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Trump WINS at SCOTUS, Reshaping the Learning Landscape & What Moviegoers Love and Critics Ignore Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you, and I hope you were having
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  Speaker 1: a fabulous Fourth of July weekend with your family being
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  Speaker 1: safe on the road. If you're traveling as well. We've
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  Speaker 1: got some major stories for you that you may have
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  Speaker 1: missed this Fourth of July week First up, major victories
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  Speaker 1: coming from the Supreme Court helping parents and also making
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  Speaker 1: sure that you get to make decisions on what happens
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  Speaker 1: when your kids go to schools. I'll have those details
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  Speaker 1: in a moment. Also, legislation on school choice made it
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  Speaker 1: into the big Beautiful Bill. There were many that wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of it, and we'll give you the
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  Speaker 1: story behind how we kept it in the bill. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: for a little fun for the fourth of July weekend,
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  Speaker 1: the last ten great movies of the twenty first century,
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  Speaker 1: given to you by none than Center Ted Cruz. It's
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  Speaker 1: the weekend review and it starts right now. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So let's start with universal injunctions and the Trump the
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  Speaker 1: Cossack case. This is also, by the way, something that
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  Speaker 1: you share the subcommittee hearing on that very issue earlier
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  Speaker 1: this month. So explain why this is such an important
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  Speaker 1: issue for everyone listening.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this was a case challenging President Trump's executive order
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  Speaker 2: on birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is the law that says
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  Speaker 2: that a baby born in America is a US citizen,
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  Speaker 2: even if that baby's parents are illegally, even if they
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  Speaker 2: came illegally precisely to have that baby in America, Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 2: that baby is a US citizen. As a policy matter,
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  Speaker 2: I think that is a very foolish policy. It is
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  Speaker 2: a policy that incentivizes illegal immigration. You see people, I
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  Speaker 2: spend a lot of time at the southern border. I
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  Speaker 2: go go out on midnight patrols with the border patrol agents.
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  Speaker 2: We see everyday pregnant women coming across the border illegally,
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  Speaker 2: coming across being brought in by human traffickers with the
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  Speaker 2: express purpose of coming here to have their baby in America.
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  Speaker 2: Because that baby then becomes an anchor baby, that baby
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  Speaker 2: becomes a US citizen. That doesn't make any sense. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, most of the other countries on Earth
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  Speaker 2: don't have that policy. If you sneak into another country illegally,
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  Speaker 2: most other countries don't make them a citizen of that country.
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  Speaker 2: It is an accident of American history that our law
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  Speaker 2: has done that, and so for more than a decade
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  Speaker 2: I have advocating for ending birthright citizenship. Now, Ben there
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  Speaker 2: is an open legal debate about how you can end
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  Speaker 2: birthright citizenship. There are some legal scholars who argue it
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  Speaker 2: can only be done through a constitutional amendment. And the
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  Speaker 2: reason is part of the predicate for birthright citizenship is
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  Speaker 2: the language of the Fourteenth Amendment that talks about granting
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  Speaker 2: citizenship to people born in America. Now, there's a phrase
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  Speaker 2: in the Fourteenth Amendment which is subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
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  Speaker 2: and legal skis argue back and forth. Some say you
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  Speaker 2: can only change birthright citizenship through a constitutional amendment. If
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  Speaker 2: that's the case, we should have an amendment because it's
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  Speaker 2: a policy that is foolish. Others say Congress can pass
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  Speaker 2: legislation to end birthright citizenship because someone who comes here
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  Speaker 2: illegally is not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is not
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  Speaker 2: subject to American jurisdiction, but rather came here illegally. I've
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  Speaker 2: introduced legislation to end birthright citizenship through legislation. What President
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  Speaker 2: Trump has done is he's tried to do it a
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  Speaker 2: third way, which is through an executive order. That's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a harder hurdle to get to get through,
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  Speaker 2: but he's trying to do it, and on the policy grounds,
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  Speaker 2: he is exactly right. So what happened is in this case,
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  Speaker 2: there was a lawsuit challenging President Trump's executive order purporting
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  Speaker 2: to eliminate birthright citizenship, and the district judge issued a
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  Speaker 2: nationwide injunction, a so called universal injunctions. So ordinarily, courts
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  Speaker 2: have jurisdiction, have authority over the parties in front of them.
