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Speaker 1: Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. We

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Speaker 1: hope all of you had fabulous July fourth. So I

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Speaker 1: was down on the first inaugurald July fourth at the

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Speaker 1: Gulf of America. Had an amazing time. Buck was down

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Speaker 1: are in the process of returning from what may have

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Speaker 1: been a long holiday weekend. We've got a ton of

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Speaker 1: news to dive into with all of you. The Big

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Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill passes as we told you it would. There

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Speaker 1: was some drama, but Trump signed it on July fourth.

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Speaker 1: It is now law certainty when it comes to taxes

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Speaker 1: and beyond. We will discuss much of that, as well

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Speaker 1: as border security. Mom Donnie gets caught lying about his

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Speaker 1: race on college applications. He is the Democrat nominee for

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Speaker 1: mayor in New York City. I do think that is

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Speaker 1: actually a store glory of some significance. Net and Yahoo

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Speaker 1: visiting with Trump. We will update you on any of

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Speaker 1: the fallout there. Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, Diddy, whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to call him. We told you we were skeptical

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Speaker 1: of the case. A lot of people were shocked when

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Speaker 1: he was found not guilty of the most significant of

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Speaker 1: those charges. We will discuss that quite a lot as well.

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Speaker 1: But the biggest story I think coming out of the

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Speaker 1: weekend is the flooding situation which may well kill unfortunately

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Speaker 1: one hundred people in Texas. And I know many of

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Speaker 1: you are in that listening area with us right now

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Speaker 1: in Texas and are listening to us and experienced exactly

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Speaker 1: what happened over the holiday weekend as a massive amount

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Speaker 1: of rain fell and the river there swept away and

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Speaker 1: rose at a level that is frankly completely unheard of

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Speaker 1: historically occurs. It's one of these things where it happens

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Speaker 1: five hundred year thousand year floods, and it happened in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the night, and happened right along a

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Speaker 1: one hundred years, just shy of one hundred years. I

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Speaker 1: bet that many of you in that area, many of

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Speaker 1: went there. Many young lives lost. It is an awful,

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Speaker 1: awful story there, and unfortunately it immediately became a political ridiculousness.

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Speaker 1: People trying to blame President Trump, people trying to blame

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Speaker 1: Trump voters Republicans, and that happened almost instantaneously. Based on

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Speaker 1: everything that I have seen and read, and I tried

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Speaker 1: to familiarize myself to a great degree with this story,

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Speaker 1: it's just a cavalcade of really unfortunate events, in particular

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Speaker 1: the fact that many of these alerts which all went out,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people were sleeping, and the water rose

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Speaker 1: so quickly that before people were even aware that they

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Speaker 1: just happened overnight, And so I think there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot of discussion going forward about how do we

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Speaker 1: handle some of these situations in the future. I imagine

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Speaker 1: a lot of you out there experienced it yourself, and

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Speaker 1: you're listening to us right now. I shared a charity,

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Speaker 1: I'll retweet it that I've donated to that I would

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Speaker 1: encourage a lot of you if you want to give

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Speaker 1: back to this community. But Buck, I think the biggest

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Speaker 1: unfortunate aspect of this is that it happened in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the night. Everybody is sleeping. You may be

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Speaker 1: getting these alerts on your phones. You probably have the

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Speaker 2: There are a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of analyzes already about what could have been done

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Speaker 3: to have avoided this, And I know there's a lot

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Speaker 3: of heartbreak for the families, for the communities, and the

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Speaker 3: girls at this camp, Mystic, which lost already twenty seven

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Speaker 3: horrible beyond words, and our hearts break for those who

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Speaker 3: mean so many of us. It's supposed to be a

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Speaker 3: And so it's it's obviously very lethal. I mean they've

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Speaker 3: had clay. I was reading about previous rescue attempts. I

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Speaker 3: how could the warning have gone out sooner? Or what

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Speaker 3: could have been done differently? There's siren alarm systems that

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Speaker 3: was an effort to get a similar alarm system in

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Speaker 3: and they didn't get the funding for it. Now, would

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Speaker 3: a an alarm system like that, right, there's alarms that

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Speaker 3: these different pieces come into play. But having sirens effectively

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Speaker 3: like an air raid siren situation, would that have changed

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Speaker 3: be something that people look at, I think very closely.

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Speaker 3: But the timing of it could not have been worse

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Speaker 3: to handle moving. It's just that the truth is, any

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what you hit on is something that's

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Speaker 1: The tornado sirens are basically impossible to ignore, and we

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Speaker 1: Is there a flood related siren that can be installed.

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Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that, but I think

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Speaker 1: that's the conversation that's going to happen going forward.

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Speaker 3: Warning systems always have this.

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Speaker 3: I'm in Florida, the hurricane capital of America, right, and

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Speaker 3: fifty sixty seventy years. They've been through a lot of hurricanes.

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Speaker 3: You're not getting them to move no matter what the yeah,

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Speaker 3: this case, Clay, if you have a lot of alarms

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Speaker 3: also people, i think even Congressman Roy, who this is

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Speaker 3: Roy saying in an interview it's also a once in

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Speaker 3: important for everybody to focus on the first respond to efforts,

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Speaker 1: And I think what you said too, sometimes we actually

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Speaker 1: There's a flood warning, and sometimes the floods aren't that significant,

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Speaker 1: but there is a flood warning. But I think, really,

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Speaker 1: all those efforts. I do wonder whether one of the

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of people frankly just

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Speaker 3: Yes, so they'll look at this much more closely. The

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Speaker 3: experts will look at what could have been done here.

