The Best Of The Great America Show： December 27, 2024
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Rep. Tim Burchard (R-TN) is a member of the powerful House Oversight Committee. In this episode, he talks about the need for a budget, the ongoing government shutdown, and the need to stop wasting money.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have you with
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us. Thanks so much for joining us. Our guest today is Congressman Tim Burchard of the great
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state of Tennessee. He's a member of the House Oversight Committee, the powerful House Oversight
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Committee, and he's a great, great American. Congressman Burchard, I appreciate you joining
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us back here on The Great America Show. It's always great to have you with us. I want to
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start with first. We're about to enter the 119th Congress in just a few weeks. Donald
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Trump is coming back to the White House. I know you take big issue with the spending
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on Capitol Hill. You always put out a funny little video walking out of the Capitol saying
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we're just wasting more of your damn money. Are you guys going to be able to get a budget
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I don't get it. Why is it seemingly so impossible?
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Because nobody really wants it. They pass a CR. The best thing they can do is drop a 3,000
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page budget or spending CR or whatever two hours before we're supposed to vote on it because
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nobody, everybody just checks to see which lobbyists they need degrees or what bridge to know where
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they want to build. In that gamut, they vote for it. That's why we're $35 or $36 trillion in
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debt. We don't have the guts to do it. We need to do it like we do in Tennessee, single issue
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spending bills. So do you think, I mean, even with President Trump here now, the chief negotiator,
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the man, if we ever have peace with North Korea, if we ever have peace with Iran, it's going to be
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from Donald Trump's doing. You don't think Donald Trump is going to be able to, with Mike Johnson,
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get something clean through that we don't constantly have to keep going after these CR after CR after CRs?
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We hadn't passed a budget in over 30 years. Nobody really wants a budget. I do. I mean,
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the American public does when they're explained it, but they, they get their road paved or they get
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their whatever sports park built. They, uh, I just keep voting for the same people that deliver the
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goods. Yeah. It's seemingly it's, it's, I don't know. It's, uh, you're usually a little bit more
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optimistic about things, but I guess we really ain't getting one. If Tim Burch is sitting here telling me
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hell no, it ain't happening. Uh, you know, it's just so troubling to me that we look at this time and
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time again, we look at this federal government time and time again, and where the money goes,
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the transgender issues, how much money, Tim, have we spent going after president Trump and his family?
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How much money has the FBI wasted? How much money has New York been appropriated that we've spent,
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um, going after president Trump? If you put the two investigations together between Mueller and,
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uh, Jack Smith, it's gotta be over a hundred million dollars spent.
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The wasteful spent. And guess what? The craziest part about it, all of it, none of it was approved
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by Congress. Am I correct? No, you're correct. Um, you know, what we, you know, this Doge committee
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claims they're going to cut $2 trillion out. We had a trillion dollars every hundred days to the debt.
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We're at like 35 or 36 trillion up here. What we've got to do is what Doge has got to do is spot
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areas where the bureaucrats have put things in place without legislative support or above.
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Um, what's been done in previous presidents, Republicans and Democrats alike for my executive
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orders. That's what we got to do. And then once we get that, then we're going to, uh, I think that's
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a good start, but the problem you're going to have is, is that this Congress has got to follow behind
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with, with legislation to make these things permanent. And so that they don't happen again,
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that's going to be the real, real, when the real cuttings got to happen. And then we got to start
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going after everything. Everything should be suspect, put it on the table. Let's break it down.
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Let's do all of our, our programs out there that are sacred cows and let's make sure they're doing
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what they're supposed to be doing and figure out a way to make them fiscally responsible.
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Are you confident? Uh, I know we've had this conversation many times. You've had this
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conversation with Lou. Um, you were one of the brave views stood up against Kevin McCarthy.
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Are you confident in Mike Johnson's ability to be able to lead this conference, um, through the ups
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and downs? It's going to be turbulent. It's not going to be easy by any means, but are you confident
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that Mike Johnson has the America first agenda, at least up his sleeve that he's going to use?
