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00:08:56.000It's always interesting when the cameras go live.
00:08:59.000You just realize that this thing can all come crashing down in about five minutes.
00:09:12.000I mean, we saw some of that last week.
00:09:16.000Now, in the presidential debates with Tucker Carlson where it felt like the cameras went on, questions were asked, and careers were ended in seconds.
00:09:25.000Listen, I gotta tell you, in politics, the funniest thing has come through what I think has been a true renaissance in media.
00:09:33.000Not big media, because they're a joke and they're a mess.
00:09:35.000I'm talking about all the different outlets, all the different voices.
00:09:39.000Tucker is the most prominent of them all, but you got Joe Rogan, who's in this podcasting space where he's so dominant, and some people listen to him because he's not politics, he's not news, he's culture, he's life.
00:09:51.000It's interesting people want to consume.
00:09:53.000Yeah, and he's questioning both sides. Yes.
00:09:57.000Obviously, from where I stand, I'm perhaps more one way on that than others, but I think it's actually still important to have that dialogue.
00:10:05.000And that feels like it's missing everywhere.
00:11:08.000You climb that hill and you try to conquer it.
00:11:10.000You have more mindsets like that in Congress and in politics now than what it used to be of, I want to go, I want to be a committee chair, I want to be a speaker, I want to do this, I want to do that.
00:11:19.000And then I'll sit there for the rest of my life.
00:11:21.000Yes, yes. Until dementia kicks in and that won't stop me from leaving.
00:11:25.000Yeah, I think that's changing and I think it's the best thing for the country.
00:11:28.000And I think also... So what's your story?
00:11:29.000I mean, you came from Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
00:11:31.000Yeah. I mean, you're a congressman in Florida.
00:14:08.000I watched the testimonies, and I watched people in Congress, in positions like you have now, that did not understand the first thing about business or banking or how loans work.
00:14:50.000Yes. You saw the fall of, what was it, that bank out west, the woke bank that collapsed, and it was like, well, we have an improv actor on our board, we have this on our board.
00:15:00.000We had everything except for, like, bankers.
00:15:03.000And we're shocked, you know, we're like shocked.
00:15:05.000Why is this blowing up? Yeah, like, I mean, it's great to have an improv actor.
00:15:08.000I don't know what they know about banking and you're going to be on the board of a bank.
00:15:11.000I think they had one banker of like a 15 member board.
00:15:13.000Yeah. But how can Congress function that same way where these people are making, you know, trillion dollar decisions without an understanding of even the basics?
00:15:23.000I mean, they couldn't explain to you how a mortgage worked, let alone...
00:15:26.000You know, the more sophisticated stuff.
00:15:28.000That's the thing that frustrated me because I was never a political person until this point in my life.
00:15:44.000I'm trying to live in my career, do all that kind of stuff, right?
00:15:47.000I turn these hearings on like you did and I'm like, who are these people?
00:15:51.000They're running the country. No wonder this thing isn't working.
00:15:54.000And so as I started watching those hearings and putting this information together, it really just pissed me off.
00:15:59.000And that's what got me looking at politics and what was going on in the country.
00:16:04.000Then I turned on cable news looking for answers.
00:16:06.000And I got more mad because everything was just talking point, dogma, surface level stuff.
00:16:13.000You never got the real meat of what's going on in an issue.
00:16:16.000And it really caused me to start just...
00:16:18.000I'm trying to understand political theory.
00:16:21.000So reading Locke and Montesquieu, I went way into the weeds on that stuff.
00:16:25.000But it was healthy, it was good, because I started to learn and understand Politics and the actual purpose of government and understanding the real basis in macroeconomic theory.
00:16:37.000And because I'm an economics guy, I'm a finance guy, knowing how a market system is supposed to function really led my politics.
00:17:01.000I was always conservative. I was always a big 2A guy.
00:17:03.000Like, these are the things that I did. But, like, I didn't wear that on my sleeve in New York City because I understand there's a consequence to that.
00:17:08.000You know, my first political fundraiser was for Andrew Cuomo.
00:17:13.000Not because I'm a Democrat, but because he was running for attorney general.
00:17:16.000He was going to win. And, like, if you're a real estate developer, that's the guy that signs your offering plan that allows you to sign it.
00:17:23.000You know, working against you would take years to get something done, or you could, you know, have a relationship.
