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Trump's $4.5 TRILL Tax Triumph Amidst Cartel Violence Escalation in Texas · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the big news, and everyone listening right
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Speaker 1: now should be so excited that Donald Trump has been
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Speaker 1: able to work with the House in a touch and
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Speaker 1: go moment on this budget bill with four point five
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Speaker 1: trillion in tax cuts.
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Speaker 2: It survived a House vote.
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Speaker 1: There was a real point in the night where you
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Speaker 1: could see them canceling the vote. Then they came back
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Speaker 1: to vote. There was cell phones being passed around on
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Speaker 1: the floor of the House to different members. They were
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Speaker 1: apparently being persuaded by the President of the United States
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Speaker 1: of America to vote on this bill and move it forward. Now,
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Speaker 1: this massive gop bill would also direct four trillion towards
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Speaker 1: raising the debt limit, and the House of Representatives adopted
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Speaker 1: the resolution that will eventually become a massive, multi trillion
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Speaker 1: dollar bill for President Trump's priorities on the border, on defense,
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Speaker 1: on energy, and on taxes. How tight was it Well,
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Speaker 1: it was a two seventeen to two point fifteen vote.
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Speaker 1: All Democrats vote against the measure, along with a lone
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Speaker 1: Republican rebel Representative Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky, who said
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Speaker 1: he was concerned about its effects on the national deficit. Now,
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Speaker 1: the question you're going to ask, is okay, so what's next? Well,
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Speaker 1: this gets us in the game. I'm going to have
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Speaker 1: on in a moment, Mike my cohsa verdict Ted Cruz.
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Speaker 1: He is going to explain for you exactly what is
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Speaker 1: going to happen next.
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Speaker 2: We are far from the finish line.
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Speaker 1: The game is in essence, just started, but we are
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Speaker 1: at bat now because of what just happened on the
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Speaker 1: House side. This is a big victory for Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: a big victory for Speaker Johnson. It was a dramatic scene,
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Speaker 1: as I mentioned the House Chamber because the Republican leaders
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Speaker 1: literally had a delay formally ending a vote for about
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Speaker 1: forty five minutes as they worked to convince conservative fiscal
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Speaker 1: hawks to support this legislation. Democrats try to seize on
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Speaker 1: this moment and they called out loud for the vote
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Speaker 1: to be closed as Republicans were huddling in all these
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Speaker 1: different groups. And then there was two people on the
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Speaker 1: House floor that said that President Donald Trump got involved
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Speaker 1: speaking to one of the holdouts, was apparently represented Victoria Sparks,
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Speaker 1: a Republican from Indiana, on the phone. Then Representative Tim Burchett,
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Speaker 1: a Republican from Tennessee, and Warren Davison, a Republican from Ohio.
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Speaker 1: We're also on the phone at other parts of the
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Speaker 1: night on the House floor as well. Now I haven't
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Speaker 1: be able to confirm if they were talking to Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump or who they were talking to, but clearly there
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Speaker 1: was pressure this being put to get the vote where
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Speaker 1: it needed to be.
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Speaker 2: So this is big.
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Speaker 1: twenty and sixteen. I'm going to walk you through this
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Speaker 1: that no one is touching. So let me break it
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Speaker 1: down for you. The Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI is
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Speaker 1: now investigating a secret honeypot operation that targeted President Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign. According to this new report,
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Speaker 1: the FBI direct Cashptel, who was confirmed and sworn in
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Speaker 1: last week, and the FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongenio are
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Speaker 1: reportedly quote looking for two female agents who took part
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Speaker 1: in an quote off the book's investigation. Why do we
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Speaker 1: think it's an off the book's investigation because apparently the
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Speaker 1: former FBI Director James Comey wanted to launch this off
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Speaker 1: the book's investigation in twenty fifteen. This according to The
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Speaker 1: Washington Times now reporting about this whistleblower, the agents who
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Speaker 1: were quote undercover and were called by the agency honeypot agents.
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Speaker 1: That is a term that refers to an undercover operative.
