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Longest U.S. Shutdown Ends as Ex-Newsom Chief of Staff Indicted in Corruption Probe · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The longest governments shut down in America's history. Finally over,
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  Speaker 1: the stopgap funding measure keeps the government operating through January
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: thirtieth while Congress works on a long term deal. Now,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: let's be very clear, there's a very good chance come
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: January thirtieth, the Democrats could shut the government down yet again.
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump signed the legislation to fund the government again,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: putting an end to the longest shutdown in history. And
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  Speaker 1: Democrats got nothing from doing this. The exact same deal
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: that was made in Washington to reopen the government was
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  Speaker 1: on the table before the government even shut down. So
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  Speaker 1: why did they hold Americans hostage, hurt so many Americans,
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  Speaker 1: and make sure that Americans suffered, whether it was food
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  Speaker 1: stamps or missing a paycheck because they wanted to hurt
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and they put politics ahead of the country. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Trump signaled Monday the government would reopen soon. As consequence
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  Speaker 1: of elapse and funding continued a snowball, including miss paychecks
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  Speaker 1: for federal workers and airline delays stemming from air traffic
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  Speaker 1: controllers staffing shortages. Some Democrats wanted this to actually move
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  Speaker 1: past Thanksgiving to really hurt Americans because they believed you
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  Speaker 1: would blame Donald Trump for it. Now, the bill keeps
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  Speaker 1: the funding of the government at the same levels during
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  Speaker 1: the fiscal year of twenty twenty five through January the thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: to provide additional time to hash out a longer appropriations
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  Speaker 1: measure for the fiscal year twenty twenty six. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: measure also funds a Supplemental Nutrition assistant program known as
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  Speaker 1: SNAP or food stamps, that more than forty two million
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  Speaker 1: Americans rely on through September. Yes, that's far too many
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  Speaker 1: Americans that are on foods Sampson. We can talk about
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  Speaker 1: that as well another day. But the main point was this,
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  Speaker 1: Why hold families in need hostage? That's exactly what the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats wanted to do by design. There were multiple votes
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  Speaker 1: to just fund food stamps, and Democrats every time voted no,
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  Speaker 1: while at the same time claiming that Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 1: hurting poor people in America. Now, the reopening of the
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  Speaker 1: government comes after more than forty days of a lapse
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  Speaker 1: in funding aimed at a stallmate between Senate Republicans and
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  Speaker 1: Democrats over the stop gap spending bill that would have
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  Speaker 1: funded the government through November twenty one. After a lapse
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  Speaker 1: in funding started on October one, The Senate passed legislation
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  Speaker 1: Monday night that would reopen the government by a sixty
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  Speaker 1: to forty vote, the exact bare minimum number needed to
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  Speaker 1: reopen the government. A total of eight Democrats voted alongside
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  Speaker 1: the Republican colleagues for the measure. Subsequently passed its version
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  Speaker 1: of the measure on Wednesday, and the deal came as
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  Speaker 1: fallout from the shutdown came to a head, including, as
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned, massive travel disruptions at US airports where the
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  Speaker 1: air traffic controllers and the TSA officers were required to
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  Speaker 1: work and we're gearing up to miss a second paycheck
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  Speaker 1: as a result, these staffers were calling in sick, taking
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  Speaker 1: on second jobs, creating staffing shortages and massive flight delays. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the standoff between Republicans and Democrats all originate over a
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  Speaker 1: disagreement about Obamacare. And the fact is Obamacare knows the
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  Speaker 1: Affordable Care Act is not affordable at all, but healthcare
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  Speaker 1: providers health insurance. I should say, carriers are making billions
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  Speaker 1: off of Obamacare. And that's one of the problems that
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  Speaker 1: conservatives wanted to talk about. Now, I also want you
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  Speaker 1: to hear what the President had to say from the
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  Speaker 1: Oval office as he was signing this bill into law.
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  Speaker 1: Take a list of the present's words, carefully.
