Best of the Program | Guests: Sen. Ted Cruz & Sen. Mike Lee | 3⧸8⧸22
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joins us to discuss the idiocy of the White House and the insanity of its foreign policy and economic policies. We also discuss the price of gas and the impact of the proposed ban on Russian oil production in the United States.
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what a wild circus we got going on today i mean it is clowns clown shoes and red noses yes that's
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right joe biden speaks today on oil it's gonna be quite a lesson in um in new think and new speak
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because none of it is true well part of it is true we are cutting off all russian oil and gas
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to the united states europe's not but we're gonna lead the way oh and by the way have you seen the
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price it went up over a dime uh just since we spoke yesterday i'm wondering what the over under is
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going to be for tomorrow's price of gasoline we have that tom tom cruise ted cruz we have tom cruise too
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but we weren't you know we buried him in the last segment yeah you have to listen to the whole thing
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we have to we just never got to him and we have the biggest nerd we know but we love him we love
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him because he's the kind of nerd we need mike lee yes we need more mike lee's uh definitely and if
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senator ted cruz is with us now uh senator i cannot believe the insanity that is coming out of this
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white house we are shooting ourselves in both feet and the legs well glenn unfortunately you're
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right uh this president has given over the agenda to the radical left in the democratic party and
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we're seeing policy after policy that are hurting americans uh we're seeing economic policies that
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are causing inflation to be galloping across the country that are causing gas prices to go through
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the roof and and that is combined with foreign policy where joe biden has projected weakness
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and has tried appeasement with respect to every enemy of america seemingly on the face of the planet
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and and there's not a region on earth that hasn't gotten substantially worse for u.s national security in
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the in the past year uh under joe biden if you look at russia uh biden's weakness is the direct
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precipitating cause of russia's invasion of ukraine it's two decisions in particular that biden made
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that caused this war and this is the the the largest land war in europe since 1945 since world war ii
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it was caused by number one biden's disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan last year that the the withdrawal was
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so so catastrophic that every enemy of america looked to washington looked to the oval office
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and took the measure of the man in the oval office and unfortunately they determined that biden was weak
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and feckless and ineffective and at the time i said publicly the chances of russia invading ukraine
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just increased tenfold and the chances of china invading taiwan increased tenfold but secondly with respect to
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russia and ukraine in particular president biden waived sanctions on russia on putin on the nordstrom
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2 pipeline which is the pipeline that putin is building from russia to germany to circumvent ukraine
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to go around ukraine and the purpose of the pipeline was to enable russia to be able to invade ukraine
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without endangering the energy infrastructure they need to get their natural gas to europe i authored
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the sanctions in the senate bipartisan sanctions to shut down nordstrom 2 president trump signed my
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sanctions legislation in 2019 and putin stopped construction of that pipeline literally the day
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that president trump signed my sanctions legislation when biden came into office he waived those sanctions
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on russia he waived those sanctions on putin putin finished the pipeline and that is why we're seeing
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this invasion because of joe biden's weakness ted the the insanity of of weakness in the um oval office
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is i hope quite clear to most people but we have a lot of people now that have been you know um
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ratcheted up with the screams of ban russian oil ban russian oil i'd like to ban russian oil
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but not until we open up our own supplies and i'm not talking about the street in since insanity
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at this point to go into our strategic oil reserve we've got to open up our oil fields and get pumping
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again we don't have to beg and give gifts to despots and dictators and killers
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well let me agree with you in the following respect which is what biden has done with regard to domestic
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oil and gas production is lunacy as you noted in in 2019 the united states became a net energy exporter
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we are an oil and gas superpower and we were exporting all around the world in 2021 under joe biden we lost
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that status we're now importing energy and the reason is from literally the first day became
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president joe biden has waged a war on american energy production and on american jobs first day in
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office he killed the keystone pipeline that decision alone killed 11 000 high-paying jobs including 8 000
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union jobs he simultaneously halted all new leases on federal lands both onshore and offshore and as
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you noted shortly thereafter he ended production in anwar an incredibly uh resource rich uh region of
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alaska all of those decisions in addition to the epa and the regulatory agencies waging war on oil and gas
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production caused our our rig count to plummet caused u.s production to go down and and one of
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the ironies you know you know biden claims he's doing this because he cares about the climate
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if the only thing you cared about was energy then biden has or was was the environment rather
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then biden has been an abysmal failure why because when you shut down american production and you increase
