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Hello again, KCIW listeners, and welcome to Curry

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Cafe. A few tech,

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issues today, but we're gonna get going. I'm

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volunteer Rick McNamer.

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Every Sunday from three to four, your host,

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Ray Gary, and I put together a panel

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of guests to discuss topics of interest in

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our community.

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Listeners can participate

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by texting in questions or comments to (541)

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Again, that's (541)

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since we're a little late, we're gonna get

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going here. So, Ray, you can tell us

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about what's going on today. Here we Yeah.

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Yeah. Well, as far as what's going on,

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Our main engineer is out sick, and we're

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kinda fuddling through trying to make all the

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connections between here and Washington or whoever we're

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talking to. And, we have one guest here

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in the studio, and I'll let him introduce

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himself in a moment, and then he can

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introduce our next guest.

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So Great.

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Take it away. Take it away, Brent. You're

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on. Thanks for having me in the studio

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today. I'm Brett Cecil from Port Orford.

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I've also just by chance happened to be

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running for House District 1 in our Oregon

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state house

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currently. And we are here so that we

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can speak with our US representative,

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Val Hoyle, and she's on the line

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to visit with us now. So, Rick, I'm

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gonna toss it back to you. Okay. Congresswoman

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Val Hoyle, thank you for joining us. And

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if you would kinda come on in and

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tell us about yourself and what all the

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stuff we're gonna talk about today.

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So first of all, thank thank you for

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having me

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on your show,

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especially with Brett. He's a a long time

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good friend,

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and,

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I am in DC.

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There's a lot going on.

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Oh, man. We know so. Yeah. That's an

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understatement. It's hard to even know where to

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start,

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but we're trying to make sure that we're

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both doing the job of serving the community

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while

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standing up and speaking out for the best

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interest of the people in the 4th Congressional

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District.

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Most of my colleagues

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come from places that are all red or

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all blue, and that is not the 4th

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Congressional District.

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It goes from Lincoln County. It's all of

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Benton County, Lane County,

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half of Douglas from the coast through Roseburg,

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all of Coos and all of Curry County.

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So, you know, if the if the large

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district is politically diverse,

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there are four,

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native tribes

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in the district and a third of the

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members of two other tribes

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as well. So,

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working with tribal

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tribal nations is is a big part of

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what we do.

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But, you know, I just try and focus

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on being practical.

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right now, what I see is that we're

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spending $2,000,000,000

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a day

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in a foreign war

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with no

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plan for an end, putting Americans in danger.

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that is my biggest

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my biggest concern right now. I mean, we're

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blowing our deficit up. And and, again,

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Congress Congress

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has the constitutional authority

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to declare war, and I will tell you

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that the junior junior people at Fox News

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knew that we were gonna go and attack

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Iran

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before I, as a member of Congress, knew,

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and that's wrong.

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The week that that we went into Iraq,

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Mike Johnson canceled

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the,

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and homeland security

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committee hearings.

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I don't know why my colleagues want

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to give away the power that the constitution,

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gave to congress, but this is what I'm

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here trying to fight for.

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Well and thank you. That was one of

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my big questions, and I'm gonna give just

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a tiny disclaimer

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disclaimer about me. I happen to be the

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lone Californian here. I live just across the

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border,

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but I spend

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many, many days and hours up here at

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Southern Oregon. We've met with him very carefully

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before we were allowed in the company across

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allowed me on the station.

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But, like yeah. Agree. And congresswoman, you answered

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my one of my biggest questions about that.

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war

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is,

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not only wrong, but pretty crazy on what

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we're doing. And I think it's unpopular across

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the political realm. Across the world. And the

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world. Hello. It is well, across the world,

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we are,

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the president is ignoring ignoring

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our our NATO allies.

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I met with some Canadians this week. I

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I I have family that live in in

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Europe, and they are

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I mean, they're appalled. They're afraid. They

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are saying, what is your president doing? And

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the fact of the matter is I did

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not agree

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when we went into Iraq,

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but that administration

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spent over a year

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preparing for it, you know,

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trying to build up a a reason for

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going into going into Iraq. Again, it didn't

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turn out well. We lost

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American lives.

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But this, there was no preparation.

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We've used three years' worth of missiles,

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right, in two weeks,

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and we're putting American lives on the line.

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And when we put boots on the ground

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and it's, you know, our kids that are

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filling those boots,

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I think we have to be very, very

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careful. And this does not seem to be

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well thought out, and we're putting Americans

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very much in danger.

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Well, I'm wondering if, if Barron is considering,

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putting a couple of years in the military.

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He'd be the first Trump to have been

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in the military. He's not. Yeah. I'm not.

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He is not. They're they're saying it's because

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he's five nine.

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You know He couldn't he couldn't be accepted.

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Not Donald Trump's kids going in. Yeah. No.

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That's all I'm saying. No.

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And and you're so right about the it

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is apples and well, that's the right thing

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to say, but the to the Iraq and

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it's Iran, Iraq and Iran. I mean, even

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I was way back there was kinda believing

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that,

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there were weapons of mass destruction there for

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a while until

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it proved out to be not true at

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all. And by then, the damage was done.

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And this thing came on like gangbusters, boy.

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I'll just like within a day, we were

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we were there.

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Do you see And and, again, we are

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at we are at war, and we still

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have the the president has not come to

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congress. Now they're asking for $200,000,000,000,

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right, after we blew a $4,000,000,000,000

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hole in the budget with the Republican budget

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bill last last year.

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So $200,000,000,000

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for what?

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There's there's an old we can continue another

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endless war abroad?

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I can't vote for that. There's there's an

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old song by Gil Scott Heron. I don't

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know how many of you are familiar with

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called Whitey on the Moon.

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And, basically, he's a guy, in the story

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living in a a ghetto.

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his sister

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just got bit by a rat. She they

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can't pay doctor bills.

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Arms and necks begins as well, and why

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he's on the moon.

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The priorities? The pri yeah. Exactly. Yes. Well

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no. And it boy, it's just not a

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laughing matter. It it's we're in a scary

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place. And not only, congresswoman, you you talked

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about how he has the Trump administration

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has

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alienated

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our allies and friends

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and seems to

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maybe Xi from China a little bit over

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all of this.

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invade Taiwan.

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there you know, Russia

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is now that everyone is distracted

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is going full bore in Ukraine.

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and people might say, why are we spending

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money taking care of people in Africa or

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these other countries? Well, that gives us

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soft power. Right? I believe.

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yeah, we we took that money out, and

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China is going in and developing those relationships

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with those countries. I mean,

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what what I I talk to people, business

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you know, in Oregon, in my district,

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coming in and the the we're we're an

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export dependent state,

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abroad are buying less American things. Like, let's

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just go to our wine industry.

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of the wines that we sell

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because we alienated

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our allies.

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on making sure people have access to health

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care, on bringing manufacturing

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you know, addressing the needs of the American

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people. We have a president that was elected,

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and I talked to a lot of very

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who've voted for Trump. And they said they

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voted for Trump because he would put America

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first, and they don't understand

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why he's blowing apart the budget

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and invading other countries,

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that was not part of what they voted

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are on the quote quote inside,

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do you get a feeling or a sense

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that there's really a lot more,

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not how support

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for I should say non support for what

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the Trump administration is doing? Because it's really

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some pretty crazy stuff. But and if you

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do see that, are they why are they

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not speaking out more?

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Well, I don't know. There's some people that

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that are. We've got, of course, Thomas Massie,

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right, where I might disagree with him, but

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he isn't he is a he is a

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man of principle. And, you know, part of

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that is,

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you know, not busting the budget.

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Don Bacon and a number of other

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Republicans have spoken up. We have Republicans that

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spoke up against the erratic care tariff policy,

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and Donald Trump came in and supported their

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primary opponents because what he wants from congress

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is for this body

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to be, number one,

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only responsive to Republican needs, and we represent

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almost half the population.

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That isn't right or fair. And number two,

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to the,

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the Duma, just a a checkboxing

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a a checkbox institution that gives the executive

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branch

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what they want, and that is not our

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job.

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Our job as a separate and equal branch

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of government is to add checks and balances.

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It's the judiciary,

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the legislative branch, and the executive.

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And, you know, I I'm very frustrated with

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my colleagues, with Mike Johnson in particular,

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for not carrying out the duty

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outlined in the constitution that they took an

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oath to. The other thing that I've been

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talking to people about is the

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is the rising gas prices.

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Right? We we've got, you know, barrel the

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oil prices, gas prices are going through the

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roof. And because

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of the blockade in the Strait Of Hormuz,

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we're not gonna see them come down anytime

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quick.

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This was I think the president thought that

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going into Iran

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would be like Venezuela,

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which, you know, going into any sovereign countries.

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I'm not gonna I I I certainly will

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not speak up for Nicolas Maduro. He's a

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horrible

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fervor dictator.

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But invading another country

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just because,

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you know, we we want to do some

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manifest destiny thing and thinking going into Iran

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where with the kind of

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sophisticated

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tariff cells that they have with their ability

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to shut down the Strait Of Hormuz, which

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so many goods come through and the fact

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that we're not getting oil, Americans are going

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to be paying the price.

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And, you know, they're they're already seeing it.

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I don't see this ending anytime soon, and

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that is terrifying.

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It is terrifying.

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And, you know, I think most Americans will

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certainly agree Iran

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is

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a horrible situation

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with Formal. Killing in their own people. I

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mean, it it end up in that way,

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but, boy,

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I I did watch an interview the other

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day, with

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Christiane Amanpour,

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who I happen to love, but And he's

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from Iran. Yeah. Iran. And,

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like she said, there's plenty of people that

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there's a lot of wonderful, smart people there,

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but they're under such,

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horrific leadership. And I don't even call it

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leadership,

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But it's

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it wasn't it wasn't worth doing what we

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did. We've exacerbated that situation, I think, rather

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than Oh, I I, Helped anything.

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Helped.

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I've,

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yeah, I've spoken with a number

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of Iranian Americans,

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who I've I've gotten to be good friends

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with. And

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they I mean,

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you know,

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Ayatollah Khomeini,

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again, horrific dictator. They murdered tens of thousands

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of their own people. I've spoken to women

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who were who were imprisoned at 14 and

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15 and watched their family members and friends

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get murdered. I mean,

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the Ayatollah Khomeini is a

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was a horrible dictator.

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And

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what needs to happen is not that The

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US should go in, but

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that

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the people of Iran

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the people of Iran should be able to

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determine to overthrow

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that that current regime. That current regime in

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Iran is not supported by the people. But

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now that we're we're bombing their energy plans,

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we're

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threatening to bomb to to blow off everything

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in Iran, we are hurting we're targeting

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civilian infrastructure,

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not military infrastructure, civilian infrastructure.

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So what are we doing? No one starts

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a revolution on a full stomach, and we

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are making the Iranian people hate us. We

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are putting civilians in even more danger and

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peril.

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For what?

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I I I still don't understand. They were

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not a direct threat to us,

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and there were other ways to handle this.

