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Speaker 1: So Hung actually called we. I think we grew up.

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Speaker 1: there and we we we do do our job and

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Speaker 1: leave like we we shouldn't be over there too long.

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Speaker 1: We should have left there, honestly, Again, hindsight, it's always

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Speaker 1: twenty right. We we should have left there after a

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Speaker 1: few years. I mean by two thousand and four, two

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Speaker 1: thousand five, it was pretty safe over there. Um and

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Speaker 1: and and if if something else was to come up,

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Speaker 1: and we go back in there and whack them and

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Speaker 1: leave again, that's how we should have been doing. Again.

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Speaker 1: I I was very junior in rank at the time,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not I'm not the person to to think

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Speaker 1: about it now. But now as a more senior officer,

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Speaker 1: I can go back and go, you know, we should

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Speaker 1: have got in there and and taking care of business

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Speaker 1: and just leave because our military is not there to

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Speaker 1: build nations, right. We we actually destroy nations. We were

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Speaker 1: better at that than we are building nations. And that's

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Speaker 1: a state department's job. And the state department failed in

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Speaker 1: their mission there and rely on the military to do

447
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Speaker 1: things like pomp it up governments and and training police forces.

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Speaker 1: That's not that's not what we do. We go in there,

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Speaker 1: we do our business, and we leave and we go

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Speaker 1: back in and keep people back in check if we

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Speaker 1: have to. Well, you know earlier you're talking about you know,

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Speaker 1: when your wife was pregnant and you were serving and

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Speaker 1: writing letters to your son. You didn't know if you're

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Speaker 1: going to meet him. UT's your father of five? Uh,

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Speaker 1: and you're also you know, a devout Christian. How does

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Speaker 1: your faith and being a father guide your decision making

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Speaker 1: and guide your decision to run? It's Uh, my faith

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Speaker 1: is everything I do. Um, Everything I do is based

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Speaker 1: on my faith and my my vision. But the lens

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Speaker 1: which I use will always be the Christian lens. How

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Speaker 1: I grew up in the Buddhist family in a Muslim

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Speaker 1: country right West Africa was called Muslim, So I mean

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Speaker 1: I became a Christian and that's the lens with it

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Speaker 1: which I see the world. And so I think one

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Speaker 1: of the things I told my church when when I

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Speaker 1: was when I won the primary, was you know when

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Speaker 1: I was a kid, I I was you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: a big martial artist. Um. And so I've been doing

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Speaker 1: for my entire life ever since I was eight years old,

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Speaker 1: and so um kids would say, hey, I'll fight you,

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Speaker 1: but you can't use you karate on me. Right, I

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Speaker 1: can't turn that off, but it's not a switch. I

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Speaker 1: can turn it all, okay, don't use you know, anti

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Speaker 1: karate or karate you know. So likewise, I can't look

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Speaker 1: at the view that well, what I'm supposed to do

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Speaker 1: in my everyday life without looking through the Christian lines

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Speaker 1: like what what's god purpose in this? And how can

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Speaker 1: I glorify God? And that's where that's what God's everything

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Speaker 1: that I do well? And also a father of five, right,

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Speaker 1: yes man, yes, yeah, we we that's a job I know,

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Speaker 1: and my wife home schools and god hustle are But

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Speaker 1: my oldest is uh at the Navel Academy right now.

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Speaker 1: He's uh just finished up PLEEP summer. And then my

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Speaker 1: my daughter's uh sixteen, almost seventeen, and then uh then

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Speaker 1: we have twin ten year olds, and then and then

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Speaker 1: this uh, this kid from O where this four year old.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how it happened. Why did you guys

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Speaker 1: decide to homeschool? The the education systems? Again, we were

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Speaker 1: we were looking at on one hand, we were moving

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Speaker 1: so much to military's movements every eighteen months, and so

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Speaker 1: my kids having say goodbye to friends and starting new schools,

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Speaker 1: learning a new uh you know, with a new teacher

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Speaker 1: every day was hard. But we we started seeing the

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Speaker 1: inklings of the critical race theory being uh sifted into

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Speaker 1: the school systems, and my wife had a you know again,

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Speaker 1: she prayed about it and she's like, hey, listen, I'm

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Speaker 1: not comfortable what's being taught here, you know, uh, the

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Speaker 1: the hatred and um, just the divisiveness that's being taught

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Speaker 1: in school. She she just couldn't stand for it and say, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we prayed about it, and that's what we've

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Speaker 1: been doing. And our kids, you know think, thanks to her,

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Speaker 1: are brilliant. We are very very smart. They're very good

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Speaker 1: critical thinkers. And that's what we we stuck with because

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Speaker 1: we wanted them to be in in a We wanted

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Speaker 1: them to learn to think on their own and question

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Speaker 1: things right, not not question parent or authority, but the question, okay,

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Speaker 1: why why did this? You know? What? What? Um? You know,

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Speaker 1: where did the dinosaurs go? What happened to this? What?