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  Speaker 2: United States, and an attempt to extort American taxpayers for
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens and people
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  Speaker 2: that came into our country illegally, from gangs, from prisons,
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  Speaker 2: from mental institutions. They wanted to pay them one point
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  Speaker 2: five trillion dollars, which would have really hurt our health
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  Speaker 2: care businesses and our recipients at levels never seen before. Today,
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  Speaker 2: we're sending a clear message that we will never give
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  Speaker 2: in to extortion, because that's what it was they tried
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  Speaker 2: to extort. The Democrats tried to extort our country. In
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, I'll sign a bill exactly like we
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  Speaker 2: asked Democrats to send us all along many days ago.
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  Speaker 2: This cossed the country one point five trillion dollars, this
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  Speaker 2: little excursion that they took us on. Republicans never wanted
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  Speaker 2: a shut down and voted fifty times for a clean
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  Speaker 2: continuation of funding. There's never been a time when one
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  Speaker 2: or the other party ever didn't sign a continuations.
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  Speaker 3: Just a continuation, not a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's a continuation of Will PAULK later Yet, the extremists
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  Speaker 2: in the other party insisted on creating the longest government
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  Speaker 2: shut down in American history, and they did.
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  Speaker 3: It purely for political reasons.
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader
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  Speaker 2: John Thune, as well as House Majority of Leader Sievescalise,
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  Speaker 2: Majority Whipped Tom Emmer, and numerous other great Republican leaders
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  Speaker 2: and Congressmen and senators who are here and frankly spent
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  Speaker 2: a long time in Washington getting this thing to go away.
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  Speaker 2: I also want to thank the broad coalition of Americans
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  Speaker 2: that stood with us in this fight to reopen government,
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  Speaker 2: including the Teamsters, the American Federation of Government Employees, the
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  Speaker 2: Fraternal Order of Police, Amvetstional Small Business Association, the American
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  Speaker 2: Farm Bureau, the American Trucking Association. These are all incredible patriots.
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  Speaker 2: Airlines for America, the Allied Pilots Association, the National Air
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  Speaker 2: Traffic Controllers Association, and many others unions and non unions.
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  Speaker 2: Over the past seven weeks, the Democrats shut down as
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  Speaker 2: inflicted massive harm. They caused twenty thousand flights to be
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  Speaker 2: canceled or delayed. They departed so many times so late,
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  Speaker 2: people were hurt, so badly. Nobody's ever seen anything like
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  Speaker 2: this one. This was a no brainer. This was an
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  Speaker 2: easy extension, but they didn't want to do it the
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  Speaker 2: easy way.
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  Speaker 3: They had to do it the hard ware. They looked
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  Speaker 3: very bad the Democrats do.
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  Speaker 2: They deprived more than one million government workers from their
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  Speaker 2: paychecks and cut off food staff benefits for millions and
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  Speaker 2: millions more Americans in need. They caused tens of thousands
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  Speaker 2: of federal contractors and small businesses to go unpaid, and
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  Speaker 2: the total effect of the damage their antics cause will
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  Speaker 2: take weeks, in probably months to really calculate accurately, including
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  Speaker 2: the serious harm that they did to our economy and
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  Speaker 2: to people and the families. So I just want to
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: tell the American people you should not forget this when
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: we come up to midterms and other things.
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  Speaker 3: Don't forget what they've done to our country. You also want.
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  Speaker 2: To call for a termination to the filibuster so that
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  Speaker 2: this can never happen again. If we had the filibuster terminated,
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  Speaker 2: this would never happen again. And don't forget we have
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  Speaker 2: another date coming up in the not too distant future.
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  Speaker 2: We can never let this happen again, and we should
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  Speaker 2: be able to pass great, really great legislation. So I
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  Speaker 2: say terminate the filibuster because by the way, the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: will do it immediately if they ever assumed office, which
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  Speaker 2: hopefully they won't.
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  Speaker 3: Today we had.
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  Speaker 2: The highest stock rocket price ever in all of the
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  Speaker 2: different markets, set a record. It's the forty eighth time
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  Speaker 2: in the nine months that I've been in office that
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  Speaker 2: we had this record set. So think of that, forty
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  Speaker 2: eight times we had a record set.
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  Speaker 3: But today is the highest of them all. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to break new grounds. Nobody would have thought.
