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Dem Party Rift Deepens Over Shutdown Strategy as Air Travel Nightmare Continues · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 4: Good Tuesday morning, nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 4: the forty seven Morning Update, America still being held hostage
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  Speaker 4: by the Democratic Party, massive flight delays, and many Democrats
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  Speaker 4: who are now calling for Chuck Schumer to lose his job.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: We're starting with good news sort of day forty one
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  Speaker 4: of the longest federal shutdown in US history. There is
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  Speaker 4: movement now, there's still a shutdown in the deal points
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  Speaker 4: that Democrats are fighting over this all while there's still
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  Speaker 4: chaos in the sky. Snap benefits are in limbo, and
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  Speaker 4: we now know that lawmakers in the House are in
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  Speaker 4: a thirty six hour return notice. This is the longest
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  Speaker 4: ever government shutdown and it's on the verge of ending
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  Speaker 4: food aid benefits remaining again in limbo. Why is this
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  Speaker 4: happening Because Democrats are still wanting you to blame Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump and they believe they have the upper hand. That's
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  Speaker 4: also happening while we're seeing massive flight cancelations and delays
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  Speaker 4: they're disrupting travelers all over the US and international travelers
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  Speaker 4: coming into the US. Now, the Senate on Sunday took
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  Speaker 4: the first major step towards voting on a biperson deal
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  Speaker 4: reached between some Democrats, eight of them, and Republicans and
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  Speaker 4: President Donald Trump. Now, this would fully reopen the government
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  Speaker 4: until January the thirtiest, so there's still going to be
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  Speaker 4: work to be done after that. The agreement would also
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  Speaker 4: keep various other federal benefits, including snap benefits and veteran
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  Speaker 4: services funded through the next year.
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  Speaker 2: That's a positive. Now. A decision by a small group
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  Speaker 2: of moderate.
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  Speaker 4: Democrats that defected from the rest of their party marked
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  Speaker 4: the biggest turning point since the shutdown began on October
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  Speaker 4: the first, But it also prompted immediate political blowback, as
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  Speaker 4: many Democrats are now urging those colleagues to quote hold
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  Speaker 4: out for greater spending on things like Medicaid and Obamacare.
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  Speaker 4: That is what they're doing. So what happens next is
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  Speaker 4: the question that so many of you are asking. Well,
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  Speaker 4: now that there are eight Democrats that have signaled support
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  Speaker 4: for reopening the government, Congress has to clear a number
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  Speaker 4: of procedural hurdles they could have done this, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday night, Democrats deliberately wanted it to hurt a
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  Speaker 4: little bit longer. This means this could delay things as
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  Speaker 4: far as Friday, if no one to now. When the
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  Speaker 4: new funding deal passes the Senate, which could come as
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  Speaker 4: soon as late Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, the package will
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  Speaker 4: then have to pass the House of Representatives, which hasn't
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  Speaker 4: taken a vote in weeks. Lawmakers in the House have
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  Speaker 4: now been put on a thirty six hour return noticed
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  Speaker 4: as I mentioned earlier, so it would likely take quote
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  Speaker 4: several days, barring any travel issues lawmakers in my experience,
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  Speaker 4: to get back to DC because of the shutdown for
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  Speaker 4: them to even pass any of the Senate bills. The
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  Speaker 4: Senate Majority leader John Thune indicated last week that he
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  Speaker 4: didn't think the shutdown would last pass Thanksgiving. Now again,
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  Speaker 4: you're dealing with Democrats that are wanting this to happen now.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump has also come out saying he supports the
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  Speaker 4: Senate deal to reopen the government that's been broken between
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  Speaker 4: Republican leaders and the eight Democratic lawmakers, saying, quote, based
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  Speaker 4: on everything I'm hearing, they haven't changed anything. Trump told
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  Speaker 4: reporters in the Oval Office, and we have support from
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  Speaker 4: enough Democrats. We're going to reopen our country. It's too
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  Speaker 4: bad it was closed, but we'll be reopening our country
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  Speaker 4: very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Trump went on to say, now, the.
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  Speaker 4: Agreement would reverse Trump's recent firing of federal workers during
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  Speaker 4: the shutdown, but the President suggested he's fine with that, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 4: I'll abide by the deal.
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  Speaker 2: The deal is very good.
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  Speaker 4: So then the question becomes, what's actually in this deal?
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  Speaker 2: Let me explain that for you.
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  Speaker 4: The agreed to deal as it stands right now, would
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  Speaker 4: reopen the government until January thirtieth. It would also include
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  Speaker 4: full year funding for several agencies and programs, including food Aid,
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  Speaker 4: veterans benefits, SNAP funding with continued food stamps through the
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  Speaker 4: September at higher levels. It also includes a commitment to
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  Speaker 4: vote on a bill to potentially extend the expiring Obamacare subsidies,
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  Speaker 4: the tax credits which millions of Americans rely on to
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  Speaker 4: help pay government premiums. So that's part of this welfare
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  Speaker 4: program since it happened because of Obamacare. Now, in addition,
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  Speaker 4: the deal would reverse the layoffs of thousands of federal
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  Speaker 4: workers while barring any potential firing until January thirtieth, the
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  Speaker 4: terminations have been temporarily blocked by a federal court judge.
