Rand Paul questions gain-of-function research

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Rand Paul on gain-of-function research.
• Kato on OJ's death.

Episode Transcript

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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Oh,it's Friday. It's Friday. Do you
think I'm excited about Friday? Justa little bit excited about Friday. Hey,
welcome to the show. Glad youcould join us here today. Spent
expensive days so far, so I'mlooking forward to talking about something other than
spending money. I had a compressorgo out on a septic system. It's

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five hundred and fifty bucks. Whatelse? What else? What else?
There was some Oh, we're gettingcomplaints at the beach that the water doesn't
taste good. I guess the thethe water down on Treasure Island. I
don't drink tap water down there,so I've never really tasted it. I
just shower in it. But evidentlythat doesn't taste good. But there's a

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reverse osmosis system I can spend severand fifty dollars on and make everything taste
good. That's an expensive DAYE sofar. So anyway, let's talk about
something else. Let's talk about let'stalk about things that make me validate why
I feel the way I do aboutcertain things that sounded weird yesterday in committee

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may Orcus. Yeah, that's right, the guy they're trying to impeach.
I don't know how this guy walksaround. I don't what kind of a
what kind of a weight are youcarrying on your shoulders when you know at
least half of Congress wants to getyou the hell out of Dodge, and
you're the one that's taken all theblame for what the administration is doing on

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the illegal aliens, when really allyou're doing, I mean, you obviously
agree with what it is that's goingon at the border, or or in
some cases isn't going on on theborder, but you you know, you're
taking the blame for somebody else's policies. And the policy, of course,
is to let as many illegals intothe country as possible and then to disperse

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them to places where they could dothe most amount of good to keep you
elected into office. It is reallyamazing, and we've talked about this for
a long long time. But itis amazing how slowly you're average American who
doesn't listen to talk radio, andmany many still aren't clued in. How

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many how many people do you thinkrealize that what the endgame is of all
this is the fundamental changing of thedemographics of America for the purpose of trying
to keep Democrats in perpetual power.How many people do you think believe that
or don't even does not even gothere? Not how many people believe that?
But how many people realize that that'sbeing talked about as a possibility of

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what's going on here? Because andthe reason why I question how many people
realize that is because you get theyou hear the questions over and over again.
I don't understand why they want securethe border. No, they must
be incompetent. No, it's gotnothing to do with incompetence. Far from
it. These people aren't incompetent.They're devious, they're brilliant in their devians

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and they're getting away with it.They are getting away with it now.
There are select people in politics whodo understand exactly what's going on and are
trying to do something about it.Although you know it feels like they're fairly
feckless in their ability to get somethingdone. But somebody I happen to respect
a lot, and you know Ido, is Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana.

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And they had a cabinet meeting yesterday. Committee meeting yesterday, should say
to be more accurate, And myarcist is there to testify again. I
mean, it's like he's there oncea month and the same questions get asked,
and the same dodging occurs, andit's the same thing over and over
again. It's extremely frustrating. ButI wanted to share this cup with you

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because this is one of the firsttimes I've actually heard this so well articulated
in a brief period of time fromSenator John Kennedy, who's asking my arcus
a few basic questions that tell youexactly what it is that they're trying to
do at the border by letting somany people in. Here is Senator Kennedy
with secretary of my orcus. Isn'tit a fact, mister secretary, that

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the number of illegal immigrants that youand the President allow into our country counts
for congressional district reapportionment. Sir I'mnot sure I understand your question, but
I can surely share with you thatI disagree with its phrasing. Isn't it

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true, mister Secretary, that thenumber of legal immigrants that you and President
Biden have allowed into our country countsfor allocating electoral votes? The same answer
you don't vote. I don't understandyour question. The never cross the notion,

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Senator that we intend to allow illegalimmigration is nothing short of preposterous.
So you do understand, respectful,and if I may, it is disrespectful
to the extraordinarily hard work that weperform, and far more importantly, that

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the personnel in the Department of HomelandSecurity and across this administration perform to stem
illegal immigration, build lawful, safeand orderly pathways, and invest in an
working system. And we only wish, we only wish that that bide part
is in legislation about which I havenot heard a critical term. Mister presidents

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sector, you're using up my time. You do this every single time.
You do this, every single time. And it's the fact, and you
know it and I know it thatthe more people you allow into our country
illegally, the more people are countedfor reapportionment. That's it. And if

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you can affect the reapportioned numbers andthe electoral college numbers, then you can
continue to give blue states more power. I mean, if you relocate these
people to already blue states, thenyou can theoretically at least give these blue
states even more power than what theyhave now and maybe make up for some
of the flight from blue states toother states because New York and California have

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been bleeding residents. But hey,they could be replaced. They can keep
those numbers jacked up, and theycan try to keep Democrats in power.
That's what all of this is allabout, always has been. All right
back with Morni Mom, but JimmyVert show and a Proddi here on a
of nine fifty KPRC. All right, we were sharing with you some Senator