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  Speaker 2: So if you have two parties in a car wreck
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  Speaker 2: and they crash into each other and one party sues
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  Speaker 2: the other, the court has jurisdiction over those two parties
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  Speaker 2: to say, Okay, you're at fault, you pay for the
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  Speaker 2: repairs and the medical bills of the person injured. That
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  Speaker 2: is called under the Constitution, Article three of the Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: Courts are given jurisdiction over cases and controversies, so actual
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  Speaker 2: disputes between real people. What the district judge did in
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  Speaker 2: this case is issued an injunction prohibiting Donald Trump and
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  Speaker 2: prohibiting the entire federal government from enforcing the birthright citizenship
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  Speaker 2: executive order against anybody, not just against the parties in
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  Speaker 2: front of the court, but three hundred and thirty million
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  Speaker 2: people in this country. The Court said, you cannot enforce
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  Speaker 2: this against anybody. It is a universal injunction. That is
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  Speaker 2: something that for the first one hundred plus years of
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  Speaker 2: our country never occurred. Universal injunctions began occurring more frequently,
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  Speaker 2: but not that much more frequently. There have been over
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  Speaker 2: forty universal injunctions issued against Donald Trump in the first
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  Speaker 2: five months of his presidency. Now, now, how does that
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  Speaker 2: compare to the historical record. There are more universal injunctions
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  Speaker 2: that have been issued against President Trump than were issued
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  Speaker 2: in the entire twentieth century from nineteen hundred to two thousand.
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  Speaker 2: There have been more in the last five months than
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  Speaker 2: there were in those one hundred years. There have been
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  Speaker 2: more universal injunctions issued against President Trump. Then we're issued
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  Speaker 2: against all eight years of George W. Bush, all eight
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  Speaker 2: years of Barack Obama, and all four years of Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 2: Five months Trump has even more than that. It has
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  Speaker 2: been an abuse of power. And as you noted, I
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  Speaker 2: have been very vocal. I've been laying out the case.
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  Speaker 2: I chaired Judiciary Committee hearing focused on exactly this abuse
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  Speaker 2: of power. This is the next wave of lawfare. During
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  Speaker 2: the last four years, we saw Democrat prosecutors indicting Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: that was using the courts to attack their political enemy
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  Speaker 2: to try to stop the voters from reelecting Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: That didn't work, They failed once President Trump was reelected.
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  Speaker 2: This was the next iteration of lawfair. Get Democrat attorneys general,
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  Speaker 2: get left wing radical groups to go seek out radical
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  Speaker 2: district judges put on the bench by Joe Biden and
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  Speaker 2: Barack Obama to issue injunctions and shut down the entire
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  Speaker 2: Trump agenda because and understand, these Democrat attorneys general, they
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  Speaker 2: don't believe in democracy. They don't believe the voters have
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  Speaker 2: a right to decide this is what we want and
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  Speaker 2: to elect someone to carry it out. Instead, they want
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  Speaker 2: courts to stand in the way. Well, you and I
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  Speaker 2: talked about an earlier podcast what I thought was likely
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  Speaker 2: here and what I predict did on this podcast. As
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  Speaker 2: I said, I think the Supreme Court is going to
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  Speaker 2: reign in universal injunctions. The Supreme Court is going to
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  Speaker 2: make clear this is an abuse of power. And so
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  Speaker 2: I was really optimistic because in terms of the tools
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  Speaker 2: we have to reign in universal injunctions. The Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: acting is by far the best. Well. On Friday they
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  Speaker 2: did their decision was fantastic. It was six'. Three the
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  Speaker 2: decision was written By Amy Cony. Barrett it is the
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  Speaker 2: most important opinion she has written in her tenure on The,
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  Speaker 2: court and it is very. Strong it makes clear that
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  Speaker 2: individual district judges do not have the legal, authority they
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  Speaker 2: don't have the jurisdiction to issue universal. Injunctions that is
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  Speaker 2: a massive victory for the rule of law and it
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  Speaker 2: is a massive blow against the lawfare that the radical
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  Speaker 2: left is waging Against President.
