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Speaker 1: Welcome to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with

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Speaker 1: your senator. Nice to be with you today, except we're

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Speaker 1: in different places on this episode. For people, they're like, wait,

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Speaker 1: why aren't they in the same room. I had to

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Speaker 1: fly back to my hometown of Memphis to check out

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Speaker 1: but that's why we're remote today. And Senator, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be with you as always. Ben, Great to be

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Speaker 1: with you. A lot going on in the world, and

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Speaker 1: hope your dad continues to do better. He is doing well,

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Speaker 1: Thank goodness. Let's start in on this big issue, and

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Speaker 1: that is we have a game plan now from the

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Speaker 1: President of the United States of America to fix the

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Speaker 1: problems at the border. And he's decided that if we

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Speaker 1: just use woke terminology, all the issues of the border

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Speaker 1: are gonna go away. Let's just let you get your

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Speaker 1: initial reaction to some of these terminologies the presidents decide

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Speaker 1: to use while visiting apparently the president in Mexico. This

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Speaker 1: is what their master plan is. Yeah, look, it's even

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Speaker 1: worse than that. So in the last few days, Joe Biden,

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Speaker 1: they're good news and bad news Joe Biden has done

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Speaker 1: more in the last few days on our southern border

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Speaker 1: than he has the entirety of his presidency. That's the

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Speaker 1: good news. The bad news is everything he's done is bad.

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Speaker 1: He flew down to the southern border. He went to

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Speaker 1: El Paso, not the Rio Grand Valley, which is the

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Speaker 1: epicenter of the disaster. Before he arrived in El Paso,

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Speaker 1: there had been illegal immigrants sleeping on the streets. The

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Speaker 1: mayor had declared an emergency. So what did they do.

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Speaker 1: They cleaned all the illegal immigrants off the street before

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden arrived because they wanted to set it up

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Speaker 1: like a TV set and clear everyone out when he

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Speaker 1: got there. This is an amazing thing, Karine John Pierre

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Speaker 1: said from the White House podium. She said Biden did

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Speaker 1: not meet or speak to, or see a single illegal

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Speaker 1: immigrant when he was there. Now, that is friggate heart.

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Speaker 1: I have been to the border many, many times. We've

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Speaker 1: had five point three million people cross illegally under Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden's presidency. For him to go to the border and

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Speaker 1: not see a single illegal immigrant, I guarantee you that

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Speaker 1: was political staffers working overtime saying make sure you don't

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Speaker 1: show some little girl who was sexually assaulted by the traffickers.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you don't show some impoverished person who went

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Speaker 1: through a horrific journey to get here. Definitely make sure

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Speaker 1: you don't show an MS thirteen gang member who just

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Speaker 1: came into this country and is now carry out crimes

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Speaker 1: in this country. Instead, he went down there for a

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Speaker 1: photo op, but then he wasn't done. Then he got

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Speaker 1: met with Amlow, the President of Mexico, and he announced

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Speaker 1: the Biden border plan. And it is truly stunning. So

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Speaker 1: here's what Joe Biden has said, and I want to

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Speaker 1: quote him. He has said, quote, we are trying to

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Speaker 1: make it easier for people to get here. In other words,

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Speaker 1: the five point three million that have crossed illegally, that's

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Speaker 1: not a bug, that's a feature. They want more of it.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't intend to fix this. He do want to

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Speaker 1: fix this. Instead, he wants full on open borders. He's

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Speaker 1: not hiding it. And by the way, Amlow, the president

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Speaker 1: of Mexico, he gets it. Have a listen to what

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Speaker 1: Amlow said with Joe Biden standing next to him about

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Speaker 1: Let's play that video real quick of the president in

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Speaker 1: given the ultimate thing, the ultimate gift, that open border.

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Speaker 1: It'sn't but he meant it, but I didn't. And what's

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Speaker 1: your temple, Ao, Neil Mitro de Murdo, L. Sill and

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Speaker 1: Ben if your Spanish is not up to snuff. What

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Speaker 1: Amlow just said is is that you're the first president

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Speaker 1: that he said, we appreciate so explicitly. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Amlow is a leftist Marxist president of Mexico who has

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Speaker 1: standing there with Biden beaming, praising him because you're the

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Speaker 1: including Barack Obama, He's including Bill Clinton, He's including of

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Speaker 1: course Donald Trump. Joe Biden is the worst of all

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Speaker 1: of them on open borders. Amlo is praising him, and

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Speaker 1: then the White House rolled out this rather amazing document

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Speaker 1: on January tenth. It's called the Declaration of North America DNA.

