GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
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slash US to learn more the mega Republicans having a disastrous weekend as I
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previously reported their counts they're canceling all of their town halls
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because they know that they're going to get asked difficult questions or
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they're going to get booed so they're avoiding those also they rolled out
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what they claim to be a continuing resolution a CR to keep the government
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funded but when you actually look at this 99 page document it's actually not
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a continuing resolution it's part of Trump and Musk's plan just to destroy the
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government. I mean take a quick look as Jamie debris says a quick look at the
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GOP quote-unquote continuing resolution there are 22 different instances in the
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bill where funding for certain programs is set at zero dollars just look for
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example for example for the Department of Agriculture the Department of
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Energy zero dollars zero dollars on major pieces of funding 116 million
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dollars here 38 million dollars there and why this is so deceptive as well is a
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continuing resolution usually just means you take the existing budget and you
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continue it because you can't pass your own budget the mega Republicans have
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been using continuing resolutions over and over again because they're so
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incompetent they can't pass a budget and usually when you talk about CRs you
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want it to be clean so there's not all this other language in there that you
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have to parse through because then if there's other language you would say pass
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an actual budget versus not a CR a clean one that just takes the budget and
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rolls it over so this is really just a way to kind of be deceptive while
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gutting me look agriculture this is a way to be deceptive and gut education and
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all of these things that Americans that Americans rely on by the way there's
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nothing in there about no tax on tips nothing in there about no tax on social
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security nothing in there about no tax on overtime more lies from the liar and
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chief Donald Trump then you have the mega Republicans going on TV to try to
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justify all of these things like mega Republican Nancy May she's like
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Elon's a genius we need more cuts I'd like to see the whole government get
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destroyed this is what Nancy May says listen to her say it let's talk about Elon
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Musk for a minute his critics are saying that he is usurping powers that should
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belong to the president or should belong to the Congress the Congress has the
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power of the purse he's the one who's been cutting positions in various
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government agencies where do you come down on that I don't think Elon Musk can
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cut enough and in fact I'd like to see him cut more and I'm so grateful as a
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number of Congress on average you know you have 15 to 20 full-time employees not
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all of us we just we don't have the time or the ability to find all the waste
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fraud and abuse of what he's done in a few short weeks with his large team they
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have the same clearances the same qualifications as anybody else taking a
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look at this information this data what he's done is a great service to his
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country a great service to every hardworking American to expose some of this
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so that when we do get in there when we do take that scalpel and we do start
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cutting away that he's been able to find the fat that we got a trim and I am so
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grateful every day for what doge is doing what Elon Musk is doing in service to
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his nation you know some people say he's going too far I don't think is going far
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enough quite frankly there is there's certainly enormous waste fraud abuse
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across every agency across the federal government and you've got MAGA
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Republican Brian Fitzpatrick claims that Trump cutting off intelligent sharing
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with Ukraine is actually part of the art of the deal it's escalate to de-escalate
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help Russia but then that helps reach a peace deal the hell is he been talking
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about play this clip let's talk about Elon Musk for a minute his critics are
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saying that he is usurping powers that should belong to the president or should
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belong to the Congress the Congress has the power of the purse he's the one
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who's been cutting positions in various government agencies where do you come
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down I don't think Elon Musk can cut enough and in fact I'd like to see him cut
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more and I'm so grateful as a member of Congress on average you know you have
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15 to 20 full-time employees not all of us we just we don't have the time or the
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ability to find all the waste fraud abuse what he's done in a few short weeks with
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his large team they have the same clearances the same qualifications as anybody
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else taking a look at this information this data what he's done is a great
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service to his country a great service to every hardworking American to expose
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some of this so that when we do get in there when we do take that scalpel and we do
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start cutting away that he's been able to find the fat that we got a trend and I
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am so grateful every day for what doge is doing what Elon Musk was doing in
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service to his nation you know some people say he's going too far I don't think
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is going far enough quite frankly there is there's certainly enormous waste
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fraud abuse across every agency across the federal government want to give a
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shout out to democratic congress member alken clause who's you've seen him
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here in the might as touch network here he calls out the panel that includes
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Republicans as well I'm saying look Republicans are not even saying the most
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basic statement Ukraine is right Russia is wrong here play this clip there's
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300 billion euros of frozen assets being held in Brussels right now that
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France and Germany and Belgium have Russian assets that's right if congress
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signaled in a bipartisan fashion that one we want Ukraine to win this war we
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believe Russia was the aggressor not Ukraine and two that we support our
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European allies in giving security guarantees to Ukraine paid for with
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Russian assets I think we could get to resolution very quickly congressional
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Republicans are not stepping up and just saying the very basic sentence of
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Ukraine is right Russia is wrong yes you question congressman Gonzalez
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and then democratic congress member alken clause looks at maggot republican
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representative Tony Gonzalez after Gonzalez claims that doges popular and