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  Speaker 1: Trump and, finally the other one that you mentioned, Earlier
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  Speaker 1: this one for me is so important for parental rights
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  Speaker 1: and getting parnal rights back in our public schools because
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  Speaker 1: there was a massive fight where parents were saying we
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  Speaker 1: should be able to opt our kids out of THIS
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  Speaker 1: lgbtq plus. Curriculum there was a, lawsuit it went To Supreme.
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  Speaker 1: Court it favored on the side of parents six to.
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  Speaker 1: Three this was massive for so many. Parents they're concerned
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  Speaker 1: about their kids being indoctrinated by the radical.
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  Speaker 2: Left, yeah this case arose out Of Montgomery county In,
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  Speaker 2: maryland And Montgomery county has a very diverse, population and
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  Speaker 2: The Montgomery county School, board, unfortunately is one of the
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  Speaker 2: more woke school boards In. America and so they put
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  Speaker 2: in place an AGGRESSIVE lgbtq curriculum and they mandated. It
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  Speaker 2: and we're not talking high, schoolers we're talking young, kids
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  Speaker 2: kids kindergarten through fifth. Grade and they pushed content that
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  Speaker 2: that was PUSHING lgbt, content that was pushing transgender content
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  Speaker 2: to little, children, five, six, seven eight year, olds and
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  Speaker 2: a group of parents, said, hey this is. Wrong a
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  Speaker 2: group of parents and they Included, catholics they Included. Muslims they,
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  Speaker 2: said we don't want our school, indoctrinating brainwashing our kids
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  Speaker 2: that you think it's great to be, gay to be,
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  Speaker 2: transgender you think it's, great like if you're a boy
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  Speaker 2: one day you think you're a. Girl it's not the
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  Speaker 2: school's job to tell our five year olds that's your.
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  Speaker 2: Ideology and so they sued and and the school board, said,
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  Speaker 2: basically go jump in a. Lake we're going to indoctrinate your,
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  Speaker 2: kids and you have no. Right and on, appeal the
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  Speaker 2: well the District court and The court Of appeals both
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  Speaker 2: both ruled against the parents and said they had no.
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  Speaker 2: Right and it went to The Supreme, court and The
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  Speaker 2: Supreme court six 'y three upheld the right of the
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  Speaker 2: parents to opt out of that. Curriculum and the court, said,
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  Speaker 2: quote because it has long recognized the rights of parents
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  Speaker 2: to direct the religious upbringing of their. Children the court
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  Speaker 2: concluded that the parents are likely to succeed on the
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  Speaker 2: claim that the board's policies unconstitutionally burdens their religious. Exercise
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  Speaker 2: Justice alito wrote the majority opinion for a six to three,
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  Speaker 2: court and they said that parents' rights are violated when
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  Speaker 2: the government quote substantially interferes with their children's religious. Development
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  Speaker 2: and so this is a great protection for parental. Rights,
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  Speaker 2: look parents ought to be in charge of what is
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  Speaker 2: being taught to their. Kids it's also a great victory
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  Speaker 2: for religious. Liberty if a parent wants to teach kids
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  Speaker 2: that to embrace a radical, agenda whether or not ELG
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  Speaker 2: gbt or anything, else a parent has a right to do.
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  Speaker 2: That but the school system should not be in doctrining,
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  Speaker 2: children and particularly young children. Kindergarteners is what this case was.
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  Speaker 2: About and so this is a big, victory three big
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  Speaker 2: victories for our constitutional rights for common, sense and all
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  Speaker 2: three of them were six to three out of The Supreme.
