaker 4: He's going to join us.

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Speaker 2: We'll ask himbout Israel aid package stuff. The majorcas impeachment.

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Speaker 2: I love our team wrote set back here where we're

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Speaker 2: looking at I think we can say debacle.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk more about that, and also National Girls and

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Speaker 2: We also at two o'clock, I've sentator rant Paul on

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Speaker 4: Us a super Bowl pick.

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Speaker 2: So that's all coming your way. A few other things

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Speaker 2: on the horizon here on the agenda, THEDOJ report on

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Speaker 4: It's Ben report, no criminal charge. That's we knew.

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Speaker 2: It's a confirmation of what we already expected. But there'll

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Speaker 2: be more details in that one. Clay, I think if

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Speaker 2: we have time for this one. I thought this story

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Speaker 2: is fascinating. It's making the rounds on social media. At

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Speaker 2: fifty three different Illinois schools.

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Speaker 4: Did you see this? Not a single student can do

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Speaker 4: math at grade level? Yeah, it's sad. It's really over

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Speaker 4: over fifty schools.

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Speaker 2: This is this is a there is a learning crisis

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Speaker 2: or a lack of learning crisis in America needs to

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Speaker 2: be addressed. So we'll maybe get into that in a

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Speaker 2: little bit, But first up here, Republicans never miss an opportunity,

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Speaker 2: to miss an opportunity.

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Speaker 4: They failed to impeach.

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Speaker 2: Alejandro Majorcas in the House of Representatives over the border crisis,

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Speaker 2: effectively over dereliction of duty. Really two hundred and fourteen

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Speaker 2: So we'll speak to the Speaker, Mike Johnson over this.

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Speaker 2: We've got the guy that we should be able to

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Speaker 2: were going for this one. I mean, Clay, here's here's

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Speaker 2: for me. The issue Republican are winning on the border

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Speaker 2: right now, Yes, everybody knows is the Senate bipartisan catastrophe,

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Speaker 2: the bipartisan dumpster fire did not is not going anywhere.

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Speaker 2: It's dead on arrival, as everybody now knows. So the

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Speaker 2: Biden administration is watching as the numbers continue. I think

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Speaker 2: now they're saying a million illegals have crossed in the

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Speaker 2: This is a huge, huge problem for them because the

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Speaker 2: public's mind has finally been set on this issue in

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Speaker 2: a meaningful way. But here Republicans are managing to step

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Speaker 2: But how do they mess this one up?

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Speaker 4: And I've made this argument on the air.

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Speaker 1: I think Joe Biden should be impeached for his failures

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Speaker 4: And it is a larger picture here. Buck.

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Speaker 1: What this represents to me is what we told so

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Speaker 1: many people when Kevin McCarthy was removed that a lot

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Speaker 2: I think in the House for them, it's going to

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Speaker 2: And also in peaching may Orcis. I mean, I say

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Speaker 2: But if they're able to go all the way and

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Speaker 2: who's going to do Biden's bidding at the border regardless, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the only real accountability in the executive

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Speaker 4: The top everybody. That's the truth. That's my thing.

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Speaker 1: Like there, Look, I think Mayor Pete has been an

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Speaker 1: the border. What all those people have in common, they

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Speaker 4: So to me, when you feud like you've got.

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Speaker 1: To go after the head of the snake And to me,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden is the head of the snake party right now,

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Speaker 1: I think Joe Biden should be impeached. And to me,

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Speaker 1: it dilutes things when you imp Again, he serves at

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Speaker 1: the will may Orcus does of the president. His job

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Speaker 4: Right to me, that doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: It's like the head coach wins or loses the game

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Speaker 2: To take your head coach analogy. If you just replace

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Speaker 2: With the same strategy and the same decision making. That's

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Speaker 2: And I understand that can feel unsatisfying right now, But this,

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Speaker 2: to impeach Eric Holder and remove him under the Obama administration,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, was Eric Were there plenty of reasons to

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Speaker 4: Eric Holder was undermining the rule on the Constitution?

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Speaker 2: Sure, but Loretta Lynch took over, right eventually, you look at.

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Speaker 4: This, Okay, you're gonna how much time are you gonna spend?

