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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Warning Podcast. I am thrilled today. I

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Speaker 1: have been looking forward to for weeks to interview, to

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Speaker 1: running for the United States Senate in the state of

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Speaker 1: Missouri against Josh Holly. I think this is one of,

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Speaker 1: if not the most important US Senate race in the country.

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Speaker 1: This is a race that every single American who cares

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Speaker 1: about liberty, who cares about democracy, who cares about the truth,

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Speaker 1: who cares about decency, should invest in. Lucas Coots is

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Speaker 1: a former United Lucas Coots is a United States Marine

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Speaker 1: officer to this day, a lieutenant colonel in the reserves,

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Speaker 1: served on active duty for thirteen years, did three tours

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Speaker 1: in Iraq in Afghanistan during those wars. This is a

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Speaker 1: person who raised his hands, took an oath, put the

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Speaker 1: cloth of the nation on, went to war, and now

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Speaker 1: wants to stand in the United States Senate to make

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Speaker 1: certain to make certain that the disgrace that occurred there

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Speaker 1: on January sixth never happens again. And we should be

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Speaker 1: really clear as we start this conversation today that the

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Speaker 1: man that Lucas Coons is running against is singularly, personally,

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Speaker 1: directly and absolutely unimpeachably responsible along with Donald Trump, along

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Speaker 1: with the extremists of breaking the peaceful transition of power

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Speaker 1: tradition in the United States of America that endured from

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Speaker 1: seventeen ninety seven until January sixth of twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Josh Holly raised his fist to show solidarity with those people,

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Speaker 1: and then, unlike a United States Marine, he ran in terror,

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Speaker 1: people ransacked the United States Capital. I am delighted to

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Speaker 1: be with Lucas Kootz today.

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Speaker 2: Welcome. Yeah, thanks for having me, Steve. I'm excited to

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Speaker 2: be here. Man.

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Speaker 1: So, how's the race going in Missouri? Tell us about

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Speaker 1: it and just what can people do to help you

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Speaker 1: all over the country get rid of Josh Holly, who,

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Speaker 1: in addition to being a plague in Missouri, is a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, campaign's going real well. You know, we've

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Speaker 3: raised over four million dollars so far, which is a

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Speaker 3: record for a Democrat or Republican challenger at this time.

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Speaker 3: And really like the best thing is that everybody in

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Speaker 3: may not know that, but he's the least popular US

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Speaker 3: senator up for election this entire cycle, like and I

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Speaker 3: mean Ted Cruz on the ballot people, So that's quite

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Speaker 3: an achievement, right, And you know he's often upside down.

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Speaker 2: In his numbers.

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Speaker 3: Saint Louis Posts Dispatch put out a pool the other

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Speaker 3: day showing US forty four to forty three with him.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a tight race. The guy's in a

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Speaker 3: fraud and a coward right, I mean, you mentioned January sixth.

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Speaker 3: He's out there pumping his fist when he thinks it's

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know you mentioned.

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Speaker 3: The Marine Corps, Like we'd have been court martialed if

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Speaker 3: And so for me, I'm just excited to have this

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Speaker 3: that I grew up with because frankly, we're suffering out here,

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Speaker 1: And you didn't grow up with a silver spoon in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I grew up in a beautiful neighborhood. So

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Speaker 3: my parents got married at nineteen and twenty two. They

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Speaker 2: But you know, it was a beautiful place to grow up.

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Speaker 2: And you know, if I got a minute, you know,

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Speaker 2: But this was a very formative moment for me, and

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Speaker 2: And if anybody knows what happens to.

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Speaker 2: We were really on the edge. As a kid, you

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Speaker 3: Mom just crying all the time, not just because she

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Speaker 3: Just everybody in that town took us into their homes,

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Speaker 2: And so, you know, for me, that's why I'm running

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Speaker 3: It's for everyday people who've been neglected by politicians like

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Speaker 1: And I'm presuming when I when I listen to you

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm like a lot of people right involved

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Speaker 3: Well, I think you know me and the people in

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Speaker 2: You know, what we understand is that we have.

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Speaker 3: Common enemy, and it is politicians like Josh Holly, right Like,

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Speaker 3: what we want our politicians to do is to invest

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: We just want the freedom to help each other out

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Speaker 3: the way people were able to help me out back then.

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Speaker 3: And if you go to my old neighborhood right now,

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Speaker 3: the one I joined the Marine Corps out of.