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  Speaker 1: Court, now if you want to hear the rest of this,
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  Speaker 1: conversation you can go back and listen to the full
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  Speaker 1: podcast from earlier this.
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  Speaker 3: Week now onto story number two, there.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's, huge because that's not the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: was transformative in this. Bill something you've been champing, NOW
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  Speaker 1: i would say it's part of the legacy of your
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  Speaker 1: career is school. Choice and there's some big stuff in
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  Speaker 1: this bill also on school.
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  Speaker 2: Choice so school choice has been my passion for thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Years i've been very active of the school choice. Movement
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  Speaker 2: in twenty, seventeen when we did the First trump tax,
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  Speaker 2: CUT i authored the legislation that expanded college five twenty
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  Speaker 2: nine savings, lands so now parents can save FOR k
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  Speaker 2: through twelve. Education we got that, through it, passed and
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  Speaker 2: it was at the time the most far reaching federal
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  Speaker 2: school choice legislation that had ever. Passed and there are
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  Speaker 2: millions of kids now whose parents save FOR k through
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  Speaker 2: twelve education using five twenty. Nines this time, AROUND i
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  Speaker 2: took five twenty nine AND i expanded. THEM i expanded
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  Speaker 2: what you can spend them for AND i raised the.
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  Speaker 2: Cap it used to be you could spend ten thousand
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  Speaker 2: a year from the. Account now you can spend twenty
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  Speaker 2: thousand a. Year but that actually is the smallest piece
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  Speaker 2: on school. Choice that would be huge in any other.
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  Speaker 2: Year but what we got in this year is the
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  Speaker 2: federal government will now grant a federal tax credit dollar
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  Speaker 2: for dollar for every taxpayer up to seventeen hundred. Dollars
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  Speaker 2: so ben you pay taxes every, year you pay more
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  Speaker 2: than seventeen hundred dollars in taxes when this goes into,
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  Speaker 2: effect if you write a seven, Yes so if you
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  Speaker 2: write a seventeen hundred dollars check to a scholarship granting
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  Speaker 2: organization In, texas you will get a seventeen hundred dollars
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  Speaker 2: credit on your. Taxes in other, words it's dollar for.
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  Speaker 2: Dollar it disappears from your tax. Liability what this will
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  Speaker 2: do is this is going to unleash billions and billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars of new scholarships FOR k through twelve education
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  Speaker 2: in the. States and the way it, operates every state
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  Speaker 2: has to choose to opt, In So texas will opt.
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  Speaker 2: IN i suspect a number of blue states will not
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  Speaker 2: opt in because the teachers' unions will not want them.
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  Speaker 2: To they will not want scholarships for kids to be
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  Speaker 2: able to go to the school of their. Choice and
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  Speaker 2: the way we wrote the, rule the state has the,
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  Speaker 2: law the state has to opt, in But texas will
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  Speaker 2: have scholarship granting, organizations and any taxpayer can write a
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  Speaker 2: check up to seventeen hundred dollars a year and get
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  Speaker 2: a full tax credit on their irs what they. Owe
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  Speaker 2: that is going to result in millions of kids Across,
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  Speaker 2: america many of whom are stuck in failing. Schools schools
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  Speaker 2: they're not learning to, read they're not learning to, write
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  Speaker 2: schools where there's violence, there drug, Dealers schools where their
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  Speaker 2: future is really in. Peril and they're suddenly going to
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  Speaker 2: have the ability to get a, scholarship to go to
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  Speaker 2: the school of their, choice to get a real, education
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  Speaker 2: to get a better, education to be, safe to not
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  Speaker 2: be subject to. Violence this IS i think school choice
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  Speaker 2: is the civil rights issue of the twenty first. Century
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  Speaker 2: this has never happened. Before AND i got to tell,
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  Speaker 2: YOU i fought tooth and. Nail this almost got stripped
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  Speaker 2: out of the bill about five different, times AND i
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  Speaker 2: made Clear i'll shut this whole bill down if we
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  Speaker 2: don't get school choice in.