00:17:28.000And it has nothing to do with politics.
00:17:30.000It was about business. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
00:17:32.000You described it right. But, I mean, you, obviously because of the background, coming from, you know, a black man from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, as a Republican.
00:17:40.000Yeah. You seem to bring an extra level of hate because you're not allowed to do that.
00:17:46.000Well, it's funny. What's that been like?
00:18:09.000You know, like, I'm going to do the thing I think is important.
00:18:12.000If this is the way the system is supposed to work, I'm going to advocate for that.
00:18:15.000If Democrat policy is stupid, and by the way, it is stupid, I'm going to advocate against it.
00:18:19.000And I'm not going to be afraid to speak that because I think the country needs to hear those alternative voices and they need to hear those thought processes that don't line up with mainstream political foolishness, which has really hurt our country.
00:18:33.000I think that, you know, being black, that's just because the Democrats understand that if there's more black men that start to take a position politically that is my position, they can't win elections.
00:18:43.000It's over for me. Talk about that a little bit, because, you know, again, I don't know that we've seen it necessarily translate out, and yet you see all these viral clips of, you know, guys from some of those communities.
00:19:16.000And eventually, the promises that never seem to amount to anything, that never actually move the needle, that never actually change your situation, when do they say enough is enough?
00:19:26.000I actually think that's starting to happen right now.
00:19:29.000And, you know, you brought up your dad.
00:19:32.000He is like a catalyst for some of this.
00:19:34.000See, people don't really remember that.
00:19:36.000Before the political view of Donald Trump, Donald Trump was a cultural feature in hip-hop.
00:20:25.000Can we have that again? Because I think that is the thing that black men are looking at politically.
00:20:30.000Especially when you look into the fact that Democrat policy hasn't worked for them.
00:20:33.000I think there's also... I can't remember who the comedian was, but black comedian was like, hey man, like...
00:20:41.000You've got to stop this, like, arresting Trump stuff.
00:20:44.000Like, you're giving him—you're making him straight.
00:20:47.000And it was sort of interesting to hear that.
00:20:49.000Like, I mean, obviously, you know, Hollywood liberal sort of, you know, mindset.
00:20:53.000But, I mean, is there something to that?
00:20:55.000Because, I mean, obviously there's sort of been, you know, historically—I think it's different now, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
00:21:01.000It's just not— As prevalent as the left would love you to believe it is, where it's, you know, racism is the cause of and solution for all of life's problems, right?
00:21:10.000It's different. But, you know, it seems like there is a component of that from a community that has been oftentimes throughout history sort of treated unfairly or poorly by a justice system.
00:21:21.000Look, I mean, I'm going to be very clear with you on this one.
00:21:23.000I think that our justice system, is it the best in the world?
00:21:26.000Yes. But has it been fair to marginalized communities?
00:21:30.000No. And a lot of that started in prosecutors' offices in a lot of different jurisdictions around the country.
00:22:55.000You know, what about the women when they're looking at what's going on to their kids in the inner cities, whether it's just rampant crime, whether it's murder, whether it's drugs, what's going on?
00:23:05.000When do they say, hey, you know, maybe this isn't working either?
00:23:09.000Because, you know, that's such a, you know, I don't even want to stereotype it, but, you know, a fundamental part of that household.
00:23:15.000You obviously have a lot of, you know, sort of single mothers raising children.
00:23:21.000Because you're right. It is pretty clear in the thing where that hasn't necessarily resonated as well with the women as it has with the men.
00:23:31.000And I think that this is where, you know, the Democrats with their constant pushing right, wrong or indifferent of black women is going to be a harder thing to overcome.
00:23:39.000But I think the key in that Is this radical agenda around transgenderism.
00:23:45.000When you have Democrat policies that are pushing for puberty blockers who will tell a child, hey, if you want to change your gender, okay, we're just not going to tell your parents.
00:24:39.000And so they're perhaps earlier adapters to more the conservative mindset because they've seen the alternative.
00:24:46.000But when you drive away, and this is a key point, when Democrat policy in schools is to allow for a wedge between parent and child, that is the state, and now you're trying to talk about the very identity of the child and the ideology of the child and the parents aren't allowed to know.
00:25:48.000I mean, the left is, you know, again, if you don't buy into 100% of their stuff, you're out.
00:25:53.000And I think people are seeing that and hopefully fighting back.