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Speaker 2: We actually went to take pictures the other day because

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Speaker 3: To keep the squatters out. It's going to be torn down.

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Speaker 3: Every other house on that street's boarded up. The corner

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Speaker 3: store was actually boarded up because it's been robbed so

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Speaker 2: There's no hope. And it's because people like Josh Holly.

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Speaker 3: Been taking money from the wrong foot folks in using

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Speaker 3: has done attack after attack against everyday people. And we

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Speaker 3: know that, right And the guy doesn't want to invest

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Speaker 3: his focus is this weird, creepy.

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Speaker 2: Like control thing.

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Speaker 3: They want to control us in the bedroom, they want

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Speaker 3: control us in the workplace. I don't know if you've

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Speaker 3: seen this, like new book he's got come out.

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Speaker 2: Did you see it, Steve, Yeah, we're going to talk

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Speaker 2: about it, but go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Manhood by Josh Holly for twenty nine to

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Speaker 3: ninety nine. You can get the Secrets of Masculinity from

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Speaker 3: the Coward of January sixth, right, man, Like, that's crazy

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Speaker 3: and and I actually had to read the thing, and

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Speaker 3: it really is all about control. His solution is that

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Speaker 3: everybody should just be more like him, And so you know,

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Speaker 3: for the average Missourian, like, that's weird and that's creepy, right, Like,

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Speaker 3: we just want the power to make our own decisions.

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Speaker 3: And that's what my campaigns all about. It's all about

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Speaker 3: investing in communities like the one that took care of me.

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Speaker 3: It's about making sure that we're able to grow and

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Speaker 3: resources to take care of each other, man, it is magical.

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Speaker 3: Every day Missourians know what the right thing is. We

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Speaker 1: I grew up in New Jersey and my introduction to

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Speaker 1: the United States Marine Corps was through the annual John

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Speaker 1: Barcelone parade that still goes on every year, the Great

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Speaker 1: killed in action leading men on Ewajima. And take me

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Speaker 1: if you would, Lucas too, the morning that you put

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Speaker 1: States Marine Corps. Tell me about that.

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Speaker 2: You know, I was stepping into the shoes of my heroes.

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Speaker 3: And so, you know, I talk about how people in

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Speaker 3: we went to the church, and when we were growing up,

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Speaker 3: but we tried to help whenever we could. And so

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Speaker 3: every couple of weeks we'd go, we'd volunteer, and all

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Speaker 3: of us kids would get chores. And so I know

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Speaker 3: you think it was this have to do the Marine Corps,

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Speaker 3: but it does one hundred percent and so and so

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Speaker 3: every time the guy who ran the parish suit kitchen

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Speaker 2: My little my sister and I would be like, oh, oh,

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Speaker 2: we want to do the dishes. We want to do

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Speaker 2: the dishes. And this guy is like, he's wrong with

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Speaker 2: these kids, Like, who wants to do the dishes? That's crazy.

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Speaker 3: But what he finally figured out is that the reason

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Speaker 3: we thought we were scamming this man, right, like because

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Speaker 3: the parish had dishwashers and back home, man, we didn't

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Speaker 3: have dishwasher. Doing the dishes was like, you know, forty

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Speaker 2: Dishwasher walk away, laughing at the guy.

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Speaker 3: And and so he figures that out, and two years later,

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Speaker 1: And character, uh, decency, gentleness, I mean meanness, is not toughness, cynicism,

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Speaker 3: just looking at me, looming over that big black Cadillac,

438
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Speaker 3: and he looks, he looks at me. He looks up

439
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 3: at the house and he looks back at me, and

440
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Speaker 3: he says, Son, I just want you to know how

441
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Speaker 3: proud I am that you came over and worked on

442
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Speaker 3: this project with Jennifer.

443
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 2: I'm so proud you're her friend. We'd be proud to

444
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Speaker 2: come over to your house anytime. You're a great kid,

445
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Speaker 2: and you're gonna make it. And he just got back

446
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 2: in his car and drove off, you know, He could

447
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,440
Speaker 2: have been annoyed with me, he could have said something mean,

448
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,439
Speaker 2: he could have ignored me, but instead he took a

449
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 2: moment to let me know that I'm mattered again. When

450
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 2: nobody's looking. He's never going to get any credit for this, right,

451
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 2: it means nothing. It's something he didn't have have to do.

452
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 2: But you know, for a kid on the other side

453
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Speaker 2: of town, he took that moment to let me know

454
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Speaker 2: I could be proud of who I was.

