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Speaker 1: Steve Schmid with the warning, and I'm thrilled today to

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Speaker 1: be joined by my friend Terry Vertz, a candidate for

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Speaker 1: the United States Congress in the ninth District of Texas.

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Speaker 1: This is a race that you should care about, and

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Speaker 1: you should care about it because voting this MAGA majority

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Speaker 1: out of office is of the utmost importance for the

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Speaker 1: future of you, everyone you love, all of your children

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Speaker 1: and your grandchildren. And Terry Vertz is a winning candidate,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about that. Terry, how you doing

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Speaker 1: doing good? Having fun?

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Speaker 2: We're down to we're early voting already here and the

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Speaker 2: elections just about ten days away. March third is the

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Speaker 2: actual primary in Texas. So it's a full time job now,

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Speaker 2: to say least. So Terry, you're a career politician, No,

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Speaker 2: a little bit, I'm only I'm only kidding. One of

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Speaker 2: the things we wanna we want to do today is

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Speaker 2: we wanna we wanna talk about where people can find

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Speaker 2: you at So why don't you tell us where the

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Speaker 2: website is and how people can find it and and

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Speaker 2: the best place to write a check. And I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: do this throughout this conversation today, because you need the

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Speaker 2: money to win and you're the only candidate in.

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Speaker 1: The Democratic primary who can win this general election race.

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Speaker 1: The Houston Chronicle just made that point and the exact quote.

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Speaker 1: You'll correct me if I if I do it wrong.

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Speaker 1: But what the Houston Chronicle said, if Democrats are serious

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Speaker 1: nominate Terry Urtz to be the general election candidate. Is that?

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Speaker 1: Did I get that quote right? That's right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they had they endorse me, and they had a

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Speaker 2: I was it was humbled, It was super humbling. But

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Speaker 2: best Democratic candidates in Texas for for you know, Congress, Senate,

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Speaker 2: Land commissioner, agriculture commissioner. So that was pretty cool. But

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Speaker 2: this this district, like you alluded to see, this is

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Speaker 2: ground zero for Jerry Mannering. Everybody remembers, excuse me, last

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Speaker 2: summer when Trump said, hey, I want you to steal

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Speaker 2: five seats and Greg Abbott saluted, you know, even Indiana Republicans,

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Speaker 2: my district is ground zero for that. They're trying to

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Speaker 2: steal this and I'm going to make them pay and

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Speaker 2: and and keep them from stealing the seat. But it's

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Speaker 2: like I said, we're in early voting right now. We're

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Speaker 2: And like the Chronicle made the point, you got to

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Speaker 2: have the right candidate for the right district. And I'm

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Speaker 2: the right candidate for this district. It's very working class.

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Speaker 2: It's all theeries and chemical plants in Houston, right near

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Speaker 2: the Space Center where I've been for the last twenty

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Speaker 2: five years. It's the Houston Ship Channel. But if folks

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Speaker 2: on this event is going to go straight into digital advertising,

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Speaker 2: which you really need. And my website is Terry verchz

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Speaker 2: but it's pretty simple, terryvertch dot com and just any

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Speaker 3: Thirty five hundred bucks, you know, whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: It's going to help get the word out when we

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Speaker 3: Voters love it. That mean they really love the idea.

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Speaker 2: With my background, it's pretty unique background, having been a

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Speaker 2: But the problem is getting the word out, and that's

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Speaker 2: why money matters. It sucks that money matters so much,

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Speaker 2: but that's the system we have.

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Speaker 1: You were did you command the Space Shuttle or were

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Speaker 1: So you were I should have done your title, but

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Speaker 1: You were an Air Force Did you go to the

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Speaker 1: Well. When you when you spend that much time in space,

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Speaker 2: So I was there with Russians and I was there.

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Speaker 2: did I lose you, Steve? I just you just somebody

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Speaker 1: break up power. We're gonna have to take away the

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Speaker 1: special privileges of the of the of the big tech

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Speaker 1: companies who were immunized from lawsuits under a provision called

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Speaker 1: Section two thirty. How do how do you see all

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Speaker 1: of that? Because I think if you get elected to Congress,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be on the front edge of a

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Speaker 1: golden age of legislation where where, for example, I give

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Speaker 1: you a perfect reform, there should be a federal law

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Speaker 1: pass that says, unless there's a declaration of war by

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Speaker 1: the Congress, the President of the United States has no

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Speaker 1: authority to nationalize the National Guard forces. If there's a

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Speaker 1: declaration of war, so be it. We haven't had a

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Speaker 1: declaration of war since World War since World War Two?

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Speaker 1: How do you think about that stuff? So this is

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Speaker 1: a great thing.

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Speaker 2: First of all, with respect to ICE, I think Republicans

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Speaker 2: want to repeal in he replace Obamacare. They've never had

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Speaker 2: an idea for what they're going to do. We need

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Speaker 2: to repeal in he replace ICE. I think we need

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Speaker 2: to steal their steal that verbage, because that's what you

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Speaker 2: just said is what needs to happen, So I call

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Speaker 2: it repeal in her place.

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Speaker 3: Ice Also, Democrats are affordability.

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Speaker 2: Affordability like that's the buzzword now, and I agree we

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Speaker 2: need to get back to a middle class economic platform,

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Speaker 2: but it needs to come with accountability, like without accountability,

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Speaker 2: and you can't just gloss over what's happened this past year.

