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Shutdown Over, Battle Lines Drawn as Trump Pushes Voter ID Front & Center · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: A photo idea to vote is not controversial in this country.
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  Speaker 1: It is not controversial by party, and it is not
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  Speaker 1: controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with
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  Speaker 1: Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo
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  Speaker 1: ideas to be able to vote.
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  Speaker 2: If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
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  Speaker 2: Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning, Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two major
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  Speaker 3: stories for you.
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  Speaker 4: First up, the.
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  Speaker 3: Government shutdown is now over and President Trump had a
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  Speaker 3: lot to say about what now has been accomplished in
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  Speaker 3: what you can expect moving forward. We break all that
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  Speaker 3: down for you in just a moment. Also, there's a
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  Speaker 3: major war on Capitol Hill on this simple issue of
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  Speaker 3: voter ID. Well, it's not a war with the American people.
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  Speaker 3: New data and polling is showing that overwhelming the majority
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  Speaker 3: of Americans, Conservatives, independence, and liberal are in favor of
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  Speaker 3: having a show and ID to vote. So why are
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  Speaker 3: Democrats through few using to back the legislation. We'll break
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  Speaker 3: seven Morning Update and it starts.
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  Speaker 2: Right now story number one.
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  Speaker 3: It is signed. President Donald Trump has signed the bill
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  Speaker 3: to reopen the government following the Democrat government shutdown. It
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  Speaker 3: was a partial shutdown, but it was a significant moment
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  Speaker 3: as Republicans went straight to the Oval Office and made
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  Speaker 3: it very very clear that Americans need to understand what
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  Speaker 3: is in this bill and what is working for you.
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  Speaker 3: Speaker Mike Johnson speaking first, saying, this standing next to
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  Speaker 3: the President in the Oval Office.
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  Speaker 4: A big thing.
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  Speaker 5: It seems like a small thing, but it's a big thing,
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  Speaker 5: and we're spending less money year over year with all
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  Speaker 5: the innovations and things that you said there. This is
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  Speaker 5: good for the country and America is back. The hat
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  Speaker 5: is appropriate, it's the right right slogan.
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  Speaker 4: It's a new hat. We just came out. America is
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  Speaker 4: back books and and stilled.
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  Speaker 6: Look at her, she's never swell never see her club
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  Speaker 6: somebody else here her small missus President, and.
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  Speaker 7: I mentioned that there's significant healthcare reform in this field,
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  Speaker 7: ABM reform, something that you have been working on, and
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  Speaker 7: we appreciate and applaud your efforts bringing drug prices down
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  Speaker 7: for citizens here in America. Not only that, but we
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  Speaker 7: extended telehealth and also we are addressing maternal mortality in
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  Speaker 7: this bill. Rural health here has been a big part
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  Speaker 7: of your of your focus, and we appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you as much. Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: You know, A very big thing I think for all
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  Speaker 6: of us is most favored nations on drug pricing. So
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  Speaker 6: for thirty years I've been talking about it more than that,
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  Speaker 6: and it's basically we now will take many prescription drugs
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  Speaker 6: will come down to the lowest price anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: In the world. So if a country is.
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  Speaker 6: Selling a pill for ten dollars and we're selling it
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  Speaker 6: for one hundred and thirty dollars, which is not much
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  Speaker 6: of an exaggeration at all, we would paying the highest
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  Speaker 6: drug prices anywhere in the world. Now we'll be paying
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  Speaker 6: tied with the lowest price. It's most favored nations. We
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  Speaker 6: will have the lowest price anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: In the world.
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  Speaker 6: So a pill that was for one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 6: dollars will be down to twenty dollars.
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  Speaker 4: So you can make a case that that's eight hundred nine.
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  Speaker 6: Hundred percent, or like the press likes to hear, it's
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  Speaker 6: about eighty percent. But we're going to get reductions like
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  Speaker 6: nobody's ever seen, and frankly, the Republican Party should be
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  Speaker 6: able to win the midterms on that alone. That's the
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  Speaker 6: biggest thing there is, Most favored nations. We're going to
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  Speaker 6: be bringing the price of drugs down. In my first term,
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  Speaker 6: I got it down one eighth of one percent, and
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  Speaker 6: I was so proud because it was the first time
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  Speaker 6: in twenty eight years that drug prices came down. And
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  Speaker 6: now we're talking about bringing it down by eighty ninety,
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  Speaker 6: seventy five, sixty eight.