455
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 3: I could be proud of who of where I come from. Right,

456
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 3: I can be proud of my family because we're good people.

457
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 3: And it was just it was an incredible moment for me.

458
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 3: And probably the only real sad part out of that

459
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Speaker 3: for me is, you know, I studied hard in school

460
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Speaker 3: after after after that, I got all a's, I was

461
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 3: all state athlete. I got into Yale University. I got

462
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 3: to go on a pel grant, which you know, if

463
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 3: you don't have enough money, they help you out. And

464
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 3: and I wanted to say thank you when I went

465
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Speaker 3: back to try.

466
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 2: To find him, and he'd actually passed away.

467
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Speaker 3: And so you know, the one thing, the other thing

468
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Speaker 3: I learned from that is you got to say thanks

469
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Speaker 3: to the people who mean something to you, even if

470
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Speaker 3: they don't know.

471
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Speaker 2: But like, that's what it means to be a man

472
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 2: to me.

473
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Speaker 1: Wow, what a story, How a little choked up?

474
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Speaker 2: Honestly, I hope I didn't ramble for too long.

475
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Speaker 3: No, but we've got heroes like that all around our country.

476
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 3: And that's not who people are hearing from, right, They're

477
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 3: hearing from the media, bully, the attention hogs like Josh Holly.

478
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 3: That's not who we are. That's not who Missourians are.

479
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, Missourians are fed up with it.

480
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 3: It's why he's the least popular person up for reelection.

481
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 3: It's why we're gonna win this campaign. He doesn't understand us.

482
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 3: He doesn't know how we grow up. He doesn't understand

483
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 3: the things we do.

484
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Speaker 2: For each other.

485
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Speaker 1: I think about that story and I hear it, and

486
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: I think he's looking down on you. And he's gonna

487
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Speaker 1: get to CoA be a United States senator.

488
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Speaker 2: He sure is.

489
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Speaker 1: The world's a mess right now. How worried are you

490
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Speaker 1: when you look at the Middle East and the possibility

491
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Speaker 1: of escalation that seems like is starting to spiral.

492
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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I'm worried about a lot of things national

493
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Speaker 3: security wise.

494
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Speaker 2: You know, I was a marine for thirteen years.

495
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 3: I've obviously deployed the Middle East, Iraq, where I let

496
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Speaker 3: a police training team. You know, I've run convoys up

497
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 3: and down roads all over Iraq, Faluja of Habana, Ramadi

498
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 3: just Dodge and I d's and my responsibility was to

499
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Speaker 3: bring my police training team home twelve Marines and a

500
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Speaker 3: Navy corman.

501
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Speaker 2: And I'm glad I did that.

502
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Speaker 3: And I hate to see that that we have more conflict,

503
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 3: for more people are going to have to go through that.

504
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 3: Imployed Afghanistan twice. I actually learned in Pashto the language

505
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Speaker 3: of southern Afghanistan. I had spoken to Taliban face to face,

506
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 3: and and it's it's a really hairy situation. And so

507
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Speaker 3: you know, I just hope that the lessons we learned

508
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 3: in Iraq and Afghanistan, which that we had a lot

509
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 3: of failure there, right I hope that those lessons are

510
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 3: learned and they get taken into what's going on in

511
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Speaker 3: Israel and Palestine right now so they can come to

512
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Speaker 3: a good resolution. You know, There's there's also obviously Ukraine, Russia,

513
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Speaker 3: and this is another one I was deeply involved in

514
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Speaker 3: when I was a marine. My last duty station was

515
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Speaker 3: at the Pentagon. I was on the Joint Staff and

516
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Speaker 3: I was actually representing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

517
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Speaker 3: of Staff on international arms control negotiations in uh in Europe.

518
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Speaker 3: So it was on this very conflict, right, And I

519
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 3: think the thing that I found the most frustrating during

520
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 3: that time was that I would.

521
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: Go over our NATO allies again and again.

522
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Speaker 3: My job was trying to get them on board with

523
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 3: US positions, and I tried to take get them to

524
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,199
Speaker 3: take a hard position on Russia. And like, remember this

525
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 3: is after Russia had invaded Crimea, Doan Boston twenty fourteen.

