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Speaker 1: Another issue dealing with a judicial nominee, both obviously important issues. Now,

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Speaker 2: Well, and I expect them to be stupid.

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Speaker 1: But I do expect Republicans and Conservatives to be at

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Speaker 1: Democrats are trying to spend fifty trillion dollars, not billion,

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Speaker 2: Take a listen to what then ensued.

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Speaker 3: What is what is carbon dioxide?

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Speaker 4: I'm I went to high school, but that's uh. Carbon

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Speaker 1: This is a guy who you're supposed to be Congress

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Speaker 1: Mister Gus, an American cross country skier and Olympian. He says, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on carbon dioxide. The dim witness

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Speaker 6: Right, So what is it you want us to do?

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Speaker 4: I'm here as an expert cross country skier who sees

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Speaker 6: Well, you say we need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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Speaker 5: I don't have an answer for that.

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Speaker 5: I don't know anyway.

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Speaker 6: Well, when my colleagues invite witnesses to come to us

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Speaker 6: mister Schumacher, and I want to be sure I understand

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Speaker 6: it as I valuate your testimony. On June eighth, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 3: Who were you talking?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm here as an athlete

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Speaker 6: On August twenty seventh of twenty twenty, you tweeted this quote.

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Speaker 3: And that's what this is.

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Speaker 6: Abolish the police in favor of that new service.

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Speaker 5: Again? Not the topic I'm here to talk about today.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we need more people that are elected office to

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Speaker 2: We just spend fifty trillion dollars to get rid of

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Speaker 2: Senator Kennedy. By the way, wasn't done asking tough questions.

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Speaker 1: He obviously decimated this kid, this young adult, whatever you

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Speaker 1: we had to spend fifty trillion dollars to get carbon

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: Granted, spending fifty trillion dollars is a big deal, but

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Speaker 1: by the name of she is a judge. Judge Nancy L.

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Speaker 1: Maldonado was in front of him. She is a Biden

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Speaker 2: Ask her some questions.

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Speaker 1: And the nominee struggled to define what an assault weapon was.

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Speaker 6: You said, quote, assault weapons may be banned because they're

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Speaker 8: Well, you're you're correct, Senator Kennedy. I would never sign

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Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely, and sitting here today, I do not remember

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Speaker 3: Promoted record.

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Speaker 2: Senator, I stand by my record.

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Speaker 3: I stand by my record.

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Speaker 2: Now, what is the definition of alarming?

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Speaker 1: More than one thousand drones per month are crossing into

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Speaker 2: And who is flying those drones?

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Speaker 1: How did it get to the point where it was

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Speaker 1: I'm genuinely curious, what like, how long has this been

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Speaker 1: And the other question is how many other senators knew this?

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Speaker 1: How many other people in our military knew this? That

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's one hundred members of the Senate.

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Speaker 1: Folks, How often am I talking about the one hundred

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Speaker 2: That's the problem.

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Speaker 1: I want you to hear Senator Button again, Freshman Senator

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Speaker 1: Are that are coming into American air space the southern border?

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Speaker 9: It's my understanding there's been a lot of drone incursions

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Speaker 3: How many drone incursions have we had?

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Speaker 5: And what are they doing?

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Speaker 9: Senator? The number of incursions was something that was alarming

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Speaker 1: Not only did you say he sees a threat only growing,

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Speaker 1: a second question for you, Who the hell's find these drones?

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Speaker 1: Do we have a way to shoot them down when

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Speaker 2: That would be a really fun spring break for me.

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Speaker 1: incurring per month crossing into US airspace near the Mexican border.

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Speaker 1: They're obviously up to no good. Are we even trying

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Speaker 1: to stop them? Is there an initiative to them? He said, Look,

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Speaker 1: I see the potential threat only growing.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: This is what I do know, because after this came

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Speaker 1: out and top near artificials know that while the number

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Speaker 1: of incursions alarming, they haven't seen them manifest in a

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Speaker 1: threat to the level of national defense. Okay, well, what

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Speaker 1: does a drone look like if it's being used a

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Speaker 1: threat to the national defense?

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Speaker 2: It would have I'm assuming, like armory on it, like

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Speaker 2: bombs on it.

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Speaker 1: We've seen these drones have been used for attacks, for

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Speaker 1: example right now between UK or Ukraine, I should say

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Speaker 1: in Russia. We've seen these be used in the Middle

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Speaker 1: East to attack American soldiers.

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Speaker 2: So it only takes one moment for this to change.

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Speaker 1: Now, what we think the majority of these drones, after

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Speaker 1: asking other experts, is is this Mexican cartels are using

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Speaker 1: the drones to track the locations of American authorities along

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Speaker 1: the US Mexico border in order to quote more easily

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Speaker 1: smuggle humans and draw uggs across the southern border, according

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Speaker 1: to US.