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Speaker 1: So this is their leftist DNA. I don't think that

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Speaker 1: facing the worst crisis of illegal immigration in the history

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Speaker 1: the Biden White House lays out six principles. You know what.

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Speaker 1: Principal Number one is all woke liberal ideology. That's what

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do with the entire list. Principle number one diversity,

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Speaker 1: equity and inclusion. That's the very first thing. Not border security,

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Speaker 1: ideology yet again, like an academic decided to write this

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Speaker 1: Climate change and environments, that's number two. That's what he's

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Speaker 1: I'm sure number three, surely legal immigration comes up. Number three, Nope, competitiveness,

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Speaker 1: We need to outsource more to Mexico. What's number four?

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Speaker 1: Number four? All right, finally immigration comes up. It's entitled

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Speaker 1: and North America. And in particular, it says, since June, Mexico,

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Speaker 1: help and ending it. They want more. Number five on

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Speaker 1: you know what word does not appear in this entire

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Speaker 1: Democrats don't care. They don't want to stop it. They're

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Speaker 1: not purporting to stop it. And this meeting with Amlow, Listen,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He was afraid of Donald Trump. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you an interesting story. So we've talked before about

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Speaker 1: how the remaining Mexico Agreement, how effective it was. Let

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Speaker 1: me tell you how it came to pass. So it

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Speaker 1: came to pass. Donald Trump was president, and he issued

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Speaker 1: And I said at the time when he issued that demand,

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Speaker 1: and Trump was exultant. He was really really happy, and

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Speaker 1: He agreed to the agreement that people who crossed illegally

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Speaker 1: It's a fundamental difference machine guns. Automatic rifles have been

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Speaker 1: functionally illegal in the United States for over eighty years,

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Speaker 1: other than in very limited circumstances with very strict licenses.

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Speaker 1: As a practical matter, an ordinary citizen cannot own a

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Speaker 1: machine gun. So Haraldo there when he says, oh R

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Speaker 1: stands for automatic rifle, it's not just a gotcha question.

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Speaker 1: He's fundamentally ignorant about what the thing is that he

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Speaker 1: wants to ban. And he says, actually, earlier in that

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Speaker 1: clip he calls it a machine gun. He thinks it

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Speaker 1: is a machine gun, and he doesn't really care it is.

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Speaker 1: It is an example when when why can the Democrats

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Speaker 1: be so left wing because the media is that bad.

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Speaker 1: They don't know what an AR fifteen is, They don't

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Speaker 1: care all good, they don't know what they're talking about.

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Speaker 1: All with weapons. And another example of this sentators this

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Speaker 1: last week. There was a man who had created apparently

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Speaker 1: one gun that was a single shot twenty two little

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Speaker 1: mini gun they called it, with a spring that he

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Speaker 1: had to pull back and its shot. And he found

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Speaker 1: out through someone that was looking at the bill in

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Speaker 1: Illinois where they're banning all of these guns, that his

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Speaker 1: prototype that never went into production, that was one little bullet,

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Speaker 1: a twenty two who was springloaded, that never went into production.

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Speaker 1: Somehow his gun got on the list of the evil, scary,

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Speaker 1: terrible guns that should be banned in America, they're saying,

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Speaker 1: at least in Illinois. And they found this guy and

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Speaker 1: they're like, you never even produced this gun. This is

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Speaker 1: not something you can even buy on the market. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't really exist. How did you end up on this list?

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Speaker 1: And he says, I genuinely have no idea. This is

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Speaker 1: a gun that I got a patent on, this is

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Speaker 1: a gun that I did once. And yet Democrats and

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Speaker 1: again it shows the example that you're mentioning. They don't

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Speaker 1: even know what they're banning. And the governor in Illinois

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Speaker 1: has come out and this is serious, and I would

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Speaker 1: say to conservatives, listen, the governor in Illinois center has

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Speaker 1: passed a significant law. It's gonna be challenges, but it

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Speaker 1: bans all semi automatic guns and the majority of firearms

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Speaker 1: bought in America day, the majority of guns they're used

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Speaker 1: to protect people's lives. The number one gun that people

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Speaker 1: have to protect themselves a personal carry are semi automatic weapons.