526
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 3: It was after they'd invaded Georgia in two thousand and eight,

527
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 3: and here we are twenty sixteen, seventeen eighteen. I'm going

528
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Speaker 3: to our NATO allies. I'm like, look, man, these guys

529
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 3: are bad. We have intelligence that shows them building up

530
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 3: their military modernization is for a purpose, and we need

531
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Speaker 3: you to take a hard position on it. And oftentimes

532
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 3: our allies wouldn't do that. And the reason they wouldn't

533
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 3: do it is because they were addicted to that cheap

534
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 3: Russian gas, like they were buying all this gas from Russia.

535
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 3: They were actually fueling Russia's military modernization. And many of

536
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Speaker 3: us saw it as a problem that could have been

537
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 3: solved that the US was supplying the energy instead, but

538
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 3: it wasn't. And I can get that in a second.

539
00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 3: But now we have a conflict there. And I was

540
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 3: going to say. The other thing that was I found

541
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 3: very frustrating was they would be like, oh, yeah, that

542
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 3: is a scary situation, right like we Yeah, Russia is

543
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 3: modernizing their military. Could you the United States send more

544
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Speaker 3: troops and equipment over to protect us from that threat, And.

545
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 2: And we did it.

546
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 3: We did it under all the presidents and and so

547
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 3: for me, like what I wish we would really do

548
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 3: is we would look at a long term, long term

549
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 3: horizon to some of these issues. And so, you know,

550
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 3: with Europe, if we'd spend a lot of money many

551
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 3: years ago investing in the next generation of energy and

552
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 3: producing that here in places like Missouri, we'd have a

553
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 3: bunch of good jobs here in Missouri.

554
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Speaker 2: We would control the energy of the world.

555
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 3: Russia wouldn't have been able to modernize their military, and

556
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 3: things would have been you know, we would have been

557
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 3: in a stronger position where that Ukraine Russia war wouldn't

558
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 3: have ever happened. And my biggest worry when I see

559
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 3: the world right now is, you know, countries like Europe,

560
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 3: European countries, you know now they're like, oh, oops, maybe

561
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 3: that was a bad idea to buy all that Russian gas,

562
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 3: and they're looking to other places for their energy. But

563
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 3: because the United States hasn't invested in that next generation

564
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 3: of energy, they're looking over to China for it, right

565
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 3: They're not looking to us.

566
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Speaker 2: And so I'm.

567
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 3: Worried that a lot of the conflict that we have

568
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 3: in the world is based on energy needs.

569
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 2: It really is.

570
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 3: You know, we chased it in Iraq, we've seen in Russia, Ukraine.

571
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 3: To World War two is basically Japan trying to get

572
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 3: energy resources in the Pacific. And so like what I'm

573
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 3: worried about is that we always like try to fix

574
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 3: things after the fact with conflict, and what we really

575
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 3: should be doing here is being so strong economically and

576
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 3: on the energy front that everybody needs us for their

577
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,239
Speaker 3: energy so they don't go anywhere else. And so, you know,

578
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 3: because my biggest fear is that we end up replacing

579
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Speaker 3: like Russia and the Saudis is suppliers of energy for

580
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Speaker 3: a lot of companies, for a lot of countries with China,

581
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Speaker 3: and that's not going to be good for the United States.

582
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Speaker 2: We're going to end up in a war over Taiwan.

583
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 3: At some point possibly and like I'm telling you right now,

584
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 3: like if anybody thinks Ukraine and Iraq and Afghanistan were

585
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 3: expensive and costly, like that's going to be a thousand

586
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 3: times worse.

587
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 2: And uh.

588
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 3: And I really I'm very sad that we have hawks

589
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 3: like Josh Holly who keep wanting to go to war

590
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 3: over places like Taiwan, but don't want and don't want

591
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 3: to invest in.

592
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: Sort of the resources of the future.

593
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 3: They're gonna keep us out of those wars and keep

594
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Speaker 3: us in a stronger position internationally.

595
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Speaker 1: Twenty years ago, when I was a Catholic Republican living

596
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Speaker 1: in Washington, I never anticipated that I would become a

597
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: Jewish Democrat living in Utah. But I have.

598
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Speaker 4: I have proved when I go on to college campuses.

599
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 4: Right when I go on college campuses and I talk

600
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 4: to the kids and they got the notebooks out and

601
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 4: they go in, You're what did you do six months

602
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 4: after college? I always say them, Yet you have you

603
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 4: have no idea, right, what's gonna happen in life? Right,

604
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 4: Like you know you're gonna meet someone one day that's

605
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 4: the person you're gonna marry.

