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August 12, 2025 | 22:2

Rep. Warren Davidson joins Allen Jackson to discuss military repair.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Military Repair | Allen Jackson Now | August 12, 2025

Well,
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Good evening, and welcome to summer in nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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You know, there's rarely a day off for members of congress.
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They're either in washington or back home in their districts.
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Still working and listening to their constituents.
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There are plenty of issues on the local level town
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Halls with voters, meetings that happened face to face.
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Ohio republican warren davidson.
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He does it all.
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And you can tell by the issues he takes on as the chairman
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Of a powerful house subcommittee.
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Welcome back, congressman.
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Nice to join you. thank you.
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Well, it's refreshing
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To see what you're doing on behalf of the people of ohio.
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A lot of it would work nicely here in nashville as well.
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The right to fix your own car was the first one
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That caught my eye.
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Most people aren't aware, and i'm one of them,
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That car manufacturers have been
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Building their vehicles in such a way
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That only the dealers can fix them.
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It's a big, expensive problem for us, isn't it?
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Yeah, it's a big deal.
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And you know, the cars
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Collect a massive amount of information as well.
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So you're also protecting your right to access your own data,
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Frankly.
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And sometimes the carmakers
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Are monetizing that data, selling it everywhere.
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And then when you've got a, you know, a neighborhood,
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You know, community,
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Garage that repairs anything and everything, they're locked
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Out of the ability to do a lot of the service work.
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Well, is it true that this right to repair act
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Could also be applied to fixing military equipment
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At the base and in the field during deployment?
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Yeah, i was talking with the secretary of the army.
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Dan driscoll, about it.
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And, you know,
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They have contracts that, you know, the primes
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Are basically holding them captive for service contracts.
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So, you know,
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When you've got people forward deployed, they want to have,
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You know, these contractors, who come out and,
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Well, we
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Can't let the military fix it, but get it into a depot and more
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In the safety and comfort of wherever that depot may be.
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Do the repair.
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So the military has to absolutely
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Have the ability to repair their equipment.
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And, you know,
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They can work to design that into future contracts.
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And shame on them if they don't.
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But fundamentally, we should change the law.
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When you buy something, you should own it,
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Including the code necessary to provide the maintenance on.
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Well, i think it's worth pointing out that this repair
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Act bill has bipartisan support.
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But even with that, it hasn't gotten final approval.
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Tell us what happens when the lobbyists come in
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And stop the progress.
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How does that work?
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And what can our viewers learn about how to get things done
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When they want them done?
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Yeah, i mean, thanks for pointing that out.
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As you would imagine, you know, lobbyists
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For the original equipment manufacturers, carmakers,
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You know, ford, general motors, toyota, honda,
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John deere, take your place.
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General dynamics, lockheed martin.
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They all want to keep the system that they've got
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Because it generates a lot of revenue for them,
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And it gives them a lot of control.
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And when you want to pass legislation,
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What you find is it's like a, a lock
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And you have to click each tumbler
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So you can be right on policy,
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But you also have to get the politics right.
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And a big part of that is just making sure
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The public knows, hey, i really care about this.
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And they put pressure on their member of congress
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Because in the absence of that,
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The lobbyists are paying attention to it
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And they're getting on people's calendars.
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And you don't want to move this.
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And even when it has a lot of grassroots support,
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You know, a lot of times you'll get,
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Captain of the leadership and it will never make
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The agenda in the appropriate committee.
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Or even if it gets through that,
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Then it won't get a floor vote.
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And i was really stunned when i was talking
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With secretary of the army
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That, you know, i wouldn't agree with elizabeth warren
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On very many things at all, but she actually agrees on this.
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So there's an odd coalition here.
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And i do think that you look at
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How are consumers best protected?
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It's by having the ability to,
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You know, repair their own vehicles.
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And surely a lot of people
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Will still choose to use dealers,
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But the ability to use somebody else or do it themselves
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Is really fundamental.
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And i think this law needs to pass.
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With so many big businesses out there.
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You know,
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We often lose
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Track of the fact that it's
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Small business
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That employs almost half the working people in the country,
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According to the head of the small business administration.
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It just got a big boost.
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Listen to how kelly leffler put it.
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These small business provisions, including making the pass
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Through deduction permanent.
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Well, unleash main street, including adding a million jobs,
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$750 billion in economic growth,
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Not to mention what it does for working families.
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Well, tell us how the small businesses
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In your district of ohio will benefit.
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Well, look,
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I can tell you firsthand, i mean,
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I started a small business in 2002 and grew
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It acquired several others, and i was in manufacturing.
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And this is a huge deal.