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Speaker 2: If you do, it's going to repeat itself. So there

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Speaker 2: needs to be accountability. To your point, is a congressman,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to use that power and what I'm asking

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Speaker 2: to get elected in the Congress, I'm asking for power.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking for political power, and I'm going to use

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Speaker 2: that to investigate BONDI known all of Steven Miller, the

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Speaker 2: whole crew. You know, there's also mid level executives that

468
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Speaker 2: are giving these orders. Who said the government can go

469
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Speaker 2: into my house without a warrant, that's an illegal thing.

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Speaker 2: Who says they can bomb, who says they can kill

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Speaker 2: people without you know them being military targets and these

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Speaker 2: boats in the Caribbean. So there needs to be a

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Speaker 2: serious effort for accountability. So affordability, but there has to

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Speaker 2: be accountability that's going to be one of my top

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Speaker 2: one of my top priorities. And the trustpussing thing too.

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Speaker 2: You don't hear that very often, but you just nailed it. Like,

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Speaker 2: the amount of power that is flowing into just a

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Speaker 2: handful of you know, Zuckerberg and and a handful of

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Speaker 2: these tech bros. Is horrific. We've never seen this before.

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Speaker 2: We really need a Teddy Roosevelt style administration that focuses

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Speaker 2: on working people and gets rid of these this conglomeration

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Speaker 2: of power in just a handful of people.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about this? If I, if I

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Speaker 1: were president, within the first two weeks, I would nationalize SpaceX,

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Speaker 1: and I would nationalize Blue Origin. I would strip Bezos

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Speaker 1: and Elon Musk from those companies. Uh and then ultimately

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Speaker 1: I would reconstitute Aboard and I would I would privatize them,

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Speaker 1: and I would I would set it right. But how

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Speaker 1: do you think about the national security threat posed by

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Speaker 1: a really a nonstate actor who may soon be worth

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Speaker 1: a trillion trillion dollars, who has control over over the

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Speaker 1: high ground of space.

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Speaker 2: Yeah he I mean he makes a decision and starlink

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Speaker 2: is either usable or not for Ukraine or Russia. He's

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Speaker 2: literally affecting the war in Ukraine. Ukraine in the last

496
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Speaker 2: week took back a huge amount of land. They took

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Speaker 2: back all the land that Russia gained in January at

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Speaker 2: the cost of over thirty thousand men. And that came

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Speaker 2: because Elon turned off starlink for Russians.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 2: To your point of trust busting, I mean, just a

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Speaker 2: handful of guys have all this stuff. And one of

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Speaker 2: the things I want to investigate, Steve, is that what

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Speaker 2: doj did So Elin gives Trump a couple hundred million

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Speaker 2: dollars and Trump gives them the keys to the US government.

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Speaker 2: It's the ultimate in corruption. It is pay for play,

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Speaker 2: it is swamp on oh one. And that's what they did.

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Speaker 2: He disabled US. He did huge amount of damage with

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Speaker 2: USAID and everything else. I think the most significant thing

510
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Speaker 2: that no one ever talks about. He was given all

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Speaker 2: the data of the US government. And he owns a

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Speaker 2: groc right XAI. He owns an AI company and the

513
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Speaker 2: coin of the realm in the AI universe's data. So

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Speaker 2: he was just given all the data of the US government.

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Speaker 2: Think about how infinitely valuable that is. Think about the

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Speaker 2: surveillance state that can create. Pete Hegsat, I'm sure your

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Speaker 2: favorite secretary of whatever he is, whatever he is, secretary of.

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Speaker 1: The Secretary of Defense. Under US law, that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: there is no Secretary of War exactly.

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Speaker 2: So he just came up with a ruling that unless

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Speaker 2: the AI companies are willing to, you know, submit to

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Speaker 2: the government's approval, no contractor that uses their AI is

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Speaker 2: allowed to have a contract with the government. So basically

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Speaker 2: they they're completely controlling what AI companies can do. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: this is nineteen eighty four level stuff. George Rovell couldn't

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Speaker 2: imagine the level of surveillance that these that these companies

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Speaker 2: have over all of us. I'm talking to you on

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Speaker 2: an iPhone that's recording everything and who knows where it's

529
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Speaker 2: sending it to, right, So we need to really focus

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Speaker 2: on that. And to your point, having a bunch of

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Speaker 2: octagenarian you know, congressmen, are they really going to be

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Speaker 2: able to regulate AI or the surveillance state or anything

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Speaker 2: like that. So we need leaders, and people are craving leadership.

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Speaker 2: We need leaders that have vision and that understand these big.

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Speaker 1: Issues, understand technology, understand the implications of it all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Trump is distracting us with you know, squirrel here,

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Speaker 2: squirrel there, while really important things are happening. Huge amounts

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Speaker 2: of wealth is being transferred from working people to these

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Speaker 2: couple of tech pros, and more than that, that can

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Speaker 2: control the surveillance, the political control, you know, algorithms.

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Speaker 3: What we saw was social media and algorithms.

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Speaker 2: Think about the damage that did to our country in

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Speaker 2: the last decade, dude. AI is like social media algorithms

544
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Speaker 2: on steroids, and so we need to be thinking about

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Speaker 2: these things. And we're distracted by all these Fox News

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Speaker 2: catnip issues that are not the real important things that

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Speaker 2: are going to affect our kids and grandkids.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, I think is such an important issue,

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Speaker 1: and in fact, I think there needs to be a

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Speaker 1: movement for some constitutional amendments that that would all fall

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Speaker 1: in the space of right to privacy, where genetic privacy

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Speaker 1: on our genetic information, which will which will become an

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Speaker 1: issue certainly our images. You know, Denmark gave everybody in

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Speaker 1: the country a copyright on their likeness and on their

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Speaker 1: voice protect ordinary people from the AI age, and I

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Speaker 1: thought that that was a was a wonderful idea. But

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Speaker 1: these are all brave New World issues, and you're one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent right. I mean when you watch these oversight

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Speaker 1: hearings in Congress, you know when you when you wash

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Speaker 1: these eyes who were seventy five, eighty eighty years old,

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Speaker 1: you know they they came up, you know they were

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Speaker 1: they were They still don't know how to work. There

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Speaker 1: are tories.

