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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: Morning everybody, It's DJ n V, Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.

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Speaker 2: We are to breakfast Club. Jess is on maternity leave

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Speaker 2: so long. La Rosa is filling in. And we have

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Speaker 2: a special guest in the building.

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Speaker 1: We have Nancy Mace.

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Speaker 3: Welcome and thank you for having me. Great to be here.

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Speaker 1: Finally, what's happening in Nancy?

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Speaker 3: Not much, Well, we have, you know, election coming up

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Speaker 3: and that sort of thing. But it's great. We've been

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Speaker 3: talking about doing this for a while, so thanks for

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Speaker 3: having me here. It's great to be here.

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Speaker 1: You know, me and Nanthy went to high school together.

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Speaker 2: I think I've heard she looks so much younger than you.

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Speaker 3: We're the same age. We're literally the same age.

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Speaker 4: Senior, you were freshman.

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Speaker 3: What's that?

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Speaker 4: Was he a senior you were a freshman? Or was

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Speaker 4: he just like the guy that kept coming back to

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Speaker 4: the school.

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Speaker 5: I got kicked out of Berkeley and then they made

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Speaker 5: me go to Scrafford because that's where my mom works.

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Speaker 1: So my mom was a teacher as grapher in Nancy's mom.

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Speaker 3: Our mom's taught school together and actually know each other

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Speaker 3: and I don't know if we knew each other when

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Speaker 3: we were school at all. I mean, I was you

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Speaker 3: were there very long?

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Speaker 1: That was there maybe three months in high school that

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Speaker 1: you remember?

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Speaker 3: Was he? No, I don't. I don't know if we

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Speaker 3: knew each other. He was only there for a few months.

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Speaker 3: But but we dropped out of the same high school

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Speaker 3: the same year, and our mom's taught school together. And

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Speaker 3: you got kicked out. I I had been raped by

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Speaker 3: a classmate of mine at sixteen, and I just now

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Speaker 3: your fault. It happens a lot, and I just decided

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Speaker 3: I couldn't go back to school. And I decided and

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Speaker 3: I and I really haven't been back, haven't been back

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Speaker 3: since since that time in period. Yeah, I mean it's

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Speaker 3: it's been a long time. But I grew up in

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Speaker 3: that area. I grew up in Crowfield and College Park

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Speaker 3: couldn't physically bring myself to go back to school, and

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Speaker 3: that at that point, i'd kind of given up on myself.

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Speaker 3: And my parents mom was a school teacher and my

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Speaker 3: dad is retired army, and they're like, if you're going

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Speaker 3: to stop going to school, you have to start going

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Speaker 3: to work. I don't know what your parents said to you,

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Speaker 3: but mine like, go get a job. I got a

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Speaker 3: job at the waffle house and College Park Road and

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Speaker 3: maybe I wanted to get my high school diploma and

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Speaker 3: not be a waffle house waitress the rest of my life.

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Speaker 1: It was crazy. The shooting that got me arrested happened

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Speaker 1: on College Park Road.

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Speaker 3: Really, we believe.

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Speaker 1: In a McDonald's, definitely. I think the McDonald's right there by.

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Speaker 3: It is right by the waffle house.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, shooting. We were leaving that McDonald and the shooting

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Speaker 5: happened by the Burger king that was, yep, right there

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Speaker 5: on College Park Road.

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Speaker 3: Yep. Tall fine singery that area.

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Speaker 2: So how did you go from waffle house to being

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Speaker 2: a US Congress representative?

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Speaker 3: Well, I had I had it's steps and it's also

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Speaker 3: you know, God's hand in some ways, the fine intervention.

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Speaker 3: You talk about that a lot. But I would eventually

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Speaker 3: go to college and I went to the Citadel, the

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Speaker 3: Military College of South Carolina. It's a place where my

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Speaker 3: dad went. There had been no women there in one

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty four years and I was the first

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Speaker 3: when I applied, I was the first class of women

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Speaker 3: from the Citadel twenty five years ago. This year, I'm

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Speaker 3: feeling my age really kind of old. And then the

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Speaker 3: entrepreneurial work, and then I ran for state House in

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Speaker 3: twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, I won. I was served for

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Speaker 3: three years, and then this seat, I won it from

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Speaker 3: a Democrat. In twenty twenty, I flipped the seat. We have.