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But, again,

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the president

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took a notion,

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listened to direction from Benjamin Netanyahu,

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and

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decided

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to go in to Iran, and now we're

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stuck in a quagmire that we were just

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like we were in Vietnam, in Afghanistan,

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in Iraq. It has never turned out well

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for us.

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And there's another elephant in the room,

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Benjamin Netanyahu, who many years ago, I kinda

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thought was okay, but he's turned into,

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a terrorist. Yeah. Look what's happened in Gaza,

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and it's still going on. I'm wondering,

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yeah, how much of this, yeah,

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conversation between Trump and Netanyahu

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kind of a try to get a distraction

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for what everything else is going on? Now

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I'm a quick We are really Go ahead.

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Oh, go ahead. Sorry. We were really

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oh, go ahead. I was just gonna throw

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in real. The Epstein files. I know that

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gets kicked around and Yeah. As far as

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world problems, it might be way down there.

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But that was another horrific thing that we've

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got going on, and nobody's really paid the

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well, maybe a couple people. But that was

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my point is and I see this administration,

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I'll I'll say it, evil enough to do

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something like this to distract from not only

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that, but from everything else that's going on.

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We we have a whole bunch of distractions

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that we can distract away from the war

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with the Epstein and then distract,

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to something else.

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Right. Yeah. We have enough, Right. And I

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wanna bring that point up. Go ahead, and

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thank you for being your representative.

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I I just wanted to point out that

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I see all of this to be a

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gigantic distraction for the American people. We're all

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looking at different directions and ping ponging between

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issues and what's going on. The war is

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a horrific thing.

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And you might guess that since I'm running

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for a house seat in our Oregon house,

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I might be concerned what's going on in

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our state and how this war is going

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to affect us. I, as a candidate right

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now, and I'm a grassroots candidate, so my

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constituents help me with small dollar donations,

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but I'm looking at $5 gasoline in in

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Port Orford. For me to gas up

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to crisscross Douglas County to the California border

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and all the way up to Allegheny in

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Coos County is my district area

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is a lot of driving for me to

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get out. It's really going to affect me

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personally as a candidate, but I see it

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affecting my Mhmm. People are not wanting to

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get out and travel.

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They're concerned about what that cost is going

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to be for them moving into the future.

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And my question for you then is, what

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can we watch for and how can we,

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here at home in Oregon,

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make thing make our dollar stretch a little

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further? And what protections can you see from

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the the converse US congressional side that could

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be helpful for us here in in Oregon

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at home?

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Well, number number

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first of all, I'll go back to the

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Epstein file.

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And I think,

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you know, Rick, you you said,

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well, you know, not as important. I I'm

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sorry. But when when do we get to

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the place

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where

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adults that rape children

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aren't held accountable. This should be bipartisan. I

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don't care whose name is in there. I

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don't need it. And I have looked

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you know, that

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those you know, Donald Trump ran and said

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and and Bundy said they would release the

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Epstein files, and we've gotten nothing but obfuscation.

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I'll tell you what. I went in to

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to look at the files. You can sit

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there for two hours in a room where

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they're watching you. You have to log in

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so they can track what you look up.

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They don't give you any direction

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at all. Everything is just numbered, and you

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have to click on each thing. You can

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do a search, but it is really, really

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they have put so many obstacles in place.

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But what is clear

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is that

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children

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were raped,

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period.

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And that

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should

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be something we all agree should be prosecuted

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to the fullest extent of the law. Democrat,

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Republican, Indian, I don't I don't care.

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And so as we're narrowing in on that,

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all of a sudden, this war start.

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Right? Who knows? I can't speak to the

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motives

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And Of the narrative. But what I can,

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yeah, what I can say is that now

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these gas prices

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are are really high and, quite frankly, for

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people in rural communities

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where it's not like you can just ride

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your your bike from Port Orford up to

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Coos Bay. You know, for people who are

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trying to get to work, I mean, this

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is really a

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a major part of their paycheck. So

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we're looking at what we can do.

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The you know, it's it's rather difficult, but

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the most important thing we could do is

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get our troops

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out of Iran,

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you know, out of out of the Middle

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East

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and,

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certainly boots on the ground out of the

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Middle East and figure out how to

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solve this situation so that we can get

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trade happening again. But my concern

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is that, I don't know, my my grandmother

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always used to say burnt bridges are are

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much harder to walk across. We have burned

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so many relationship. The people do not trust

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us. And killing the Ayantollah Khomeini,

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Right? The people who have taken his place

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are even more radical. Well So so,

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Brett, I when you say how do we

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stretch dollars,

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I don't know. But

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we No. Out of nowhere and out. And

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we have to,

552
00:21:00,884 --> 00:21:02,744
yeah, we have to rely

553
00:21:03,045 --> 00:21:07,065
on our community for food, fuel, and fiber

554
00:21:07,285 --> 00:21:09,684
and make sure that we're taking care of

555
00:21:09,684 --> 00:21:10,184
ourselves

556
00:21:10,724 --> 00:21:11,945
as well as possible.

557
00:21:13,299 --> 00:21:15,299
That's, you know Thanks for I'm a little

558
00:21:15,299 --> 00:21:17,220
bit more interested in that question because, yeah,

559
00:21:17,220 --> 00:21:19,220
that a big thing that that comes to

560
00:21:19,220 --> 00:21:21,059
mind for me is that I believe it's

561
00:21:21,059 --> 00:21:22,339
$300,000,000

562
00:21:22,339 --> 00:21:25,380
from the state budget. Oregon state budget has

563
00:21:25,380 --> 00:21:28,174
been disappeared in the whole federal renewal

564
00:21:29,115 --> 00:21:31,355
of of money for our state in the

565
00:21:31,355 --> 00:21:33,535
very early days of of the Trump administration.

566
00:21:33,994 --> 00:21:36,174
How are we going to fill that gap

567
00:21:36,315 --> 00:21:38,715
here in our state? When I have people

568
00:21:38,715 --> 00:21:40,634
that are concerned in Curry County, you don't

569
00:21:40,634 --> 00:21:42,029
wanna pay a levy so that we have

570
00:21:42,029 --> 00:21:45,070
a sheriff's department that's operating properly. People don't

571
00:21:45,070 --> 00:21:48,670
wanna they're concerned about paying a 6¢

572
00:21:48,670 --> 00:21:50,750
increase in the gas tax because that's going

573
00:21:50,750 --> 00:21:52,350
to be hard for them to do. But

574
00:21:52,350 --> 00:21:54,130
we have this $300,000,000

575
00:21:54,430 --> 00:21:54,930
gap.

576
00:21:55,285 --> 00:21:57,045
How are we gonna close that for our

577
00:21:57,045 --> 00:21:58,964
health care and our education, making sure our

578
00:21:58,964 --> 00:22:01,684
kids are taken care of, and transportation? That's

579
00:22:01,684 --> 00:22:03,144
gonna impact our economy

580
00:22:03,525 --> 00:22:04,265
here locally

581
00:22:04,644 --> 00:22:06,964
in Brookings and Curry County and the state

582
00:22:06,964 --> 00:22:08,805
of Oregon in ways I don't think any

583
00:22:08,805 --> 00:22:10,660
of us can see right now. And that's

584
00:22:10,660 --> 00:22:12,180
what I really wanna try and get folks

585
00:22:12,180 --> 00:22:13,320
to pay attention to.

586
00:22:13,779 --> 00:22:16,660
I I think that's true. Although I will

587
00:22:16,660 --> 00:22:17,559
say so

588
00:22:17,940 --> 00:22:19,426
it's like a,

589
00:22:20,259 --> 00:22:22,920
I don't know, the cognitive dissonance to both

590
00:22:23,474 --> 00:22:26,115
speak out against what I see is us

591
00:22:26,115 --> 00:22:27,174
careening toward,

592
00:22:27,794 --> 00:22:28,454
you know,

593
00:22:29,075 --> 00:22:29,894
in a authoritarian

594
00:22:30,275 --> 00:22:30,775
regime

595
00:22:31,394 --> 00:22:31,894
and,

596
00:22:33,234 --> 00:22:35,974
some you know, speaking out against unconstitutional

597
00:22:36,275 --> 00:22:39,460
things that are happening while also doing doing

598
00:22:39,460 --> 00:22:42,039
the job and representing the district. So

599
00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:45,400
we have been able to get funding for,

600
00:22:46,019 --> 00:22:46,839
for infrastructure,

601
00:22:47,220 --> 00:22:51,400
for community projects, for, you know, water, sewer,

602
00:22:52,744 --> 00:22:53,724
for the hospital.

603
00:22:54,744 --> 00:22:57,144
If we're able to get our land spills

604
00:22:57,144 --> 00:22:57,644
through,

605
00:22:58,505 --> 00:23:01,224
I you know, I've introduced the Southwest Oregon

606
00:23:01,224 --> 00:23:03,164
Watershed and Salmon Protection Act

607
00:23:04,299 --> 00:23:06,960
and and the Smith River National Recreational

608
00:23:07,339 --> 00:23:08,960
Area Expansion Act.

609
00:23:09,259 --> 00:23:11,500
Those are going to be included if we

610
00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:13,920
can get a land package through.

611
00:23:15,180 --> 00:23:16,000
And that

612
00:23:16,619 --> 00:23:18,240
that's really, really important

613
00:23:19,654 --> 00:23:20,154
for

614
00:23:20,534 --> 00:23:23,575
protecting the water of, you know, Southern Oregon

615
00:23:23,575 --> 00:23:24,794
and Northern California.

616
00:23:25,734 --> 00:23:28,714
So there are things that we're getting done,

617
00:23:28,774 --> 00:23:30,875
not as much as we should. The administration

618
00:23:31,494 --> 00:23:34,380
is being, of course, you know, when Democrats

619
00:23:34,380 --> 00:23:36,619
are in control, Republicans are in control, they

620
00:23:36,619 --> 00:23:38,940
can write the rules. But this is the

621
00:23:38,940 --> 00:23:39,919
only president

622
00:23:40,460 --> 00:23:41,440
in my lifetime

623
00:23:42,140 --> 00:23:42,720
that has

624
00:23:43,099 --> 00:23:46,619
openly said today, last night or today, it's

625
00:23:46,619 --> 00:23:48,195
it's so hard to

626
00:23:49,295 --> 00:23:50,815
know what was said when. But are you

627
00:23:50,815 --> 00:23:52,654
laughing? Twenty four seven. President

628
00:23:53,615 --> 00:23:54,835
yeah. Right.

629
00:23:55,295 --> 00:23:57,455
You know, while he was up at night,

630
00:23:57,455 --> 00:23:58,035
you know,

631
00:23:58,975 --> 00:24:00,994
posting on on whatever social,

632
00:24:01,339 --> 00:24:04,000
he said that Democrats are the enemy.

633
00:24:04,299 --> 00:24:06,400
Like, he compared us to Iran.

634
00:24:06,779 --> 00:24:08,160
We represent people.