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production overseas the production overseas is dirtier under joe biden the world is polluting more is
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emitting more carbon because if you want less pollution you want american production and not russian
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production not iranian production they actually don't give a damn about the environment it is a religious
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fervor from the left to destroy oil and gas in this country even if the result of it is more
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pollution and more carbon emissions which is what joe biden has produced so ted you i know you have
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i know you know this the world is not set up for 150 a barrel oil or 180 or 200 it doesn't work um we are
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playing a tremendous game of chicken here between putin and the united states honestly the one thing that
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makes sense to me is the idea that maybe putin is just like you know what they'll collapse us but i bet
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we'll we can collapse them first i mean this is nuts so so glenn here's where here's where i'll press
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back with you a little bit i i think it is the right decision to go after putin using energy and and i've
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been pressing on biden to halt to boycott russian oil and to boycott russian gas and so the news that's
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being reported this morning is that biden finally is going to listen to that and at least halt uh the
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importing of oil russian oil into the united states i think that's the right step to do but but the
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second step and this is critical is that we need to pressure europe to do the same thing to cut off
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russian oil and russian gas putin believes europe is addicted to russian oil and gas that he can do
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whatever he wants and and that europe can't break their addiction well that's not in fact right there
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there are ample supplies worldwide to meet europe's need in particular europe imports vast quantities of
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natural gas from russia well the saudi arabia of natural gas is the united states and in particular
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it's west texas the united states can supply europe's energy needs but the problem is right now under joe
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biden there are six pending applications to export liquid natural gas that are all languishing the
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biden administration is blocking what joe biden needs to do this morning is go on national television
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with a pen and approve all six of them and we need to step in if you want to really weaken putin if you
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want to starve his war machine putin needs to look and see european refineries begin buying oil from places
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other than russia and and i will note the refineries won't just buy on the spot market the producers will
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demand long-term contracts probably 10-year contracts nothing would do more to undermine
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putin's power at home his political strength and the revenue to fund his war than to take away the
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demand for their energy but to do that where you're exactly right is we need to replace it with our own
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production we're we're blessed with the ability to produce the energy and biden doesn't want to
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so that's that's that's the rub because i completely agree with if you want to hurt putin you're not
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hurting him until you hurt him at the oil spigot or the gas spigot um so you've got to hit him there
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however i have no faith that this administration is going to approve uh those uh uh those leases
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expand start start start shipping gas from west texas to uh to europe we and then and then what
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happens if we don't have our own oil and we are enriching despots uh first of all i mean look at the
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price of gas yesterday was four dollars it's 417 today and it's going to keep going up and and and look
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last week i introduced legislation in the senate called the energy freedom act that that would
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unshackle american energy production it would reverse the disastrous decisions joe biden has put in
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place it would allow the keystone pipeline to go away it would allow new development on federal lands
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onshore and offshore it would approve these these lng exports it would remove the requirement for a
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presidential authorization for cross-border pipelines there's no reason for that requirement to begin with
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it it would allow america to step forward as an energy superpower again now i have no illusions
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that joe biden is suddenly going to support uh these ideas at least easily but right now glenn
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the biden administration has put more restrictions on u.s oil and gas producers than it has on russian oil
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and gas producers that makes no sense and and as you noted the biden administration is literally going
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hat in hand to enemies of america like venezuela begging them to sell us oil that they're in vienna
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right now trying to negotiate a deal with iran begging the ayatollah to sell us oil trying to send
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hundreds of billions of dollars to a theocratic despot who chants death to america and death to israel
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it is lunacy that they would rather enrich enemies of america who want to murder us than actually have
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good high-paying jobs in america that produce energy more cleanly and better for the environment
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than iranian or venezuelan or russian oil real quick because i know you've got to run and i do too but
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is there what do the people do what do people do to help how can we get this done we just uh look
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speak out uh put pressure on your elected officials i'll tell you the the democrats are worried you
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looked at biden's state of the union address last week and i was there for it it was i've seen now
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i've been on the floor of the house for 10 different state of the union addresses it was by far the