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Speaker 1: They've now banned them all, which is really going back

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Speaker 1: to gun confiscation. Just take a look at this, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a lot of grandstanding, frankly, and I

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Speaker 1: know there's some of them that are opposed to the law,

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Speaker 1: but the fact is they've signed an oath of office

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Speaker 1: to uphold and enforce the laws of the state of Illinois,

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Speaker 1: and I expect them to do so. What penalty would

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Speaker 1: state residents pay if they don't abide by that and

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Speaker 1: within the next year come forward and register their weapons

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Speaker 1: in this category. Well, it begins with a fine if

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Speaker 1: they don't, you know, if they're caught under this law,

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Speaker 1: begins with a fine. But a second instance, it is

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Speaker 1: a class four felony. I mean, this is gun confiscation

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Speaker 1: and the first part there, and this is I think

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. I'm going to give you the numbers, sheriffs

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Speaker 1: and eighty Illinois County Center are making clear they will

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Speaker 1: quote not enforce the assault weapons ban that the Democratic

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Speaker 1: governor signed into law on Tuesday, saying they will not

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Speaker 1: do this because they believe it's unconstitutional, which I think

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Speaker 1: is amazing law enforcement standing up. But this is about

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Speaker 1: taking away your guns and a gun registry saying if

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Speaker 1: you don't register them, then you'll be a felon because

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Speaker 1: you didn't register and by default, which when you're a

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Speaker 1: felon at that point, you're not allowed to own any firearms. Well,

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Speaker 1: look that clip, I think really embodies just how extreme

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Speaker 1: today's Democrat Party is on the question of guns and

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Speaker 1: how hypocritical it is. Number One, Pritzker is a billionaire.

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Speaker 1: He lives with vast wealth. He is surrounded as governor,

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Speaker 1: he's surrounded by an armed police detail. Previously he was surrounded,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. I don't know this for sure, but I

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Speaker 1: would wager a whole lot of money that he had

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Speaker 1: armed security with him just as a really rich guy.

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Speaker 1: He lives in a really rich neighborhood with armed security

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Speaker 1: and has kept very very safe. What does he want

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Speaker 1: to do? He wants to disarm the ordinary citizens of Illinois.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Illinois Chicago already has some of

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Speaker 1: the strictest gun control laws in the country, and it,

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Speaker 1: year after year after year, has among the highest crime

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Speaker 1: rates and murder rates. Why not because they don't have

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Speaker 1: tough enough gun control. In fact, in Chicago, the gun

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Speaker 1: control laws have succeeded in disarming the law abiding citizens

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Speaker 1: because by definition, if you're law abiding, you abide the law.

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Speaker 1: But the criminals are not law abiding. The gang bangers

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Speaker 1: are not law abiding, and they have all the guns

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Speaker 1: they need, and so they're shooting each other, and they're

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Speaker 1: shooting innocent citizens. They're shooting Many of the people murdered

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Speaker 1: in Chicago under these gun control laws, many of them

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Speaker 1: are African American, many of them are Hispanic, the vast

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Speaker 1: majority of them are low income. And the Democrats don't care.

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Speaker 1: Those black lives don't matter to them. The kids that

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Speaker 1: are shot and drive by shootings, those don't matter. And

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Speaker 1: their solution is to say you can't defend your home.

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Speaker 1: Every year, this is according to the Obama White House

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Speaker 1: Fiers arms are used defensively to stop a crime between

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Speaker 1: five hundred thousand and a million times each year. According

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Speaker 1: to the Democrats, they take the guns away from all

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Speaker 1: of them and just let the criminals be armed. And

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Speaker 1: you see the suffering, the chaos, the tragedy that plays

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Speaker 1: out in Chicago every day and every week and every

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Speaker 1: month and every year because of those misguided policies. I'll

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Speaker 1: also note, you know, Pritzker says, well the sheriff. The

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Speaker 1: sheriffs took an oath. Yes they did, but they didn't

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Speaker 1: take an oath to obey the Democratic kingpin boss hog,

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Speaker 1: who sits there and decrees you shall obey my orders.