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Kennedy audio from one of the Senatecommittee meetings yesterday. Another Senate Committee meeting
to help committee. Senator Rampaul isa part of that, and as you
know, he's like a dog ona bone as relates to COVID. He
may be the only person who's stilltrying to get to the bottom of exactly
what happened with COVID nineteen and theWuhan lab and whether or not we funded

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any of this, and he won'tlet GOVID. He just I appreciated his
dogged I really do appreciate his doggeddetermination. He just won't let GOVID.
He had Samantha Powers on now.Samantha Powers was testifying in front of him.
She is USAID Administration administrator. It'sa us AID. They're the people

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who fund on behalf of the UnitedStates government send funding for very different laboratories,
for different projects that we may beassociated with. And Rand Paul had
her seven ways to Sunday. Imean, he had written proof that they
had funded gain of function research,even though Fauci and everybody else connected with

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the US government has denied that weever funded any of that. So he's
back on it yesterday. She's there. He's trying to get her to finally
admit that, yes, you were, you were, you were funding this
gain of function research. So here'sthe question to answer. He didn't get
very far, but here he isRick from UNC. In this paper,
if you'll see the funding aspect that'shighlighted, it says USAID EPT predict funding

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from EcoHealth Alliance. So this paperwas one where they took a virus,
the STARS virus, the backbone ofthe Stars virus, and then took an
S protein from an unknown virus theyfound in the wild and put them together.
Are you aware that these experiments inthe study were supported by a USAID
predict and grant through EcoHealth Alliance.As I said, USAID has not authorized

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gain of function research. This isthe first time seeing this will around since
twenty fifteen. We've been over atnumerous times. It's been in the public
record. We've repeatedly said that yes, USAID did fund gain of function research.
Here's the evidence. But here's somecomments from some different people about this
study, because some will try toargue this still is not gain of function.

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Simon Wayne Hobson as a virologist atthe Pasteur Institute in Paris. He
points out that the researchers have created, with this research funded by USAID,
a novel virus that grows remarkably wellin human cells. If the virus escaped,
nobody could predict the trajectory. RichardEbright from RUTG says the only impact

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of this work is the creation ina lab of a new non natural risk
to humanity. So is your positionthat this study was not gain a function
or that you didn't fund it,which is your position. We have had
an awful lot of back and forthand provided thousands of pages of documents on

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this this article, I can't itlooks like it's from twenty fifteen, so
we will have to look into thespecific claims. But again to put on
the records say it has not andwill not. That is your authorized gain
of function has the position, butthe record will show that you did.
And this was before your time.I don't know why we can't just admit

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it. It did happen. Andthe reason this is important is many people
want to collect all these viruses fromaround the world, but they don't want
to just collect the viruses to sortof have them and have a library of
viruses. They take the virus andthen they take an s ProTeam from another
virus and they create a virus thatdoesn't exist in nature, that often has
ramifications that could be quite different orquite serious. I'll give you the words

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of the authors of this paper.On the basis of these finding, scientific
review panels may deem similar studies buildingchimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky
to pursue. So this was fundedby USID. It was funded through the
PREDICT program. There's no question ofthat. And even the authors admit that
it was gain of function. Thereyou go. So, I know why

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we're still dancing around this. Whycan't they admit what they did? Maybe
not with these intended consequences, butyou know, we ended They don't want
to take responsibility for COVID nineteen andtheir role in COVID nineteen being unleashed on
the world and upon the United States. They don't want to take any responsibility
for that. All right, let'stalk a little bit about OJ. Where

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were you in nineteen ninety five?Where were you when OJ was doing the
slow role on the LA Freeway systemwith helicopters up up above. You know,
AJ Cowling driving the white Ford Broncowith OJ in the back threatening to
kill himself. You remember all that. Well, here at Houston, you
have to remember, wasn't there likea wasn't there like a u NBA Finals

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game with the Rockets that ended upgetting preempted by that? Why would they
do that? I know OJ wasfamous, but I mean why would why
would they interrupt that game, andthat's it. Everybody went wall to wall
news coverage on this stuff. Hewas a big deal. And then he
had the Dream Team. Right,we'll get to the Dream Team here in
a second. But do you rememberhere's the name Alt throw out to see

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if you remember that. Do youremember Kato Klin Kato the HouseGuest. Kato
was living in a little guesthouse cottageif you will, out back of OJ's
house. That's where he was staying. He was running that he you know,
he was just a kid trying tobecome an actor in Hollywood, and
you know, he heard some noisesand and a few other things the night

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that Nicole Brown Simpson and her friendput that in their quotes. Her friend
were murdered and he had to testifyin the court of law. Well,
I haven't seen Kato o'calin since backin the day. He's a middle aged
man. Now, he's got grayhair and wrinkles. Here's Kato o'kalin from

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what he remembers of that particular incidentand what he remembers from from you know,
his testimony in the trial. Andof course he begins by you know,
sending a message out to OJ's kids. I would just put out my
condolences just to the kids, toSydney Justin, and to Orlean and Jason,

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and you know, losing a father, that's that's never easy. But
everything that I'm feeling when I wokeup this morning, saw the mess just
go out to the gold Min's Kimand Fred Goleman, and I expressed my
condolences to them, and of coursethe cherish memories of Cole And you know,
she was a beacon of light.She really was. She was bright,

