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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Midterm Issues | Allen Jackson NOW | July 9, 2026
- I'm. i'm.
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- I'm. i'm.
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- Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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- I'm alan jackson.
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- For weeks, the world heard talk of ceasefires, negotiations,
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- And the possibility that the conflict with iran
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- Was beginning to cool down.
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- There was hope that diplomacy might finally succeed.
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- But peace is never measured by what leaders
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- Say at the negotiating table.
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- It's measured by what happens after the agreements are made.
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- Well, this week iran showed their true colors once again
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- After attacking commercial vessels
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- Transiting the strait of hormuz,
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- One of the world's most critical shipping lanes.
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- The united states responded with overwhelming force. u.s.
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- Central command struck
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- Roughly 170 iranian military targets over two nights.
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- They targeted missile and drone
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- Stockpiles, air defense systems, naval assets, military
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- Infrastructure designed to threaten regional stability.
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- President trump declared the cease fire over.
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- Saying further negotiations were a waste of time.
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- After iran once again failed to keep its word,
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- The consequences are extending far beyond iran,
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- Bahrain, jordan and kuwait,
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- Where they intercepted iranian missiles and drones
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- As the conflict spread across the region.
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- At the nato summit, president trump also criticized
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- Several european allies for refusing to support u.s.
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- Operations.
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- As if that weren't enough.
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- The war in ukraine continues to grind on with president trump
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- Acknowledging the horrific toll of the conflict
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- With no clear end in sight.
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- These developments they point to something
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- Larger than a series of disconnected crises.
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- They reveal an increasingly dangerous world
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- Where deterrence is being tested.
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- Alliances are under strain,
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- And america's leadership is once again
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- Shaping events far beyond its borders.
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- So what comes next with iran as the time for diplomacy
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- Finally run out?
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- Will tehran
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- Think twice before threatening international shipping again,
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- Or are we entering
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- An even more dangerous phase of this conflict?
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- You know, every time we think now we can make peace with iran.
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- It seems to be an increasingly slippery slope,
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- Because to have a legitimate peace deal,
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- You must have people of integrity
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- With which to negotiate.
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- And iran simply doesn't meet that standard.
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- Iran has been a global sponsor of terror and has been at war
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- With the united states for at least 47 years.
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- They took our embassy hostage for 444 days.
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- They were responsible for the killing of 300
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- Plus marines in lebanon in the early 80s.
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- If you ask our intelligence agencies about iraq
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- And what was the source of many of our american casualties
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- There, you'll get estimates as high as 75 to 80% of them
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- Were due to iranian made roadside bombs.
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- They also have developed the military capability now
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- To reach outside the boundaries of iran in the middle east.
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- They arm and equip hezbollah and hamas.
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- Iran has clearly showed time and time again
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- That they don't want to be
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- A peaceful member of the group of nations.
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- They are terror sponsors.
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- That's simply their nature as expressed in behavior.
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- They've been a threat for a long time.
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- Keep that in mind when the media and certain
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- Politicians and online commentators
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- Frame what's happening in iran.
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- I'm grateful for the bold and courageous approach
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- Which is being taken by this administration
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- To not sit passively by, while iran flagrantly
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- Violates any efforts toward an agreed upon peace.
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- Ignoring violations only invites more aggression.
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- When iran committed ceasefire violation
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- In the strait of hormuz,
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- The easier decision for this administration
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- Would have been to look the other way.
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- Lower gas prices and political calm would have been
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- An easier than reengaging militarily.
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- You know, doing the right thing isn't always the popular thing.
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- Oftentimes we have to choose to do difficult things.
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- I'm reminded of winston churchill.
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- He was the prime minister of great
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- Britain during world war two.
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- He followed.
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- Neville chamberlain is the prime minister.
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- Neville chamberlain
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- Was a feckless politician, a coward of the first order.
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- Winston churchill was not that.
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- And he had some great quotes.
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- I'll share a couple.
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- The price of greatness is responsibility,
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- And this is not the time for ease or comfort.
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- It is time to dare and endure.
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- Well, i'd like to use the comparison
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- Between chamberlain and churchill
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- For our own season, and submit to you
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- That it's time for us to make the move
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- From appeasement to advocacy for the truth.
