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This is on Daunted Life. A man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into
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it. Alright, welcome back to From the Senate with Mark Wayne Mullen. Now Mark Wayne, I
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was going to make fun of you for how you've been threatening me that you've been trying
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to wear my uniform. You were going to wear my uniform on one of these interviews. Did
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you just freeze up? You just froze up. Is that me or is that? I got you. I still got
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you. Are you in the Senate basement? I know you don't have the best Wi-Fi. No, I actually
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have a full Wi-Fi, but you're cutting out. You keep freezing up on me. Well, you were
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in the middle of trying to give me crap, I think? Yeah, well, I was. I was giving you
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crap about your uniform. I was going to steal it from you because you stole the beard. But
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I actually have a V-neck black T-shirt that if I wasn't stuck in my office here in DC,
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I have it literally laying on my bed at my house about three blocks away, but were in
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the middle of a vote series and I couldn't change. Otherwise, I was going to put that
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sucker on. You know what? That sounds like an excuse. I'm not a big guy for excuses,
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but you know what? I will forgive it this one time because that sir is a fantastic full
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Windsor knot. Guys, if you're not watching this on YouTube or Rumble, this guy knows
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how to tie a tie tie. It's not a clip on, is it? No, heck no. It's not a clip on. Come
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on, man. Very good. Okay. All right. So speaking address code, how's that for a segue? So
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apparently, lurch from the Adams family gets special treatment in the United States Senate.
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Now this is John Federman, Democrat from the state of Pennsylvania. So that's kind of been
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making the rounds. There's all these problems going on in America right now, but every news
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story is about the United States Senate changing its dress code because a guy wants to dress
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like a homeless person. Can you please tell me what in the world's going on? That's true.
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Everything you're saying is accurate. Federman, listen, first of all, I'm not a big formal
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person at all. I didn't even own a tie until I knew I was going to win my election for the
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House back in 2013. It just wasn't something I did. I didn't know how to tie a tie. I had
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to learn how to tie this tie. So I did not want to wear a suit. I'm the most casual dresser
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you'll ever find. But you do have to, you do have to have respect for the position. And
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I'll just share this with you. I was complaining one time up here with a group of people. I
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was a guest speaker as early 2013. And it's like complaining of the fact that I had to
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wear a tie. I said, you know, this thing does nothing but, but choke the oxygen off the
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brain to, and that could be part of the problem here in DC. And, and he, he, he let me hear,
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he let me rant for a little bit. And the guy stopped me as an older guy. And he was down
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there. And he said, sir, and I said, just Mark Wayne, he says, no, I, I call you sir
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out of respect for the position and the office you hold. He said, I wore this suit out of
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respect for you today. Not because I like it, because out of respect. And I said there
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and I thought, yeah, that's kicking the pants. And so you, one, you were not a respect for
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the position. Two, no one asked Federman or made Federman run for this position. He chose
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to run for this position. If he doesn't want, there's a thing called he can resign. Because
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there is a certain amount of respect you should hold. I mean, people respect certain things.
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You wouldn't want your surgeon to be walking into the, to the surgical room. We're in, we're
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in hoodies dirty t, dirty dirty t shirt underneath it. And, and, and baggy shorts with, with running
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shoes on saying, Hey, we're about ready to do, you know, open art surgery on you. You
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don't, you don't, you want them to look professional. You want those that individual to be to, to
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represent them well, because they're about to hold their life in your hand. And, and, and
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so there is a, they're in that saying still number three, is that saying, dress the part.
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Yeah. You, you need to dress the part beat. If you want to show up for a, for a desk job,
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on a high rise building, you probably should dress professional like that. And by the way,
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if you have tattoos on your neck, you might want to cover those things up. And, and not
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that I'm against tattoos. I'm not, I'm not exactly tattoo free, but I don't go around
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flauntin them all the time. Um, you know, a guy that tattoos his face and tattoos his
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head, ah, his career path is probably a little bit more narrow. That's his choice. That's
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what he chose to do. But Federman chose to serve up here. And for us to change the policy
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just because of him, because he doesn't feel comfortable wearing a, wearing a hoodie and
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a, and, and, or he doesn't work comfortable wearing a suit. He wants to wear a hoodie
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and, and, and gym shorts. Fine. Guess what you don't have to do. You don't have to come
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to the floor. You can still vote because there's days that I'm flying in. If you ever catch
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me flying, I'm not wearing a suit. I usually have a t-shirt on and during the winter, I
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have a t-shirt with a jacket on. Um, sometimes I have a ball cap on and sometimes your flights
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get delayed. Any of us has flown lately. We understand flights are getting delayed all
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the time now. And so, um, I may have to come straight from the airport straight to that,
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to the, to the chamber to vote. And when I do that, I just simply stand at the door.
