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Democrats DEMAND We Spend $50 TRILLION to Become Carbon Neutral! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: All right, if you're running for office or you're looking
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Speaker 1: at somebody to vote for come November, I am going
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Speaker 1: to explain to.
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Speaker 2: You the type of people we need in Washington.
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Speaker 1: And when I say need, I'm talking about people that
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Speaker 1: actually care, that actually take their time to ask thoughtful questions,
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Speaker 1: that actually aren't there self serving and just putting out propaganda. Now,
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Speaker 1: I say this because I'm going to play for you
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Speaker 1: in a moment two different things that happened the last
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours, both very different issues.
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Speaker 2: One dealing with global warming.
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Speaker 1: Another issue dealing with a judicial nominee, both obviously important issues. Now,
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of deadbeat Republicans in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 1: There are actually some Republicans that have been elected that
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Speaker 1: are honestly, really stupid. There are a lot of Democrats
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Speaker 1: that have been elected that are extremely stupid as.
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Speaker 1: But I do expect Republicans and Conservatives to be at
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Speaker 1: a higher level than the lowest common de nominated with
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. Now, I say this because there are
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Speaker 1: certain centers that are just special. One of those that
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Speaker 1: I'm going to play for you is John Kennedy. John
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Speaker 1: Kennedy from Louisiana is a guy that if he's asking
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Speaker 1: you questions, you'd better be paying attention before his committee.
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Speaker 1: Democrats are trying to spend fifty trillion dollars, not billion,
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Speaker 1: fifty trillion dollars for the United States of America to
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Speaker 1: become carbon neutral. They held a hearing about this and
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Speaker 1: they had expert witnesses that were called to tell Congress
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Speaker 1: why we should spend fifty trillion dollars to become carbon
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Speaker 1: neutral in America. One of the Democratic witnesses they brought
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Speaker 1: before the committee with someone that Senator Kennedy wanted to
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Speaker 1: ask some questions of. This is a quote expert witness.
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Speaker 1: These aren't just random people that are there. This is
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Speaker 1: one of their expert witnesses, and this witness is there
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Speaker 1: to tell Senator Kennedy and the rest of America why
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Speaker 1: we should spend fifty trillion dollars to become carbon neutral
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Speaker 1: in just a couple of years.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen to what then ensued.
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Speaker 3: What is what is carbon dioxide?
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Speaker 4: I'm I went to high school, but that's uh. Carbon
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Speaker 4: dioxide is a guess. Okay, I'm not I'm not a
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Speaker 4: I'm not.
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Speaker 5: A professional to talk about carbon dioxide so much.
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Speaker 1: But well you, by the way, let me tell you
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Speaker 1: who's talking. This is a guy whose name played in
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Speaker 1: front of him, says mister gush Schumacher. Mister Gus is
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Speaker 1: an American cross country skier.
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Speaker 2: And an Olympian.
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Speaker 1: This guy, who is an expert, just says, hey, I'm
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Speaker 1: not an expert. Now that's not a good start, right.
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Speaker 1: this back and forth again.
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Speaker 2: This is a expert.
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Speaker 1: This is a guy who you're supposed to be Congress
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Speaker 1: and the American people are supposed to be listening to.
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Speaker 1: Mister Gus, an American cross country skier and Olympian. He says, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on carbon dioxide. The dim witness
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Speaker 1: did say, it's a huge part of our atmosphere, is it.
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Speaker 1: It's actually a very small part of our atmosphere about
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Speaker 1: zero point zero three five percent.
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Speaker 2: Keep listening.
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Speaker 3: You want us to abolish it? Right?
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Speaker 5: No, There's always going to be carbon dioxide.
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Speaker 6: Right, So what is it you want us to do?
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Speaker 6: Let me back up, because I want to. I mean,
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Speaker 6: you're here as an expert, tell me more about what
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Speaker 6: carbon dioxide is.
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Speaker 4: I'm here as an expert cross country skier who sees
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Speaker 4: the changes in my winters and the landscape that I
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Speaker 4: live in Alaska, and so carbon dioxide is what I
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Speaker 4: see it as is you know, it's a gas that
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Speaker 4: exists in our atmosphere, and is.
