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A document that we re releasing today raises new questions about how President Joe Biden personally benefited from his family s shady influence peddling of his last name and their access to him. In 2018, James and Sarah Biden received $600,000 in loans from AmeriCorps, a financially distressed and failing rural hospital operator. According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden received these loans based upon representations that his name could open doors and he could obtain a large Middle East investment based on his political connections. On March 1st, 2018, a check was wired into James Biden s personal bank account. And then, on the same day, it was used to write a $200,000 check to Joe Biden.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show. Thanks for being
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with us. Great to have you. Republicans look like they're the go-to party now for the House
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of Cards treatment, for chaos and just plain double dealing. Just like that, Congressman
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Jim Jordan, one of the most respected congressmen in the House of Representatives, is out of the
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running for speaker after only three rounds of voting. What a week it was for the House
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of Representatives. Yesterday, Congressman Jim Jordan failed on a third vote to secure
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the speakership. This time, Jordan lost 25 votes from the RINOs in his conference following
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the third vote. The Republican conference then went into a hastily called secret meeting for
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a vote, a secret vote, on whether Jordan should remain as the speaker nominee. Now remember,
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Kevin McCarthy won the speakership in January with 15 rounds of voting. And of course, the
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Republicans were swapped in that secret meeting with a secret vote, the conference voting to
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remove Jordan as their speaker nominee. We're told, reliably, the vote was 122 to 86. And now
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that opens the door to the return of the former speaker, Kevin McCarthy, that's just coincidental,
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I'm sure, and a few others. My guess right now is, but doing dirt in the dark like that doesn't play
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well with voters. And my, my guess right now, selling out to the swamp, if that's what they actually did,
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and it does look that way, well, these Republicans are likely to lose the House next year, fail to gain
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the Senate, and this isn't at all helpful to President Trump's next administration. It is tough
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to imagine what these characters are thinking. So the RINOs win. The Republicans are set to meet again
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Monday to elect a new speaker-designee. This is now the mess that the establishment and the RINOs
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wanted all along. And while the House struggles to get their act together, the House Oversight Committee
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hasn't skipped a beat in their investigation of the Biden crime family. Just yesterday,
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Chairman James Comer released the following regarding his investigation of President Biden
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and the uncovering of a direct payment of $200,000 to Joe Biden.
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This summer, Joe Biden said, where's the money? Well, we found some. We're still digging into the
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evidence subpoenaed from bank accounts belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden,
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and James and Sarah Biden, the brother and sister-in-law of the president. A document that
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we're releasing today raises new questions about how President Biden personally benefited
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from his family's shady influence peddling of his last name and their access to him.
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Bank records obtained by the House Committee on Oversight have revealed a $200,000 direct payment
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from James and Sarah Biden to Joe Biden in the form of a personal check. Here's some important
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context about this check we've obtained in our investigation. In 2018, James Biden received
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$600,000 in loans from AmeriCorps, a financially distressed and failing rural hospital operator.
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According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden received these loans, quote,
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based upon representations that his last name, Biden, could open doors and that he could obtain
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a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections, end quote.
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On March 1st, 2018, AmeriCorps wired a $200,000 loan into James and Sarah Biden's personal bank
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account, not their business bank account. And then on the very same day, James Biden wrote
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a $200,000 check from this same personal bank account to Joe Biden. James Biden wrote this
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check to Joe Biden as a, quote, loan repayment. AmeriCorps, a distressed company, loaned money
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to James Biden, who then sent it to Joe Biden. Even if this was a personal loan repayment,
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it's still troubling that Joe Biden's ability to be paid back by his brother depended on the
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success of his family's shady financial dealings. Some immediate questions President Biden must
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answer for the American people. Does he have documents proving he lent such a large sum
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of money to his brother? And what were the terms of such financial agreement? Did he have similar
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financial agreements with other family members that led them to make similar large payments
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to him? And did he know that the same day James Biden wrote him a check for $200,000, James Biden had
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just received a loan for the exact same amount from business dealings with a company that was in
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financial distress and failing? The House Oversight Committee will soon announce our next investigative
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actions and continue to follow the money. The bank records don't end here. There's more to come.