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Speaker 2: They're playing pop well you know, yeah, I know you

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Speaker 2: like Jake Cochenklass congresstration.

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Speaker 3: He's a smart man, and we need more leaders like

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Speaker 3: that who are.

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Speaker 2: Intelligent and and can think about these problems deeply. I

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Speaker 2: think he calls it digital point their merchants, so digital

570
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Speaker 2: poison is the term he uses. But when you talk

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Speaker 2: about these tech companies, but yeah, we need people who

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Speaker 2: can think about it. And we can't just we're not

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Speaker 2: going to stop AI right that Genie's not going back

574
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Speaker 2: in the bottle and you and government regulation is needed,

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Speaker 2: but it's also has to be done right, So we

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Speaker 2: need people who can think thoughtfully. This isn't a woke

577
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Speaker 2: communist Democrats versus fascists Republicans like we the Congress actually

578
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Speaker 2: needs to work together and come up with something that

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Speaker 2: can take us into the future, you know safely.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're in a you're not in an agricultural district,

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Speaker 1: but you're in a you're in a state where agriculture

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Speaker 1: is a big is a big deal. Do do do

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Speaker 1: people that you're talking to have any sense of the

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Speaker 1: implications of these data centers regarding their electricity costs, regarding

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Speaker 1: you know, for example, if you if you live out west,

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Speaker 1: you live in southern California, you live in Arizona, you

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Speaker 1: live in Nevada, you live in Utah, you you live

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Speaker 1: in any of the Colorado River basin states. Uh, the

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Speaker 1: implications for this, the water usage, the energy usage, it's

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Speaker 1: mind boggling. Yeah, Like, are ordinary people that you're talking

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Speaker 1: to have they have they any anyone discussing this on

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Speaker 1: the on the campaign trail?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Actually, see if I do have Liberty County, most of

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Speaker 2: my district is industrial, but I have an agricultural county.

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Speaker 2: They have farm farming and ranching. So and the answer

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Speaker 2: to your question is one word no. Like everybody talks

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Speaker 2: about healthcare. I just had a town hall in downtown Houston.

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Speaker 2: It was sidewalks that they're not picking up the trash,

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Speaker 2: you know, that they're closing down to elementary school. Those

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Speaker 2: are the things that people are focused on, which is great,

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Speaker 2: but AI is coming, you know, the data centers are coming.

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Speaker 2: There's a billionaire here in the East Texas who's trying

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Speaker 2: to buy basically all the water of East Texas.

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Speaker 3: It's good.

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Speaker 2: So, like these issues, unfortunately, most voters are just not

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Speaker 2: informed about they're not following it. But in Texas there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of data center activity. Like I think there's

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Speaker 2: been one hundred billion dollars committed already and it's going

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Speaker 2: to be several hundred million, fifty seven gigawatts, which is

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Speaker 2: like a small European country of new power is required

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Speaker 2: just in the state of Texas to do these things,

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Speaker 2: and that's not free. You're pumping up demand on electricity

614
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Speaker 2: supply and demand. So when you do that, the costs

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Speaker 2: go up, and that's been a real problem with that.

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Speaker 1: The water Texas and the Texas grid of course, there's

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Speaker 1: famously world class, yes exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well because it's not regulated. That's what thirty years

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Speaker 2: of single party rule will do for it. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: these are issues, unfortunately, and you know, I got to

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Speaker 2: get through the primary. So in the primary, there's certain

622
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Speaker 2: issues you talk to and there's certain voters. But in

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Speaker 2: the general election. This is going to be a big

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Speaker 2: thing in a working class district. There's a lot of

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Speaker 2: you know, twenty five thirty five dollars an hour kind

626
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Speaker 2: of plumbers, welders, electricians that that's that's a lot of

627
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Speaker 2: the folks.

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Speaker 3: They're not thinking about AI.

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Speaker 2: But the reality is AI is coming and it's going

630
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Speaker 2: to affect, you know, things in some ways.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully it'll be good. In many ways, it might not

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Speaker 3: be good.

633
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Speaker 2: So as leaders, we need to make sure that we're

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Speaker 2: sharing that story with people that might not otherwise. You know,

635
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 2: they're focused on sidewalks in schools and rightfully, so let

636
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 2: me tell you a quick story. And this is something

637
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 2: again this is general election, but so many Republicans in

638
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 2: my district are just voting against their own interest, Like

639
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump is not there to help out the thirty

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Speaker 2: five dollars an hour electrician. I know, you you have

641
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Speaker 2: these great stats about how much is a billion and

642
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Speaker 2: how many whatever? Elon Musk, what's it like, thirty a

643
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Speaker 2: trillion is thirty three thousand years of a dollar a

644
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Speaker 2: second or something?

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Speaker 3: You have that analogy.

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Speaker 2: I love it so to talk about how Republicans are

647
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Speaker 2: voting against their own interests. Elon Musk, for the last

648
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Speaker 2: several years, has been making about five hundred million dollars

649
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Speaker 2: a day. The increase in his wealth from all of

650
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Speaker 2: his stocks five hundred million dollars a day. So the

651
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Speaker 2: prevailing wage in my district is thirty five dollars an hour.