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Trump loves him. And if Trump follows our, our lead or we follow his lead, I think we're going
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to be okay. But once we start down that spending path of saying, well, let's do it this time and
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then we'll get them next time. There is no next time we've been doing that. That has been promised
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to us too many times by too many Republicans, Democrats and Republicans. So, you know, we better
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Right. The thing that scares the hell out of me about, uh, Mike Johnson is he ran to become
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speaker. He became speaker. And then one of his first acts was to send Ukraine money. I mean,
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after running saying there's no aid for Ukraine, one of his first acts of betrayal is to go ahead
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and fund Ukraine. I mean, you know, I'm not asking you to sit here and bad mouth the guy,
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but I just can't seem to understand how we can trust him.
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I don't, I, I'm not voting for any money for Ukraine. You know, we've given over 200
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billion. Well, we've sent them another 50 billion today, apparently, or ready to, we're
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claiming it's a loan, throwing up the air quotes there. Um, you know, what do they got
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for collateral? Uh, you know, this is the biggest money laundering scheme. And then, then
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liberals, liberals attack me and say, Birch, it just doesn't understand 60% of that money
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is coming home. Yeah. 60% of that money is paying war pimps. You know, it's the business
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of war and business is very good. No, no, we just give them 60%, 60% of the money, take
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the other 40%, put it in a CD somewhere. You know, that's just stupid reasoning that shows
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you how ignorant they are and how much they hate this country and hate our way of life.
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I mean, they just, you know, these are supposedly educated people that make these comments. If
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it, I tell you what, if a Republican was in the white house and this, and it started this
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war, they would not be voting for that money. Yeah, you're absolutely right. You know, the
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problem is Congressman, and you're not one of them. So this is why I can say it to you.
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But if I talk to 99% of the conference, the problem is, is this country is run by a group
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of lawyers. I mean, you look at what lawyers have done to this country and I mean, they've
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destroyed it at every, I'm talking about a good majority of them, obviously not every
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single one of them, but we have a country that's governed by lawyers who are one, it's
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dumber than the next. None of them, you look at who's running the Federal Reserve right
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now. Jerome Powell's not an economist. He's running the Federal Reserve. And the spending's
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out of control and none of these people know what to do. It's the most unbelievable thing
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to me. You mentioned Ukraine spending. We're going to take a quick break here. We're talking
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with Congressman Tim Burchard of the great state of Tennessee. When we come back, I want
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to talk about some more money that's being spent overseas that may come back and bite
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us in the rear end. We're coming right back with Congressman Tim Burchard. Stay with us.
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Folks, we're back. We're talking with Congressman Tim Burchard of the great state of Tennessee,
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a great American, one of our favorite Congress members on this show. He was certainly Lou's
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favorite. Congressman, I want to turn to something that's very interesting to me. Secretary of State
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Anthony Blinken, on November 8th, said it's in the national security's best interest of the United
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States to waive the mandatory economic sanctions that bar Iraq from transferring upwards of $10 billion
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to Iran in electric import payments. So picking up sanctions on Iran upwards of $10 billion,
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Iran is the greatest state sponsor of terrorism in this world. I mean, you look at anything that's
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going on wrong in the Middle East, and Iran has their hand in it. What is Joe Biden's plan as he
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leaves office now in a month and 10 days, as it regards to starting another war overseas, maybe World
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War III? Again, the war pimps are really the puppet masters in this thing. I think Trump understood,
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right? He kept us out of all these crazy wars and them breaking out all over the world is economic
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power. And he understood that. He understood our energy capabilities, and he used them to the fullest
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extent that he could. And that kept us out of these wars. And you tell somebody that the spigot's getting
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ready to turn off of their oil, they're going to back down every dadgum time. And he could do that.
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He was a chess player. And these clowns we got in Washington now are playing chess.