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Speaker 4: And I get it right now, it's yeah, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: Really because removing any of these Democrats that are in

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Speaker 2: on an MSNBC, Like, you're not actually punishing them, everybody. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: What's the single main strategy in the whole Hunter Biden fiasco. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: The power structure is the power structure. The same thing

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Speaker 1: Appreciate him joining us. Obviously a lot of a reaction

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Speaker 4: Was there anything that surprised you.

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Speaker 5: There was on the Mayorcis vote. You know, look, last

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Speaker 5: We expected that we would win it by one last

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Speaker 5: He had a hospital gown on, and they willed in

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Speaker 5: Everyone needs not worry. We're going to take care of

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Speaker 6: We'll do it next week.

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Speaker 1: So what happened. You knew that you had three no

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Speaker 4: That's your understanding of vote counting of what happened.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it quite literally did happen in real time.

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Speaker 6: That that's fine.

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Speaker 2: Mister speaker, it's bock. Thanks for being here with us

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Speaker 5: Well, look, under the rules, we will send the articles

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Speaker 5: evaluate the merits of that. Look, we Mayorcis has not

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Speaker 6: And so we have to do what must be done.

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Speaker 2: And mister Speaker on the issue of a standalone funding

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Speaker 5: There's going to be a serious price to pay for that.

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Speaker 5: Let's be clear about what happened last night. President Biden

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana. Appreciate you

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Speaker 1: you said dead on arrival in conjunction with several other

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Speaker 4: And how does that work?

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Speaker 6: He'd better be bluffing.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the fate of the Middle East rest upon

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Speaker 5: I do think those are separate issues. I think they

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Speaker 5: And so I told them that as recently as this morning.

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Speaker 6: All in one measure.

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Speaker 5: And I told them We're not going to do that

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Speaker 2: What are the most important priorities for you as Speaker

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Speaker 5: Sir, Well, look, the number one priority. We're all here

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Speaker 5: to save this country the House Republicans. I ran for

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Speaker 5: office and my colleagues did because we were desperately, deeply

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Speaker 5: concerned about.

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Speaker 6: The trajectory of the country.

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Speaker 5: I have children, I'm worried about what they're going to

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Speaker 5: inherit right, all of us are, and so to do that,

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Speaker 5: we know the reality is we have to maintain and

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Speaker 5: grow the House majority. You know, so much of what

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Speaker 5: evolves into public policy comes out of the House.

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Speaker 6: It's critically important to do that.

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Speaker 5: We'll be governing along the way between now and the election,

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Speaker 5: and we'll be focusing on the menace of China and

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Speaker 5: all of its various issues. Will focusing on energy policy,

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Speaker 5: trying to reduce energy costs. We're going to continue to

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Speaker 5: press against this radical regulatory regime the White House having

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Speaker 5: weaponized so many agencies of the federal government to work

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Speaker 5: against working families and industries and businesses. We're going to

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Speaker 5: be pressing for our core principles along the way, and

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Speaker 5: there's a lot to do here. We know that it'll

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Speaker 5: all be blockaded, I'm sure by Senate to I Chuck

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Speaker 5: Schumer in the Senate, but we're going to do our

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Speaker 5: duty and we're going to show the contrast to the

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Speaker 5: American people between the two parties, and they're not just

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Speaker 5: their ideology but their action, and I think that's going

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Speaker 5: to speak volumes to.

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Speaker 4: Voters, mister Speaker.

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Speaker 1: There's also a simultaneous attempt to potentially impeach Joe Biden,

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Speaker 1: and I think Mike Gallagher, Congressman, said, Hey, the reason

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Speaker 1: I'm voting against Mayorcas is ultimately I believe Biden should

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Speaker 1: be responsible for the failure at the border. Do you

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Speaker 1: anticipate also moving forward on potentially impeaching Joe Biden that

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Speaker 1: is the top of the Democrat government in the months ahead,

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Speaker 1: or to you, is may orcus the target now?

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Speaker 4: Not worrying about Biden, No, I.

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Speaker 6: Think we have lots of worries here.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this administration has been an abject failure so

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Speaker 5: many ways, and you've seen that we've handled impeachment with

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Speaker 5: the weight that is incumbent upon us. I mean next

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Speaker 5: to the declaration of war. I often make the argument

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Speaker 5: around here impeachment is probably the heaviest power that is

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Speaker 5: given to the House in the Constitution.