00:25:55.000I think they are. And I think this is also indicative of that.
00:25:58.000Now you have Republicans, not just party apparatus, but elected members, engage in these culture wars.
00:26:05.000And now the media is trying to accuse us of starting culture wars.
00:26:09.000No, we're not. We're engaging in the culture wars that the left has already started.
00:26:12.000We're playing the game that they've been doing.
00:26:13.000Like, we just... Rather than playing t-ball while they're playing hardball, we're actually just playing the same game.
00:26:19.000And I don't care if you're playing t-ball or hardball, but you've got to be playing the same game.
00:26:22.000Play the same game. And now we're engaged in that game.
00:26:25.000And now you're starting to see those divides in some of these ethnic demographics that historically would have just been almost universally Democrat now saying, wait a minute.
00:27:22.000Asian... White supremacy because they were aligned with, you know, there were some of the people that started the battle against some of the affirmative action because kids that were overperforming were being discriminated against.
00:27:32.000And it's like, well, that's white supremacy too, even if they're Asian and not white.
00:27:36.000And it doesn't seem to matter, I guess, if you're going against that Democrat apparatus, they'll call you whatever it is.
00:27:42.000Look, the Democrats have been weaponizing race in our country for a long time.
00:27:46.000And at the end of the day, it is, in my view, the number one hold that they push.
00:27:52.000And look, you can see it like clockwork.
00:27:54.000You know, you notice there haven't been really a lot of stories about race the last two years.
00:29:10.000That's why I do this, because I'm like, you know, I'm apparently too good.
00:29:13.000You know, you are going into the lion's den and fighting back there.
00:29:19.000And I think that's important, especially with your background and where you come from.
00:29:23.000As much as they'll have an old white dude talk to you about...
00:29:30.000I mean, it's insane, but I guess when you're on their side and you control that kind of power and you control the narrative and you control the mainstream media and you control big tech, it doesn't matter.
00:29:40.000They can get away with that. I mean, you can be lectured about race by an old white dude, but you can't fight back, but you are.
00:29:48.000And you're doing it, and you're doing it effectively.
00:29:50.000I enjoy it. And I think, you know, I look at it like sports.
00:29:54.000Like there's nothing better than shutting up the home team when you're in their building.
00:29:58.000Yeah. Because, you know, you just knock down three shots in a row and they got to quiet down because they feel like they're going to lose the game.
00:30:05.000I think being willing to go into those studios, knowing that you're going to get the pushback, and just going and trying to make key points is critical.
00:30:13.000Some of my colleagues, you know, they asked me about it.
00:30:15.000They're like, man, how is it going on there?
00:30:17.000I said, listen, As long as you go in there, you did your homework, and you have the courage of your convictions, go do it.
00:31:48.000Is the solution now to say that I've got to hold everybody else back in order for me to get ahead?
00:31:53.000No. All that is going to do is breed envy and breed division.
00:31:57.000Oh, I think you're creating a whole problem.
00:31:59.000You're going to create another problem and try to replace the former one.
00:32:02.000And I think that's where people who go down this woke critical race theory vision of America are getting it wrong.
00:32:09.000If you want a young black kid to get ahead in this country, the number one thing you got to do is open up his opportunities, but you can't open up his opportunities and limit other people because that's not going to help him get ahead.
00:32:19.000You don't get better as an athlete with everybody else still sitting on the bench and you're the only one on the field.
00:32:25.000You get better in competition, in activity.
00:32:29.000So in our country, you gotta have a system where obviously access is open, people have an opportunity to step into that space, and then the animal spirits of just human nature and human ability, human intellect, human innovation, that stuff takes over.
00:32:43.000That's the pathway for success in the future of our country.
00:32:46.000Not limiting other people because of the sins of the past.
00:32:50.000So you've been named, I guess, the chairman of the Black Conservative Federation.
00:32:54.000Yeah. And so how do you get that message out there, right?
00:32:58.000You have sort of what you're saying, which I agree with.
00:33:00.000It seems actually logical, which is contrary to everything else that we see out there on a daily basis.
00:33:38.000Because some people, especially in a society like today, where I think I see it with kids, you know, we're much more of an instant gratification society today than we were.
00:33:46.000So it's like, well, if I could skip that, this is going to work against me.