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Speaker 3: Our district is different, it's very purple. It's a swing district,

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Speaker 3: very diverse. And you know, when I think about us

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Speaker 3: and the friendship that we have, we're two. We're different politically,

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Speaker 3: I mean, poll our opposites in some cases. But to

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Speaker 3: have never made it, never been successful, and we're two

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Speaker 3: It's really it's an amazing feating. Now our friends, I

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Speaker 3: gonna fall, is this gonna land well when I say this,

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Speaker 3: or is this a terrible idea? But we've become, you know,

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Speaker 3: great friends. We mett year at Charlotte excuse me, at

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Speaker 3: Dave Chappelle's show in Charleston. When we first met with Dave, Well,

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Speaker 3: he was arguing with me. I mean, we're arguing about

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Speaker 3: we were drinking tequila and he was giving me political

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Speaker 3: advice and it was great advice. It's advice I give

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Speaker 3: other people. It's it's read the room. Because today politicians

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Speaker 3: they're they're just not I mean, everyone's red shirt, blue shirt.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna pick sides and stay there. But

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Speaker 3: there's a lot I've in between. There's a lot of purple.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of common ground. And regardless of what

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Speaker 3: very different than what's in Washington. Washington is totally out

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Speaker 5: The Post and Corea asked the question this morning that

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Speaker 5: a lot of people ask what side is an anti

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Speaker 5: mace on because you challenge Republicans a lot, but then

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Speaker 5: you vote, you know a lot.

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Speaker 3: Well, actually, and I and I wrote that ap ed

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Speaker 3: this morning because I want people to ask the question

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Speaker 3: and then answer it. I'm actually the of all four

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Speaker 3: and thirty five members of the House, I'm the twenty

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Speaker 3: second most bipartisan, So I'm like almost top twenty most bipartisan.

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Speaker 3: Yet I get pilloried in the press by certain media

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Speaker 3: outlets that I'm a raging partisan. Am I conservative on

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Speaker 3: most issues? Yes, but they're and there are a lot

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Speaker 3: of issues where I'm maybe to the left or socially

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Speaker 3: moderate on. I do a lot of civil rights work.

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Speaker 3: I do a lot of work for women because I'm

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Speaker 3: a survivor of rape. I've been through domestic abuse, and

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Speaker 3: I know how terrible our laws are at the federal

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Speaker 3: and the state level. But I've worked a lot Rokana

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Speaker 3: I do a lot of tech and cybersecurity, computing type

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Speaker 3: of legislation together. But it's not sexy. It's not clickbait.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't get you likes when you're on X or

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Speaker 3: that sort of thing. But I'm actually been really effective

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Speaker 3: on working with both sides of the aisle. But I

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Speaker 3: also called them out. I mean, you know, Republicans and

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Speaker 3: and a debt ceiling bill did it have a ceiling?

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Speaker 3: It didn't have a ceiling at all. And so they

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Speaker 3: responsible spending, We're going to curb the debt, and it

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Speaker 3: had no there was no limit to it. There was

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Speaker 3: no end to the debt in that bill. And so

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Speaker 3: I just like to call it like I see it

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Speaker 3: called the ball. Yes, one hundred percent was a Republican

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Speaker 3: But that's why the cost of goods keep going up

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Speaker 3: to borrow money from China to pay Taiwan. Like I'm

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Speaker 3: so I called both sides out when they need the

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Speaker 3: same thing. With women's issues, you know, nothing's been done

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Speaker 3: on IVF this year? No, we didn't. Have we done

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Speaker 3: more for contraception, not narrowly enough. And so I just

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Speaker 3: to work, I want to get stuff done. I want

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Speaker 4: How do you deal with like because with your you know,

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Speaker 4: the experience that you had with being a survivor of rape.

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Speaker 4: I know that like you do get a lot of

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Speaker 4: pushback because your pro life and you have a pro

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Speaker 4: Republican side, that must be a lonely place to be.

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Speaker 4: It's I will tell you it's a little confusing for

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Speaker 3: No friends in Washington. It is an extremely lonely experience

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Speaker 3: when you're calling out both sides, or even when you

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Speaker 3: When the Arizona ruling happened about abortion shortly after Alabama, again,

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Speaker 3: lot more that we agree on. I'm the only Republican

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Speaker 3: on a pro life list that has an asterisk by

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Speaker 3: and contraceptives and contraception. There's so much middle ground, and

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Speaker 3: there's so much we can do for women together, and

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Speaker 3: they just use it as a political wedge. But what

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Speaker 3: I have bills that would address domestic violence, rape, incessivoyurism, revenge, porn,

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Speaker 3: a lot of issues, IVF, contraception, birth control. I have

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Speaker 3: a whole portfolio that I've focused on that I believe

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Speaker 3: both sides can agree on because we're not doing enough.

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Speaker 3: We're just further dividing ourselves by having these arguments when

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Speaker 3: there's ninety five percent of the things. Even when you

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Speaker 3: talk about abortion, I'm pro life, but I have a

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Speaker 3: fifteen to twenty week second trimester limit. At some point

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Speaker 3: you got to say this is an infant that deserves life.

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Speaker 3: Most people don't want abortion in the third trimester, but

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Speaker 3: all of us think first or second trimesters. There's even

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Speaker 3: if you're pro choice, you're likely you likely have limitations

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of common ground and we're not having

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Speaker 4: But do you think there's a kind of like a

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Speaker 4: hoop dream they think that people will find a common

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Speaker 5: That's the thing that scares me the most, right because

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Speaker 3: I think you know that's how progressives tap into the people.

