An inside look at the NABJ convention and a conversation with Sen Tuberville

The National Association of Black Journalists are holding their annual convention in Birmingham and iHeart Journalist Tyrik Wynn stops by our Birmingham studios to share some of what he has learned and what issues are being addressed at the conference. Also JT talks with Senator Tommy Tuberville about his farm bill. He says there are provisions in that bill that will provide for a better way of life for our farmers.

Episode Transcript

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This is Viewpoint Alabama, a publicservice at the Alabama Radio Network where we
talk about the people, the places, and the things happening in and around
Alabama. This week, I'm JohnMountain. Right now in Birmingham, the
National Association of Black Journalist is holdingtheir annual convention, bringing journalists from all
across America to Birmingham and joining menow in our Viewpoint Alabama Studios is one

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such journalist, Tyreek Winn. Tyreek, Welcome to the show. Yeah,
thanks so much for having me.This is great. Happy to be in
the city of Birmingham. This isthe convention has been awesome. Man.
So you've been to I've been toa few conventions in my career, and
usually conventions there are a lot offun. You got to catch out with
people, maybe do a little networkingand a little drinking after hours that sort
of thing. But but there areactual things to get discussed, right,

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Yeah. So what you've been inon some of these discussions, some of
these panels, what sort of thingsare being addressed. Yeah, it's been.
Like I said, it's been great, man, has been very informative.
Like one thing I like about NABJnot only is it networking, but
it's also really educational, so ithelps us, like you know, it
hans our journalism skills. And there'salso a lot of hands on activities as
well, Like there's been the CNNworkshops. You know, they got a

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CNN Producer workshop. They also hadthe seingn Reporter Workshop where you can enhance
your reporting skills. They also hada really good one. It was the
art of a like talking about liveshots using your cell phone. You know
a lot of people are using theircell phones to do journalism nowadays, so
there was something talking about that,and there was also a civil rights piece

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of it too. There they hada couple of things going on within that.
We actually had m Andrew Young whocame, who came, who was
at the convention and stuff, andhe had his book and all that stuff,
so that was pretty exciting. Andthen BT had a little UM had
a little session as well where theywere talking about one of their shows and
stuff. So, yes, it'sbeen great, very informative. Man can't
complain. So you mentioned that thecell phone that really has changed the way

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journalism is done. I can rememberwhen I and I went to it through
school, you know, in thenineties and the way you went out and
you did a shot was you hada camera crew come with you with this
enormous camera. This Now, ofcourse, Mark, we're talking to radio
listeners all across Alabama who may ormay not work in media. Most don't,
so we have to kind of givethem a little background here. But
used to be as as a televisionreporter, you go up with this enormous

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camera, like like the size ofthat VHS machine that your your father used
back in the eighties, you knowthat huge cameras and nowadays what they call
them mvj's right video journalists MMJ mjahmulti media journalists. Yeah, yeah,
where it's they don't forget the cameraman. It's like one reporter goes out with
their phone and maybe a mic theycan plug in, but otherwise it's just

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using a cell phone. Because nowyou can get just as good a video
on your iPhone as you could onone of those gigantic cameras. How has
that changed the way reporting is donein this century, in this year.
Yeah, yeah, it's crazy,And it's funny that you say that,
because, like I guess some likesometimes the way our iPhones are like designed
now, like sometimes I get betterquality than regular camera. So I mean

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it's funny because sometimes it looks Imean, it looks a whole lot better
on the phone. But I thinkI think, like, um, like
you mentioned MMJUM, a lot oflike photographers have been like fired and laid
off and stuff. And now there'slike this thing where you know, now
you're not really being hired as areporter or being hired as an MMJ So
that means you have to shoot yourown stuff. That means you have to

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edit your own stuff. You haveto go on air, um, you
know, and do all that,coordinate the interviews and stuff. You're doing
five people's jobs, one person,one salary nowadays and how it is.
But um, but yeah, ithas changed and stuff. And I won't
say it's actually I think it's alot easier now to just take your cell
phone because you know, we alwayshave our cell phones on us. We