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  Speaker 4: A handful of Senate Democrats have backed the compromise to
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  Speaker 4: reopen the government, but it didn't make them any popular
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  Speaker 4: with their fellow leftists anarchists that are holding us all hostage.
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  Speaker 4: Making this deal is malpractice, is what the new Jersey
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  Speaker 4: governor elect said in a statement. Pathetic is what Governor
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  Speaker 4: of California Gaven Newsom said, and most Senate Democrats balked
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  Speaker 4: at the compromise. Mark Warner, Democrat from Virginia, said Quota
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  Speaker 4: cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans
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  Speaker 4: wondering how they're going to pay for their health care
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  Speaker 4: or whether they will be able to afford to afford
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  Speaker 4: to get sick at all.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump is also tried to deal with what's happening
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  Speaker 4: in our airports. He has ordered all air traffic controllers
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  Speaker 4: back to work. Trump threatening to dock the pay of
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  Speaker 4: air traffic controllers who haven't reported to work as flight
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  Speaker 4: delays and cancelations have spiked all over the country. He
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  Speaker 4: said it this way, very simply, quote, all air traffic
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  Speaker 4: controllers must get back to work now. Anyone who doesn't
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  Speaker 4: will be substantially docked. Many air traffic controllers continued working
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  Speaker 4: without a paycheck during the shutdown.
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  Speaker 2: They will get back paid, just so you know.
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  Speaker 4: But many have refused or didn't report to airports across
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  Speaker 4: the country. That's what prompted the FAA to order airlines
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  Speaker 4: to cancel four percent of their flights over the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Trump has urged the controllers who didn't show up for
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  Speaker 4: work to quit, and he pledged to recommend ten thousand
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  Speaker 4: dollars bonuses to controllers who continued working, saying this for
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  Speaker 4: those air traffic controllers who were great patriots and didn't
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  Speaker 4: take any time off for the Democrats shutdown hoax, I
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  Speaker 4: will be recommending a bonus of ten thousand person for
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  Speaker 4: distinguished service to our country. For those that did nothing
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  Speaker 4: but complain and took full time off, even though even
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  Speaker 4: though everyone knew they would be paid in full shortly
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  Speaker 4: into the future, I am not happy with you.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: How bad are the cancelations? Delta Airlines announced it's canceled
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  Speaker 4: nearly five hundred flights under a government directive during the shutdown,
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  Speaker 4: and that all cancelations through November twelfth have been completed.
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  Speaker 4: The airline canceled two hundred and eighty mainline flights and
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  Speaker 4: two hundred and fifteen Delta Connection regional flights. Additional delays
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  Speaker 4: and cancelations, they say still may be needed to cope
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  Speaker 4: with air traffic control restrictions. The airline is now warning quote,
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  Speaker 4: Delta teams continue to safely manage our operations and care
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  Speaker 4: for customers who have experienced cancelations and delays. United Airlines
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  Speaker 4: this is what they've said. They said it is sticking
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  Speaker 4: with the government ordered flight cancelations through at least November
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  Speaker 4: the twelfth, as Congress debates the potential end of the shutdown.
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  Speaker 4: The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered airlines to reduce their
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  Speaker 4: flights four percent November seventh to cope with strains on
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  Speaker 4: air traffic controllers who suffered absences while continue to work
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  Speaker 4: during the shutdown, saying quote, we will continue to make
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  Speaker 4: rolling updates to our schedule if the government shutdown continues,
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  Speaker 4: and share the latest information as we have it. The
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  Speaker 4: airline sentness statement as well on social media. Now, Republicans
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  Speaker 4: say that, well, you cannot hide from the crisis that
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  Speaker 4: was created by Democrats, And I want you to hear
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  Speaker 4: what Speaker Johnson had to say about the Democrats using
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  Speaker 4: the American people as leverage.
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  Speaker 5: Figure Johnson, I loved your quote. It's the beginning of
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  Speaker 5: the end of the shutdown, very Churchillian. I like that
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  Speaker 5: very much. But you know, but at the end of
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  Speaker 5: this whole thing, they're basically going back to your CR.
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  Speaker 5: I know there's a few add ons here veterans construction,
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  Speaker 5: no at tax destruction, but basically they could have just
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  Speaker 5: voted yes on your CR in the first place. And
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand how stupid this is. And I think
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  Speaker 5: millions of Americans are very aggravated over this.
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  Speaker 6: They are, and you're right, it was stupid. To your's
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  Speaker 6: word and my word is utterly pointless. I mean, forty
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  Speaker 6: days we've had the country wandering in the wilderness because
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  Speaker 6: of the Democrats in transigence, and they've made the American
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  Speaker 6: people suffer needlessly. And at the end of all this,
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  Speaker 6: you now have a handful of Democrats who have come
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  Speaker 6: to their senses. They're prepared to do the right thing
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  Speaker 6: reopen the government. They're going to do, Larry, to your point,
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  Speaker 6: exactly what we asked them to do.