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Speaker 2: But this is.

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Speaker 3: True of a lot of natural disasters, which this clearly is.

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Speaker 3: If it's bad enough, you're talking more about casualty mitigation

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Speaker 3: as possible, but when you're looking at almost one hundred

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Speaker 3: just far too there's numbers far too high for anyone

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Speaker 3: to think that this system was sufficient given the risk factors,

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Speaker 3: no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Also, the holiday weekend probably increased the number of people,

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Speaker 1: sadly that we're camping on alongside of the banks and

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Speaker 4: You ain't imagining it. The world has gone insane. Reclaim

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Speaker 3: Just an update here, we are following closely events in

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Speaker 5: the red tape and not create more red tape. Well, no, no, no,

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Speaker 5: But we've also wanted to put in work requirements, which

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Speaker 5: somehow was very popular under Bill Clinton, was popular under

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Speaker 5: President Obama, and this Democratic Party blew out the deficit

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Speaker 5: But work requirements even pull well with the median Democratic voter,

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Speaker 5: maybe not the.

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Speaker 3: Fringe work requirements play. You have to actually do something

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Speaker 3: if you're an able body. We're not talking about you know,

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Speaker 3: mom with kids, We're not talking about disabled people. You

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Speaker 3: have to be willing to check in and say, hey,

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to do something productive for society, and therefore

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Speaker 3: please continue to give me healthcare welfare, which is what

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Speaker 3: medicaid is. It only requires twenty hours for able body,

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Speaker 3: mostly men, and twenty hours of work is considered to

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Speaker 3: be enough, and some of that can be charity work.

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Speaker 3: So I mean we're talking legitimately about hey, just do something.

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Speaker 3: There's a huge percentage and I hope that some of

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Speaker 3: the deportations are going to impact this in a positive way.

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Speaker 3: There's a huge percentage of men that just don't work.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not talking about sixty five year old men.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about twenty five, thirty five, forty five men

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Speaker 3: who are in the prime, earning years of what should

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Speaker 3: be their work life and just don't work, just don't

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Speaker 3: do anything. And why should they get Why should we

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Speaker 3: who are out there working give them benefits. I got

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Speaker 3: fired up over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: You know, the big beautiful bill is past, but it

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Speaker 1: preserves thirty seven percent tax rates. Right, that's the highest

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Speaker 1: level tax rate. Think about that for a minute. Well,

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Speaker 1: we've just accepted as reality. That means that if you

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Speaker 1: are out there paying thirty seven percent tax and I am,

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Speaker 1: that means I work Monday Tuesday every week just for

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Speaker 1: I basically do, but five days a week Monday to Friday.

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Speaker 1: If you're paying thirty seven percent, this doesn't even count

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Speaker 1: state taxes, property taxes, all those other things, just the

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Speaker 1: federal government. Every day of the week. I work Monday

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Speaker 1: and Tuesday for the federal government. That's kind of crazy

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Speaker 1: that we just accept thirty seven percent tax rates. And

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Speaker 1: a lot of you out there, if you live in California,

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Speaker 1: or you live in New York, or you live in Illinois,

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Speaker 1: you're actually paying over half every work week, half of

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Speaker 1: the time. You basically are an employee of the United

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Speaker 1: States government or your local tax authority. It's crazy that

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Speaker 1: we have just accepted this as reality. But that's where

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Speaker 1: we are.

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Speaker 3: Medicaid here according to groc which I do find a

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Speaker 3: very useful and fun tool on the fly to use

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Speaker 3: Medicaid spending in twenty twenty four was a little over

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Speaker 3: six hundred billion dollars. Six hundred billion dollars. And remember

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Speaker 3: that's that's not including Medicare, which is for people sixty

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Speaker 3: five and up. That is the amount of money that

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Speaker 3: the country is spending on for people who, for one

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Speaker 3: reason or another are unable to get insurance or health

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Speaker 3: care coverage themselves. That is a very large sum of

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Speaker 3: money that is that is going toward this. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's what it's approaching, like the Pentagon budget that we

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Speaker 3: spend on Medicaid.

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Speaker 1: What do you think that actually the big problem we have.

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Speaker 1: I think there are two major broken parts of America

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Speaker 1: right now. What is the tax ode completely broken?

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Speaker 2: Too?

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Speaker 1: Is healthcare? It's completely broken. Regardless of what your politics are.

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Speaker 1: That's six hundred billion dollars. You just said, how much

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Speaker 1: of that do you think actually benefits health? In other words,

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Speaker 1: if it weren't spent, that there would be a precipitous

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Speaker 1: decline in overall health there. There was a big study,

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Speaker 1: the Oregon Study years ago, a study out of Oregon

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Speaker 1: that showed that the actual health outcomes for people with

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Speaker 1: Medicaid versus people who are similar socioeconomic status who do

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Speaker 1: not have access to Medicaid. They could, they could find

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Speaker 1: no difference. Remember emergency emergency services. Anybody, you walk in

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Speaker 1: the emergency room, you get.

