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Speaker 2: Let me just start with Tulsey Gabbert, because you served

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Speaker 3: She has been an apologist for gotten poutin Mi charlessade.

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Speaker 3: So many of our substant comments as well as previous

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Speaker 1: But also she doesn't have.

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Speaker 3: Any experience in intelligence. She has never served in the

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Speaker 4: There's irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his

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Speaker 4: assessment that.

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Speaker 1: They knew was false.

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Speaker 4: They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia

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Speaker 4: interfered in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win,

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Speaker 4: selling it to the American people as though it were true.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't.

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Speaker 4: The report that we released today shows in great detail

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Speaker 4: They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that disproved their false

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Speaker 4: In the January twenty seventeen Intelligence Community assessment that President

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Speaker 4: which included possible criminal acts like secret meetings with multiple

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Press office sending out this morning the President's schedule

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Speaker 6: He will be.

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Speaker 5: Off to Aberdeen, which is also in Scotland. Today they

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Speaker 6: Old line media has on.

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Speaker 5: The coverage of politics gives them too much control. There

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Speaker 5: the Washington Post and CBS say is the news. They

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Speaker 5: news media for each day as to who will get

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Speaker 5: now are the Blaze Media will be the new media

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Speaker 5: The new media will be American Spectator. On Wednesday, the

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Speaker 5: August third, News Nation will be the secondary network, and

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Speaker 5: on and on. Little things like that go a long way.

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Speaker 5: What are we getting done?

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Speaker 5: An obsession with marijuana, An absolute and utter obsession with marijuana.

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Speaker 5: It'll be two years before our legislature will convene again

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Speaker 5: all the things that could be done. Texas is not

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Speaker 5: We're about to get several quite a few billion dollars

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Speaker 5: Alan Blake Moore run the government. So now the Texas VFW,

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Speaker 1: Way to go, Dan Patrick. Now you've pissed off all

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Speaker 1: the veterans. This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of

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Speaker 1: Last Berkman, you are a Hall of Famer me.

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Speaker 8: You are one of the greatest to play the game,

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Speaker 5: That says more about the man Lance Berkman is than

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Speaker 5: just he just leads by example. Everybody else is going

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Speaker 1: I just think that says a lot about.

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Speaker 5: A man that he knows who and what he is,

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Speaker 5: that his priorities are in that order. While playing professional

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Speaker 1: I think that that is everything you need to.

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Speaker 5: Know about Landsberg. When that's as high of praise as

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Speaker 1: King Atin las Berkman you are a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 8: In me, you are one of the greatest to play

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Speaker 6: Thank you. I love you, brother. That's class. That's class.

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Speaker 5: The man's been inducted into the Hall of Fame, played

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Speaker 10: Prosecutors say it only took them a month to trace

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Speaker 10: Prosecutors have discretion about when to apply that law.

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Speaker 10: After returning from military service, Fordage's family says he suffered

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Speaker 11: He did something that was morally unethical in his opinion,

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Speaker 10: It's only the second time in Texas at fendanyl dealers

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Speaker 10: Excited, excited for the birth of a child wholl now

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Speaker 7: Well, Luke, why are overdose deaths solely punishable with a

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Speaker 10: Les prosecutors know fendanyl by far the deadliest drug out

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Speaker 10: they're one of the most addictive. To This law a

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Speaker 5: So we have a thirty four year old young man

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Speaker 1: Take my life.

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Speaker 6: I'll give my life.

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Speaker 5: I will be shot at I will walk on the

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Speaker 5: What did we accomplish in Iraq? We took everything that

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Speaker 5: because they are warmongers. The Clappers, the Brennans, the Boltons.

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Speaker 6: They love war.

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Speaker 5: War is good for business if you're on the payroll, bullets,

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Speaker 6: Taken from us far too soon.

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Speaker 5: Of the jack of all trees. Very competitive races in

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Speaker 5: That's a lot of money. And Aaron Wrights would appear

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Speaker 1: It's a big state.

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Speaker 5: It's a lot bigger, a lot harder than running statewide

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Speaker 5: in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee. It's a lot, lot lot tougher.

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Speaker 5: So that makes it a money game. It also means

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Speaker 5: you have to build name ID. It's extremely tough to

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Speaker 5: build name I D if you don't already have it

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Speaker 5: when you start running. And that is what candidates struggle

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Speaker 5: with because let's say the two state senators all day

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Speaker 5: every day, you've got a lobby senator. How are your

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Speaker 5: senator senators? Or anyway, we could have breakfast tomorrow soon

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Speaker 5: as any way we have lunch. I mean just whenever.

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Speaker 5: If two am is when you need to me, I'll

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Speaker 5: meet at two am. You're the senator, you know the senator.

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Speaker 5: Well that's great inside the capital, but nobody outside the

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Speaker 5: capital knows who you are. In many cases, in your

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Speaker 5: own district.

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Speaker 6: Nobody knows who you are.

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Speaker 5: I think May's Middleton has more name ID from grassroots

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Speaker 5: involvement considerably more and outside his district than Johan Huffman does,

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Speaker 5: who's not been real involved in the grassroots. She's been

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Speaker 5: more of a day to day senator doing Senate business,

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Speaker 5: and she was a long time judge, and they tend

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Speaker 5: not to be real sociable like that. May's Middleton's been

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Speaker 5: out writing checks to Republican organizations, ladies organizations for a

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Speaker 5: long time. And then you've got Aaron Wrights, who's never

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Speaker 5: been a candidate, and he was a staffer in Ken

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Speaker 5: Paxton's office. So you know how many Ken Paxton staffers

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Speaker 5: can you name? Probably none, So you're toiling away, but

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Speaker 5: you're not building name id. Now he has raised money.

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Speaker 5: From what I understand, he does have some folks from

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Speaker 5: DC who really want to see him in that position,

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Speaker 5: and a Trump endorsement would go a very long way.

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Speaker 5: I think the Trump endorsement means different things in different

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Speaker 5: places in the state of Texas. I believe it's very strong.

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Speaker 5: I'm hearing that Ken Paxton will endorse him. I don't

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Speaker 5: know if that's true. Paxton has his own race to run,

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Speaker 5: and he's got a commanding lead over John Cornyn. There

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Speaker 5: is now an increasing circulation in the rumor mill that

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Speaker 5: Cornyan will drop out and the candidate expected to step

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Speaker 5: in if he does is Wesley Hunt, which would make

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Speaker 5: this quite a competitive rit