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may not always have um, youknow, our big cameras on us as
well. You know, like atthe convention, I'm seeing a couple of
celebrities and stuff. You know,I might want to get a quick,
quick quick clip and interview them andstuff. I don't have my cameras and
stuff, you know, like that'sready to go on hands. So yeah,
I think, you know, usingour cell phones, it's been kind
of fast paced, just helps us, you know, get content right in

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the moment. And I think alsoback in the days when you used to
have it was a three or fourman operation in order to go cover a
story. You the reporter wasn't ableto really allow their vision to be seen
because sometimes you know, you shoota story because you have an idea how
you're going to tell the story,and you edit it like that, and
if you have different people involved,sometimes by committee, it loses the message.

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So in this way the message canbe more direct. I think,
yeah, for sure, Yeah,I think, yeah, I think it
is a very direct message. Andlike I said, it's a whole lot
easier, you know what I'm saying. With the cell phones. I mean,
it's crazy lot. I like,like I like the big setup,
the cameras, delights and all thisstuff just because it has a good look
to it makes me look good.But but I mean, when you have
a cell phone, is just soeasy, man, It's so convenient.

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Now at the at the convention,you see a lot of folks there,
probably people you've seen before, somenew faces and some famous faces. Can
you tell me if you've seen anyonethere? Who you know? Who you
know? You're like, man,I can't believe I'm I'm just grasping at
straws here. I don't know who'sthe biggest guest, the next star you've
seen wandering around there? Yeah,I've seen. I've seen a couple of

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people. Um, I would sayAbby Philip from CNN. Uh, yeah,
yeah, I've seen I've seen her. You know, she has her
own political show on CNN. I'veseen her. Um, I've also seen
UM. I saw Mike Hill aswell, Mike Hill from the UM He's
on Fox Sports, was also onthe Real Housewives of Atlanta too, and
um of course Andrew Young, likeI said, Andrew Young saw him,
saw the president of ABC, KimGodwin there. So yeah, it's been

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you know, it's been some facesthere, some some big names about now.
Now you went up to talk tohim, right, having star?
Yeah, yeah, frequent. Iyou know, I have win productions.
I would like to help out withwith your anything I can do for you,
you know that kind of thing.Yeah, yeah, definitely, I
think I think that's so important.I think, um, like a lot
of times when we see these people, sometimes we can kind of be nervous.

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But I mean sometimes you just gottamake your move, especially like NABJ.
The convention, this is the placeto go out and make those moves,
you know what I'm saying. So, I mean NABJ, like I
said, has been fantastic, andyou're gonna see these people that you look
up to, these people that youadmire. But I mean they're just people.
You can walk up to them andtalk to them, man, I
mean, you know, they're justregular people. Sure. Now, the

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NAPJ, they are involved in someother things too, like some political advocacy
and then that sort of thing.What are some of the advocacy things that
the NABJ is involved in, Issuesthat they're that they're really passionate about.
For example, one of the onesI was thinking of is, you know,
there's a big fight right now aboutAM radio, whether or not it's
going to stay in cars or not. I don't know if they're looking to

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maybe encourage the lawmakers to pass legislationto require auto manufacturers to keep AM radios
in cars. If not, maybeyou should bring this up. Yeah,
that's that's actually a good idea,and I haven't I don't want to say
yes or no because I haven't heardanything about it. But while I'm here,
I'll definitely investigating. I'll talk tothe President and see if that is

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um see if that's something that we'reworking on. But if not, then
I'll definitely bring that up and I'llsee if I can create something to the
point where an ABJ can definitely getinvolved in that because that's a big issue.
But I've definitely been, you know, supporting them to of course keep
am radio in the cars. Imean, you know, we're on the
radio, so obviously I'm going tosupport that issue. But yeah, I

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fill it out them. I fillout that. I think it was like
some surveys that I got through email, and I've also emailed some of our
local Georgia congress people and stuff likethat about a you know, keep am
radio and cars. So and wehave here in Alabama as well, because
we also think it's important. Alot of the stations that we're being heard
on right now are am radio stations, and why all the stations would be