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Speaker 1: They took an oath to defend and protect the Constitution.

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Speaker 1: And I believe these Illinois laws are going to be

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Speaker 1: struck down. The courts are not going to let him stand.

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Speaker 1: But the Democrats don't care. And by the way, one

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Speaker 1: of the strategies of gun confiscation law abiding people, as

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Speaker 1: I said, abide by the law. They want to confiscate

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Speaker 1: as many firearms as they can. By the way, they

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Speaker 1: also want to turn into felons as many gun owners

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Speaker 1: as they can, because that's one way of confiscating them

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Speaker 1: and taking away their rights. You know, when the courts

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Speaker 1: began striking down Joe Biden's illegal COVID vaccine mandates. When

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Speaker 1: he was trying to force employers large employers to fire

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Speaker 1: their employees who didn't get a COVID vaccine. The court

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Speaker 1: struck it down, and the White House said, well, you

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Speaker 1: should comply with it anyway, even though it's been enjoined,

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Speaker 1: even though it's not enforce you should comply anyway. That's

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Speaker 1: their view on guns. Anyway, we will use power. You

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Speaker 1: must obey and listen. The Democrat view of politics is

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Speaker 1: they use government power to punish their enemies and reward

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Speaker 1: their friends. So they want to go after their enemies.

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Speaker 1: If you believe in free speech, if you believe in

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Speaker 1: religious liberty, if you believe in the Second Amendment, if

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Speaker 1: you believe in free enterprise, they consider you an enemy.

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Speaker 1: They want to punish you. They want to make your

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Speaker 1: life difficult. They want to crush you into submission. On

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Speaker 1: the other hand, if you're a Democrat oboist, if you

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Speaker 1: make money on all of these different scams dealing with

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Speaker 1: the federal government, they want to make you rich. They

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Speaker 1: want to shovel cash into your pocket. And that fundamentally

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Speaker 1: is the corruption that's at the heart of today's Democrat party.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you a practical question from a

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Speaker 1: legislative standpoint center because there are a lot of second

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Speaker 1: amend advocates gun owners that are concerned about two aspects

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Speaker 1: of this. And yes, we have the court system that

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Speaker 1: I believe is going to strike this down in Illinois,

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Speaker 1: but Democrats clearly are trying to figure around workarounds to

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Speaker 1: take away our rights. There are two things that concern

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Speaker 1: many gun owners, and I know you've heard about this

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Speaker 1: a lot. One is this gun registry aspect of that,

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Speaker 1: and that's what they're obviously trying to do in Illinois.

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Speaker 1: The second is government monitoring. We talked about this, I

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Speaker 1: think on this podcast couple months ago when banks we're

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Speaker 1: recording transactions and the White House is wanting this for

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Speaker 1: gun stores and places to kind of monit tour and

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Speaker 1: then see if you were buying what they believed was

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Speaker 1: too much AMMO or too many guns or too many transactions. Look,

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Speaker 1: I own a gun store and we've had banks and

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Speaker 1: credit card processing companies that have actually just said we're

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Speaker 1: not working with you, even though you're selling the most

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Speaker 1: regulated industry by the government. We have multiple layers of

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Speaker 1: regulations on this industry. And they've also said, you know,

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Speaker 1: not only are we're not going to do it, we're

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Speaker 1: going to try to basically use that to put you

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Speaker 1: out of business. And people are terrified of the government

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Speaker 1: monitoring their transactions. So number one, is there anything that

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Speaker 1: you guys can do to make that illegal? And second

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Speaker 1: of all, is there any type of legislation that could

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Speaker 1: come about that says you cannot have gun registries in

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Speaker 1: this country? So yes, there is. And in the Senate,

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Speaker 1: I've been leading the fight against a gun registry and

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Speaker 1: in defense of the Second Amendment for the entire time

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Speaker 1: i've been there. And listen, the Second Amendment I believe

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Speaker 1: passionately in the Constitution. As you know that my second

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Speaker 1: book that I wrote was One Vote Away, How a

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Speaker 1: single Supreme Court seat can Change History. And there's an

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Speaker 1: entire chapter in One Vote Away that talks about the

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Speaker 1: Heller case where the Supreme Court upheld and first clarified

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Speaker 1: the individual right to keep in a bare arms in

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Speaker 1: the Second Amendment. And I led the states. I was

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Speaker 1: Solicitor General of Texas, and I led the states in

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Speaker 1: defense of the Second Amendment in Heller, which is why

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Speaker 1: the NRA named me as a champion defending the Second Amendment.