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Speaker 2: Customs and Border Protection officials.

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Speaker 1: The Rio Grand Valley Sector chief told the House Oversight

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Speaker 1: Committee in February of twenty twenty three, so this is

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Speaker 1: last year, over a year ago, that in her Texas

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Speaker 1: sector alone, more than ten thousand drone incursions and more

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Speaker 1: than twenty five thousand drone sightings had been reported in

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Speaker 1: the last year just in her sector. The adversaries have

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Speaker 1: seventeen times the number of drones, twice the amount of

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Speaker 1: flight hours, and unlimited funding to grow their operations, is

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Speaker 1: what was said by the Rio Grand Valley Sector chief.

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Speaker 1: So to be clear, the sector chief and again none

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Speaker 1: of us have heard about this until today, told Congress

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Speaker 1: that the drug cartels in absence have a seventeen x

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Speaker 1: at vantage on r safety and.

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Speaker 2: Security measures at the Southern border.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to drones, the adversaries have seventeen times

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Speaker 1: the number of drones that we the American government have,

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Speaker 1: they have twice the amount of flight hours that we have,

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Speaker 1: and they have an unlimited funding to grow their operations.

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Speaker 1: So what she's really warning us that we again, this

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Speaker 1: is a year ago, they warned us about this, but

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Speaker 1: none of US heard about it because no one is

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Speaker 1: asking the right questions. What we're really finding out is

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Speaker 1: that the cartels have an air force, and their air

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Speaker 1: force is massive. Their air force is well trained and organized.

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Speaker 1: It's not human beings up in airplanes. It's drones everywhere.

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Speaker 1: In January of twenty twenty three, we have found out

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Speaker 1: for the first time today this is over a year ago,

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Speaker 1: authorities discovered drone footage of border patrol agents allegedly shot

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Speaker 1: by human smugglers during a raid that was believed to

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Speaker 1: be a safe house used to hide migrants illegally crossing

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Speaker 1: the US Mexico boundary.

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Speaker 2: Quote.

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Speaker 1: Human smugglers use it using drones to survey the border

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Speaker 1: patrol is a growing trend that we've observed along the border.

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Speaker 1: Is with the San Diego sector, chief agent said in

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Speaker 1: a statement, quote, this technology provides transnational criminal organization, so transnational,

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Speaker 1: So this could be starting in China, veetnel coming over,

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Speaker 1: then it gets to Mexico, then it's coming over again.

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Speaker 1: Or it could be terrorist organizations like CAMAS or has Bob.

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Speaker 1: We don't know who's flying all these drones. We know

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of cartel members, but it's a transnational

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Speaker 1: criminal organization with new capabilities that are eager to exploit

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Speaker 1: American weaknesses. So I think it's fair to say the

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Speaker 1: drug cartels and those that are bringing in the number

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Speaker 1: one killer of people in this country and the number

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Speaker 1: one killer. We all know what the number one killer

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Speaker 1: is of people forty nine and under the number one

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Speaker 1: killer of people forty nine and under in this country

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Speaker 1: is FETNYL. And the people that are bringing in have

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Speaker 1: an air force, okay, have an air force to bring

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Speaker 1: it in that is seventeen times.

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Speaker 2: The size of our US militaries.

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Speaker 1: And Border Protections air force when it comes to drones

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Speaker 1: and surveillance at the southern border.

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Speaker 2: We found all this out today because one senator asked

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Speaker 2: the right questions.

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Speaker 1: We found out that the people that are the experts

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Speaker 1: on global warming actually aren't experts.

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Speaker 2: Because of another senator who asked the right questions, we.

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Speaker 1: Found out that these experts want to spend fifty trillion

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Speaker 1: dollars and don't even know what it would actually do

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Speaker 1: to the environment if they got what they wanted. We

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Speaker 1: found out from Senator Kennedy that there's a judicial nominee

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Speaker 1: who couldn't define what an assault weapon was except she

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Speaker 1: told a court that she was an expert on assault

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Speaker 1: weapons and that we should ban set assault weapons. And

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Speaker 1: this is someone who is actually right now, right now

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Speaker 1: in America, a judge looking for a promotion to an

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Speaker 1: even bigger post as a judge this November.

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Speaker 2: I say this as sincerely as I can.

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Speaker 1: We better start looking at candidates, not just to get

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Speaker 1: a warm body or a quote conservative to DC and

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Speaker 1: then we think, all right, we did our job. We

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Speaker 1: need to start asking the right questions, and we need

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Speaker 1: to start finding, most importantly, the right people to run

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Speaker 1: for office who will go to office and will actually

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Speaker 1: fight and ask the questions that I just described today.

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Speaker 1: If we don't, we're going to continue to screw up

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