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Speaker 1: Majority of the time, it's a woman who uses sexual
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Speaker 1: or romantic interests to obtain information from their targets. Again,
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Speaker 1: this is coming from the Washington Times. So this also
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Speaker 1: comes after The Washington Times previously reported in October of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four that the House Judiciary Committee was looking
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Speaker 1: into a whistleblower's claims that the agency quote deliberately targeted
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump soon after he announced his presidential campaign in
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Speaker 1: June of twenty fifteen, and what was quote described as
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Speaker 1: a phishing expedition to find something to find anything. In
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Speaker 1: other words, the FBI, the deep state didn't want Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: so they started this whole grand conspiracy, a honeypot operation
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Speaker 1: to use sex and flirtation to get into the Trump
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Speaker 1: campaign and to find some dirt they could use, in essence,
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Speaker 1: I guess, to blackmail Donald Trump. Quote in a protected disclosure,
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Speaker 1: the whistleblower, who was an FBI agent, claimed that two
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Speaker 1: undercover agents had quote infiltrated Trump's presidential campaign and had
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Speaker 1: been instructed to quote act as honey pots while traveling
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Speaker 1: with Trump. According to the outlet, so again this is
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Speaker 1: coming from this whistleblower who was an FBI. He was
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Speaker 1: an FBI agent saying, hey, I know there was two
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Speaker 1: undercover agents that found a way into the Trump campaign,
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Speaker 1: infiltrated the presidential campaign, and then they were instructed to
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Speaker 1: use their sexual prowess to try to get in with
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Speaker 1: certain targets. We don't know exactly who the targets were,
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Speaker 1: to then get information and intel to in essence blackmail
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Speaker 1: or try to go after them. The agent quote personally
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Speaker 1: knew that mister Comy ordered an FBI investigation against mister Trump,
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Speaker 1: and that mister Comy quote personally directed this off the books,
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Speaker 1: whatever the hell you want to call it, ru's plan.
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Speaker 2: To overthrow the will of the people. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I'm still trying to get my head around this because
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Speaker 1: this is all coming from an FBI agent.
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Speaker 2: It is truly shocking.
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Speaker 1: The off the books quote investigation did not appear to
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Speaker 1: target a specific crime either, so this was truly like,
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Speaker 1: let's just make one up. It was more of what
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Speaker 1: agents would describe as a fishing expedition to find something,
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Speaker 1: to find anything incriminating about Donald Trump at the time
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Speaker 1: as a candidate. The Washington Times also noted that the
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Speaker 1: whistleblowers disclosure claimed that the investigation was different from Crossfire
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Speaker 1: Hurricane now Crossfire Hurricane, which was the whole ruse of
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Speaker 1: targeting Russian collusion that was part of that BS there. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is all I would argue, incredibly shocking and at
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Speaker 1: the same time not surprising. Now the I want to
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Speaker 1: be clear what the media is going to do if
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Speaker 1: they do have to cover this, They're going to say,
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Speaker 1: this is Donald Trump going after his political enemies. My
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Speaker 1: response is, BS, this is Donald Trump investigating the FBI
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Speaker 1: going rogue off the books without any suspicions of any
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Speaker 1: crimes being committed to infiltrate the Trump campaign, to either
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Speaker 1: spy on the campaign or to entice anybody on the campaign,
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Speaker 1: including I would assume the candidate to do something that
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Speaker 1: could either use as leverage, blackmail, or try to charge
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Speaker 1: with doing some sort of crime in this honeypot as
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Speaker 1: they described it operation. All of this I believe should
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Speaker 1: be investigated to make sure that it never happens again.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I don't think that they should be
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Speaker 1: doing these types of things against Hillary Clinton or Barack
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Speaker 1: Obama or Joe Biden. The American people should get to
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Speaker 1: decide who their president is. The American people should decide,
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Speaker 1: not the FBI, who they choose to be their nominee
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Speaker 1: from their party. And what we are now finding out
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Speaker 1: from this is that the FBI said, no, no, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: make We're gonna be king makers. We're gonna go in,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna find something. We're gonna use honey pots to
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Speaker 1: do it against Donald Trump because we don't like him
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Speaker 1: and we don't want him to be in charge of
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Speaker 1: the government, so we're gonna take him out. That is
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Speaker 1: clearly what the FBI agent, who is a whistleblower is
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Speaker 1: now saying this is an important investigation and it is
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Speaker 1: not about going after your political opponent.
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Speaker 2: Now, what does that look like?
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Speaker 1: Exactly what Hillary Clinton did, Exactly what James Comey did,
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Speaker 1: exactly what Barack Obama did.