635
00:24:09,180 --> 00:24:13,180
We're elected members of a congressional body, and

636
00:24:13,180 --> 00:24:16,664
this president has basically said we are the

637
00:24:16,884 --> 00:24:19,444
enemies of the state. We're the enemies of

638
00:24:19,444 --> 00:24:22,085
the state because we're calling out the fact

639
00:24:22,085 --> 00:24:22,984
that unconstitutional

640
00:24:23,525 --> 00:24:24,505
things are happening.

641
00:24:25,285 --> 00:24:27,960
This should be something that everyone

642
00:24:28,819 --> 00:24:29,319
everyone,

643
00:24:29,619 --> 00:24:32,259
no matter what party they're in, should call

644
00:24:32,259 --> 00:24:35,160
out as wrongs. Me speaking out

645
00:24:35,779 --> 00:24:36,519
in disagreement

646
00:24:37,700 --> 00:24:39,859
to someone on the other side of the

647
00:24:39,859 --> 00:24:41,079
aisle to a Republican

648
00:24:41,625 --> 00:24:43,545
doesn't make me an enemy of the state.

649
00:24:43,545 --> 00:24:45,704
But when that language is used by a

650
00:24:45,704 --> 00:24:46,204
president,

651
00:24:47,384 --> 00:24:50,265
it is a serious escalation. We're now gonna

652
00:24:50,265 --> 00:24:51,964
see ICE in our airport.

653
00:24:52,825 --> 00:24:54,984
Right? And Yeah. They're not just gonna be

654
00:24:54,984 --> 00:24:56,285
operating at TSA.

655
00:24:56,799 --> 00:25:00,320
That mean checking IDs of anyone coming to

656
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,559
the airport. Right? While they're holding an AR

657
00:25:02,559 --> 00:25:05,119
16 in there, Maria, they're gonna be there

658
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,279
with their weapons drawn while they're checking your

659
00:25:07,279 --> 00:25:07,779
ID.

660
00:25:09,345 --> 00:25:12,804
Right. So, I think those things are really,

661
00:25:13,744 --> 00:25:16,325
they're very dangerous, and we as Americans

662
00:25:16,944 --> 00:25:19,825
should stand up whatever party we're in and

663
00:25:19,825 --> 00:25:21,765
take back a check and balances

664
00:25:22,464 --> 00:25:22,964
that

665
00:25:23,299 --> 00:25:24,519
that we as Americans

666
00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:29,160
are are provided by in our constitution,

667
00:25:29,779 --> 00:25:31,799
and it makes us stronger

668
00:25:32,339 --> 00:25:33,640
when we work together

669
00:25:34,019 --> 00:25:35,835
on things that we can agree on. But

670
00:25:35,835 --> 00:25:38,174
even if we can't disagree we can't agree,

671
00:25:38,714 --> 00:25:39,694
I shouldn't be

672
00:25:40,075 --> 00:25:42,315
called by the president an enemy of the

673
00:25:42,315 --> 00:25:44,414
state because I'm saying, hey. I think

674
00:25:44,794 --> 00:25:47,115
pedophiles should be prosecuted, and we shouldn't be

675
00:25:47,115 --> 00:25:48,794
at war blowing up our budget or in

676
00:25:48,794 --> 00:25:51,359
murdering, you know, having our our our people

677
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,519
murdered. I I mean, that seems pretty basic.

678
00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:55,200
It's not. I'll I'll say I consider you

679
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,899
a patriot for speaking out

680
00:25:57,279 --> 00:25:59,759
against that. So Yes. Thank you for doing

681
00:25:59,759 --> 00:26:02,000
it. Yeah. I wanna circle around a little,

682
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,139
if I may, representative.

683
00:26:03,734 --> 00:26:05,674
And I noticed in your press releases

684
00:26:06,055 --> 00:26:08,535
early in February that you had secured over

685
00:26:08,535 --> 00:26:10,714
$16,600,000

686
00:26:10,934 --> 00:26:13,755
for 15 different local community projects.

687
00:26:14,055 --> 00:26:15,414
I think you touched on a couple of

688
00:26:15,414 --> 00:26:16,960
them a minute ago, but I was just

689
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,559
wondering if you might give us a quick

690
00:26:18,559 --> 00:26:20,179
idea of what some of those are.

691
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:23,839
If you can remember that far back because

692
00:26:23,839 --> 00:26:25,859
there's been so much going on. Yeah.

693
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,059
There's been so much gone and,

694
00:26:30,525 --> 00:26:33,484
gone on, and we're we're actually coming up

695
00:26:33,484 --> 00:26:35,105
on another round of community,

696
00:26:36,045 --> 00:26:37,025
project funding.

697
00:26:38,765 --> 00:26:41,505
But one that was that I was

698
00:26:42,285 --> 00:26:43,500
most proud of

699
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:44,380
was,

700
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,960
in Curry County at the Cancer Treatment Center.

701
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,380
We had people in Curry County

702
00:26:50,839 --> 00:26:51,579
that were,

703
00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:55,319
having to go up to Eugene and drive

704
00:26:55,319 --> 00:26:57,674
back in all kinds of weather. That's like,

705
00:26:57,755 --> 00:26:59,355
what is that? Seven and a half hours

706
00:26:59,355 --> 00:27:02,715
round trip. Right? Yep. At best. And while

707
00:27:02,715 --> 00:27:05,355
you're getting chemo, while you're sick, while you

708
00:27:05,355 --> 00:27:07,914
have cancer. And so getting money for that

709
00:27:07,914 --> 00:27:10,815
cancer treatment center was really important.

710
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,080
Also, we've gotten money for,

711
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:14,619
dredging the ports.

712
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:15,660
The district,

713
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:16,859
as

714
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,460
as it was redistricted,

715
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,039
was made into a coastal district. Right? You

716
00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:24,380
used to have three congressional representative

717
00:27:25,024 --> 00:27:27,505
representing the coast. So now I represent two

718
00:27:27,505 --> 00:27:28,005
thirds.

719
00:27:28,704 --> 00:27:32,224
Suzanne Bonamici represents one third. So I'm able

720
00:27:32,224 --> 00:27:35,505
to focus on coastal issues, whether that's dredging

721
00:27:35,505 --> 00:27:37,605
of port, commercial fishing,

722
00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:39,059
tourism,

723
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,759
housing, and the fact that because we don't

724
00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:42,900
have a sales tax.

725
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,600
We have people, tourists that come in, and

726
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:46,660
they don't pay

727
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,080
towards water and sewer and those other kinds

728
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:50,740
of things.

729
00:27:51,194 --> 00:27:53,355
We have the travel and lodging tax, and

730
00:27:53,355 --> 00:27:56,075
that that's one thing. But, we've been able

731
00:27:56,075 --> 00:27:58,414
to get those kind of infrastructure

732
00:27:59,034 --> 00:28:00,015
projects funded.

733
00:28:00,474 --> 00:28:02,075
So if I may point out in Curry

734
00:28:02,075 --> 00:28:03,434
in Curry a lot of them. In Curry

735
00:28:03,434 --> 00:28:05,355
County representative that you brought, I think it

736
00:28:05,355 --> 00:28:07,090
was a little over a million dollars to

737
00:28:07,090 --> 00:28:10,049
Curry County to improve our county jail, which

738
00:28:10,049 --> 00:28:11,029
has been needed

739
00:28:11,490 --> 00:28:13,090
for a really long time. And I don't

740
00:28:13,090 --> 00:28:14,769
know if that's a drop in the bucket

741
00:28:14,769 --> 00:28:15,970
or if it's gonna be a good part

742
00:28:15,970 --> 00:28:17,570
of the bucket, but thank you for doing

743
00:28:17,570 --> 00:28:19,570
that. And, also, there was a million dollars

744
00:28:19,570 --> 00:28:21,924
brought for us to have, work on replacing

745
00:28:21,984 --> 00:28:23,285
aging water infrastructure

746
00:28:23,664 --> 00:28:24,484
here in Brookings

747
00:28:24,944 --> 00:28:27,265
along Easy Street, I believe it is. So

748
00:28:27,265 --> 00:28:29,424
these are dollars that come directly to our

749
00:28:29,424 --> 00:28:30,805
communities and our county

750
00:28:31,265 --> 00:28:33,424
here in Oregon. So thank you for doing

751
00:28:33,424 --> 00:28:35,580
that. I appreciate it greatly. Well,

752
00:28:36,039 --> 00:28:37,720
we do have an issue with the Curry

753
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,080
County Jail. Right?

754
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,380
And that is

755
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,320
we got money for upgrading it, but if

756
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,740
they upgrade it with the money they have,

757
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:46,840
then,

758
00:28:48,025 --> 00:28:50,265
it has to be billed, and and it

759
00:28:50,265 --> 00:28:52,125
needs it. There's no one that disagrees.

760
00:28:52,664 --> 00:28:54,765
It has to be then built

761
00:28:55,785 --> 00:28:58,184
completely up to code, which is a much

762
00:28:58,184 --> 00:28:59,805
more expensive proposition,

763
00:29:00,505 --> 00:29:02,424
and we don't have the money to do

764
00:29:02,424 --> 00:29:02,880
that.

765
00:29:04,079 --> 00:29:04,579
So

766
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,160
this catch 22 of we want to have

767
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:08,660
improvements

768
00:29:09,279 --> 00:29:12,240
and need the ability to to make these

769
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:12,740
improvements,

770
00:29:13,119 --> 00:29:15,375
you know, in a in a a staged

771
00:29:15,375 --> 00:29:16,515
piecemeal way.

772
00:29:16,894 --> 00:29:17,394
And,

773
00:29:18,494 --> 00:29:20,755
I'm work trying to work with the state

774
00:29:20,815 --> 00:29:22,994
to figure out how we get that done

775
00:29:23,055 --> 00:29:24,994
because it's so desperately needed.

776
00:29:26,255 --> 00:29:28,490
So for anybody out there, questions or comments,

777
00:29:28,549 --> 00:29:31,049
remember, you can text in here, (541)

778
00:29:31,430 --> 00:29:34,250
661-4098.

779
00:29:34,309 --> 00:29:36,630
Congresswoman, I tell you, my head's spinning with

780
00:29:36,630 --> 00:29:38,470
all the stuff that we're talking about. It's

781
00:29:38,470 --> 00:29:40,970
very important. So I wanna go back,

782
00:29:42,674 --> 00:29:44,674
well, first of all, about the travel. You

783
00:29:44,674 --> 00:29:46,355
talked about that, for a lot of us

784
00:29:46,355 --> 00:29:48,755
here. Now, again, yes, I'm in California, but

785
00:29:48,755 --> 00:29:51,174
I go to Grants Pass and Eureka and

786
00:29:51,234 --> 00:29:53,335
Coos Bay sometimes for medical.

787
00:29:53,779 --> 00:29:54,839
And right now,

788
00:29:55,619 --> 00:29:57,140
a lot of people go to Grants Pass

789
00:29:57,140 --> 00:29:59,779
in Medford, and they're going to start having

790
00:29:59,779 --> 00:30:02,279
four hour delays on January,

791
00:30:03,059 --> 00:30:05,460
which could just When is that? Sorry. I

792
00:30:05,460 --> 00:30:08,265
I think in early May or late April.