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Speaker 1: You know? Um? What what? Why? Why is it? Nine

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Speaker 1: point eight one per second square you know, those are

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Speaker 1: things we want them to ask, uh, And so that's

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Speaker 1: why we wanted them to to expand their minds and

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Speaker 1: also just too to each kid is different, right, there's

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Speaker 1: no one size fits all, and so we fashion each

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Speaker 1: each curriculum based on on the child and what their

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Speaker 1: strong the strengths are and and really shore up where

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Speaker 1: they're they're weak. That makes sense. I also I feel

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Speaker 1: like sort of the lack of critical thinking, the lack

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Speaker 1: of questioning, and there's a lack of common sense these days,

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Speaker 1: it seems, and I think sort of the powers that be,

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Speaker 1: whether it's big tech or you know, government or whatever,

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Speaker 1: really tries to go in and you know, squash any

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Speaker 1: of that questioning, you know. I mean we saw that

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Speaker 1: during COVID when accounts that were simply raising questions about

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Speaker 1: COVID and the efficacy of lockdowns or vaccines were stifled

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Speaker 1: and censored and shut down. And there seems to be

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Speaker 1: a real desire to just stop free speech and to

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Speaker 1: end the ability to question broader narratives. Yes, I mean

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Speaker 1: that's the most anti American thing I've ever heard of, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean that it's it's our it's in our DNA

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Speaker 1: as Americans to question everything, to say why wait, why

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Speaker 1: why do I have to do that? That's that's the

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Speaker 1: American way. Like you know, um, we want to look

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Speaker 1: for more efficient, better, faster, uh, you know, smarter. We

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Speaker 1: we want you know, don't just tell me this is done,

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Speaker 1: because it's how it's always been done. We always question

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Speaker 1: everything as Americans. That's why we have that ingenuity within us.

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Speaker 1: That's how we have that that American spirit. What I

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Speaker 1: love calling it the American spirit because it really is.

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Speaker 1: You know, um, if that ingenuity and that can do attitude. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: the command the former commanding Officer USS Samuell BE Roberts

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Speaker 1: passed away. Samuel B. Roberts hid in mind the UH

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Speaker 1: during the Iran Iran Iraq war, and it um broke

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Speaker 1: the keel. The keel is the backbone in the ship

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Speaker 1: and an all aspects, that ship should have broken in

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Speaker 1: half and sunk. But the men on board that ship

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Speaker 1: welded that ship together and tied it together and held it,

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Speaker 1: stitched it together with cables and held that ship from

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Speaker 1: from falling apart. You know, that's the American spirit, the

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Speaker 1: same American spirit that raised up every single ship in

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Speaker 1: in Pearl harbor with the exception in Utah and Arizona,

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Speaker 1: and refitted for war to chase the same Japanese fleet

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Speaker 1: that sang them because we said, why why do we

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Speaker 1: have to give up? No, We're gonna go back out

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Speaker 1: and get him. The same American spirit that took the

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Speaker 1: rebels from the World Trade Center and forged the metal

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Speaker 1: into the U. S s. New York. You know the

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Speaker 1: a you know, a warship, those are that's the American spirit.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, the one same ones that says, you know, why,

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Speaker 1: why why are we limited to just being on the ground?

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Speaker 1: And and the Wright brothers created the airplane and then

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Speaker 1: we put a man in the moon. That's that's what

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Speaker 1: we need to push in our country, is the the

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Speaker 1: the ability to ask why why are we limited to this?

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Speaker 1: And why what's you know, why can't we we innovate

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Speaker 1: and do things better? And and before we go, I

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Speaker 1: know you're running for Congress and Virginia, so you've got

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Speaker 1: a tight schedule. I I remember those days being on

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Speaker 1: the campaign for I used to work in politics for

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Speaker 1: quite some time. Is there anything else you want to

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Speaker 1: leave us with before you go? Like I said, this

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Speaker 1: is the greatest country in the world, and I would

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Speaker 1: I was what, you know, this is something worth fighting

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Speaker 1: and dying for. And that's why I fought for it

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Speaker 1: that you said, I'm fother five because I could not

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Speaker 1: allow my kids to grow up in a country where

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Speaker 1: you know, freedom isn't you know freedom and it isn't

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Speaker 1: readily available for everybody that that you know, free speech

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Speaker 1: is curtailed. I couldn't let them live live in a

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Speaker 1: world like that. And that's why you we fight. That's

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Speaker 1: why we fight, because I'd rather go overseas and fight

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Speaker 1: and maybe die that then allow my kids to live

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Speaker 1: in in in a world where they have to you know,

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Speaker 1: look over their shoulders or people you know, censoring what

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Speaker 1: they say or think or do and limit them. And

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Speaker 1: so this is I'm telling you right now, the time

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Speaker 1: to fight is now. It's we always think every year old,

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Speaker 1: this is the most critical fight ever. But when you

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Speaker 1: have a government that's willing to to to put seven

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Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars worth of debt onto our children and

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Speaker 1: our children's children, and and and do things like critical

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Speaker 1: race theory, or or say that a boy is a

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Speaker 1: girl and a boy girls a boy. I mean, these

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Speaker 1: are things that we need to be able to fight

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Speaker 1: for fight for our kids, and fight for our country.

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Speaker 1: I agree, at the time is now. Um, I don't

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Speaker 1: think we get another shot at this, So the time

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Speaker 1: is now. And then where can people go learn more

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Speaker 1: about you and to donate? Oh thank you for that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's a hunkalf for Congress dot com. So h U

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Speaker 1: n G c ao fo r Congress dot com. And

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Speaker 1: that's where you can find everything about me. Everything you

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Speaker 1: need to know is right there where I stand on things.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I hope that again, I hope we

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Speaker 1: reinvigorate the trust in the spirit of America and let's

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Speaker 1: get our country back because this is not what I

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Speaker 1: fought for. And I know a lot of veterans school

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Speaker 1: the same way too. But I appreciate your voice, and

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Speaker 1: I certainly hope you win. Hong Ko running for Congress

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Speaker 1: Virginia's tenth congressional district. Go check them out. Hung I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your time and your fight and praying that

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Speaker 1: you win and and that smooth sailing for the campaign.

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Speaker 1: So thanks so much for joining the show. Thank you, Lisa.

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Speaker 1: I hope you guys enjoyed that interview with Ung Kaoo.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what an impressive background the guy has, so

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Speaker 1: I sincerely hope he wins his race for Virginia's tenth

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Speaker 1: congressional district. If you enjoy today's show, please leave us

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