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Speaker 3: There's that movement there, but people feel disenfranchised. They feel

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Speaker 3: like their voices aren't being heard. And it's only worse

436
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Speaker 3: because DC ignores what the vast majority of people want.

437
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Speaker 3: The vast majority of people want IVF protected. Why can't

438
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Speaker 3: we do a bill together. I've got a great bill.

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Speaker 3: We've got Republicans and Democrats alike that are doing legislation,

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Speaker 3: no votes on it. That's just one example. Like that

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Speaker 3: is the will of the people. It's not getting done.

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Speaker 3: So it's my job to call people out when they

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Speaker 3: don't deliver.

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Speaker 5: So question, if Vice President Kamala Harris wins right and

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Speaker 5: she wants to legalize marijuana, would Republicans in Congress vote

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Speaker 5: for it? I would they say no because it's a

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Speaker 5: democratic president.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it matters. I mean, there are some

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Speaker 3: of us, not all Republicans are for it. I actually

450
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Speaker 3: have a bill that would be a federal reform. It

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Speaker 3: it's descheduling in order to do cannabis. You have reschedulings,

452
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Speaker 3: okay for now, but you have to deschedule it and

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Speaker 3: decriminalize it, and at any rate. So I have a

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Speaker 3: bill for that, doesn't matter who's president. If I can,

455
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Speaker 3: if that can become law, I would support it. But

456
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Speaker 3: not every Republican supports cannabis. There are fewer of us

457
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Speaker 3: that do. I'm one of them that does. But I've

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Speaker 3: worked with both sides on cannabis. I've worked with both

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Speaker 3: sides on issues related to mass violence, for example, women's issues.

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Speaker 3: There is a lot of common ground, but you have

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Speaker 3: to have the courage to actually raise your hand and

462
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Speaker 3: say we're gonna do this work, no matter even if

463
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Speaker 3: it costs me my next race. We need to do

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Speaker 3: it because it's right for the people. And there's just

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Speaker 3: not a lot of that in Washington.

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Speaker 5: Talked us about just byparties and boarder bill that Republicans

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Speaker 5: and Democrats agreed upon in the Senate, and then.

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Speaker 1: Trump said, no, I don't do it. Why didn't that

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Speaker 1: get done?

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Speaker 3: Well, it never passed out of the Senate, and so

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Speaker 3: I did to that bill. We never voted on it

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Speaker 3: in the House. The House actually sent over HR two,

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Speaker 3: which was a conservative border security bill, in May of

474
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Speaker 3: last year. Schumer put it in a desk hit it away,

475
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Speaker 3: chucked it in a drawer like happens all the time.

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Speaker 3: And again, don't be wrong, both sides do it when

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Speaker 3: they're in charge. But that bill came through the Senate,

478
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Speaker 3: but it never passed the Senate, so it never even

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Speaker 3: got to the House. So in that particular bill, and

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Speaker 3: I read it with my staff, like the debt ceiling bill,

481
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Speaker 3: there were good ideas in the debt ceiling bill, but

482
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Speaker 3: on the next page you would see, oh, there's the

483
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Speaker 3: loophole that totally skirts around the good idea. That bill

484
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Speaker 3: was the same way. So it was essentially when you

485
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Speaker 3: read it, there'd be a good idea on page one,

486
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Speaker 3: but then on page two there was a loophole that

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Speaker 3: would give Secretary my Orcis, for example, carte blanche to

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Speaker 3: do whatever he wanted. There were loopholes on every other

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Speaker 3: page and so it really wasn't worth the paper it

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Speaker 3: was printed on. Wasn't going to do what it was intended.

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Speaker 3: And one of the I think fascinating lies about that

492
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Speaker 3: bill is that it was technically a mass amnesty bill.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing that they said that they claimed

494
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Speaker 3: the bill did both sides said, and it wasn't true

495
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Speaker 3: that if more than five thousand people crossed the border illegally,

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Speaker 3: they would shut the border down. Raise your hand if

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Speaker 3: you've ever seen the border shut down. It's never it's

498
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Speaker 3: never been shut down, and it's never going to be

499
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Speaker 3: shut down unless you have a wall on gates that

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Speaker 3: people have to go through like other foreign countries. But

501
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Speaker 3: it's never been. That's not a thing. So again, it's

502
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Speaker 3: like it's fuzzy math. It's telling in there that isn't true.