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 1: When Donald Trump said his campaign was being spot on
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Speaker 1: by the federal government and everybody on the left and
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Speaker 1: the media, so that's insane, Well guess what. Not only
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Speaker 1: has it been verified, but now it looks like there
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Speaker 1: was a full blown FBI orchestrated honeypot operation to destroy
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump before he was ever able to even get
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Speaker 1: to the White House or even before many of you
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Speaker 1: were able to vote for him. There should be hell
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Speaker 1: to pay for anybody in the FBI that was involved
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Speaker 1: in this. There should be hell to pay if this
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Speaker 1: is true for James Comy as well. All Right, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna take a break, We're gonna come back. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: get to the other issues I talked about earlier, including
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Speaker 1: the budget and a terrorist attack in our southern border
12:38
Speaker 1: against ranchers at the hands of cartels using IEDs to
12:42
Speaker 1: literally blow up a rancher. I'm gonna have that story
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Speaker 1: for you as well in a moment. All right, joining me.
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Speaker 1: Now is Senator Ted Cruz the co host of Verdict
12:51
Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz that I do with him, and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna pull back the curtain for you and explain to
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Speaker 1: you what's gonna happen next with this bill that is
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Speaker 1: just past the house.
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Speaker 2: What does it mean now? How much money is it
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Speaker 2: going to save? You? Take a listen?
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Speaker 1: All right, So, Senator, it was an exciting and intense
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Speaker 1: night on the floor of the house.
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Speaker 2: It was the vote was on, it was off.
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Speaker 1: You literally could physically see people on the floor taking
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Speaker 1: phone calls, speaking on the phone that's been reported was
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Speaker 1: with the President United States of America.
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Speaker 2: This was part of the whipping votes.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, this is when I tell people
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Speaker 1: please share this podcast on social media because we're going
13:28
Speaker 1: to pull back the curtain here and explain to you
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Speaker 1: what happened and what is next. So you guys, they're
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Speaker 1: support of the show by sharing it on social media,
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Speaker 1: hitting that subscribe or download the episode button every time
13:43
Speaker 1: you see the show. But Senator, this was one of
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Speaker 1: those moments where it's like, Okay, this is real. It's
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Speaker 1: a tight majority in the House and it passes because
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Speaker 1: of phone calls literally from the President on the floor.
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Speaker 3: Well, tonight was the first step in delivering on our
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Speaker 3: promises to the American people. And if you look at
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Speaker 3: the election in November, there was a mandate from the voters.
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Speaker 3: Number one, the mandate is secure the border, and that
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Speaker 3: is the most overwhelming mandate we have. Beyond that, there's
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Speaker 3: a mandate to rebuild the military and defend America. There's
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Speaker 3: a mandate to unleash American energy and by doing so,
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Speaker 3: to lower energy cost, to lower inflation. And there's a
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Speaker 3: mandate to bring the economy back to help small businesses,
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Speaker 3: and that means extending the twenty seventeen Trump tax cuts
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Speaker 3: that are expiring this year. All of that we got
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Speaker 3: to get done, and I got to say failure is
14:38
Speaker 3: not an option. So tonight what the House did is
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Speaker 3: they voted on their budget resolution. Now, why does a
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Speaker 3: budget resolution matter? The reason it matters is ordinarily to
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Speaker 3: pass legislation in the Congress, you need sixty votes in
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Speaker 3: the Senate. Why is that because the Senate rules give
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Speaker 3: the minority of the ability to filibuster. A filibuster is
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Speaker 3: the ability to block legislation unless you have sixty votes
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Speaker 3: to cut off debate. Now, we only have fifty three
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Speaker 3: Republicans of the Senate, which means if you need sixty votes,
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Speaker 3: you need seven Democrats. The seven Democrats are not going
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Speaker 3: to vote. There are not seven Democrats. There's not even
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Speaker 3: one Democrat who's going to vote to secure the border,
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Speaker 3: who's going to vote to cut taxes, is going to
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Speaker 3: vote to rebuild our military. And so if you've got
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Speaker 3: to go through the filibuster, you can't win.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: The main exception to the Senate filibuster rule is something
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Speaker 3: called budget reconciliation. Budget reconciliation is a law that was
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Speaker 3: passed in the nineteen seventies that provides for moving forward
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Speaker 3: on budgetary matters, and by statute, a budget reconciliation cannot
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Speaker 3: be filibusters, which means you can pass it with only
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Speaker 3: fifty votes in the Senate. You don't need sixty. So,
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Speaker 3: if you go back to twenty seventeen, seventeen Trump tax
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Speaker 3: cuts we passed using budget reconciliation. If you go back
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Speaker 3: to the Biden administration, the Democrats use budget reconciliation multiple
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Speaker 3: times to pass things like their incredibly misnamed inflation reduction Act,
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Speaker 3: which was the Green New Deal spending scam. They used
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Speaker 3: that because they couldn't get sixty. Now, in order to
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Speaker 3: pass our agenda, we are trying to pass budget reconciliation.