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  Speaker 2: I have with us, not only the great political leaders,
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  Speaker 2: but the great business leaders of our country. They're standing
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  Speaker 2: right behind me and right really alongside of me. And
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  Speaker 2: if we would have told them a year ago that
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  Speaker 2: we'd be having stock prices to side, none of them.
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  Speaker 2: In fact I just asked them that question, none of
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  Speaker 2: them would have believed it. And that anures to jobs
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  Speaker 2: and very importantly to four oh one case, which have
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  Speaker 2: also set a record today, a record high for the
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  Speaker 2: people that have four oh one case. And also I
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  Speaker 2: want to thank Walmart because they came up with a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic study. It was the cost of Thanksgiving coming up,
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  Speaker 2: and the cost of Thanksgiving from a year ago under
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  Speaker 2: Sleepy Joe Biden and twenty five percent lower this year
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  Speaker 2: than we were a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a very inclusive report. So I want to
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  Speaker 3: thank Walmart.
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  Speaker 2: They've done it for many years, but we believe in
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  Speaker 2: that and we believe in that company. I want to
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  Speaker 2: also thank the eighth Senate Democrats who finally did the
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  Speaker 2: right thing in voting to end this.
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  Speaker 3: Craziness, this madness.
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  Speaker 2: But unfortunately the vast majority of Congressional Democrats were happy
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  Speaker 2: for millions of Americans to suffer. They really did suffer too,
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  Speaker 2: and the Democrats admitted, they said, well, no, we finally
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  Speaker 2: have a point. Even though people have to suffer, we
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  Speaker 2: finally have a point. And that didn't work out too
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  Speaker 2: well for them. But they really went out and they
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  Speaker 2: could appease the fringe benefits of their far left base.
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  Speaker 2: But that didn't work out because now they're far left
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  Speaker 2: base is angrier than ever before. We actually elected a
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  Speaker 2: mayor of New York City who happens to be a communist.
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  Speaker 3: When was that going to happen?
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  Speaker 2: Remember I said all the time I'm during my campaign,
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  Speaker 2: we will never be a socialist country.
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  Speaker 3: And that's right.
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  Speaker 2: We turned out to have a communist in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: and if you look at his views, those are the
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  Speaker 2: views of a communist, not a socialist. So this is
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  Speaker 2: no way to run a country. I hope we can
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  Speaker 2: all agree that the government should never be shut down
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  Speaker 2: again again, and the filibuster, terminate the filibuster.
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  Speaker 3: It will never happen again.
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  Speaker 2: So with my signature, the federal government will now resume
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  Speaker 2: normal operations, and my administration and our partners in Congress
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  Speaker 2: will continue our work to laura in the cost of living,
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  Speaker 2: restore public safety, grow our economy, and make America affordable
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  Speaker 2: again for all Americans again. Costs are way down, energy
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  Speaker 2: is way down. Gasoline is at two dollars and fifty
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  Speaker 2: cents a gallon versus four dollars and seventy cents for
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats, and we think we're going to hit pretty
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  Speaker 2: close to two dollars a gallon. That's like a really
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  Speaker 2: mass of tax cut. It's the equivalent of that. And
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: speaking of tax cuts, our great, big, beautiful bill is
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  Speaker 2: giving everybody in our economy, middle income workers, low income everybody,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest tax cut in the history of our country.
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  Speaker 3: And there's no.
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  Speaker 2: Tax on tips, no tax on social security, and very importantly,
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  Speaker 2: no tax on overtime. You work overtime, there's no tax.
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  Speaker 2: That's among the things that add up to the biggest
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  Speaker 2: tax cut in history. One other thing, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: hear about rich people with deductions, Well, when you buy
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  Speaker 2: your car and you borrow money, you're allowed to now
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  Speaker 2: deduct the interest on that loan.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: So you can take that interest deduction.
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  Speaker 2: And what you can take is that interest payment and
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: deduct it for income tax purposes. That's a tremendous tax
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  Speaker 2: cut right there. But it all includes fixing the healthcare
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  Speaker 2: system that Democrats broke with the disaster known as Obamacare.
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  Speaker 2: Obamacare was a disaster from day one. It's done nothing
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: but go up. And if you remember President Barack Hussain
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: Obama when he came up with this crazy idea, he said,
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: everything's going to be great. Rates are going to go down,
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  Speaker 2: payments are going to go down, everything's going to go down.