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Speaker 2: At that rate, you'd have to work for seventy two

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Speaker 2: hundred years to make five hundred what Elon Musk makes today.

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Speaker 2: And the point is Republicans, we need to be don't

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Speaker 2: judge them, don't be a scold. Just go like, look, guys,

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Speaker 2: let's all join the same team. We're on your side.

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Speaker 2: They are not on your side. They're for they and them,

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Speaker 2: They're for Musk and Visas. We're on your side. And

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Speaker 2: that's the point I'm going to be making in the

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Speaker 2: general election once I get through this primary.

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Speaker 1: It's important that you do get through this primary. And

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Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that I that I

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Speaker 1: worry about is Democrats nominating from the extreme of the

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Speaker 1: party unelectable, unelectable candidates in a general election. You know,

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Speaker 1: the greatest political failure in American history is the disgrace

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Speaker 1: of what happened in twenty twenty four, or the entirety

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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party got online with the delusion that

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Speaker 1: an eighty two year old guy could walk up a

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Speaker 1: flight of steps and speaking a coherent sentence was the

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Speaker 1: only conceivable candidate that could defend America's democracy and beat

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Joe Biden's legacy is five letters. It's T,

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Speaker 1: It's an R, it's a U and M and a P.

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Speaker 1: It's Trump. And so here we are in the middle

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Speaker 1: of this great crisis, and we have to win elections.

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Speaker 1: And so in the ninth Congressional District of Texas, we

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Speaker 1: can replace a Maga congressman with an American astronaut to

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Speaker 1: take on the Epstein class, to take on must, to

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Speaker 1: take on Bezos, to take on Maga. He's a person

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Speaker 1: of integrity, he's a person of character who has served

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Speaker 1: his country all of his life. And it's Terry Vertz

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Speaker 1: dot com. If you're able to throw in some money,

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Speaker 1: please please do. I saw in some of the comments

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Speaker 1: Amy Actin she's running in the state of Ohio. Amy

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Speaker 1: Acting can beat vvk Ramaswami. Having a Democratic governor in

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Speaker 1: Ohio would be fantastic. There's Jeff Duncan, the heroic Republican

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Speaker 1: Secretary of State and Georgia who opposed Donald Trump. He's

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Speaker 1: running as a Democrat for governor. The governor candidate in

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Speaker 1: the state of Georgia is the top of the ballot.

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Speaker 1: He has to win a primary against a candidate named

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Speaker 1: Keisha Bottoms, who was the fantastically incompetent mayor of the

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Speaker 1: City of Atlanta. And it is much better for John Osoff,

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Speaker 1: who's one of the most important elections in the country,

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Speaker 1: a person of fantastic talent for Jeff Duncan to be

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Speaker 1: at the top of the ticket. Democrats have to make

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Speaker 1: smart decisions, they have to make pragmatic decisions, and enough

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Speaker 1: with the nonsense. In my view, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: many of you out there saw Gretchen Whitmer, who famously

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Speaker 1: put the blue folder up over her face in the

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Speaker 1: Oval office when Trump used her as a propaganda stooge.

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Speaker 1: A year ago. She was in the Munich Security Conference

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Speaker 1: and she couldn't answer a simple question about Ukraine because

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Speaker 1: according to her, she's a governor and doesn't specialize in

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Speaker 1: foreign policy. She doesn't need to be a foreign policy specialist.

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Speaker 1: She just needs to read a little bit about history

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Speaker 1: through books which are readily available to know what the

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Speaker 1: right thing is to do. And so there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of people who are running for office because they

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Speaker 1: have an ambition for self grandizement. Politics is the realm

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Speaker 1: of the narcissist. We have a lot of Lindsey Graham's

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Speaker 1: that are out there who don't seek to serve any

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Speaker 1: cause beyond them, and that is not consigned to both parties.

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Speaker 1: So when you have exceptional candidates, you have to support them.

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Speaker 1: You have to throw some skin into the game. And

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Speaker 1: so that's why today, as voting has started in Texas,

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Speaker 1: I really urge everybody who's with us now, everybody who's

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Speaker 1: going to see it later, to support a very good

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Speaker 1: man and an extraordinary American, Terry Vertz for the United

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Speaker 1: States Congress. We have a lot of appeasers in the

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Speaker 1: Democratic Party. We have a lot of kneelers in the

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Speaker 1: Democratic Party. We need fighters in the Democratic Party. And

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Speaker 1: what we need them to fight for is the American Republic.

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Speaker 1: To fight for the freedom of speech, fight for the

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Speaker 1: separation of powers, fight for the freedoms that we enjoy.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: the Second Amendment. Were you surprised to see Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: turn into a gun graber so quick, and how's that

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Speaker 1: going over in Texas?

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Speaker 2: So, by the way, thank you Terry Verch dot com.

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Speaker 2: If you want to support me as how you do that.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Steve. The Second Amendment is important to me.

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Speaker 2: I spent thirty years in the Air Force defending it,

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Speaker 2: the First Amendment. I've got a nine millimeter right next

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Speaker 2: to my bed. I enjoy shooting. I like shooting. I

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Speaker 2: got a rimmen for my time in the Air Force

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Speaker 2: for marksmanship. But I think gun ownership needs to be responsible.

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Speaker 2: I don't want people with criminals. I don't want, you know,

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Speaker 2: crazy people having guns. I've got kids and grandkids. My

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Speaker 2: top duty as a man is a tech my family.

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Speaker 2: So I want safe and responsible gun ownership. The President,

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Speaker 2: the cash Patel, we haven't bashed him yet, Pam BONDI, no,

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Speaker 2: you can't. You can't carry a gun legally, Like what

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Speaker 2: the heck?