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there. If you don't have aradio, you can't hear us, and
there would be a lot of voicessilence, especially voices who maybe are you
know, not mainstream, that wouldn'tbe heard because if a whole band went
away, and it really shouldn't,it really shouldn't go away, at least
in my opinion. Let me askyou this, because you touched on this
a little bit, how do youhandle the issue of in partiality, Like,

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are you of the belief, youknow that a broadcaster should be absolutely
impartial in the way that they deliverthe news or do you kind of think
that it's almost impossible to do so. In other words, you you're you're
necessarily biasing the story by not onlythe way you say what you say the
way you say it, how whatyou leave in, what you leave out,
that sort of thing, the factthat you cover this story and didn't

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cover that story. There's there's abias there, and a lot of people
say, well, you can't bebiased, but there's always a little bit
of biased. So how do youwork around that or still maintain that journalistic
that journalistic integrity of impartiality while stillyou know, bringing some sort of because
you can't you can't truly be completelyFor example, if you're doing a story
on the Holocaust, you can't saythe Holocaust was terrible, however some people

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think it was good. You know, you don't do that. You know,
really there's only one kind of sideto that story. So how do
you how do you talk about somethingthat has really only one side yet you
know, make it seem like you'restill impartial, you're not part of the
story. Yeah, that's a goodquestion. I think. Is ante the
way you tell it? You knowwhat I'm saying. I think if you

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I think it's I think if youtell it a certain way, and you
like always say, like when Ido a story, I always want to,
if at all possible, to getboth sides of the story right that
way, both voices are heard,you know what I'm saying, because sometimes
when you just get that one side, then they may say, oh,
you know, they're doing biased stuffif you only get one side of the
story. But I always try toget both sides of the story. That's

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something that I learned in school becausethat was something that I actually struggle with.
I would only get one side ofthe story, one interview, you
know what I'm saying, and thenthat would just be that would just be
that I try to turn that in. But my news director would be like,
no, we gotta get both sidesof the story so we're not biased.
And it's crazy that you actually saythat, because when I get when
I get my copy for iHeartRadio,and when I go online and do the

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news, I have the ability togo through and literally choose what stories I
you know, want to put onthe air and stuff like that. You've
got you got two minutes or oneminute or whatever. You have to pick
out what four stories and cram endof one minute. You know it's tough.
Yeah, I've heard your stuff manytimes. Well, here's what I
was thinking about it. Sometimes there'snot two sides. Sometimes there's three and
four and five sides to a story. You know you're going to you're probably

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gonna leave somebody out, Like,for example, you talk about I don't
know, I'm picking an issue here, uh, renewable energy. Well,
there's multiple kinds of renewable energy.And the people from the wind industry say
we're better. No, the solaris better. Noo, they're both bad.
You should go with a hydroelectric.There's so many different kinds of renewable
energy. Which one do you reporton while you're doing a non biased story?

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About an issue about renewable energy.Yeah, that's um. Yeah,
Yeah, that's it. Yeah,that's that. I would say that when
you have multiple sides like that,it can be a little challenging, Right,
I would say I haven't like necessarilycovered anything like that, but I
will say I've covered something as faras multiple sides. That would be probably
the presidential election. Right. Iremember when, back when a couple of

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years ago, we had all theseDemocratic candidates in the race. Right,
So trying to cramp all of thesecandidate ideas in a minute thirty story was
tough, sure, especially or beforeyou've gone through into the general, when
you're still in the primaries, you'reyou're having ten, twelve, fourteen people
run exactly for an office in asemester. You can't possibly pay attention to
all of them. So you haveto decide, Okay, these three are

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pulling the highest, or these twoare the most interesting, or these two
are the most electable, And sometimessomebody gets left out. And I guess
that's a decision that you're having tomake on behalf of your your listeners,
because your listeners are relying on youto make that decision to bring them what
they need. To know in theamount of time allotted U targ Let me
let me ask you one more questionthe convention. It's not over yet,