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You know, it's really not hard to see, Congressman. If you look at where Lindsey Graham agrees with
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the Democrats, if you look at the intersecting point, I mentioned Lindsey Graham because Lindsey
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Graham's one of the biggest war hawks Republicans that you find on the Senate side. If you look at the
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line where they intersect, it's always at the military industrial complex. Do you think we see
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things start to clean up over there in the Middle East, over in Ukraine and Russia with President
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Trump now coming back to office, like I said, in just over a month?
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I do. I think you'll start seeing them move that way. But that's why they're throwing all the money
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they can at them right now, because they know that that money spigot's getting ready to be turned off.
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And I don't think I just don't think they're they'll be prepared to do much more war after
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Trump gets in there. I think he will shut them down. And I think he has a clear plan and it's
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pretty straightforward. And he's going to get on the phone and just tell them what he's going to do.
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And dadgummit, he'll do it. Right. Speaking of foreign policy, I consider this foreign policy,
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too, because it's been an issue we've had here at the homeland for a very long time, back to George Bush.
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And before him, and it's the southern border, the cartels, international terrorist organizations.
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What do you think President Trump is going to be able to do as it regards to the cartels, as it
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regards the border wall? I think you'll see these countries that support these cartels are they're
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going to lose the support again. Trump will put the economic might of the United States of America
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behind him. And I think he'll he'll put the wall, you know, it's like you got a hole in your boat.
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You can bail only so much. You got to put a plug in that hole. Right. He's going to plug that hole
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day one and then get to bailing. And then he's going to start massive deportations and people are
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going to squeal and scream. And all of this isn't what we signed up for. Dadgummit is what we signed
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up. Let's get all these murdering thugs out of our dadgum country. And there's there's extenuating
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circumstances with everything. But I think we've seen enough. We've here we are. We put over a
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billion FEMA dollars into these folks apparently coming over what I was told. And, you know, the
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people in upper upper East Tennessee, North Carolina and Hawaii are still doing without. So I think
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you're going to see a change in that direction. You're lucky to be living in Tennessee up here in
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New York. It's just floods, floods of them every single place you turn. A federal judge this week
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stopped the Biden administration from opening Obamacare to illegal aliens. There's another
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thing. DACA recipients. It's unbelievable. This has been caught up in the Supreme Court now for so long.
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DACA is unconstitutional. It's illegal. The Supreme Court has acknowledged that. Yet they kick it down
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to lower courts because they can't make a decision on it. Do you think this is something that we're
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going to be able to get short on the fire? And I mean, now we turn to providing health care to
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illegals? Yeah, well, if we were limited, if we eliminate them, we don't have to worry about this
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issue. Elections have consequences. And we've got to make sure we get somebody like Trump in the
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Oval Office to make sure that these judicial picks, which are like, you know, we had Republican
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senators who were skipping the votes. And then we ended up with another lifelong liberal. It'll be
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on the government dole. And granted, they'll overthrow a lot of their stuff, but it just costs
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people money and time and their lives to fight this stuff. So we've got to start paying attention.
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You know, it seems I don't know what's going on over the last four years, but people are seemingly
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losing their minds. We saw a kid who went to UPenn who came from a very rich family, a rich
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background, assassinate a health care CEO because he said the health care industry is broken.
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And I don't justify what he did. It was completely wrong. He's wrong. But the health care system is
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broken in this country. I mean, it's it's unimaginable. When I left Fox News, Congressman,
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I was 27 years old. I had to buy health care for myself. It was eight hundred dollars. There's no
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way in any country should health care be eight hundred dollars. I go to the doctor maybe once
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a year for blood work. It's truly a travesty in this country that this is what it's come to. But
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what people don't realize is that Obamacare has driven premiums through the damn roof. Before
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Obamacare, you were able to go on the market and someone like me could have bought health care for
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three or four hundred dollars. Now it's eight or nine hundred dollars. Can you explain to the people
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because a lot of people don't understand what Obamacare has done to the free market health care
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system? Well, it's wrecked the free market system and the Republicans shame on us. We are health care
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professionals that are up here have not provided an alternative. And that's what we got to have is
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an alternative. You can tear stuff down, but you got to have something to take its place.
