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Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.

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Speaker 2: So Michael Verie Show is on the air.

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Speaker 3: The US is the first time in the history of

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Speaker 3: the world where a government.

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Speaker 2: Was organized with a constitution.

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Speaker 3: Laying out the rules that the individual was supreme dominant,

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Speaker 3: and that is what led to the US becoming the

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Speaker 3: greatest country ever because it unleashed people to be the

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Speaker 3: best they could be, unlike it had ever happened. That's

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Speaker 3: American exceptionalism.

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Speaker 4: Our resolve is unbroken and our purpose is unchanged to

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Speaker 4: delivery government that serves the American people better than ever before.

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Speaker 2: To win with every single facet. We're going to win

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Speaker 2: so much. You may even.

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Speaker 4: Get tired of winning and you say.

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Speaker 2: Please, please, it's too much winning.

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Speaker 4: We can't take it anymore.

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Speaker 2: It's too much, and I'll say, no, it is it.

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Speaker 2: We have to keep winning. We have to win more.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna win more. We're gonna win so nice.

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Speaker 3: You never did think that it ever would happened again.

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Speaker 5: Goods, you never did a thing they would ever get

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Speaker 5: together again.

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Speaker 2: With them sound again.

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Speaker 6: You never did it happen again.

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Speaker 7: It is a tall, proud city, build on rocks stronger.

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Speaker 2: Than oceans, wind swept God.

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Speaker 7: Blessed and teeming with people of all kinds living in

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Speaker 7: harmony and peace, a city with pre ports that hunged

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Speaker 7: with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be

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Speaker 7: city walls, the walls had doors, and the doors were

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Speaker 7: open to anyone with the wills.

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Speaker 6: And the heart to get here. That's how I saw

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Speaker 6: it and see it still.

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Speaker 4: And we will restore and renovate our nations once great cities,

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Speaker 4: making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.

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Speaker 2: And that includes our nation's capital.

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Speaker 8: You never did.

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Speaker 2: Again, Gaser, You never did anything.

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Speaker 5: They would never get together again.

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Speaker 2: Again again.

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Speaker 4: Under my plan, incomes will skyrocket, inflation will vanish completely,

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Speaker 4: jobs will come roaring back, and the middle class will

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Speaker 4: prosper like never ever before.

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Speaker 2: And we're going to do it very rapidly.

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Speaker 4: I will bring back the American dream. Your expectations are

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Speaker 4: not big enough, not big enough. It's time to start

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Speaker 4: expecting and demanding the best leadership in the world. Leadership

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Speaker 4: that is bold, dynamic, relentless, and fearless.

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Speaker 2: We can do that. We are Americans.

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Speaker 4: Ambition is our heritage, greatness is our birthright.

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Speaker 2: And you want to happen again.

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Speaker 5: You never did things great humility.

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Speaker 2: I am asking you.

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Speaker 4: To be excited about the future of our country.

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Speaker 2: Be excited, Be excited.

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Speaker 9: A Michigan refugee worker is now in critical condition after

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Speaker 9: he was stabbed in his suburban home by an Afghan

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Speaker 9: refugee who he resettled. Well that's quite the thanks, isn't it.

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Speaker 9: It's almost as if some of these people shouldn't be

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Speaker 9: brought into this country. So you know the chick that

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Speaker 9: was at the Saint John's episop Church, I mean a

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Speaker 9: chick that was at the National Prayer Day, National Prayer

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Speaker 9: Service who was lecturing Donald Trump, we now have on

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Speaker 9: record with her mask on saying Trump's gotta go for years.

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Speaker 2: Well, it turns out she was at I.

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Speaker 9: Use the term chick loosely to give her the benefit

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Speaker 9: of the doubt. She was on the Hen Party the

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Speaker 9: View yesterday. I'm told I don't watch it. Well, it

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Speaker 9: turns out for almost twenty years she was at Saint

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Speaker 9: John's Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. And guess who was in

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Speaker 9: charge of the planning for the inauguration.

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Speaker 2: Guess what Senator? You might have noticed her front and center.

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Speaker 9: Tried to do her best, Sheila Jackson Lee and get

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Speaker 9: as much camera time as possible. But ooh, Lauren Sanchez,

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Speaker 9: Jeff Beisos's squeeze, she took out all that, She sucked

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Speaker 9: all the air out of the room. Globchar couldn't get it.

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Speaker 9: Senator Amy Klobachar from Minneapolis. It was a setup all along.

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Speaker 9: They were not surprised at what that creature said to

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Speaker 9: Donald Trump. They were expecting it. Ramon, a buddy of

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Speaker 9: mine almost died from drinking water down whiskey. I tried

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Speaker 6: Ramon.