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Comer deserves great credit for the work he and his committee are doing and will continue to do.
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The Biden family is as corrupt as they come. Every one of us knows it now. And each day that goes by
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the House Oversight Committee simply churns out more evidence. As the war in Israel rolls on,
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Joe Biden took some time this week to offer up an aid package for Israel. The only problem is the aid
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package is really, of course, an aid package for Ukraine as well. This is what the package includes.
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An additional $61 billion in aid for Ukraine and $14 billion in aid for Israel. You heard me right.
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$61 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, and then $9 billion in humanitarian aid amongst the
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two countries, $7 billion in funding for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region, and throw in another $13
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billion to address security at the U.S.-Mexico border, whatever that means in Joe Biden's world.
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Imagine that, more than half of the money going to Ukraine as an additional payment of what here
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on this show we call Biden's blackmail, Biden's hush money. Our guest today is Congressman Ben Klein,
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a member of the House Judiciary, Appropriations, and Budget Committees, three of the most powerful
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committees in Congress. Congressman, great to have you back with us on The Great America Show. I want
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to start, if we may, the race for speaker. I've known Congressman Jordan for a long time. I'm a
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great admirer of the congressman for his commitment to the country and conservative values. I think he'd
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have been an incredible speaker. It seems, though, there's more than a minor division in the
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Republican conference. RINOs who seem to be more Democrats than Republicans, and some Republicans
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who sometimes get lost on one issue. Your thoughts about what that portends?
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Well, I think you are going to see a more unified conference. For too long, we've had
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those pushing in a direction that was not as aggressive as the majority of the conference,
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but quite frankly, the people, the grassroots have wanted us to be. And I think you're going
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to see a more aggressive effort to pass conservative legislation that's going to represent the values
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of the people, less government, smaller government. We're not just going to shave back the increases
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in spending. We're actually going to see decreases in spending and not just one half of 1% decreases.
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You're going to see a real effort to shrink the size and scope of government, at least
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from our end. I mean, the House is only one half of one branch of government, so we've got a long
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way to go. But if we can stand for the people, stand for smaller government, then we'll start to make
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a big change. Absolutely. Will that change include what we thought would be the reality after the
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election of Kevin McCarthy in January? The 118th Congress would be a Congress of regular order.
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There would be 12 separate appropriations bills. There would be adequate time to go through the
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process rather than simply be a hurried, in effect, quasi-omnibus bill, although not with that name.
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Will it be truly regular order? Yes. And we were seeing some semblance of that. We've only gotten
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halfway through the appropriations bills, which was a problem. And regular order implies that we're
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going to get our job done on time. And so moving forward, we've got to have that recognition, not just
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from this. Also, the majority leader staff, the majority leader, you know, setting bills on the
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schedule with enough time to get the amendments in order to get rules committee to go through them
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all. It does take some time, but we've got experienced staff, a team that knows what it
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takes, and they just have to have the willingness to get us there. We'll restore regular order and
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deliver on that promise for the people. Well, I think the people are more than ready. And I think
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if this Congress can deliver on that, that many of the issues and problems that confront
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the country will be on their way to solution, because there's a reason for regular order. There
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is a reason for discrete and separate bills of appropriation so that issues can be handled within
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in the context of the Congressional responsibility. There is oversight, there's appropriation, there is
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budgeting, and it has in it all together, as you well know, but for the audience, all implies management,
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active management of the Congress of the United States. And what we've seen instead is
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just simply an omnibus, a wave of the hand at trillions of dollars in spending, and the result
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is no oversight and really no participation on the part of the Congress in Congresses before the 118th,
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Now, basic fiscal management is not too much to ask. You know, we'll pull the curtain back for the
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people, for your listeners here, that there's a reason why we've been lurching from crisis to