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Speaker 3: The House and Senate have a difference in strategy on
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Speaker 3: how to do this, and we've talked about this in
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Speaker 3: a previous podcast, but I'm going to explain a little
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Speaker 3: bit of it. The House, the Speaker of the House,
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Speaker 3: believes we should pass one single reconciliation bill. What he
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Speaker 3: refers to it as is one big, beautiful bill. Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump has repeated that multiple times, and he believes that's
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Speaker 3: the best way, with his exceptionally narrow majority in the House,
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Speaker 3: to get all of this across the finish line. I
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Speaker 3: will tell you virtually every Republican Senator, including myself, believes
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Speaker 3: the way to do this is two bills, starting with
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Speaker 3: one bill that secures the border, rebuilds the military, and
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Speaker 3: Unleasha's energy, and then a second bill that extends the
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Speaker 3: tax cuts and makes them bigger and bolder. I don't
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Speaker 3: know who's right. I don't know if the Senate's right
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Speaker 3: or the House is right, but at some level, Ben
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Speaker 3: I don't care. We just have to get the job done.
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Speaker 3: So tonight I had dinner with Steve Scalise. Steve is
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Speaker 3: a good friend. He is the House Majority leader.
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Speaker 2: By the way he's he doing.
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Speaker 1: For people that know his history of being shot and
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Speaker 1: the health issues, I just I want to pause and ask,
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Speaker 1: how is he doing physically?
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Speaker 3: Really really well? So Steve, Steve has been is a
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Speaker 3: good friend. He's from Louisiana, He's a conservative, he's a friend.
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Speaker 3: He and I have been friends a long time. He's
17:58
Speaker 3: doing great. And listen, Steve. We all remember where Steve
18:02
Speaker 3: was shot with a crazed, angry leftist who went to
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Speaker 3: the practice of the congressional baseball game and wanted to
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Speaker 3: kill Republicans and shot and badly wounded. Steve shot him
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Speaker 3: in the pelvis and he was in a coma for
18:18
Speaker 3: several days. He almost died. He's recovered from that. And
18:22
Speaker 3: then I got to say, Steve has had some tough
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Speaker 3: health scares because he had just a couple of years
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Speaker 3: ago cancer and he was down in Houston at M
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Speaker 3: d Anderson being treated. And M d Anderson is an
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Speaker 3: amazing hospital. My mom, who's ninety now, she was treated
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Speaker 3: there for cancer. It is look cancer is a terrifying diagnosis.
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Speaker 3: I hope never in my life to be a patient.
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Speaker 2: At m D Anderson.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to be a patient there because you're
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Speaker 3: only a patient there if you have cancer.
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Speaker 2: I'd really like not to have cancer.
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Speaker 3: But I'll tell you this, if I ever get cancer,
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Speaker 3: believe I want to be patient at MD Anderson. They
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Speaker 3: do an amazing job. And I got to say Steve,
19:03
Speaker 3: his health is doing great. I told him tonight he is.
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Speaker 3: He's in remission, he's finished with his cancer treatment. He
19:11
Speaker 3: is strong, his color is back, he is full of
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Speaker 3: life and vim and vigor. I told him, I said, look,
19:19
Speaker 3: even you know, five six months ago, when he was
19:22
Speaker 3: coming out of the cancer treatment, you could see, Look,
19:24
Speaker 3: when you go through that, you go through chemo, it
19:27
Speaker 3: weakens you. You can just see it's hard, your body
19:30
Speaker 3: is I mean it exact cost. It's brutal. But you
19:36
Speaker 3: know what, Steve is strong and effective and good. I
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Speaker 3: was really encouraged, as the best I've seen Steve in years,
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Speaker 3: and he's come through this. And he was jubilant. So
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Speaker 3: he was on the House floor. He's the House majority leader.