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Speaker 3: Anyway?

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Speaker 2: And I tell my Republican friends and I talk to

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Speaker 2: them all the time. They're everywhere around here. So you

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Speaker 2: don't agree with the second moment And they're like sheepishly like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know that was bad. You don't agree with the

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Speaker 2: First Amendment we shouldn't be able to peaceably assemble.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's bad.

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Speaker 2: So you think the government, the government showed the power

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Speaker 2: to come into your house without a warrant. You don't

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Speaker 2: like the fourth of mess So in the gym, once

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Speaker 2: I get through the primary, I think I have some

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Speaker 2: very powerful messages. But I want to say another thing, Steve.

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Speaker 2: You were talking about candidate quality. It matters so much

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Speaker 2: because when you're in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Manhattan,

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Speaker 2: you need a certain kind of candidate.

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Speaker 3: That's what the community wants.

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Speaker 2: When you're in Texas, you know, when you're in Georgia,

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Speaker 2: you need a certain kind of candidate.

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Speaker 3: That's what the community want.

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Speaker 2: And that's why I was so humbled when the Houston

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Speaker 2: Chronicle put me at the top of the list of

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Speaker 2: the best Democratic candidates across the state of Texas. Not

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Speaker 2: because I'm some great person, but I'm the right candidate

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Speaker 2: for this district. And we just had and we've talked

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Speaker 2: about this, but the state senator in Fort Worth, a

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Speaker 2: guy named Taylor Remmitt. A year ago, Donald Trump won

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Speaker 2: this state Senate district, which is roughly a US House

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Speaker 2: district SAT and his district is very similar to mine.

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Speaker 2: In terms of Latino demographics, Trump won it by seventeen points.

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Speaker 2: A year later, Taylor Rennett won by fourteen points, a

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Speaker 2: thirty one point swing. And he's an Air Force veteran

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Speaker 2: like me. He's a union he works at the Lockkeey plant.

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Speaker 2: They built the jets that I flew in combat. So,

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Speaker 2: in other words, a similar story to mine had a

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Speaker 2: thirty one point flip. Candidate quality matters. He's an average guy.

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Speaker 2: He's not you know, John F. Kennedy or Barack Obama.

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Speaker 2: He's a great speaker, a great guy. But my point

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Speaker 2: is voters like the kind of candidate that fits their district.

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Speaker 2: And I'm that I'm that candidate for this district. And

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Speaker 2: Democrats need to stop with the purity tests and nominate

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Speaker 2: guys that are the right gals and guys for their districts.

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Speaker 1: They sure they sure do, Uh, they sure do. Need

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Speaker 1: need to win, need to win elections, and we need

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Speaker 1: some We need some exceptional people into Congress. And we

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Speaker 1: need some people that are not inclined to say yes

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Speaker 1: sir to Donald Trump, uh, but are constitutionally inclined to

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Speaker 1: say absolutely not because you're faithless to the to the

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Speaker 1: oath you took. Let me let me ask you about

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Speaker 1: about ICE. Uh. You have a heavily Hispanic district. Talk

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Speaker 1: about the fear in the in the terror and in

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Speaker 1: your revulsion of this power. Military for you know, you

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Speaker 1: have when you think about the elite military units. UH.

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Speaker 1: In the Army, the seventy fifth Ranger Regiment, the exceptional

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Speaker 1: Congressman Jason Crowe, veteran of the seventy fifth Ranger Regiment. UH,

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Speaker 1: the Green Berets, of course, the airborne units famously, the

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Speaker 1: Navy Seals, the Marine Raiders, the recon forces.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: In the in the Air Force, UH, you have the

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Speaker 1: you have a special operations component of the Air Force,

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Speaker 1: the air the the combat air controllers, you know. But

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Speaker 1: for pilots, you know is the best at the best

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Speaker 1: of the F sixteen pilots become test pilots. So so

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Speaker 1: you were you were in in a very elite military cohort.

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Speaker 1: And and so these these ICE guys aren't running around

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Speaker 1: dress like test pilots right in in flight suits or

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Speaker 1: astronaut garb. They're they're running around coast playing as combat

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Speaker 1: marines in Fallujah. Kit it kit it up. What do

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Speaker 1: you think about when you see these obese guys who

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Speaker 1: couldn't do a push up, couldn't run a kilometer. Uh,

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Speaker 1: kitted it up in American cities, running around with masks on.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what's your reaction to it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, first of all, I'm going to pass the

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Speaker 2: legislation and get the masks off and put the badge

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Speaker 2: on and all kinds of things we need to fix there.

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Speaker 2: Let me repeal on our place Ice it infuriates me.

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Speaker 2: And let me tell you a story, Steve. I've been

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Speaker 2: blockwalking a lot every day. This afternoon, after we're done

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Speaker 2: with this, I gotta do call time asking for money,

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Speaker 2: and then I'm going to go out knocking on doors.

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Speaker 2: It's a sixty percent Latino district. So I've talked to

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Speaker 2: a lot of Hispanic folks. Met a couple of the

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Speaker 2: men in their nineties, Hispanic guys who were in Korea,

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Speaker 2: I mean Korean War rans. It was really cool and

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Speaker 2: they're like crying, like Terry. I never thought i'd see

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Speaker 2: this in America. Talk to a seventy five year old

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Speaker 2: lady in Denver Harbor. It's a Hispanic neighborhood downtown, very

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Speaker 2: very working class neighborhood. American. You know Mexican American citizen.

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Speaker 2: She's like, she said, Terry, I don't leave my house.