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crisis, from omnibus to omnibus. And that's because the big spenders, and they're on both sides of the
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aisle, but they're primarily in the Senate, have gamed the system so that no matter whether a Republican or
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Democrat House, the House passes its appropriations bills, they send them over to the Senate,
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and the Senate sits on them and waits. And then they have no choice but to pass an omnibus bill
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that is loaded down with pork barrel spending that satisfies both parties, the pork barrel spenders in
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both parties, the House, I mean, in the Senate. And then they push it back on the House. And it was
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interesting. I was speaking with a Senate appropriator, trying to get them to move
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appropriations bills on the floor. I said, why is it that you can't get your appropriations bills
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done? And she said, well, the Senate majority leader sets the schedule, and he has to set aside time
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for these appropriations bills. I said, well, why doesn't he do that? And she said, well, because
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when they go to this crisis mode, guess who writes the appropriations bills,
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the omnibus appropriations bills? It's not the appropriations committee. It's the majority
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leader's office. It's Chuck Schumer's office that writes this omnibus bill. So he maintains control
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by delay by creating this crisis. It benefits him and it benefits the big spenders that he is
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Right. And when we talk about Chuck Schumer, we're talking about
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the ultimate insider establishment Marxist Dem leader. He is he I think he stands unique over
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the course of the past 20 years in Congress and that he has had the ability to send out not just
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pork and special interest within the state of New York, but across the country and in
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fact, he has had a unique power in my judgment, a unique power for some time that he could move
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money to independent Democrat, but independent jurisdictions all over. We can talk about a
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city, a town, a township for crying out loud or an entire state, whether it be California or whether
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it be, you know, I don't know, pick a town in New Mexico. He really has that kind of power. He can even
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affect state budgets, which he's done for a number of blue states who are awash in debt and deficits.
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That has to end this. The legislation that passed during COVID, they would load up and they would
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argue that it was somehow beneficial to the people to address COVID. But really what it was, was just
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paying off the debts of these blue states. Chuck Schumer had been waiting for the opportunity to
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pay off the unfunded pensions, the Chicago's, the Illinois's, the New York's, the way that they were
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so wasteful with money and underfunded the pensions of their public employees that when he had the chance
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to get all these big payoffs, that's what all that these COVID bills ended up doing. They weren't
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for the public. They were for the government unions. We're talking with Congressman Ben Klein,
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and we are talking with one of the heavyweights in the Republican Party in the House of Representatives
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on Capitol Hill to that point. He is, he sits not only on one or two of the most powerful and
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important committees. He sits on three, the House budget, House appropriations, and the judiciary.
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We'll be right back with Ben Klein as we talk about what is next for the 118th Congress. Stay with us.
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We're back now with Congressman Ben Klein. And Congressman, let's talk about what is happening
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in the Middle East. That conflict is, at this point, raging. Rockets are still flying into Israel,
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Israel preparing what looks like a major ground operation, that is an invasion of Gaza. Give us
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your thinking on where that crisis stands and what you see in this particular moment as being the most
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important elements of all of that is occurring there. Well, correctly identifying Hamas as the enemy
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is proving to be a challenge for the left. It's remarkable to me that there are those in this
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country and elsewhere in the world that can't see that the evil that's been undertaken by Hamas in
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Israel and why we need to stand for this sole democracy in the Middle East, stand up for the people,
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stand up for their right to defend themselves, and make sure that they have everything that they need
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to successfully defeat and eliminate and erase Hamas from the map. And so what Israel is undertaking right
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now is very significant. It's very serious. And they are going to make sure that our hostages are rescued,
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that there are Americans being held hostage in Gaza, and we have to make sure that they get out. So making sure we
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help Israel to do that. But also to make sure that Hamas doesn't threaten and that Hezbollah doesn't come in from the
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north, and this thing doesn't turn into a regional conflict as well. But stationing our carriers out in
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locations where we're going to be able to provide that assistance, that's going to help contribute to keeping
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Iran in check and keep Hezbollah out of this conflict.