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Speaker 1: Because that victory. That victory and the subsequent case of

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Speaker 1: McDonald is a big part of why this Illinois law

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Speaker 1: is likely to be struck down protecting those rights. When

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Speaker 1: I first got to the Senate, one of the very

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Speaker 1: first things that happened, I was elected in twenty twelve.

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Speaker 1: I arrived in twenty thirteen. Tragically, we saw the shooting

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Speaker 1: in Newtown, Connecticut, where that monster, that animal murdered little children.

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Speaker 1: You and I are both parents, and I think there

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Speaker 1: is nothing more evil on planet Earth than a monster

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Speaker 1: who hurts little kids. And the Democrats were exultant. Obama

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Speaker 1: just been reelected. They were convinced they were going to

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Speaker 1: pass gun control. And I was a brand new baby

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Speaker 1: freshman senator. I was still in my basement office. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know where the men's room was, but I said,

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Speaker 1: I'll be damned if I let this Congress pass anything

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Speaker 1: that takes away the Second Amendment rights of Texans and Americans.

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Speaker 1: And I led the fight just fresh into the Senate,

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Speaker 1: and we defeated those bills. On the floor of the Senate.

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Speaker 1: I authored the lead alternative to those bills. That was

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Speaker 1: a law enforcement alternative that focused on criminals and fugitives

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Speaker 1: and those with serious mental illness, and putting them in jail,

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Speaker 1: and taking their firearms away, and securing schools, all of those.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot we can do to make people safer.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats don't want that. They want to disarm you,

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Speaker 1: the law abiding citizen. And one of the most central

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Speaker 1: elements you rightly focused on is a gun registry. And listen,

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Speaker 1: for people who don't follow these issues, a registry can

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Speaker 1: sound innocuous. One of the arguments they like to give is, look,

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Speaker 1: you need a license to drive a car, You ought

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Speaker 1: to have a license to own a firearm. And just

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Speaker 1: you know, you got to register a car, you should

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Speaker 1: register a firearm. Well, the difference is there are not

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Speaker 1: yet a group of political ideologs and zealots that want

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Speaker 1: to confiscate our automobiles. By the way, that may be coming.

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Speaker 1: They want to confiscate our gas stoves. Automobile confiscation may

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Speaker 1: be coming, but we're not there yet. But with firearms.

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Speaker 1: Pritzker wants to take him, Joe Biden wants to take him,

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Speaker 1: Diane Feinstein wants to take him. Gavin Newsom wants to

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Speaker 1: take him. They want to come in and forcibly remove

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Speaker 1: your firearms. And so the entire purpose of a registry

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Speaker 1: is create a list. Okay, Ben Ferguson had the following firearms. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the local law enforcement shows up and says, mister Ferguson,

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Speaker 1: hand over every gun on this list, and if you

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Speaker 1: don't hand it up, we're putting you in handcuffs and

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Speaker 1: taking you away. That's why they want a registry. And

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Speaker 1: so there are already elements of current federal law that prohibit,

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Speaker 1: for example, the ATF When you go and buy a

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Speaker 1: gun at a firearms dealer, you own a gun store,

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Speaker 1: so you're a firearms dealer. You got to fill out

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Speaker 1: a background check, and as you know, federal law requires

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Speaker 1: you run that background check. But after it comes back clean,

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Speaker 1: you're required to destroy those records. And the reason federal

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Speaker 1: law requires that is because they don't want a registry

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Speaker 1: that becomes a list for the gun grabbers to disarm America.

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Speaker 1: That is their objective and it is fortunately it's unconstitutional.