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  Speaker 2: In what the exact opposite with the biggest increase of
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  Speaker 2: any of healthcare in any country.
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  Speaker 3: It's a disaster.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm calling today for insurance companies not to be
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  Speaker 2: paid but for the money, this massive amount of money
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  Speaker 2: to be paid directly to the people of our country
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  Speaker 2: so that they can buy their own health care, which
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  Speaker 2: will be far better and far less expensive than the disaster.
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  Speaker 3: Known as Obamacare.
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  Speaker 2: And I've had I think great support, I've even had
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  Speaker 2: Democrat support. So we want the money that would be
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  Speaker 2: going to the insurance company, which is hundreds of billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars. You know, their stock prices have gone up
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  Speaker 2: by one thousand percent in many cases a thousand percent
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  Speaker 2: over short period of time because our country stupidly pays
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: them so much.
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  Speaker 3: Money with this Obamacare scandal.
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  Speaker 2: So I want the money to go directly to you,
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  Speaker 2: the people, and you go out and you'll buy your
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  Speaker 2: own health insurance and you'll negotiate different plans and you'll
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: get much better insurance, and you will be an entrepreneur
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: for yourself. So I'm always willing to work with anyone,
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: including the other party. We'll work on something having to
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: do with healthcare. We can do a lot better, we
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: can do great. So much money is involved, and we're
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: willing to pay so much money to the people.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to pay a lot of money to
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: the people. They're going to go out and buy their own.
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  Speaker 2: Health care, and we're going to forget this Obamacare madness.
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  Speaker 2: So with all of that, I just want to tell
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: you the country has never been in better shape. We
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: went through this short term disaster with the Democrats because
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: they thought it would be good politically, and it's an
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  Speaker 2: honor out to sign this incredible bill and get our
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: country working again.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: There's a couple different takeaways from what the President had
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  Speaker 1: to say there in his remarks. Number one, when he said,
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: quote today, we're sending a clear message that we will
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  Speaker 1: never give in to extortion, because that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to extort. The Democrats tried to extort our country.
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  Speaker 1: Trump said the Democrats inflicted massive harm and keeping the
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: government closed since October the first. There's data that clearly
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: backs that up as well, and the President talking about
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: what the Democrats actually did. They caused harm, and that
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: harm included so many people that couldn't get around the
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: country to see family members who were sick, those who
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: were dying, those who had died. This was real and
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: it was personal, and that's part of the reason why
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: the President said it the way he did.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Makes the Democrats shut down as inflicted massive harm. They
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: caused twenty thousand flights to be Kidd delayed, They departed
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: so many times, so late, people were hurt so badly.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Nobody's ever seen anything like this one. This was a
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: no brainer. This was an easy extension. But they didn't
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: want to do it the easy way. They had to
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: do it the hard way. They looked very bad, the
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Democrats do. They deprived more than one million government workers
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: from their paychecks and cut off food stamp benefits for
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: millions and millions more Americans than need. They caused tens
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: of thousands of federal contractors and small businesses to go unpaid.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: And the total effect of the damage their antics cause
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: will take weeks and probably months to really calculate accurately,
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: including the serious harm that they did to our economy
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: and to people and the families. So I just want
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: to tell the American people, you should not forget this
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: when we come up to midterms and other things.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Don't forget what they've done to our country. You also
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: want to.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Don't forget what they've done to this country. Now, this
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: is the fight, and this is where it's going. I
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: think there's a very good chance that the government is
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: going to be shut down again. Democrats don't think that
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: this is a bad thing to hurt the American people.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: But you also have to understand this is par for
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: the course with Democrats. Now, when I say that, what
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I mean it's simply put this way. Whatever they have
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: to do to weaponize, they will do it. There is
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: nothing that the Democrats will not do to hurt Americans.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Another example of that is what they did with allowing