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Speaker 3: It the major part of our atmosphere?
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Speaker 5: It's a huge part of our atmosphere.
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Speaker 3: It's actually very small part of our atmosphere.
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Speaker 4: Well, okay, but yeah, I don't know what are you
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Speaker 4: asking specifically?
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Speaker 6: Well, you say we need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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Speaker 6: I'd like to know first if you know what it
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Speaker 6: is you want us to abolish fossil fuels.
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Speaker 5: I never said that.
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Speaker 3: You never have said that.
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Speaker 6: No, okay, what do you think we ought to do
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Speaker 6: with fossil fuels?
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Speaker 5: What will we do with fossil fuels?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, should we make any changes?
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Speaker 4: I would like to see a decrease in the use
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Speaker 4: of fossil fuels. I think there's a possibility to use
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Speaker 4: more electric generation.
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Speaker 6: Over over what period of time? Ten years, fifty years,
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Speaker 6: one hundred years.
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Speaker 4: That's not I would like to see it come as
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Speaker 4: fast as possible.
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Speaker 5: While continuing how fast, sorry, how fast?
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Speaker 6: I don't have a you don't know for that, No, okay,
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Speaker 6: you just think, well, how much will it cost for
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Speaker 6: us to become carbon neutral in the United States by
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Speaker 6: two thousand and fifty.
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Speaker 5: I'm not a professional on that.
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Speaker 3: I don't have any You don't have any idea. No,
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Speaker 3: you just think we all to spend the money.
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Speaker 5: I'm not an economist.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's going to cost money. You were lass that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but we've also talked about the trade off of
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Speaker 4: what the cost of climate change as emergencies will cost
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Speaker 4: in the future.
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Speaker 6: Also, so right, but it's going to cost trillions of
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Speaker 6: dollars come carbon neutral by twenty thy fifty.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 5: I do not know.
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Speaker 3: You don't know. You just think we all to do it.
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Speaker 5: I don't have a great answer for you.
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Speaker 7: But I think if we spent if we spent those
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Speaker 7: trains of dollars and became carbon neutral by twenty and
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Speaker 7: fifty in the United States, which you advocate, how much
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Speaker 7: will reduce world temperatures.
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Speaker 5: I don't have an answer for that.
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Speaker 6: You don't know, No, you just think we all to
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Speaker 6: spend the money and then see what happens.
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Speaker 4: I think, as an athlete, I think if we spend
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Speaker 4: that money and invest in our future, hopefully those temperatures
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Speaker 4: stop rising and maybe the snow at least stabilizes where
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Speaker 4: it is for me. But yeah, I don't think anyone
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Speaker 4: knows for sure.
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Speaker 5: I don't know anyway.
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Speaker 6: Well, when my colleagues invite witnesses to come to us
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Speaker 6: to tell us advise us on passing legislation, always check
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Speaker 6: out the background of our witnesses, because I'd like to
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Speaker 6: know who I'm talking to. I checked yours out in
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Speaker 6: mister Schumacher, and I want to be sure I understand
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Speaker 6: it as I valuate your testimony. On June eighth, twenty twenty,
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Speaker 6: you tweeted, I'm going to quote the war on drugs
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Speaker 6: was intentionally created to incarcerate black people? On Moss end
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Speaker 6: quote the war on drugs, you said, was intentionally created
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Speaker 6: to incarcerate black people? Moss who intentionally created the war
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Speaker 6: on drugs to put black people in jail?
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Speaker 3: Who were you talking?
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Speaker 5: I don't remember typing that.
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Speaker 3: You don't know it's on your Twitter feed?
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Speaker 5: Maybe a retweet. I don't know. I haven't used that
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Speaker 5: in a while.
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Speaker 6: Well, even if it's a retweet, it shows your support, right.
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Speaker 4: Maybe, Yeah, But it's not the topic of this conversation though.
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Speaker 6: Right, right, But it has to do with you're here
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Speaker 6: giving us advice, and I just kind of like to
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Speaker 6: know a little bit more about you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm here as an athlete
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Speaker 4: giving you my story and what I've seen in my.
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Speaker 6: On August twenty seventh of twenty twenty, you tweeted this quote.