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- One is passive. one is assertive.
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- I submit to you that the church
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- Predominantly has been passive for far too long.
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- Sometimes we think words are the ultimate objective,
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- But we have to follow with corresponding behaviors.
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- It's biblical.
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- The apostle james, he didn't mince words when he said, don't
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- Just be hearers of the word, but rather be doers of the word.
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- In other words,
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- Don't just sit there and hear
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- God's word taught and act like it doesn't apply to you.
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- If you really believe it, you need to act like it.
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- You need to do what it says.
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- When i think of the tragedies of world war two,
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- I wonder
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- What might have been different
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- If the church had responded in a different fashion.
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- Many who thought of themselves as christians
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- Actively participated in the holocaust.
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- Many others remained silent as their jewish friends
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- And neighbors
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- Were driven out of their homes and sent to extermination camps.
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- Well, the christians of our generation,
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- They may not have participated
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- In an ethnic cleansing like that,
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- But we have turned a blind eye to a great deal of evil
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- And injustice, such as the abortion of more than 63
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- Million babies since 1973 alone.
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- You see god's people.
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- They really do matter in this world.
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- When we stand up and tell the truth
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- About what god says, evil is held at bay.
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- When we capitulate to the culture, evil flourishes.
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- When christians refuse to believe in biblical values,
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- And when we're not willing to stand up for them
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- In our homes or the public square.
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- When we reject obedience to the authority of scripture.
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- Let's rather choose to honor god and cooperate with him
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- In such a way that he can trust us to be effective salt
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- And light for his purposes in this generation.
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- Well, in a moment, we'll speak with a man who's
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- Been there and done that scott brown, former senator, u.s.
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- Ambassador and military veteran.
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- I'll be right back.
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- I'll be right back.
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- Tonight, we're joined by former senator scott brown.
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- Welcome back to the show, scott.
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- You know, it's great to be with you
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- And all of you viewers and listeners.
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- Well, president trump has wrapped up his nato summit.
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- I want you to listen to a comedy movie
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- And then want to get your opinion.
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- I think it's over.
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- I don't want to deal with him and him with this scum.
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- You know, it's cummings, that scum, the sick people
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- That led by sick people and the vicious, violent people.
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- And if they had a nuclear weapon, they use it.
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- As far as i'm concerned, it's over.
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- Sounds to me like the president's
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- At the end of the negotiation trail.
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- What's your take on our status with iran?
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- Well, i commend them for, you know,
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- I guess offering that olive branch.
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- And i knew it.
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- I mean, i think everybody kind
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- Of knows who they are and what they are.
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- They've been acting like that for 47 years.
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- They've been stringing them along for quite a while now.
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- And but, you know, he needs to be
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- The one who's saying, yeah, i'm done.
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- You know, i'm just done.
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- You know, there's only so many times
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- You can, you know, slap the president in the face and,
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- And embarrass him by, you know, not adhering to the same line.
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- Matthew. sorry.
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- And, i think he's at his wit's end, and i,
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- You know, good for him.
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- You know, there's some pretty significant
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- Political consequences, it seems,
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- If gas prices go back up and the economy staggers a little bit,
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- It's going to have an impact on these midterm elections.
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- You still think it's the right plan with that threat
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- Hanging out there as well?
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- Well, i thought he moved for move forward
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- With the mou because of the midterms
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- And the fact that you had high inflation, high gas prices.
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- You know, the issue is we're producing
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- More oil and gas right now than we ever have.
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- For the second month, i believe in a row,
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- And we really don't need that oil.
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- And respectfully, we're doing that for,
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- You know, the people in that part of the world.
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- You know, i'm encouraged that we're going to continue
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- To be that energy independent country.
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- And, you know, there may be a mechanism
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- Moving forward that we can step back from our
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- Dependance on that world oil market and issues, our own
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- And that of our friends with now who's venezuela is a friend.
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- We have new fields opening up around the world.
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- So there may be a mechanism to kind of divorce that that world
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- Barrel per barrel, amount and do our own thing.
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- But we'll have to see.
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- Certainly.
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- Those are a consideration in the midterms,
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- But then not getting a nuclear weapon is a concern.
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- And he's right on that mark. they would use it.
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- Absolutely use it. they'd use it as leverage.