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Speaker 3: And my problem is the lack of honesty, the lack

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Speaker 3: of integrity, and the lack of truth. Just tell the

505
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Speaker 3: people the truth and then they can decide for themselves

506
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Speaker 3: if that bill really is what you say it is,

507
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Speaker 3: because oftentimes it's not. What Washington likes to do too,

508
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Speaker 3: is they'll title a bill, oh, this is rainbows and

509
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Speaker 3: unicorns for all people, and then you read it has

510
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Speaker 3: nothing to do with rainbows and unicorns, right, And so

511
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Speaker 3: there's just a lot of I think performance and magic.

512
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Speaker 3: You know, it's just it's not what it is, and

513
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Speaker 3: so I like to call it out. I'll read through

514
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Speaker 3: the bills and say this is what it does, and

515
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Speaker 3: this is what it does not do, with no flourishes.

516
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Speaker 3: Just this is just black and white. This is what

517
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Speaker 3: it is. And I think we need more people that

518
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Speaker 3: will just this is literally what it does and nothing

519
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Speaker 3: else and don't put opinion on it. Let the people decide.

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Speaker 4: With the performances like in politics that you're talking about, right, So,

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Speaker 4: like how does it work with you? Like, so, for instance,

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Speaker 4: if Kamala Harris is elected president and you have to

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Speaker 4: work with her, there has been time like the CNA

524
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Speaker 4: moment where you've like you got in trouble for saying

525
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Speaker 4: her name wrong and people are upset about that, and

526
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Speaker 4: then you know that whole thing Kamala doesn't know what

527
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Speaker 4: a woman is those remarks. How do you then sit

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Speaker 4: with her? Like, do you guys have conversations behind closed

529
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Speaker 4: doors first to get all that out the way so

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Speaker 4: that you can can work together or does that not

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Speaker 4: even come up? Like how do you remove the performance

532
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Speaker 4: that happens?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm always willing to work with anyone who's

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Speaker 3: willing to work with me, and oftentimes if staff are

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Speaker 3: open to working together, Like I have a rule in

536
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Speaker 3: my office that we don't we don't block anything if

537
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Speaker 3: someone wants to do business with us, if someone wants

538
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Speaker 3: to work with us, regardless of party or political affiliation,

539
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Speaker 3: we will do it. I mean, I have sponsored bills

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Speaker 3: with progressives, I've sponsored bills with people on the Freedom Caucus,

541
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Speaker 3: so all the folks. But I mean, in that particular instance,

542
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Speaker 3: I felt like I was being ganged up on on air.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people haven't been able to say her

544
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Speaker 3: name right because her name hasn't been in the news

545
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Speaker 3: every day. I know how to say it now, it's Kamala.

546
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Speaker 3: I've got it down, I've got it right. But one

547
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Speaker 3: of my issues too, was was being ganged up on

548
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Speaker 3: as a woman live on air and then the Hip

549
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Speaker 3: Hopocracy during the commercial breaks of Hey can I grab

550
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Speaker 3: a selfie? And you know, I don't mind it, will

551
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Speaker 3: have the colloqui on air and you do whatever you

552
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Speaker 3: want to do. But then behind the scenes, you know,

553
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Speaker 3: send me a kissy emoji, tell me how gorgeous I am,

554
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Speaker 3: tell me we look good together, and all that whole thing,

555
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Speaker 3: because it was just kind of an act and you

556
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Speaker 3: and you know, and so it's like, I'm just going

557
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Speaker 3: to call it for what it is. I was probably

558
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Speaker 3: the first person in Congress that entered into the Congressional

559
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Speaker 3: record at text with a kissy emoji, I just because

560
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Speaker 3: they kept saying, you know, I was saying I'm racist

561
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Speaker 3: because I'm saying her name wrong. But Bill Clinton calls

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Speaker 3: her Kamela. Joe Biden says Camela. It's not the right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you understand, like the context behind that. I did

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Speaker 4: not that hundred yeah, but as a person that works

565
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Speaker 4: in civil rights and austin game where they were coming.

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Speaker 3: From, absolutely, absolutely. But I also wasn't going to be

567
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Speaker 3: bullied like I am a like you can fight her flight.

568
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Speaker 3: I'm going to fight absolutely, and I will always fight back.

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Speaker 5: It was a mispronunciation when you said her name, want

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Speaker 5: to and I was like, Nancy had a drink.

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Speaker 3: I did not.

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Speaker 1: I did not.

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Speaker 3: But you know, during the commercial breaks, you know it

574
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Speaker 3: is you're taping and you're doing this, and it was

575
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Speaker 3: just the hypocrisy was what was grading me because behind

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Speaker 3: the scenes on commercial break, begging for the selfie picture,

577
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Speaker 3: you know, hitting on me, all that stuff, and I

578
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 3: was like, okay, this is.

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Speaker 1: So that happened. Then y'all came back.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it was all going on at the same time,

581
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Speaker 3: and so that's why I was just like, Okay, it's

582
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Speaker 3: not okay to label somebody and gang up on them

583
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Speaker 3: in public, but then have a completely different position in private.