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Speaker 3: Treated, although these days you might wait twelve hours in

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Speaker 3: a hallway because there's a ton of illegals who are

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Speaker 3: going for frontline care and everything. But put that aside

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Speaker 3: for a moment, emergency room care, and that's you know,

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Speaker 3: there's a moral obligation that society has accepted where if

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Speaker 3: you need medical treatment, you get treated. Okay, fine, But

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Speaker 3: Medicaid is more the routine that going in for this

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Speaker 3: check up or that or whatever. How much of that

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Speaker 3: is waste and how much of that isn't even benefiting

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Speaker 3: the patients who are going in for I think any

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Speaker 3: one really knows.

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Speaker 1: If you ask me, I think we could cut half

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Speaker 1: of all medical treatments in America, all of them half,

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Speaker 1: and I think we would see no impact in quality

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Speaker 1: of life or length of life.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: In other words, we're just wasting money so much every

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Speaker 1: single day and getting not great outcomes. And if you

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Speaker 1: question that, just look at the average lifespan. We spend

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Speaker 1: way more money in America on health care than any

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Speaker 1: other country, we don't live the longest.

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Speaker 3: So this is the Oregon experiment. This is published in

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Speaker 3: a really radical right wing thing called the New England

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Speaker 3: Journal of Medicine. Randomized controlled study Medicaid coverage generated no

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Speaker 3: significant improvements in physical health outcomes in the first two years.

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Speaker 3: That was a decade ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, they can't even say that it makes a healthier

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think, just based on data, look at

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Speaker 1: life spans and correspond them with money spent there is

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Speaker 1: we are not getting our money's worth if you compare

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Speaker 1: how long we live to other countries that spend a

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Speaker 1: fraction on healthcare of what we do. Look value speaking

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Speaker 3: The racial spoils system, everybody, let's talk about this for

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Speaker 3: a little bit, shall we? Racial spoil system. That's actually

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Speaker 3: how it was referred to an a Supreme Court decision.

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Speaker 3: I want to say by Aldo at one point, and

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Speaker 3: as you know, you're not allowed to for college admissions

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Speaker 3: discriminate on the basis of race anymore. Schools are still

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Speaker 3: doing it left and right. The Trump administration is going

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Speaker 3: to have to sue a lot of them, and other

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Speaker 3: people are going to have to bring a lot of lawsuits.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna have to feel the financial pain of their racism,

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Speaker 3: because that's what it is now. Because the same system

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Speaker 3: that said you're allowed to take people based on their

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Speaker 3: skin color over other people, or based on their ethnicity,

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Speaker 3: you know, indigenous persons background, whatever it is for you know,

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Speaker 3: Native Americans, that same system now says, no, that's actually wrong.

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Speaker 3: You shouldn't do that, and you're no longer able to

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Speaker 3: do that. And this brings me to Zoran and Clay

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Speaker 3: still By. His middle name is Kwame Zorn Quame mam

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Speaker 3: Dami Mamdani applied in two thousand and nine to Colombia.

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Speaker 3: New York Times wrote about this. There's a lot going

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Speaker 3: on here everyone, and he claimed that he was African American.

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Speaker 3: Now just so we get the facts, let me just

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Speaker 3: get the facts out black.

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Speaker 1: The box that he checked is African American or black?

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: Well, well, if he's he's hanging his hat so to speak,

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Speaker 3: I mean, he he's you know, claiming that the African

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Speaker 3: American part of it is like because he was qualified Africa,

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Speaker 3: because he was born in Africa. So we're gonna talk

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Speaker 3: about this in a second, right. So, uh, he says

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Speaker 3: he's African American and slash black. Now we know that's

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Speaker 3: that's he's clearly not black. And but his this goes

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Speaker 3: to a few things. First of all, this guy is

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Speaker 3: and I don't think he didn't get in right, he

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Speaker 3: did not get admitted to Columbia. Now there's only two

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Speaker 3: there's only really one way I think that that's possible

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Speaker 3: based on because now Chris Rufo, you don't want Rufo

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Speaker 3: on on your on your tail. You don't want him

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Speaker 3: coming after you. He has his whole Columbia file. Have

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Speaker 3: you seen this? No, he has this whole Columbia admissions file.

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Speaker 3: Somehow Chris Rufo got this, and he has his SAT scores.

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Speaker 3: He has everything. Chris Rufo has all this stuff. So

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Speaker 3: here's here's what we have. He got a twenty one

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Speaker 3: forty out of twenty four hundred. I wish it was

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Speaker 3: out of the sixteen hundred because I don't know what

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Speaker 3: twenty one to forty really. I mean, I guess that's

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Speaker 3: like a seven hundred equivalent. So maybe it's like a

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Speaker 3: fourteen hundred, which is not a bad score. It's a

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Speaker 3: good sat score. But for Colombia, if you're white or Asian,

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Speaker 3: that's probably not gonna cut it, not even close. So

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Speaker 3: this guy he applied. He applied. The point here is

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Speaker 3: everyone he did. He pulled in Elizabeth Warren. All right,

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Speaker 3: let's just let's just get right down to this clay

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Speaker 3: quam I mean a mom. Sorry, Zoran Kwame Mamdami figured

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Speaker 3: I'll pretend to be black to get for the purposes

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Speaker 3: of admission, to get into Columbia University. It didn't work.