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  Speaker 4: I have numbers in the back that nobody can believe.
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  Speaker 6: Most favorite nations, and remember the Republicans did that. The
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  Speaker 6: Democrats did not do that. Republicans did it. And that's
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  Speaker 6: going to have a huge impact also in healthcare because medicine,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's a big chunk of healthcare, and if
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  Speaker 6: you're bringing something down from one hundred dollars down to
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  Speaker 6: twenty dollars eighteen dollars because we were subsidizing the entire world,
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  Speaker 6: and frankly, I had to get the countries to go
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  Speaker 6: along with it, and I had to threaten tariffs against
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  Speaker 6: them if they didn't approve. And the healthcare companies who
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  Speaker 6: weren't easy either, but they said it doesn't matter because
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  Speaker 6: they'll never get the countries because.
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  Speaker 4: Anyone you want to do it.
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  Speaker 6: And I got the countries. They got every one of them.
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  Speaker 6: And really people can't even believe it. But for the
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  Speaker 6: people standing behind me, if you use that alone, you
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  Speaker 6: should win.
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  Speaker 4: We should win the elections coming up. Anybody else, how
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  Speaker 4: about on the side.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you mentioned the IRSs president. Their behavior has been atrocious.
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  Speaker 8: If you think about leaking your tax returns the tax
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  Speaker 8: returns of others, never any accountability. I must have questioned
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  Speaker 8: Jennet yelled four times, five times under oath about this,
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  Speaker 8: and never an answer. We stipped ten million dollars from
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  Speaker 8: the IRS in this bill that you just signed. And
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  Speaker 8: today I launched an investigation with my staff on all
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  Speaker 8: of these contractors that are associated with the ones that
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  Speaker 8: allowed your information to be put out, These contractors that
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  Speaker 8: hire activists to come in and do their work. These
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  Speaker 8: corporations here in America that bring activists in to do
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  Speaker 8: their work, that's going.
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  Speaker 4: To come to an end. They did leak my tax returns.
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  Speaker 4: It was terrible. The good news is I paid a
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  Speaker 4: hell of a lot of tax I paid tens of
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  Speaker 4: millions of dollars. I said, where are my accountants? I
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  Speaker 4: want to talk to my account But they did. They
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  Speaker 4: leaked my taxi and they didn't do it in a
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  Speaker 4: nice way. They can't get something out of it now.
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  Speaker 4: They have bad people accountabilities coming though.
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  Speaker 8: You think about the phone companies that leaked our telephone records,
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  Speaker 8: several of us here right Verizon.
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  Speaker 4: Lyk my telephone records. You think about what's happened across
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  Speaker 4: the company. This is going to come to an end.
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  Speaker 6: We should have voter ID, by the way, We should
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  Speaker 6: have a lot of the things that I think everybody
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  Speaker 6: wants to see. Who would not want voter ID only
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  Speaker 6: somebody that wants to cheat think of it. We don't
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  Speaker 6: have voter ID, and the Democrats don't want it. And
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  Speaker 6: the reason they don't want because they want to cheat.
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  Speaker 6: Because there's no reason in the world. And I love
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  Speaker 6: that debate Lindsey. I love saying well, why don't you
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  Speaker 6: want voter ID and you watch them say, I don't know,
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  Speaker 6: just make them vote.
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  Speaker 4: Then it's a terrible thing. So anyway, anybody else.
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  Speaker 9: When mister President, you said you wanted to make America
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  Speaker 9: safer and more prosperous, and we have done it. More
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  Speaker 9: prosperity means more money in people's pockets, and they notice
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  Speaker 9: that every time they go to fill up with gas,
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  Speaker 9: and they're going to know it when they get their
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  Speaker 9: tax returns that this year are going to be at
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  Speaker 9: least one thousand dollars, if not more greater than it's
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  Speaker 9: been in the past.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the result of the work that you've done
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  Speaker 4: with this whole group.
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  Speaker 9: And in terms of America being safer, a number of
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  Speaker 9: us were at the border two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: The border is secure, no one is coming.
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  Speaker 9: Across, not that ten thousand we saw every day with
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  Speaker 9: Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 4: The American people still in overwhelming.
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  Speaker 9: Numbers, Republicans, Democrats, and independents all say illegal immigrant criminals
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  Speaker 9: need to be deported.