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Speaker 9: You know the worst day for eggs Friday. I had

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Speaker 9: an englishman tell me that America doesn't use the metric

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Speaker 9: system because we have a foot fetish. You know why

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Speaker 9: Dwayne Johnson's the only man who can turn lesbians because

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Speaker 9: rock beats scissors. Man walked into his shrink's office wearing

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Speaker 9: only a saran wrapped diaper.

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Speaker 2: Imagine that.

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Speaker 9: Therapist tells him, I can clearly see your nuts raising.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't get down.

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Speaker 9: Man walks into his shrink's office wearing only a saran

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Speaker 9: wrap diaper. Therapist says, I can clearly see your nuts in.

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Speaker 2: You know you're not sane.

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Speaker 7: Clear.

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Speaker 2: He's a therapist.

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Speaker 9: Friend had a surgery to transition from a man to

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Speaker 9: a woman. I asked, of all the things they cut,

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Speaker 9: what hurt the most? He said, the salary. I just

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Speaker 9: deleted all the German names off my phone. Now it's

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Speaker 9: hands free. Seventh police officers shot in San Antoni last night.

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Speaker 9: Original reports are that the guy was that it was

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Speaker 9: called in a suicide in progress. Every time I see

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Speaker 9: a story like this where a guy wants to commit

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Speaker 9: suicide by cop and there's a suicide in progress, my

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Speaker 9: thought is the guy is up dead, which is what

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Speaker 9: he intended. But we have seven cops that were shot.

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Speaker 9: My thought on that is, well, you know, who are

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Speaker 9: we to get in the way? You know who are

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Speaker 9: we to get in the way. There was a report

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Speaker 9: of a police officer spinning around in an intersection. They

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Speaker 9: called HBO you President Doug Griffith, and he said, well,

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Speaker 9: you know, cops love donuts.

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Speaker 1: Radio Michael berry man when.

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Speaker 9: Or illegals from Chile arrested for burglarizing Bingles quarterback Joe

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Speaker 9: Burrows home in Cincinnati while he played a Monday night

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Speaker 9: football game.

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Speaker 2: The men are believed to.

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Speaker 9: Be part of a tourist burglary ring that specifically targets

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Speaker 9: multi million dollar homes. While folks are out the story

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Speaker 9: from Local twelve in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 10: Joe Burrow may soon be getting some of his belongings back.

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Speaker 10: Two men who police appear to believe were involved in

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Speaker 10: a burglary last month are now indicted. They were among

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Speaker 10: fort Chilean nationals busted earlier this month in Clark County.

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Speaker 6: The four suspected burglars were.

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Speaker 10: Apparently staying here at this laking to Inn and Fairbourne

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Speaker 10: near Wright State University. What they likely did not know

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Speaker 10: was that they were being surveilled by the Ohio Bureau

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Speaker 10: of Criminal Investigations. Court documents show one of the BCI

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Speaker 10: agents recognized two of the men wanted in connection with

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Speaker 10: the burglary of a Hamilton County multimillion dollar home on

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Speaker 10: December ninth, that's the same day Burrough's house was hit.

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Speaker 2: The agents, along with a.

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Speaker 10: State trooper, followed the men up I seventy in Clark County,

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Speaker 10: where the trooper pulled them over for an alleged traffic violation.

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Speaker 10: When agents looked in the car, they found a tool

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Speaker 10: used to break into homes and an LSU T shirt

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Speaker 10: and Bengals cap Joe Burrow, of course, attended LSU. A

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Speaker 10: grand jury has now indicted the men for possessing criminal tools,

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Speaker 10: participation in a criminal gang, and engaging in a pattern

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Speaker 10: of corrupt activities.

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Speaker 11: As you collect your valuables and send them back home,

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Speaker 11: you continue until you're either cut or recalled by your hand.

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Speaker 10: Sergeant Mike maher first booke with Local twelve about two

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Speaker 10: years ago when we broke the story of Chilean tourist

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Speaker 10: burglers coming to Greater Cincinnati and hitting high end homes

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Speaker 10: in places like Indian Hill. The Rangers even put out

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Speaker 10: a flyer warning its residents. The robberies began shortly after

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Speaker 10: Chile was approved as one of forty countries included in

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Speaker 10: the Homeland Security visa waiver program. The waivers allow tourists

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Speaker 10: from Chile to visit the US for ninety days with

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Speaker 10: virtually no questions asked. It has apparently led to a

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Speaker 10: sophisticated criminal enterprise.