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Speaker 6: We take it very seriously.

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Speaker 5: It requires low deliberate action, very methodical inquiry and investigation,

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Speaker 5: and that is what you've seen. We've been investigating the

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Speaker 5: president himself through three different committees of Jurisdiction, Judiciary.

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Speaker 6: Oversight, ways and means.

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Speaker 5: Our chairman and those committees have done exceptional work. They

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Speaker 5: have followed the truth where it led, and that.

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Speaker 6: Is what our system requires.

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Speaker 5: And so we have a couple of dots left to connect.

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Speaker 6: We have a couple of subpoenas.

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Speaker 5: As you know, James Biden himself and Hunter Biden will

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Speaker 5: be finally be submitting to deposition at the end of

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Speaker 5: this month. And after that I think that it'll all

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Speaker 5: be wrapped up in a package and we'll carefully evaluate

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Speaker 5: that and if it does indeed seem that impeachment is.

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Speaker 6: A proper course, we will take that course. We have

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Speaker 6: no choice.

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Speaker 5: We have to follow our oath to the Constitution, and

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Speaker 5: that's what's required.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with the Chiefs. I can never pull

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Speaker 2: Fair enough far enough. I can understand that for sure.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us, mister speaker. Appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. We go

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Speaker 1: up to New h Washington, DC right now to the

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Speaker 1: and chaos continues to descend on the United States Capitol,

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Speaker 1: with us, and Paul, I know you're also tracking all

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Speaker 1: the lies spread by doctor Fauci and others during the

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Speaker 1: course of COVID, and I appreciate you giving us some

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Speaker 1: time here.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you just right out.

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Speaker 1: The top, because I think the last time I saw

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Speaker 1: book out, which I would encourage everybody to go check out,

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Speaker 1: dealing with all the lies that we were told during COVID.

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Speaker 1: Buck and I have discussed this a bunch. Your home

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Speaker 1: state's a great example. Nobody paid a price for being

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Speaker 1: wrong on COVID, And even in the state of Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: which is a red state, Andy Basheer, who was wrong

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Speaker 1: on virtually everything, got reelected as someone who was right

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Speaker 1: on almost everything COVID And thank you for being right.

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Speaker 1: How much does it disappoint you that almost no political

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Speaker 1: figures paid a price at all for being wrong on

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Speaker 1: virtually everything that mattered when it came to COVID.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you have to realize that not only was

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Speaker 7: he wrong from a public opinion point of view, our

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Speaker 7: governor put on mandate after mandate that was struck down

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Speaker 7: by the court. The federal courts found unconstitutional his ban

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Speaker 7: on travel, his ban on church, you name it. He

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Speaker 7: had half a dozen edicts found unconstitutional, and you're right

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Speaker 7: he didn't pay a penalty. But I think what it

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Speaker 7: shows you, at least in our race, it was about

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Speaker 7: port barrel politics. He passed out a lot of money.

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Speaker 7: We had two terrible disasters, and the face of the

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Speaker 7: relief was the governor. And I think this is a

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Speaker 7: real mistake that politicians go around with our money and

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Speaker 7: act like it came from them. It didn't come from

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Speaker 7: our governor.

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Speaker 6: Came from the people.

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Speaker 7: And I don't begrudge the fact that we get involved

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Speaker 7: with emergencies, but the governor became the face of the money,

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Speaker 7: and it was if it was his money he was

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Speaker 7: bringing to the community, and I think that's how he

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Speaker 7: won election. But you're right, he didn't pay much of

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Speaker 7: a penalty for, you know, sending basically state agents, state

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Speaker 7: police agents to a church to take down license plates.

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Speaker 7: I find that grotesque, a grow tesque violation of religious freedom,

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Speaker 7: banning travel, grow tesque violation of freedom, and court struck

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Speaker 7: him down. And you're right, he didn't pay a political penalty,

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Speaker 7: which is disappointing.

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Speaker 1: Is disappointing not only in Kentucky but everywhere. I mean,

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Speaker 1: basically every awful draconian dictator, governor and or senator or

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Speaker 1: representative got re elected. You are continuing to hold doctor

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Speaker 1: Fauci's feet to the fire and scarily gain a function.