00:33:49.000I'm never going to be for something where I could get sort of the upper hand or that free upper hand.
00:33:55.000How do you combat that? I think the way I look at it is that the stain of racism in America is not something you can get rid of.
00:35:09.000You know, I think, like, and my story personally, or not even my story, right now we have four black members of Congress on the Republican side of the aisle.
00:35:17.000That hasn't happened since Reconstruction.
00:35:19.000Yeah. That happens since Reconstruction.
00:35:29.000Yes. You know, frankly, much more so than some on the other side, where you just almost feel like, okay, well, it's a checkbox, and, you know...
00:35:37.000I think Wesley's crushing it. I mean, he's a funny guy, man.
00:35:46.000I was like, I almost wish when he did the show, I almost wish we got the backstory of him and I joking around.
00:35:51.000I'd have probably been thrown to jail for like...
00:35:54.000But that's the difference. That's why I feel like we have gone so far, because if he, with his background, and me with my background, and frankly everything that he called me, can have that kind of conversation, that's where we need to be.
00:36:06.000I think we're actually in a really good spot in our country, Joe Biden notwithstanding.
00:36:12.000Culturally, I think we're in a better spot than I think people realize.
00:36:16.000And the only thing that's really hurting us is media, big media, and these narratives that somehow a black man or a black woman can't get ahead today.
00:36:24.000I think that's just wrong and it's a foul.
00:36:40.000How are they possibly—you know, you can't—I mean, Byron, you couldn't possibly get a driver's license to vote.
00:36:45.000I mean, like, that's not capable of that.
00:36:48.000But I mean, it's insane because it's so insulting.
00:36:52.000Right. And yet, it's like, they're saying it's just common vernacular.
00:36:56.000It's fine. What do you mean? They do it every day.
00:36:58.000Every week there's a new example of them essentially spitting into the face of some minority group as to their competence to do basic shit that basically anyone in America could do.
00:37:12.000I don't even let my sons worry about that.
00:37:15.000I want my sons to take their cues from me and I think this is the power of families.
00:37:18.000And this is actually the power of, you know, father figures and all of that and strong mothers.
00:37:23.000My mother in the 90s, in the 80s and 90s in New York, she didn't want me to think less.
00:37:30.000She always challenged me and pushed me.
00:37:32.000It didn't matter what media was saying.
00:38:47.000You've got to go out there and get it yourself.
00:38:49.000And again, I understand how blessed I've been and fortunate I've been.
00:38:52.000I don't want to even compare that to anything else.
00:38:55.000But there was still that understanding.
00:38:56.000And my mom was that same sort of Eastern European like, hey, I escaped communism.
00:39:00.000Get your shit together. There's a toughness there that unfortunately doesn't seem to exist too often here in America where everyone's helicoptering and everyone's so soft and everyone's Trying to coddle everything for feelings as opposed to reality.
00:40:34.000I learned, I felt, so much more in life from getting my ass kicked.
00:40:39.000You know what I mean? I went to boarding school, but when I went there as an eighth grader with a loud mouth from New York City, I got my ass kicked.
00:40:43.000And it was actually, I learned much more from that.
00:40:48.000You're not allowed to say that these days, right?
00:40:49.000Because that's like, oh, you were bullied.
00:40:51.000I understand there's a point where it's too far.
00:40:54.000But I also understand that for me, Sometimes you needed that to actually drive a point.
00:41:01.000I'll get in a lot of trouble for saying it, but I feel like without any adversity, with everything having a cushion, there's always a fucking excuse, right?
00:41:14.000That's, I think, the point, but that's not where we are today as a society.
00:41:17.000I think we're certainly not there in our education system, so how do you break through?
00:41:21.000I think that's coming back through families starting to really take stock of where we are as a country and looking at their kids and their grandkids and saying, man, you know what?
00:41:36.000There's things you have to do in order to excel.
00:41:39.000And making those demands, I think some of that is coming back in schools because I think we've seen the fallacy of trying to coddle everybody and be concerned about everybody's feelings as opposed to demanding it.
00:41:50.000And I think what's happening on sports fields, I think the kids who are going to really dominate our country are going to be kids who play competitive sports.
00:41:57.000Because they're accustomed to having a grind.
00:42:08.000So it's sort of interesting when I see, I mean, maybe the NBA is the right example, right?
00:42:12.000Where it's like, politically, they're almost saying the opposite.