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So, people think of different kinds of businesses and,
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You know, the
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Big ones are all publicly traded generally see corporations,
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But most businesses are closely held, small businesses.
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They might have,
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You know, a handful of shareholders
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Or often just one person or one family member that
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That operates them.
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So they're incorporated where it's tax
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Sometimes as ordinary income for the person.
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And being able to treat this in a way that you're not double
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Taxed at the corporate level on the individual levels,
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The huge alignment, for business.
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And this was first passed in the tax cutting jobs act in 2017.
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But it was set to expire.
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So it would have been a massive increase for small businesses
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If we didn't fix it.
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And some things that did expire that we were able to repair.
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You know, when you buy, assets, you know, equipment
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For your business, a machine,
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It it normally gets depreciated over a long period of time,
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And you've really partied with the cash.
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So what you'd like to do on a tax basis is treat it as if
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You expended the money this year,
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Because on a cash basis, you did spend the money this year.
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And that drives a massive amount of investment in our economy.
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When people can just,
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Instead of paying the irs, put it into equipment
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That helps grow the business.
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It does great things for our economy,
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And it does that on research and development as well.
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And the other one is interest.
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A lot of times banks want people to take out the loans,
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And so they like the idea that you can't really expense
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The interest, because it keeps you needing more money.
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But the reality is you've partied with the money,
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You're not paying yourself with it.
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You're paying the interest.
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You're paying for the research and development,
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Paying for the equipment.
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Those are all huge wins for small business.
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You know, and these topics, you seem to have a real advantage.
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Before you got to congress,
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You spent 15 years in the business world.
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We also have a president who spent
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Most of his career in business.
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Can you tell us what a difference
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That makes having a decision makers
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With real world experience before they get to washington?
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Well, i'll tell you, it just,
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You know,
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Sun in the front of a paycheck is a whole lot different
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Than signing the back of a check.
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And on the other side, when you're personally
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Guaranteeing the loans and the debt,
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I mean, you can't say a business owner isn't an optimist.
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They believe things are going to work out somehow,
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And you're confronting challenges.
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Day in and day out.
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I think people don't really realize
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How much burden business owners carry
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For the success of the business,
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Because there are a lot of families
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Dependent on that paycheck, and that opportunities.
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So, it really shapes everything you you do.
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And in my work on the financial services
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Committee, i've dealt with banks,
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You know, on the regulatory side, because i dealt with banks
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When i needed access to capital.
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And what we found is,
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You know, there were people in basel,
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Switzerland, coming up with rags
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That our bankers and our central bank
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And our bank regulators were forcing onto the market.
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And it was really changing the behavior of lenders.
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And so, you know, just having lived
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That experience is a whole lot different than having
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Studied it or read about it.
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Well, before we leave washington.
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President trump just announced a big effort
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To clean the place up and to stop the spreading crime.
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You see a lot of headlines about carjacking,
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Muggings and other crimes.
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Can you tell us how bad it is out on the streets these days?
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And whether you agree that it's time
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To bring in more law enforcement?
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Well, yeah.
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I mean, look, even in the most basic
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Libertarian formulation
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Of don't hurt people and don't take their stuff.
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Someone has to enforce the law, right?
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Because, you know, if all men were angels,
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We wouldn't even need a government.
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But they're not.
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Ever since cain and abel,
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People have had a hard time
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Living with the don't hurt people mandate.
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So someone has to enforce the law.
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And in dc they haven't been doing it.
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And you've got out of control crime.
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You've got teenagers roving in gangs,
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Assaulting people, stealing cars.
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I have had, you know, i've got a staff of about 15 people.
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I've had two staffers who've had their car stolen,
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And a third
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Who was had his car broken into and, cut on the neck
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By someone threatening to do far more to him.
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Just to get away with stealing.
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So, one of my colleagues had an intern shot in northwest
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Dc just this summer.
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So, the crime is out of control there.
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It's not just, you know, near capitol hill.
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It's scattered throughout the city,
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And they're not enforcing the law.
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And look, it's hard to understand
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How they wouldn't do this,
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But i think for some of them, they want
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The discord that comes from
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Not enforcing the law more than they want.
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Order.
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And for the nation's capital,
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At least, that can't be an option.
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Well, congressman, we'd like you to stay for another segment.
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There is a lot more to discuss.
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And for those of you
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Watching, you can jump in now at aj now.com.
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Share your thoughts about our discussion
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Is on the upper right side of the homepage.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with congressman warren davidson.
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He represents ohio's eighth district.
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It's not just an
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Elected member of congress, but a successful businessman
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And a man who served his country
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In the 101st airborne division.
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That's not far from where i'm seated right now in nashville.