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Speaker 3: I don't like hypocrisy and I don't like people who

585
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Speaker 3: aren't being honest, and so that's what I do when

586
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Speaker 3: I call them out. And I'm always if someone's gonna

587
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Speaker 3: come at me or try to intimidate me, I'm the

588
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Speaker 3: last one that you should do that too. I'm from

589
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Speaker 3: Goose Creek, so like you can take the girl ahead

590
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Speaker 3: of Goose Creek, where you cannot take Goose Creek out

591
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Speaker 3: of the girl. I'm a fighter and I always will be.

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Speaker 5: Did you see docs he responded to you? And he

593
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Speaker 5: I mean, that's that is kind. That's just how he

594
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Speaker 5: talks to people.

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Speaker 3: Wo Maybe he shouldn't. Maybe he should work on that

596
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Speaker 3: because I think it was highly inappropriate, and I think

597
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Speaker 3: it's again for me, it was just pointing out the hypocrisy,

598
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Speaker 3: because I see it all the time in Washington. People

599
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 3: will say one thing when they're on air or they're

600
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Speaker 3: on Twitter, and then privately they're acting like something else,

601
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Speaker 3: and that's not okay. Rocana is not one of those people.

602
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Speaker 3: He's what you see is what you get when I

603
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Speaker 3: talk to him privately. He's the exact same guy on TV,

604
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Speaker 3: exact same guy. And we need more of that, not less.

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Speaker 5: Talk about the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act because some

606
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Speaker 5: people say, you know, you say you're a champion of women, but.

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Speaker 1: You voted against that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well I voted for a clean reauthorization. So the

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Speaker 3: first one that came through had some I believe, like

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Speaker 3: red flag laws that they were putting into it, and

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Speaker 3: I think we have to balance constitutional Second Amendment rights

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Speaker 3: with violence against women, and so I voted for a

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Speaker 3: clean reauthorization of that bell And in fact, I've gone

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Speaker 3: back since then because when I dove into I just

615
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 3: got through a domestic abusive relationship. There was domestic violence,

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Speaker 3: and I went through the system and I was like, wow,

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Speaker 3: this is how women are treated. And I learned about

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Speaker 3: the Violence Against swim and Act, what it did to

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Speaker 3: protect victims' rights, and also what our state does to

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Speaker 3: protect victims rights, and I realized there's even more we

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Speaker 3: can do. So since that time, I have created legislation.

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Speaker 3: One in particular, there's a revenge porn civil tourt within

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Speaker 3: the Violence Against Women Act. But it's only civil. Yeah,

624
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 3: it's civil. It's civil, not criminal. So it didn't make

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Speaker 3: it a crime at the federal level. So I have

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Speaker 3: a bill that would fix that. There's a civil tourt

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Speaker 3: that would allow you to have a civil right of

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Speaker 3: action for revenge porn at one hundred and fifty thousand,

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Speaker 3: so I have a bill that would increase it to

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Speaker 3: five hundred thousand. There was nothing in there about voyeurism,

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Speaker 3: so I have a bill. Voyeurism is when you record

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Speaker 3: someone without their knowledge or consent or permission an intimate way.

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Speaker 3: I think Aaron Andrews when she was recorded changing clothes

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Speaker 3: in her hotel room voyeurism, But voyeurism wasn't included in it.

635
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Speaker 3: So I have legislation that would add a warriorism component,

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Speaker 3: both a civil tourt to be able to sue someone

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Speaker 3: civilly in federal court, and also make it a crime

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00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 3: at the federal level. Because voyeurism is only a crime

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00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 3: at the federal level for under Title eighteen for the

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Speaker 3: tribal lands and certain maritime jurisdictions aka cruises. So if

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00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 3: it's good enough for those areas, let's make it a

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00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 3: federal crime everywhere. So I've gone back and I'm doing

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Speaker 3: things to strengthen to actually strengthen it. Now that I've

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00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 3: learned so much about how victim's rights are and are

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00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 3: not protected, and what it does and does not include.

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Speaker 3: And I like to do small bills that will make

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Speaker 3: a big difference. A lot of times people will do

648
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Speaker 3: really large, comprehensive bills and they'll put things in there

649
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Speaker 3: that people can't agree to. I like smaller bills that

650
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Speaker 3: are up and down. So these are all different pieces

651
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Speaker 3: of legislation that will hopefully get an up or down vote,

652
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Speaker 3: and if you disagree on something, you have a chance

653
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Speaker 3: to say no. I don't like these big Christmas tree bills.

654
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Speaker 3: But let's do one thing at a time and make

655
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Speaker 3: have small parts. Small bills make a really big difference.

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Speaker 5: I wonder if the older people in Washington understand things

657
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Speaker 5: like what you're talking about in regards to like the

658
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Speaker 5: social media aspect of it all, because we live in.

659
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Speaker 1: A different world.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it should be.