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Also, we've allowed the, as I like to say, the foxes are watching the dadgum hen house.
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We've allowed these, you know, these go betweens. I don't know what you want. I forget the name of
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them, PBMs, whatever. They're in between all this stuff and that jacks the price up as well. More hands
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touch it. Every time you turn a piece of paper, it's going to cost you some money and somebody's got to get
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paid. And they've, they've just screwed it up with the bureaucracy. What you ought to have is
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insurance based on your age and your health record. And your doctor, it pays for this,
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pays this, this, that, and you have a deductible and then the people that can't get it
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You hit the nail on the head. You hit the nail on the head.
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It's just too, they've got too many people sucking at the, at the tit.
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You're absolutely right. And that's, I spoke to somebody about it today and it's same exact
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thing. There's too many cooks in the kitchen. The price that negotiates, the healthcare companies
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negotiate with the hospital is not the price that's reflected on your bill. You'll see a bill
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for $12,000, but the healthcare companies already negotiated a bill for $500. Where's the discrepancy
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now in $11,500? The whole thing is a scam and these people are making out like wet bandits.
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We're going to take one more quick break here. We're coming back with Congressman Tim Burchard
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of the great state of Tennessee. When we return, we're going to hope Congressman Burchard is back
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on his powerful oversight committee as Chairman James Comer is coming back. We're also hearing reports
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that FBI Director Christopher Wray is going to be running for the hills before President Trump
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is inaugurated. We're going to see if he can give us some insight on that when we come back.
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Folks, we're back. We're talking to Congressman Tim Burchett of the great state of Tennessee,
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one of our great friends on this show, a great American. Congressman, I want to turn to
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some committee assignments as we enter now into the 119th Congress. It's been announced that
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Congressman James Comer will continue to head up the powerful Oversight Committee. I think he did a
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fairly decent job his first time around. He tried to do as much as he can as it came to the Biden crime
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family, but he ran into some issues, as expected. The corrupt media didn't want to cover any of the
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work he was doing. Nope. Some loopholes and stuff like that. Will you be back on that committee?
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I hope so. If enough people, I guess, inquire to the speaker, I will. I was fortunate enough to be
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on that committee, and I've thoroughly enjoyed it. I guess that won't remain in the unknown box.
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You don't strike me. Actually, I know you're not the kind of guy to go kiss ass to get what you want.
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No, that's my biggest problem up here. I don't raise enough money for the conference,
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and I don't kiss enough ass. Honestly, if Peyton Manning was in Congress, I mean,
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if this was the NFL, Peyton Manning would still be waiting to get in.
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Yeah. So what do you expect? And this is something I've been wondering.
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Do you expect Chairman Comer to pick up where he left off? President Trump, in an interview over the
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weekend, said he is probably not going to go after Joe Biden unless his DOJ finds something
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there. Something tells me they're probably going to find something there. Do you expect that to be
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the path that Comer goes down? Because the way I interpreted it as he wrapped up his investigations
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was he was pissed off, and he had not gotten what he wanted. And what he wanted was Hunter Biden
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before the committee, and Hunter Biden referred to the DOJ for criminal referral, and to be taken
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seriously, because we didn't spend all this money and waste all this time investigating these
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criminals for them to just now walk free. Do you think he's going to go down that road? What path
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do you think Comer takes? I think he go after Joe Biden. He's just going to throw the mental issue
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is mental capacity. It's gone. And they'll use that as his. I mean, I'd have a hard time saying that
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he's mentally competent right now. Six months into this later, after next year, you're not going to
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get him in there. We can say all that stuff. We want all that tough talk. And people, oh, you need
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to impeach him. Well, big deal. Hanging impeachment on him. Trump had two of them on him. He didn't kick
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you out of office, you know? And so it's just, we've cheapened it so much now by the garbage they
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tried to hang on Trump. I just, I don't know. If they broke the law, these January 6th committee
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people broke the law, bust them. Because if they hid evidence or, and use that to go after people,
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I mean, they put Steve Bannon in prison, for goodness sakes. So I, you know, I, and I'm not happy
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about that. We need to get to the bottom of that. The people that did that deserve, deserve punishment.