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- They they threaten every single day israel
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- And every other neighbor as they're doing
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- When they don't get their way.
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- And we hit them
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- Instead of them hitting us and trying to stop us.
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- They hit our,
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- You know, their friends supposedly and and neighbors.
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- So yeah, it's going to it's very complicated.
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- Certainly.
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- I thought that maybe the president
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- Should have ended it a long time ago.
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- Well, while he had the advantage
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- And i give him this olive branch.
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- But, you know, i'm not the president,
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- So i'll support what he does and we'll take it from there.
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- We've all been watching the nato conference.
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- Trump's comments have been a little bit mixed.
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- You know, he said there was tremendous unification,
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- But he also called out spain in some very plain language.
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- What were your thoughts as that conference wraps up?
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- Well, i remember the first year they kind of laughed at them.
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- You know, they didn't take him seriously.
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- And he predicted everything that was going to happen
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- With russia
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- Using their their pipeline to basically control that region.
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- And so to be energy independent is something that the president
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- Has been talking
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- About to bio-oil from friends like us and others.
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- And natural gas for sure.
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- And so we can now export a tremendous amount.
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- And he also challenged him to do more to protect themselves.
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- It was that back, if i'm not mistaken, like 2.5%.
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- Now it's up to 5%.
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- And that's probably where it should be for every country.
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- And the fact that spain would not allow us
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- To land on one of our bases, you know, in their country
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- When we're basically doing this,
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- To, you know, obviously create world security
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- And eliminate iran from having a nuclear weapon.
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- It's embarrassing. it's just wrong.
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- And so, yeah,
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- He has every right
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- To call spain out
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- As well as the others who on
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- Providing any minesweepers or other,
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- You know, tactical efforts.
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- It's it's outrageous.
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- Let's talk about ukraine and russia for a moment.
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- The president has said that
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- He'll make the patriot
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- Interceptor missiles available to ukraine.
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- Do you think that might help bring
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- This conflict to a conclusion?
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- Do you have that hope?
- 00:11:05.457 --> 00:11:07.292
- Well, i'll tell you, i i'm, i'm a hopeful man.
- 00:11:07.292 --> 00:11:09.528
- I pray every day that that's over.
- 00:11:09.528 --> 00:11:10.996
- And you look at what's happening there.
- 00:11:10.996 --> 00:11:12.931
- I remember when people first said
- 00:11:12.931 --> 00:11:14.333
- I'd be over in a couple of weeks.
- 00:11:14.333 --> 00:11:15.567
- I'm like, no, it's going to be at least a year.
- 00:11:15.567 --> 00:11:17.903
- Well, i was only up by three years.
- 00:11:17.903 --> 00:11:20.739
- The fact that, you know, the russia is
- 00:11:20.739 --> 00:11:23.575
- Obviously not as strong is as they said or projected.
- 00:11:23.575 --> 00:11:27.746
- Ukraine is is hustling and they're very, very creative,
- 00:11:27.746 --> 00:11:31.116
- Modifying their drones, you know, doing things
- 00:11:31.116 --> 00:11:33.152
- Differently, striking into the heart of russia now.
- 00:11:33.152 --> 00:11:36.522
- There's going to be a point where it's obviously hurting.
- 00:11:36.522 --> 00:11:38.924
- Putin is hurting at home economically,
- 00:11:38.924 --> 00:11:42.161
- Internationally with stature in the in the world with
- 00:11:42.161 --> 00:11:45.364
- And he could be a gang member.
- 00:11:45.364 --> 00:11:46.765
- And it's not because, you know, he's not playing by the rules.
- 00:11:46.765 --> 00:11:49.535
- He's instigating.
- 00:11:49.535 --> 00:11:50.402
- He's trying to take over a small country
- 00:11:50.402 --> 00:11:52.204
- And he hasn't been able to do it.
- 00:11:52.204 --> 00:11:53.806
- So i'm i'm hopeful.
- 00:11:53.806 --> 00:11:54.907
- Listen, there's only one guy in this world
- 00:11:54.907 --> 00:11:56.708
- Who can actually get this done, but those two need to play it.
- 00:11:56.708 --> 00:11:59.745
- Zelensky's come to the table, say,
- 00:11:59.745 --> 00:12:01.246
- Yeah, i'll do it, but i'm not going to moscow.