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And now he's brought his common sense
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Experience to washington, for which we are all benefiting.
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There's a big issue that surfaced with banks
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That you're trying to fix.
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Certain big banks
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Have been discriminating against people and businesses
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Not because of their assets, but for political reasons.
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Well,
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That includes
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President trump,
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The first lady, and many other political targets.
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They've been debunked, as it's called.
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Well, for senator tim scott, it brings back
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Bad memories of when banks chose their customers by race.
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Listen to how he put it.
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This is like the modern day redlining.
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You remember the redlining of black and white back in the day.
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Now redlining is red and blue.
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Think about the first iteration that we saw.
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It was the gun manufacturers that we won't thank you anymore.
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Oil and gas. we won't bank you.
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And then they moved to the trumps.
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They found themselves in disfavor with the left.
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These elitists who believe they should decide
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Who gets access to our financial institutions.
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You're on the financial services committee.
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So how are you trying to address this?
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Yeah, well, this was called first operation
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Choke point back in, the obama administration.
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And it did apply to gunmakers and others
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That essentially the obama enemies list was targeted.
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And then under the biden administration, they,
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You know, did the same kind of targeting
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Pro-life catholics or the trump family or
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If you crypto industry was broadly targeted.
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And so, essentially, as senator scott was saying, it's
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It's just a modern version of
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You're not going to bank those people, are you?
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In the of course, there's those people.
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Is is really just the the common denominator
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Is it's a political enemies list.
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And democrats have done this for a long time.
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Republicans are working on legislation to end the ability
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For choke point style regulations to happen.
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And part of
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That is just the massive power
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Of the bank regulators hold over banks.
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It's coercive in that nature.
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But on the other hand,
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Some banks are voluntarily doing this.
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Bank of america,
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Had a request from a federal government,
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But not a mandate,
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Not a subpoena or a warrant or anything.
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They just gave over all the bank records of anybody that made
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A purchase in dc, near january 6 to 2021.
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And then they further filtered that data to say,
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Let us tell you who bought, you know, a religious text
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Like a bible or guns or ammunition and, you know,
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They didn't have a warrant or a subpoena to do this.
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I don't think a judge would have given it
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Because it was massive and sweeping in its scope.
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And so this is all done under the auspices
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Of the bank secrecy act.
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And we urgently need to reform it.
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So we've,
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As you would imagine it, it breaks down on party lines
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Whether you really want to reform this.
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And then
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Republicans are a little divided in terms
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Of how far to go on reining it in.
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But you can't deny it that it's happening.
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Well, congressman, here's
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Another issue that i'm sure matters
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A great deal to the folks back home.
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It's called the payment choice act.
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It's another bipartisan effort that would require retailers
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To accept cash payments for anything $500 or less.
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Some people never want to use a credit card.
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And it's a problem
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That affects not just shoppers, but small businesses too.
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Will you tell us what you're doing
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To try to get something done with this?
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Well, kudos to john rose, who's a nashville area guy.
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You know, tennessee guy in the house,
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And he's leading this bill right now.
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We've worked together with
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A coalition of republicans and democrats to get this done.
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And, look,
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All of our money on it says legal tender
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For all debts, public and private.
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You ought to be able to hand
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Cash to somebody for anything for a retail transaction.
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And okay. fair enough.
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If you want to buy a, $70,000 f150,
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You know, people might look at you
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A little funny if you were handing over,
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That kind of some cash.
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But if you go back when they first said in the kind
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Of $10,000 surveillance limit on cash transactions,
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That would be $82,000 in today's money
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If you adjusted it for inflation.
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So since then, they've had this war on cash where, you know,
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Even in a lot of places, you can't even use it.
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I mean, i love watching, you know, the reds and the bangles,
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But at their stadiums you have to use a credit card.
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And so, you know, the idea
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That you want a hand, you know, you're
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On a $20 bill and have him go get a hotdog in a coke.
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You can't do it.
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You don't necessarily want kids
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Running around with credit cards.
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So you should be able to use cash.
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And when you use cash, it's really
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Just between you and the person you pay.
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So this is one of the things that a lot of the big government
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People, whether the republicans or democrats
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Like, is when you use a, any other means of payment,
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It creates a record and it can be audited and surveilled.
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And so who spent this money?
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Well, if it's cash, it's hard to say
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Who spent it and what they spent it on.
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But if it's a credit card transaction,
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There's a record of exactly who bought what from whom.
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And, a lot of people say, well, that just keeps us safe.
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But when you take it to the next level,
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It really can become a tool for coercion and control,
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Because it definitely can be used for surveillance.
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Well, one last quick question.
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What do you think is on the horizon with russia and putin?