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Speaker 1: Research which you have been very foremost in opposing is

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Speaker 1: continuing to get accelerated, and even more deadly viruses are

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Speaker 1: continuing to be created. How worried are you that, as

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Speaker 1: bad as COVID was, that we have created a world

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Speaker 1: where far more dangerous viruses are being created. And based

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Speaker 1: on the evidence supporting that COVID got out of a

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Speaker 1: Chinese lab, how worried should we all be that the

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Speaker 1: next virus that escapes is going to be far more deadly?

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Speaker 7: Extremely worried. We have evidence, indirect evidence that the Chinese

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Speaker 7: are experimenting with NIPA virus and with Ebola virus, both

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Speaker 7: of which have about a fifty percent mortality. But it's

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Speaker 7: even worse than you think. If you take a virus

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Speaker 7: that has fifty percent mortality like ebola, it's like aid

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Speaker 7: through bodily fluid, So it's not easy to catch ebolam

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Speaker 7: if you mutate it and try to make it aerosolized.

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Speaker 7: Can you imagine if a Bola spread like COVID did

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Speaker 7: with a fifty percent mortality. We're talking about the destruction

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Speaker 7: of civilization. We're talking about going to a stone age

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Speaker 7: where people are fighting for every scrap of food, there's

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Speaker 7: no potable water, and civilization will completely break down with

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Speaker 7: a fifty percent mortality. That's what we're talking about. And

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Speaker 7: yet we don't have significant controls on that research, not

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Speaker 7: only in China, which we have limits to what we

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Speaker 7: can do to China, but we don't have sufficient controls

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Speaker 7: on those experiments happening here. And the argument you'll hear

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Speaker 7: from US researchers are, well, the Chinese are doing it,

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Speaker 7: we need to do it. If we don't do it,

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Speaker 7: the Chinese are going to do it, and we need

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Speaker 7: to do this to counteract it. And the arguments aren't

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Speaker 7: valid because experimenting with making ebola or any of these

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Speaker 7: dangerous viruses more potent is not. The knowledge that you

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Speaker 7: gain from it isn't worth the risk. And this is

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Speaker 7: the fundamental disagreement I had with Falci. He said explicitly

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Speaker 7: He said that the knowledge gain was worth the risk

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Speaker 7: even if a pandemic occurred, and I think the millions

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Speaker 7: of people had loved ones that they lost. I think

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Speaker 7: we disagree with Anthony Fauci, And yet he was given

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Speaker 7: a Medal of Freedom honitor as he left.

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Speaker 1: You know, senter Ram Paul with us. Now, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of things going on. When you hear Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: as he said earlier this week, how do you react, well, the.

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Speaker 7: Facts of the opposite. You know, he got rid of

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Speaker 7: he addocated from ninety four executive orders that Trump had

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Speaker 7: put in place to control the border. Trump had control

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Speaker 7: got rid of all of those orders, and the borders

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Speaker 7: a mess. He also went to the Supreme Court just

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Speaker 7: borders that Texas is erecting. Texas putting up razor wire

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Speaker 7: and cargo containers as a makeshift wall, and they appear

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Speaker 7: Supreme Court to take it down. So it's laughable for

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Speaker 7: Biden to say, oh, I just need more power from Congress.

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Speaker 7: He has the same power as Donald Trump had, and

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Speaker 7: Donald Trump closed the border. So it's a fallacious argument

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Speaker 7: and it should be laughed out of a public view.

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Speaker 7: But the goings on in the Senate and the Senate

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Speaker 7: Republican leadership have allowed this to happen because they put

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Speaker 7: forward a border bill that isn't any good, wouldn't fix

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Speaker 7: the border. And now that we've all almost every Republican

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Speaker 7: now is going to come out today and vote right now,

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Speaker 7: we're voting on the floor, vote against this.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 7: The Democrats are all saying, oh, we gave him a

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Speaker 7: border bill is perfect, and they're all leaving it. It

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Speaker 7: was never perfect. It's worse than the existing law. And

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Speaker 7: the existing law actually Donald Trump used to close the border.

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Speaker 7: So this fake border bill has always been a pretense

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Speaker 7: for getting more money to Ukraine. Mitch McConnell's sole desires

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Speaker 7: to fund Ukraine. That's all he wants to do. It's

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Speaker 7: all he cares about. He'll do it at the expense

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Speaker 7: of an elaborate ruse over the border which turned out

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Speaker 7: to be fake, and no conservatible end up voting for it.