- 00:12:01.246 --> 00:12:03.448
- Come on, give me a break.
- 00:12:03.448 --> 00:12:04.917
- Putin is not serious, and he will only be serious
- 00:12:04.917 --> 00:12:07.286
- When his economy is teetering and his people are starting to
- 00:12:07.286 --> 00:12:10.255
- Question his power.
- 00:12:10.255 --> 00:12:12.925
- President trump has suggested
- 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.394
- Removing syria from the list of terrorist nations
- 00:12:15.394 --> 00:12:19.398
- That would leave north korea and cuba.
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- With iran.
- 00:12:23.035 --> 00:12:23.869
- That's an amazing step.
- 00:12:23.869 --> 00:12:25.604
- Do you think it's the right one to take at this time?
- 00:12:25.604 --> 00:12:28.407
- I'm more of a trust, but verify.
- 00:12:28.407 --> 00:12:30.342
- Give them, incentives to hit,
- 00:12:30.342 --> 00:12:33.078
- Like i would have done with with iran before
- 00:12:33.078 --> 00:12:35.214
- Releasing any money.
- 00:12:35.214 --> 00:12:36.448
- Say, if you do this, you get that, you do this, you get that.
- 00:12:36.448 --> 00:12:38.851
- Same thing with syria.
- 00:12:38.851 --> 00:12:40.319
- You know. yeah.
- 00:12:40.319 --> 00:12:41.253
- He's the he's the better of the leaders,
- 00:12:41.253 --> 00:12:42.888
- But he's not, you know, all of that.
- 00:12:42.888 --> 00:12:45.057
- He's not this wonderful, great guy.
- 00:12:45.057 --> 00:12:47.426
- But, you know, you have to deal with who's in charge.
- 00:12:47.426 --> 00:12:49.962
- Certainly.
- 00:12:49.962 --> 00:12:50.863
- So i commend the president, you know,
- 00:12:50.863 --> 00:12:52.598
- Giving those olive branches and giving those carrots.
- 00:12:52.598 --> 00:12:55.767
- But before you just say, oh, by the way, they're done.
- 00:12:55.767 --> 00:12:58.103
- We're going to take them off.
- 00:12:58.103 --> 00:12:59.171
- I think he needs to give them benchmarks to hit.
- 00:12:59.171 --> 00:13:01.707
- I think that's the most logical thing to do.
- 00:13:01.707 --> 00:13:04.743
- You know, the middle east is a tough neighborhood.
- 00:13:05.777 --> 00:13:08.046
- It's not like negotiating with people
- 00:13:08.046 --> 00:13:09.715
- That share the same worldview
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- Or a set of values that we're accustomed to.
- 00:13:11.149 --> 00:13:13.619
- Makes it far more difficult, doesn't it?
- 00:13:13.619 --> 00:13:16.388
- Yeah.
- 00:13:16.388 --> 00:13:16.955
- Listen, they say that
- 00:13:16.955 --> 00:13:18.190
- Basically doesn't care if they live or die.
- 00:13:18.190 --> 00:13:20.425
- You know,
- 00:13:20.425 --> 00:13:21.660
- They they encourage their sons and daughters to be martyred.
- 00:13:21.660 --> 00:13:25.130
- You know, mostly sons.
- 00:13:25.130 --> 00:13:26.531
- You know, to to do something in a terrorist,
- 00:13:26.531 --> 00:13:28.500
- You know, lose your life and go up and see all the virgins.
- 00:13:28.500 --> 00:13:32.104
- I mean, what kind of what kind of country is that?
- 00:13:32.104 --> 00:13:34.439
- That's the fact
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- That you have the ability to basically be a thriving
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- And flourishing country, and yet you want to continue to,
- 00:13:39.945 --> 00:13:43.315
- You know, be an instigator and not be a world a contributor.
- 00:13:43.315 --> 00:13:46.551
- I think it says it all.
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- Well, scott, we need to take a short break.
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- I hope you'll stay with us for another segment.
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- Sure.
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- We're back now with former ambassador scott brown.
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- Scott, let's pick up some domestic topics.
- 00:14:21.286 --> 00:14:23.588
- The save america act has been a priority for president trump.
