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Air Travel Liberal Sabotage and the Filibuster Fight · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We have a shutdown, as you probably know, because the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats have gone they're crazy, but they don't care if
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  Speaker 1: they're hurt the country. But we've approved it fourteen times.
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  Speaker 1: We've approved a opening up fourteen times, and they keep
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  Speaker 1: rejecting it and they want to have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: bad things happen, bad things for our country. We're not
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  Speaker 1: going to give one point five trillion dollars to people
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  Speaker 1: do it to people came from prisons, they came from
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  Speaker 1: mental institutions and drug dealers, and they want to give
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you, and
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  Speaker 3: we've got one big bombshell story for you coming out
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  Speaker 3: of the White House, and that is this. So the
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  Speaker 3: government shut down is what everyone's talking about. This is
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  Speaker 3: there's literally chaos in the air as flights are being
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  Speaker 3: canceled now at record numbers. So where are we at
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: If you're flying, Democrats are playing with your safety. They
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  Speaker 3: know that they're playing with your safety, and they're wanting
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  Speaker 3: it to hurt. They're wanting you to miss flights, they're
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  Speaker 3: wanting you to stand in long lines, and they want
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  Speaker 3: you to blame Donald Trump. But what they're not talking
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  Speaker 3: about is how unsafe the skies have become because of
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  Speaker 3: the pressure they've deliberately chosen to put on the system.
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  Speaker 3: I also don't want to be clear about something. Republicans
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  Speaker 3: had a clean bill to pay government essential workers, the
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  Speaker 3: workers that are forced to come in even if they're
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  Speaker 3: not getting a paycheck. That includes air traffic controllers and
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  Speaker 3: what do the Democrats do? They said, no, that is
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  Speaker 3: how you know that this is being done deliberately. I
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  Speaker 3: want you to listen to more of what the Transportation
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  Speaker 3: Secretary Sean Duffy had to say when he was sitting
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  Speaker 3: down on Friday at a bright Bart conference. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: There's more incursions on the ground. And then we've had
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  Speaker 4: more complaints from pilots that have said, well, the controller
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  Speaker 4: is less responsive to me, or controllers seem to be
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  Speaker 4: more stressed. So we looked at that data and that
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  Speaker 4: numbers are going in the wrong direction. This is a
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  Speaker 4: really long answer, but I want to expect please do
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  Speaker 4: the numbers are going in the wrong direction, and so
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  Speaker 4: then what what is our response to that? And the
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  Speaker 4: response is to take pressure out of the system and
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  Speaker 4: through the safety team. We've talked about lowering the number
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  Speaker 4: of flights and so we were going to do ten
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  Speaker 4: percent right away. The safety team said that could be
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  Speaker 4: even more disruptive. We should we should actually phase this
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  Speaker 4: in to which we've done that. Today is the first
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  Speaker 4: day four percent reduction, four days later another two percent,
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  Speaker 4: two days after that two percent and then you know
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  Speaker 4: two percent on and what I'm hoping to do is
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  Speaker 4: again take the pressure and more risk out of the system.
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  Speaker 4: We always try to manage the risk. Nothing is ever
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  Speaker 4: fully safe. A car is not safe, walking down the
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  Speaker 4: streets not full I mean, there's risk and everything we do.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to minimize the risk through this government shutdown
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  Speaker 4: and bring us to a matrix that matches what we
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  Speaker 4: had before the shutdown. And I've had some complaints from Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: They've said, well, we want to see the data, and
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  Speaker 4: why are you looking at data? And this is political.
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  Speaker 4: This has not been political. We have worked over time
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  Speaker 4: to make sure that we minimize the impact on the
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  Speaker 4: American people. We're trying to help the American people. And
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  Speaker 4: when I start to get attacked by Democrats, that also
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  Speaker 4: gets frustrating because there's a very easy solution to the
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  Speaker 4: problem that they put directly on my lap, which is
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  Speaker 4: open the day of government. Vote to open the government.