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Right. You know, we talked with Congressman Corey Mills, who's just returned, as you know,
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from rescue missions from Israel. He's brought out in this most recent trip, I believe it's 96 Americans
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who returned Sunday. He is exemplary. He is a true American hero. He is going back and talking with
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him. His frustration with this administration, which has no plan to rescue Americans, which did not
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respond until watching Congressman Mills go over there and a number of other people who have done
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similar things. He he did. The president of the United States didn't say a word, didn't act. No one in the
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Defense Department did, where in times previous to this administration, so much was different.
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But automatically, if you're an American hostage of a foreign power or terrorist group,
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they every every effort was made to rescue them. Your reaction?
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It's shameful. And it just shows you that our Defense Department is as toothless as our State
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Department. We're all, you know, it's an administration full of Anthony Blinkens, which is
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not a compliment. And to see someone like my colleague, Corey, go over there and be able to
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rescue Americans, it not only shines a light on the ineffectiveness of the administration's
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lack of lack of effort, but also just shows us that good men with with the will and the ability can
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can make great things happen. Americans still can can still act and do so in the interest of their
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fellow citizens in this in this great nation. And it seems to be lost on so many people, but
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particularly the left, as you're saying, they I can't even explain them anymore. I studied them
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in college. I, you know, I've worked in this, this craft for a very long time. But this is an
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inexplicable moment in history, which we have a a presidency, an administration, a regime, whatever
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you want to call it, that is effectless without exception across every agency, every department
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there. The military is in the has been captured by the woke left. It is it is so deeply troubling to
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see what this administration has done. Our southern border wide open. And we're getting all sorts of
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people coming across from the terrorist database just in the last in the last week coming in from
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Iran, coming in from various hotspots in the Middle East and about 275 known terrorists in the course of
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this year. And and yet nothing seems to move the needle with this indifferent and impaired and
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compromised president. Your thoughts. You're absolutely right. It is amazing how this open
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border has contributed to rise in and criminal activity, drug running, human trafficking, sex
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trafficking every district in the country, including mine and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, not very
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close to the southern border. But at the same time, we see the impact here in our community. There's fentanyl
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in our communities killing young people. And and now we have that specter of people on the terrorist
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watch list coming in and we don't know where they're coming in from. We don't know. They're often
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gotaways that are that we don't know who they are. If they're running from apprehension, you know, if we're not
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able to apprehend them, then they are most likely engaged in criminal activity, either in this country
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or in their home country and running from something. So we've got to close the border. It's a matter of
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national security. It's a matter of matter of homeland security. And this president really does have to
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face accountability for his lack of sealing the border. Mayorkas long past time to impeach Mayorkas. But
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the willful neglect on the part of this administration means that we have got to hold more people
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accountable. And I just want to urge everyone listening to The Great America Show and listening
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to Congressman Ben Klein to call your representative, call the Capitol Hill switchboard. You can talk to
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your senator as well as your representative, but focus, if you will, on the on your representatives.
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Now call 202-224-3121. That's 202-224-3121 to let your representatives know how you feel about that
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wide open border and the fact that they are accepting as routine collateral damage more than 100,000
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American lives every year due to fentanyl and opiate overdoses, drugs brought in across that southern
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border. Congressman, we're going to take a quick pause here. We'll be right back with Congressman Ben
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Klein. And we're going to take up the issue of what is next with the Republican 118th Congress and with
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And we're back now. And I just want to remind you, the Capitol Hill switchboard number 202-224-3121,
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202-224-3121. And if I may suggest you urge your representative to vote for Jim Jordan for Speaker of the
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House, I truly believe that the fate of the Republic rides on the outcome of this vote, which takes place
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this week. And it's very important who has the third most powerful job in the U.S. government.