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alken clause brings the receipts so I love having alken clause on this show here
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play this clip doges very popular in my district people are going what is this I
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mean you you listen to the state of the union and president trump goes down the
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list and you hear some of these things money to Zamunda for you know research on
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on squirrels and you're like no way this could be true that's a lot of the talk in
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my district is it popular to cut health care for the 40 percent of kids in this
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country who rely on Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for people who don't need tax
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cuts yeah that's not going to be popular you know well yeah let me just bring a
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brand right now that is what we're congressional Republicans are doing doges is a
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misdirection tactic that the focus of effort is that they're going to take
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$880 billion out of health care that seniors rely on for at home care that
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kids rely on for primary care and they're gonna use it to give the 1% massive tax
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cuts everyone obviously supports getting rid of waste prod abuse so let me
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remove from the conversation for a second then Donald Trump brings out his
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commerce secretary Howard Lutnik who says yes the tariffs will go back on April
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2nd unless we end the fentanyl I mean end the fentanyl you're ending programs that
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help combat fentanyl by the way where's what about the bipartisan border deal
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you're not doing that to stop to stop and you're just going to talk about and
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say we need to end fentanyl and then just defame Canada you're play this clip
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second that's going to be reciprocal tariffs and I'm happy to talk about that but
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let's try to keep those two different okay understood but you say he's not
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going to take his foot off the gas does that mean these are permanent tariffs
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mr secretary can you provide clarity yes or no if fentanyl ends I think these will
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come off but if fentanyl does not end or he's uncertain about it they will stay
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this way until he is comfortable this is black and white you got to save
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American lives so with respect with respect to fentanyl this is about the
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border and fentanyl and that's an agreement between the president and the two
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leaders of Canada of course Justin Trudeau's got a lot to say of course he's
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leaving in like days so yeah it's not really that fun to listen to some guy who's
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trying to create sort of a mess for Canada which he's trying to do president
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trombone did a much more calm thoughtful conversation with president
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Trump and that's why this is the result she was able to negotiate it because she
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said a thousand more people on the border stopping fentanyl from coming into
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this country mr secretary and you've got Magger Republican Congress women
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laurel leaf from florida attacking the district courts for issuing
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injunctions against trumps unlawful conduct let's play it and what we saw this
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week was a district court that really exceeded the authority that it has an
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issue another one of these nationwide injunctions that are proliferating in our
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lower courts and really are an inappropriate use of what should be a very
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limited power so that's something that I know we're also going to be looking at
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is how we can reduce or stop that court shopping and even this Supreme Court
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called it an aggrandation of judicial power and judicial humor so we need to
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Democratic congress member Jake out in class again this is a great line I
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thought where he goes Salinsky flew into Washington but he walked into the
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Kremlin here play this clip as well we were doing a town hall in the biggest
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city in my district democrats still do town halls and this city voted for
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Donald Trump in 2024 first time in a hundred years the most resonant theme of
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the day that I heard from these Americans was how live it they are about the
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way that president Trump behaved in the oval office with a lot of my zealenski
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Zelensky flew to Washington but he walked into the Kremlin and the propaganda
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that they heard from the commander in chief made Americans feel less safe and
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made them feel ashamed this is an opportunity for congressional Republicans to
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distance themselves from this abomination and to demonstrate that Americans are
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going to stand for freedom and democracy because with all due respect people do
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win wars United States won world war two it made this world safe for freedom and
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democracy we are now making it less safe for freedom and democracy by giving
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Russia all the cards that Donald Trump claims they have well I would add it's
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time for America to have all the cards I don't want to see I don't want my I don't
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want American daughters and sons going to fight wars just like I did I want to
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contrast this for you here are some of the Democratic leaders in the House and
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the Senate you know leading some rallies I like to see them out there speaking
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to the people the same way we've been covering what senator Bernie Sanders
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has been doing but let's play this clip of Democrats in the House and Senate let's
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play man words over four hundred billion dollars is gonna decide what happens
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with my grandma social security check I want elected Elon Musk to nothing Elon Musk
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is seizing the power that belongs to the American people we are here to fight
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back Elon Musk gives 250 million dollars to elect Donald Trump and Donald Trump
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turns over the keys to the United States government to Elon Musk and his
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billionaire friends and his cronies we know that we work for the American people
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and what we're not gonna do is stand around what they pull this bulls that they
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trying to pull right now we are gonna be in your face we are gonna be on your
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and we are gonna make sure and then contrast that to over here the Magga
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Republican Congress member Hudson who leads the Republican Congressional
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Committee campaign committee and he's out there basically saying look we have to
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cancel all of our town halls because of George Soros here at play this
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clip unfortunately a Democrat party is hijacked he's in person down holes busing people in
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so you can have these media so you can actually reach the war constituents a lot of
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people really busy with the families and their jobs and their lives they don't have time to
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go to a town hall meeting I mean are you just concerned about the optics though?