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weakest one i've ever seen but it was interesting he he did at least talk about inflation and gas prices
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going up and and so they're seeing the concern but he didn't acknowledge his own policies or what's
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causing it he didn't acknowledge the trillions in spending the trillions in debt that is fueling
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inflation but but what we can do is is speak up and and make clear to our friends and family and
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colleagues you know the little stickers that people are putting on gas pumps with a picture of joe
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biden pointing at the price saying i did that those are powerful those are powerful because it's
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people are starting to understand wait a second this doesn't make any sense this is hurting my family
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and and i believe november is going to be a tidal wave election i think we're going to win
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the house of representatives i think we're going to win the senate back uh in texas you and i are both
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texans i'll tell you south texas i think south texas is is is turning red i think there's some very
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strong candidates cassie garcia who's a republican running in south texas in a democratic seat i
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think she's going to win monica de la cruz is a republican running in south texas in a democratic
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seat i think she's going to win you want to talk about hispanic women who are conservatives turning
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democratic areas red this is because of the lunatic policies of this administration that that are hurting
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working americans across this country senator ted cruz thank you so much i appreciate it you can
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follow him at cruz.senate.gov uh senator ted cruz thanks
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representative on let's let's have him tell us about he's from the mississippi freedom caucus his name is
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uh steve hopkins he's a republican state representative from mississippi steve how are you
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doing great how are you guys uh we're good we heard some a listener called in um and told us about
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something that it was really disturbing about a bill that is in up for uh a vote in mississippi and a
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couple of other uh i think uh tennessee and maybe alabama uh arkansas okay what is this bill
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well it's the tri-state compact bill and i want to thank rebecca for calling in and uh bringing
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you guys's attention to this because this is all about regionalism it's all about um setting up
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quasi-governmental entities uh that subvert the law so what it would actually do is it would set up a
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commission of people five from mississippi five from uh tennessee five from arkansas on a commission
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that is unelected people who could make decisions uh without government oversight they're not subject
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to the uh open policy open door policies or transparency laws uh they could issue imminent
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domain orders they could take people's property uh to be able to do whatever they want to do so the the
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the business the company that's behind all this is region smart um but uh it's the most heinous piece
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of legislation that i've seen in my seven years here in the mississippi legislature so do we know
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anything about region smart who are they uh we are finding out more than uh we could ever have asked for
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these guys have ties to the urban land institute and a company called black rock um and uh all this glenn
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all this goes back we believe to the clinton era uh clinton uh did an executive order i think it was back
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in 1998 uh for sustainable development encouraging public private partnerships and shift shift
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power from elected officials to appointed agencies well you fast forward now you've got this
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infrastructure bill coming out and there's millions of dollars set aside for compacts well that's what
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this bill would do it it it makes a compact of unelected officials in tennessee arkansas mississippi
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who can basically they can tax they can issue bonds and they can take uh your land by eminent domain
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we have the eminent domain law in mississippi and the law says that you can't that the government can't
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take somebody's property and then give it to somebody or a private corporation within 10 years well
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this would subvert that law because it's given uh you know them the power to do it and they're
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unelected i i i have to i have to ask you i mean first of all steve thanks for being on this
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thanks for you know being the chair of the mississippi freedom caucus but i can't imagine any
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person who is actually representing the people voting for this this this is insane when if somebody
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comes and says oh by the way eminent no domain you're gonna lose your house here's the money for
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it uh and you gotta move those those legislators are going to be called by those constituents to say
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hey you gotta stop this when they find out that those legislators voted for these people who are not
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elected who as you say don't have any um uh transparency and they are just developing something that
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god only knows what it's going to be and most likely you will be a renter not an owner if i know black
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rock at all uh i mean those those people are going to be torn apart who is for this in the in the house
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and senate well believe it or not the original house author is senator david parker from desoto
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county uh which is in the compact desoto county mississippi and the explanation wasn't thorough
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needless to say so it passed the senate unanimously oh my gosh well by the time it gets to the house
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uh we you know we had some red flags immediately uh we started digging into it uh immediately and
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pushing back on it once we saw what's in it because the initial explanation in the senate