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna quote police are paid with taxpayer dollars. If
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Speaker 6: they are not answerable to us, we can demand new service.
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Speaker 3: And that's what this is.
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Speaker 6: Abolish the police in favor of that new service.
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Speaker 3: End quote. You think well to bile some police, do you?
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Speaker 5: Again? Not the topic I'm here to talk about today.
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Speaker 3: I know, but you tweeted do you think we ought
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Speaker 3: to about some police?
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Speaker 5: That's not what I'm here to talk about.
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Speaker 6: Should we do that before or after we get rid
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Speaker 6: of fossil fuels. I'm not going to a dress that
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Speaker 6: you don't want to address it.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we need more people that are elected office to
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Speaker 1: do what Senator Kennedy just did. You're an expert. This
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Speaker 1: is who the Democrats brought to Congress to give us
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Speaker 1: all of this information. Giving us all this information, ask
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Speaker 1: them questions. They can't answer the damn questions because they're
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Speaker 1: not experts. They're activists, they're radicals, they're extremists. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, they don't even know how much carbon accid
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Speaker 1: is in the atmosphere, which they're saying.
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Speaker 2: We just spend fifty trillion dollars to get rid of
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Speaker 2: Senator Kennedy. By the way, wasn't done asking tough questions.
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Speaker 1: He obviously decimated this kid, this young adult, whatever you
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Speaker 1: want to call him, This olympian, right, who's telling us
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Speaker 1: we had to spend fifty trillion dollars to get carbon
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Speaker 1: neutral and doesn't even know how much carbon dioxide's in
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Speaker 1: the atmosphere.
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Speaker 2: But we'll move on from that. Right, let's move to
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Speaker 2: something else. It's even a bigger deal.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: Granted, spending fifty trillion dollars is a big deal, but
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Speaker 1: let's talk about judicial nominees. Senator Kennedy had a lady
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Speaker 1: by the name of she is a judge. Judge Nancy L.
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Speaker 1: Maldonado was in front of him. She is a Biden
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Speaker 1: judicial nominee, and he decided, I'm going to.
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Speaker 2: Ask her some questions.
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Speaker 1: And the nominee struggled to define what an assault weapon was.
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Speaker 1: Yet she is on the record is saying she wants
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Speaker 1: to abolish all assault weapons in America. And this is
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Speaker 1: a judge that you could be in front of in
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Speaker 1: a court one day. Listen to how this went.
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Speaker 6: You said, quote, assault weapons may be banned because they're
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Speaker 6: extraordinarily dangerous and are not appropriate for legitimate self defense purposes.
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Speaker 3: Close quote. Tell me what you meant by assault weapons?
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Speaker 8: Thank you, Senator Kennedy. Just to clarify, Just to clarify there,
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Speaker 8: I was local counsel are supreme.
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Speaker 2: But you wrote the brief.
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Speaker 3: Tell you what you meant by assault weapons.
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Speaker 8: Senator Kenny. Actually, I did not write the brief. The
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Speaker 8: brief was written by you.
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Speaker 3: Signed the brief though, correct.
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Speaker 2: I signed the brief.
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Speaker 3: Sign a brief.
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Speaker 6: You're testifying to the court that everything in it is true, right, yes,
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Speaker 6: and I they're your words in terms of the court. Right.
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Speaker 8: Well, you're you're correct, Senator Kennedy. I would never sign
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Speaker 8: what you meant by assault weapons. So I am not
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Speaker 8: a gun expert. And at the time that brief I
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Speaker 8: think was about ten years given the.
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Speaker 6: Court advice about say ban assault weapons. What is I'm
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Speaker 6: just you told the court you weren't you were you
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Speaker 6: were an expert. Just tell me what you wanted to.
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Speaker 8: Ban, Senator sitting here today, as I said, I did
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Speaker 8: not write that brief.
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Speaker 2: I was local counters a brief.
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Speaker 8: I understand at the.
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Speaker 3: Time maybe what you wanted to ban, that's all I
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Speaker 3: want to know.
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Speaker 8: I don't remember the exact definition of assault weapons in
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Speaker 8: the ordinance that was that issue.