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  Speaker 3: There AND.
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  Speaker 2: I could not be more excited about about any provision
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  Speaker 2: in this bill than the impact school choice is going
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  Speaker 2: to have for the next next.
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  Speaker 1: Generation so on these two, issues school choice and also
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  Speaker 1: the savings, accounts when does that start to become a reality?
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  Speaker 1: Timeline there's a lot of people that, say, hey we
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  Speaker 1: pass bills and then things that were supposed to happen don't.
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  Speaker 1: Happen they get undone because there's a new president that comes,
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  Speaker 1: in or you see A senate flip or The house,
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  Speaker 1: flip whatever it may. Be so how sure are we
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  Speaker 1: that we are going to see the fruits of this
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  Speaker 1: fight and this.
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  Speaker 2: Labor, yeah these are both gonna, happen and they're both
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen in the next. Year for The trump, ACCOUNTS
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  Speaker 2: i wrote into it an effective date of one year
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  Speaker 2: from the, Signing so if it's signed On july, fourth
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  Speaker 2: these will start On july, fourth twenty twenty, six our
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  Speaker 2: nation's two hundred and fiftieth. Anniversary AND i think that's
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  Speaker 2: something particularly. Fantastic i'm quite Confident President trump will make
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  Speaker 2: a big deal about the facts that these accounts are
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  Speaker 2: being opened on our nation's, birthday or if it ends
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  Speaker 2: up being signed at a slightly different date somewhere honor
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  Speaker 2: about our nation's, birthday a great. Celebration same. Thing the
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  Speaker 2: tax deductions are going to, START i believe next year
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  Speaker 2: on the on the school choice tax. Deductions so these will.
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  Speaker 2: Happen they will happen. Quickly now one question people are,
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  Speaker 2: asking what happens. Next The senate passed, this what happens, Next,
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  Speaker 2: well we sent the whole bill to The. House they
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  Speaker 2: have two. Choices number, one so they're coming back in.
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  Speaker 2: Session they can take it up and pass. It and
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  Speaker 2: if they pass the bill that we just, passed it
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  Speaker 2: will go to the president and he can sign. It
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  Speaker 2: and he said he wants to sign it On july
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  Speaker 2: fourth of this. Year so if The house passes what
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  Speaker 2: The senate, passed that'll be the end of the process
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  Speaker 2: of The president will sign. It the second thing they
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  Speaker 2: can do is they can, Say, okay we passed a,
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  Speaker 2: bill The senate passed a different. Bill we need to
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  Speaker 2: work out the differences between. Them and that's that's called
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  Speaker 2: going to. Conference and The house could insist we go to.
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  Speaker 2: CONFERENCE i don't know which one they're going to. Do
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  Speaker 2: there are some real differences in The senate right. Now
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  Speaker 2: in The house right, now they're having. Fights there's some
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  Speaker 2: aspects of The senate bill that are really. Good there's
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  Speaker 2: some aspects of The senate bill that are not, great
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  Speaker 2: and so it's gonna be a question of what can
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  Speaker 2: get two hundred eighteen votes in The. HOUSE i know
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  Speaker 2: The speaker wants if he can to take up and
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  Speaker 2: pass The senate bill and just send it to The.
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  Speaker 2: President that's what The president wants, also so that may.
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  Speaker 2: Happen if that doesn't, happen then we'll go to, conference
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  Speaker 2: AND i think conference would take the month Of july
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  Speaker 2: for us to work out the. Differences and my guess
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  Speaker 2: is we would pass the final bill at the end Of,
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  Speaker 2: july right Before.
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  Speaker 1: August so this is one of those big moments THAT
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  Speaker 1: i think we should all.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy elections have.