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: millions of illegal immigrants to come into this country, another
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: example of them putting illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: So the government has reopened and the big question now
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: is for how long. If the Democrats keep going the
• 16:55
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• 16:57
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  Speaker 1: California Governor, Gavin Newsom. Well, there's a story that if
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  Speaker 1: this was connected to someone like Donald Trump, the world
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  Speaker 1: would be freaking out. The media would be covering at
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to seven and they would say, where there's smoke,
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  Speaker 1: there's fire. Let me tell you the story of the
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  Speaker 1: former Gavin Newsom chief of staff now the chief of
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  Speaker 1: staff in your administration. There's literally no one higher that
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  Speaker 1: has more influence than the chief of staff. The chief
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  Speaker 1: of staff has been arrested in charge is part of
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  Speaker 1: a political corruption investigation. California Governor Knuwsoon's former chief of
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  Speaker 1: staff was arrested in charge with having conspired to commit
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  Speaker 1: bank and wire fraud, among other things, as part of
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  Speaker 1: a political corruption investigation. In a press release from the
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  Speaker 1: United States Office of the Eastern District of California, it
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  Speaker 1: was revealed that a federal grand jury charged Dana Williamson,
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  Speaker 1: fifty three with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud,
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  Speaker 1: bank fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States
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  Speaker 1: and obstruct justice, subscribing to false tax returns, and making
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  Speaker 1: false statements. Quote. This is a crucial step in an
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  Speaker 1: ongoing political corruption investigation that began more than three years ago,
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  Speaker 1: is what the US Attorney at grants in a statement.
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  Speaker 1: As it always has, the US Attorney's Office will continue
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  Speaker 1: to work tirelessly with our law enforcement partners to protect
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  Speaker 1: the people of California from political corruption. Now part of
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  Speaker 1: the press release, the political consultant Dana Williamson, fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: of Carmichael, California, was charged by the federal grand jury
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  Speaker 1: with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, bank fraud,
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  Speaker 1: wire conspiracy to fraud the United States and obstruct justice,
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  Speaker 1: and then subscribing to his false tax returns making false statements.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty three count indictment was unfiled following Williamson's arrest
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. Court documents reportedly show that between February
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two and September of last year twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, the chief of staff for the Governor Newsome
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  Speaker 1: conspired with others to divert approximately two hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: five thousand in funds from a dormant political campaign to
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  Speaker 1: an associate person use. According to the press release, Williamson
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  Speaker 1: and other people also reportedly funneled the money through various
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  Speaker 1: business entities and disguised it as a pay for what
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  Speaker 1: was in reality a no show job. This again, according
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  Speaker 1: to the press release, Williamson also allegedly conspired with a
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  Speaker 1: business associates to create false backdated contracts after receiving a
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  Speaker 1: civil subpoena in January of twenty twenty regarding paycheck protection
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  Speaker 1: program known as PPP loans. This also coming from the
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  Speaker 1: press release, and then the FBI said this quote. Today's
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  Speaker 1: charges are the result of a three year relentless investigative
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  Speaker 1: work in partnership with IRS Criminal Investigation and the US
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office. This coming from the FBI Sacramento of Field office,
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  Speaker 1: they said, quote. The FBI will remain vigilant in its
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  Speaker 1: efforts to uncover fraud, corruption, and ensuring our government systems
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  Speaker 1: are held to the highest standard. In a statement to
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  Speaker 1: Fox News, a spokesman for the California governor clarified that Williamson,
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  Speaker 1: who was Newsom's chief of staff literally until late last year,
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  Speaker 1: was no longer serving under newsomb administration. Miss Williamson no
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  Speaker 1: longer serves in the administration, the spokesman told the outlet,
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  Speaker 1: While we are still learning details about the allegations, the
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  Speaker 1: governor expects all public servants to uphold the highest standard
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  Speaker 1: of integrity. Now, this just goes back to corruption. One
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  Speaker 1: oh one. We see a lot of corruption the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: This time it's Gavin Newsom's long time time chief of staff.
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  Speaker 1: And notice how if you're listening to this show right now,
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  Speaker 1: this is probably the very first time that you've heard
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  Speaker 1: about this story. If this was connected to any Republican governor,
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  Speaker 1: especially in a swing state. The media would cover this
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, wall to wall, So why now
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  Speaker 1: be silent. Well, they've got to protect Newsom. He's their guy.