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Speaker 3: He was trying to get the votes to pass this
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Speaker 3: on the House and he wasn't sure. So the first
19:55
Speaker 3: time they brought it on the House, it failed, and
19:57
Speaker 3: then he kept pressing and then he got it done,
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Speaker 3: and he got it done. Look, a critical piece of
20:03
Speaker 3: getting it done was President Trump.
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Speaker 1: All right, I want to ask you one other question
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Speaker 1: on the budget issue. So for people that say, okay,
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Speaker 1: this past, how quick is this going to move forward
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Speaker 1: or how long is this.
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Speaker 2: Going to be? It's a long way to go.
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Speaker 1: So what's the timeline on this? So we limit expectations
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Speaker 1: or be realistic.
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Speaker 3: So the budget resolution just starts this process. Now what's
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Speaker 3: happened in the House is they've directed each of the
20:27
Speaker 3: House committees to draft the underlying bill. So what was
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Speaker 3: voted on tonight was not securing the border, it was
20:34
Speaker 3: not rebuilding the military, it was not cutting taxes.
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Speaker 2: It was the.
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Speaker 3: Opening resolution to say, go draft that legislation. That was
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Speaker 3: a real fight.
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Speaker 2: So this is the first setting. To use a baseball analogy.
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Speaker 3: Yes, now it actually gets your batter at the plate,
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Speaker 3: Like if they'd failed, they don't even get a batter
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Speaker 3: at the plate. So now we can start swinging.
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Speaker 2: We're in the game.
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Speaker 3: But they're gonna be harder steps forward. And I believe
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Speaker 3: we're going to get this done. I believe we're going
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Speaker 3: to get this done. We're going to secure the border,
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Speaker 3: we're going to rebuild the military, we're going to unleash
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Speaker 3: American energy, and we're going to extend the tax cuts.
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Speaker 3: But it is going to be a lot of trade offs.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be hard. It's gonna be hard because
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Speaker 3: the House majority is so excruciatingly tiny that on any issue,
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Speaker 3: if you lose two votes, you're you're you're out of luck.
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Speaker 3: But I think we will get the job done. And
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Speaker 3: I will say both Mike Johnson, the Speaker, and Steve Scalise,
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Speaker 3: the Majority leader, they're both good friends. I work very
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Speaker 3: closely with both of them, and I think we will
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Speaker 3: go through some difficult paths to get there. But all
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Speaker 3: of us, from the most conservative Republican to the most moderate, squishy,
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Speaker 3: wobbly Republican, all of us want to produce these victories
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Speaker 3: we get. There is a mandate from the election, and
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Speaker 3: we can't fail. And by the way, if we fail,
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Speaker 3: if we don't secure the border, if we don't rebuild
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Speaker 3: the military, if we don't unleash energy, if we don't
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Speaker 3: extend the tax cuts, we'll get killed in November of
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Speaker 3: next year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's I'm a big believer.
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Speaker 1: Trump said on the floor, right like, Hey, you don't
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Speaker 1: want to be involved in this.
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Speaker 3: Right, get it done. We made a promise to the voters.
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Speaker 3: Let's deliver on the voters, and I think today was
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Speaker 3: an important step to doing that.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the border for a second.
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Speaker 1: There was there was another big story and I want
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Speaker 1: you to just read part of this for people, because
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Speaker 1: it truly is heartbreaking.
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Speaker 2: It makes me angry.
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Speaker 1: It's what you see in war in the Middle East,
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Speaker 1: and it's happening now against ranchers and people in agriculture.
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Speaker 1: The warning is very real now that the cartels are
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Speaker 1: acting like what they are, terrorists organizations. I think this
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Speaker 1: is another example of the press in getting it right,
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Speaker 1: saying we're going to acquire them as terrorist organizations because
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Speaker 1: they that's what they do. They are terrorists organizations. And
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Speaker 1: now we have another data point of saying here's the proof.