- 00:14:23.588 --> 00:14:27.359
- They've gotten it through
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- The house multiple times, but it's gotten stuck in the senate.
- 00:14:28.627 --> 00:14:31.863
- Do you have any hopes or what
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- Can the senate do to pass the legislation?
- 00:14:33.332 --> 00:14:35.500
- It seems like common sense to me.
- 00:14:35.500 --> 00:14:37.636
- Yeah, it does to me, too.
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- I want to make sure
- 00:14:38.737 --> 00:14:39.671
- When i vote that somebody who's next to me
- 00:14:39.671 --> 00:14:40.906
- Is a citizen and they have the right to vote,
- 00:14:40.906 --> 00:14:43.241
- And it is a no brainer.
- 00:14:43.241 --> 00:14:44.209
- And they say, well, it's only a few people.
- 00:14:44.209 --> 00:14:46.211
- Like like captain, when martha raddatz
- 00:14:46.211 --> 00:14:47.779
- Was talking to jd about housing.
- 00:14:47.779 --> 00:14:49.414
- Well, there's only a few, you know, gangs in her housing.
- 00:14:49.414 --> 00:14:52.484
- And he's like, you listen to yourself.
- 00:14:52.484 --> 00:14:53.919
- You mean a few foreign gangs in our housing units in colorado?
- 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:57.255
- It's the same thing.
- 00:14:57.255 --> 00:14:58.190
- A few people voting in our voting booths.
- 00:14:58.190 --> 00:15:00.192
- You know who? our sacred elections.
- 00:15:00.192 --> 00:15:02.594
- It shouldn't be anybody. and it should be a no brainer.
- 00:15:02.594 --> 00:15:04.596
- If there are people in the rural areas or
- 00:15:04.596 --> 00:15:06.631
- Or people who need help when we should get them the help
- 00:15:06.631 --> 00:15:08.967
- To make sure that they have that documentation.
- 00:15:08.967 --> 00:15:11.269
- It's in effect.
- 00:15:11.269 --> 00:15:12.771
- What i would hope is that,
- 00:15:12.771 --> 00:15:14.373
- You know, our leader, thune, just keeps every there 20.
- 00:15:14.373 --> 00:15:17.175
- Everybody there 24 seven. it's election time.
- 00:15:17.175 --> 00:15:19.544
- You want them to do their jobs and you keep them there
- 00:15:19.544 --> 00:15:22.147
- So they can't go raise money.
- 00:15:22.147 --> 00:15:23.448
- They can't go, you know, win elections.
- 00:15:23.448 --> 00:15:25.984
- That's what i would do. and that's what i would suggest.
- 00:15:25.984 --> 00:15:28.453
- This is something that the president's
- 00:15:28.453 --> 00:15:30.389
- Agenda needs to be taken care of. there's been.
- 00:15:30.389 --> 00:15:33.291
- I don't think any judges, passed in this term.
- 00:15:33.291 --> 00:15:36.728
- If i'm not mistaken, when mitch mcconnell
- 00:15:36.728 --> 00:15:38.463
- Was in charge, they did it over a hundred.
- 00:15:38.463 --> 00:15:40.999
- So, you know, there's certainly something going on.
- 00:15:40.999 --> 00:15:43.402
- I'm not quite sure why they
- 00:15:43.402 --> 00:15:44.803
- They used to be very close, and now they're not.
- 00:15:44.803 --> 00:15:47.072
- So, i'm hopeful that they they get together and do
- 00:15:47.072 --> 00:15:49.775
- The people's business.
- 00:15:49.775 --> 00:15:51.209
- Well, you have experience in the senate.
- 00:15:52.044 --> 00:15:53.612
- I know i'm an outsider, but i've been told
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- That they haven't been
- 00:15:55.714 --> 00:15:56.715
- Willing to do the work to pass the legislation.
- 00:15:56.715 --> 00:15:59.718
- Is it really that simple?
- 00:16:00.285 --> 00:16:01.319
- They're not willing to put in the effort
- 00:16:01.319 --> 00:16:02.587
- It takes to get some of these difficult things decided?
- 00:16:02.587 --> 00:16:05.624
- Well, you look at many of our,
- 00:16:06.224 --> 00:16:08.727
- Many of the bills throughout our country's history.