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Speaker 6: So you submitted a brief to the appellant brief, you
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Speaker 6: signed it, and you don't know what and you said
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Speaker 6: aboassed assault weapons, and you don't know what you wanted
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Speaker 6: them to abolish.
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Speaker 2: Senator.
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Speaker 8: At the time that I signed the brief, I read
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Speaker 8: the brief because our Supreme Court required someone an.
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Speaker 2: Illinois bar member, to sign the brief.
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Speaker 8: I was not responsible for researching the content.
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Speaker 3: You were watched for the brief.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely, and sitting here today, I do not remember
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Speaker 8: are the characteristics of of that were that were cited
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Speaker 8: in the ordinance for the assault weapons ban. It's not
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Speaker 8: an area of practice that I have specialized in. I'm
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Speaker 8: sure ten years ago I would I could have answered
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Speaker 8: your question. It's sitting here today.
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Speaker 3: Promoted record.
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Speaker 2: Senator, I stand by my record.
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Speaker 3: I stand by my record.
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Speaker 1: I stand by my record. You think you deserve to
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Speaker 1: be promoted? Simple question not He's not being a jerk.
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Speaker 1: He's asking a simple question someone that wants a big
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Speaker 1: judicial nominee position a judge. The question let's go back
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Speaker 1: to the very beginning. So tell me what you meant
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Speaker 1: by assault weapons, this judge, So I'm not a gun expert,
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Speaker 1: and at the time that that breathed, I thinking I
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Speaker 1: was about a tent. But you've given the court advice
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Speaker 1: about it, right, You're an expert in the court. You're
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Speaker 1: giving the court advice and you're saying ban assault weapons.
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Speaker 1: What is I'm just you told the court you're you are,
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Speaker 1: you're an expert. Just tell me what you want a demand.
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Speaker 1: She can't answer the question. Now, I play these two
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Speaker 1: different clips from you, because my point is this, we
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Speaker 1: need to elect better people to Washington. Two that are
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Speaker 1: there not to grandstand and go around and wear their
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Speaker 1: suits and their you know, pant suits and act like
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Speaker 1: they're a big, you know, big to do people. We
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Speaker 1: need people to go to Washington and when there's someone
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Speaker 1: up for a major position or job within our government
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Speaker 1: or a massive policy that we're about to change, for example,
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Speaker 1: spending fifty trillion dollars to go carbon neutral in America,
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Speaker 1: like that'll bankrupt us. It's kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 1: And the Democrats bring their experts. We need somebody that's
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Speaker 1: going to know how to ask them questions about what
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Speaker 1: they think and what they believe in and what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you another example, not from I'm Senor Kennedy,
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Speaker 1: and this deals absolutely with our national security. An Air
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Speaker 1: Force general has now come out due to questioning and
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Speaker 1: revealed that there is a quote alarming number of drones
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Speaker 1: crossing into the US airspace at the southern border.
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Speaker 2: Now, what is the definition of alarming?
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Speaker 1: Is the first question when I see this headline, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: all right, well, what's the definition of alarming?
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Speaker 2: Like, what is really alarming? What does that look like?
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Speaker 6: Well?
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Speaker 1: The Air Force general revealed to Congress that the number
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Speaker 1: of drones crossing into the US airspace at the southern
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Speaker 1: border is now more than one thousand a month.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I would agree that is an alarming number.
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Speaker 1: More than one thousand drones per month are crossing into
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Speaker 1: the US airspace near the border with Mexico. A top
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Speaker 1: general is telling us, Okay, so who's flying the thousand
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Speaker 1: drones per month? And are we shooting any of them down?
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Speaker 1: They're coming into our airspace right like, so are we
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Speaker 1: taking them out? They then go on to say the
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Speaker 1: number of unmanned drone incursions not only is alarming and
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Speaker 1: presents quote a growing potential threat to national security. Is
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Speaker 1: what Air Force General Gregory Glot, the commander of North
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Speaker 1: American Defense Command and US Northern Command said at the
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Speaker 1: Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, how did we just find
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Speaker 1: out about one thousand drones a month crossing into the
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Speaker 1: US airspace near the border with Mexico?