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doesn't cover any of this stuff so uh we you know uh and i want to thank andy roth from the freedom
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caucus network that we're a part of for helping us to be able to dig through all this stuff because
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uh as a member of the state freedom caucus network we we have the built we've got people helping us
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dig through and find a lot of this information and background uh and we were able to tie like i said
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these people to the urban land institute to black rock and like i said it's scary because you're
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basically giving all this power to this commission of people now glenn you know that this is why we're
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elected because we can be held accountable for bad decisions well this would give cover to bad
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politicians where they could they could just say hey you guys make that decision and i just want to be
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the good guy on all the good stuff correct but you guys go ahead and do that and that gives cover to
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these bad politicians so um region smart uli uh is was a part of the equitable development challenge
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event it was held in memphis showed the group to be black live matter supporters uh they trained on
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racial equity wealth gap cultural sensitivity the 1619 project and implicit bias tests uh so they are
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not necessarily a friend of our constitution um the odds that are well then it's just for a minute
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is this close to passing in any of these street three states and what do people do
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well we need people you can go to our website freedom caucus dot ms that's freedom
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caucus dot ms and we've got a form on there uh where people can uh use the form to email the
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representatives uh we need people to contact uh the speaker of the house uh the chairman of the
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workforce development committee and all the representatives and plead with them to vote no on
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this uh the deadline is tomorrow night at midnight oh my gosh so if it's if it if it isn't brought up
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it'll die on the calendar so we just need this thing to die on the calendar and not even be brought up
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for a vote okay um and this is happening in tennessee as well you know what's really insidious
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about this is who wrote this bill because they're all the same are they not exactly uh we we found
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something that said uh that tied region smart uh some of the money behind this was used to write
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the bills so the bills have to be exactly the same in arkansas tennessee and mississippi so uh it looks
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like region smart paid to have the bill written unbelievable steve thank you for everything you're doing
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will you just keep us up to speed and let us know what happens um thank you for taking the time to
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have me on oh you bet mississippi state representative steve hopkins uh chairman of the mississippi freedom
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caucus we're talking about a bill um in three different states and i'll bet you that this thing
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is i bet you this is everywhere i bet you they're doing something like this in other regions um start
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looking for this uh start looking for this group i'm trying to remember what the name of the group
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is stew did you see this uh yeah region smart now they may have something else but look for uh look for
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region smart and see if any of these are in your state be on the lookout these these guys are not
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uh gonna give up without a fight they're not and you know we think we're on top of it we don't we're in
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a different kind of war we are in a different kind of war they are going around every way they can
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to cut the uh the circulation of the constitution off yeah uh so how do you how do you gauge all of
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this that's going on and as you point out it's consistent with the stuff that we would fear from
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the great reset that's happening with russia however you know russia is an aggressive actor
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and you know you look back at some of the really bad things that have happened in history and if
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this sort of stuff went on when those things were going on maybe we would have minimized the impact
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i mean you know certainly it would have been great if ibm wasn't helping the nazis yeah it is it is it
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would have been right that would have been a better outcome correct and so why didn't our founders why
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didn't um uh people back then just stop these corporations from doing that well i mean stopping
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them is one thing right but them doing it on their own is another finding a way to do it wouldn't we
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want wouldn't we want ibm to say i'm not doing business with these people yeah yeah we would
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yeah so but ibm did do that ibm did do that they just let their their arm in europe do it right
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that's true yeah so they were they were just doing it in a crafty way that's what always happens
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look you can't stop it ends justify the means if we can stop him from by from doing what he's doing in
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ukraine and it means cobbling together and launching the great reset should we do it well
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we don't want the great reset to hit the globe right but but that's what's going to happen
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i guarantee it guarantee it this is the great reset in action you're watching it
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mike lee is uh joining us now um mike i don't know if you've been following the president this
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morning but he has said that uh he is going to shut off all russian oil to the united states
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um and he's going to do everything he can to uh to help the american people 60 million gallons from
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our uh 60 million barrels from our oil strategic oil reserves uh and uh he's not going to tolerate
