Episode 85 - Drilling Banned Off Florida's Coast! Oscars Go Full-Blown Woke. Olympics in Tokyo Are A Go.
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On today's episode of Hot Takes, we discuss: President Trump's decision to extend a ban on offshore drilling off the coast of Florida, an Air Force veteran being asked to remove an American flag mask, and a story about a grocery chain chain that doesn't like the flag.
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the news for florida
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and for florida's first congressional district in particular could not be better today president
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trump making the decision that there will be no drilling off the coast of florida georgia or south
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carolina this allows my community to continue to grow its military mission by the way it's a pretty
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bad idea to shoot experimental missiles over oil rigs pretty easy for the president to grasp that
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concept but it will also mean that our environment and our economy will be protected from the risks
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of drilling our good friends in alabama and louisiana and texas if they want to drill off
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their coast they have made that decision we'll let them do that and then we'll let them drive on over
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to the beautiful beaches of florida to enjoy them to the lovely properties of florida and to the great
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environment of florida i'm so happy that president trump has worked with our office so closely on this
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decision this has been something i've advocated for for gosh you know three and a half years
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stopping oil drilling off the coast of my district is one of the principal reasons that i ran for
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congress and it's a great sense of achievement for the trump administration and for our community
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to be able to say that florida is protected from drilling for another 10 years here's the president
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in a few moments i will sign a presidential order extending the moratorium on offshore drilling on
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florida's gulf coast and expanding it to florida's atlantic coast as well as the coasts of georgia and
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keeping up with the kardashians is coming to an end that's right the show is uh concluding its last run
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and i guess we'll be off to the land of syndication i'll be honest with you i think the last kardashian
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i truly kept up with was robert kardashian who was the lawyer who defended oj the dad
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and he died of cancer and his daughters became far more famous than than he was as a successful
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attorney playing a significant role some would say maybe even an infamous role in the oj trial but
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now it's kim and the rest of the crew on to a different venture a different pursuit than keeping
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up with the kardashians somehow i think they'll still find their way to the public eye
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i do not want to shop in any grocery store in america that doesn't love america and i've got some
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real questions about the food lion chain the story comes to us from todd starnes at toddstarnes.com
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grocery store tells air force veteran to remove american flag mask that's right the air force
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veteran in this particular case was an employee of food lion he was engaged in the right hygiene
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wearing a mask but was apparently told that the american flag mask was offensive take a listen to
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this interview with todd starnes as a veteran i love my country i love my flag i live in a military
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town have like north carolina i'm about a mile away from cherry point marine corps air station
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so you've got the second marine aircraft wing you've got a lot of military a lot of veterans
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when they said put the mask on or you can't work here as a retired broadcaster myself and
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a veteran i said well okay no problem i'll see if i can find a mask that works for me and those gator
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masks work uh the ones that wrap around the head i found one with an american flag design on it and i
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found one with a thin blue line flag on it i've been wearing them all summer long no problem three
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days ago somebody apparently complained about me wearing the flag at the time i really was the way
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the political atmosphere is today you just think everybody's saying that because they hate the flag
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but it could also have been someone who's saying you violated the flag code and you're not really
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allowed to wear anything that depicts the american flag because it's showing disrespect for the flag
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i stood my ground and said okay if i can't wear this flag i can't work here so i left and then it
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blew up on facebook from there good on you gary dean for serving your country in the united states air force
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for reflecting your patriotism and shame on food lion do better be best
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the academy awards are frankly awards that hollywood gives itself it's not something i've paid much
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attention to but the academy did make an announcement today that i did find interesting they've announced
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new inclusion and representation standards so for any movie to be eligible for best picture consideration
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at the 96th oscars uh this is in 2024 a film must meet two out of the four standards so so i'm going to go
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through the four standards on screen representation of themes and narratives creative leadership and project
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team industry access and opportunities and audience development so none of these have to do with whether
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or not it's a good or enjoyable movie they're all these like new woketopian standards on you know
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inclusion and diversity which are laudable goals but they're also different than the quality of a film
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we are now entering an era in the united states i worry where we water down the objective analysis over
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achievement and instead replace that objective analysis with this type of virtue signaling and of
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course it would start in hollywood and of course it would start with the oscars showing frankly what a
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real joke hollywood is and how detached they are from regular america our job is to make sure that in
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america someone's achievement someone's success can be celebrated and that it's not replaced by some
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virtue signal uh to satisfy the woketopia i think that what makes america special is that anyone from
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anywhere of any skin color or national origin or any story can make something of themselves in our country
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and i want to ensure that we preserve equality as the organizing principle of our country
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president trump nominated for the nobel peace prize as a consequence of his work on the historic
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uae israel peace deal and that nomination comes from a member of the norwegian parliament
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making the argument and i'm quoting here from the nomination letter as it is expected other middle
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eastern countries will follow in the footsteps of the uae this agreement could be a game changer
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that will turn the middle east into a region of cooperation and prosperity so now that we're seeing