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Speaker 11: And once you're caught or recalled, you are sent back

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Speaker 11: to your home nation, or you can then be recycled

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Speaker 11: as an agent into another state another nation.

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Speaker 10: Local authorities formed a task force to improve communications and

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Speaker 10: keep bonds high, like these latest suss in Clark County,

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Speaker 10: who are now held on two hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 10: dollars cash bawns each.

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Speaker 9: President Trump announcing that federal employees must come back to

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Speaker 9: work in the office. Mayor John Whitmyer, the City of

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Speaker 9: Houston is ending the work from home for city employees,

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Speaker 9: ordering them back to the office by February first. Those

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Speaker 9: city employees will have to return to the office. We

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Speaker 9: are in January of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine. Can you imagine.

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Speaker 9: People who previously were supposed to be in the office,

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Speaker 9: had been that position, had been in the office for decades,

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Speaker 9: and they just just don't come in and you have

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Speaker 9: no accountability for where they are and what they're doing.

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Speaker 9: Can you imagine that speaks to a much bigger issue

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Speaker 9: about your workforce. Our creative director, Jim Mudd works from home.

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Speaker 9: He lives almost an hour away. But from the moment

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Speaker 9: I wake up in the morning, I've got prep already

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Speaker 9: literally every break so four times an hour, sometimes six

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Speaker 9: or ten. I'm getting work product from him, things that

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Speaker 9: he's producing, finding articles, sending it. Hey, do you want

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Speaker 9: more information on background on this?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 9: Have you heard this audio of the president saying this

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Speaker 9: to this person?

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Speaker 7: Hey?

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Speaker 9: Were you aware of this fact? And it's coming in

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Speaker 9: fast and furious. I know Ramon's across the glass from me.

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Speaker 9: I know Chad's in the office next door to me.

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Speaker 9: I don't need to worry whether Jim is here. And

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Speaker 9: it doesn't make sense for him to be in because

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Speaker 9: the hour in and the hour back. He has a

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Speaker 9: home studio that he's working out of and producing out of.

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Speaker 9: It's more efficient for us. We get more work out

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Speaker 9: of him because he doesn't come in. But for probably

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Speaker 9: ninety five percent of city employees who are not coming in,

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Speaker 9: they need to be in because of their function and

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Speaker 9: because of the type of person they are. I'll bet

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Speaker 9: you there are people who are clocked in as working

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Speaker 9: who are off on vacation working a second job. Commissioner

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Speaker 9: Tom Ramsey, the only Republican left on Harris County Commissioner's Court,

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Speaker 9: is pushing for the same policy for county employees at

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Speaker 9: Harris County, but the county admits to Texas Scorecard they

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Speaker 9: have no idea how many employees are still working from home.

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Speaker 9: They don't even know you're paying these people. We don't

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Speaker 9: know where they're working. And I wonder how many of

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Speaker 9: them are double dipping. I wonder how many of them

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Speaker 9: are double dipping. The reason I wonder because the health

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Speaker 9: director who was stealing us blind and rigging contracts, remember

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Speaker 9: the Lena Hudago deal, This was that one Robinson. That

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Speaker 9: woman was also the assistant health director in Phoenix. So

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Speaker 9: she was not at one of her jobs, whether Houston

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Speaker 9: or Phoenix, every day because she couldn't be in two

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Speaker 9: probably felt quite entitled to do so.

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Speaker 2: Texas Court Card reports quote.

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Speaker 9: Harris County Commissioner's Court is set to discuss potential changes to.

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Speaker 2: Its work from home.

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Speaker 9: This is because Tom Ramsey's pushing it, also known as

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Speaker 9: telework policy. During its next meeting in February, the sole

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Speaker 9: Republican on the Court, Missid Tom Ramsey, added the topic

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Speaker 9: to an emergency supplemental item to Thursday's agenda. On August

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Speaker 9: Maybe y'all will have forgotten about it by then. This

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Speaker 9: They'd probably been pressing for it for six months before that.

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Speaker 9: So finally the action item rather than to say get

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Speaker 9: has cost you. We'll have that person review the policy

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Speaker 9: and the policies were we have no idea.

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Speaker 2: Who's working from home? Michael Berry's show.

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Speaker 4: You going around the good Streak ship kind of the

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Speaker 2: And lift the last morning?

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Speaker 8: How you doing this here is sir cute lic I

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Speaker 8: didn't get in there wcause Teith last night. I tried

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Speaker 8: See if you know autumn shows as ignant even o'clock

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Speaker 2: And then they got the Psychic Friends.

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Speaker 8: And the Tarot lady owned and George Foreman selling some

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Speaker 2: It's ignorant, you know who I mean?