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  Speaker 4: So those who snipe at me for having to take
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  Speaker 4: really unique action, they put that on my on my plate,
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  Speaker 4: so open it up. And by the way, I did
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  Speaker 4: remember the last some of the last shutdowns I was.
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  Speaker 4: I was part of those. We stayed here for a month.
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  Speaker 4: I gained ten pounds, I think cause I ate pizza
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  Speaker 4: and the junkiest food. But you sit here every weekend,
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  Speaker 4: every day while the gun shut down and your family's upset,
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  Speaker 4: your kids are annoyed. That people would go home doing
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  Speaker 4: a shutdown when the American people are suffering is just
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  Speaker 4: flat out wrong. Everyone should be here, everyone should be working.
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  Speaker 4: No one should go home because, by the way I
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  Speaker 4: saw today I was at DCA, I'm not I'm let
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  Speaker 4: you ask me questions. Sure, yeah, there's people going to funerals.
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  Speaker 4: There's people who are trying to get home. They can't
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  Speaker 4: get home while Senator's going home. Keep them here, and
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  Speaker 4: especially the senators who voted no to open the government up.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we could put the senators who keep voting to
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  Speaker 1: shut the government down on the no fly list.
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  Speaker 4: That would be a great well played.
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  Speaker 3: You listen to the games they're being played, and he's
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  Speaker 3: absolutely right. In a government shut down. When he was
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  Speaker 3: in Washington, d C. Serving you stayed in town. The
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  Speaker 3: families were frustrated because they weren't coming home. The constituents
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  Speaker 3: weren't seeing their congressmen in their district or the senators
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  Speaker 3: in their state. But what are we watching this time?
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  Speaker 3: All of these people are going home. I would argue
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  Speaker 3: that there's no way this go shutdown would be this
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  Speaker 3: long if they forced the Congressmen and the Senators to
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  Speaker 3: stay in town. So if this is what is happening
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  Speaker 3: and what we're witnessing right now, it's probably gonna continue.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats feel like they're holding America hostage, and they feel
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  Speaker 3: like that is a good thing. They also believe that
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  Speaker 3: this is actually working to their advantage, especially after the
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  Speaker 3: big winds they said they got on Tuesday in hardcore
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  Speaker 3: liberal states. So here we are and a full government shutdown,
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  Speaker 3: the longest one in history. And what are Democrats saying?
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  Speaker 3: They're just simply saying, We're going to keep doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Why in essence, why not? We love that this is
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  Speaker 3: happening right now. We love that this is where we are,
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  Speaker 3: and we love that you are being held hostage now.
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  Speaker 3: Tommy Tumerbilt Center from Alabama. He said this even about
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  Speaker 3: the issue of the filibuster earlier on Fox.
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  Speaker 5: Well, in the last week or so, Martha, the Democrats
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  Speaker 5: have snuck around behind the scenes and worked with our
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  Speaker 5: leadership team, knowing that they want to get out of
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  Speaker 5: this themselves, not all of them, but a few of
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  Speaker 5: them and hopefully it would be enough to open up.
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  Speaker 5: But I think they really feel in Bolden that they
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  Speaker 5: won a couple of blue state elections this past Tuesday,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't know whether the deal is still on
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  Speaker 5: the table. You know, it's about three appropriation bills that
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  Speaker 5: we'd put in the CR, put a date in there,
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  Speaker 5: get it done, voted in, and possibly kick the can
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  Speaker 5: down the road to January. Here's a problem with Marsha.
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  Speaker 5: These people feel empowered on the Democratic side. They can't
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  Speaker 5: control President Trump, but they think they can control the
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  Speaker 5: United States Senate. And that's the reason. As President Trump
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  Speaker 5: had us in the White House there stay for breakfast,
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  Speaker 5: he said, if you don't bust a filibuster, we won't
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  Speaker 5: get anything else done. There's going to be more closures.
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  Speaker 5: So we got to make a decision on our side.