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Speaker 3: So let me read from a story in the New
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Speaker 3: York Post. Texas rancher killed by suspected cartel ied on
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Speaker 3: Mexican border as authorities worn of growing threat. Here's what
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Speaker 3: the New York Post reported quote a Texas border rancher
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Speaker 3: was killed near the border by a suspected cartel ied
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Speaker 3: earlier this month. The Texas Department of Agriculture told the
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Speaker 3: Post Tuesday, as officials issued an urgent safety warning for
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Speaker 3: the Rio Grande Valley rancher Antonio Gespenis Saldierna, seventy four,
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Speaker 3: who worked on both sides of the border along with
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Speaker 3: Horatio Lopez Pena, was killed in the blast in Tamalipas, Mexico,
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Speaker 3: which was just south of Brownsville, Texas. Lopez's wife, Nienphi
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Speaker 3: Griselda Ortega, was hospitalized with injuries. Saldirna was driving on
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Speaker 3: his ranch when he hit the explosive device, causing it
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Speaker 3: to detonate. According to KRGV, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller
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Speaker 3: said the deadly explosion is part of a quote growing
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Speaker 3: threat posed by cartel activity along our southern border and
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Speaker 3: encourages ranchers to quote exercise extreme caution in the area.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 3: I encourage everyone in the agricultural industry to stay vigilant,
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Speaker 3: remain aware of their surroundings, and report any suspicious activity
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Speaker 3: law enforcement. Additionally, you can avoid dirt roads and remote areas.
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Speaker 3: Refrain from touching unfamiliar objects that could be explosive devices,
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Speaker 3: limit travel to daylight hours, stay on main roads, and
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Speaker 3: avoid cartel controlled regions.
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Speaker 2: Said Miller.
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Speaker 3: This is happening right at the Texas Mexico border. I
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Speaker 3: gotta say it is dangerous and it shows. You know,
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Speaker 3: some in the media say, gosh, it's hyperbole, it's rhetoric
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Speaker 3: to call the cartel's terrorists. They are terrorists and they're
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Speaker 3: murdering Texans.
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Speaker 1: What does this mean moving forward? If they continue this?
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Speaker 1: And how could this change the way that we interact
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Speaker 1: with them? Because I think there's a lot of Americans
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Speaker 1: right now they're like, look, if we're gonna call them terrasts,
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Speaker 1: let's go after them like they're terrorists.
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Speaker 2: How dare them be allowed to do this?
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Speaker 3: Well, I believe we're gonna do that. I believe we're
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Speaker 3: starting with we saw on January twentieth, President Trump securing
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Speaker 3: the border. We've seen the numbers of illegal crossings plummet,
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Speaker 3: drop ninety percent. We're gonna go after them. We're gonna
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Speaker 3: go after them. We're gonna go after the people who
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Speaker 3: are here. The murderer is the rapist, the child will lesters,
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Speaker 3: the the gang members, we're resting them, we're deporting them,
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Speaker 3: we're going to send them back. But we're also stopping
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Speaker 3: the traffic coming in, the human traffickers, the drug traffickers.
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Speaker 3: That is impacting the cartel's bottom lines. But I think
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Speaker 3: we're going to use leverage to go after the cartels
26:18
Speaker 3: directly and try to Joe Biden and the Democrats gave
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Speaker 3: billions of dollars to the cartels, a stat you and
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Speaker 3: I have talked about multiple times, but it's a stunning stat.
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Speaker 3: In twenty eighteen, the Mexican draw cartels made roughly five
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Speaker 3: hundred million dollars from human trafficking. Five hundred million dollars
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Speaker 3: is a lot of money. Last year they made thirteen
26:46
Speaker 3: billion dollars, a two tho six hundred percent increase. That
26:52
Speaker 3: is ending now, and I have every confidence the Trump
26:55
Speaker 3: administration is going to go after their money. It's going
26:58
Speaker 3: to go after them directly, and you are going to
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Speaker 3: see the cartels targeted, just like we target al Qaeda
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Speaker 3: and Hamas and hezbolah. The days of the cartels terrorizing Americans,
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Speaker 3: those days are ending.
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Speaker 2: All right center.
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Speaker 1: Lastly, there is a war that is taking place between
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and certain states that are saying we're not
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Speaker 1: going to listen to you.
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Speaker 2: Maine now is the latest state to tell the DOJ.