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Speaker 3: I think they figured it out. That's what I was

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Speaker 3: gonna say before. I think they knew this guy wasn't

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Speaker 3: really black. Uh. And he's now saying because he was

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Speaker 3: born in Africa, well under that standard. Elon Musk any

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Speaker 3: white South African, anyone born in Egypt or North Africa,

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Speaker 3: I might add, if you're out Algerian, there are many

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Speaker 3: Algerians plays are as light skinned as you and I are. Okay,

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Speaker 3: there's a whole ethnic berber b e R B e

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Speaker 3: and light hair and light skin, live in North Africa

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Speaker 3: and been indigenous to North Africa for like a thousand

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Speaker 3: years or something. All Right, they've been there a long time.

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Speaker 3: If you applied as a North African, as an African

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Speaker 3: American slash black, people would would flip out. If you

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Speaker 3: were Egyptian. Cairo is a huge city, millions of mons

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Speaker 3: of people, they would flip out. Mam Donnie tried to

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Speaker 3: pull the card of oh, I'm kwame, Mam Donnie, the

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Speaker 3: black guy applying to Columbia. Let me in. The guy's

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Speaker 3: a fraud. He pulled the Elizabeth Warren and now we

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Speaker 3: know yes.

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Speaker 1: And I think also to build on the analogy made

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Speaker 1: I mean, Charlie's Tarne is from South Africa. Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: is from South Africa. If Ewon Musk had gotten government

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Speaker 1: contracts because he had marked African American on applications for

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Speaker 1: the government contract, if he said I'm a black small

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Speaker 1: business owner, give me loan preference, people would lose their minds.

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Speaker 1: And I think what this really kind of brings up

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Speaker 1: is the reason he did this is because his test

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Speaker 1: scores were not incredible. According to this article, eighty ninth percentile.

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Speaker 1: It's good to be top ten percent most things. That's

654
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Speaker 1: not good enough to be a white or an Asian

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Speaker 1: kid and get into Columbia. So he was trying to

656
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Speaker 1: pretend that he had black background, because the standard to

657
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Speaker 1: be admitted if you are black, that would be good

658
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Speaker 1: enough to get in. And here is this racial spoil system.

659
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Speaker 1: In general, it just has to vanish. It really does

660
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Speaker 1: have to once and for all, give up the ghost,

661
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Speaker 1: so to speak. If you want to go to these

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Speaker 1: elite schools and they want to only take kids who

663
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: are amazing, right like getting over fifteen hundred, sixteen hundred's

664
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Speaker 1: on the SAT thirty four, thirty five, thirty six on

665
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Speaker 1: the ACT, great ap scores, good GPAs, all those things.

666
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: That's fine, but they should do it on a race

667
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: blind level. And if they really want to focus on diversity,

668
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: the only diversity that matters is diversity of thought, because

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Speaker 1: otherwise you have a bunch of people who look different

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Speaker 1: but think the exact same, which is unfortunately what has

671
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: become the case in so many elite institutions out there.

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Speaker 1: So I think this should be disqualifying. And you can say, okay,

673
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Speaker 1: well he was only eighteen years old. I mean, look

674
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Speaker 1: at the standard that they put in place for Rachel Dolesol.

675
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Speaker 1: Rachel dole was, all, for those of you who don't remember,

676
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: was a white woman who was pretending to be black

677
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Speaker 1: that I believe ran the Spokane Washington NAACP chapter. They

678
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: found out that she was actually just a one white

679
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: woman who was somewhat dark skinned and was pretending to

680
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Speaker 1: be black, and she was ostracized from popular society, from politics,

681
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: from all that world. This guy is clearly trying to

682
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Speaker 1: trade on the racial spoil system. The fact that his

683
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Speaker 1: middle name is Quame. I guarantee you he got his

684
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Speaker 1: SAT Scores and he looked at it and he said,

685
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Speaker 1: there's no way, as an Asian or white kid that

686
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Speaker 1: I would get in. But my middle name is Quame.

687
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Speaker 1: Maybe I can confuse people by clicking African American or black.

688
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Speaker 1: Here's the other thing, Buck, and I think this is important.

689
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Speaker 1: He wasn't actually African American. He did not become an

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Speaker 1: American citizen until twenty eighteen. So even if you're going

691
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Speaker 1: to give him though, well, he was born in Africa,

692
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Speaker 1: so it's fine for him to click African American. We

693
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: know what the intent of the racial box there was.

694
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Speaker 1: He wasn't even African American, so he actually lied. Now

695
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Speaker 1: here's a question for you that I think I hope

696
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Speaker 1: people are going to look into. Was he admitted as

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Speaker 1: a minority to the school that he ultimately went to, Boden, Boden,

698
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Speaker 1: which I couldn't even pronounce four fourteen hundred.

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Speaker 3: At Boden, he'd get in. That's that's a that's not

700
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Speaker 3: so you think he got in regardless. I mean, I

701
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 3: went to a NESCAC school, so Boden's technically a competitor.

702
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 3: And you know, Boden's not that hard to get into.

703
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 3: Oh snap, the Boden alumni are going to flip out

704
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 3: at the Amherst guy. But sorry, no, it's a very

705
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 3: good school. But he he was. That's the thing, Clay,

706
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Speaker 3: Boden is the school you know that this guy would

707
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Speaker 3: that's that's the school that he would get into for

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00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 3: on his own merit. He tried to get into Columbia

709
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 3: pulling the I'm Kwame Mamdani Mandani card, right, that's the

710
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 3: now Here's where he may have gotten caught. His dad

711
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 3: was actually a faculty member, so the admission staff may

712
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 3: have looked into this, and I wonder if they rejected

713
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Speaker 3: him because they thought that he was lying about usually background.