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but so far have you have youseen anything encountering anything you take away to
make your craft better? Absolutely,I would say, Um, what I
would say the biggest I was thebiggest thing that I got accomplished at the
convention, right was actually, um, today, I have a lot of
people know that I started my ownpodcast called Navigating Journalism Podcast, and so

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I had had my amazing crew fromAtlanta drive over today and we shot about
five episode of the podcasts on site, and so I was able to grab
a couple of journalists at the CareerFair bring them over so they could interview
with me on the podcast. Iwould say, that's the most valuable thing
I've got out of it thus far. But then also, I mean the

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connections, man, the connections havebeen amazing, like meeting new people.
And it's crazy because like now,since like since last year, I've kind
of made just a little bit ofa bigger name for myself and you I've
done a couple of things and it'scrazy like people have act like been fanning
over me. Oh my gosh itTyreque and I love your stuff, and
it's like it's just crazy to like, you know, see people like wow,

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people are like actually watching you knowwhat I'm saying. It's crazy.
So how many business cards have yougiven out? You know what's funny.
I haven't. I don't think I'vegiven out any business How many have you
received? Oh a lot? Yeah, I've received a lot of business cards.
I've given out, given out myphone number, given out, giving
out some Instagrams and stuff. Youknow. You know, NABJ isn't all

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about business. Sometimes there's you know, females to do, so you know
you're gonna get a little of that. So while you're while you're in Birmingham,
you have any chance to check outlike the Vulcan or any other stuff
we have. You know, there'sa lot of stuff in Birmingham you can
do other than just go to theconvention. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
You know, I've I've been tryingto get away from the convention to
cover other stuff. It's been toughbecause you know, the convention is a
all day thing. But of coursewe do have like the receptions, the

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after parties and stuff like that,and then of course, you know,
eating and stuff too. So youknow I've hit up um, you know,
we've I think my friends and Ihit up a couple of spots or
what um and whatnot. So wehit up a spot there's like literally right
around the corner from the convention,was like a jazz bar or something like
that. Um, right by theWeston and stuff like that. So we
hit that up. And then umthat we have a Sports Task Force jam

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that's gonna happen tonight. I'm notsure where it's at, but it's gonna
be at some popular spot or whatever. So you need to go see the
Vulcan. Okay, haven't seen theVulcan. Okay. It's the world's largest
iron statue. Okay, I gottasee that. He's looking over where.
You could go up right now andyou can see me's up on the mountain
and you can go up and actuallygo up and stand at its pedestal and
overlook the city. It's a greatgo at night, Okay, at night,
it's it's a great time to go. Well, tyrek Win, I

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thank you so much for coming in. One more thing before I let you
go. For people who want tofind out more about you, want to
see. I understand you've got avariety of platforms you're on. How can
people find out more about you orthe things that you're out there doing.
Yes, so you guys can definitelycheck me out on Instagram, really big
on Instagram, Tyreek Wind iHeartMedia.That's t y r I k Wy And
I'm also on Twitter, Tyreek WinTV, Facebook, Tyreek Win, iHeartMedia

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and threads. You know we're threadingnow, So same thing as Instagram of
course, Tyreek Wind, iHeartMedia,man, and those are on my social
media platforms and then also on myYouTube channel, Tyreek Win Network. And
for those of you I know alot of people are you know traveling through
Alabama maybe from Georgia. Also hadmy own production studio back in Atlanta where

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we film produce television shows. Youcan rent out the studio space for your
own podcast show and all that stuff. So that's pretty much what I got
going on now. Terry Win,a reporter from iHeart Media, Thank you
so much for joining me today onViewpoint Alabama. Coming up in a minute,
Ryan Gorman joins us. But rightnow, an event that has been
unfolding for the last year and ahalf or so is the full scale invasion

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by Russia. Russian forces on thesovereign country of Ukraine. Joining us now
to give us a very up closeand personal view of this is war correspondent
Christopher Miller. He's the author ofthe war came to us Life and Death
in Ukraine. Chris, Welcome toViewpoint, Alabama. Thank you for having
me. So we already had thisinterview scheduled for today before, but we