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Speaker 2: I'm I don't leave my house because I'm afraid this

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Speaker 2: is America. Steve might have a team we call like

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Speaker 2: every politicians have the kitchen cabinet, like advisors. We call

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Speaker 2: ours the breakfast club. It's a group of Hispanics. There's

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Speaker 2: an older gentleman. He's like, yeah, I carry my passport

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Speaker 2: with me.

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Speaker 3: Over and over and over. You hear this story. I don't.

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Speaker 2: You know what I don't And I wonder why not.

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Speaker 2: It's because I'm white. I'm not brown. And let's go

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Speaker 2: back to the tailor's remitt guy in fort Worth had

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Speaker 2: a thirty one point flip right Trump to Remitt in

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Speaker 2: one year, thirty one point flip in fort Worth, in

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Speaker 2: the Latino precincts where it's heavily Hispanic, there was over

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Speaker 2: a fifty point swing. Now, you've been in politics a

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Speaker 2: lot longer than I have. Have you ever seen a

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Speaker 2: fifty point swing in one year. I mean that's the

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Speaker 2: level of v And I've talked to many Hispanics who

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Speaker 2: are like, yeah, I voted for Trump, like they kind

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Speaker 2: of whisper it. But man, they are regretting that big time,

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Speaker 2: and they should. We shouldn't shame them. I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to shame them. I'm gonna be like, look what happened.

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Speaker 3: Happened.

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Speaker 2: And I understand why you voted for Trump. I the

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Speaker 2: immigration was a problem. The entire southern part of Texas

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Speaker 2: voted for Trump. It's not because they're racist, they're all

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Speaker 2: it's these are all Hispanic counties. It's because they didn't

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Speaker 2: like what Biden was doing on the border. I get

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Speaker 2: why you voted for him, but let's we got to

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Speaker 2: fix that. We got to flip the House now, and

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Speaker 2: that's going to happen. I'll tell you another stories to you.

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Speaker 2: The early voting numbers you're in this mid term election

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Speaker 2: compared to four years ago, the last midterm election, almost

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Speaker 2: three times as many Democrats and Harris County voted. Harris

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Speaker 2: County is bigger than many states. It's Houston three times

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Speaker 2: increase in voting. And then the next day there was

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Speaker 2: even more vote. Normally the second day it drops off.

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Speaker 2: The second day there was even more. There is huge

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Speaker 2: interest from Democrats in what's going on. Republicans are terrified.

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Speaker 2: That's why they're trying to steal these seats with Jerry mannering.

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Speaker 2: Trump is terrified. The ads they're running on TV in

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Speaker 2: Texas are about Islamic They're like, I'm going to keep

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Speaker 2: the Islamic terrorists from taking out Like, what are you

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Speaker 2: guys talking about. They're completely disconnected from reality. So there's

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Speaker 2: a big interest you asked about the Hispanic community. There's

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Speaker 2: a huge interest in that. Even guys who voted for

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Speaker 2: Trump Man, they are flipping big time. And we can

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Speaker 2: and will win in November. We just got to get

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Speaker 2: through the primary year next week.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday, Donald Trump hung a banner of himself off of

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Speaker 1: the Justice Department doing his best Kim John un imitation,

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Speaker 1: and I wonder if you could describe your revulsion to that.

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Speaker 1: We we uh. He is implicated in a child's rape

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Speaker 1: scandal that defies comprehension. He's mentioned in these files thousands

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Speaker 1: and thousands and thousands of times. Uh. Prince Andrew was

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Speaker 1: arrested in Great Britain yesterday. But here in the United

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Speaker 1: States we have an Attorney General who is destroyed utterly

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Speaker 1: the integrity of the Justice Department, who seems helpent on

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Speaker 1: protecting the most notorious child sex trafficker and his legacy

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Speaker 1: and his friends and all the criminals who were involved

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Speaker 1: in it. The Epstein class. Uh, come Heller, Come Heller

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Speaker 1: high Water. In your state, you got a Republican Congressman Gonzalez,

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Speaker 1: family values candidate with six children. This guy had an

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Speaker 1: affair with the staffer who lit herself on fire and

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Speaker 1: killed herself in the backyard. We got another Republican Congressman,

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Speaker 1: Randy Fine, talking about publicly that if we have to

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Speaker 1: choose between the between the Muslims and the dogs, I

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Speaker 1: choose the I choose the dogs. You know. Martin Luther

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Speaker 1: King talked about that the moral arc of the universe

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Speaker 1: is long, but it bends towards justice. As an astronaut,

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Speaker 1: you know a thing or two about spheres and arcs,

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Speaker 1: and depending on how big the sphere is, that arc

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Speaker 1: may look pretty flat for a long, long while before

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Speaker 1: it bends towards justice. But it seems we're in some

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Speaker 1: type of regression. I was born in I was born

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Speaker 1: in nineteen that the things we're hearing, the license that

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Speaker 1: Trump has given to the most vile racist in the country,

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Speaker 1: from modern day clans men to anti Semites like like

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Speaker 1: Tucker Karlsen. How do you wrap your head around that,

909
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Speaker 1: what are you going to do about it? In Congress?