714
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 3: It actually blew up on him, and it is a

715
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 3: huge deal. That's a huge deal because I know this

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Speaker 3: from friends of mine who work at universities. I have

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Speaker 3: a friend who works at Columbia University, for example, don't

718
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Speaker 3: want to name them, don't want to get fired for

719
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Speaker 3: being friends with me. But his children can go to

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Speaker 3: Columbia for free, which when you think about that value,

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Speaker 3: and then on top of that, the unspoken part of

722
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Speaker 3: the deal is if your child is even vaguely child,

723
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Speaker 3: you know, young adult when they're going to college, if

724
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Speaker 3: your kid is vaguely qualified, they are much more likely

725
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Speaker 3: to be accepted and they go for free. A huge

726
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 3: These Ivy League schools a huge It's true of all

727
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Speaker 3: the Ivys a lot of schools in general, but the

728
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Speaker 3: Ivy's for sure a huge benefit to now. I think

729
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Speaker 3: it might only be for like tenured professors. There's probably

730
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Speaker 3: some you know, I don't know if you're the guy

731
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Speaker 3: who's you know, like sweeping the floors of the auditorium,

732
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Speaker 3: but maybe I actually don't know. I'm getting beyond my

733
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Speaker 3: brief on that. But there's this other story I just

734
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Speaker 3: want to remind everybody of from twenty fifteen, I interviewed

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Speaker 3: this guy, you know, Mindy Kaling, the act Chris slash

736
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Speaker 3: comedian from the office. Yes, her brother her brother.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I wondered if he tell this story from people who

739
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 3: the DJ chokol Ingham was his name. He was Indian.

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Speaker 3: Mindy Kaling is his sister. So she's a famous actress, comedian.

741
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Speaker 3: She's from the office. She's the South Asian descent woman

742
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 3: in the office. So you've the one who's like anyway,

743
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 3: you know she is if you've seen the office. He

744
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 3: Clay didn't get into uh he had very mediocre scores,

745
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 3: didn't get into the medical school programs he wanted to.

746
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 3: So he reapplied, shaved his head, uh, I believe change. Yes,

747
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,919
Speaker 3: shaved his head, darkened his uh or you know, tried

748
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 3: to like change the photo so he would look darker

749
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 3: in the photo. He tried to appear more black and

750
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 3: changed his name to Jojo And guess what, same score,

751
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 3: same person, all of a sudden getting into top medical

752
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 3: programs across the country and the left when he wrote

753
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 3: a book about it, right, was it a book or

754
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 3: a movie he made about this? It was a website

755
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 3: almost I mean, I'm just telling you what it's called.

756
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,320
Speaker 3: Almost black dot com was the website that he launched,

757
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 3: you know, but what it goes to is.

758
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Speaker 1: It points out the absurdity he got looked at as

759
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 1: an Indian guy and didn't get in anywhere because he

760
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: can I tell you something.

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00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 3: This is yeah, sorry, yeah, I just this is the amazing.

762
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 3: This is CNN, which is now like about to be

763
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 3: on the trash heap and turned into a channel where

764
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 3: they sell like Swarowsky crystals or something to you Clay

765
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 3: the CNN piece on this, there's little evidence to suggest

766
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 3: that his posturing as a black applicant helped him get

767
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Speaker 3: into the following schools.

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Speaker 6: There's nothing but evidence he applied, didn't get it anywhere,

769
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Speaker 6: says he's black, changes his appearance and gets into a

770
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Speaker 6: bunch of schools, and CNN's like, there's no evidence that

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Speaker 6: being black helped him.

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Speaker 3: This was the This was a delusion that we were

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Speaker 3: all supposed to live in.

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Speaker 1: Not only that, I mean, I mean the fact that

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00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: the if you care about minority advancement, all of these

776
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Speaker 1: Indian kids are so successful in America that they're actually

777
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Speaker 1: being penalized for being Indian. And same thing is true

778
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: of Chinese Japanese.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we've talked about this before, I think on

780
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Speaker 3: the program.

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Speaker 1: But do you know the highest earning race and sex

782
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: group in America, it's Asian men. Asian men on average

783
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: make more money than anyone in America. Okay, so you

784
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Speaker 1: have all these young first and second generation immigrants that

785
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 1: want to be doctors, and they're being used their race

786
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: against them because there's too many of them doing so great.

787
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Speaker 1: This guy pretends to be black, he can suddenly get

788
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Speaker 1: in everywhere.

789
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Speaker 3: Nigerian American immigrants out earn native American native born American

790
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 3: I should say, yeah, households, yes, so I mean you

791
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 3: go to but substantially they're actually a high earning income.

792
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 3: It's a perfect distillation of the actual lack of racism

793
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 3: that you could come here from Nigeria and immediately become

794
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Speaker 3: wealthier than the average person who's been born here. The

795
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 3: fact that people from Nigeria are desperate to get here,

796
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 3: or the fact that people from any part of Africa

797
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 3: or Asia or Latin America destroys the racism argument on

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00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 3: its face. Why would you want to come to a

799
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 3: profoundly racist country. But I actually give credit to that.