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  Speaker 1: They understand that he has the best chance of winning
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  Speaker 1: the nomination, and so there's many around him that I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure are saying, hey, we'll just look the other way.
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  Speaker 1: But this goes back to the core of the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, the rules really never seem to apply to them.
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  Speaker 1: You can look, for example, on college campuses at UC
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  Speaker 1: Berkeley and the radicals that went after turning point conservative kids,
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  Speaker 1: all caught on camera. You can move from there to
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  Speaker 1: what we're witnessing all across the country and what we've
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  Speaker 1: seen with anti semitism and Democrats taking over college campuses,
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  Speaker 1: with radical activists, kids who are now turning into anarchists.
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  Speaker 1: And this really all goes back to the issue of
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  Speaker 1: following the money. Whether it was Occupy Wall Street, Black
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  Speaker 1: Lives Matter, and you go on and on with Democrats
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  Speaker 1: who are now going after college campuses and conservative organizations.
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  Speaker 1: What Democrats are clearly trying to do right now is
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  Speaker 1: make you feel unsafe. If you saw the videos coming
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  Speaker 1: out of UC Berkeley, I can tell you if you
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  Speaker 1: were there as a conservative, you would not have felt safe.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what democrats want by design. They want
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  Speaker 1: you to be quiet. They want you to be silent.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want you to stand up for what you
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  Speaker 1: actually believe in, and so that is what this is
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  Speaker 1: all about. Finally, let me say one other thing. Democrats
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  Speaker 1: also are eating their own right now, and Representative Mikey Cheryl,
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat from New Jersey and the New Jersey governor elect,
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  Speaker 1: had this to say about the Democratic Party right now
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  Speaker 1: and the government shut down.
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  Speaker 4: Of the Garden State. Congratulations on your promotion, Congresswoman. We
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  Speaker 4: should note, along with other notable Democrats, you won last
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  Speaker 4: week after campaigning to a large degree on the issue
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  Speaker 4: of affordability. Right now, Democrats are voting on a bill
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  Speaker 4: that does not extend to Obamacare subsidies, so healthcare costs,
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  Speaker 4: insurance costs are going to go up significantly for millions
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  Speaker 4: of Americans on the Obamacare subsidies, on the Obamacare exchanges.
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  Speaker 4: How do you square what Democrats like yourself ran on
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  Speaker 4: what seems to be an important issue for Republicans to
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  Speaker 4: wake up and pay attention to if they want to
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  Speaker 4: keep their jobs next year. And what's playing out on
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  Speaker 4: the floor of the House right now.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think you know I'm going to continue the fight.
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  Speaker 5: To me, this is unacceptable. That people were pretty clear
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  Speaker 5: when they spoke in New Jersey that they wanted somebody
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  Speaker 5: to fight for them. And so I'm going to keep
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  Speaker 5: fighting for affordability, to drive down costs. I will keep
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  Speaker 5: fighting against all of the attacks coming from Washington. And
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  Speaker 5: then you know, we are going to address the key
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  Speaker 5: ways in which Trenton is not working for them either.
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  Speaker 5: But this is a travesty right now to continue to
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  Speaker 5: raise prices on people. This with this bill, we're going
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  Speaker 5: to see prices in the affordable care market go up
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  Speaker 5: by almost one hundred and seventy five percent. It's just
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  Speaker 5: harming families across the nation and certainly in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to what she had to say there, and
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  Speaker 1: there's one big takeaway. She is in the party that
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  Speaker 1: created the Affordable Care Act, which is no longer affordable.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, many would argue it never was. It was
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  Speaker 1: all smoking mirrors. And now your tax dours by the
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  Speaker 1: billions are going to one place, the insurance companies that
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  Speaker 1: are making record profits right now. And then there's another
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  Speaker 1: president who's saying I don't want your money to go there.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Donald Trump, and I wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: directly to you. And that's where the fight is going.
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  Speaker 1: Will the government be in charge of every aspect of
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  Speaker 1: your life, that's what Democrats are advocating for. Or will
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump do what he says is right, give you
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  Speaker 1: your money and your own options to do what's best
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  Speaker 1: for you, your healthcare, and your families. That's what really
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