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Speaker 5: A crime to record somebody. It should be against their

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Speaker 5: will if you have sex with them or whatever. They're

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Speaker 5: like revenge point. I feel like those a crime.

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Speaker 3: They should be.

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Speaker 2: They should be taping phone calls all that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a crime.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean in the Violence Against Women Act,

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Speaker 3: it only made it a civil tourt, didn't make it

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Speaker 3: a crime at the federal level. Well, I'm I aim

671
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Speaker 3: to fix that. So well, no, there was there were

672
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Speaker 3: red flag lows. So you know, so I balance constitutional

673
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Speaker 3: rights with women's rights all those things. But but but

674
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Speaker 3: I have different legislation that addresses each of those issues.

675
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Speaker 3: And I'm doing it separately because there are some people

676
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Speaker 3: that might vote against it for one reason or another.

677
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Speaker 3: But I want these bills to have the best chance possible,

678
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Speaker 3: so I've broken them up. And so I have this

679
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Speaker 3: portfolio of legislation that would enhance and tighten and strengthen

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Speaker 3: women's rights and protecting women under violence against women, and

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Speaker 3: work on it for a while.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 5: I understand that because I think about you know, when

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Speaker 5: they talk about Bernie Sanders and why they said Bernie

685
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Speaker 5: Bernie voted. I think he voted for the ninety four

686
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Speaker 5: crime bill. I forgot what bill it was, but he

687
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Speaker 5: voted for it. But the reason he said he voted

688
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Speaker 5: for it wasn't because of the crime bill, was because

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Speaker 5: of something else that was in it was some type

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Speaker 5: of violence against women.

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Speaker 1: That my point with that is, yeah, you'll see the

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Speaker 1: big bill.

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Speaker 5: Presented, but it's like these little smaller things inside of

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Speaker 5: them that you actually have to read to.

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Speaker 1: I guess know whether you agree with the whole thing.

696
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I prefer not to have these giant bills. Let's

698
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Speaker 3: have up or down he votes on him, so that

699
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Speaker 3: you can see you have the best chance of it passing.

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Speaker 3: When you do these massive bills, things get snuck in

701
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Speaker 3: and you're like, what did we just pay for? I mean,

702
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Speaker 3: why did you do that? Though I don't know, we

703
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 3: have these, we have these giant spending bills, these continuing

704
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 3: resolutions or omnibuses. The DC will manufacture some sort of crisis.

705
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Speaker 3: Everyone's going to shut down if we don't do this.

706
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Speaker 3: And so then they have these giant spending bills and

707
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you realize your tax dollars are

708
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Speaker 3: going to pay for trans kid clothing. I mean, things

709
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Speaker 3: that most people would not want to want. I agree

710
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 3: with or you know these this is what happened last year.

711
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Speaker 3: It's just what did we just spend money on. I

712
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Speaker 3: support I voted for gay marriage twice, but I don't

713
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Speaker 3: think you should be spending federal government money on just

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Speaker 3: gay nursing homes, I think go to all nursing homes, right,

715
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Speaker 3: Why are we just specifying, yeah, there was a million

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Speaker 3: dollars last year. I mean I don't know there was

717
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Speaker 3: a thing. There are gay nursing homes apparently, but you watch.

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Speaker 3: I don't want I don't want taxes. I don't want

719
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Speaker 3: tax dollars paying to incentivize illegal immigration. I mean there's

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Speaker 3: just you know, there's just things that I think, common

721
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Speaker 3: sense wise, we don't need to be paying for. Government

722
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Speaker 3: doesn't even be paying for sex change surgery. I mean,

723
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Speaker 3: just those things will get stuffed in there if you

724
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Speaker 3: don't read the fine print. And that's why I vote

725
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Speaker 3: against almost all of the fine print when it comes

726
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 3: to the big spending bills, because they're just ridiculous things

727
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 3: in there that you and I, both sides would say.

728
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Speaker 3: The average bear would be like the average person, like

729
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Speaker 3: why are we doing this? Why do we vote for that?

730
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Speaker 5: I would love to talk to somebody from the LGBTQ community,

731
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Speaker 5: and why do they need a gay assisted living community?

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Speaker 5: I just I just want to know, like, like, what's

733
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Speaker 5: the difference between a gay assisted living community and a

734
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Speaker 5: regular one?

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's getting up in age.

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Speaker 5: I will send you, but I don't want to know why.

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Speaker 1: What's the difference.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand. Let's just if you're going to do

739
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Speaker 3: one thing for one sector, just do it for all.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I like no taxes on tips,

741
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Speaker 3: I like no taxes on social security. Let's just reduce

742
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Speaker 3: all taxes for everybody. We all are all a big

743
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Speaker 3: fan of keeping more of our harnder dollars to then

744
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Speaker 3: reinvest into the economy.