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Speaker 2: And who is flying those drones?
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Speaker 5: Like?
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Speaker 1: How did it get to the point where it was
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Speaker 1: a thousand before you and I heard about it? You
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Speaker 1: want to know the only reason why we've heard about
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Speaker 1: this because of another US senator who's asking the right questions.
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Speaker 1: And if there's a theme for today's show, it is
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Speaker 1: this theme we need less need. We need fewer elected
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Speaker 1: officials that are on TikTok and more elected off officials
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Speaker 1: that are in Washington asking real questions. Senator Ted Buddy's,
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Speaker 1: a new senator, a Republican from North Carolina, said, quote,
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Speaker 1: the number of incursions was something.
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Speaker 2: That was alarming to me as I took command last month.
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Speaker 1: Last month, you think, yeah, that's what That's what this
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Speaker 1: army commander said while talking to the centator, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I just got there, you just got here. Hey, the
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Speaker 1: number of incursions is something that was alarming to me
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Speaker 1: when I took command last month. So how long have
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Speaker 1: we had a thousand drones per month crossing into the
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Speaker 1: United States airspace near the border with Mexico. Is it
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Speaker 1: been months, has it been six months, Has it been
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Speaker 1: a year, Has it been two years?
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Speaker 2: Have been three years? Have been four years? I just
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Speaker 2: want to know.
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Speaker 1: I'm genuinely curious, what like, how long has this been
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Speaker 1: going on? And how did it take a new.
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Speaker 2: Guy in the Senate to even ask the right question
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Speaker 2: to get to this point?
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Speaker 1: And the other question is how many other senators knew this?
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Speaker 1: How many other people in our military knew this? That
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Speaker 1: refuse to tell the truth or to let anybody know.
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Speaker 1: How many other questions are not being asked that we
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Speaker 1: should be asking to deal with our national security at
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Speaker 1: the southern border, that no one is asking the question
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Speaker 1: because they don't. We don't have smart enough people in
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Speaker 1: Washington to actually ask these basic, simple questions, whether it's
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Speaker 1: coming from Center Bud, whether it's coming from Senator Cruz,
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Speaker 1: where it's coming from Senor Kennedy. The fact that you
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Speaker 1: usually know the people that are going to ask the
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Speaker 1: real tough questions, and the list is so short compared
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Speaker 1: to that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's one hundred members of the Senate.
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Speaker 1: Folks, How often am I talking about the one hundred
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Speaker 1: different members not very often, and it's because the majority
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Speaker 1: of them they don't give a crap about actually asking
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Speaker 1: real tough questions or looking out for America's best interests.
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Speaker 2: That's the problem.
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear Senator Button again, Freshman Senator
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Speaker 1: asking the right questions, uncovering an alarming number of drones?
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Speaker 2: Who are that?
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Speaker 1: Are that are coming into American air space the southern border?
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Speaker 1: Over a thousand a month, and none of us were
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Speaker 1: told about any of this until he asked the right
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Speaker 1: question in Washington.
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Speaker 9: It's my understanding there's been a lot of drone incursions
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Speaker 9: along our southern border.
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Speaker 3: How many drone incursions have we had?
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Speaker 5: And what are they doing?
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Speaker 9: Senator? The number of incursions was something that was alarming
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Speaker 9: to me as I as I took command last month.
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Speaker 9: I don't know the actual number. I don't think anybody does,
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Speaker 9: but it's it's in the thousands. I have talked to
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Speaker 9: Customs and Border Protection, who are responsible for the U
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Speaker 9: S incursions and in the in the border along with
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Speaker 9: d O J and they put the number at thousands
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Speaker 9: over what period of.
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Speaker 3: Time is that thousands?
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Speaker 9: I would say in the probably over a month, we
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Speaker 9: could probably have over a thousand a month.
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Speaker 3: General, do they, in your view represent a homeland defense threat?
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Speaker 5: Senator?
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Speaker 9: They alarm me from the being the person responsible for
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Speaker 9: homeland defense. I haven't seen any of them manifest in
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Speaker 9: a threat to the level of national defense, but I
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Speaker 9: see the potential only growing.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: Not only did you say he sees a threat only growing,
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Speaker 1: there's like fifteen follow up questions.