00:42:15.000And yet, There's no chance I'd ever play in the NBA. But then outside of that, it's like, no, well, everyone's the same and everyone's going to get it.
00:42:42.000Oh, yeah, we've got to come back to that.
00:42:44.000What's your thoughts on what's going on there?
00:42:46.000Because that, too, seems to be an attack on the family, an attack on everything these days.
00:42:52.000They don't even hide it anymore, even with the...
00:42:55.000The pushing of the stuff that would break up families or the pushing of the nonsense and the trans thing these days seems to me like that's almost the ultimate form of privilege these days.
00:43:47.000Mostly because the advisory firms, the Black Rocks, the Vanguards, are just saying, yeah, we'll support that.
00:43:52.000And they voted through. But what's in it for them?
00:43:55.000What is it actually accomplished, meaning their shareholders and maybe their activism overrides their capitalism, where they just believe that, you know, there's 9,476 genders and we'll lose money to accomplish that, right?
00:44:09.000And maybe it is, right? That's exactly the point.
00:44:11.000You know, when you look at these boards and you see the decisions they're making, you've got to wonder when the other shareholders start suing them because they're not acting as fiduciaries.
00:44:19.000Because, you know, ESG is not proven to be an effective methodology for investing your retirement fund.
00:44:45.000Well, I think what you're starting to see now is more companies are staying private.
00:44:49.000They don't want to go public because they don't want to deal with this.
00:44:51.000Because if you created a company or you run a company, you don't want to have to deal with all of this silly stuff coming in from these activist shareholders.
00:45:00.000In Congress, we're trying to create some rules to try to tamp this down and kind of get things focused back on business being the main thing.
00:45:34.000And the left has now used the agencies of our federal government and they're using the corporations in our economy to drive their agenda that they can never get voted on by Congress, that they can never win an election on.
00:45:47.000They're pushing that through finance and they're pushing it through culture, they're pushing it obviously through entertainment, and they're trying to push it through government.
00:45:54.000And they're trying to have their way in all these areas.
00:45:57.000But that's why you can't just have the old tried and true Republican mantra of less taxes, less government, more freedom.
00:46:04.000You've got to engage in all these sectors.
00:46:06.000So how are you doing that? I think how we're doing it is a couple of things.
00:46:11.000Two, in financial services, some of the stuff on proxy advisor reform is really, really important.
00:46:16.000Three, we're going to have to clean house in these agencies.
00:46:18.000And I mean, at the political branch levels, we've got to clean house.
00:46:21.000Four, we've got to have some reforms around employees in the federal level.
00:46:25.000And then five, and this is where we started, not being afraid to go into the big media shows and tell them that they're wrong, having alternative sources, expressing those viewpoints, having rallies, having meetings, having coffees.
00:46:40.000I just told the lady on the convention floor, Our country only survives with the activism of the American people.
00:46:46.000Not the passiveness of the American people.
00:46:50.000And that's what we've done badly as conservatives.
00:46:52.000We've done that badly. Live and let live. We turn the other cheek and the other side's like, I'll take the win.
00:46:56.000I'll take the win. And that's changing.
00:46:58.000That is changing. I agree. Like Bud Light, goodbye.
00:47:02.000Target, what's happening to them, you've got to deal with that too.
00:47:06.000And even when they tried to go after Chick-fil-A years ago, and when it ended up happening, you had Christians, you had Americans come out, and they bought more Chick-fil-A. You know, I probably had too much Chick-fil-A at the time, but those waffle fries, man.
00:47:17.000They get you in trouble. Waffle fries are good.
00:47:18.000But when people support Companies just doing their job.
00:47:23.000And when they decide not to do business with a company that actively is going after them and their way of life, that's fine.
00:47:29.000If it was good enough for the left, it's good enough for us.
00:47:32.000And to your point, if we're going to play t-ball, then we should play t-ball.
00:47:36.000If they're going to play hardball, we've got to play hardball.
00:47:39.000When you go back to your district around Naples, really, I guess, you know, southwest Florida, What are the issues that stand out to the people there?
00:47:46.000You have sort of national issues, but what are the things that concerns them the most going forward?
00:48:32.000They just want clean streets, which they have, safe community, which they have, and a government that works.
00:48:37.000So when will the people that don't have those things start really wanting them?