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price gouging uh from these oil companies that are going to try to just gouge people at the pump
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uh he won't accept that and he also said i want to clear something up there is no evidence at all
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that anything that i have done affects how much oil is being drawn out and used here
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in america my policies have not affected this at all welcome mike well gosh there it is there it is
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you you hear it uh so it must be true right yeah so look he after almost two weeks of ukrainian
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suffering and and noble fighting he finally got the political courage of the ban russian oil and gas
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imports we still need to know what's he going to do to open up american oil and gas and he did this
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only after flirting with the mullahs in iran and the desperate in fenezuela to see if they would want
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to help him out and the more he repeats this this is not my fault the more we know it's his fault look
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what did he do on day one day one he gives in he cancels keystone xl he halts all oil and gas
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leasing on federal land which is a very significant part no they already have no no mike they already
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have millions of acres of leased federal land and they're not using it that's what he said yes so
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so that is a very convenient response from a man who's tried to shut these guys down and from the
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guy who won't let them drill in anwar where we've got an abundant accessible supply of heavy crude which
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is the stuff we're getting from russia so if he if he means this stuff he needs to open it up
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and he can't just continue to close off options and say no to the american people look the american
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people want to control inflation biden wants to control americans that's the problem we're dealing
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with mike the i mean i just don't see how how americans are going to survive for very long i mean
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you know the price of uh crude is up uh 90 cents since the president started speaking uh and uh it we
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already went up in gas prices a dime you know from yesterday to today people are on the edge how long
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can this go before those sanctions uh and the policies of this president cripple us not putin
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yeah so all of these things are combining into one you've got a hyper active hyper regulatory
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environment in which president biden wants to shut down american ingenuity and development and he does
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so in a way moreover that would enrich and further empower our enemies i mean look at where more and
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more of our money has to go to buy our energy when we don't do this it goes to vile countries vile people
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in vile countries we look we can produce this stuff here in a more safe environmentally responsible and
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cost-effective manner than just about anywhere around the world so why aren't we doing it well
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it always comes back to his his climate obsession and to this this god complex that he seems to have
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suggesting that he can he's the one who can figure out how to balance all of the competing climate
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needs of of of the globe uh and balance those against the american energy needs you know there's this
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thing called the free market if you let the free market do its thing then joe you wouldn't need to sell
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off our oil reserves then joe you wouldn't need to go hat in hand to opec so this thing called the free
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market works and it allows people to get clean affordable energy on demand he says that this is the free
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market working he's he i mean it was amazing to hear him say you know we um we shut down their
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banking well who shut down their banking i don't believe the united states of america can shut down
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all of the banks and the credit cards and everything else um he's he's claiming that these people are doing
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all of this by their free choice i've never seen anything like this mike and you know that through esg
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this is the great reset in action is it not yes yes and and you talk about this in your book and one
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of the things i love about your book is in in the in the in the book the great reset you explain that
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this time this particular series isn't something that's government and so it's much harder to control
00:34:25.240
yep this is the coordinated action of countless individuals acting independently and independently in
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a way that's likely to diminish freedom and diminish options for ordinary hard-working citizens
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mike um the president today is going to request 2.6 billion dollars for foreign assistance program
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that promote general equality worldwide um okay the funds will be against that i know what kind of
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monster would oppose that right i know the funds will be part of his fiscal 2023 budget request to
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congress and will double the amount requested for gender programs uh the next year
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gosh you know if there's if there's one thing in the world right now that we've got to do it ship a
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bunch of money offshore to unspecified priorities that are impossible to quantify and very difficult to
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evaluate because this money is being sent all over the world i i really think that uh we've lost our
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minds when it comes to this look i think four and eight generally um has some problems with it that
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need to be addressed this is a particularly egregious example of that and the timing of this couldn't be
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poorer so mike tonight in utah and i don't even know can you talk about this uh tonight in utah is is the
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caucus i have no idea how this caucus this caucus works this is the primary caucus right
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yes yes and glenn it's awesome caucus night is fantastic it's the most wonderful day of the
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any two-year election cycle in utah people come together at 2 000 precinct locations around the state