793
00:30:08,505 --> 00:30:10,424
How long is it gonna last? For you

794
00:30:10,505 --> 00:30:12,825
a few weeks. So now again, take It's

795
00:30:12,825 --> 00:30:15,305
not only driving to these places. It's getting

796
00:30:15,305 --> 00:30:15,884
the appointments

797
00:30:16,424 --> 00:30:17,785
to go there. I have a I have

798
00:30:17,785 --> 00:30:21,065
a a, neurologist appointment in August, believe it

799
00:30:21,065 --> 00:30:23,200
or not. Yes. Yeah. I mean,

800
00:30:23,740 --> 00:30:26,059
and, Congressman, your district, would it would the

801
00:30:26,059 --> 00:30:29,519
whole district be considered rural, I'm guessing? Or

802
00:30:30,220 --> 00:30:31,839
or No. No.

803
00:30:32,220 --> 00:30:33,759
I have Eugene, Springfield,

804
00:30:34,220 --> 00:30:35,694
Odalys. Safe. Okay.

805
00:30:37,035 --> 00:30:39,595
So, like, all of Blaine County. So there's

806
00:30:39,595 --> 00:30:42,734
some urban areas. I have Lincoln, Kitty,

807
00:30:43,035 --> 00:30:43,535
Newport,

808
00:30:44,634 --> 00:30:45,535
Coos Bay,

809
00:30:46,394 --> 00:30:48,954
you know, every everyone, like, in in all

810
00:30:48,954 --> 00:30:51,470
those counties. So I have some are urban,

811
00:30:52,250 --> 00:30:53,950
but all of those are massive, predominantly

812
00:30:54,330 --> 00:30:56,170
rural. If I may, there all of those

813
00:30:56,170 --> 00:30:58,490
urban areas have a lot of rural attached

814
00:30:58,490 --> 00:31:00,089
to them. That's where I was thinking too.

815
00:31:00,089 --> 00:31:03,309
Yeah. They every single one of my counties

816
00:31:03,369 --> 00:31:04,190
has rural.

817
00:31:04,805 --> 00:31:07,125
Oh, yeah. You know, it it has has

818
00:31:07,125 --> 00:31:08,345
has significant

819
00:31:08,644 --> 00:31:11,444
rural areas, and that's why, you know, I

820
00:31:11,444 --> 00:31:13,944
feel very lucky. And I think we would,

821
00:31:16,484 --> 00:31:19,065
we would do much better if more districts

822
00:31:19,525 --> 00:31:20,069
were mixed

823
00:31:20,630 --> 00:31:22,789
where you can't get elected with just one

824
00:31:22,789 --> 00:31:23,929
party or another.

825
00:31:24,309 --> 00:31:26,630
And the I mean, this is what's wrong

826
00:31:26,630 --> 00:31:29,130
with our democracy. First of all, Citizens United,

827
00:31:29,509 --> 00:31:32,470
money money in politics where where people can

828
00:31:32,470 --> 00:31:34,250
buy elections with dark money.

829
00:31:34,630 --> 00:31:35,369
And then

830
00:31:35,835 --> 00:31:36,494
also, the

831
00:31:37,355 --> 00:31:37,855
gerrymandering

832
00:31:38,634 --> 00:31:39,934
where we don't have

833
00:31:40,234 --> 00:31:42,414
we we have very few swing districts

834
00:31:42,875 --> 00:31:46,154
anymore. And that means that people only we

835
00:31:46,234 --> 00:31:48,880
we're we're electing the most extreme of each

836
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:49,380
party,

837
00:31:49,759 --> 00:31:50,740
and that's not

838
00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:53,920
that's not helpful. I I I I I

839
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,099
think we should redo our election system.

840
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,400
I believe, like, we should be in a

841
00:31:58,400 --> 00:31:58,900
multiparty.

842
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:01,299
I I think a multiparty

843
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,174
coalition government would be better. But right now,

844
00:32:05,174 --> 00:32:08,134
we have a president that doesn't even want

845
00:32:08,134 --> 00:32:09,035
to work with

846
00:32:09,575 --> 00:32:10,554
half of the people

847
00:32:11,095 --> 00:32:13,015
that are that have been elected in congress.

848
00:32:13,015 --> 00:32:14,855
So we have we have bigger issues right

849
00:32:14,855 --> 00:32:16,615
now. Oh, do you see any And he's

850
00:32:16,615 --> 00:32:18,990
he's trying to elect his own voters, essentially.

851
00:32:18,990 --> 00:32:20,769
We're voting in reverse. So he wants

852
00:32:21,070 --> 00:32:22,990
to have Well pick out his voters, and

853
00:32:22,990 --> 00:32:24,670
that's all that's gonna vote. And that's a

854
00:32:24,670 --> 00:32:27,470
huge about elections. Let's if we can delve

855
00:32:27,470 --> 00:32:30,750
it into a little bit, the, generally, the

856
00:32:30,750 --> 00:32:33,965
Republicans' disdain for mail in voting. I've never

857
00:32:33,965 --> 00:32:36,285
understood that. Let me grab that. Please. Because

858
00:32:36,365 --> 00:32:38,205
and and the other part is the they

859
00:32:38,445 --> 00:32:39,505
oh, it's fraudulent.

860
00:32:40,045 --> 00:32:41,404
As far as I can see, and I'm

861
00:32:41,404 --> 00:32:44,445
no expert, but there's not enough voter fraud

862
00:32:44,445 --> 00:32:46,605
to really make mail in voting an issue.

863
00:32:46,605 --> 00:32:48,625
That's kind of how I see it, congresswoman

864
00:32:48,919 --> 00:32:50,519
congresswoman. Well, all you have to do is

865
00:32:50,519 --> 00:32:52,220
shout. It's filled with fraud,

866
00:32:52,599 --> 00:32:54,359
filled with fraud, filled with fraud. And you

867
00:32:54,359 --> 00:32:56,200
say it enough times. Enough times. And it's

868
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:57,019
true. Yeah.

869
00:32:58,919 --> 00:33:01,099
Well, there's been a decades long

870
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:03,419
effort to undermine

871
00:33:06,264 --> 00:33:09,304
Voting. Voter integrity. Right? Like and and people

872
00:33:09,304 --> 00:33:09,804
voting,

873
00:33:10,105 --> 00:33:10,605
but

874
00:33:11,625 --> 00:33:13,404
people's belief in the system.

875
00:33:13,865 --> 00:33:15,804
And so a lot of misinformation

876
00:33:16,424 --> 00:33:17,484
has gone out.

877
00:33:17,809 --> 00:33:20,450
The amount of voter fraud is so small,

878
00:33:20,450 --> 00:33:21,589
and you have to

879
00:33:21,890 --> 00:33:23,109
understand that,

880
00:33:23,569 --> 00:33:25,349
you know, when someone

881
00:33:25,890 --> 00:33:26,869
signs something,

882
00:33:27,170 --> 00:33:27,670
right,

883
00:33:29,009 --> 00:33:31,329
to say, yes. I am a I am

884
00:33:31,329 --> 00:33:33,914
a citizen, and I am eligible to vote.

885
00:33:34,615 --> 00:33:35,755
By doing that,

886
00:33:36,375 --> 00:33:37,274
they're certifying,

887
00:33:37,734 --> 00:33:39,835
right, under penalty of a felony

888
00:33:40,454 --> 00:33:40,954
prosecution

889
00:33:41,654 --> 00:33:44,019
that they are eligible to vote. And I

890
00:33:44,019 --> 00:33:46,980
think voter fraud should be prosecuted to the

891
00:33:46,980 --> 00:33:48,740
fullest extent of the law. For sure. But

892
00:33:48,740 --> 00:33:50,519
it is very, very small.

893
00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:53,460
And I'll tell you what about, you know,

894
00:33:53,460 --> 00:33:54,359
vote by mail.

895
00:33:54,740 --> 00:33:58,039
That was promoted by Norma Polis, who was

896
00:33:58,335 --> 00:34:01,474
a Republican secretary of state. Our last Republican

897
00:34:01,615 --> 00:34:03,474
secretary of state, Dennis Richardson,

898
00:34:04,575 --> 00:34:06,115
nobody would call him

899
00:34:07,054 --> 00:34:09,934
liberal or even moderate, but he was very

900
00:34:09,934 --> 00:34:12,655
clear. Our vote by mail system is safe.

901
00:34:12,655 --> 00:34:14,400
Now let let me tell you what would

902
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:14,900
happen,

903
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,900
if, you know, they canceled vote by mail,

904
00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:22,079
especially in our rural communities. To their union.

905
00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:24,239
Right? Yeah. That would mean people would have

906
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,019
to take off a day from work

907
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:26,900
that

908
00:34:27,284 --> 00:34:29,144
they would have to drive

909
00:34:29,525 --> 00:34:32,184
to a polling place $5 a gallon.

910
00:34:33,605 --> 00:34:35,144
Get $5 a gallon,

911
00:34:35,684 --> 00:34:38,085
in a rural and frontier counties, that is

912
00:34:38,085 --> 00:34:40,264
a that that's a major problem.

913
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:41,579
And then,

914
00:34:43,319 --> 00:34:46,119
yeah, it it basically we would have to

915
00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:48,440
set up an entirely new system before our

916
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:49,500
November election.

917
00:34:50,119 --> 00:34:51,980
And so vote by mail

918
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,644
with our voters pamphlet, where everybody gets to

919
00:34:55,644 --> 00:34:56,844
put 325

920
00:34:56,844 --> 00:34:59,324
words in, I I bring in voters' pamphlets

921
00:34:59,324 --> 00:35:01,324
to show my colleagues, and they're like, every

922
00:35:01,324 --> 00:35:03,184
voter gets this. I'm like, absolutely.

923
00:35:03,885 --> 00:35:05,905
I mean, that evens out

924
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,659
access to to voter information.

925
00:35:09,199 --> 00:35:11,619
But vote by mail is the safest

926
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,400
way to vote, and you have a paper

927
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:14,880
copy.

928
00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:16,659
Senator Wyden and I,

929
00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:19,994
have sponsored a national vote by mail bill,

930
00:35:20,795 --> 00:35:22,954
so that every state could do this because

931
00:35:22,954 --> 00:35:25,355
it is the safest, most secure means to

932
00:35:25,355 --> 00:35:25,855
vote.

933
00:35:26,394 --> 00:35:28,715
But what we have now is what the

934
00:35:28,715 --> 00:35:31,835
Republicans call the save act. I call the

935
00:35:31,835 --> 00:35:34,635
steal act because it queuing our act. You're

936
00:35:34,635 --> 00:35:35,135
balancing

937
00:35:35,595 --> 00:35:38,130
on that. Yes. You know, places like Florida,

938
00:35:38,130 --> 00:35:38,869
you you

939
00:35:39,329 --> 00:35:41,329
you have to stand online for three hours

940
00:35:41,329 --> 00:35:42,309
to vote. That's,

941
00:35:43,090 --> 00:35:43,989
it's unbelievable.