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Jim Jordan is, I think, a man whose time has come and who is perfect for that job.
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And if you can agree, let your representatives know. Well, let's turn to Congressman Ben Klein now.
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The question I have is, you mentioned Mayorkas. What would it take to impeach a government official
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if not leaving a 2,000-mile border wide open, turned over to the cartels, in a moment of crisis like we
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are experiencing now, that conflict in the Middle East could go any number of ways. We do know that 2,000
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of our troops in the region have been notified to prepare for deployment to U.S. aircraft carrier
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strike forces are in position. And your judgment, what will it take to impeach Mayorkas or President
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Biden, based on the evidence that we already know to be true? Well, I agree with you. It's long past
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time that Mayorkas go. And my constituents have let me know that they're fed up with that. They're also
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fed up with us not holding the president and his son accountable, his family accountable for the actions
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that they've been engaged in over the past several years. You know, the one thing that we do have to
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remember is, judiciary is a single committee, and it's the only committee that does impeachment.
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And so if we go after Mayorkas, that's going to take up all of judiciary's time. And we have
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a judiciary chairman who needs to be elected speaker. So when we elect him speaker, we're going to be able
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to have a new judiciary chairman. And we've got lots of great choices on the upper dais who are going to
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continue to push not only for impeachment, but also we're going to have to get a new chairman
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of the weaponization subcommittee. Jim Jordan is chairman of that. And it is going after the
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weaponization of government. So he's a one man wrecking crew. And it's going to take several
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of our conference to actually take the place of Jim Jordan and all of the things that he's been
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engaged in. We have our government oversight chair, Jamie Comer, who's doing a great job holding the
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the Biden family accountable. And the facts keep coming to light. And so the impeachments are
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looming large. And I'm hopeful that we'll start that process soon. Well, I agree with you and I
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hope with you that that can transpire very quickly. But do you are you interested in the job of
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the chairmanship of the judiciary? The judiciary chair? No. I'm happy to be a member of judiciary,
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along with Chairman Jordan. But, you know, up there on the top of the dais, we've got Mike
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Jonathan from Louisiana, who's chairman of the Constitution subcommittee. We've got Matt Gaetz.
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We've got Andy Biggs, who's chair of the crime subcommittee and was actually chair of the Freedom
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Caucus in the last Congress. We've got a number of members of Congress who are Daryl Issa as chair
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of the intellectual property subcommittee, who are on the top of the dais. I'm a little bit lower.
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So I'm not eligible, but I'll be a loyal soldier whenever we can get a new chairman to go in after
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and holding this administration accountable. And to be perfectly honest, Congressman,
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I'm not sure that we could spare you from the budget committee and your other committees to
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judiciary right now. Well, we'll be busy under a Jordan chairmanship or speakership because the
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budget committee is going to be passing a balanced budget. And Jim Jordan is going to be pushing for
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fiscal management. You know, the Appropriations Committee only deals with about a third
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of our spending. The other two thirds are mandatory, what's called mandatory spending,
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which is on autopilot because of these programs that we have that need reforms. And Jim Jordan
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is going to make sure that we rein in the wasteful spending that is causing these trillion
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dollar deficits and 33 trillion dollars debt. And I have heard some of your colleagues say that
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you're indispensable to the appropriations process as well as the budget. So I think you're going to
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have probably a heavier load than you may right now want to take on. I agree. I welcome it though.
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Well, good for you because you're much needed and much appreciated. Congressman, let's let's turn to
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now what what is happening in this economy is we're watching consumer confidence plummet in
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in this country and people aren't paying much attention to it. And I probably should be talking
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about it more on this show than I am. But when consumer confidence drops seven and a half percent
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as it has this month, we know that now this dysfunctional government that is the Biden regime
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is having immense impact, perhaps unintended consequences. You can argue with whether it's
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intended or unintended because he's done so much that's devastating to the great republic.
