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Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning. It's nice to have you with us

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Speaker 3: on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a

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Speaker 3: The CDC has now issued a travel warning over a

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Speaker 3: It is very eerie how close it is to the

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Speaker 2: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: Tonight, a viral outbreak in China prompts the Centers for

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Speaker 5: Even Jillian Good Evening Brett. The CDC, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 3: It's getting very real now for Democrats that there is

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Speaker 3: posting comments from Chairman Wu in response to the governor's

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Speaker 3: latest action to remove him and fellow Democratic legislators, saying, quote,

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Speaker 3: I took an oath to the Constitution, not a politician's agenda.

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Speaker 3: Denying the governor at quorum was not an abandonment in

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Speaker 3: And here's the governor, in his own words.

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Speaker 7: Is that, you know, our local law enforcement protect everybody

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Speaker 7: And there's no way that they can be that our

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Speaker 3: So there's the governor of Illinois saying, Hey, I stand

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Speaker 3: He says, it's all about doing your job, and that's

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Speaker 8: So the Democrats when they return, they're going to be

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Speaker 8: accountable for certain legal biolaces, but so for violations of

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Speaker 3: The greater the consequences. So now here we are at

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Speaker 3: basically advocating for socialism and communism and Marxism. You've got

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Speaker 3: you will love on you? YadA YadA, YadA, and they say,

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Speaker 3: this is what power now looks like to the left,

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Speaker 3: how dangerous is that?

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Speaker 1: Well, this jerry mandering is all you're talking about pretty much. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's very dangerous. But let's point out I have a

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Speaker 1: But take a look at this. The twenty twenty census

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Speaker 1: they quote unquote mathematical errors which resulted in Democrats having

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Speaker 1: this party, the Democrat Party, it embraces Marxism, it embraces

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Speaker 1: the Islamis against the Israelis, it embraces propaganda of the

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Speaker 1: They come up with slogans and repetition, which is a

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Speaker 1: big deal for them, like any other authoritarians do. So

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Speaker 1: people get in their minds that it's the Republicans. They

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Speaker 1: has to be countered. We can't just wring our hands

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Speaker 3: What was me?

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Speaker 6: What was me?

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Speaker 1: And the way we counter it is again we go

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Speaker 1: to the core of this book and rather than making

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Speaker 1: explains why and how they do it and how to

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Speaker 3: I hope all of you, by the way, will grab

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Speaker 3: Marklevin's new book On Power, as explois the nature of power,

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Speaker 3: its historical uses, and its impact on liberty. The book

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Speaker 3: argues that while power can be used for oppression, it

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Speaker 3: is also essential for a thriving society when it's structured

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Speaker 3: with checks and balances. The laugh, by the way, has

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Speaker 3: bastardized power, and well, now we're witnessing it in real

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Speaker 3: time with the Democrats in Texas, and this is exactly

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Speaker 3: why I hope all of you will grab Marklevin's new

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Speaker 3: book on Power.

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