606
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: You're gonna you're gonna go off in this direction. But uh,

607
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: during during my time in the in the White House,

608
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Speaker 1: I went to Auschwitz in the American delegation went with

609
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Speaker 1: Liz Cheney was there too for the sixtieth anniversary of

610
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: the liberation and l. E. Vizl was on that trip.

611
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Speaker 1: Another great Democratic member of Congress who I'm sure you

612
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Speaker 1: will remember is Tom Lantos from California. He was a

613
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Speaker 1: Holocaust survivor. He was a Hungarian by birth. I had

614
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Speaker 1: this white hair, and he just was this dignified, powerful

615
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: kind of speaker to human rights issues in the in

616
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Speaker 1: the Congress, right, growing growing up. Without question, Uh, the

617
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Speaker 1: trip was a defining one in my life. It's a

618
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: place that if you visit it, I've been to a

619
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Speaker 1: lot of the camps. Uh, you don't forget it. A

620
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: couple of years back, there's a May two years Ken

621
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: Burns documentary America and the Holocaust that tells the story

622
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Speaker 1: of this country. It really clarifies, right, how what happened. Happened,

623
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Speaker 1: It really happened on a basis of over twelve years.

624
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Speaker 1: The Holocaust was planned in Berlin at a lunch meeting

625
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Speaker 1: in January of nineteen forty two, in a leafy suburb

626
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Speaker 1: called Wance, at a meeting presided over by ryin Hard

627
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: Heidrich and Adolph Eichman, and they planned the elimination of

628
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Speaker 1: Europe's Jews, the murder of them. And they did it

629
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Speaker 1: at a high water mark in the war when they

630
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Speaker 1: were winning. And they took notes and then notes at

631
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Speaker 1: that meeting survive and incriminate the Nazi regime as the

632
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: murderers of six million Jews premeditatively. You watch all of

633
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: these things and in months, Cory FBI director, you have

634
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: an any Semitism crisis in the United States that he's

635
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: describing as historic.

636
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Speaker 2: What's happening?

637
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think what you saw in Germany

638
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 3: was some very bad people took a lot big They

639
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 3: took advantage of some real economic hardship that people were

640
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 3: going through, and then they were able to do terrible.

641
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 2: Things through that.

642
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 3: And you know, people will grift off of economic hardship

643
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 3: for their own power and for very bad causes and

644
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 3: so you know, my mission is to win, is.

645
00:32:58,480 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 2: To win this election. Right.

646
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 3: We can not have frauds who don't care about us

647
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 3: running our government. We can't have people who are full

648
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,239
Speaker 3: of hate running our government. You know, I don't know,

649
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 3: people may remember this. Josh Holly was the only person

650
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 3: to vote against the anti Asian hate bill, which is

651
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 3: quite the curiosity, right, And so for me again, you know,

652
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 3: it goes back to just the things that I learned

653
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 3: from people growing up in my neighborhood, and that's that

654
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 3: you got to do what's right.

655
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Speaker 2: You got to do what's.

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Speaker 3: Right, even if it costs you. Some fights may look

657
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Speaker 3: like they're hard and going to be difficult to win,

658
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Speaker 3: but it's worth it to fight it, not just for

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Speaker 3: your dignity, but for everyone else.

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Speaker 2: And you know it, this is it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we're on the front lines in a really

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Speaker 3: interesting fight for democracy out here in Missouri, and I'm

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Speaker 3: proud to be on that front line for everybody.

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Speaker 1: You know, Well, what do you want to say to

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Speaker 1: Jews in Missouri right now? Who are afraid?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're You're as much a part of this

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Speaker 3: country as anyone. Right, We're coming together. I'm going to

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Speaker 3: make sure that you're safe. We're standing behind Israel, you

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Speaker 3: know Israel. Israelis have the right to defend themselves. And

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Speaker 3: you know we're all going to get through this together.

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Speaker 1: What do you want to say to Arab Americans in

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Speaker 1: the country.

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Speaker 3: You're just a much a part of this country as

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Speaker 3: everybody else. You know, we're going to get through this together.

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Speaker 3: We got to work together, we got to come up

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Speaker 3: with a plan, and you know it's the same thing.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna take care of each other.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think it's so hard for someone like

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Speaker 1: Josh Holly to say that?