942
00:35:44,730 --> 00:35:45,230
Well,

943
00:35:45,969 --> 00:35:46,469
so

944
00:35:47,090 --> 00:35:48,150
there has been

945
00:35:49,644 --> 00:35:51,905
data showing that 82%

946
00:35:51,964 --> 00:35:52,704
of Americans,

947
00:35:53,164 --> 00:35:53,824
you know,

948
00:35:54,605 --> 00:35:56,545
support the say back. No.

949
00:35:57,244 --> 00:35:58,364
82%

950
00:35:58,364 --> 00:35:59,105
of Americans

951
00:36:00,605 --> 00:36:01,105
support

952
00:36:01,405 --> 00:36:02,545
some kind of

953
00:36:03,219 --> 00:36:04,200
voter identification

954
00:36:05,619 --> 00:36:06,760
that in theory.

955
00:36:07,460 --> 00:36:10,019
But when you go down and and and

956
00:36:10,019 --> 00:36:12,579
in the same hole, you go down and

957
00:36:12,579 --> 00:36:13,079
say,

958
00:36:13,380 --> 00:36:15,785
you know, would you if you're a married

959
00:36:15,785 --> 00:36:18,184
woman, do do you have a passport? I

960
00:36:18,184 --> 00:36:20,125
I you have to bring your birth certificate

961
00:36:20,345 --> 00:36:21,724
and your marriage certificate.

962
00:36:22,105 --> 00:36:23,945
And you have to go to and, again,

963
00:36:23,945 --> 00:36:26,204
this affects our rural and frontier counties

964
00:36:26,505 --> 00:36:28,440
the most. You would have to go to

965
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,119
your elections office, right, driving at $5.06,

966
00:36:32,119 --> 00:36:33,420
$7 a gallon

967
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,019
to show them

968
00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:37,880
all of this these IDs or get a

969
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,300
passport for a $180

970
00:36:40,585 --> 00:36:42,265
that will take I don't know how long

971
00:36:42,265 --> 00:36:43,724
because the Doge Bros

972
00:36:44,184 --> 00:36:46,285
fired a whole bunch of people that processed

973
00:36:46,344 --> 00:36:49,144
that. I mean, this will stop people from

974
00:36:49,144 --> 00:36:51,405
voting, and I I don't think

975
00:36:51,785 --> 00:36:54,364
people understand how much it will affect

976
00:36:54,780 --> 00:36:57,840
our rural and frontier counties even more so

977
00:36:58,140 --> 00:37:01,920
than our our urban areas. Like, most people

978
00:37:02,059 --> 00:37:04,480
in this district do not have a passport.

979
00:37:04,860 --> 00:37:06,480
I have my Real ID license.

980
00:37:07,434 --> 00:37:10,234
It's not valid, and people don't understand that

981
00:37:10,234 --> 00:37:11,295
that your license

982
00:37:11,755 --> 00:37:14,635
is not something that's valid, that, you know,

983
00:37:14,635 --> 00:37:17,135
it takes time to go back and get,

984
00:37:17,275 --> 00:37:18,175
you know, your

985
00:37:18,635 --> 00:37:21,170
your birth certificate, your marriage certificate because I

986
00:37:21,170 --> 00:37:23,250
changed my name when I got married. So

987
00:37:23,250 --> 00:37:24,869
there's 900,000

988
00:37:24,930 --> 00:37:26,710
Oregon women who got married

989
00:37:27,170 --> 00:37:29,809
and changed their last name that would be

990
00:37:29,809 --> 00:37:31,269
kicked off the voter rolls.

991
00:37:32,289 --> 00:37:34,849
You know, there's there are elderly Americans without

992
00:37:34,849 --> 00:37:37,565
birth certificates. There was, I think two years

993
00:37:37,565 --> 00:37:38,625
ago in Ohio,

994
00:37:39,244 --> 00:37:41,964
there was, a nun. She was, you know,

995
00:37:41,964 --> 00:37:44,364
almost 90 years old. She had never birth

996
00:37:44,364 --> 00:37:44,864
certificate.

997
00:37:45,484 --> 00:37:47,644
She was not allowed to vote, and she

998
00:37:47,804 --> 00:37:50,280
she's been voting. She was a nun, for

999
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,519
goodness sake, from that gelee who lived in

1000
00:37:52,519 --> 00:37:54,619
the convent. Right. This is crazy.

1001
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,280
So Oregon's elections are secure. We also have

1002
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,700
seen an attack on the US postal service.

1003
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,014
I have talked to postal workers, and they

1004
00:38:03,014 --> 00:38:04,074
are being told

1005
00:38:04,375 --> 00:38:05,835
that they can't work overtime

1006
00:38:06,614 --> 00:38:09,255
even those ops have been you know, jobs

1007
00:38:09,255 --> 00:38:10,954
have been cut. They're very understaffed,

1008
00:38:11,494 --> 00:38:13,734
and that they should just leave the mail

1009
00:38:13,734 --> 00:38:15,434
there. You know, postmarking

1010
00:38:15,815 --> 00:38:16,315
things,

1011
00:38:17,319 --> 00:38:20,300
the delaying the postmark is specifically

1012
00:38:21,079 --> 00:38:24,359
focused on attacking vote by mail so that

1013
00:38:24,359 --> 00:38:27,159
your postmark is later. And when the postmark

1014
00:38:27,159 --> 00:38:29,079
is later, that means your vote doesn't get

1015
00:38:29,079 --> 00:38:30,565
counted. So this administration

1016
00:38:31,264 --> 00:38:32,164
is specifically

1017
00:38:32,704 --> 00:38:34,324
slowing down our mail

1018
00:38:34,625 --> 00:38:35,364
to affect

1019
00:38:35,904 --> 00:38:37,344
vote by mail. How

1020
00:38:38,065 --> 00:38:39,444
like, that's just

1021
00:38:39,904 --> 00:38:42,065
that's just the eagle. It's a point of

1022
00:38:42,065 --> 00:38:42,964
view. A constitutional

1023
00:38:43,664 --> 00:38:44,969
right. It is a constitutional

1024
00:38:45,590 --> 00:38:47,590
right to make our voices heard. But as

1025
00:38:47,590 --> 00:38:49,989
we have seen in Georgia, we have seen

1026
00:38:49,989 --> 00:38:50,730
in Texas,

1027
00:38:51,190 --> 00:38:53,670
we where more Democrats came out to vote

1028
00:38:53,670 --> 00:38:54,410
than Republicans,

1029
00:38:54,949 --> 00:38:57,375
we are seeing everywhere that

1030
00:38:57,855 --> 00:39:00,574
voters are not voting for they're not happy

1031
00:39:00,574 --> 00:39:01,715
with the Trump administration.

1032
00:39:02,255 --> 00:39:03,875
So instead of owning that

1033
00:39:04,175 --> 00:39:06,414
and adding some checks and balances and free

1034
00:39:06,414 --> 00:39:07,394
and fair elections

1035
00:39:07,775 --> 00:39:09,449
and earning Americans votes,

1036
00:39:09,929 --> 00:39:11,609
what they wanna do is stop us from

1037
00:39:11,609 --> 00:39:13,949
being able to vote. This is a constitutional

1038
00:39:14,409 --> 00:39:16,989
right that we should fight for. Boy, howdy.

1039
00:39:17,050 --> 00:39:18,730
You know, we have a text. I wanna

1040
00:39:18,730 --> 00:39:20,329
get this text in that we just got,

1041
00:39:20,329 --> 00:39:21,530
and thank you for the text.

1042
00:39:22,315 --> 00:39:23,135
It it says,

1043
00:39:23,755 --> 00:39:25,914
it is unfortunate that the battle over the

1044
00:39:25,914 --> 00:39:27,135
budget has simplistically

1045
00:39:27,434 --> 00:39:28,894
been branded branded

1046
00:39:29,434 --> 00:39:32,335
as either funding ICE or the TSA employees.

1047
00:39:32,715 --> 00:39:34,015
The anti administration

1048
00:39:34,474 --> 00:39:35,934
stance could be stressing

1049
00:39:36,329 --> 00:39:38,890
instead that we are fighting to eliminate the

1050
00:39:38,890 --> 00:39:42,489
uncertainty and fear that all Americans are living

1051
00:39:42,489 --> 00:39:44,349
with. And this text says,

1052
00:39:45,050 --> 00:39:46,969
they know a person here in Brookings who

1053
00:39:46,969 --> 00:39:48,989
looks like he could be of the wrong

1054
00:39:49,130 --> 00:39:49,630
ancestry,

1055
00:39:50,424 --> 00:39:52,664
and so he carries his passport with him

1056
00:39:52,664 --> 00:39:54,424
at all times. I don't have a passport

1057
00:39:54,424 --> 00:39:57,144
either. In case ice should appear in our

1058
00:39:57,144 --> 00:39:57,644
streets,

1059
00:39:58,025 --> 00:40:00,505
the fear is everywhere. I know a woman

1060
00:40:00,505 --> 00:40:01,864
that does I know a woman that does

1061
00:40:01,864 --> 00:40:03,565
the same thing. Well, it's not an exaggerate

1062
00:40:03,875 --> 00:40:04,375
exaggeration.

1063
00:40:06,079 --> 00:40:07,940
So thank you for that text.

1064
00:40:09,519 --> 00:40:12,079
Yeah. I and that's exactly right. We are

1065
00:40:12,079 --> 00:40:12,980
seeing Americans

1066
00:40:13,599 --> 00:40:15,139
that happen to look like immigrants.

1067
00:40:15,679 --> 00:40:18,614
Right? American citizens that are being picked up

1068
00:40:18,775 --> 00:40:19,514
and sometimes

1069
00:40:19,815 --> 00:40:20,315
detained,

1070
00:40:20,855 --> 00:40:21,994
right, just because

1071
00:40:22,614 --> 00:40:23,514
they look

1072
00:40:23,974 --> 00:40:25,815
like they might be an immigrant. So they

1073
00:40:25,815 --> 00:40:28,855
have brown skin. We're seeing immigrants who are

1074
00:40:28,855 --> 00:40:29,675
here legally,

1075
00:40:30,614 --> 00:40:33,420
right, Who are here legally, whether they're DACA

1076
00:40:33,420 --> 00:40:33,920
recipients

1077
00:40:34,219 --> 00:40:37,659
or they're refugees. They have legal status. They

1078
00:40:37,659 --> 00:40:40,400
are following the rules. They are being detained.

1079
00:40:40,460 --> 00:40:42,460
We have an a man who comes from

1080
00:40:42,460 --> 00:40:42,960
Ethiopia.

1081
00:40:43,655 --> 00:40:46,695
They're literally he is a deacon in in

1082
00:40:46,695 --> 00:40:47,514
in his church.

1083
00:40:47,974 --> 00:40:48,474
He,

1084
00:40:49,815 --> 00:40:51,835
worked and earned his his,

1085
00:40:52,454 --> 00:40:54,234
bachelor's, master's, and PhD

1086
00:40:54,695 --> 00:40:56,695
here in The United States. We have four

1087
00:40:56,695 --> 00:40:59,239
children and a white who are American citizen.