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Well, i hope he's you know, president trump's been
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Very clear that his objective is to restore peace,
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To stop people from dying in a war
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That shouldn't have occurred in the first place.
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And so, you know, president biden, really had no mission.
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He just said, as much as it takes,
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As long as it takes, which isn't defining what success is.
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To them, success was as much as it takes.
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Keep spending the money and keep the war going.
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In a lot of ways,
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They wouldn't even engage in dialog with russia.
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And i don't know how you broker a peace
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When you won't sit down and talk to the parties
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That are at war.
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And so i think president trump has a shot at doing that.
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Putin,
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Not a good guy, but i will say, i don't think zelensky's
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A great guy either.
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So hopefully for the sake of the people that are dying,
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The leaders that are leading this war, agree to stop and
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We'll.
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Well, congressman davidson, thank you for your time today
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And for giving us up to speed on a number of issues.
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It will benefit quite a few people.
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We appreciate your time.
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Yeah. thanks for talking with me.
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God bless you and all your listeners and viewers.
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Well, in a moment,
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Some reasons for hope in a busy season of change.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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You know, i've used this
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Reference before regarding the theater of the absurd.
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We've watched lots of releases from that theater of the absurd
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And the hits just keep coming.
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The same voices that said trump is an existential threat
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Are now encouraging violence against ice officers,
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Even associating our fine men and women in law enforcement
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With members of nazi germany.
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These are the same influential
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Voices who condemned the january 6th violence
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That didn't say a word when the attacks
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On tesla dealerships and vehicles were happening.
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That's anarchy.
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Well, now we find out that even
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The largest financial institutions in our nation,
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Corporations that are celebrated as trophies of capitalism,
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Were canceling relationships, deep banking accounts,
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Discriminating against certain people
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And businesses for political reasons.
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Well, back
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In 2021, in the aftermath of january 6th,
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A bank closed in president trump's personal accounts,
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Which contain millions of dollars.
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The bank
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Also publicly called for him to resign from office, citing
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It was a quote in the best interest
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Of our nation and the american people.
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Why does this matter?
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Well, if financial institutions didn't even hesitate
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To go after the sitting president of the united states,
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It's easy to envision a scenario where we, as christ
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Followers might be targeted just for our biblical worldview.
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Now, i'm grateful that the current administration
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Has shined a light on this deep banking problem.
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But i want to stress the solution to society's ills.
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They're not political.
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I've talked to church leaders across the country,
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And i've heard this repeatedly,
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That there's a lethargy that has come to our nation.
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There's been a greater appetite for entertainment
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And a much lesser appetite for engagement.
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We as christians have to repent for sitting on our recliner
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With our robe on saying, go, team!
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It's time for a different attitude
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And a time for a different response.
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We'll do that.
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I promise you, there are reasons for hope.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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If you ever missed a show, just a reminder.
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You can find them all.
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They're archived at aj now.
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Dot com makes them easy to share with a friend.
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The extra emails are always a highlight.
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Sophia, from broad channel, new york said i'm so grateful for
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Pastor allen s brave biblical proclamations and perspective.
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We need it.
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We've all gone down
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The road of quieting down and going along to get along.
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Pastor allen has been helping me refocus on not being silenced.
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Hopefully now
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At my current age, more wisely because christ has to be first.
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Well, amen to being more wise with our responses, sophia.
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The lord will help us.
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And if you are on facebook noted, your video messages
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Have motivated me to speak up myself.
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Never been politically involved.
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But we're in a different place right now.
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I believe a lot of people feel the same way.
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I don't think we have the luxury of being quiet anymore.
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It's time for us to speak up and give our brave
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President the support he deserves.
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He's risking his life.
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And we saw proof of that with our own eyes
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To pull back the curtain on our fraudulent government.
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The very least we can do is support him.
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You know, as unsettling as the fraud and the deception
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Has been,
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I believe there's a note of hope in the midst of that.
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Once we see the reality of our condition,
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Then we can begin to navigate towards
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A better place without a good diagnosis.
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You can't make the adjustment to get healthier.
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I believe god's moving.
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Then gail d from washington emailed,
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How do we persuade
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Those who listen and believe the fake media
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To watch and listen to the true narrative?
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Well, i've got a bias on this one.
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I think it starts in our hearts.
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So i want to share the good news of my faith with them.
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I think if we have a hard change,
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Then we'll have a completely
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Different recognition of what the truth is.
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I want to thank you all for taking a few minutes
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Of your day and spending them with us,
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You know, together, being advocates for the truth.
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I truly believe
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There are more reasons for hope than there are for despair.
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I'm alan jackson, and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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