800
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Speaker 3: I remembered that story because Mindy Kayaling is actually a

801
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 3: super leftist, at least publicly in the way that she

802
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 3: is embraced. Yeah, of course I played. Also the reason

803
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 3: they got upset about this is because it exposed the

804
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 3: absurdity of the whole situation as well as the truth

805
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 3: of it, and the truth of the affirmative action regime

806
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 3: in this country has been that they've been changing standards

807
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 3: for people, primarily people who are black, Native American or Hispanic,

808
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 3: primarily changing it so that they give them a couple

809
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Speaker 3: of hundred points equivalent on the SAT and lying about it.

810
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 3: And they've been doing this about forty years, and people

811
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 3: are sick of pretending that this isn't what's been going on.

812
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 3: Our generation is the one that saw it, and it's

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00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 3: all a big lie and we're tired of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And also let's also point out doctors, theoretically the people

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Speaker 1: Anything about who my guys background or Gal's background is.

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Speaker 1: We are joined now by Congressman Chip Roy, who represents

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Speaker 1: that area of the country. You've been working non stop.

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Speaker 3: What is the situation there on the ground right now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean you said it.

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Speaker 7: I mean those numbers that you're talking about in terms

867
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 7: of the total deceased, those numbers keep changing, and they're

868
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 7: changing more rapidly today because the recovery missions are really

869
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 7: starting to catch up and they're finding those who unfortunately perished.

870
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 7: You know, I think there's still a decent number of

871
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 7: unidentified children, but obviously cam't Mystic put out a report

872
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 7: or put out a statement I should say, indicating that

873
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 7: you know that the twenty seven where had either passed

874
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 7: or or they've not been able to find yet. And

875
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 7: this has been what we've sort of known for the

876
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,879
Speaker 7: last forty eight hours. But we're holding out hope through

877
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 7: the through the rescue process that we might be able

878
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 7: to find some survivors. But it's truly devastating in that

879
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 7: part of the country. People who are familiar with it

880
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 7: know that it's one of the most beautiful parts.

881
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 2: Of the state.

882
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 7: There's a reason there are eighteen kids camps in that

883
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 7: area and have been for years. You know, Camp Mystic

884
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 7: was going to turn one hundred years old next year.

885
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 7: I hope they will continue to stay in operation. There

886
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 7: are camps that have been there for generations. People go there.

887
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 7: It's a you know, holiday destination, which is why there

888
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 7: were so many people not just at kids camps, but

889
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 7: at campgrounds. That's why there's the numbers are a lot

890
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 7: higher than just the girls camps. Right, there was people

891
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 7: whose RVs were swept away. I went to a part

892
00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 7: of kind of what's called West Kerrville into Ingram before

893
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 7: you get out to Hunt, where all the kids camps are,

894
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 7: and I stood in a spot where there had been

895
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 7: a whole bunch of RVs and they were just gone,

896
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 7: like literally, it's just been swept away. And look, the

897
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 7: response has been great. I don't want to filibuster here,

898
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 7: but the response by the state, the locals, the Feds

899
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 7: has been extraordinary. People on the ground to volunteer outreach,

900
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 7: the people reaching out to give money, give food, give supplies,

901
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 7: show up. There was a line. They had to kind

902
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 7: of shut down the volunteer place yesterday because there was

903
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 7: just too many people. That's a good problem to have.

904
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 7: But you know, this is going to be a long recovery.

905
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 7: So if you want to help, you know, send money,

906
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 7: that's great, but be ready to show up in a

907
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:38,439
Speaker 7: week or two or three.

908
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 2: Right.

909
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 7: You know, when people start to forget about it, that's

910
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:42,240
Speaker 7: when they're going to need to help the most.

911
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 3: Const and Roy appreciate you being with us. I know

912
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 3: there's a lot going on there, and the whole country's

913
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 3: hearts are broken over the loss of life already to

914
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 3: the degree that you can there's already a lot of

915
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 3: talk about early warning. Should there have been more early warning?

916
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,760
Speaker 3: Are there different systems that need to be in place.

917
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 3: I know it's early stage, if you will, in the

918
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:09,280
Speaker 3: after action assessment to understand what might have been able

919
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 3: to be different, what could have been different. What is

920
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 3: your sense of that was there a big miss here

921
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 3: from the perspective of getting the word out with the

922
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 3: proper systems, or was it more this is just a

923
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 3: once in a century event and there was going to

924
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 3: be loss of life just based on the ferocity and

925
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 3: the speed of the floods.

926
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,879
Speaker 7: Look, I think I've been careful not to get too

927
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 7: much into this speculation over the last seventy two hours.

928
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 7: And you guys are asking this question in good faith,

929
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 7: and I appreciate it, and I will give you an

930
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 7: answer to my rough thoughts. But I will just conclude

931
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:47,240
Speaker 7: one thought, which is I'm still getting text messages today

932
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 7: from love from family members, from friends around the state

933
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 7: who are just now discovering the loss of their child.

934
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 7: And we've got people you know that are grieving. I

935
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 7: met with the families night before last who had not

936
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 7: yet seen their kids. I was there with the sheriff

937
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 7: and the city manager and engaging with them about you know,

938
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 7: DNA collections so they can identify their kids. This is

939
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 7: a statement for the rest of the world. It's not

940
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 7: directed at you guys, but everybody that's just zeroing in

941
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 7: on this and politicizing this right out of the bat.