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Speaker 3: Look, man, I can't get into that guy's head, all right,

681
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Speaker 3: you know, And it's not just that he's a spoiled

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Speaker 3: rich kid, right like I think you could be a

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Speaker 3: decent US senator as you know, a banker's son, which

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Speaker 3: he is, right, But you got to have the courage

685
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Speaker 3: to learn, right, you gotta have the courage to learn

686
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Speaker 3: about all of us.

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Speaker 2: You've got to have the courage to learn.

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Speaker 3: About everybody, how we all live in what will make

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Speaker 3: our lives better. But he doesn't care about that, right,

690
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Speaker 3: He doesn't care about representing us. He just cares about

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Speaker 3: ruling us. It's not about representing. It's about ruling. And

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Speaker 3: uh and frankly, like I don't care to get in

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Speaker 3: the guy's head.

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Speaker 2: I want to beat him.

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Speaker 3: I want to win this like it is a cumbent

696
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Speaker 3: upon all of us to win these elections. And I'm

697
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm asking your viewers to invest in this race.

698
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Speaker 3: I mean, we have got the least popular US senator

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Speaker 3: in the entire country.

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Speaker 2: The polling is tight.

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Speaker 3: We're out raising him because most people have decided to

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Speaker 3: abandon him, as they very well should. And we got

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Speaker 3: to win one for the good and good guys. This

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Speaker 3: is the front line in the fight for democracy in

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Speaker 3: our country. Right, this is critical for our future, for

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Speaker 3: everybody's future. And uh, and you know again like I

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Speaker 3: don't care to get in the guy's head. I just

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Speaker 3: care to beat him and then none have to think

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Speaker 3: about him again. Wouldn't that be a beautiful thing?

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Speaker 1: It would be great. Tell us how to donate to

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Speaker 1: your campaign, and then I want to ask you a

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Speaker 1: question about two great Missourians.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, you can go to Lucas Koontz dot com.

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Speaker 3: It's l U c A s k U n CE

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Speaker 3: dot com.

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Speaker 2: You can do it there.

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Speaker 3: We got an blue page you know, I've been endorsed

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Speaker 3: by the League of Conservation Voters.

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Speaker 2: We got a page there. They got We're on the

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Speaker 2: j Street page. You know, We're on a lot of pages,

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Speaker 2: so there.

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Speaker 3: Are lots of ways to find us. You can just

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Speaker 3: google my name and donate. I'd appreciate if people followed

724
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Speaker 3: us on Twitter and Instagram, you know, shared what we're

725
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 3: doing here because it's a very grassroots campaign. You know,

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Speaker 3: we've ranged an amazing amount of money, record breaking in Missouri.

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Speaker 3: Our average donation that was like thirty one dollars, which

728
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Speaker 3: is also pretty incredible, and it's because we're building a

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Speaker 3: grassroots movement. We've got donations from every county in Missouri.

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Speaker 3: We have people really excited because they're seeing somebody that

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Speaker 3: they can believe in again, someone who grew up like

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Speaker 3: most Missourians, and someone who wants to invest in our

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Speaker 3: state again. So, you know, the more people we can

734
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Speaker 3: get on that train, the better. You know, share us

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Speaker 3: on social media and if you've got friends or family

736
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Speaker 3: in Missouri, tell them about this, Tell me you heard

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Speaker 3: about me to date, Tell them to look us up

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Speaker 3: and lobby that support for us.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about a great Missourian, a

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Speaker 1: Republican named Jack dan Forth, a man of principal and character.

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Speaker 2: Why do you talk about.

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Speaker 1: Him a little bit? Because though you disagree with him

743
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Speaker 1: on some issues, no doubt, as as do as do I,

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Speaker 1: he was a man of character when he served in

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Speaker 1: the United States Senate.

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Speaker 3: So I my family after a little while, became episcopalion

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Speaker 3: and our minister Harve actually knew Jack dan Forth pretty

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Speaker 3: well since Jack dan Forth was an episcopealion minister too.

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Speaker 3: And and when I got into Yale and I got

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Speaker 3: to go on that pel grant and some scholarships people

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Speaker 3: gave me around town, he reached out to Jack dan Forth,

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Speaker 3: who by the way, was like one of my mom's

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Speaker 3: favorites growing up, and and asked him if he'd meet

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Speaker 3: with me, and he said yes, And so we actually

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Speaker 3: drove up to Saint Louis and I met with him,

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Speaker 3: and he told me some stories about where I was headed,

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Speaker 3: because you know, I didn't really know anything, and and

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Speaker 3: and was really nice to me and a great guy.