1088
00:40:59,860 --> 00:41:01,780
And they are not only not they're not

1089
00:41:01,780 --> 00:41:03,719
only planning to support him

1090
00:41:04,019 --> 00:41:05,559
over her paperwork error,

1091
00:41:06,019 --> 00:41:06,519
but

1092
00:41:06,820 --> 00:41:09,160
because they can't get paperwork from Ethiopia,

1093
00:41:09,539 --> 00:41:11,719
they're going to turn into a third country

1094
00:41:12,065 --> 00:41:14,305
where he doesn't take the language, where he

1095
00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:15,445
doesn't have family.

1096
00:41:15,825 --> 00:41:17,585
Great. And and I mean, I went to

1097
00:41:17,585 --> 00:41:20,164
see him, and he just cried. He's like,

1098
00:41:20,305 --> 00:41:22,224
you know, my wife just got diagnosed with

1099
00:41:22,224 --> 00:41:24,625
a brain tumor. I want to be with

1100
00:41:24,625 --> 00:41:26,849
my children and my family. And can you

1101
00:41:28,930 --> 00:41:32,130
please? That's not what people voted for. You

1102
00:41:32,130 --> 00:41:35,349
want to support people who committed funds? Absolutely.

1103
00:41:36,450 --> 00:41:37,329
Oh, and pray not

1104
00:41:38,369 --> 00:41:39,670
not what's happening, sir.

1105
00:41:39,970 --> 00:41:41,349
If this guy was an Africanist,

1106
00:41:43,385 --> 00:41:43,885
escaping,

1107
00:41:44,585 --> 00:41:47,464
what Trump calls South Africa. Gang violence, then

1108
00:41:47,464 --> 00:41:49,545
he would be welcomed with open arms. But

1109
00:41:49,545 --> 00:41:51,304
if he had come from or in the

1110
00:41:51,304 --> 00:41:53,964
Central American countries claiming the same thing,

1111
00:41:54,664 --> 00:41:55,724
he would not be.

1112
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:57,659
The Afrikanist

1113
00:41:58,160 --> 00:41:58,599
My

1114
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,320
yeah. My, my husband's British. Right? My husband

1115
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,739
became a citizen in 2016.

1116
00:42:06,199 --> 00:42:07,719
I wanna be clear. He had his green

1117
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,135
card before he met me, but,

1118
00:42:10,094 --> 00:42:11,554
you know, he

1119
00:42:12,414 --> 00:42:14,195
he has never been stopped.

1120
00:42:14,574 --> 00:42:15,635
No one ever

1121
00:42:16,175 --> 00:42:19,054
asked him if he is here legally. No

1122
00:42:19,054 --> 00:42:20,894
one you know, we don't we don't care,

1123
00:42:20,894 --> 00:42:23,474
but it because he's a big white guy.

1124
00:42:24,570 --> 00:42:26,510
Right. What's about race and racism?

1125
00:42:27,050 --> 00:42:30,349
You know? Well, yeah. But I think that

1126
00:42:30,730 --> 00:42:33,070
I'll just say it in my opinion. Racism,

1127
00:42:33,610 --> 00:42:34,110
misogyny,

1128
00:42:36,090 --> 00:42:36,675
and a

1129
00:42:37,394 --> 00:42:38,515
bunch of other stuff,

1130
00:42:38,914 --> 00:42:41,074
that I can't think of is is part

1131
00:42:41,074 --> 00:42:42,215
of this administration.

1132
00:42:42,594 --> 00:42:44,515
How you know, when when he's taking all

1133
00:42:44,515 --> 00:42:47,315
the references to to slavery and,

1134
00:42:47,795 --> 00:42:50,215
black problems out of the some Smithsonian,

1135
00:42:52,159 --> 00:42:54,579
changing names of forts back to to

1136
00:42:55,039 --> 00:42:55,859
civil war

1137
00:42:56,559 --> 00:42:57,059
generals,

1138
00:42:57,839 --> 00:43:00,159
just doing incredible amount of racist things. I

1139
00:43:00,159 --> 00:43:01,940
just read this morning that there

1140
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,799
there's, national parks around the country where they're

1141
00:43:04,799 --> 00:43:06,500
taking down a lot of the signs

1142
00:43:06,914 --> 00:43:09,094
that give our country a a bad name.

1143
00:43:10,515 --> 00:43:11,554
So I'm on the,

1144
00:43:12,755 --> 00:43:16,114
transportation and infrastructure and natural resources committees on

1145
00:43:16,114 --> 00:43:18,755
the ranking so highest ranking Democrat on the

1146
00:43:18,755 --> 00:43:21,335
water, wildlife, and fisheries subcommittee because,

1147
00:43:22,130 --> 00:43:25,329
you know, with 250 miles of ocean and

1148
00:43:25,329 --> 00:43:26,869
all the rivers, stream,

1149
00:43:27,489 --> 00:43:28,230
you know,

1150
00:43:29,809 --> 00:43:33,489
lump like like forests and other natural resource

1151
00:43:33,489 --> 00:43:34,869
issues, these are two

1152
00:43:35,170 --> 00:43:37,965
really important committees for the district. But we

1153
00:43:37,965 --> 00:43:40,525
had a committee hearing, and I I don't

1154
00:43:40,525 --> 00:43:42,224
normally lose my temper.

1155
00:43:42,605 --> 00:43:45,025
But a colleague of mine from North Carolina

1156
00:43:45,805 --> 00:43:48,525
said after Jim Clyburn spoke and said, how

1157
00:43:48,525 --> 00:43:49,744
can you erase

1158
00:43:50,364 --> 00:43:51,105
my history?

1159
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,780
Erase the fact that slavery ever happened.

1160
00:43:55,159 --> 00:43:55,659
Erase,

1161
00:43:56,039 --> 00:43:59,099
you know, what the Tuskegee Airmen did. Erase

1162
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,119
all of the things that happened. You know,

1163
00:44:02,119 --> 00:44:04,679
the trail of tears. This is part of

1164
00:44:04,679 --> 00:44:07,394
our history. And my colleague, republican from North

1165
00:44:07,394 --> 00:44:08,454
Carolina, said,

1166
00:44:08,994 --> 00:44:10,835
you know, democrat I don't know. He started

1167
00:44:10,835 --> 00:44:13,015
talking about Joe Biden in an auto pen.

1168
00:44:13,075 --> 00:44:15,555
That was below a creative boot. And and

1169
00:44:15,555 --> 00:44:16,215
and then,

1170
00:44:16,675 --> 00:44:18,375
he said, you know, democrat

1171
00:44:18,994 --> 00:44:20,055
want to just

1172
00:44:20,529 --> 00:44:21,829
show how bad,

1173
00:44:22,849 --> 00:44:25,429
America is and only focus on the negative,

1174
00:44:25,650 --> 00:44:27,969
and we need to show how far we've

1175
00:44:27,969 --> 00:44:30,049
come. So I saw, like, popped in and

1176
00:44:30,049 --> 00:44:32,210
said and this was all about going to

1177
00:44:32,210 --> 00:44:34,775
our federal parks and, oh, and the Smithsonian

1178
00:44:35,155 --> 00:44:37,815
and and and our national parks and erasing

1179
00:44:37,954 --> 00:44:38,454
anything

1180
00:44:38,914 --> 00:44:42,114
that is negative and that does not fit

1181
00:44:42,114 --> 00:44:42,614
into,

1182
00:44:43,875 --> 00:44:46,295
a history that is basically

1183
00:44:47,474 --> 00:44:48,375
white supremist.

1184
00:44:48,780 --> 00:44:49,260
And,

1185
00:44:49,739 --> 00:44:51,119
I said, how the hell

1186
00:44:51,579 --> 00:44:52,559
can we tell

1187
00:44:52,940 --> 00:44:54,400
how far we have come

1188
00:44:55,019 --> 00:44:55,519
if

1189
00:44:56,539 --> 00:44:58,320
we don't know where we've been?

1190
00:44:58,619 --> 00:45:00,380
I mean, we can tell how far we've

1191
00:45:00,380 --> 00:45:02,344
come because we look at history. What

1192
00:45:03,684 --> 00:45:05,364
happened in Nazi Germany. We look at what

1193
00:45:05,364 --> 00:45:06,885
happened on the trail of tears. We look

1194
00:45:06,885 --> 00:45:07,625
at what happened

1195
00:45:07,925 --> 00:45:10,724
with, you know, the civil rights marches so

1196
00:45:10,724 --> 00:45:12,565
that, you know Not not if we get

1197
00:45:12,565 --> 00:45:15,284
to rewrite all the tensions. Could vote. We're

1198
00:45:15,284 --> 00:45:17,545
right. That's it. And that's the issue.

1199
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:19,099
Why are we afraid?

1200
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,500
Why why would they be afraid

1201
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:23,420
to talk about our history,

1202
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,199
you know, as as Winston Churchill would say,

1203
00:45:26,199 --> 00:45:28,279
worth and all. Worth and all. That's what

1204
00:45:28,279 --> 00:45:30,760
your tree should be. Yeah. And and and

1205
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,359
they don't seem to understand. We're not

1206
00:45:34,025 --> 00:45:35,224
we've done a lot of good stuff this

1207
00:45:35,224 --> 00:45:37,065
country, a lot of good stuff, a lot

1208
00:45:37,065 --> 00:45:38,445
of great people, but,

1209
00:45:39,385 --> 00:45:41,385
I can not say it any better than

1210
00:45:41,385 --> 00:45:43,244
worse at all. We all know what's happened,

1211
00:45:43,545 --> 00:45:44,845
and we need to

1212
00:45:45,224 --> 00:45:47,945
know that history to hopefully not live through

1213
00:45:47,945 --> 00:45:50,170
it again, but we are living through some

1214
00:45:50,170 --> 00:45:52,250
of that stuff again. Yeah. I I I

1215
00:45:52,250 --> 00:45:54,570
think about the the the saying after the

1216
00:45:54,570 --> 00:45:57,849
holocaust, never again. That was battered battered well,

1217
00:45:57,849 --> 00:45:59,150
not battered around, but

1218
00:45:59,530 --> 00:46:01,635
it it has happened again. Stuff like that

1219
00:46:01,635 --> 00:46:03,954
has happened. If you don't understand the history,

1220
00:46:03,954 --> 00:46:05,795
you don't understand what's going on now. Thank

1221
00:46:05,795 --> 00:46:08,594
you. A perfect example is looking at at

1222
00:46:08,594 --> 00:46:09,094
Hitler's,

1223
00:46:09,715 --> 00:46:10,934
march across Europe,

1224
00:46:11,954 --> 00:46:13,335
and going into Czechoslovakia.

1225
00:46:13,635 --> 00:46:15,315
I'm just gonna take this little bit here

1226
00:46:15,315 --> 00:46:16,135
that's actually,

1227
00:46:17,219 --> 00:46:19,300
German anyway, and and then he just walked

1228
00:46:19,460 --> 00:46:22,179
kept on walking. Yeah. And that is that

1229
00:46:22,179 --> 00:46:24,199
is absolutely what would happen in,

1230
00:46:25,860 --> 00:46:26,360
Ukraine.