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Speaker 2: I've got.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what was last month, the month before, the month before,
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Speaker 1: the month before, the month before, right, Like, what are
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Speaker 1: these numbers?
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Speaker 2: Can you get those for me?
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Speaker 1: That's number one. Let's move on from that. I got
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Speaker 1: a second question for you, Who the hell's find these drones?
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Speaker 1: Is it human traffickers? It sex traffickers, is it child rapists?
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Speaker 1: Is it drug dealers? Is it those bringing across fetnoh
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Speaker 1: and heroin and crack cocaine and acid and and and
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Speaker 1: and pills laced with feedennol? Like I want to know,
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Speaker 1: I mean this sincerely, Like we might need to know
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Speaker 1: some of this stuff one day. It would be important
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Speaker 1: that we know who's flying these drones. Are we doing
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Speaker 1: anything to stop these drones from coming across our southern border?
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Speaker 6: Uh?
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Speaker 1: Do we have a way to shoot them down when
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Speaker 1: they when they come over into our airspace, Like I
22:32
Speaker 1: would like to volunteer.
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Speaker 2: That would be a really fun spring break for me.
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Speaker 1: I would love to go to the southern border and
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Speaker 1: I would love to go down there and shoot drones
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Speaker 1: if they're being flown by the cartels out of the sky.
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Speaker 1: I think that would be a really fun uh guy's
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Speaker 1: weekend trip of like who can get the most drones
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Speaker 1: and and knock them down?
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Speaker 2: Like that would be amazing.
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Speaker 1: But in all seriousness, this is three examples, and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to do a better job of when this happens
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Speaker 1: highlighting it because I think we need to start expecting more,
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Speaker 1: a lot more. We need to be expecting a ton
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Speaker 1: more from our elected leaders. Our leaders are not doing enough, okay,
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Speaker 1: Like our leaders are not doing even close to enough
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Speaker 1: as they were in the past. Like our leaders should
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Speaker 1: be doing a much better job of asking basic questions.
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Speaker 1: We don't do enough to ask questions. We don't do
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Speaker 1: enough to make the people that are making the policy answers.
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Speaker 1: Like I still cannot believe that this is the first
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Speaker 1: time ever we've found out from an air Force general
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Speaker 1: that we've got a thousand of these drones that are
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Speaker 1: incurring per month crossing into US airspace near the Mexican border.
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Speaker 1: They're obviously up to no good. Are we even trying
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Speaker 1: to stop them? Is there an initiative to them? He said, Look,
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Speaker 1: I see the potential threat only growing.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: This is what I do know, because after this came
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Speaker 1: out and top near artificials know that while the number
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Speaker 1: of incursions alarming, they haven't seen them manifest in a
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Speaker 1: threat to the level of national defense. Okay, well, what
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Speaker 1: does a drone look like if it's being used a
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Speaker 1: threat to the national defense?
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Speaker 2: It would have I'm assuming, like armory on it, like
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Speaker 2: bombs on it.
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Speaker 1: We've seen these drones have been used for attacks, for
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Speaker 1: example right now between UK or Ukraine, I should say
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Speaker 1: in Russia. We've seen these be used in the Middle
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Speaker 1: East to attack American soldiers.
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Speaker 2: So it only takes one moment for this to change.
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Speaker 1: Now, what we think the majority of these drones, after
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Speaker 1: asking other experts, is is this Mexican cartels are using
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Speaker 1: the drones to track the locations of American authorities along
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Speaker 1: the US Mexico border in order to quote more easily
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Speaker 1: smuggle humans and draw uggs across the southern border, according
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Speaker 1: to US.
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Speaker 2: Customs and Border Protection officials.
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Speaker 1: The Rio Grand Valley Sector chief told the House Oversight
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Speaker 1: Committee in February of twenty twenty three, so this is
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Speaker 1: last year, over a year ago, that in her Texas
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Speaker 1: sector alone, more than ten thousand drone incursions and more
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Speaker 1: than twenty five thousand drone sightings had been reported in
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Speaker 1: the last year just in her sector. The adversaries have
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Speaker 1: seventeen times the number of drones, twice the amount of
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Speaker 1: flight hours, and unlimited funding to grow their operations, is
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Speaker 1: what was said by the Rio Grand Valley Sector chief.