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  Speaker 4: And mister President, you're doing that.
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  Speaker 6: And no tax and tips, notional security, more my people's pockets.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, and that was all the great big beauta
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  Speaker 6: obil as I call it, the great big beauta Mobil.
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  Speaker 6: To me, that's what it is. And people are starting
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  Speaker 6: and people are starting to realize it that they're starting
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  Speaker 6: to see a tax deduction on your if you borrow
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  Speaker 6: buy a car, if it's made in America. Only if
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  Speaker 6: it's made in America. The rest we don't care about
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  Speaker 6: so much. But you buy a car, you get an
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  Speaker 6: interest deduction. You borrow money, you get an interest in
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  Speaker 6: tax deduction. And that is you take interest you deducted
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  Speaker 6: against your you a tax. So to me, that's unbelievable
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  Speaker 6: for the people, unbelievable for our car companies, which is
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  Speaker 6: jobs anybody else.
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  Speaker 10: The President, the biggest part of this bill is our
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  Speaker 10: national security right, and thank you. The men and women
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  Speaker 10: who served this country are grateful to you, and we
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  Speaker 10: give them a pay raise for helping more ships, as
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  Speaker 10: you said, planes, missiles. We need to defend this country
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  Speaker 10: and you're doing a great job and leave us in
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  Speaker 10: the right direction.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Katie, go ahead, you're going to
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  Speaker 4: say so, yeah, no, its your president.
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  Speaker 11: This is just unprecedented leadership. The fact that you've got
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  Speaker 11: everyone to come together and actually get these bills.
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  Speaker 4: Across the finish line.
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  Speaker 11: You heard it from the speaker that that hasn't happened
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  Speaker 11: in a long time.
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  Speaker 4: So ninety six.
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  Speaker 11: Percent of the government being funded. Your priorities put in place,
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  Speaker 11: mister President, so that we can make the country safer,
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  Speaker 11: we can make it more prosperous, and not only can
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  Speaker 11: we make America great again, but we can telp people
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  Speaker 11: now America.
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  Speaker 4: Is Yeah, it's a great, it's a great. We'll never
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  Speaker 4: forget MAGA and we're all with MEGA. But this is
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  Speaker 4: very appropriate, right.
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  Speaker 6: Cindy had come on say something, Well, there's a little
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  Speaker 6: hospital in here, a rural hospital in Maple, Mississippi, right
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  Speaker 6: called Franklin County Hospital.
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  Speaker 5: It would have closed the end of this month without
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  Speaker 5: this bill.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you from everybody in Mississippi, especially Franklin County.
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  Speaker 4: And we've covered the rural very well.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody ever thought it was possible, because we had a
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  Speaker 6: lot of opposition from the Democrats, as you know, but
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  Speaker 6: nobody thought it was possible.
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  Speaker 4: That's great, how about it? Anybody back there, tom best.
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  Speaker 6: Budget for Native Americans ever, President, thanks you, so we'll
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  Speaker 6: sign it.
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  Speaker 4: Then, if you would have some questions, if any let me.
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  Speaker 12: Just figure back this Rule America is taken care of
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  Speaker 12: it in his bill, and I mean so as as
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  Speaker 12: Cindy says, so thank you for all America, but especially
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  Speaker 12: Rule America.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you everybody.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump there making it very clear it was a
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  Speaker 3: team effort and so many different issues as you heard
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  Speaker 3: there with senators around him talking about what is in
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  Speaker 3: this bill and it's partial shutdown of the Democrats yet
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  Speaker 3: again trying to hold us hostage. Now it's all over.
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  Speaker 3: You can go back to work in Congress and do
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  Speaker 3: your actual job. The President making it clear he's going
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  Speaker 3: to keep fighting, but he's giving many Americans exactly what
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  Speaker 3: they need to succeed. And that's exactly what he said
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  Speaker 3: his plan was when he ran for re election.
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  Speaker 2: Now, story number two.