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Speaker 8: She was on at night and they've never had nobody

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Speaker 8: as good as him before. You remember Ed mcmaden man was

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Speaker 2: So she's here?

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Speaker 7: What the name?

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Speaker 8: He drank a lot of niguas he smoked a lot

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Speaker 2: Who he the guests hosts up on here this week

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Speaker 2: he could see almost dy bye, Didy did telling me

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Speaker 2: I never got to meet the man. He was fine, junny.

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Speaker 8: The way you tell your mom, and that my expazardor.

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Speaker 9: My So what's wrong with our government? So many things,

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Speaker 9: out in the midst of the sheer laziness. Trump telling

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Speaker 9: same for the city. The county is dragging their feet

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Speaker 9: mean Lena who went missing. By the way, Where in

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Speaker 9: the world is Dora. I hope she's not institutionalized again

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Speaker 2: We all know it.

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Speaker 9: She was supposed to resign by the end of January.

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Speaker 2: She's just married.

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Speaker 9: So the problem at the county. Some of you will

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Speaker 9: me the story, so I know some of you remember it.

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Speaker 9: Of Daryl Blackburn. So he was working with the Elections

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Speaker 9: been running elections for decades in Harris County through two

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Speaker 9: don't know. I'm trying to be respectful to what that

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Speaker 9: Longoria was the name. What was the first name was it?

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Speaker 9: Do you remember the first name of Longoria? Oh, Isabelle.

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Speaker 2: And you don't know, you just you know, you.

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Speaker 9: Ever go to the zoo and they got something on

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Speaker 9: And the only reason that happened was it was a

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Speaker 9: They pushed out all those white liberal men and replaced

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Speaker 9: You picked the wrong side. Eventually, you keep stoking that fire.

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Speaker 2: Now, I want to be clear.

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Speaker 9: Blackburn's crime was not being lazy or double dipping, both

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Speaker 2: Which he took in October of twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 9: So in April he gets hired by the Elections Administration's

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Speaker 9: But actually he was working at another job that did

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Speaker 2: There weren't any ballots on that day.

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Speaker 9: Blackburn reported working eighteen hours for Harris County. Who, Darryl,

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Speaker 2: Eighteen hour day. But it was an election day, you

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Speaker 9: But he also built his ailing gas employer in the

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Speaker 9: to do all this, you gotta have the work from

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Speaker 9: home a CNN.

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Speaker 2: This is the news, Michael Ferry, and.

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Speaker 12: That's why more people are watching the cartoon network. Sponge

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Speaker 12: Bobbery runs right now, ball.

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Speaker 10: Coming.

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Speaker 9: I need that it Representative Mitch Little is our guest.

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Speaker 9: The State House about to adopt a very important resolution. Mitch,

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Speaker 9: can you explain to folks what it is about to

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Speaker 6: A number of standing committees.

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Speaker 6: So you're like, oh, well, maybe that's good.

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Speaker 1: There's less government here is the big side of the

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Speaker 1: bus headline contained in the rules is the ban on

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Speaker 6: Stop the champagne. There's more.

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Speaker 1: So the proposed rule would require Democrat vice chairs in

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Speaker 6: From getting to a vote.

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Speaker 1: And so this would in some ways empower the Democrats

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Speaker 1: like one step forward, two steps back, Michael, and we

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Speaker 9: I know, I know there is a great deal of

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Speaker 9: fear is in the deal? Because I've heard a lot

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 1: Supposedly, one of the proposals that was in the offering

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Speaker 1: was increased money for committees, meaning that these vice chairs

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Speaker 1: would have an increased budget, so that certain in theory,

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Speaker 1: certain Democrats who are serving as vice chairs on key

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Speaker 1: committees would now have an increased budget so in some

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Speaker 1: ways kind of a payoff of sorts to allow them

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Speaker 1: to hire staff to advance their agenda. So that might

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Speaker 1: empower a handful of Democrats. But right now, as I

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Speaker 1: wake up this morning, Michael, my bigger concern is that

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Speaker 1: vice chairs are going to have you know, typically in

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Speaker 1: an environment where Republicans are in control of the legislature,

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Speaker 1: a committee that is headed by a Republican would say, no,

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Speaker 1: that bill's dumb, it doesn't have the votes, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to give it a hearing. They really have the

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Speaker 1: discretion to do that as the chair, and this new

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Speaker 1: measure would really remove that discretion from the Republican chair

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Speaker 1: and put it in the hands of the vice chair.