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Speaker 1: But as the Democrat Party's gotten more and more extreme,

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Speaker 1: they're not even bothering to hide their objective that they

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Speaker 1: want to disarm you and mind you. At the same

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Speaker 1: time they want to let out of jail, the violent

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Speaker 1: criminals who are committing these acts. I mean, think of

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Speaker 1: the combination prevent your ability to defend your home and

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Speaker 1: your kids. But at the same time, these are the

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Speaker 1: people that want to abolish the police and that are

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Speaker 1: supporting George Soros DA's that let violent criminals out of

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Speaker 1: prison who turn around and commit more crimes. You and

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Speaker 1: I live in Houston, Texas. In Houston, we've got cashless

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Speaker 1: bail policies that are releasing murderers who turn around and

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Speaker 1: murder more people. I don't understand. I really do struggle

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Speaker 1: with the reason and logic that says, disarm someone who's

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Speaker 1: never committed a crime, who wants a firearm to protect

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Speaker 1: their children, but at the same time release someone who's

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Speaker 1: already murdered somebody and is likely to murder somebody else.

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Speaker 1: That's not logic, that's emotion, that's rage. That's ideology disconnected

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Speaker 1: from real life. And it is a tiny sliver of America.

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Speaker 1: But what's bizarre is the Democrat Party has handed their

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Speaker 1: policy on these issues over to that tiny sliver of

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Speaker 1: America and embraced every bit of it. I say to

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Speaker 1: you all the time, if you think these types of

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Speaker 1: things cannot happen to America, or you think that it

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Speaker 1: will never happen. Call anybody you know in Canada right now,

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Speaker 1: ask them what rights they have with guns, because Trudeau

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Speaker 1: just took them all away because of truck drivers that

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Speaker 1: stood up to the vaccine mandate. It scared the elitist

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Speaker 1: enough in Canada, those truck drivers banning together. They then said,

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Speaker 1: here's our response to this, let's get rid of the guns.

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Speaker 1: And they did it successfully there, and that is a

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Speaker 1: reminder of how quickly it can happen if you're not

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Speaker 1: paying attention. Center. I want to end on a positive note,

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Speaker 1: and I think we should do this more often when

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Speaker 1: we have victories and the conservative movement. You and I

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Speaker 1: just had dinner recently in DC with some of those

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Speaker 1: that were fighting for a lot of the deals that

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Speaker 1: were done to basically have strong stunt conservatives sit on

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Speaker 1: certain committees. Your former chief of staff, Congressen from Texas,

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Speaker 1: Chip Roy, was instrumental in working this deal. We now

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Speaker 1: are seeing the fruits of that fight over the speakership

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Speaker 1: with Kevin McCarthy, and the payoff is massive. Tell people

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Speaker 1: about how good this is. Well, we're starting to get

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Speaker 1: the announcement of who is on various committees. And one

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Speaker 1: of the things we talked about at great length when

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Speaker 1: the media was freaking out, when Democrats were freaking out,

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Speaker 1: and even some Republicans, particularly those kind of at home

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Speaker 1: that weren't following it closely, we're freaking out that the

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Speaker 1: speaker fight was a disaster. It was a disgrace, that

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Speaker 1: it was a catastrophe. Look, it was the democratic process.

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Speaker 1: We spent four days with the House of Representatives debating

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Speaker 1: who EICH leaders should be and debating, more importantly, how

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Speaker 1: it should lead. And the consequence, those that stood up

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Speaker 1: and led that fight extracted major concessions, and those concessions

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Speaker 1: are going to change how the House majority is able

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Speaker 1: to govern and able to fight bad policies from Biden

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Speaker 1: the Democrats over the next two years. And it was

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Speaker 1: a massive victory if you care about having Republicans actually

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Speaker 1: stand up and fight for what they say they believe,

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Speaker 1: that fight over the speakership was massively important. Now, in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the fight, one of the things that

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Speaker 1: shifted the battle. You know, early on there were a

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Speaker 1: handful of rebels and it wasn't clear how many we're

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Speaker 1: going to vote against Kevin McCarthy as speaker, and they

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Speaker 1: had a meeting of the House Republican Conference and one

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Speaker 1: of McCarthy's lieutenants stood up and threatened the rebels, if

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Speaker 1: you dare vote against him, you'll be stripped of your committees. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's the kind of high handed, haughty authoritarianism that you

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Speaker 1: expect of Nancy Pelosi, but it's not what you should

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Speaker 1: expect of Republican leadership. And I'll tell you that pissed

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Speaker 1: a lot of members off, and I think it played

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Speaker 1: a big part. We could easily have seen on the

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Speaker 1: first vote maybe ten or twelve no votes. Instead we

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Speaker 1: saw nineteen on the first vote, and I think that

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Speaker 1: threat may well have doubled or nearly doubled the number

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Speaker 1: of no votes. Well, turned out that threat wasn't carried through.