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  Speaker 1: Consequences this time it was for conservative values and for
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  Speaker 1: kids to have a better future in education or savings,
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  Speaker 1: accounts and for tax cuts so That americans that work
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  Speaker 1: hard can keep more of their own. Money on a
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  Speaker 1: scout of one to, ten and nothing's, perfect how proud
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  Speaker 1: of you or of you are you with this? Bill
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that are, saying, well there's,
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  Speaker 1: this or's, that or does this Look, yeah there were some,
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  Speaker 1: compromises no doubt that had to be. Made you got a,
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  Speaker 1: tight you, know a very very slim majority that you're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with. Here but, overall how happy are you with
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  Speaker 1: what The american people are now?
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  Speaker 2: GETTING i think there are many very very good things
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  Speaker 2: in this. BILL i wish we cut spending significantly. MORE
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  Speaker 2: i was fighting hard to cut spending significantly. MORE i
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  Speaker 2: went To President trump with three trillion dollars of spending
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  Speaker 2: cuts we could. DO i was urging my. COLLEAGUES i
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  Speaker 2: prevailed in some of those, arguments but not all of.
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  Speaker 2: THEM i wish we'd shown more fiscal. Restraint that would
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  Speaker 2: have made me much. Happier look at six am On,
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  Speaker 2: tuesday we were near the end of the, amendments and
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  Speaker 2: the question was could we get to Fifty? Republicans they're
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  Speaker 2: fifty three in The senate. Now Susan collins was a.
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  Speaker 2: No she is the most liberal of The. Republicans she
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  Speaker 2: did not like some of the reforms On. Medicaid The
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: democrats and the press are saying we slashed. Medicaid that
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: is a. Lie we actually are spending more unmedicaid every single.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Year what we did was slightly decrease the rate of
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: growth Of medicaid in the, future and in, particular we
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: increased efforts to fight, waste, fraud and abuse and to
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: remove people from The medicaid roles who don't. Qualify and
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: we also put in place a work, requirement which is
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: really important AND i think actually benefits. People if you
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: look at the history of work requirements for federal welfare,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: benefits it ends up helping the recipients by getting them
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: back into the, workforce which is ultimately much better for
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: them in their. Families but, Anyway Susan collins did not
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: like the reductions in spending on that, side so she voted.
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  Speaker 2: No Tom, tillis A republican From North, carolina also did
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: not like The medicaid changes and so he voted. No
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: and so with fifty Three, republicans we could only lose.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Three the two other votes that were in play Were
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Lisa murkowski And Rand paul and they were both between
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: six am and. Noon nobody knew which one which one
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: we would get if, either but if we didn't get
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: one of, them this bill was going down because if
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Four senators voted against, it Four, republicans we were at
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: forty nine and it. Failed so the consequence of which
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: road we went down was really consequential Because, lisa After,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: susan is the most liberal to Moderate republican in the,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: conference and So lisa was bargaining for a bunch more.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Spending she wanted a ton of, spending particularly At, alaska
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  Speaker 2: and that was the price of her, vote and she
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: was going back and. Forth, rand on the other, Hand
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: rand was always going to be, no always going to
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: be a. No And rand said at the end he
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: would be a yes if the debt ceiling was not.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Extended we extend the debt ceiling Throughout President trump's term
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: in this. Bill that was a very high priority For President.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Trump rand said he would vote yes if we shortened
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the extension of the debt ceiling To september. Thirtieth so
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: we just did a couple of months of the debt. Ceiling,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: now the consequence of that would mean we'd have to
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: come back In september thirtieth and address the debt ceiling,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: again and that would mean we'd probably have to negotiate
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: with The democrats and make a lousy deal with With Chuck.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Schumer but between six am and, noon none of us
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: knew which direction they were going to. Go were they
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: going to go the direction Of Lisa rakowski or were
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: they going to go the direction Of Rand. Paul at
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the end of the, Day lisa's the one who got to,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Yes but it was literally up till the moment she