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Speaker 4: I looked it up, and the reason why you have

746
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Speaker 4: it is because as people of the LGBTQ plus community

747
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Speaker 4: get older, they face different things like discrimination, like some

748
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Speaker 4: nursing homes won't let same sex partners come and visit them.

749
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Speaker 3: Just the culture shift. So just well that's crazy because

750
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Speaker 3: that whatever state has that law, we need to fix it.

751
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Speaker 3: The government shouldn't tell you one who to love.

752
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Speaker 4: And I mean that's and people want to live in

753
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Speaker 4: a community where they can feel accepted and they don't

754
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Speaker 4: have to hide who they are, because they're are still

755
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Speaker 4: numbers of communities that you know, there are people that

756
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Speaker 4: hide their sexuality up until this age. Yeah, so it's

757
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Speaker 4: I mean, it sounds like a good idea to me,

758
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Speaker 4: what to.

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Speaker 1: Have with It's the whole facility. Yeah, I think not.

760
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Speaker 1: I think that you should have laws that probably.

761
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Speaker 4: You have laws that should.

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Speaker 3: The federal government pay for it? I think it is

763
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Speaker 3: the bottom line I would argue, no, I think private

764
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Speaker 3: entity sort of thing.

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Speaker 4: The only reason why I would not agree is because

766
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Speaker 4: there are laws that protect people in the LGBTQ plus

767
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Speaker 4: community from certain things every day right now, and the

768
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Speaker 4: discrimination still happens. So it's like just putting a long

769
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Speaker 4: place doesn't always work, but having a place where you

770
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Speaker 4: feel community might work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So I've worked on legislation to support the LGBT community,

773
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Speaker 3: so I don't I don't have it with laws. They're

774
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Speaker 3: everyone human rights, basic civil rights, et cetera. But from

775
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Speaker 3: my perspective, I don't want the government paying for that.

776
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Speaker 3: That should be something done in the private sector, not

777
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Speaker 3: a government run thing or government funded thing. It should

778
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Speaker 3: be done.

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Speaker 4: With when things like the private sector, though, isn't it

780
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Speaker 4: less money there? Like it's harder, like funding is less.

781
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Speaker 3: I think it's actually more efficient because when the government,

782
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 3: when the federal government gets involved, things become slower, more archaic,

783
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,760
Speaker 3: they're more regulations, which means the cost of it goes

784
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Speaker 3: up because we burd an industry with enormous regulations. Every

785
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Speaker 3: time there is a new regulation, the cost of doing

786
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Speaker 3: business increases, making the end cost the consumer more expensive.

787
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Speaker 3: And that's the way it is in healthcare, medicine, our defense,

788
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Speaker 3: the cost for us to build a navy warship versus

789
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Speaker 3: other countries. Because of the bureaucracy and the red tape

790
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 3: that we jump through to do things, we're slower, we're

791
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Speaker 3: more expensive. And if we operated more like a business,

792
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Speaker 3: we'd be more efficient with tax dollars, we'd be more nimble,

793
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Speaker 3: we'd be faster and more innovative too. And I think

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Speaker 3: it's across the board and.

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Speaker 1: What you just read, Laurence.

796
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Speaker 5: Shouldn't all minorities be able to get their own anything

797
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Speaker 5: and let the government pay for it? Then, because we

798
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Speaker 5: all experienced bias, we all experienced prejudice women.

799
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's I mean, we we do ask for

800
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Speaker 4: that right. It doesn't always happen, but yeah, I think so,

801
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Speaker 4: Like there are certain things that I feel like in

802
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Speaker 4: certain communities that are specific to a certain communities should

803
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Speaker 4: be funded by the government and given money to by

804
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Speaker 4: the government the same way we like h you're talking about.

805
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Speaker 5: I talking about as far as like the gay assisted

806
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Speaker 5: living thing, you said it's because of the bias, and.

807
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Speaker 1: What about us as black people? What about women?

808
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Speaker 3: Like I'm not disagreeing with you. I think it's I

809
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Speaker 3: don't want to be an assisted living home when I

810
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Speaker 3: get older. And just for the record, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I'm want to take care of myself.

812
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Speaker 3: You have to. You can't take care of somebody. Gotta

813
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Speaker 3: take care of you, your kids.

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Speaker 4: But hopefully, but if you get to that point where

815
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Speaker 4: you need to go to an existent assistant living home

816
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Speaker 4: because you don't have anybody, wouldn't it be nice to

817
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Speaker 4: feel like this is these are my people?

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Speaker 1: You want to be a black one is what you say.

819
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Speaker 4: Hyeah, But no, I'm gonna have my twins.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna take care of me.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't have yet, not yet.

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Speaker 3: I haven't. My kids will take care and I keep

823
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Speaker 3: telling them they're teenagers right now.

824
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Speaker 1: I got six of them, so one of them.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: You're the first district seat in South Carolina.