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It's what are we to do here, given the circumstances that are well beyond the control of government
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that often. And that is bring in hyperinflation and the and the prospect of stagflation come bring
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policy into line to forestall that your thoughts. It's a challenge when you unleash the beast that is
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inflation, hyperinflation as the Biden administration has done. It didn't take much. You know, it took
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trillions and trillions of dollars, seven trillion dollars in spending to unleash the beast. But once it was
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unleashed, you know, the Fed for the Fed, everything looks like a nail when all you've got is the
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ability to raise interest rates to tackle it. So we've got a responsibility in Congress. You know, we
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have very little to do with the Fed. I wish that we had more direct the Fed was more directly accountable
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to Congress. We I would love to audit it. Many would like to end it. But we would like to
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use the tools at our disposal to reduce inflation. One thing we can do is become energy independent.
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Again, we need to open up the floodgates for energy production here in this country.
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We also need to stop the wasteful and woke spending on the things that we don't particularly need. You
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know, we just passed a State Department funding bill that reduced spending not to last year's level,
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not to the year before last, but all the way back to 2015. So almost a decade of increased spending
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wiped out because we didn't need it. You know, we get rid of WHO spending. We need to get rid of
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all of the woke and weaponized government. And that's that will help address inflation as well.
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Let me ask you this final question and concerning appropriations. Do you have both the will and the
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and the ability on the on the weaponization committee, but primarily, of course, on the
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appropriations committee to pull back the funding of the special councils, which are absolutely
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outrageously out of control, purely politically motivated political persecution of President Trump.
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Do you have the will and the intent on the appropriations committee to to bring into
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line runaway government in terms of political corruption, whether it be the Department of
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Justice, the FBI or the federal judiciary itself? Yeah, as a member of the Judiciary Committee,
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I'm the only Judiciary Committee member on both the Oversight Committee and the Appropriations
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Subcommittee on Judiciary. So I I get to see both sides of it. The attorney general comes in
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and I'll light him up on on his weaponization of government. But then on the appropriation side,
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we'll actually put our money where our mouth is and actually defund this these programs, these divisions
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that are breaking not only the laws, but the confidence of the people in their government. And
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and that's where we have to drain out the woke and the weaponized from our FBI, from our DOJ,
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the prosecutors who are so one sided. And and we really do. And that's why you're going to be
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proud of this Justice Department Appropriations bill that's coming out. It will be hard to reconcile
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with the Senate. It'll be hard to reconcile with the White House because we are pushing so far to get
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rid of it and put things on the right path for the American people. Well, Congressman, we are delighted to
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hear that. And we are also anxious to see that that legislation come forward. I always give I say I
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always give every guest. That's not quite true. But I try to give most guests the last word here on the
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Great America show. And I would be remiss not to certainly give you that opportunity. Your concluding
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thoughts, if you would, Congressman Klein. Well, thanks, Lou, for having me on. We are
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truly at a crossroads in this country between going down the same path we've always gone of deficit
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spending, woke and weaponized government getting run over by a Biden administration by the Senate and
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Chuck Schumer. But we've got an alternative choice to put Jim Jordan in the speakership and actually
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have a house that stands up equal to the Senate, equal to the Senate, stands up for the American
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people for the values that we share. And I look forward to hopefully to electing him on Tuesday,
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voting for him on Tuesday and getting him in there as speaker and really changing things for the
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American people. Congressman Ben Klein, thanks for being with us, a great American. And thanks for
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all that you are doing for this great country. God bless you. Lou, thank you. Thanks, everybody,
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for being with us here today. Our guest here tomorrow on The Great America show will be Alabama's
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Secretary of State Wes Allen, who's doing great things for the people of Alabama to assure voter
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integrity. We'll be talking with him about what he's done to make sure there's no rigged election
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in Alabama and the rest of the country needs to listen in. Please join us for that tomorrow and be
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