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Speaker 4: Senator Ran Paul with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, everybody and Senator on the issue of the funding

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Speaker 2: and where it stands within the Congress right now. You know,

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Speaker 2: with with the supplemental drama going on, what can you

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Speaker 2: tell us about where that, where that goes, what you

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Speaker 2: think is going to happen here with Ukraine funding, with

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Speaker 2: the supplemental funding for Israel, with the border funding, all

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 7: There's going to be a series of key votes, and

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Speaker 7: they're happening right now. The first vote is over whether

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Speaker 7: or not to get onto the bill with Ukraine, Taiwan,

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Speaker 7: and Israel, and then also with the fake border bill

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Speaker 7: that doesn't fix the border, that makes it worse. Almost

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Speaker 7: every Republican is going to vote no, and they won't

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Speaker 7: have enough votes to get on that bill. When that fails,

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Speaker 7: Schumer is immediately going to put forward a bill minus

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Speaker 7: the border provisions. And my proposal, and I spoke at

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Speaker 7: length at lunch today, was that we shouldn't give up

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Speaker 7: on the border and that what she we should do

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Speaker 7: is counter that we're already in emergency. One of the

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Speaker 7: main problems of the border bills that says you have

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Speaker 7: to get five thousand people a day till you get

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Speaker 7: to an emergency. I think the emergency is we just

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Speaker 7: had seven hundred thousand people come across illegally in the

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Speaker 7: last two months. The emergency exists, and we shouldn't have

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Speaker 7: a trigger. The trigger should be zero. The trigger should

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Speaker 7: be one person coming in illegal aid. So I think

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Speaker 7: we should counter to the Democrats with a real border bill.

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Speaker 7: There's an HR two in the House which goes a

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Speaker 7: long way towards this. There are real provisions that we

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Speaker 7: could put in place, but instead our leadership, Republican leadership,

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Speaker 7: is going to go along with humor. And here's my suspicion,

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Speaker 7: all the Democrats and then about ten of the big

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Speaker 7: government Republicans led by our Republican leadership, is going to

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Speaker 7: vote to get on the next bill because they are

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Speaker 7: so concerned with sending your money to Ukraine. And people

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Speaker 7: need to realize it's all borrowed. We don't have any

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Speaker 7: extra money. There is no rainy day fund, there's no

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Speaker 7: money sitting around. The money they want to send to

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Speaker 7: Ukraine for good or bad, is all borrowed. We can't

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Speaker 7: afford to even pay for the stuff stamp, social Security

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Speaker 7: that consumes almost all the tax revenue. Everything else is

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Speaker 7: borrowed a trillion and a half each year, and so

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Speaker 7: this just It just isn't fiscally conservative to send money

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Speaker 7: to other countries unless you take it from somewhere else

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Speaker 7: in the budget, and they're unwilling to pay for it.

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Speaker 2: Center Paul, what do you think about the I think

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Speaker 2: it's seventeen billion dollars that is supposed to go to Israel.

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Speaker 2: People are asking I've heard it, you know, more lately

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Speaker 2: than I have in other times where this issue has

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Speaker 2: come up. Why are we sending so much money to

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Speaker 2: a country that is a wealthy country.

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Speaker 7: I think the argument has some validity to it. Their

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Speaker 7: per capita income rivals the United States. They are a

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Speaker 7: country that actually hasn't asked for more aid. We give

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Speaker 7: them two to three billion dollars a year every year.

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Speaker 7: I will say, though, that even I compromise because they've

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Speaker 7: been a good ally and said, even though I think

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Speaker 7: we do have to worry about the dollars, I said,

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Speaker 7: I'll vote for it, and I did support it. Paid

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Speaker 7: for take away the irs all that extra money they

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Speaker 7: threw at the irs billions of dollars. And that's what

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Speaker 7: Johnson did from the outset when he became speaker. He

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Speaker 7: put forward, Israel aid paid for, we brought it over

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Speaker 7: here and we pushed it forward and forced to vote.