942
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 7: I mean, for the love of everything holy, everything that

943
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 7: is good about our people and this country and this

944
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 7: state is being displayed right now with everybody going to

945
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 7: help people, find people, comfort people, pray for people. The

946
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 7: pictures of those little girls singing hems coming back from

947
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 7: the camp, you know, when they had just lost girls

948
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 7: in their camp and they're singing hems, Christian hems while

949
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 7: they're looking at the damage that I saw yesterday driving

950
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 7: down that stretch of the river. So that's just a

951
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,479
Speaker 7: message to the world, like to slow your political role.

952
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 7: Goodness gracious now on the question, because it is a

953
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 7: relevant question. One, we're going to have to figure this

954
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 7: out over time, Okay, nobody knows for sure right now.

955
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 7: Two the sense of it is more the latter of

956
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 7: your question. This was a once in a century type

957
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 7: of kind of flood. It has flooded before nineteen eighty seven,

958
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 7: previous times. It is prone to flash flooding. Therefore, number three, yes,

959
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 7: they probably need a better warning system, sirens, other types

960
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 7: of things. But we will go through that process going forward,

961
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 7: the local official, state officials, and we'll be looking at

962
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 7: it obviously federally, although it's not really I think, our

963
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 7: direct purview. But I think those things are all true.

964
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 7: This nonsense about the Weather Service, that's crap. They had

965
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 7: people there, they were putting out warnings. People knew they

966
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 7: were going to be flash floods. The only question is

967
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 7: is trying to determine the severity of it, Which brings

968
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 7: me to my last point five, which is there is bureaucracy.

969
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 7: There are systems that are old. We could have better technology,

970
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 7: we could have better predictions, We can have less bureaucracy

971
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 7: and communicating it. But just keep in mind this final point.

972
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 7: It was four am on July fourth, in the dark

973
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,839
Speaker 7: in the hill country, way out away from civilization, when

974
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 7: a massive, unprecedented flood drove into basically a canyon area

975
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,720
Speaker 7: where water got fuddled down the river and it rows

976
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 7: thirty feet in.

977
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 2: Less than an hour. That's what happened.

978
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 7: So we can try to protect against it, and we

979
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,840
Speaker 7: can do better, and we should, but let's try to

980
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 7: keep perspective in all of this. And I mean that respectfully.

981
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,919
Speaker 7: I think your question was absolutely in good good faith

982
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 7: and I appreciate it.

983
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:28,760
Speaker 2: Chip.

984
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: Everybody who is in this area knows Camp Mystic. It

985
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: feels like we're coming up on one hundred years. I

986
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: think next year is supposed to be one hundredth anniversary

987
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: of this. What is camp Mystic?

988
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 2: Like?

989
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: What does it mean for people in your district who

990
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: may not be familiar with it but are learning now

991
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: because unfortunately, so many of these young kids appear to

992
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: have been victims based on being located there.

993
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, just to give you a couple of

994
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 7: data points. Number One, night before last, when I was

995
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 7: with all those families, there's a woman there named Mary

996
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:08,240
Speaker 7: Liz Eastland. She lost her father in law, Dick Eastland,

997
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 7: who was the older man who bought that camp in

998
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 7: the nineteen seventies, in nineteen seventy three, who died on

999
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 7: the night of the event trying to save little girls.

1000
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 7: So she has just lost her father in law. She's

1001
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 7: with these families who had just lost their kids, So

1002
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 7: you can imagine the tension there. But they showed up

1003
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 7: to shelter each.

1004
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 2: Other in love.

1005
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 7: And the amount of support and outpouring that's been coming

1006
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 7: out because the families who have gone there for years.

1007
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 2: It's a part of the culture here.

1008
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 7: My kids go to a classical Christian school. A large

1009
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:39,840
Speaker 7: chunk of the kids that go to their school go

1010
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 7: to Camp Mystic or have been to Camp Mystic. They

1011
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 7: had friends who were there. In this particular week, we

1012
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 7: had a little girl from our school who was saved,

1013
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 7: you know, praised the Lord, she was saved. She was

1014
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 7: kind of floating in the river for a couple of hours.

1015
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,959
Speaker 7: And we've had other stories like that. But we've also

1016
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 7: had stories of people we know, friends of ours. One

1017
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 7: of my staffers, Fraturney, brought his daughter was lost. One

1018
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 7: of the people I used to work and who I

1019
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 7: hired in the Senator Cruise's office her daughter's best friend.

1020
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 2: She passed away.

1021
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 7: I had a local jeweler who talked to James Avery

1022
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 7: they lost one of their loved ones. The Kansas City

1023
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 7: Chiefs family lost the loved one. It's hitting everybody but

1024
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 7: it's a great historic camp. And one last thing is

1025
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:23,919
Speaker 7: one of my staffers, you know, worked there and talked

1026
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 7: about what a great man Dick Eastland was teaching him

1027
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 7: fly fishing and all the ways of life. This morning

1028
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:32,280
Speaker 7: my office we got a fellow staffer from another Texas

1029
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,439
Speaker 7: office who sent us a box of cookies and it said,

1030
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 7: at camp Mystic Tweety, who was mister Eastland's wife, she's

1031
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 7: still alive. She made cookies and they were given to

1032
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 7: campers as a reward for hard work. And they sent

1033
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 7: us cookies because my staff has been working around the

1034
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 7: clock for the last three days.