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I never walk onto the floor. I just stand at the door and I'll do a thumbs up or a thumbs
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down on my vote. And so nothing prevents him from, from voting. It just prevents him from
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coming to the house floor. And, and for Schumer to do this, I can tell you that even Democrats
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are up in arms by it. I mean, absolutely up in arms by it. Well, I mean, it's a, it's
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kind of an eye roll moment, but you did give me an idea for a tattoo for you. What about
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like a ball, the eagle right on your throat? Like, can you imagine like going into a debate
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or something like that or like a Senate hearing? Yes. And then when I, when I get like, when
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I get mad and I'll do like this, like, you know, the wing spread or maybe the talents
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go out like they can pop out like this. That'd be right. Yeah. Cause like if people don't,
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the people in public don't see your ears, they're going to think maybe I can get over
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one on this guy, but nobody fights. Nobody fights somebody with a throat tattoo. That's
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just somebody that you don't mess with. But let's, let's get into something a little bit.
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I'll probably agree with you because man, that's tender when I shave down there, much
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less getting the tattoo. Yeah. I've got about 50 hours of tattoo work, but it's not coming
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anywhere near my throat. I'm with you on that. So I want to transition to something that's
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less fun to talk about, but still at least newsworthy. So house majority leader, Kevin
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McCarthy has come out and officially announced an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. You
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would not think that he would announce this inquiry without knowing, kind of having an
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idea where the house would vote on such a thing. Obviously you used to be in that chamber.
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Now you're in the United States Senate, which will have kind of the finals say on this,
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but just give me your read on the inquiry. The evidence that has been seen up to this
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point. Again, the odds of him being convicted in the Senate are essentially zero, even regardless
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of what evidence they find, but what's your read on it right now? Well, let me give you
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the read on it and then tell you what led up to it and then tell you the procedures for
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your listeners what actually takes place. Right. And so the impeachment inquiry, which
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your pronounceant right, because most people say impeachment inquiry, but impeachment
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inquiry is would never have taken place. It would have never taken place yet. If simply
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the Biden family and administration will be transparent with the, with the committees
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that have oversight of this, for instance, ways and means because the IRS with the blurs
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just came through that raised serious questions that we need answers to. We have oversight
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committee that's doing the oversight of it. And we have judiciary, which is looking into
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why these charges were being held up inside the DOJ. And there's, there's a lot of information
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that the Biden family, because the personal bank records so far, there's nine, nine different
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family members that were benefiting from shell companies that were getting money sent
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to him from foreign companies that a lot of times Biden had just left there when he was
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vice president. And so there's a, there's a lot of questions. What was happening was
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is that they were coming through redacted, meaning they would sometimes just give a cover
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sheet and then everything else would be redacted, for instance, financial records, or they just
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pleaded privilege motion where they wouldn't bring it in. What the impeachment inquiry
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does is it prevents them from mowing to it because if they do do that, we'll simply take
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it to a judge and say, Hey, there is an official impeachment inquiry into this individual.
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And we, we're doing our constitutional duties, remember, meaning that we're well within our
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authority. Therefore, they have to release it. And the judge cannot, even if he was appointed
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by Biden, cannot obstruct that because we have the right to do it. So it keeps that
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information flowing. If they can get the information right, then they can move in, then they go
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from the impeachment inquiry into the impeachment process to which they'll move that direction.
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The question is, is what he has done is it impeachable? Remember that threshold is very
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high. It has to be a treason, high crime, misdemeanor, or bribery. Those are the four
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things that they can be impeached from. The other question that you have to ask yourself,
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is it impeachable to be impeached from a current position he's holding if the crime or the situation
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took place, why he was in a different position? I actually, I actually believe that the for
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it order for him to be impeached in the current position he's in as President of the United
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States, that the offense has to take place in his current position. Now, the Constitution
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isn't really sound on that. So we have, we're bringing in counsel to kind of give us a reading.