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just heard the recent events of theatrocities. They're continuing as Russia they launched
a full scale missile attack on Zelinski'shometown. This is getting to be personal.
This isn't just a military target,or it's continuing to be personal.
What is Putin's endgame here? Yeah, well, I think it's been personal
from the very beginning for leading Reputin. You know, this is a war
that began in the scale, outof the scale that we see now in

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February of twenty twenty two, butit began back in spring of twenty fourteen
when Russia first covertly invaded under theguise of backing separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.
But it's been you know, LdieMcprutin has been waging this war now
for more than nine years, andI think his goal is nothing less than
the complete destruction of Ukraine and Ukrainians, who he has repeatedly referred to as

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Russians who have lost their way.UM. You know, he wants to
to to bring the country into hisfold, to recreate in a way the
Soviet Union. And I think fromday one it was it was of the
full scale invasion, especially um itwas it was personal when, as I
outline in the book, many ofof Lettie mcputin's special forces UM had had

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tried to enter keya of in orderto capture or kill President Zelenski. And
so this, this missile attack reallyis is only the latest, um even
just within I mean less than atwelve our period of between bees and the
other more recent missile attacks. Butyes, this one was was focused on

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Voladimir Zelenski's hometown of krevy Re insouthern Ukraine. I saw just before we
started speaking here that Zelenski himself hadjust given an update saying that five people
were killed and a mother and achild were among them. This seems like
the scorched earth campaign that Putin continuesto perpetrate is almost like a jilted lover,

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like if I can't have it,no one can. And he doesn't
seem to care what he destroys alongthe way. It's not like he's just
interested in reunification anymore. He's hejust wants to conquer and be able to
stake a flag and go whatever burnedrubble is left here. This is still
part of our country now. Andmaybe it's also trying to send a message
to other parts of the world that, by the way, don't try this

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again. If you're you're a partof Russia, you're thinking of breaking away,
don't do it because this might happento you. Yeah, that's right.
And I think it's also important toto note that this is also because
he seriously miscalculated when he invaded Ukraine, and he thought that his troops would
roll into Kiev and be greeted asliberators, that Ukrainians would come out in

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the streets not to fight against them, but to shower them with hugs and
kisses and flowers. And that's notat all what happened. You know.
Obviously, Ukraine put up a strongdesfense and Russian forces never made it to
the capital Kiev, and you know, I think this was a major,
major miscalculation, and the only successon the battlefield that Putin has had since,

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or his army rather, has hadsince, is using these scorched earth
tactics of essentially destroying entire towns andvillages, raising them to the ground,
and then just moving through or pushingthrough the ruins of them. That's the
only tactic that has worked for theRussian military, and even then, it's
been months and months of of takingthousands of casualties over you know, a

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small period of territory for them toeven have any kind of battlefield victory.
The Ukrainians rather have had relatively goodsuccess recapturing territory, and they're trying to
do that to a greater extent nowin their current counteroffensive, which isn't going
as as quickly as they had hoped, but they still got a lot of

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Western military equipment and Western trained brigadesthat they haven't committed to that fight yet.
But yeah, you know, Ithink this is Putin's miscalculation, and
this tactic is something that's used becauseit's the only thing that they've had any
luck with well, and Putin obviouslyhe thought that even though the Ukrainians had
the home field advantage that Russia obviouslyhas the resources, and they would just
wear them down. And okay,they'll be they'll be excited to defend their

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country, but eventually he'll wear themdown. And do you think Putin might
have also miscalculated in terms of theamount of international support that Ukraine has been
able to receive that's been able toallow them to sustain this law. Absolutely.
Boutin had relatively you know, goodsuccess in twenty fourteen covertly invading and
annexing the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea inthe Black Seat, of invading eastern Ukraine

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and occupying a swap of territory inthe Donisk and the Gonsk regions that's about
the same size as the state ofMassachusetts, and with very little Western response.
The Obama administration didn't provide a lotof military support or any any lethal
weaponry to Ukraine back then. Theywere and NATO as well. We're concerned