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Speaker 2: And this is the first time in American history, to

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Speaker 2: your point, when we saw the Martin Luther King Monument

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Speaker 2: together in DC, where things are actually getting worse, you know,

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Speaker 2: rights are being taken away. I think that's this maybe

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Speaker 2: hasn't happened very much in American history, if ever, And

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Speaker 2: I'm going to help reverse that. You know, we need

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Speaker 2: a new voting rights Act. This one has been dismantled

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Speaker 2: almost completely. But you mentioned Muslims and I'll just say

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Speaker 2: this Ramadan Mubarak for any if there's any Muslims listening

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Speaker 2: right now in Texas. The anti Muslim rhetoric is getting

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Speaker 2: cranked up a lot. And you know what I when

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Speaker 2: I was in Germany, I was based in Germany flying

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Speaker 2: F sixteen's, I visited Duck, I visited Auschwitz. I've been

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Speaker 2: to Nuremberg where they had the trials. Man, this kind

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Speaker 2: of dehumanizing language, Steve, that's where it ends up. And

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Speaker 2: there was you know, several of the Christians in Germany

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Speaker 2: they said, well, for you know, they're coming for them,

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Speaker 2: so you don't worry about it. And then they come

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Speaker 2: for the other guys, you don't worry about it, but

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Speaker 2: eventually they come for you. And Gary Kasparout made a

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Speaker 2: great point there. Another thing they're doing in Texas, they're

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Speaker 2: building gulags. Like there's a town, there's a region in

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Speaker 2: Russia called Magadon, and I've been there.

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Speaker 3: That's where it's east of Siberia. It's in the middle

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Speaker 3: of nowhere.

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Speaker 2: That's where Stalin sent millions of prisoners to die in languish.

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Speaker 3: We're building those here in Texas.

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Speaker 2: And Gary Kasparov saying was, well, if you think they're

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Speaker 2: just building those for these this one group of people,

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Speaker 2: you're sorely mistaken. And that's why it's so important to

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Speaker 2: win this election. Hold these people accountable. You mentioned Pambambi.

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Speaker 2: She actually lied to Congress and ted lu has done

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Speaker 2: a great job of calling her out for that from Hawaii.

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Speaker 2: But in the bigger scheme here, what's going on is

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Speaker 2: we're dehumanizing people. Certainly with these immigrants, it's horrific. You know,

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Speaker 2: I talked about affordability, but with accountability. One of the

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Speaker 2: accountability things I want to do is hold the detention

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Speaker 2: centers accountable. Something like forty people died last year and

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Speaker 2: when there's a protester with an iPhone, everybody sees it

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Speaker 2: and we're outraged. There's no protesters with iPhones, and these

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Speaker 2: detention centers forty people forty and we need to hold

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Speaker 2: them accountable for that. But the arc that we're on

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Speaker 2: right now is wrong. Winning the midterms is going to

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Speaker 2: be a huge boost to getting us back on the

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Speaker 2: right track and towards freedom, towards rights, you know, towards democracy,

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Speaker 2: and away from this dangerous path that we're on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. General Ulysses Grant at the beginning of the Civil

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Speaker 1: War said, there are but two parties in America. There

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Speaker 1: are traders and patriots, and hereafter, I wish to be

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Speaker 1: associated with the latter, not the former. And that is it.

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Speaker 1: The only identity that matters in this moment is an

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Speaker 1: American identity. And it doesn't matter where you come from,

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Speaker 1: how you got to this country. One of the great

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Speaker 1: apostles of American liberty a man who I think has

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Speaker 1: has full standing to be considered American, an American founding father,

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Speaker 1: John Lewis. And it's important to understand that the only

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Speaker 1: American flag that has ever been that did not fly

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Speaker 1: over an apartheid Society is the fifty star flag, and

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Speaker 1: John Lewis did a great deal to make that happen,

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Speaker 1: and he famously said that it doesn't matter what ship

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Speaker 1: you're in Sster's came in. Uh, we're all in the

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Speaker 1: same boat now, and we are all in the in

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Speaker 1: the same boat now. And what is required in this

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Speaker 1: moment is a fierce patriotism, a deep love of country,

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Speaker 1: and a commitment to justice and the American and the

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Speaker 1: American way of life. We need people who will not

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Speaker 1: kneel down to tyranny, who will not look to uh

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Speaker 1: trade away their principles for a little bit of bitcoin lucra. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We need fighters, not appeasers. And Terry Urtz is a

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Speaker 1: is a fighter. Terry, I want to I want to

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Speaker 1: give you a last chance to share the website behind you,

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Speaker 1: uh where people can look you up see and donate

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Speaker 1: to the campaign. And then I just want to share

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Speaker 1: a quick story to around it up.

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Speaker 2: Sure, so I appreciate it. Steve, if you're listening. The

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Speaker 2: district that I'm in, District nine in Texas is ground

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Speaker 2: zero for jerrymandering. It literally literally kicked off this disaster

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Speaker 2: last summer. And I can win and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: make them pay. But I got to get through a primary.

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Speaker 2: It's a crowded primary and it's in a week and

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Speaker 2: a half. And so if you can go to terryvertch

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Speaker 2: dot com. Here's my website, Terry verse dot com at

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Speaker 2: chip in ten bucks, twenty bucks, the maxus thirty five hundred.

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Speaker 3: Anything will help.

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Speaker 2: It goes into It'll go right into texting and digital advertising,

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Speaker 2: just reaching out to voters, and I may be the

996
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Speaker 2: vote that picks the Speaker of the House.

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Speaker 3: You know, this is going to be a close election.

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Speaker 2: The Republicans are messing with elections, and we need to

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Speaker 2: win elections or we're not going to have them. And

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Speaker 2: that's why it's so critical to get me through. So

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Speaker 2: thanks for thanks for this this plug for the last minute.

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Speaker 1: You've got fundraising. Well, I want to tell a quick

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Speaker 1: story about faith. One one of the things you alluded

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Speaker 1: to is the progress of justice in the in the country.