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Speaker 7: All Democrats voted against it because they despise so much

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Speaker 7: of being paid for and paying for it is that

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Speaker 7: it makes it to me at least more acceptable. But

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Speaker 7: I won't vote for it unpaid for, even for Israel. Look,

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Speaker 7: I think we're a great ally. I've visited Israel. We

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Speaker 7: have a lot of kinship. But at the same time

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Speaker 7: we have to be concerned about our country and our debt,

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Speaker 7: so it has to be paid for. And so this

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Speaker 7: bill to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan will be unpaid for.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to these different funding issues. What do

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Speaker 2: you think is the best realistic outcome from your perspective,

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Speaker 2: given where we are with all the supplementals and the

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Speaker 2: wrangling around it.

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Speaker 7: I think the main thing is not to capitulate on

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Speaker 7: the border. This first vote, we're sticking together and saying

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Speaker 7: the border bill's inadequate. Doesn't shut down the border, and

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Speaker 7: it won't do anything other than give political cover for

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Speaker 7: Biden that was sticking together on. But for the Republicans,

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Speaker 7: and this is what I said at lunch, for the

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Speaker 7: Republicans who are going to go along with Chuck Schumer

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Speaker 7: and Biden on the second vote vote, it's actually going

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Speaker 7: to be an identical vote.

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Speaker 6: If you look at the vote.

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Speaker 7: We're going to vote on a shell to get on

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Speaker 7: a bill. It's not really a bill. So we voted

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Speaker 7: against the shell because they were going to put the

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Speaker 7: border and the.

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Speaker 6: Ukraine money together.

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Speaker 7: We didn't like the border bill was inaccurate. They're going

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Speaker 7: to vote about thirty minutes later on the exact same bill,

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Speaker 7: But then they're going to say, oh no, we're going

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Speaker 7: to put a replacement on a clean bill with just Ukraine,

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Speaker 7: Israel and Taiwan money. But the best outcome is don't

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Speaker 7: give up on the border fight. We still should be

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Speaker 7: and we should talk about endlessly about Biden has gotten

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Speaker 7: rid of all of the provisions that Trump used to

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Speaker 7: control the border. And if the law is the same,

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Speaker 7: how come Trump could control the border and Biden and

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Speaker 7: can what power does he need? And if we were

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Speaker 7: to give new powers, they have to be powers that

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Speaker 7: acknowledge the emergency already exists.

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Speaker 6: It shouldn't be.

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Speaker 7: That you wait for one point eight million more people

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Speaker 7: to come in before you say, oh, well, if we

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Speaker 7: had more than five thousand a day, then we're at

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Speaker 7: an emergency. One illegal is an emergency. And the bill

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Speaker 7: was worse than that. It said, when you got to

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Speaker 7: five thousand a day, we'd stop the illegal border crossings,

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Speaker 7: but we'd still migrants to come through the ports of entry,

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Speaker 7: so there'd be no limit. Another for all, five thousand

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Speaker 7: more could come through the port of entry instead of illegal.

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Speaker 7: All this does pushes him from the illegal entry to

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Speaker 7: the legal entry, but still doesn't mean we should accept

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Speaker 7: or can take, you know, a couple million migrants every year.

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Speaker 4: Senator round, Paul, everybody center, appreciate your time, sir, come

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Speaker 4: back soon.

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Speaker 6: Thanks you.

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Speaker 2: more consumer applications, software sales, and related technologies than ever.

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Speaker 2: Tech expert Colin Tedards believes this is the beginning of

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Speaker 2: a new period where you could make serious money if

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Speaker 2: you know where to go and what to invest in.

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Speaker 2: Colin has been wasting these tech markets for a long

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Speaker 2: time now. When the market hit rock bottom in November

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, Colin recommended shares of a top software company,

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Speaker 2: saying there was a lot of upside to their stock.

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Speaker 2: This same top software company is up over two hundred

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Speaker 2: percent since then, and anyone who listened to Colin had

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Speaker 2: a chance to more than double their money in less

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Speaker 2: than a year. Now he's recommending a new AI company

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Speaker 2: that he says could do even better, and he's found

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Speaker 2: a way for you to profit from this AI project

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Speaker 2: right from your own brokerage account. Go to newaiproject dot com.

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Speaker 2: That's newaiproject dot com to hear Colin's next next.

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Speaker 4: Big pick which could make you big bucks.

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Speaker 2: Newaiproject dot com paid for by Brownstone Research sh