- 00:16:08.727 --> 00:16:11.496
- Sometimes it took them 3 or 4 months
- 00:16:11.496 --> 00:16:13.398
- To actually get these things done.
- 00:16:13.398 --> 00:16:15.500
- And, bottom line is, you know, you need to work.
- 00:16:15.500 --> 00:16:18.303
- You need to get a working filibuster,
- 00:16:18.303 --> 00:16:20.105
- A talking filibuster, keep them there.
- 00:16:20.105 --> 00:16:22.340
- Yeah. make them work.
- 00:16:22.340 --> 00:16:23.542
- God forbid they have plenty of vocations.
- 00:16:23.542 --> 00:16:25.444
- They work.
- 00:16:25.444 --> 00:16:26.578
- And, you know, like god, i wish i had that job again.
- 00:16:26.578 --> 00:16:29.114
- Oh, yeah, i'm actually trying to get it,
- 00:16:29.114 --> 00:16:30.816
- But it's not because of the lack of work.
- 00:16:30.816 --> 00:16:32.250
- Is the fact that i want to go down there and work
- 00:16:32.250 --> 00:16:34.352
- And push them to work.
- 00:16:34.352 --> 00:16:36.721
- Well, there's a new draft fed paper that indicates
- 00:16:37.722 --> 00:16:39.991
- That illegal immigration
- 00:16:39.991 --> 00:16:41.493
- Accounted for roughly 30% of the growth
- 00:16:41.493 --> 00:16:43.695
- In home and rent prices between 2021 and 2024.
- 00:16:43.695 --> 00:16:47.599
- That's the biden administration.
- 00:16:47.599 --> 00:16:49.367
- It seems like more proof
- 00:16:49.367 --> 00:16:50.602
- That the open border continues to be a source of many problems.
- 00:16:50.602 --> 00:16:53.738
- Are we ever going to get our heads
- 00:16:54.506 --> 00:16:55.907
- Around this and cooperate with.
- 00:16:55.907 --> 00:16:57.576
- I should deal with the problems of millions
- 00:16:57.576 --> 00:17:00.045
- And millions of people here illegally.
- 00:17:00.045 --> 00:17:02.647
- Well, they did it under biden and they did it under obama.
- 00:17:02.647 --> 00:17:05.817
- I mean, you basically
- 00:17:05.817 --> 00:17:07.652
- Had somebody you would call base and they'd come and get it.
- 00:17:07.652 --> 00:17:10.355
- But now you have these democrats who were like, pritzker
- 00:17:10.355 --> 00:17:12.724
- Was running for president or others.
- 00:17:12.724 --> 00:17:14.559
- And, you know, they want him they want to basically
- 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.229
- Not do anything for the president.
- 00:17:17.229 --> 00:17:18.964
- It was an obama presidency.
- 00:17:18.964 --> 00:17:20.866
- There'd be no problem.
- 00:17:20.866 --> 00:17:22.033
- You have a couple of guys go pick em up.
- 00:17:22.033 --> 00:17:24.136
- See you later.
- 00:17:24.136 --> 00:17:25.337
- Obviously you need to address this issue because,
- 00:17:25.337 --> 00:17:28.473
- People are getting
- 00:17:28.907 --> 00:17:29.908
- Hurt, killed, raped, maimed every single day.
- 00:17:29.908 --> 00:17:32.944
- We had a situation where a driver's license
- 00:17:32.944 --> 00:17:35.347
- Was issued, i believe, from massachusetts.
- 00:17:35.347 --> 00:17:37.516
- And the guy who didn't speak english crashed
- 00:17:37.516 --> 00:17:39.217
- Through a stop sign and killed the other little girl.
- 00:17:39.217 --> 00:17:41.953
- I mean, when is this going to be over?
- 00:17:41.953 --> 00:17:43.955
- When does the end, when does, like, common sense prevail?
- 00:17:43.955 --> 00:17:47.826
- And we don't have these
- 00:17:47.826 --> 00:17:49.060
- These far left and radical dsa or others, you know,
- 00:17:49.060 --> 00:17:52.797
- Basically doxing and threatening irish people
- 00:17:52.797 --> 00:17:55.834
- Who are just trying to do their job
- 00:17:55.834 --> 00:17:57.569
- If they have a better solution, aside from keeping them here,
- 00:17:57.569 --> 00:18:00.872
- You know, letting them run free, then then good.