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So it's my opinion right now though, is things that happen, why he was vice president, things
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that happened while he was out of the office, isn't necessarily impeachable. Now, that doesn't
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mean that what he did as a vice president, and then in the private sector, didn't lead
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to something that he's done as president. So there could be decision making that he made
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that led to this, that there's an email that traces all the way through it. Remember there's
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54, 54 different, there's 50, let me see, there's 54, let me get this right. I'm thinking I may
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be wrong on this, but I think there is, there's a lot of emails I can't remember the number
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route they had, but there was 54 different suit names that he used to identify himself
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in different emails why he was vice president, that the National Archives have already, has
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already identified out of, I forget how many thousands of emails it was, which means he
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obviously was trying to hide something. So, so let's just get all, get past that high
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threshold, very high threshold. One thing that I have told my colleagues on the other
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side, or on the other side of the Capitol and the House still, which are good friends
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of mine, is whatever you do, don't play politics with impeachment, make sure we follow the
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Constitution and whatever you send over, then make sure it's impeachable. Make the Democrats
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played politics with it. And that's why Trump could never get impeached in the Senate. That's
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why they actually didn't hardly even send any time. I mean, the, the, the, the impeachment
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ended about the same time the trial began. I mean, or the hearing ended about the same
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time again, it was just thrown out because that a very weak case. Because once they send
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over the articles on impeachment to the Senate, what immediately takes place is that we as
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senators become the jurors. So now we're just setting listening and the House has to present
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their case. So they basically become the prosecuting attorney. And then the, the president will
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have to have his defense team together. And they, and then we, all hundred of us are the
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jurors. And it's two thirds to convict. So it takes 67 of us to convicting. If they send
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over strong, clear evidence, it's going to be very hard for some of these senators not
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to vote on it. It'll be very, very hard because your mind, remember, this whole thing will
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be televised. And, uh, in the information that I have seen that the House already has,
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it's, it's, um, it's definitely, if he would have been vice president, we would have got
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this information. We could have probably removed him from office. And so now it's just a matter
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of, like I said, what he did as vice president, unless it follows him to the White House,
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uh, I don't know if that's actually mutual. Well, and it seems like there are multiple
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potential constitutional crises on the horizon because this could be happening certainly before
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the general election in 2024. Donald Trump could potentially be convicted and sentenced
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to prison before the election in 2024. And so it's kind of hard to really spit ball about
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that now because these things still have to play out. They have their, they're both going
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to get their days in court as it were. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's fun to play the what ifs.
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I just appreciate you explaining that process in such detail because most people don't even
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know we have a house and a Senate and that they're different, much less knowing the processes
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that happen from one to the other. But speaking, I have teachers all the time that tell me
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they're going to come to the Capitol, Oklahoma City and come see me. Yeah. It literally happened
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this weekend. Someone announced they're running for state Senate and, uh, and I got a, I got
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an email from a teacher saying, is this person running against you? Hey, literally yesterday,
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a good, we'll call him a good friend of mine. They literally mentioned, Hey, I know somebody
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that's running for the US Senate in Oklahoma. And I'm like, I'm pretty sure one guy just
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got elected. And I think the other guys pretty well entrenched like who's running for US Senate.
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Are they, are they trying to primary James Langford? And what it ended up being is this
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person is running for city council, the city that they live in. And I was like, guys, guys,
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you've got to pay attention to the thread. Okay. Yeah. Like I can help you through this,
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but not if you keep acting dumb. But, uh, speaking of Trump and speaking to some of the
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things, obviously he's on the campaign trail. We don't necessarily need to talk about that
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aspect. But there was something that came up on an interview that he did with Meet the
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Press over the weekend where he was pressed on the interview about his ideas on a federal
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abortion ban. So the actual quote was this. Trump said this to Sanctus is willing to sign
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a five week or six week ban. And the interviewer said, would you support that? Do you think
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that goes too far? And Trump said something that, that I believe is egregious. He said,
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I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake. So Trump people, I kind
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of his spin team has come out and said, no, no, no, he's saying that that's, that's not
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good for the national electorate. Like what's working in Florida can't work across the country.