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: cast her, vote we didn't know for. Sure and she
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: ended Up she ended up increasing The Rural Hospital fund
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  Speaker 2: by fifty billion. Dollars she ended up dropping the The
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: medicaid penalty for states that that that that are are
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: giving medicaid illegal. Immigrants she ended up delaying the work
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: requirements for food stamps For, alaska and the cost of
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: that was billions and billions of. Dollars, interestingly If rand
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: had said yes instead Of, lisa we would have ended
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: up spending much. Less but the consequence Of rand being
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: a no is that it Drove it Made lisa the swing,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: vote and the price of her vote was billions and
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: probably hundreds of billions more in. Spending and so you,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: KNOW i, mean that's where votes have.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Consequences as, Before if you want to hear the rest
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: of this conversation on this, topic you can go back
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and down the podcasts from earlier this week to hear
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the entire. THING i want to get back to the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: big story number three of the. Week you may have.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Missed you're taking a break with a fam hanging. Out
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: maybe you're wanting to watch a. Movie we have got
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: an epic list we're going through right. Now we thought
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: we'd take a little break from all the politics and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: talk about a list that came out of apparently like
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the best movies of all. Time all these actors In,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: hollywood Elade us voted on it In New York. Times put,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: together the list is incredibly, sad a lot of an Anti,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: american anti family and so we're adding some.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Great movies to your.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: List if you don't know this About Center, cruz huge movie,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: guy and you love still going to the big screen
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: seeing them when they come, OUT i think THAT'S i
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: love doing that as.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: WELL i think it's a.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Blast so let's get back to this list of some
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: of the incredible movies out.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: There all, Right so we've done. Twenty we have ten
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: more to do of movies that came out in the
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: twenty first. Century in twenty, sixteen two movies in, particular number.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: One Hidden, figures great, movie terrific. MOVIE i took my,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: wife my, daughters my mom to see true story of
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: The African american women mathematician who were foundational TO Nasa
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: going to The. Moon it's an amazing story And, ben
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: as you, know my mom was also a mathematician at
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the dawn of the computer. Age Hidden figures begins With
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: sputnik being launched in the space race being. Started my
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: mom in the nineteen fifties worked at The. Smithsonian one
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: of her first projects was helping to compute the orbit Of.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Sputnik and, actually in honor of this, MOVIE i introduced
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: legislation that resulted in the street where THE nasa headquarters
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: is IN dc being changed To Hidden figures way to
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: honor Those African americans women mathematician who were foundational in
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: our going to The. Moon it's not On hollywood's list,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: either but it's a great movie and it's a fabulous family.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Movie another great family, Movie La La land same. Year
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: it's a, musical it's, fun it's, light it's About hollywood it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Is it's a terrific, movie and yet it's nowhere on their.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: List twenty, seventeen twenty. SEVENTEEN a great, Movie The Darkest
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Hour Winston churchill in the middle Of World WAR. Ii
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Powerful Gary oldham does a terrific portrayal Of. Churchill highly recommend.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: It twenty Eighteen Black. Panther Black panther was a terrific.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Movie it's a comic book. Movie but there's a reason
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: so many people go go light go see them because
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: they're really. Good twenty Nineteen once upon A time In
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: hollywood Another Quentin. TARANTINO i thought it was, terrific loved.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: It Brad pitt was in it as. Well Brad pitt
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: When tarantino is directing him is really really. Good you
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: then get on to twenty twenty. Two Top Gun. Maverick
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: just a great fun, movie action. Film fun to go
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to the theater and see the jets rocketing through the
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: sky fighting the bad. GUYS i will note that No
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: hollywood theater will now Make Communist china the bad, guys
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: because they all want to sell movies In, china so
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: the bad guys are always some made up fictional. Plays
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: onto twenty twenty. Three two movies in twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 2: on the.
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  Speaker 1: List.