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  Speaker 5: I'm all for going to fifty one.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 5: I was totally against it until I saw, really hoigh
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  Speaker 5: this place works. And I've been up here five years
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  Speaker 5: and there's not gonna be anything done if we don't
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  Speaker 5: do something about this filibuster. Pass it up and let's
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  Speaker 5: go and just kick the Democrats to the side and
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  Speaker 5: get something done. For the American people they are suffering.
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  Speaker 3: Now you hear that from Tommy Tubverville. There is always
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  Speaker 3: a cause and effect when Democrats get back in control,
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  Speaker 3: and they will at some point in my lifetime, maybe
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  Speaker 3: multiple times in my lifetime, they will then kick the
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  Speaker 3: Republicans the corner and go full blown communists, like we're
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  Speaker 3: witnessing in New York City. Even Democrats are getting in
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  Speaker 3: on this. John Fetterman speaking to reporters about the same issue,
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  Speaker 3: and here's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: Some of your Republican colleagues have proposed nuking the philibuster
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  Speaker 2: to force the government to reopen.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think, of course, of course, carve it
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  Speaker 6: out for that. Absolutely, we ran on that. We ran
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  Speaker 6: on killing the philibuster, and now we love it. You know,
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  Speaker 6: it's like, carve it out so we can move on.
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  Speaker 6: And I support it because it makes it's more difficult
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  Speaker 6: to shut the government down in the future. And that's
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  Speaker 6: where it's entirely appropriate. And I don't want to hear
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  Speaker 6: any Democrats clutching their pearls about the filibuster. We all
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  Speaker 6: ran on it. I ran on that in mind.
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  Speaker 3: So there is again Fetterman, we ran on killing the
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  Speaker 3: philibuster and now we love it, carve it out so
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  Speaker 3: we can move on. I support it because it makes
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  Speaker 3: it more difficult to shut the government down in the future,
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  Speaker 3: and that's where it's entirely appropriate. I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: hear any Democrats clutching their pearls about the filibuster. John
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  Speaker 3: Fetterman also calling out his own party, saying, it's very
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  Speaker 3: clear that the Democrats are holding the American people hostage.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, that's why shutting the government is really what
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  Speaker 6: the Democratic Party wants to do. And I follow country
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  Speaker 6: than party, and it's the wrong thing for the country
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  Speaker 6: in a period of chaos. I refuse to vote to
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  Speaker 6: shut our government down. I absolutely would love to have
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  Speaker 6: I I would love to have a conversation about extending
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  Speaker 6: the tax credits for healthcare. Absolutely, but I would remind
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  Speaker 6: everybody too, this was designed by the Democratic Party to
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  Speaker 6: expire at the end of the year. This is not
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  Speaker 6: something taken from by by the Republicans. That's they were
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  Speaker 6: designed to expire. Now, let's have a conversation to extend
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  Speaker 6: it and not shut our government down, and let's continue
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  Speaker 6: to help has already agreed to that, well, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you know, that. Well, for me, I do believe, I
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  Speaker 6: do believe Leader Thun is an honorable man, and I
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  Speaker 6: do believe you. Well, you're not gonna lie. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you can't guarantee any outcome. But what I'm what I'm
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  Speaker 6: saying it that's talking about what's wrong for the country.
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  Speaker 6: I can't vote for a thing. I can't vote to
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  Speaker 6: shutting our government down.
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  Speaker 3: You wonder where the other statesmen are. John Feterin been
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  Speaker 3: calling out his own party. Democrats choose party over country.
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  Speaker 3: I follow country then party, and it's the wrong thing
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  Speaker 3: for the country in a period of chaos, saying I
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  Speaker 3: refuse to vote to shut our government down. You wonder
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  Speaker 3: when this will actually stop the insanity. It's pretty clear
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  Speaker 3: now Democrats believe they have enough leverage to keep moving
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  Speaker 3: forward with a shutdown. They want it to hurt, and
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  Speaker 3: they're holding the American people hostage and they're proud of it,
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  Speaker 3: including putting your safety at risks in the skies.
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