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Speaker 5: What's the top issues in the district because we're on

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Speaker 5: the ninety three jams in South Carolina.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so inflation and spending when you go to the

830
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Speaker 3: grocery store at carton of eggs is going to cost

831
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Speaker 3: you six or seven dollars gallon and milk is up.

832
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Speaker 3: Everything's up, baby formula a huge gas. Everything's more expensive.

833
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Speaker 3: And so that's that's on the ballot right now. I'm

834
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Speaker 3: in a purple district. I mean it's very swing district,

835
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Speaker 3: but as the number one issue for voters. The second

836
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Speaker 3: issue is the immigration issue. We've had issues with fentanyl

837
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Speaker 3: in South Carolina. We're having an issue right now with

838
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Speaker 3: the Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano letting these criminals back

839
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Speaker 3: out onto the street, including Justice Sweek Ice picked up

840
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 3: a guy who was charged with sex crimes. It was

841
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Speaker 3: in South Carolina illegally she let back out on the street.

842
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Speaker 3: Doesn't help Ice. The one of the last illegals she

843
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 3: let out in Charleston County in August. He was in

844
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Speaker 3: a pedophile who tried to pay to have sex with

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Speaker 3: a kid twice. So illegal immigration is absolutely on the

846
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Speaker 3: bout it. It's an eighty twenty issue. Republicans and Democrats

847
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 3: agree with about it about eighty percent of the time. Together.

848
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Speaker 3: Women's issues, abortion and women's rights is absolutely on the

849
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Speaker 3: ballot in my district, and I've worked really hard on

850
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Speaker 3: all of those things. I blame Republicans and Democrats for

851
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 3: inflation because neither one want to take responsibility. They're all

852
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 3: drunk with spending. They're spending way more than we have,

853
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 3: way more than than taxpayers give them. And then on

854
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 3: the immigration issue, and you've got one side that wants amnesty,

855
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 3: the other one once a while, but there's a lot

856
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 3: of common ground in the middle and nothing, very little

857
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 3: has been done about it over the last couple of years.

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Speaker 3: And then women's issues. I've been the most vocal Republican

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Speaker 3: on women's issues in the country. I would argue it's

860
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Speaker 3: really important for my party to show women that we care,

861
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Speaker 3: and it's been lonely, but I've been working really hard

862
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 3: to show that you can, you can be both pro

863
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 3: life and pro woman and do the right thing and again,

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00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 3: and there's so much middle ground that we're unwilling to

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Speaker 3: recognize that both sides are unwilling to recognize. But I'm

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Speaker 3: doing it all the time. I'm doing it till I'm

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Speaker 3: blue in the face because it means for me, women's

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Speaker 3: issues it's not political, it's personal. Because of my trauma,

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Speaker 3: my personal trauma that I've had in life. I want

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Speaker 3: to fix the system.

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Speaker 5: And you call it drunkward spending, right, Yeah, What do

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Speaker 5: you say to see who say, you know, they got

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Speaker 5: all this money for war, they got all this money

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Speaker 5: for the border, but they don't.

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Speaker 1: Ever have money for US American people. What do you

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Speaker 1: say to them?

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Speaker 3: It's it's it's bs is what it is. It's bullshit.

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Speaker 3: I mean I talked to a family the other day

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Speaker 3: that had a place in Tennessee. They applied for the

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Speaker 3: seven hundred and fifty dollars thing and they got turned

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Speaker 3: down within an hour and they have thousands of dollars

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Speaker 3: of damage at their property. You know, but this stuff

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Speaker 3: goes on like you know. I've got a bill right

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Speaker 3: now that we're going to vote on when we're back

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Speaker 3: in session. Both Republicans and Democrats alike voted for about

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Speaker 3: one point four or five billion dollars for FEMA that

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Speaker 3: would go to a shelter and services program to house

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Speaker 3: and feed illegal immigrants. That is a thing. It's a fact.

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Speaker 3: They voted on it twice. So I have a bill

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Speaker 3: that would take if there were any unspent funds from

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Speaker 3: that bucket in that FEMA budget that would then go

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Speaker 3: to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton victims. That would be

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Speaker 3: common sense, that would be the right thing to do.

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Speaker 3: So I'm trying to do my part in a common

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Speaker 3: sense way.

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Speaker 5: Well, so tomorrow's election day, So what's your message of people.

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Speaker 3: We're asking people to get out and have their voices

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Speaker 3: heard and to vote, and we need as many people

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Speaker 3: to come out and vote on election day. It's your

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Speaker 3: right as a citizen and we want to make sure

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Speaker 3: that your voices are heard. The polls open at seven

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Speaker 3: am and close at seven pm in South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, good luck, Thank you Nancy Mace, Ladies

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Speaker 2: and gentlemen, and we appreciate.

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Speaker 1: You for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: And it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that answer

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Speaker 1: up in the morning. The Breakfast Club