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Speaker 1: It says that a Republican chair shall consider any measured

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Speaker 1: but put forward by a vice chair. So if we've

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Speaker 1: got bills, uh, you know, to legalize abortion or allow

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Speaker 1: kids to change their pronouns in school, just throw out

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Speaker 1: the wackiest thing you can possibly imagine, you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, gun control measures, et cetera. Those things have

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Speaker 1: to get a hearing in their committee.

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Speaker 6: Now, regardless of whether they're going to pass.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's going to result in likely some

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Speaker 1: delays to serious legislation being taken.

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Speaker 6: Up and in short in short order.

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Speaker 9: Well, my theory on situation like this, having watched this

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Speaker 9: process for a very long time, in the strategy behind it,

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Speaker 9: is that what Democrats will do is constantly throw up

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Speaker 9: flaars as distractions, and what we have we have to

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Speaker 9: do is mobilize the base to vocalize our opposition to

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Speaker 9: what we already said a thousand times we were against

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Speaker 9: these gun control measures, these wacky you know, lopping off

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Speaker 9: wianers and all sorts of crazy stuff.

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Speaker 2: The Democrats want to try.

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Speaker 9: So even if they lose every measure, they run us

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Speaker 9: out of gas by distracting us. It's kind of a ropodope.

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Speaker 9: So we don't have the momentum left to accomplish that

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Speaker 9: which we elected a majority to accomplish, because we've already

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Speaker 9: shot our wad.

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Speaker 6: That is the concern.

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Speaker 1: And it's like you're if you're playing, if you're playing

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Speaker 1: a game with an obstructionist, all they have to do

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Speaker 1: is milk clock, right, So this is this is in

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Speaker 1: some ways empowering the opposition to milk clock with things

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Speaker 1: that don't have a chance of passing. When you have

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Speaker 1: things that really need to be taken up seriously for

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Speaker 1: the people of Texas. And if if the shoe were

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Speaker 1: on the other foot, Michael, of course, I would love that.

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Speaker 1: If I'm the minority party, I don't have to win.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to win and pass bills. I just

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Speaker 1: have to make sure that you don't have time to

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Speaker 1: pass years. But you know, I don't think that's what

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Speaker 1: we're signing up for.

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Speaker 9: I'm not opposed to the Democrats for being Democrats. I'm

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Speaker 9: not opposed to them doing the best they can to

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Speaker 9: advance their agenda. My problem is the number of Republicans

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Speaker 9: who are willing to help them in exchange forgetting to

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Speaker 9: be in power running the House. That's the thing that

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Speaker 9: I want our voters to understand. Democrats are supposed to

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Speaker 9: be Democrats, and we're supposed to be Republicans. It's the

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Speaker 9: Republicans who've empowered the Democrats to do this, all the

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Speaker 9: while telling you that they're representing the rest of us.

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Speaker 2: That really galls me.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you're in control, why would you propose that

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Speaker 1: the opposition party has VI chairs at all? Why propose it?

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Speaker 1: Just say hey, we're banning Democrats chairs, period. That's the

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Speaker 1: end of the rule right. The problem is the empowerment

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Speaker 1: of the opposition party, which really is aproposed. Nothing in

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Speaker 1: the rules. We don't need to have that in the rules.

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Speaker 1: If you're in the minority, you're not in control. You're

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Speaker 1: not in charge, you don't decide what bills move forward.

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Speaker 1: But this feels like a concession to I don't know,

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Speaker 1: to make peace with the Democrats, when that's really not

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Speaker 1: the assignment. If we're understanding the assignment, the job is

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Speaker 1: to pass our agenda. And if you look, I mean now,

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Speaker 1: be a President Trump in office on Monday. People are

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Speaker 1: at borderline you fork Republicans in Texas, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to squander this opportunity. They're going to expect us to

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Speaker 1: win just a little bit when we're in control of

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Speaker 1: the entire state.

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Speaker 6: That doesn't make any sense, Michael.

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Speaker 9: You know, Mitch, out of one hundred times I hear

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Speaker 9: someone use the term apropos, ninety nine times out of

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Speaker 9: one hundred, they're using it incorrectly, as a sort of

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Speaker 9: they think a fancier version of appropriate. That was the

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Speaker 9: one time out of one hundred that I've heard the

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Speaker 9: word use correctly. But it doesn't surprise me. I'm worried

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Speaker 9: you're too smart and accomplished to succeed in the House,

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Speaker 9: and you may go crazy considering the back room deals

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Speaker 9: and the deceptions by the Republicans, forget the Democrats that

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Speaker 9: are going to be carried out.

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Speaker 2: But I'm so glad you're there. Make us proud, Mitch

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Speaker 2: Little Thanks brother

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Speaker 7: Sh