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Speaker 3: And so you know, I respect him for that. And

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Speaker 3: that's that's my know about him personally. And you know,

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Speaker 3: people have always said very nice things about it. I

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Speaker 3: think it's unfortunate that he got tied up with Josh Holly.

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Speaker 3: You know, he supported him the first time around pretty heavily.

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Speaker 3: And but you know what, Josh Holly's a col man

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Speaker 3: and and sometimes.

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Speaker 2: He gets people.

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's not the first time Josh Holly

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Speaker 3: gotten somebody before, and so I think it's you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm glad to see that. Jack dan Forth has since

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Speaker 3: said that Josh Holly's the worst mistake he's ever made.

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Speaker 3: And uh, and I hope he'll, you know, put his

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Speaker 3: money where his mouth is and and continue to try

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Speaker 3: to help all of us who are doing everything we

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Speaker 3: can to undo that mistake.

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Speaker 1: It's quite an incredible thing for a Republican United States

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Speaker 1: senator and an Episcopal priest to survey his life and

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Speaker 1: say the worst mistake I ever made was Josh. Incredible.

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Speaker 1: He's probably right right, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Last

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Speaker 1: person I wanted to talk to you about, who like you,

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Speaker 1: is playing, spoken, fierce and honorable was Harry Truman. The

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Speaker 1: Buck stops Here. Harry Truman was in the Speaker's Hideaway

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Speaker 1: playing cards on April twelfth, nineteen forty five, and got

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Speaker 1: a call saying you got to come back to the

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Speaker 1: White House right away. Harry Truman got back there as

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Speaker 1: quick as he could, walks in. He's received by Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Speaker 1: Eleanor Roosevelt says, Harry, the President is dead, and Harry

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Speaker 1: Truman says to her, Missus Roosevelt, is there anything I

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Speaker 1: can do for you? And she looks back at him.

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Speaker 1: It says no, mister President, is there anything I can

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Speaker 1: do for you? And he said, in that moment, he

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Speaker 1: felt like the moon, the stars, and the weight of

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Speaker 1: all the heavens landed on his shoulders. An ordinary man,

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Speaker 1: combat veteran of the First World War who served as county,

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Speaker 1: served as state, and ultimately became one of the nation's

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Speaker 1: great presidents with an ethos the buck stops here. So

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Speaker 1: we live in a time where no one's accountable for anything.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's pointing a finger at someone else. This plain spoken,

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Speaker 1: Missouri man, the lessons of his life for you are what?

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Speaker 1: And we'll leave as the last question before I ask

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Speaker 1: you to close out with anything you'd like to say.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, man, Harry Truman's one of the greats. I

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Speaker 3: actually I live in Independence, Missouri, home of Harry Truman.

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Speaker 3: I live right by the town square there and you

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Speaker 3: can see Harry Truman's house out my bathroom window well

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Speaker 3: in the winter time.

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Speaker 2: But I still think that counts. And you know, Truman

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Speaker 2: was one.

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Speaker 3: Of those guys who many times did the right thing

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Speaker 3: despite everyone telling.

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Speaker 2: Him not to.

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Speaker 3: And you know, one of the probably the greatest example

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Speaker 3: I can give is when he integrated the United States military.

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Speaker 2: He just did it.

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Speaker 3: Everybody told him, you're going to lose the South, You're

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Speaker 3: going to lose the presidency. He did it anyway everybody

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Speaker 3: predicted he was going to because it was the right

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Speaker 3: thing to do.

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Speaker 2: Everybody predicted he was going to lose the election in

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Speaker 2: nineteen forty eight.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's a famous picture of him holding up

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Speaker 3: the newspaper at the Elms Hotel in Missouri where in

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Speaker 3: Excelsor Springs that says, you know, Dewey defeats Truman. And

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Speaker 3: you know what, he worked the ground, He met as

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Speaker 3: many people as he could.

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Speaker 2: He did his whistle stop tour because for him, it

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Speaker 2: was everyday people.

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Speaker 3: That were important to him.

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Speaker 2: That's what we're doing in Missouri. It's how we running

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Speaker 2: our campaign.

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Speaker 3: We are going town to town, meeting as many people

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Speaker 3: as possible, because that's who matters to me. You know,

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Speaker 3: when I started this campaign, I said, the only people

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Speaker 3: I'm ever gonna oh are the people who took care

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Speaker 3: of me everyday, Missourians and you know, like the folks

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Speaker 3: who took care of my family when we were growing up.