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at exactly 7 p.m and at 7 p.m they get together and they elect delegates to a state convention a
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convention that will occur on april 23rd this is this is the republican the small r republican form
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of government in action this is the way it's supposed to work these delegates come together
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they elect people to represent them at their state convention and that all happens tonight so any of
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your listeners who happen to be in utah i'd encourage them strongly go go to uh precincts portal.org
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and you can figure out where your caucus meets i can tell you when it meets it'll be 7 p.m tonight
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we need as many of your listeners there participating tonight as possible how how scary is it to be
00:36:53.300
someone like you that everyone just assumes you're going to get re-elected and yet millions of dollars
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are being spent all around you by the left and the rhinos uh uh to make sure that that doesn't happen
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and having your having your supporters like ah do the caucus next time yeah yeah it's scary uh it really
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is a scary thing uh to be in that position because people assume a republican is from utah uh utah's
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never going to elect a democrat well that may be true there are people who figure out how to gain that
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system some of them run as republicans uh while espousing liberal beliefs others might run as an
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independent and those people are gaining some momentum they've got a uh a media establishment
00:37:45.780
in the state and nationally that's more than eager to to help them uh win their cause help them disparage
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me and help these progressives get elected yeah and that's why it is concerning i've got to be ready for
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this and so i'd encourage your listeners to go to leave for senate.com if they'd like to help
00:38:04.180
you can use all the help i can get these guys are are raising money like crazy against me and i've got
00:38:10.520
to be prepared for them you know i saw the name recognition that you have in the state and you are
00:38:15.980
more recognized by democrats than you are by uh independents and conservatives that should tell you
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something they hate you they hate you yeah they do they do and look we've got our two statewide papers
00:38:31.620
the desert news and solid tribune and let's just say they're not conservatives there is no counterpart
00:38:37.260
there is no washington times uh uh counterpart to these voices there is no new york post counterpart to
00:38:45.220
them it's kind of sad when you've got an entire state with no uh conservative or even right of center
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uh statewide publication yeah well you know stew and i were talking about it this morning that
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there is no one there's no one in washington that we trust more than you you're the most i mean no
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offense mike but you're boring as hell i mean it's like you know hey let's invite somebody to a party
00:39:10.800
that everybody will be excited about it ain't you it ain't you i mean i'd like you at the party but
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you're not the one that everybody you know so anyway uh and i and yet you get branded as some
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radical you all you do is stand for the constitution and you stand in really i mean i know you mike i know
00:39:32.080
there are times that you voted against something that you have really personally wanted to vote for
00:39:37.440
but it was wrong because it was constitutional and they're killing you on that happens all the time
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happens all the time and first of all glenn thank you for the compliment and more importantly thank
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you for the bumper sticker idea i'm going to run with that mike lee boring as hell yeah i mean there's
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not going to be a scandal in your life you don't swear you don't call people's you know people names
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i mean you know you're kind of dull but i mean you're you're great in office i i don't know if utah
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needs some excitement uh i think you you're crazy if you do stay with mike but anyway well and and
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look the thing is here i i do the job the way i think it needs to be done which involves reading
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the constitution i keep a copy of the constitution with me all the time when i'm at work i i always
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have one you'd be surprised at how often i need to refer to it it's not a prop it's there to remind
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me of what my duty is what my obligations and what my authority entails and and what they don't
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entail and that takes the emotion out of it that when you take the emotion out of governing you have
00:40:47.100
a greater possibility of achieving safe government right now we are like a giant boat without a rudder
00:40:54.320
or an engine we're just thrown every which way as a country because government decisions are being
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made by emotion and that's why i need the support of your listeners anytime they can any way they can
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can whether they want to volunteer or donate whether it's a dollar or two dollars or more
00:41:11.280
they can do that at leaf for senate.com i need their help okay mike thank you very much i appreciate it
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i'll be watching tonight i almost came out i almost was going to go to salt lake tonight i just because
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i'd like to i just would i just want to be i would just love to be in the room i can't vote or anything
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but i'd love to be in the room just going really that's what you think really uh you know the person
00:41:35.280
who uh was working against uh as a republican working against uh stopping aborting down syndrome babies
00:41:44.860
really that's who you're thinking of but maybe it's just me mike thank you very much uh mike mike lee for
00:41:52.340
senate uh dot whatever that's not going to help him very much is it all right let me talk to you
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about christopher he wrote in with his it's not going to help him as much as calling him boring
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15 times it's going to help that's going to really put him over the top can we write a commercial for
00:42:05.720
him i want to do a commercial boring but good i mean you know there ain't nothing gonna the guy goes
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to church every sunday reliably boring he'll talk to you about he keep he just said it i keep a
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copy of the constitution with me at all times he does boring but good it's kind of what you want
00:42:29.840
boring but good isn't it that really should be his ad campaign