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It's different. But again, he said, it's a terrible thing and a terrible mistake. Now
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you were one of his first most prominent people to come out and endorse him before anyone
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else had even gotten into the race. Maybe just him and Nikki Haley. So when you hear him
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say something like that on the campaign trail, uh, I guess what are your thoughts on that?
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Like what do you think he meant? And how do you think the public should respond? I don't,
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I haven't heard anything about it. Uh, so as first I've heard about it, so it's obviously
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not a big deal up here. Uh, I, uh, I have a hard time actually understanding what he
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was meaning, but maybe he was talking specifically about the States as belongs in the States
16:19
hands. There's a whole lot of maybe he didn't think it was maybe he doesn't think there should
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be a, um, a time length on the ban that it should be banned completely. I don't know. There's
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a whole lot of outcomes of that. So I would just say that he would have to clarify that
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himself. But if I were to guess, I would probably say he would, he would lean towards the fact
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that this belongs in the States right now. Okay. So let, let's put Donald Trump aside
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for a second. So just for you individually. So obviously in the state of Oklahoma, we
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have some of the most conservative pro life laws that are on the books in any state in
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the union. So, but from a, a federal point of view, obviously being a federal United States
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representative of the state of Oklahoma. Is there any pro life legislation that you wouldn't
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support or wouldn't get behind? Is there, is there any conceivable thing on the federal
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level? I guess just tell me on the federal level, what you have a stomach for. Well,
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I listen, my fight is a safer baby. I can, um, you know, I tell people everybody, every
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child has a right, uh, to be loved by somebody. And you know, my family history, we have, you
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know, three biological kids and, and, uh, and three adopted kids. Uh, and I truly love
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those kids all the same. There is no difference between any of them. The, and, and I honestly,
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I think God that the, that the biological mothers gave me an opportunity to love these
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kids. They could have easily boarded them, but they, they chose to take the harder path
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probably and, and had the child and then, and then Chris and I get this opportunity. So
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I'll be fighting for life always. I mean, babies and thank God we live in Oklahoma and
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we're saving babies every single day in Oklahoma, but a baby in California and a baby in Massachusetts
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is just as important to me to fight for them. The same. Okay. Very good. Well, I know you
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got a busy schedule today because you're wearing your fancy suit. Now I got one more
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question. Okay. How exactly is it possible that the United States military lost an F 35?
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Now before you answer that, obviously people saw pilot had to eject. It was on autopilot.
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So what the hell was he doing before he ejected to where he had to, you know, go all go crazy
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and ended up in some trees somewhere. But this plane, right over the lifetime of this plane,
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it costs the American taxpayer $1.2 trillion. And for a couple of days, the United States
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military is asking the public, Hey, have y'all seen a fighter jet laying around anywhere?
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Has it landed in your shed? Has it hit your cattle? Like, how exactly does this happen?
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We're asking that question to actually, I'm on seminar services. Right. That's why I asked
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and we are about to go into a briefing on this. That'll be that'll be a briefing I'll
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have. I have to this evening. It'll be classified because that's been a huge topic of us when
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we have our allies that are wanting to buy the F 35. It's the recovery of the F 35 is
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the biggest sticking point because the sensitive technology that we have the most it is absolutely
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the most advanced fighter out there. And the technology cannot fall in the hands of our
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adversaries. We the thing that prevents us from selling it to some of our true allies
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is the fact that they don't have the ability to recover it when it goes down or destroy
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it. Right. I mean, just because it crashes doesn't mean it's destroyed completely, just
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either recover or destroy, meaning that we got to get guys down there ASAP and blow the
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thing up or get it out. And the fact that we lost one, we lost it is inexcusable. So we
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will have that. I don't know if I ever get a share with you what happened, but we have
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already started the oversight of it. Well, don't worry. I'll cut this part out, but you
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can just text me. You know, I know it's classified. It's just kind of like, you know, but that's
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just details like obviously that's just paper. Yeah, I'm sure my phone isn't act. Yeah, that's
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okay. Like it's just paper anyway. Like no one's going to know. Just let me know what
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happened if I accidentally talk about it on the show? It's not your fault. How did I get
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this information? No one knows. But hey, I know you got a busy day ahead of you. I appreciate
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you coming back on. We'll talk to you again here soon. All right. See you brother. Take
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