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  Speaker 2: Oppenheimer oppenheimer was, terrific true story, powerful, interesting really well.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Done same Year killers of The Flower moon another true,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: story really, powerful well.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Done all, right full the.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: SCORTURE i missed that movie apparently when it came. Out
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: what's it? About because Now i'm.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Interested So Martin scorsese did. It and it's based on
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: a true. Story so it's set In oklahoma in the
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: nineteen twenties and it focuses on a series of murder
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Of Osage indians after oil is discovered on their tribal.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Lands and it's got a fabulous. Cast Leonardo DiCaprio's in,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: It robert De niro is in. It and, look it's.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Brutal it doesn't paint a pretty insanitized picture of, history
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: but it. Is our history has moments of, brutality moments
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: of evil and. Oppression And scorsese can tell a story
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: as well as anyone in the.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Business, Awesome i'm gonna have to grab that movie and
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: check it. Out keep.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Going, well that takes us to twenty Eight and for
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: the last TWO i, said you, KNOW i, figured all,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: right who ought to decide what are really good? Movies
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: AND i came up with a crazy, idea how about
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the ticket? Buyers and SO i just pulled what are
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: the top ten highest grossing films from twenty to twenty twenty?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Five any idea with the number one film of the
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: last twenty five years has been in terms of box office, dollars.
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  Speaker 3: And god's a hard. ONE i have no clue go for.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: It i'm.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Ready so number one Is avatar two thousand and nine
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: and it brought in two point nine billion. Dollars And,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Avatar i'm gonna Put avatar in my list because it's
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: a great. Film it really was novel how it sort
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: of stretched but brought you into an entirely different, world
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: and the effects were. Fantastic it was a well done.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Story the number two grossing film of the last twenty
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: five years Was Avengers endgame and that brought in two
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: point eight billion. Dollars i'm gonna include both of those
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: as the final two on my. List they're the top
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: two grossing. Films they're. FANTASTIC i like most comic book,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: movies BUT i do Think Avengers endgame was was really really.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Good and it says something if you look at the
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: list of top, ten none of the top ten grossing
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: films are On hollywood's. List you have number three As
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Avatar The way of The. Water number four Is Star
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: wars episode, Seven The Force. Awakens number five As Avengers Affinity.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: War number six Is Spider Man No Way, home WHICH
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: i thought was the best of The Spider man. Movies
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: number seven Was Nieja. TI i don't know that movie Maybe,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: CHINESE i JUST i don't know that. Movie number eight
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Was Inside Out. Too number nine Was Jurassic, world and
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: number ten Was The Lion king in twenty. Nineteen it
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: says something when you have a product and the people
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: making the product don't like the product that people like
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: and are. Buying there's a real disconnect. There you. Know
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: you go back to That New York times. List most
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: of the movies on the list nobody has seen and
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: nobody wants to. See and that really is. Sad there
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: used to be a. Time look what's fun about going
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: to the? Movies you'll notice. Themes SO i like true.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: STORIES i like war. MOVIES i like gangster, movies things
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Like godfather And. SCARFACE i like, WESTERNS i like. COMEDIES
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: i like some. Musicals but BUT i like a. Story
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: WHEN i go to the to the, MOVIES i want
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: to tell me a. Story it can be a sad.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Story it can be a funny. Story it can bring
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: me in on an. Adventure you know classic MOVIES i
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: grew up, with Like Indiana, jones like like it can
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: be you Know Star, wars the Whole Star wars, series
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: The hero's. Journey, actually, Bet i'm going to tay something really.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Funny really good buddy of mine THAT i went to
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: high school, with you bet Him joel's's, name great friend
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: of mine came came to our place in D c last.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Weekend he and his family were in town and he, Said,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: hey CAN i crash at your? PLACE i said, Sure
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: and he AND i have gone to a lot of movies,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: together and he's a Huge Star wars. Buff and so
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: he went to The Star WARS i guess. Museum and
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: WHEN i get back to MY dc, apartment he's replaced
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: my sheets With Star wars sheets and A Star wars
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: comforter In Star wars pillowcases and it looks like a
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: nine year old boys. Room AND i just wrap up.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Laughing and then actually it was right AFTER i had
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: The Tucker carlson. Interview that was a lot of. Fireworks
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: so he Bought Tucker carlson's book and he rested it
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: on the, pillowcase SO i was doubled over laughing WHEN
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: i walked in walked In monday morning to the apartment
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: and saw my bedroom as.
• 31:34
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• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Morning