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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Truth with Lisa Booth, where we tried

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Speaker 1: to get to the heart of the issues that matter

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Speaker 1: to you. We've got Senator Marshall Blackburn from Tennessee on

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Speaker 1: the show today to talk about that monumental deal with

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Speaker 1: the European Union and include six hundred billion dollars in

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Speaker 1: new investments in the United States. Also a historic seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty billion in American energy purchase, which is

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Speaker 1: really important because that positions in the United States as

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Speaker 1: the key energy supplier to Europe, which counters Russia, counters China.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to ask send her Blackburn about that. Also,

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Speaker 1: do you think the media and the left will finally

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Speaker 1: admit that maybe President Trump knows what he's doing. Also,

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Speaker 1: we're going to ask her about some of these recent

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Speaker 1: revelations about the Russia hoax. I know, you guys at

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Speaker 1: home probably feel how I feel. You know, it's like

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Speaker 1: all these bad actors in Washington, DC. We call them out,

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Speaker 1: we expose them, and then nothing gets done. Will anything

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Speaker 1: ever get done on this? Will there be any retribution,

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Speaker 1: will be there be any punishment, any accountability? And then

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Speaker 1: finally Trump's been trying to eliminate DEI programs from universities. Well,

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Speaker 1: there's some universities in Tennessee some undercover video showing that

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Speaker 1: they may be trying to do some workarounds on that.

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Speaker 1: Senator Marshall Blackburn sent them letter. She's calling them out,

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Speaker 1: so we'll have her break that down for us as well.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned for Senator Marshall Blackburn from Tennessee. Well, Senator

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Speaker 1: Marshall Blackburn, it's always an honor to have you on

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Speaker 2: It's got some big news today. You know, it feels

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Speaker 2: like America's back.

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Speaker 1: Remember you know President Trump said at least about immigration,

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Speaker 1: that all we needed was a new president. But now

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Speaker 1: we're seeing these trade deals, like with the one with

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Speaker 1: the EU. They're going to invest six hundred billion in

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Speaker 1: the US, purchase seven hundred and fifty billion in American energy,

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Speaker 1: and open their markets to the United States.

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Speaker 2: How big of a deal is this.

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Speaker 3: It is such a significant deal, Lisa, and I'm so

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Speaker 3: thrilled that you were covering this. I find it so interesting.

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Speaker 3: Stream media now really doesn't want to talk about tariffs

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Speaker 3: and trade, do they of that? Now that people are

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Speaker 3: coming to the table. And of course the Japan deal

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Speaker 3: was announced last week, and it's a five hundred and

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Speaker 3: which is so incredibly significant.

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Speaker 2: And for.

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Speaker 3: The EU to come together and for this to be

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Speaker 3: negotiated and to give this consistency of markets for US agriculture,

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Speaker 3: for US producers for a digital trade, this really is

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Speaker 3: a firm foundation. And we're hearing that China is in

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Speaker 3: the queue. They're asking to negotiate a deal, and there

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Speaker 3: are many others that they are currently working on trying

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Speaker 3: to finalize before the August first deadline.

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Speaker 2: You know, Senator, it's almost as if he knows what

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Speaker 3: You know, listen, as you are so right about that.

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Speaker 3: And I find it so absolutely amusing that having the

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Speaker 3: tariffs in place and pushing the trade that is worked,

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Speaker 3: making the Big Beautiful Bill come to pass, working with

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Speaker 3: the House and the Senate and those of us that

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Speaker 3: have worked hard to get that big beautiful bill through

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Speaker 3: the Senate, and now to know that it is signed

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Speaker 3: into law. What an exciting time for us and for

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Speaker 3: the American people. And the more people know about the Big.

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Speaker 4: Beautiful Bill, you know, they like it and they're realizing

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Speaker 4: no tax on tips and over time and my provision.

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Speaker 3: Of removing it from Social Security, increasing the child tax credit,

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Speaker 3: a lot of the ARM and AD provisions that are there,

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Speaker 3: with increasing based acres, dealing with crop insurance. Those are

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Speaker 3: certain that we get out there and we talk about

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Speaker 3: the good things that are in this bill.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the bill as a whole will be

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Speaker 1: a tough sell because if you look at pulling the

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Speaker 1: overall bill is not popular with the public. It's unpopular

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Speaker 1: with the public. Now if you dig into the elements

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Speaker 1: So it's like, how do you sell that to the public.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And indeed, what I have found is I've talked

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Speaker 3: like a tax credit for employer provided childcare for our

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Speaker 3: businesses whether they're small or large, people go, oh, that

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Speaker 3: is great. Rooting out waste, fraud and abuse from Medicare

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Speaker 3: making certain that we get rid of all the improper payments.