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Speaker 1: And we're starting to get who's going to be on

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Speaker 1: the various committees, and one in particular that is quite

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Speaker 1: notable is the House Oversight Committee, and the members of

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Speaker 1: that committee will be Kelly Armstrong from North Dakota, Lauren

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Speaker 1: Bobert from Colorado, Tim Burkett from Tennessee, Eric Burlison from Missouri,

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Speaker 1: Byron Donalds from Florida, Chuck Edwards from North Carolina, Russell

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Speaker 1: Fry from South Carolina, Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia, Paul

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Speaker 1: Gossar from Arizona, Nick Langworthy from New York, Jacolt Turner

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Speaker 1: from Kansas, Gary Palmer from Alabama on a Paulina Luna

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Speaker 1: from Florida, Scott Perry from Pennsylvania, Lisa McLain from Michigan,

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Speaker 1: Pete Sessions from Texas, and William Tibbins from South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Now what's striking is that a whole bunch of those

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Speaker 1: are rock rib conservatives who were among the rebels, who

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Speaker 1: were among the people that were told you will be

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Speaker 1: in Siberia, you will get no committees. And they've been

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Speaker 1: put now on the Oversight Committee with the ability to

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Speaker 1: go after the abuse of power from Joe Biden in

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Speaker 1: this administration. That's what we need as principled fighters. I

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Speaker 1: think this is a great, great development. I think we

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Speaker 1: will see more. We will see strong conservatives in significantly

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Speaker 1: greater positions, able to leverage their position to fight conservative

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Speaker 1: battles and hopefully win conservative victories for the American people.

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Speaker 1: And I think standing and fighting for issues and principles

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Speaker 1: that matter is also how we win in twenty four

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Speaker 1: It's how we win. It's how we win the Senate back,

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Speaker 1: It's how we hold this House and grow our House majority.

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Speaker 1: It's how we win the White House back. And so

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Speaker 1: this is a good illustration, you know, when people said, gosh,

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Speaker 1: why have this fight? And look, when you and I

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Speaker 1: were having dinner in DC, I pulled out my phone

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Speaker 1: and I read to you texts from Republican donors, some

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Speaker 1: of whom are friends of mine, who were who were

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Speaker 1: I rate, why is this fight happening? And listen, I

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Speaker 1: understand if you're a business guy and you're at home

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Speaker 1: and you turn on the news and they just say

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Speaker 1: chaos and chaos and madness with the House Republicans, you're

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Speaker 1: kind of annoyed and you're kind of embarrassed if you

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Speaker 1: don't understand why that fight is happening. And I think

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Speaker 1: we're seeing the very real and tangible results of standing

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Speaker 1: and fighting. If you want conservative leadership, you've got to

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Speaker 1: stand up and have a conservative conference that demands it.

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Speaker 1: And this is a big step forward. Look, I just

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Speaker 1: had to say, sitting at the dinner that night, and

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Speaker 1: this was me looking from the outside. It was fun

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Speaker 1: to see you, and I think how proud you were

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Speaker 1: of someone that you know well, Chip Roy, and the

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Speaker 1: way that he was able to orchestrate that deal and

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Speaker 1: communicate with the Speaker and to make sure that these

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Speaker 1: principles had another day to fight and live and have

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Speaker 1: people on these committees. It was just cool to see,

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Speaker 1: as I put it, the good guys win here. And

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Speaker 1: when we have these moments, we should celebrate them and

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Speaker 1: remind people that this is why we fight so hard.

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Speaker 1: This is why you fight so hard. This is why

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Speaker 1: you do the bus tour in a year when you're

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Speaker 1: not up for reelection and you try to get principal

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Speaker 1: conservatives into Congress. And these are those moments that we

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Speaker 1: should enjoy and take a moment and say it was

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Speaker 1: worth it, and to the donors, it's worth it, and

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Speaker 1: to finding tough, strong principal conservative and running them and

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Speaker 1: backing them, it's worth it and it paid off big

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Speaker 1: And I just think it's a big moment that we

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Speaker 1: should all enjoy fully agree center. I appreciate it as always.

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