00:48:41.000Because it seems like if you look at all these Democrat-controlled cities that are supposed to be these great utopian places, they're anything but, and yet it continues to happen, and they replace one disastrous mayor with someone who's worse, and it continues.
00:48:55.000I mean, it feels like it's a perpetual cycle in an adverse way that never seems to be remedied, and yet nothing ever changes.
00:49:02.000Well I think this is one of the reasons why as a Republican I was always pissed with the party and pissed with consultants because they would ignore these communities because they didn't feel that they can win votes there in a meaningful way or that's a waste of money let's not campaign in those areas.
00:49:16.000So when you don't have local elected officials with the right policy set get elected These cities, you know, when you have Democrat control 30, 40, 50 years, what you end up with is a current Chicago, which is not safe at all, and businesses are fleeing.
00:49:52.000So even if you have a Republican candidate, good candidate, you know, gonna fight hard, gonna do the right thing, gonna really get into the fight, not gonna just say it on TV and then go home and have a scotch or something like that.
00:50:07.000It's hard to get them elected now because the entire trajectory of politics in those areas is one way.
00:50:12.000We've got to start going into those communities and fighting for those communities.
00:50:16.000And it can't just be a thing of, oh, well, we can't win there, so we're going to turn the blind eyes.
00:50:20.000So how do we do that? I think the first thing you do is, and me and my friends, we talk about this a lot, you start going into black churches.
00:50:27.000And into Hispanic churches in these communities.
00:50:30.000Because they're there. And you just sit down and just talk to them.
00:50:32.000And not come in there saying, let me introduce you.
00:51:09.000There seems to be, you know, at least to me, you know, more of an early adaption from the Hispanic community.
00:51:15.000And again, I don't mean to generalize that because that's sort of all over the place, but you see that over the African-American community.
00:53:53.000And I think what the left has done is actually by, you know, every time, you know, sort of the easy button of the radical left to just call you a racist, they've actually diminished the instance of actual racism.
00:54:04.000Because now when people hear it, they're like, eh, roll your eyes, move on.
00:54:07.000You know, it used to be the worst thing you could possibly be called, but once they've called everyone that they disagree with the same thing, It sort of leaves people in the dust.
00:54:15.000You know one of my favorite guys we still have not met and it's just crazy and it's busy is Mark Robinson in North Carolina.
00:54:53.000There is one Hulk Hogan, but there is still room for Ric Flair.
00:54:58.000There was still room for John Cena, The Rock, Stone Cold, Triple H, and all these guys.
00:55:03.000It's about your ability to engage with people.
00:55:07.000I think the toughest part of politics, and not even a congressional or local, when you start talking about governor, presidential level politics, Eh, we're all raising money.
00:56:11.000They set the standard of what it is to bring a level of charisma and connection and energy and electricity into what was normally just a boring old fuddy-duddy, let me tell you about my 10-point plan on trade policy, Jim, and eh, okay, whatever.
00:56:30.000I think that endorsing him is for multiple reasons.
00:56:33.000One, on the world stage, we need a guy who can walk into the room with our adversaries and be like, all right, look, enough.
00:56:41.000We're not doing that anymore. That's a big thing for us, for America, on multiple levels.
00:56:47.000Number two, we need somebody who has been there, they've done this job, and they know and they're mission-focused on cleaning out this bureaucracy.
00:56:54.000And I think with all that they've done to him, He's going to be mission-focused on cleaning out this bureaucracy.
00:57:00.000Trump, his pitch seems to be to get revenge on the government.
00:57:04.000I'm like, I don't know. That's good enough for me.
00:57:12.000And it's not revenge, but I've been saying it here or there.
00:57:16.000We're the ones who are really fighting for the soul of America and fighting for American democracy because you can't have institutions weaponized against your people.
00:57:24.000It's not going to go well for our country.
00:57:26.000And it might be cool for you to maintain power, but there's going to be a response to that.
00:57:46.000100%. That's it. Byron, I know you're speaking at Turning Point.
00:57:49.000I look forward to checking that out. Thanks for doing this, and I really look forward to having you back and really seeing the other things that you're doing, because I think you've been an amazing voice, an unafraid voice in Congress, and I think we need a lot more of that.
00:57:59.000So thanks for being here. I appreciate it.
00:58:00.000Absolutely. Guys, thanks so much for tuning in.
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