1035
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 3: Congress and Roy, is there anything that can be done

1036
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 3: by this audience, by people listening. We have a lot

1037
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 3: of people who are right in your area. By the way,

1038
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 3: we're probably ten minute drive from or in the county

1039
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 3: or ten minute drive from the county line. But anything

1040
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 3: nationwide as well, if that can be done to just

1041
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 3: to assist to help. Are there organizations that are doing

1042
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 3: a lot of frontline work that could use support. We

1043
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 3: just want to put that out there.

1044
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, there's obviously there's a lot of great

1045
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 7: work going on. There's a community foundation in the Hill Country,

1046
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 7: that is collecting a lot of money and then a

1047
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,399
Speaker 7: lot of food places and so forth. Volunteers can sign

1048
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:36,399
Speaker 7: up online at it's called tcr dot community os dot org.

1049
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 7: You can find that if you look or call eight

1050
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 7: three zero four six five four seven nine seven for

1051
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 7: volunteers to sign up. There are places to be able

1052
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:47,839
Speaker 7: to give money. That stuff's all going to be out

1053
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 7: and if you want to know, just go to my

1054
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 7: Twitter at Chiproy t X c h I p R

1055
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 7: o I t X or Rep Chiproy and I will

1056
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 7: be putting all of that out with graphics and places

1057
00:56:58,840 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 7: where people can give.

1058
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,240
Speaker 2: And my biggest ask is we've got.

1059
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 7: Everybody wanting to come in right now, and I get it,

1060
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,879
Speaker 7: and God bless you for it, but it's hard, right

1061
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 7: We can't take everybody in everything right now. This is

1062
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 7: going to be a multi week thing. So if you can,

1063
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 7: you know, volunteer or contribute or engage, you know next week,

1064
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 7: you know in a month, they're going to need it,

1065
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 7: and so everything. We'll take everything whenever we can, but

1066
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 7: just just know they're going to need it for a while.

1067
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: Last thing that I want, I appreciate you coming on

1068
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: with us. I know how many hours you're working, and

1069
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: how many places you are right now we're talking to

1070
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: Congressman Chip Roy. Unfortunately, it looks like one hundred or

1071
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 1: more people are going to lose their lives. How many

1072
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: thousands of lives do you think first responders and good

1073
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: people just on the ground there saved because a lot

1074
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: of those stories are going to be coming out too,

1075
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: and the amount of life that was saved, I think

1076
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 1: in the people who put their lives on the line

1077
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: to do that, there's going to be some incredible stories.

1078
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: What are you already hearing about that?

1079
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.

1080
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 7: I mean looks it does look like tragically we're going

1081
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 7: to lose about twenty five of these precious kids and mostly,

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Speaker 7: if not entirely, little girls. But there were about nine

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Speaker 7: hundred or so campers in that whole region across those

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Speaker 7: eighteen camps, and we got out, you know, eight hundred

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Speaker 7: and fifty eight hundred and seventy of those kids and

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Speaker 7: most of the counselors and directors. But there's heroic stories.

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Speaker 7: A camp director who lost her life saving I think

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Speaker 7: five of those little kids herself, and she was a

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Speaker 2: The pastor of that church is randomly.

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Speaker 7: When I was down at the lake, and like, this

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Speaker 7: is the community, that's part of our family, right when

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Speaker 2: I was going to be there for Fourth of July.

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Speaker 2: That was the plan.

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Speaker 7: I go there every year to go listen to Robert 'keane.

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Speaker 7: William Beckman got down all the time to listen to

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Speaker 7: There were great stories, Like I said, Dick Eastland, he

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Speaker 7: died trying to save three little girls at four or

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Speaker 7: five six in the morning when those floods were running

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Speaker 7: through there. And I cannot explain enough for the average

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Speaker 2: To thirty feet in about an hour, hour and a half.

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Speaker 7: There was a guy who lost two daughters, not as

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Speaker 7: what people were dealing with. But there's been a lot

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Speaker 7: and we're just deeply appreciate of everybody who's been engaging

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back into Clay and Buck. You know, we just

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Speaker 3: We're monitoring this conversation in the background that's trying to

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Speaker 3: And there are people that are saying it's Trump's fault.

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Speaker 3: I mean that they're already going out there, Oh it's Trump,

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Speaker 9: These offices were fully staffed. The San Angelo office was

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Speaker 9: fully staffed with twelve forecast meteorologists. There were no vacancies.

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Speaker 9: The San Antonio Offices office was operating with eleven forecasters,

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Speaker 9: and as Brian said, the Union themselves said that there

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Speaker 9: and the numbers speak for themselves. This was a once

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Speaker 9: in a century flash flood, a tragic natural disaster, and

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Speaker 9: the administration is doing all that we can on the

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Speaker 9: ground to help these families during this time of need.

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Speaker 3: I just you can't let the can't let the media

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Speaker 3: lies go on, unresponded to Clay. Yeah, I think that's important,

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Speaker 3: and we come back, we'll talk a little bit more

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Speaker 1: But anybody who's lived through tornadoes, floods, blaming hurricanes, blaming

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Speaker 1: the president or congressmen or the people, god forbid who

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I think.

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Speaker 1: There is a line where you say, hey, the fires

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Speaker 1: Hey, how about we put them out right? Most of

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