- 00:18:00.872 --> 00:18:03.441
- Let's have it.
- 00:18:03.441 --> 00:18:04.609
- But i it's just no, no no no no.
- 00:18:04.609 --> 00:18:07.078
- And that's unacceptable.
- 00:18:07.078 --> 00:18:10.348
- Well, former maine senate candidate
- 00:18:10.348 --> 00:18:12.150
- Graham plattner dropped out.
- 00:18:12.150 --> 00:18:14.386
- It's hard for me to tell whether he dropped out
- 00:18:14.386 --> 00:18:16.021
- Because of his obvious character weaknesses or because just.
- 00:18:16.021 --> 00:18:18.924
- I thought he wasn't going to win.
- 00:18:18.924 --> 00:18:20.992
- That's your arena. do you have a perspective?
- 00:18:20.992 --> 00:18:23.895
- Yeah.
- 00:18:24.129 --> 00:18:24.996
- Listen, i think i thought susan collins
- 00:18:24.996 --> 00:18:26.264
- Would have been him either way.
- 00:18:26.264 --> 00:18:27.299
- Remember,
- 00:18:27.299 --> 00:18:28.233
- They spent hundreds of millions of dollars
- 00:18:28.233 --> 00:18:29.334
- Over the last three elections to get get rid of her.
- 00:18:29.334 --> 00:18:32.404
- I think she won one race with 29 points and 22 points,
- 00:18:32.404 --> 00:18:35.874
- And then another one by
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- Nine points. there's no way
- 00:18:37.042 --> 00:18:38.710
- That she was going to lose to graham plattner.
- 00:18:38.710 --> 00:18:40.679
- And you know, she's got 10,000 straight votes.
- 00:18:40.679 --> 00:18:43.148
- She's the hardest working senator i've ever met
- 00:18:43.148 --> 00:18:45.917
- And very conscientious.
- 00:18:45.917 --> 00:18:47.586
- And you may not like her on several votes.
- 00:18:47.586 --> 00:18:49.921
- Well, that's the character of a good senator.
- 00:18:49.921 --> 00:18:52.090
- The fact that you don't like some of her votes,
- 00:18:52.090 --> 00:18:53.825
- Because she's doing the things
- 00:18:53.825 --> 00:18:55.093
- That she feels is correct or right or appropriate.
- 00:18:55.093 --> 00:18:58.997
- After doing all of our research
- 00:18:58.997 --> 00:19:00.498
- And making sure that she understands the issues.
- 00:19:00.498 --> 00:19:02.734
- That's what a senator is supposed to do.
- 00:19:02.734 --> 00:19:04.736
- Now, graham planner, he wanted the, you know,
- 00:19:04.736 --> 00:19:07.672
- Health care for all he wanted, you know, open borders.
- 00:19:08.707 --> 00:19:11.409
- He wanted sanctuary cities.
- 00:19:11.409 --> 00:19:12.711
- He wanted basically,
- 00:19:12.711 --> 00:19:14.379
- You know, as not to get rid of a nuclear weapon in iran.
- 00:19:14.379 --> 00:19:17.816
- You know, those are the types of things that he stood for.
- 00:19:17.816 --> 00:19:19.884
- And quite frankly,
- 00:19:19.884 --> 00:19:21.419
- A lot of people do now in maine, especially in the dsa,
- 00:19:21.419 --> 00:19:25.023
- That's what they're saying. so people have a real choice.
- 00:19:25.023 --> 00:19:27.692
- They can go out and fight that kind of craziness, or they can,
- 00:19:27.692 --> 00:19:31.062
- You know,
- 00:19:31.363 --> 00:19:32.530
- Get beside somebody behind somebody like susan collins
- 00:19:32.530 --> 00:19:34.799
- And others who, you know, have to have some sanity behind them.
- 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:39.104
- Well, one more quick question.
- 00:19:39.704 --> 00:19:40.939
- I know that you've coached varsity
- 00:19:40.939 --> 00:19:42.207
- Girls basketball for a good bit.