1231
00:46:27,059 --> 00:46:28,820
Yeah. That's yeah. Just gonna read. Can I

1232
00:46:28,820 --> 00:46:30,894
add to the representative's point? Sorry. Before I

1233
00:46:30,894 --> 00:46:32,755
I while I cut you off, representative.

1234
00:46:33,775 --> 00:46:35,494
But I think it's really important Go ahead.

1235
00:46:35,694 --> 00:46:37,214
Important for us to be able to measure

1236
00:46:37,214 --> 00:46:39,135
our progress. We can't pick up the measuring

1237
00:46:39,135 --> 00:46:39,635
stick.

1238
00:46:40,175 --> 00:46:42,414
As we walk past, if we're gonna measure

1239
00:46:42,414 --> 00:46:44,360
our progress, there has to be some point

1240
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,539
of reference, and we're trying we're removing

1241
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,519
the attempt is to remove the points of

1242
00:46:48,519 --> 00:46:50,360
reference, so there's no way to measure our

1243
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,519
progress. I think it's really important that we

1244
00:46:52,519 --> 00:46:53,960
lay that stick down and keep track of

1245
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,519
where those even the negative points are. So

1246
00:46:56,519 --> 00:46:58,780
thanks for being a run. Yes. Bigly.

1247
00:46:59,454 --> 00:47:00,434
I'm saying that.

1248
00:47:01,454 --> 00:47:02,194
And congresswoman

1249
00:47:02,574 --> 00:47:04,175
oh, I'm sorry. You go ahead. You go

1250
00:47:04,175 --> 00:47:06,255
ahead. No. No. No. No. Go ahead. I

1251
00:47:06,255 --> 00:47:08,574
was just gonna back to where you we

1252
00:47:08,574 --> 00:47:11,474
were talking about Trump in claiming the democrats

1253
00:47:11,614 --> 00:47:13,800
are the enemy, and that's where they're at.

1254
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,280
This is a little snippet of where I

1255
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:16,760
think

1256
00:47:17,079 --> 00:47:19,559
I I believe he's a truly evil man,

1257
00:47:19,559 --> 00:47:21,739
my opinion only. His comment

1258
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:22,940
about

1259
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:24,699
Robert Mueller passing.

1260
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,820
Now granted they weren't the best of friends,

1261
00:47:28,235 --> 00:47:30,635
but I thought that was pretty hideous. I

1262
00:47:30,635 --> 00:47:32,315
didn't hear what he say. Oh, he said

1263
00:47:32,315 --> 00:47:33,914
he was glad he's dead. Oh, I knew

1264
00:47:33,914 --> 00:47:36,175
that part of it. Glad he's dead. Now

1265
00:47:36,315 --> 00:47:37,994
I I I just thought that was quite

1266
00:47:37,994 --> 00:47:40,474
the horrific comment to make, but it didn't

1267
00:47:40,474 --> 00:47:42,655
surprise me coming from him.

1268
00:47:44,210 --> 00:47:46,049
That's what I'll say about that. And and

1269
00:47:46,049 --> 00:47:48,049
if, you know, if you look at the

1270
00:47:48,049 --> 00:47:49,109
difference between

1271
00:47:50,289 --> 00:47:52,869
the outrage over people who said negative,

1272
00:47:57,224 --> 00:48:00,105
negative things about Charlie Kirk. Right? Well, boy,

1273
00:48:00,105 --> 00:48:01,005
you go. The

1274
00:48:01,464 --> 00:48:01,964
president

1275
00:48:02,424 --> 00:48:03,244
the president

1276
00:48:03,625 --> 00:48:06,844
of The United States is supposed to be

1277
00:48:07,224 --> 00:48:08,204
someone who

1278
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,440
holds himself above reproach, who is supposed to

1279
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:13,340
be someone

1280
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,820
that the people of this country

1281
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:17,260
look up to,

1282
00:48:17,559 --> 00:48:19,800
and yet he is being I I mean,

1283
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,199
he just says terrible things about people, and

1284
00:48:22,199 --> 00:48:24,324
we should expect more. Now I'll go back

1285
00:48:24,324 --> 00:48:25,144
to history.

1286
00:48:25,605 --> 00:48:26,265
I mean,

1287
00:48:26,565 --> 00:48:27,065
history

1288
00:48:28,005 --> 00:48:29,545
knowing history is important.

1289
00:48:29,925 --> 00:48:30,824
For instance,

1290
00:48:32,085 --> 00:48:32,824
in Iran,

1291
00:48:33,445 --> 00:48:34,105
you know,

1292
00:48:34,644 --> 00:48:36,744
certainly, you have the Ayatollah Khomeini.

1293
00:48:37,125 --> 00:48:40,339
Right? Yeah. They overthrew the Shah of Iran.

1294
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,179
The Shah of Iran

1295
00:48:43,119 --> 00:48:46,260
was put in by The United States because

1296
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:47,699
the previous

1297
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:50,500
leader of Iran,

1298
00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:51,619
Mohammed

1299
00:48:52,344 --> 00:48:52,844
Mosaddegh,

1300
00:48:53,864 --> 00:48:56,125
he wanted to was democratically

1301
00:48:56,425 --> 00:48:57,965
elected, very popular,

1302
00:48:58,744 --> 00:49:01,724
and he wanted to audit DP,

1303
00:49:02,585 --> 00:49:05,280
right, for their oil company. Yes. British Petroleum

1304
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,559
with the oil company, again, wars for oil,

1305
00:49:08,559 --> 00:49:10,320
put in the Shah of Iran who was

1306
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:11,780
also a brutal dictator.

1307
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,420
Right? He just wasn't a religious fanatic.

1308
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:16,815
So we did that.

1309
00:49:17,295 --> 00:49:19,875
Did not go well. The Ayatollah came in.

1310
00:49:20,014 --> 00:49:21,234
They support Hezbollah.

1311
00:49:21,934 --> 00:49:22,434
They,

1312
00:49:23,295 --> 00:49:25,214
you know, they are a danger to the

1313
00:49:25,214 --> 00:49:25,714
entire

1314
00:49:26,094 --> 00:49:27,315
Middle East. They,

1315
00:49:28,655 --> 00:49:30,434
like, they are a pariah nation,

1316
00:49:30,809 --> 00:49:32,890
but we have to understand how we got

1317
00:49:32,890 --> 00:49:33,390
there

1318
00:49:33,690 --> 00:49:35,369
so that we don't end up doing it

1319
00:49:35,369 --> 00:49:37,449
again. And that's why we need to have

1320
00:49:37,449 --> 00:49:37,949
conversations

1321
00:49:38,489 --> 00:49:39,150
in congress

1322
00:49:39,690 --> 00:49:42,170
before going into war so that we get

1323
00:49:42,170 --> 00:49:43,150
to have transparency

1324
00:49:44,010 --> 00:49:46,855
and talk about what this history is and

1325
00:49:46,855 --> 00:49:47,594
and relay

1326
00:49:47,974 --> 00:49:51,575
the vast majority of my constituents' will, Democrats

1327
00:49:51,575 --> 00:49:54,454
and Republicans, is that we don't end up

1328
00:49:54,454 --> 00:49:57,175
in another foreign war for oil that puts

1329
00:49:57,175 --> 00:49:58,469
Americans in danger.

1330
00:49:59,030 --> 00:50:00,389
Which is where we are right now. And

1331
00:50:00,389 --> 00:50:02,650
I'm glad you brought that point up, representative.

1332
00:50:03,030 --> 00:50:04,630
I think a lot of us forget about

1333
00:50:04,630 --> 00:50:06,650
the fact that we're a representative democracy.

1334
00:50:07,109 --> 00:50:09,690
You represent all of us that live in

1335
00:50:09,989 --> 00:50:13,954
Oregon Congressional District 4. You are our voice

1336
00:50:13,954 --> 00:50:14,934
in that house.

1337
00:50:15,715 --> 00:50:17,155
So if you don't get to speak about

1338
00:50:17,155 --> 00:50:20,135
it because president Trump has just skipped congress,

1339
00:50:20,195 --> 00:50:21,795
how do we ever have our voice heard

1340
00:50:21,795 --> 00:50:23,635
by our president about how we feel about

1341
00:50:23,635 --> 00:50:25,530
this war because you're representing us there?

1342
00:50:26,489 --> 00:50:28,409
There. And I'll let you have And and

1343
00:50:28,409 --> 00:50:30,590
and more and and there's there's

1344
00:50:31,130 --> 00:50:33,390
those points, Brett, you are exactly,

1345
00:50:34,090 --> 00:50:34,590
exactly

1346
00:50:35,130 --> 00:50:35,630
correct.

1347
00:50:36,250 --> 00:50:39,614
And the larger point is there are presidents

1348
00:50:39,835 --> 00:50:42,555
that have tried to exceed their executive power.

1349
00:50:42,555 --> 00:50:43,055
Right?

1350
00:50:44,075 --> 00:50:45,135
That but,

1351
00:50:45,755 --> 00:50:47,375
like, Lyndon Johnson

1352
00:50:47,675 --> 00:50:48,655
wanted to vote.

1353
00:50:49,355 --> 00:50:50,954
You know? He knew how to use his

1354
00:50:50,954 --> 00:50:52,635
power both as president and,

1355
00:50:53,550 --> 00:50:55,090
you know, in the senate. I understand.

1356
00:50:56,430 --> 00:50:58,769
But you had you had a judiciary

1357
00:51:00,590 --> 00:51:01,070
and,

1358
00:51:01,550 --> 00:51:02,289
a congress

1359
00:51:02,670 --> 00:51:04,690
that balanced him out.

1360
00:51:04,989 --> 00:51:06,289
You had Richard Nixon

1361
00:51:06,590 --> 00:51:07,730
where you had Republicans

1362
00:51:08,394 --> 00:51:11,035
that actually came out and said, we need

1363
00:51:11,035 --> 00:51:14,635
to hold our president accountable, and Democrats and

1364
00:51:14,635 --> 00:51:15,135
Republicans

1365
00:51:15,434 --> 00:51:17,215
came together over Watergate,

1366
00:51:17,835 --> 00:51:19,055
you know, to open

1367
00:51:19,355 --> 00:51:22,235
it over something he did wrong. Nixon Nixon

1368
00:51:22,235 --> 00:51:24,190
was not a cult leader, though. That's what

1369
00:51:24,190 --> 00:51:25,949
we have now, people who are back in

1370
00:51:26,110 --> 00:51:28,030
Well, and regardless of what he does. But

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00:51:28,030 --> 00:51:28,190
it

1372
00:51:29,550 --> 00:51:31,250
right. And it's our job

1373
00:51:31,630 --> 00:51:33,710
as members of Congress, and I tell this

1374
00:51:33,710 --> 00:51:35,170
to my Republican colleagues,

1375
00:51:35,949 --> 00:51:36,690
Mike Johnson

1376
00:51:36,989 --> 00:51:39,594
does not does not want to buck the

1377
00:51:39,594 --> 00:51:41,934
president. He is loyal to the president

1378
00:51:42,315 --> 00:51:44,335
as opposed to being loyal to the American

1379
00:51:44,394 --> 00:51:46,795
people. If you watched him during watched him

1380
00:51:46,795 --> 00:51:47,275
during the,

1381
00:51:49,674 --> 00:51:51,835
president's speech to to the joint members, I

1382
00:51:51,835 --> 00:51:53,829
can't think of the name right now, And

1383
00:51:53,829 --> 00:51:55,750
Mike Johnson sitting there with that silly grin

1384
00:51:55,750 --> 00:51:57,429
on his face, he looked like Alfred e

1385
00:51:57,429 --> 00:51:59,670
Newman, and he always does when he's standing

1386
00:51:59,670 --> 00:52:01,670
next to the president. Just the And and

1387
00:52:01,670 --> 00:52:03,670
the and the joke that I don't think

1388
00:52:03,670 --> 00:52:05,030
a lot of people got is is,

1389
00:52:06,355 --> 00:52:08,355
Trump bought all these shoes for all his

1390
00:52:08,355 --> 00:52:09,735
his cabinet members,

1391
00:52:10,035 --> 00:52:11,715
and the shoes that he bought for Marco

1392
00:52:11,715 --> 00:52:14,375
Rubio were way too big for Marco Rubio.