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  Speaker 2: Weeks ago.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, all of this was really for nothing. And
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  Speaker 6: it's so sad that they have used the American people
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  Speaker 6: as their leverage, that's their own quote, as ponds in
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  Speaker 6: this political game, so that Chuck Schumer could have political
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  Speaker 6: cover back in New York. I mean, it's really unconscionable.
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  Speaker 4: Now anestly, there's also another aspect of this shutdown, and
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  Speaker 4: that is the civil war that's happening as we speak
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  Speaker 4: right now within the Democratic Party. Senator Dick Durbin, for example,
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  Speaker 4: openly admitted the Democrats knew the damage that they were
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  Speaker 4: going to cause the families by shutting the government down,
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  Speaker 4: saying from the four of the Senate earlier today, I
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  Speaker 4: cannot accept a strategy which wages political battle at the
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  Speaker 4: expense of my neighbor's paychecked or the food for his children.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Chuck Schumer, and this was the Schumer shut down.
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  Speaker 4: He was forced to do it, held hostage by the
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  Speaker 4: extreme wing of the Democratic Party, the aocs of his
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  Speaker 4: party that he's afraid are going to actually come after
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  Speaker 4: him in a primary. Well, now Democrats are mad that
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  Speaker 4: this deal is getting done. In fact, one Democratic strategist
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  Speaker 4: today on MSNBC said this about Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 7: Chuld Chuck schumergh and yet yes, Chuck Schumer should go.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry to say, Chuck schumershag go. I voted for
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  Speaker 7: many times. I am ideologically quite aligned with where he
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  Speaker 7: is as a Senator, but he's no longer capable of
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  Speaker 7: running this caucus. He's no longer capable leading the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 7: I am a lifeline. I mean, I am an establishment Democrat,
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  Speaker 7: and I'm here to say that Bernie Sanders is much
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  Speaker 7: more in line with where I and many other Democrats
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  Speaker 7: are today than Chuck Schumer is. And you know, if
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  Speaker 7: you would have asked me that five years ago, I
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  Speaker 7: would have laughed at you. So that just to the
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  Speaker 7: underscore exactly how furious, how furious Democrats are today for
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  Speaker 7: putting the country through this without having it.
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  Speaker 4: Out, without having an out. This is the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 4: right now telling you how bad the Civil War is.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't enough that.
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  Speaker 4: They actually decide to shut down the government for the
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  Speaker 4: longest period in history. They're now saying Chuck Schumer must
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  Speaker 4: go and the extreme of the party should be mainlined.
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  Speaker 2: Seth Moulton on Chuck Schumer saying this.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and do you think that change, that need for
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  Speaker 6: a change in leadership would also extend to Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 6: If you were elected to the Senate, would you want
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  Speaker 6: to see, Okay, I'm.
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  Speaker 8: Not going to run on a new generation of leadership
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  Speaker 8: platform here in Massachusetts and then go down a wat
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  Speaker 8: Washington and vote for the status quo. And so I've
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  Speaker 8: been very public about that. Again, you know, respect his service,
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  Speaker 8: but time to move on. And you know my opponent
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  Speaker 8: has not. He keeps dodging the question.
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  Speaker 4: That is a man who's running for Senate in Massachusetts
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  Speaker 4: saying this will be over if I am elected and
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  Speaker 4: we will get rid of Chuck Schumer one more that's
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  Speaker 4: also saying the same exact thing. Democrats continuing to call
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  Speaker 4: for him to be done, and the media following suit.
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  Speaker 4: On the View today, Sonny Houston saying this about it's
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  Speaker 4: time for Schumer to be gone, saying his days are over.
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  Speaker 9: You know, you do something like this, shame on you
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  Speaker 9: the first time. You do it twice, three times, four times,
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  Speaker 9: Shame on me, Shame on the Democrats. We're even believing
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  Speaker 9: that the Republicans will you know, even vote on it.
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  Speaker 9: There's no guarantee in this new deal that there's going
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  Speaker 9: to be a vot. There's no even commitment to have
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  Speaker 9: a vote. So the bottom line is the Democrats went
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  Speaker 9: into this after a blue wave out of the American
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  Speaker 9: people saying we do want the opposition, the working people
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  Speaker 9: want the Democratic Party to fight for them, and now
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  Speaker 9: they just cave and surrendered. I think Chuck Schumer his
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  Speaker 9: days are over.
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  Speaker 4: His days are over. So there it is Democrats admitting
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  Speaker 4: they did it on purpose. They're hurting Americans on purpose.
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  Speaker 4: They're delaying open the government right now, even as they
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  Speaker 4: agree to open the government on purpose, and they want
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  Speaker 4: it to hurt on purpose, and there is a civil
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  Speaker 4: war in the Democratic Party. Chuck Schumer is no longer
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  Speaker 4: extreme enough for the Democratic Party. So if you think
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  Speaker 4: this was a grand success for Democrats, look at what
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  Speaker 4: they're saying about their own party right now. And Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 4: as he made it clear today, it's time to get
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  Speaker 4: our government back open and get us back to working.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the most important thing for so many Americas
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  Speaker 4: hit insteader being held hostage by the Democratic Party.
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