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Speaker 1: One of the eras that saw a regression of justice

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Speaker 1: was in the eighteen fifties with the Fugitive Slave Act

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Speaker 1: and slave catchers running around the country, often masked the ICE.

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Speaker 1: I frequently compare it to the Gestapo, and that is

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Speaker 1: a fair and accurate comparison. Gestapo in German was an

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Speaker 1: acronym for state secret police, which is exactly what ICE is.

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Speaker 1: But they also are the descendants of the slave catchers

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Speaker 1: who went out to maraud about the country, capturing fleeing

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Speaker 1: fleeing slaves. And the dread Scott decision maybe the worst

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court decision in American history. The Chief Justice Tanny,

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Speaker 1: the worst in American hist story. John Roberts is doing

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Speaker 1: his best, uh to to catch up to them. Someone

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Speaker 1: noted that Gestapo did not wear masks. They they did not.

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Speaker 1: They had absolute power in German society. And maybe we

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Speaker 1: should worry a little bit more about when I stops

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Speaker 1: wearing masks on the on the current trajectory. But that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a story for a different day. When when

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Speaker 1: when the dred Scott decision was passed, Uh, it was

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Speaker 1: an incredibly depressive event for the most important black leader

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Speaker 1: of the nineteenth century, Frederick Douglas, and and Douglas had

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Speaker 1: a deep depression about it. And uh he was challenged

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Speaker 1: by a friend, sojourner truth, and she said, Frederick is

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Speaker 1: God dead. And Douglas realized instantly that he had been

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Speaker 1: guilty of violating his own faith, his own standard. He

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Speaker 1: was a very religious man, and he appreciated that he

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Speaker 1: had put his faith into an institution of men, not

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Speaker 1: a higher power, and he considered that an act of idolatry.

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Speaker 1: And so we didn't have substack. There wasn't Twitter. So

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Speaker 1: Douglas had to prepare a speech, and when he gave

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Speaker 1: that speech, he lamented in the first part of it

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Speaker 1: the evil of the decision. But then he said that

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Speaker 1: consideration had to be given that perhaps the decision was

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Speaker 1: part of a necessitous link in a chain of events

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Speaker 1: that in the moment was incomprehensible, but would lead to

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Speaker 1: the downfall of the whole rotten institution of slavery. And

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Speaker 1: it was gone within eight years time. And so I

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Speaker 1: wish I could easily explain how it is that Trump

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01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: came to power and why so many Americans voted for

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01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: this abomination. But maybe it is all part of a

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Speaker 1: necessitous link in a chain of events that will lead

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Speaker 1: to the place that Martin Luther King prophesied and testified

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Speaker 1: that he saw on the edge of his mortality, which

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Speaker 1: is when he said, I've been to the mountaintop. What

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Speaker 1: he saw was the just society. And it is true

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Speaker 1: that no healthy democracy elects a man like Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: let alone twice. So maybe the price of our indifference,

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01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: the price of our apathy, is the great crisis that

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Speaker 1: had has befallen us, and the test and any integrity

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Speaker 1: that it will take to lead us out of it

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Speaker 1: is going to be restorant of towards the greatest republic

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Speaker 1: the world has ever known. And we have to pray

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Speaker 1: that that is so. And I know from the bottom

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Speaker 1: of my heart that there are candidates out there that

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Speaker 1: are running for office in this election cycle. John Osoff

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Speaker 1: in Georgia, Amy Acted in Ohio. There's about to be

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Speaker 1: a candidate getting into the race in Montana that's going

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Speaker 1: to put the is going to take out a Republican

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Speaker 1: US Senator, an exceptional candidate gearing up his campaign. All

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Speaker 1: across the country, by the hundreds, people have put their

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Speaker 1: names forward, have disrupted their lives, who were not ever

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Speaker 1: planning to run for office, but have taken a stand in.

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Speaker 1: One of those is my friend Terry Vertz, and and

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Speaker 1: I endorse Terry for this Congressional seat with my full

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Speaker 1: heart and soul. He is a good man, he is

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Speaker 1: exactly the right type of person to be in Congress,

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Speaker 1: the type of person who's gonna say that he King

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Speaker 1: Jefferies when he has an instinct to kneel down, to

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Speaker 1: say no, it's time to stand up. We have a

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Speaker 1: lot of schumercrats in the Democratic Party. We need less

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Speaker 1: schumercrats and more fighting Democrats like Jason Crowd, like Mark Kelly,

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Speaker 1: like Elissa Slockin, like Senator Raphael Warnock in Georgia. We

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Speaker 1: need the best of America to stand up, to hold

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Speaker 1: themselves out there, put their reputations and names on the

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Speaker 1: line to fight for us, we the people. And Terry

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Speaker 1: Urtz is such a guy. Anything you can do to

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Speaker 1: support him and help him do it for your country.

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Speaker 1: He's the real deal. Terry, thank you very much. Stee,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for having me on. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, when you look at the Earth, I

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Speaker 1: remember I was looking out. I was like, man, this

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Speaker 1: planet's been around for billions of years. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be around for billions years. So things will be okay.

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Speaker 1: But in the interim, let's win this election to keep

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Speaker 1: us from going down. Sure, yeah, things will be okay

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Speaker 1: in the long run, but We got to win this

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Speaker 1: election right now, everybody. Colonel Terry Urtz, NASA astronaut, pilot

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Speaker 1: of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, commander of the International Space Station,

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Speaker 1: candidate for Congress of the Great Democratic Party, standing for

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Speaker 1: election in the ninth Congressional District of Texas. Let's take

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Speaker 1: it back, my friends.

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Speaker 3: Let's win it. Let's win.

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Speaker 1: Thanks her, Take care,