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a more peaceful middle east perhaps we will be able to spend less u.s treasure and less u.s blood
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frankly in the middle east the president is expected to announce a troop drawdown today from iraq taking
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another step to stop the endless wars that far too many in washington including joe biden have
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perpetrated and they've perpetrated it oftentimes not for the benefit of the united states but for the
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benefit of the bottom lines of certain defense contractors who seem to do well when we are in a position of
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endless war so good on the president let's hope for a more peaceful middle east a more peaceful world
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and we thank the norwegians for their kind words about president trump and their nomination letter
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for the nobel peace prize you never know it could happen
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northeastern university is sending home 11 students a little bit lighter in the pocketbook
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after they violated social distancing rules apparently these 11 students had a party in a hotel room
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and they will not see a refund of their nearly 37 000 in tuition for the semester program that they
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were enrolled in and these universities are getting serious we continue to see reports in florida alabama
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elsewhere where as student populations are getting together as testing is deployed into those populations
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there's a lot of coronavirus and there's a whole lot of social and not a lot of distancing
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i would not want to be the person responsible for keeping a bunch of college kids off of each other
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i mean one of the whole things in college is that you're interacting oftentimes with different types
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of people from different types of communities or backgrounds than you might otherwise see i know
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that was the case for me at florida state university you know i came from a very homogenous
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pro-military veteran-oriented community kind of a beach town in northwest florida and when you go to
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florida state gosh you got folks from miami you got folks from all over the world you got people who
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have lived different types of lives and one of the fun and exciting things about college is to interact
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with those folks to learn about their experiences to go on dates with them to hang out in hotel rooms and
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in apartment buildings and play video games and play beer pong and just enjoy those elements of social
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college life that we would all be remiss if if we didn't recognize was sort of a rite of passage for
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a lot of young people in college but in the era of coronavirus we need our young people to be ever
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diligent about their hygiene sanitation maybe there are a few things that you used to do that you
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shouldn't be doing now and at northeastern university they're at least setting the standard that if
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you're caught breaking the rules don't expect to get your money back and while you want to be
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sympathetic to the kids that paid that money i get it from the standpoint of the university and i don't
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often defend like the higher education industrial complex but look in this particular case the university
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had to plan for these students they had to create space for them that space was deprived to other
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students they had to hire faculty that faculty had to you know prepare for the pedagogy that would go
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on in the classroom and if that's not going to be an option because of folks violating social distancing
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rules and seemingly acting in blatant violation of those rules and and sneaking around to do so well
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i mean i think there have to be some consequences so i hope that we can have the college experience such
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that it is in this era of the pandemic young people who are in college now really have have seen
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substantial impact whether it's a change to their high school experience a change to their employment
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opportunities uh changes in internships i know that's been a real thing that has frustrated our office
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in congress we love having the energy and excitement of new ideas and critical thinking of interns just
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around the office to ask questions and check what we're doing and we miss out on that in coronavirus
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and i know that that also is is depriving some young people of the experience and opportunities that
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they would otherwise have and so we want college life to be productive and fun we also want it to be safe
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bbc news is reporting that social gatherings of any more than six people are now banned in england this
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new law would have a 100 pound fine for people who fail to comply a doubling on each offense with a
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maximum of 3 200 pounds per fine so the new rules will not apply to schools workplaces or covid
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secure weddings funerals and organized team sports but otherwise no gatherings of more than six so i
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guess if you go out to eat you'll only see tables of six available for people it will be interesting
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to see the enforceability of this government at times has to have humility to understand that
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if people are not bought in to the regulations that we'd like to place on them that they're just not
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going to follow them and so we'll see if this is a trend that uh sweeps through europe or that crosses
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the pond to the united states but no more than six in your favorite english pub for now
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the new york times has the story the trump administration and the department of justice
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are preparing to file antitrust suits against google in the coming weeks google ceo sundar pichai
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was recently before the house judiciary committee and answered questions on the issue of antitrust
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usually in our quest to regulate big companies we end up hurting small companies more and i'm a
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strong privacy advocate but the consequences of gdpr have been to further entrench large established
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actors like google leading to regulatory capture that exasperates competition concerns and google's
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digital ad market share has increased since the implication implementation of gdpr do you know that to
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be correct uh congressman to just give you a sense of the robust competition we see ad prices have
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fallen down by 40 percent in the past 10 years and in fact in the u.s advertising as a share of gdp has
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come down from 1.4 percent in 1990 to less than one percent today so we see robust competition in the
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marketplace and as i said earlier you know we have to comply with regulation we have to interpret it
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strictly and we have to balance the ecosystem but our utmost care is ensuring privacy and security of
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our users google has a near monopoly on search they develop other business lines that make things very
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difficult on their competitors and while i think that the utilization of antitrust laws should often be