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Speaker 3: And I can tell you right now, like I put

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Speaker 3: my money where I'm in my mouth is we take

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Speaker 3: no money from corporate packs, no money from federal lobbyists,

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Speaker 3: no money from fossil fuel executives, no money from big

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Speaker 3: farm executives, big ad. You know, we have a pretty

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Speaker 3: long list. And when we started this campaign, everybody, like

842
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 3: I was told that's impossible. You know, one person said

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Speaker 3: that's stupid, it's impossible to run.

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Speaker 2: A modern campaign that way.

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Speaker 3: But for me, I think it's impossible to represent the

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Speaker 3: people you're supposed to represent if you do take that money. So,

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Speaker 3: like Harry Truman, I decided to do it the right way.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna do the right thing, We're gonna do it anyway.

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Speaker 3: And you know, sometimes when you do the right thing,

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Speaker 3: people notice, right they know it is for Harry, and

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Speaker 3: he won and and for us.

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Speaker 2: We raised record money despite.

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Speaker 3: All of those restrictions we put on our campaign, and

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Speaker 3: and so for me, you know, it's it just goes

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Speaker 3: back to you know, I didn't say his name earlier,

856
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 3: but this guy, Larry, who was Jennifer's mom, who did

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00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 3: the right thing, was no one was looking to let

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Speaker 3: a kid know that, you know, he matters in this world.

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's people like the marine veteran who

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Speaker 3: ran our church kitchen, who took time out of his

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Speaker 3: day to give us a dishwasher two years after he

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Speaker 3: figured out we might need one. It's Harry Truman doing

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Speaker 3: the right thing despite the fact it's going to cost him.

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Speaker 2: That's what we do.

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Speaker 3: It's the way we take care of each other, and

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Speaker 3: and it's the way we get this country back on track.

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Speaker 1: I want to say one last thing, even though I

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Speaker 1: said I was going to let you say the last thing. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: everybody who watches this, I want to say something to you.

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Speaker 1: There's so many many people that write comment on these

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Speaker 1: sites and they are deeply worried, and they ask what

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Speaker 1: can they do. I'm going to tell you very directly

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Speaker 1: what you can do. It doesn't matter if it's five dollars,

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Speaker 1: ten dollars, twenty dollars or a couple thousand dollars. Every

875
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: dollar counts. Please, I implore you help fix our country.

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Speaker 1: Send this man to the United States Senate. Send him there,

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Speaker 1: help him communicate to the good people who live in Missouri,

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00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: to take out one of the worst, most dishonest, obnoxious,

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Speaker 1: spoiled people that has ever ever served. Becoming a United

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Speaker 1: States Senator, having the opportunity to serve your state under

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Speaker 1: the Capital Dome built by Lincoln's insistence, the greatest act

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Speaker 1: of optimism in American history during the height of Civil War.

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Speaker 1: Josh Holly is desecrated, desecrated his oath, broke his word,

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Speaker 1: He broke the covenant between the American revolution in a

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00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: million patriots who gave the last full measure of devotion

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Speaker 1: so that we may live in freedom.

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Speaker 2: He shattered it.

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Speaker 1: Get rid of them, because he is a national security threat.

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Speaker 1: He is as unworthy as a person could conceivably be

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Speaker 1: to sit in a position of political responsibility and power

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Speaker 1: in this country. And I want to be clear, you

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Speaker 1: get enough of those people together, they can wreck wreck

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Speaker 1: a society. We got to get rid of those people,

894
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 1: and we got to put people like this guy into

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00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: high political office in this country because he's on your side.

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Speaker 1: Do everything you can to talk about Lucas Koons, to

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00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: talk about his campaign, and to support his campaign. You

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00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 1: can do it from all over the country. This isn't

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Speaker 1: a fight just from HISI. This is a fight in

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Speaker 1: Missouri for America, and this man is on the American side.

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Speaker 1: That man is not Lucas Coon's for United States Senate.

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Speaker 1: Write him a check, make phone calls for him, go

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Speaker 1: to Missouri for a weekend and knock on doors for him.

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Speaker 1: Participate in our democracy and take our country back from

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Speaker 1: this madness. Lucas Konz, thanks for being here. Good luck

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Speaker 1: to you. Everybody fight hard for Lucas Coons, because he's

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Speaker 1: going to fight hard for you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Steve