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I feel if we give them, we're not going to do like they do. We're going to be legitimate and give
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it a real, and use the complete Congress instead of some political hack job, which is all the
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January 6th committee was. I say it every day on this show. I'm not asking the Republicans to break
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the law. I'm not asking the Republicans to recreate the law. I'm asking the Republicans to follow the law.
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And if they follow the law, it's going to lead them to the Holy Land because of what these people
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did. It doesn't take a rocket scientist, Congressman, to figure out that every single
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Republican who's on that committee is now seemingly out of Congress. If you believe you were doing a
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good justice for the community, for society, you wouldn't have ran out of Dodge. You would have
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rerun for your seats. You would have done, you know, whatever you could to stay in power,
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to continue promoting whatever nonsense and garbage you believed in that wasn't true.
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Liz Cheney now is coming out saying she doesn't believe she can be indicted under anything.
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She's also threatening lawyers saying you could be ethically cleansed and looked into if you think
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you're going to come after me for the work I did on the committee. How do these folks continue to get
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away with it? Them deleting the documents, we find out from Congressman Barry Loudermilk.
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You've got Congresswoman Susan Wild, who all of a sudden thought she was going to be a Copernicus
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and come out and leak the Matt Gaetz stuff that should have never come out because Matt Gaetz is no
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longer a Congressman. How do these people continue to get away with this? Because they can. There's us and
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them. Even when you get in Congress, I mean, I saw one of Trump's appointees today and they were very
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arrogant to me. Like I said, they gave me the Heisman. They wouldn't even talk to me. There's two
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there's two different groups of people. It's us and them. Let's just be honest. And and when we have 15 percent
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of the population voting, it's going to continue to be us and them.
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Yeah, you're absolutely right. You had mentioned Trump's cabinet picks. Are you how do you what do you think of his
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Yeah, I think they're excellent. You know, Matt got popped. But here again, now we're seeing a lot
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of this stuff that's happened. Sorry, that's the office dog barking. What kind of dog you got over
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there? It's called a Cavalier King Charles. Oh, man, I had one of those. They're the sweetest yet
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dumbest dogs. I've got two of them back at the house. But these aren't mine. This is a girl in the
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office here. Anyway, it's you're it's they're just again in congressional ethics and congressional
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integrity are a whole lot like military intelligence. They don't exist. Yeah. You know, I hope that this
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Congress gets it together. And you're one of the few. I mean, I think you're probably one of maybe
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five or six people who are actually genuinely, I think, good people who genuinely mean good for this
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country and good for society, the rest of them all. And you don't have to take my word for you.
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Go look where these folks fundraise their money from. I mean, it doesn't get much simpler than
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that. Matt Gaetz was all individual donors. He didn't take any money from PACS. He didn't go out
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there and trade stocks. He didn't do any of that that crap that these people are doing. And it's a
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cult. It really is a cult. It's like you said, it's us in them. You know, I have some reservations
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on things I want to see in Congress. If you guys want to trade stocks, Congressman, that's fine.
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Go ahead and trade those stocks. But you have to disclose it the second you make the trade.
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I have a bill doing just that. You must have been watching the show because I've been saying
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this for a while. But no, it's true. If you want to trade stocks and you want to use insider trading,
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by all means, go ahead and do it. But you have to disclose it on the spot right away so that the
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American people can go ahead and make some money too. And we'll see how fast things begin to change.