1393
00:52:14,595 --> 00:52:15,494
I think it was

1394
00:52:16,114 --> 00:52:17,795
trying to a a lot of people thought

1395
00:52:17,795 --> 00:52:19,394
he just got the size wrong. No. He's

1396
00:52:19,394 --> 00:52:21,349
trying to tell Marco you're filling some pretty

1397
00:52:21,349 --> 00:52:23,670
big Well, Marco is filling shoes that are

1398
00:52:23,670 --> 00:52:25,210
way too big. Yes. He is.

1399
00:52:25,590 --> 00:52:27,829
I think little Marco was probably a good

1400
00:52:27,829 --> 00:52:28,329
description.

1401
00:52:29,190 --> 00:52:29,670
Well,

1402
00:52:30,070 --> 00:52:32,969
There's I mean, you know Yeah. We again,

1403
00:52:33,355 --> 00:52:35,055
what we need is we need

1404
00:52:35,594 --> 00:52:37,135
to have a healthy democracy.

1405
00:52:37,675 --> 00:52:39,454
We need to get money out of politics,

1406
00:52:40,074 --> 00:52:42,414
right, and overturn Citizens United.

1407
00:52:42,875 --> 00:52:43,855
We need to,

1408
00:52:45,515 --> 00:52:48,630
stop the over partisan gerrymandering

1409
00:52:49,010 --> 00:52:51,409
and and have the Supreme Court do their

1410
00:52:51,409 --> 00:52:52,789
job. I'm really concerned,

1411
00:52:53,889 --> 00:52:56,289
that they are gonna overturn the voting rights

1412
00:52:56,289 --> 00:52:57,510
act right in,

1413
00:52:57,889 --> 00:53:00,425
article two, and that will mean

1414
00:53:00,805 --> 00:53:03,305
that there could be much more severe gerrymandering

1415
00:53:03,525 --> 00:53:05,925
of, like, 19 more speeds, which is not

1416
00:53:05,925 --> 00:53:07,065
healthy for our democracy.

1417
00:53:08,085 --> 00:53:10,805
We need to, I think, expand vote by

1418
00:53:10,805 --> 00:53:11,305
mail

1419
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:12,619
so that people

1420
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,239
can have time to vote and have their

1421
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:16,059
voice inferred.

1422
00:53:16,519 --> 00:53:19,000
And I also think at some point, I

1423
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,319
would like to see us have, you know,

1424
00:53:21,319 --> 00:53:23,880
more than two parties. But right now, we

1425
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:25,960
have a president and a speaker of the

1426
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:27,484
house and an administration

1427
00:53:28,184 --> 00:53:30,664
that wants to just have one party having

1428
00:53:30,664 --> 00:53:33,304
a voice. And that one party isn't working

1429
00:53:33,304 --> 00:53:35,884
on behalf of the vast majority of Americans,

1430
00:53:36,344 --> 00:53:38,264
and we have to fight back and make

1431
00:53:38,264 --> 00:53:40,199
sure in 2026,

1432
00:53:40,199 --> 00:53:42,280
our voices are heard and we have free

1433
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:43,099
and fair elections.

1434
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,639
Very true. Now we are running down. We

1435
00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:47,400
got about little over three minutes. I have

1436
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,639
to one I'm gonna throw out, hopefully, some

1437
00:53:49,639 --> 00:53:50,139
hope.

1438
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,335
Congresswoman, what do you think hope for the

1439
00:53:53,335 --> 00:53:55,015
midterms? I get a little nervous when I

1440
00:53:55,015 --> 00:53:56,215
hear a lot of people saying, oh, it's

1441
00:53:56,215 --> 00:53:58,295
gonna be an easy blue wave. I don't

1442
00:53:58,295 --> 00:53:59,434
know about that, but,

1443
00:54:00,855 --> 00:54:02,394
we are hoping for some midterm,

1444
00:54:04,135 --> 00:54:05,815
luck. What would you call it? I don't

1445
00:54:05,815 --> 00:54:07,255
know. We all call it work. That is

1446
00:54:07,255 --> 00:54:09,150
not luck. It's all hard work. Will, For

1447
00:54:09,150 --> 00:54:10,909
sure. We all thought, well, I'm all ahead

1448
00:54:10,909 --> 00:54:12,989
of work on the park. Yeah. Let's hear

1449
00:54:12,989 --> 00:54:14,929
from the representative on that. So

1450
00:54:15,710 --> 00:54:18,190
first of all, what we have seen in

1451
00:54:18,190 --> 00:54:19,010
every other

1452
00:54:19,549 --> 00:54:21,889
in all of the elections across the country

1453
00:54:22,215 --> 00:54:22,715
is

1454
00:54:23,175 --> 00:54:23,994
that, you know,

1455
00:54:24,934 --> 00:54:26,635
that that elections

1456
00:54:27,414 --> 00:54:30,454
are are swinging by double digits. Again, Texas

1457
00:54:30,454 --> 00:54:33,595
is a good example. Georgia is an excellent

1458
00:54:33,655 --> 00:54:37,299
example. So those are Jersey. Right? So and

1459
00:54:37,299 --> 00:54:39,719
and Virginia. So those are good signs.

1460
00:54:40,500 --> 00:54:42,339
We have to that we have to make

1461
00:54:42,339 --> 00:54:44,359
sure that we fight voter suppression

1462
00:54:44,819 --> 00:54:45,319
and

1463
00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:47,719
hold firm on not letting

1464
00:54:48,019 --> 00:54:51,135
the senate pass the steal act, the stealing

1465
00:54:51,135 --> 00:54:52,114
our vote act.

1466
00:54:52,655 --> 00:54:54,355
And then and then

1467
00:54:54,815 --> 00:54:57,375
Democrats need to give people something to vote

1468
00:54:57,375 --> 00:54:57,875
for.

1469
00:54:58,175 --> 00:55:01,055
It is not enough to just say Trump

1470
00:55:01,055 --> 00:55:03,739
is bad. We have to give them something

1471
00:55:03,739 --> 00:55:06,880
to vote for and work harder and actually

1472
00:55:07,179 --> 00:55:10,799
have messaging that speaks to working class people

1473
00:55:10,859 --> 00:55:13,739
and ordinary people. We, you know, we can't

1474
00:55:13,739 --> 00:55:16,184
just show up to people that can't pay

1475
00:55:16,184 --> 00:55:18,505
for their rent or their gas or their

1476
00:55:18,505 --> 00:55:20,525
food with a 16 page paper

1477
00:55:20,825 --> 00:55:23,724
on poverty. That's not gonna fly.

1478
00:55:24,105 --> 00:55:25,405
We have to do better

1479
00:55:26,105 --> 00:55:26,585
at,

1480
00:55:27,224 --> 00:55:29,545
at meeting people where they are and fighting

1481
00:55:29,545 --> 00:55:30,045
for

1482
00:55:30,549 --> 00:55:33,609
some economic prosperity and balance in,

1483
00:55:34,630 --> 00:55:37,269
you know, in people's lives. Well, again, we're

1484
00:55:37,269 --> 00:55:39,510
all hoping and I don't know about praying.

1485
00:55:39,510 --> 00:55:41,429
I don't pray, but hoping for the mid

1486
00:55:41,429 --> 00:55:42,329
for the midterm

1487
00:55:43,135 --> 00:55:44,735
swing. I don't know about you. I'm working

1488
00:55:44,735 --> 00:55:45,715
for it. And,

1489
00:55:46,015 --> 00:55:47,075
again, congresswoman

1490
00:55:47,535 --> 00:55:50,255
Val Hoyle, really appreciate you doing the show.

1491
00:55:50,255 --> 00:55:52,255
Sorry for the initial. We had some tech

1492
00:55:52,255 --> 00:55:55,855
issues that I certainly cannot repair, but it

1493
00:55:55,855 --> 00:55:57,614
worked out. Got a little late start. But,

1494
00:55:57,614 --> 00:55:59,819
again, like to really thank you for being

1495
00:55:59,819 --> 00:56:01,099
on our show, and I hope to have

1496
00:56:01,099 --> 00:56:02,859
you on. Again, I've got pages of notes

1497
00:56:02,859 --> 00:56:05,099
I had didn't get to and maybe the

1498
00:56:05,099 --> 00:56:05,839
next time.

1499
00:56:06,859 --> 00:56:08,699
And we really appreciate you being on very

1500
00:56:08,699 --> 00:56:09,199
much.

1501
00:56:10,295 --> 00:56:12,775
I I appreciate what you're doing. Local media

1502
00:56:12,775 --> 00:56:15,335
matters, and I wanna, you know, call out,

1503
00:56:16,135 --> 00:56:18,535
Brett Cecil for the work that he's done

1504
00:56:18,535 --> 00:56:19,195
to organize

1505
00:56:19,575 --> 00:56:22,695
in Curry County. He is he is working

1506
00:56:22,695 --> 00:56:25,050
nonstop. And, Brett, we appreciate you.

1507
00:56:25,610 --> 00:56:27,869
And and we do. Hi as well. Alright.

1508
00:56:27,929 --> 00:56:30,170
We're just about done. I want a quick

1509
00:56:30,170 --> 00:56:32,489
shout out to our friends, John and Janine,

1510
00:56:32,489 --> 00:56:33,550
who showed up here,

1511
00:56:34,570 --> 00:56:36,890
before we started the show. They walked in

1512
00:56:36,890 --> 00:56:39,454
off the street, saw the radio station, came

1513
00:56:39,835 --> 00:56:40,954
in and bought a t shirt. Yay. Thank

1514
00:56:40,954 --> 00:56:41,855
you, John and Janine.

1515
00:56:42,235 --> 00:56:44,815
Alright. Thank you all for listening. KCIW

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00:56:45,355 --> 00:56:47,135
one hundred point seven FM

1517
00:56:47,594 --> 00:56:49,421
here in beautiful Brookings, Oregon.