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  Speaker 3: Voter ID laws are something that conservatives, the GOP in general,
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  Speaker 3: and certainly the President, and I says, America, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: had been focused on because we believe simply, and the
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  Speaker 3: President has made it clear that every vote should be
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  Speaker 3: counted and not canceled out by people that are cheating,
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  Speaker 3: that are lying about who they are, or dead people voting,
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  Speaker 3: or even stuffing ballot boxes with people that actually had
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  Speaker 3: no intent of showing up to vote and someone else
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  Speaker 3: voted on their behalf. Yes, there is voter fraud in
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  Speaker 3: this country, and if you don't believe me, you can
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  Speaker 3: just look online at stories and articles of people who
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  Speaker 3: recently have gone to jail for voter fraud. Now, there's
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  Speaker 3: also a simple way to overcome this problem, and that
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  Speaker 3: is by having what now is being referred to as
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  Speaker 3: a Save Act. The Save Act is very simple. It
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  Speaker 3: explicitly adds a national photo ID requirement to voting. Congress's
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  Speaker 3: HR twenty two. The Save Act would require documentary proof
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  Speaker 3: of US citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections
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  Speaker 3: as well, and direct states to use certain processes to
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  Speaker 3: ensure only citizens are on the voter rolls. The Save
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  Speaker 3: America Act also has been introduced by Representative Chip Roy
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  Speaker 3: and Senator Mike Lee. It describes as a new and
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  Speaker 3: improved version that adds a voter ID requirement for voting
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  Speaker 3: in federal elections while keeping the proof of citizenship requirement
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  Speaker 3: for registration, in essence taking it a step further. Make
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  Speaker 3: elections great Again, known as Mega Act, is another GOP
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  Speaker 3: proposal that includes a national photo ID requirement and other
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  Speaker 3: election administration changes. The issue also popped up inside broader
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  Speaker 3: Capitol Hill negotiations, as some Republicans threatened to block a
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  Speaker 3: shutdown ending deal unless it included citizenship and voter ID provisions.
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  Speaker 3: Now we know that didn't ultimately happen because the government,
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  Speaker 3: the partial shutdown is now over. But let me tell
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  Speaker 3: you what the American people actually think about this. And
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  Speaker 3: if you want to know what Democrats are doing, well,
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  Speaker 3: they're certainly not listening to the American people. And even
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  Speaker 3: CNN is saying overwhelmingly Democrats, Republicans, and independents are in
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  Speaker 3: favor of photo ID laws.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look here, favorite photo ID to vote. Eighty
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  Speaker 1: five percent of white people favorite, eighty two percent of Latino,
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  Speaker 1: seventy six percent of Black Americans favorite. So the bottom
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  Speaker 1: line is this, voter ID is not controversial in this country.
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  Speaker 1: A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country.
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  Speaker 1: It is not controversial by party, and it is not
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  Speaker 1: controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with
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  Speaker 1: Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo
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  Speaker 1: ID to be able to vote.
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  Speaker 2: So something of me.
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  Speaker 3: Now you notice there they didn't even break it down
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  Speaker 3: by Republican Democrats and independents, they broke it down by race.
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  Speaker 3: Why did they decide to do that on CNN? For
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  Speaker 3: one simple reason. Democrats have been saying for decades that
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  Speaker 3: if you ask a minority for their ID to vote,
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  Speaker 3: that is somehow racist. And that's exactly how they've been
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  Speaker 3: able to continue to cheat in elections by saying that
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  Speaker 3: you are a racist person if you ask a minority
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  Speaker 3: for their ID to vote. Well, look at the numbers. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Black voters overwhelmingly seventy six percent, so they want photo
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  Speaker 3: ID to vote. White's eighty five percent want it, and
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  Speaker 3: Latinos at eighty two percent. So why would the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: on the hill still say no, I'll say simply this way,
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  Speaker 3: it's because they want to be able to still and
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  Speaker 3: alter election outcomes full stop. In fact, President Trump making
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  Speaker 3: it clear on the record using this type of data
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  Speaker 3: to ma his point that yes, the American people want this.
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  Speaker 3: It's non political.
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  Speaker 4: Who would not.
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  Speaker 6: Want voter a D Only somebody that wants to cheat
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  Speaker 6: think of it. But I have voter a D and
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  Speaker 6: the Democrats don't want it. And the reason they't want
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  Speaker 6: because they want to cheat. Because there's no reason in
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  Speaker 6: the world and I love that debate, why don't you
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  Speaker 6: want voter ID and you watch them say.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know it.
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  Speaker 3: I know why the president knows why. It is because
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  Speaker 3: Democrats want to be able to cheat. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: very clear President Trump is not backing down on this,
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  Speaker 3: and the American people are behind him in a number
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  Speaker 3: that we don't see hardy ever on any issue.
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