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Don't you agree? Well, my bill, it was a reporting bill, really. And we're waiting to see what
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happens to it in the Senate. I think it's 15 days after the trade. We had to amend it down. I mean,
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that's the only way you're going to do it is because we don't have the guts to make the big
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issue. I think we ought to eliminate personal stock trades myself. Let everybody do like I do. My
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buddy, Tommy Siler manages my $11,000 portfolio. He's done real well. It was $9,000 a while back,
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but a year or so ago, but a couple of years ago anyway. But no, I just think that's the way it
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should be. I think if you're going to make a sacrifice to come to Congress and I get it,
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but these guys making these crazy returns. Everybody wants to bust Pelosi on it, but gosh,
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there's people, she's in the middle of the pack. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I, like I said,
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you're one of the few people I think are actually a goodwill person, but nobody goes, nobody who's a
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former millionaire congressman, nobody who's wants to make money in life goes to Congress to make
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$174,000 a year. If you're a New Yorker congressman and you live in New York city, you pay
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state local tax year, you walk away at maybe a hundred grand. Now you got to rent an apartment in DC for
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three grand a month. You got to pay a mortgage here, three grand a month. That's six grand a month.
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You do the math. You're walking away with $40,000, $30,000 a year. Uh, it just doesn't
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pass the smell test. George Santos, a friend of yours, uh, calls my congresswoman Nicole
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Malio stock tips, lady who's never had a real job in her life. Congressman yet. Somehow she's
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trading stocks. Like it's nothing. And, you know, Lou used to beg me to primary her. And I said,
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if you pay for it, I'll do it. So, uh, I, I don't think I'm going to be doing that, but,
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um, it's just unbelievable. It's people with no brains who are making stock trades like their
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damn hedge fund owners. And, uh, they're staying in Congress for 174 grand a year. Make it make
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sense. Um, I want to wrap up with something. FBI director, Christopher Ray's preparing to resign
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as it seems now cash Patel is going to have the votes to come into the FBI and clean the damn place
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up. What's your thoughts? God bless him. Let's do it. Let's get in there. Let's, you're going to
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have to do it fast though, man. Pull that mandate off. Uh, they wanted to inch it along. I ain't going
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to cut it. And all these departments need to do that because if you don't, Congress will try to
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stop them again. Members are compromised for whatever reason and both parties, and they will
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try to cut the money off. They will do whatever they can to ambush this thing. And I hope president Trump
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is aware of that. Yeah. I want to see everyone exposed. Congressman, if there's Republicans
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who are doing bad, I want them exposed what, what they did to George Santos. Okay. That's fine.
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I want it done on the Democrat side. I want it done on the Republican side. I want it all done. I want
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it all out. If you're a bad person, I don't care what your skin color is, what, what your race is,
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what your ethnicity is, what your gender is. If you're trans or whatever the hell you are,
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if you're a bad person, I want it to come out. There's no protecting anybody. Uh, Congressman,
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I appreciate your time. We're probably not going to talk to you before Christmas.
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Christmas. So we want to wish you a Merry Christmas. And if you get the last word here
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on your, your words to the nation, as, um, we enter the holiday season and the, uh, giving
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season and the victory laps over folks, it's time to get back to work. Hold us accountable. If we
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don't, you don't like the way we do vote us out. The reason the Senate six years is because that
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allows them a lot of time to, to kiss and make up. And we don't have time to kiss and make up.
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Let's take our country back folks. Pray for our country and hope everyone has a very politically
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incorrect. Merry Christmas. I know I'm going to try to make everybody as uncomfortable as possible,
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especially the liberals in my family. They're sick people. Congressman, Merry Christmas,
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brother. I appreciate you joining us today. God bless you, brother. Thank you. It's always a pleasure.
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Thanks everybody for being with us today. Please be sure to join us back here tomorrow for the
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Great America show as our quest for truth, justice, and the American way continues, folks. We're not
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giving up. Fight has only just begun. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Same time, same place. Until
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then, may God bless you. May God bless America and may God bless the great Blue Dobbs.