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that doing so could stoke more militaryaggression from from the Russians, which is
probably true. It certainly would have. But that lack of response by by
our governments in twenty fourteen is whatI think, you know, Ladimir Putin
had in mind when he invaded inFebruary twenty twenty two, that the Western

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world wasn't going to come to Ukraine'sdefense. If it did, it would
do so with soft sanctions that ithad used, you know, previously to
not such a devastating effect in Russiahad found ways of getting around, and
I think he was surprised when theWestern tanks and armored vehicles and have you

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weapons systems and patriot air defense systemsstarted flowing into Ukraine. And that's certainly
been something that has caused him andhis military now great distress and has led
them to a more defense and posture. At the moment, they're not able
really to conduct defensive operations at themoment because they've they've just lost so many

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thousands of troops. But what theydid have success in doing is while this
Western weaponry was flowing into Ukraine,they've had time to dig into their positions,
and so their defenses are really greatlyortified and giving the Ukrainians some major
headaches even with all of this newWestern support. Christopher Miller, the author
of the War, came to usLife and Death in Ukraine thank you so

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much for joining us on Viewpoint Alabama. Yeah, I really appreciate it.
Thank you, And to finish thingsout today on Viewpoint Alabama, Senator Tommy
Tuberville has been traveling the state havingconversations with farmers. The Senator said,
agriculture is a vital part of ourstate's economy, and it only makes sense
that we have a seat at thetable for important negotiations like the farm bill.
Alabama's farmers, foresters, producers.They shoulder the burden of feeding,

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fueling, and clothing our nation.Our country relies not only on the current
generation of farmers, but we're alsodepending on the next generation to carry the
torch to keep not only the UnitedStates, but the world food secure.
That's why we need to cut burdensfrom red tape that inhibits production so that
family farms can remain intact for generationsto come. The Senator goes on to

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say, easing this burden has drivenmy work thus far, and I will
continue to keep our farmers front ofmine as we drafted twenty twenty three farm
bills, and now we go toJT as he talks with the Senator more
about this important legislation, Senator Tubervillejoins us down coach, thanks for being
back with me. Te there youare. How are you, sir,
ay t I'm doing good, man, I'm doing good. We been on

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my farm tour all week, tryingto work on the farm bill for the
farmers of this state and trying tofigure out what they need and what they
don't need. We need our farmersbecause we need food and we need to
be self sufficient in this country.But unfortunately the Democrats don't want to get
him a whole lot. But we'regonna fight for him. Tell me what's
in that farm bill and what theDemocrats are pushing against. Well, the
farm bill, it's a five yearbill, last done in twenty eighteen,

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and it was eight hundred and seventybillion billion, nine million. This year
it's gonna be one point five treeand only three hundred billion of that those
are our farmers to help them makeit through tough times. Crop insurance.
Where's the rest of it going?One point two tree and goes to stamps,
snap cards, anything to do that. People said at home and not

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work. Now. I'm for takingcare of the elderly. People that need
help are veterans, but I'm gonnatell you we got millions of people setting
home taking a paycheck, and ofcourse that's that's how the Democrats try to
wine buying votes. And this countrywas built on the box of hard work

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and effort from our fathers and grandfathersand mothers and grandmothers, and we have
lost that work ethic. And thisfarm bill is absolutely a slap in the
face of farmers and the American peoplebecause American people are paying the taxes on
this one point five trade. Well, I certainly commend your efforts on this
and hope you can get some commonsense in the room and get it done

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best as you can. But yeah, the Democrats always looking to help those
free handouts to buy those votes.As you said, let's talk about space
Command. Here we go, Mygosh, President, buy no reason whatsoever.
Accept he's mad at you and notgetting freedom for abortions for people in
the services unless you know. Andhe said, all right, fine,