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Speaker 3: You know, when people here, twenty five percent of medicaid

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Speaker 3: people are going to begin to see that in their paychecks.

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Speaker 3: And this is a good thing, and we want to

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Speaker 3: continue that. It's a great piece of legislation to be

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Speaker 3: talking about. Most of the Farm Bill provisions got into

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Speaker 3: Moving that to fifteen million dollars for an individual, thirty

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Speaker 1: We're seeing a lot of you know, new documents and

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Speaker 1: You know, I think a lot of people they get

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Speaker 1: lot of people are wondering, you know, Okay, it's great

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Speaker 1: to have what we've always known and known to believe confirmed,

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Speaker 1: you know, with this evidence that's surfacing, Well, like, what

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Speaker 2: You're going to see?

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Speaker 3: Doj determine what that is going to look like. I

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Speaker 3: do believe there's going to be accountability. D and I

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Speaker 3: Gabbard did a service to the American people by releasing

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Speaker 3: two hundred pages of documents and it truly is irrefutable

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Speaker 3: evidence that there was involvement Obama's office and also coming

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Speaker 3: Clapper Brennan, and no doubt these are individuals that are

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Speaker 3: going to be held to account. This is one of

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Speaker 3: the biggest conspiracies. I mean, this is the kind of

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Speaker 3: And they bought hooked line and sinker everything that Brennan

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Speaker 3: checked sources, they never confirmed, They just printed what they

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Speaker 2: You know what's.

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Speaker 1: Interesting about that is even now sort of like the

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Speaker 1: if you really think about it, all Pulsy Gabbard and

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Speaker 1: look at James Comey admitted to leaking FBI documents to

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Speaker 1: So it's like all these actors bad actors. Like all

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Speaker 3: Well, and now they're rolling out the documents and the

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Speaker 3: participation in the Russia hoax is not substantiated, you just

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Speaker 3: want to say you people have learned nothing. But Lisa,

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Speaker 3: I will tell you this, As you said at the beginning,

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Speaker 3: Now Likewise, the American people know that the media lied

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Speaker 3: They have lied about numerous things, and the big beautiful

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Speaker 1: Well, it's also kind of funny on the Russia stuff

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Speaker 1: because if Trump was so close with Putin, he would

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Speaker 2: Like this is a.

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Speaker 1: Big geopolitical blow to Russia and to China as well.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, if you were still of the dank

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Speaker 3: That is very true. And there is some of these

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Speaker 3: And he is doing that. It doesn't matter if it's

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Speaker 3: him repeatedly skinning up the federal government and send things back.

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Speaker 3: The Department of Agriculture last week, they're sending half their

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Speaker 3: Linda McMahon doing a phenomenal job. She's already cut it

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Speaker 3: the US Department of Education. People who are who are

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Speaker 3: for a centralized government, people who are power hungry, absolutely

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Speaker 3: They want to be able to control it, and under

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Speaker 1: of Blackburn on the either side. You said, I wanted

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Speaker 1: There were some undercover video showing employees at these universities

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Speaker 1: basically saying how they're still pushing DEI despite President Trump's

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Speaker 1: like an undercover way. You know, walk us through that,

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Speaker 1: like what your letter says, and we'll kind answers are

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Speaker 3: Yes, there were the videos that came out, and you know,

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Speaker 3: we've got great universities in Tennessee, whether it is Vanderbilt, Belmont,

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Speaker 3: ut and this was a concern. So we did send

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Speaker 3: letters to each of the universities asking them for clarification

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Speaker 3: of what they are doing to comply with not only

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Speaker 3: federal but state law also and making certain that these

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Speaker 3: universities have ended their DEI programs. Now, I fully appreciate

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Speaker 3: that a chancellor of a university cannot control everything a

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Speaker 3: but at least so what we want to make certain

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Speaker 3: is that these programs are not continuing to exist just

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Speaker 3: going by a different thing. We want to make certain

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Speaker 3: that indeed these DII programs are ended and that the

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Speaker 1: I agree, and you know, I think it's important. You know,

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Speaker 1: the whole DEI direction just leads us into a place

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Speaker 1: where we're not seeking excellence as a country, and I

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Speaker 1: know that President Trump's trying to get us away from that.

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Speaker 1: Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, appreciate you so much for

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Speaker 1: joining the show.

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Speaker 3: Always happy to join you. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That was Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Appreciate her for

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Speaker 1: making the time to join the show. Appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: at home for listening every Tuesday and Thursday, but you

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Speaker 1: can listen throughout the week until next time.