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a last resort right now you have this company that is trying to control what people see and what they
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think so they can control how they behave one of the things that really troubled me about google
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was the behavior we saw following the 2016 election sundar pachai and his senior leadership team
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got together and talked about how bad it was that donald trump had won and how they felt an obligation
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to ensure that it didn't happen again listen to my questioning of sundar pachai on just that instance
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mr pachai in 2016 there was an internal google meeting you attended that meeting along with
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sergey brin a video of that meeting was leaked to breitbart and at the meeting top google executives
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including kent walker lamented trump's victory they compared trump voters to extremists and it was
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discussed that there was an intent to make the trump win a blip in the populist movement in american
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history now i know you've testified today in response to my questions and mr jordan's questions
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that you don't intend this time to engage in electioneering on behalf of the former vice president
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but given the video evidence of senior members of your team in your presence saying that they had the
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intent to make the trump victory a blip why should we believe that testimony today congressman
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uh we do not have a view on we respect the democratic process we are deeply committed to
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it as a company we take pride in the information we provide to help people participate in free
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elections and we are deeply committed to it as i said to congressman jordan as well remember that meeting
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uh uh 2016 yes i do yes i do so if the trump administration believes that antitrust laws
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have been broken i think it's entirely appropriate for them to engage we saw all 50 states attorney
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general bring an action together against google for a potential fraud in their ad platform in the way
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they treat advertisers in the way that they're really robbing a lot of local news sites of their
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advertising revenue and i'm eager to see how the federal litigation goes the state-based litigation
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hasn't really you know gone too far beyond a press conference and a filing there hasn't been active
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discovery and fact-finding but hopefully the trump administration will find more and hopefully
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in rochester new york we continue to see riots and arson and destruction as a consequence of the
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activity going on there and the news is that the police leaders the law enforcement leadership
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community in rochester has resigned as a consequence of what you see happening on the streets there and
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we talk about this in terms of a growing dynamic in the country where law enforcement are treated as
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like second-class citizens and it's totally insane for a country as great as ours not to honor and
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cherish our law enforcement community and we're seeing fewer people aspire to law enforcement careers
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we're seeing more folks take retirement early and it is not going to be a good thing for the streets in
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our communities if good people are not still willing to step forward and help keep us safe
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so as we hear about the destruction in rochester as we're concerned for the citizens there we continue to
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see the situation deteriorate as the police leadership step aside here's my question who do you think is
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going to replace them i mean do you think that we're going to get more inclusive and thoughtful
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policing as folks are bailing from the profession no naturally it's going to negatively impact the
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profession if you drive a lot of the high quality talent away if you drive away people with experience
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who can help execute on the training programs that we'd very much like to be able to support so that
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we have de-escalation in events that could otherwise turn tragic or deadly and speaking of de-escalation
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why has the senate and house leadership not worked together to pass senator tim scott's good policing bill
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republicans have ideas to improve policing we're just not going to blame the police we're not going to
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castigate and criticize and shame and and um you know make the job harder for police we want to
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support police and active engaged law enforcement i think that's going to be a lot harder based on what
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we're seeing in rochester and around the country the olympics in tokyo are happening with or without
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covid bbc has the story and as you'll all remember the olympics were scheduled to start uh and then they
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were postponed as a consequence of covid concerns now the international olympic committee saying they're
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happening with or without covid and that the games will go on so uh not only will we see i think some
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changes in how the games are presented you'll also see limited spectators a simplification of some of
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the sports uh intense testing but under no circumstance are the olympics being canceled the games will go on
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after a stop in jupiter florida the president was on to north carolina where tens of thousands of
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patriots were gathered to hear his remarks and support him here's the president corporations and
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far-left politicians have both sided with radical demonstrated over you look at that it's over the
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law-abiding areas that we have you know republican cities and towns are doing great we're doing great
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and we don't have crime and we don't have this violence chicago over the weekend many people killed
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many people shot shot they're actually shot and killed new york the same thing new york's gone through
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the roof they're up 300 percent in certain categories and you say what's happening and we want to send
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them in so badly joe biden and his party spent the entire summer cheering on the rioters rampaging
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through democrat-run cities falsely labeling them as peaceful protesters and you know we call you peaceful
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protesters you know why because they have rules in these democrat-run states that if you're campaigning
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you can't have more than five people they did that for me if you're going to church you can't go to
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church anymore you can't go to church you can't go to church you can't do anything you have to stay in
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your house but if you're willing to riot running down main street if you're willing to riot and stand on
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top of each other's face and do whatever the hell you want to do you're allowed to do that because
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you're considered a peaceful protester so we decided to call all our rallies peaceful protests
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thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates we're closing in on 2000 ratings on apple
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