- 00:19:42.207 --> 00:19:44.576
- What's your opinion on the supreme court's recent
- 00:19:44.576 --> 00:19:46.411
- Ruling on keeping men out of women's sports?
- 00:19:46.411 --> 00:19:48.947
- Yeah.
- 00:19:48.947 --> 00:19:50.115
- Listen, i coach, this will be my fifth year coming up.
- 00:19:50.115 --> 00:19:51.516
- And, you know, we had an inkling that maybe there was a,
- 00:19:51.516 --> 00:19:55.687
- You know, somebody who was a boy playing against us.
- 00:19:55.687 --> 00:19:59.324
- But, you know, it's hard to hard to determine.
- 00:19:59.324 --> 00:20:00.859
- And i'm glad they did what they did. but i have to reread it.
- 00:20:00.859 --> 00:20:03.561
- I think they left it up to the states ultimately to do.
- 00:20:03.561 --> 00:20:05.997
- But, you know,
- 00:20:05.997 --> 00:20:07.899
- I'm hopeful, you know, like all these liberal states.
- 00:20:07.899 --> 00:20:10.168
- I'm hoping finally they just say, no, you can't.
- 00:20:10.168 --> 00:20:13.104
- Because i think what it did is it set the precedent.
- 00:20:13.104 --> 00:20:15.573
- So somebody in massachusetts or vermont
- 00:20:15.573 --> 00:20:18.410
- Or some of those other woke
- 00:20:18.410 --> 00:20:19.744
- States can actually go and say, hey, no more.
- 00:20:19.744 --> 00:20:22.847
- And then the supreme court case will back that up.
- 00:20:22.847 --> 00:20:25.283
- So it's about time.
- 00:20:25.283 --> 00:20:27.419
- I mean, you have chris pappas.
- 00:20:27.419 --> 00:20:28.620
- I'm running against here,
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- Men and boys and women and girls sports, the entire delegation.
- 00:20:29.854 --> 00:20:32.724
- Can you imagine being a grandfather, father
- 00:20:32.724 --> 00:20:35.260
- And your daughter and granddaughter
- 00:20:35.260 --> 00:20:36.528
- Have been training their whole lives,
- 00:20:36.528 --> 00:20:37.729
- And then they get crushed
- 00:20:37.729 --> 00:20:38.997
- In the finals and lose their scholarship
- 00:20:38.997 --> 00:20:41.132
- To some guy
- 00:20:41.132 --> 00:20:42.300
- Who basically is insecure and can't compete against boys
- 00:20:42.300 --> 00:20:45.737
- Or men.
- 00:20:45.737 --> 00:20:46.738
- Yeah. and what about the parents who are saying,
- 00:20:46.738 --> 00:20:48.807
- Oh my, my daughter? no, it's her son.
- 00:20:48.807 --> 00:20:51.476
- My daughter one no, no.
- 00:20:51.476 --> 00:20:53.445
- Your son basically crushed these poor young women's dreams.
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- And that's not right. that's not who we are as a country.
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- Well, scott, thank you for your time today.
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- Your insights are always helpful.
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- Ray. well, it's good to see everybody,
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- Everyone who want to help and go to scott brown.com
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- And have a great rest of the week and month.
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- All right.
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- In a moment we'll be back with your emails.
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- Thank you for taking the time to send your emails.
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- Your thoughts and opinions are always a highlight.
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- One the emailed i just saw where jacksonville, florida
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- Was hiring for the department of homeland security today,
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- And there are actually people out in front of that building
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- Protesting about ice, arresting innocent, illegal aliens.
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- Every illegal immigrant in this country is a criminal.
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- We give them driver's licenses to car insurance companies,
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- Actually give illegal aliens car insurance so they get a tag
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- To legally drive on roads or they didn't pay taxes to use.
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- Wanda, i think you got the heart of this.
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- If you're here illegally, you're a criminal.
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- Anything that starts with illegal
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- Doesn't end up in a good spot.
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- We need the national courage to fix the immigration issue.
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- We have a way to immigrate legally.
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- If we don't like it, let's change it.
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- But let's not encourage illegal behavior.
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- It promotes destruction.
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- Thanks for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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- God is moving in the earth.
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- Let's be a part. good night to.
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