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I'm concerned about Democrat activists who are disrupting do you have proof that
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these are all Democrats sitting in these just shows news coverage have you held
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the town hall? I have a lot of telephone titles I've got one coming up next week
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I think it's important to have that face-to-face interaction with people in your
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district I think it's the only way you can be a good representative and it's a lot
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of such a shame that the Democrats are threatened to democracy by disrupting
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this dialogue so utterly stupid here's Democratic senator Adam Schiff let's
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play it at the kitchen table hoping that he would offer something to help them
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afford a new home or pay the rent to afford health care or child care there was
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nothing in American people and that's where we need to keep our focus I was just
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listening to your guest precede me trying to explain that these terraces
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on again off again tariffs are not about trade it's a drug war and then but next
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month it's a trade war but now it's a drug war it was incomprehensible and he was
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also trying to say that numbers the job numbers that came in less than
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expected or somehow good news they're destroying the economy and they're
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making it harder and harder for Americans to afford things that's where we
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need to keep the focus that's why we lost the last election because we
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weren't razor focused on laser focused on the high cost of living and what
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they're doing now is just making it so much worse than the administration and
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that's really what we need to emphasize you've made it clear you're and then you
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have Donald Trump's Homeland Security Secretary Christy gnome who shot and
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killed her dogs in her past that's what one of the things she was known for and
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here she talks about when it comes to reviving the policy of family
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separations here's what she says legally and they can self-deport as well we've
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set up a system in a website where people who are here illegally right now can
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register and they can choose to go home on their own and keep their families
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united well the kids do have a choice if they have parents they make a choice to
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keep their families together if they want to or not they parents make a decision
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to leave their children behind then that's a choice that they made as a family
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and we need to remember that when Americans break the law and they have
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consequences or face a situation they're separated from their families too I
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don't believe we should prioritize people from other countries above
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Americans but when it comes to reviving the policy of separating families from
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their children at the border actually reviving it is that I want to have
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President Biden didn't follow the law he didn't follow the law in the fact that
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it's always been equally applied until his administration and then he made
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decisions to ignore federal law in how he handled immigration and enforcement
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within our borders and here Maggar Republican Representative Rick Scott
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acknowledges that there will be disturbances in economic policies you know Rick
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Scott got rich working for a company that pled that it issued is that reached
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the settlement with the government he invoked the fifth over 75 times and
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biggest criminal case of Medicaid fraud that's how he got his money he's worth
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hundreds of millions of dollars engaged in the types of fraud
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allegations that musk and others were saying are the main problems that's how this
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guy got rich and now he's just saying well Americans will just have to deal with
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it here play this quote quickly if you could sir President Trump is in
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college that there's going to be a little disturbance due to his economic
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policies how how bad is this disturbance going to be and how long is it going to
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lands well first off Donald Trump walked in with a with a crappy economy
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on the number of full-time jobs have been dropping they've almost the entire
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Biden administration this is a lot of work the manufacturer jobs are coming
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back that had not been happening under Biden that's a big deal the number one
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thing is we got to get American manufacturing back into this country
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so I'm very optimistic that we're going to get this done now is it worked to
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balance about it yeah it's work all right we're going to stop waste of money so
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people are going to go build we're going to start building a private sector again
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and stop growing the public sector your constituents that are
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living paycheck to paycheck how long is this disturbance going to land
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well the disturbance is the 20% inflation under Biden the fact there's no
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full-time jobs so it's already changing we're already adding full-time jobs
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we've already added 10 I think 10,000 manufacturer jobs just last month
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I'm a very optimistic it's going to happen very quickly
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okay I mean inflation was high but it was not 20% Senator Ricks got a full well
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there you have it folks let me know what you think and I like some of these
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