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Speaker 1: In essence, this is adding to California and Minnesota saying
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Speaker 1: we're not going to comply with the federal laws protecting girls' sports.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure this out.
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Speaker 1: Is this pure arrogance or is this a political move
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Speaker 1: by the radical left to say we're not going to comply,
27:45
Speaker 1: and we think it's going to be good for us
27:47
Speaker 1: to raise money and for our base break this down
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Speaker 1: for us.
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Speaker 2: What do you think?
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Speaker 3: Well, listen, Unfortunately, elected Democrats remain radical that they have
27:57
Speaker 3: not learned any lessons from the November election. So if
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Speaker 3: you look at Democrats in Congress, if you looked at
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Speaker 3: Democrat governors, they continue to support open borders, they continue
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Speaker 3: to support releasing murderers and rapists and child molesters into
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Speaker 3: this country. You look at we talked about this in
28:16
Speaker 3: last week's pod, how Massachusetts is literally releasing violent child
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Speaker 3: rapists who are illegal immigrants rather than turn them over
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Speaker 3: to Ice to be deported. And I got to say, look,
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Speaker 3: this is not a sixty forty issue. It's not a
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Speaker 3: seventy thirty issue. This is at eighty twenty or a
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Speaker 3: ninety ten issue.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you.
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Speaker 3: Ask any rational, insane person, a violent child rapist, should
28:45
Speaker 3: we release him into our community? Any rational person, most
28:51
Speaker 3: normal Democrats would say, hell no, that's a dumb ass idea.
28:55
Speaker 3: And yet the elected Democrats in Massachusetts, their answer is
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Speaker 3: let them go. We are opposed to deporting anyone, no
29:04
Speaker 3: matter how vile. They're continuing the same position on they
29:10
Speaker 3: continue to support. The Democrats in Congress continue to support
29:15
Speaker 3: sterilizing and castrating children for sex change operations. Again, that's
29:20
Speaker 3: an eighty twenty issue. They're on the wrong side of it,
29:22
Speaker 3: but they're listening to their radical base. And when it
29:25
Speaker 3: comes to men and women's sports, this is another eighty
29:29
Speaker 3: twenty issue. The American people don't want boys competing against
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Speaker 3: their daughters, they don't want men competing against women, and
29:37
Speaker 3: yet the Democrats are all in on that. And I've
29:40
Speaker 3: been amazed. Normally, when your party gets clobbered in an election,
29:46
Speaker 3: you go and reassess, gosh, maybe we miscalibrated, maybe we
29:50
Speaker 3: should change where we stand. The Democrats are not doing that.
29:54
Speaker 3: And so what happened this week is Pambondi, the new
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Speaker 3: attorney General, targeted in particular three states, targeted Maine, California,
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Speaker 3: and Minnesota, and she issued a warning to them that
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Speaker 3: those states have to comply with federal anti discrimination laws
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Speaker 3: that require them to keep boys at a girl sports.
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Speaker 3: And here's what Pambondi said, quote, This Department of Justice
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Speaker 3: will defend women and does not tolerate state officials who
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Speaker 3: ignore federal law. We will leverage every legal option necessary
30:31
Speaker 3: to ensure state compliance with federal law and President Trump's
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Speaker 3: executive Order protecting women's sports. And she continues, The Department
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Speaker 3: of Justice says, quote, as President Trump's recent executive Order
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Speaker 3: one four to two zero one on this subject explains,
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Speaker 3: allowing men and boys to compete in women's and girl
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Speaker 3: sports quote is demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls.
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Speaker 3: This practice is also illegal under federal law. It denies
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Speaker 3: women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel
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Speaker 3: in competitive sports, in violation of Title nine of the
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Speaker 3: Educational Amendments of nineteen seventy two. And so understand, the
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Speaker 3: Department of Justice is making clear they intend to sue
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Speaker 3: these states and they intend to cut off federal funds
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Speaker 3: to these states if they continue to embrace the radical
31:25
Speaker 3: notion that they're going to let boys compete in girls' sports.
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Speaker 3: We talked about in Monday's pod how the governor Maine
31:32
Speaker 3: is in open defiance, saying to hell with you, we'll
31:35
Speaker 3: see you in court. It's amazing democrats continue to embrace
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Speaker 3: these radical positions.
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