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if that's the way he's gonna be, how about this, We're gonna keep
Space Command out of Huntsville, Alabama. Disgusting. Well, you know they've
been making statements like you know,any state that's got a bad abortion policy
that doesn't agree with the Democrats whereit's gonna make start making changes. I
got news for them, who gotbases all over the Red States and a
lot more than are in Blue states. Blue states, good handle it to

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begin with. And let me tellyou something. If I thought we're in
such trouble worldwide, I mean we'redid the most dangerous time and year in
my lifetime. I mean, they'retrying to get us in the day in
World War I don't know what they'retrying to do that for, but I
mean, these clowns are just absolutelypushing the envelope in Russia. That being
said, we have got we havegot to get back on track of taking

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care of this country first. Wegot to do it. But we're not
doing it. We're not taking careof the people of this country. Are
re open, crime, inflation,people out of job or won't work,
and it's time to put our footdown. And it just makes me sick
at my stomach to see how theAmerican tax there, which works every day
to make a living, their checksmight be a little bit bigger, but

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it goes less because of the inflationthat's hit us since Biden's taken office.
You know, it just doesn't seemthere's any common sense in any of the
Biden policies. It's all about controlfor them and him and the power,
and it's not the American people.Yet they try and spend that we care
so much about the American people arehumanitarian efforts for those coming across the border.

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What we're all about. They couldgive two rips about what's going on
with the American people in the economyand the safety of this nation, and
yet that they spent it so disgustingly, so disgustingly. All right, well,
let me ask you if go ahead, wait, if you look,
if you look at one thing,j the world's in the tailspin, our
countries in the tailspins, worse shapewe've been in years and years and years.

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I see a picture of Joe Bidenlaying on the beach there today.
I saw it was talked out onthe beach. He thought he has been
half his time on vacation, whilehe's been proven half of his time on
vacation. And we need a presidentthat's actually going to work. We don't
need a part time president. Weneed a present somebody's going to do the
work for the American people. Well, he's not running this country. I

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think we all know it's behind thescenes, whoever that may be propping this
guy up. It's like wekended Bernie'salmost having this guy come out and stand
in front of cameras, microphones.It's just awful. It's just horrible.
And I just don't get thirty eightto forty percent approval ratings for this guy,
and from the Democratic voters. It'sso outrageous to see that kind of

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approval and they say those are lownumbers. If it's above ten percent approval,
I think it's horrible. But hey, I just wanted to get a
quick update on your pass Act ProtectingAthletes, Schools in Sports. I know
you introduced that bill recently. How'sit moving, how's it looking? Well,
it was turning into marketing. Nowwe just got to sell. Of
course, Democrats, players will beunionized and independent contractors, which is typical.

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You know, that's a typical Democrats. They could care less about education
and values. But this bill wasput together basically by all coaches and athletic
directors and parents collectives across the country. It's not my bill. We brought
them in. We'd listen to them. We made a bill, we'd give
it to them, they look atit, would make changes. So now
we're pushing it on the floor.I gotta get sixty votes. If Humor
would ever bring it up. Ofcourse, he's more word about his pocketbook

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than he is about you know,American youth, which is our number one
commodity. But Joe Manson and Iare going to push it hard. We're
going to have help from coaches andall sportsmen and women from softball to football,
basketball, baseball, all those things. We got to have help,
and they'll do it. They're callingtheir congressmen, their senators and hopefully we

(28:51):
can get this over go line goodgood, Well, I see you tonight
in Montgomery with the president. I'llbe there. I'm coming in with him
and I'll i'll introduce him. It'sgonna be very short. They didn't people
of Alabama didn't come to hear footballcoach that came to hear our next President's
not so. So I'll introduce himand we'll get it going. And in
course season, every time I'm aroundhim, he just got indicted again.
I was the best minister with himand he got indicted the same day.

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In mind, he put it's maybethese clowns, these Democrats, they can't
they can't help themselves. You know, they know he's going to be the
president. They can't help a lotof them, one knowing they're going to
get indicted himself once he gets elected, but that that will be for the
right reason. Well, you keephearing this more and more every day,
it seems, coach. Thank youfor being with me. Thank you.

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