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Speaker 1: So to be clear, the sector chief and again none
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Speaker 1: of us have heard about this until today, told Congress
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Speaker 1: that the drug cartels in absence have a seventeen x
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Speaker 1: at vantage on r safety and.
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Speaker 2: Security measures at the Southern border.
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Speaker 1: When it comes to drones, the adversaries have seventeen times
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Speaker 1: the number of drones that we the American government have,
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Speaker 1: they have twice the amount of flight hours that we have,
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Speaker 1: and they have an unlimited funding to grow their operations.
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Speaker 1: So what she's really warning us that we again, this
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Speaker 1: is a year ago, they warned us about this, but
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Speaker 1: none of US heard about it because no one is
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Speaker 1: asking the right questions. What we're really finding out is
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Speaker 1: that the cartels have an air force, and their air
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Speaker 1: force is massive. Their air force is well trained and organized.
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Speaker 1: It's not human beings up in airplanes. It's drones everywhere.
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Speaker 1: In January of twenty twenty three, we have found out
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Speaker 1: for the first time today this is over a year ago,
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Speaker 1: authorities discovered drone footage of border patrol agents allegedly shot
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Speaker 1: by human smugglers during a raid that was believed to
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Speaker 1: be a safe house used to hide migrants illegally crossing
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Speaker 1: the US Mexico boundary.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: Human smugglers use it using drones to survey the border
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Speaker 1: patrol is a growing trend that we've observed along the border.
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Speaker 1: Is with the San Diego sector, chief agent said in
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Speaker 1: a statement, quote, this technology provides transnational criminal organization, so transnational,
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Speaker 1: So this could be starting in China, veetnel coming over,
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Speaker 1: then it gets to Mexico, then it's coming over again.
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Speaker 1: Or it could be terrorist organizations like CAMAS or has Bob.
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Speaker 1: We don't know who's flying all these drones. We know
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of cartel members, but it's a transnational
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Speaker 1: criminal organization with new capabilities that are eager to exploit
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Speaker 1: American weaknesses. So I think it's fair to say the
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Speaker 1: drug cartels and those that are bringing in the number
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Speaker 1: one killer of people in this country and the number
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Speaker 1: one killer. We all know what the number one killer
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Speaker 1: is of people forty nine and under the number one
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Speaker 1: killer of people forty nine and under in this country
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Speaker 1: is FETNYL. And the people that are bringing in have
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Speaker 1: an air force, okay, have an air force to bring
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Speaker 1: it in that is seventeen times.
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Speaker 2: The size of our US militaries.
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Speaker 1: And Border Protections air force when it comes to drones
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Speaker 1: and surveillance at the southern border.
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Speaker 2: We found all this out today because one senator asked
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Speaker 2: the right questions.
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Speaker 1: We found out that the people that are the experts
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Speaker 1: on global warming actually aren't experts.
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Speaker 2: Because of another senator who asked the right questions, we.
28:39
Speaker 1: Found out that these experts want to spend fifty trillion
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Speaker 1: dollars and don't even know what it would actually do
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Speaker 1: to the environment if they got what they wanted. We
28:49
Speaker 1: found out from Senator Kennedy that there's a judicial nominee
28:53
Speaker 1: who couldn't define what an assault weapon was except she
28:56
Speaker 1: told a court that she was an expert on assault
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Speaker 1: weapons and that we should ban set assault weapons. And
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Speaker 1: this is someone who is actually right now, right now
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Speaker 1: in America, a judge looking for a promotion to an
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Speaker 1: even bigger post as a judge this November.
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Speaker 2: I say this as sincerely as I can.
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Speaker 1: We better start looking at candidates, not just to get
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Speaker 1: a warm body or a quote conservative to DC and
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Speaker 1: then we think, all right, we did our job. We
29:28
Speaker 1: need to start asking the right questions, and we need
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Speaker 1: to start finding, most importantly, the right people to run
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Speaker 1: for office who will go to office and will actually
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Speaker 1: fight and ask the questions that I just described today.
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