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and she was funny, and Idon't think people shouldn't forget that it's
really about two young, beautiful peoplethat were murdered. My opinion was I
think he's guilty. I have thatopinion and I still believe that today.
And you know, I was listeningto this show and you sort of encapsulated
in the last thirty years and Iwas going, oh my, my,
your monologue is just it brought backso much to my feelings. I was

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it was wonderful, you know,not wonderful, but it was like I
went back in time and I wasthinking about that line you said about heaven
and hell and believe in it.Well, you know, on his deathbed.
I don't know if he's said apenance or not, but really I
really believe he is guilty, andif he made peace with God or not.
What was it like being in thatcourtroom with Johnny Cochrane, Marcia Clark,

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oj Simpson accused of double murders,sitting right across from you while you're
next to Judge Edo under oath right, You know, Jesse, it's I'm
from Wisconsin and growing up I cameto California to become an actors and a
star. But I've never been ina courtroom my entire life, not even

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a parking ticket. And the firsttime I'm in a courtroom is for a
double homicide of a man who I'mliving on his property and a friend of
mine, Nicole. I didn't knowRon, but I knew, you know
through the years, Kim, andI know that he's a wonderful person.
So I mean, that's what itwas like. And to testify, Yeah,
and you know, I, Jesse, had to explain myself on your

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show many times that I was onthe stand. I went through reviews with
the defense and also prosecution, andsometimes I had that deer in the headlight
look that was printed in so manydifferent magazines and papers. It's because I
wanted to be so truthful and Iwas trying to think of me making sure
I remembered that question in the review, and that was because my experience of

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being a witness. There you goone more for you here, lit'st think
this one in here, Alan Dersowitz, he was part of the dream team.
He was He was part of theFlee Bailey and Johnny Cochran and Alan
Dursowitz, among others who defended O. J. Simpson. Here is Alan
Dursowitz. Now, now, allthese years later, does Ellendrtzowitz, because
you know OJ was found not guiltyof the murders, does Alan Durtswitz think

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that he did it? The evidencewas overwhelming. There was a mountain of
evidence of guilt. There was bloodevidence, there was the in evidence.
There was only one problem. TheLAPD framed what they believed was a guilty
man by taking one sock, onesock and pouring the blood of OJ Simpson
and the blood of the victim onthe sock. The problem is that the

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man who did it, wolfser VanAdder, didn't realize that the blood he
was pouring on the sock had achemical in it called E DTA, which
is not found in the human bodybut found in test tubes. So we
were able to prove conclusively that onepiece of evidence, just the sock,
had been tampered with by the government, and that created a reasonable doubt.
And of course steven A is absolutelyright. The LAPD was on trial the

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predominantly black community community and the jurorsdidn't trust the LAPD. And that's why
it was so dangerous for van Atterto try to enhance the evidence by creating
that bloody sock, because it playedright into the prejudices perhaps of the jurors
against the LAPD. Sure did,I mean, that's what did the man

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when you get right down to it. And it's funny because you know,
remembering back to that, you knowvirstually it really this was really a trial.
It was divided along racial lines.The vast majority of black people believed
he was innocent, or at leastthought he was being framed by the police
department. They didn't buy they couldn'tbelieve oj would have done this, while

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the vast majority of the white peoplethought that he was guilty. As health
now and looking back, I thinkhe was guilty his health. But all
you have to do is create reasonabledoubt to get somebody off. Yeah,
oj Simpson died this week. Iwonder if Nicole Brown Simpson was on the
other side to greet him and maybegive him directions to his next home.
That but Morning Mom with Jimmy Barrettshow. Here on a nine fifty k

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PRC. I saw a brother stunningsegment on MSNBC. No, no,
I didn't see it when it happenedlive. I don't watch MSNBC. You
know, I wouldn't watch MSNBC.I wouldn't watch MSNBC if A is the

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last television channel available on Earth,I'll just listen to the radio, thank
you very much. But I sawthis segment. I thought, wow,
Wow, this is really quite amazing. I get the reason why I ended
up seeing it is because it endedup on Fine Fox was just as amazed

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as I was, So they playedit on Outnumbered. So these are supposedly
they were doing an interview segment onthe economy, and they're talking to quote
unquote independent voters. These are peoplewho, you know, they don't vote
Republican, they don't necessarily vote Democrats. They go back and forth. They're

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confused. They really don't know,you know, from one election to the
next for sure, who they're goingto vote for most, and i'd like
to think most I think in thisday and age, when you agree,
if people list themselves as an independent, I would say that at the very
least they're Democrat liked. You know, there may be more of the the
the non progressive element of the DemocratParty, the more mainstream what used to

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be the mainstream Democrats. That's whoI think the independents are at this point.
I don't think there's really much inthe way of independence as it relates
to people who are more conservative.I think conservatives are solidly voting Republican ninety
nine point nine nine nine percent ofthe time. But anyway, they're interviewing
these independent voters and they're asking themabout the economy and who they trust to,

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you know, to take care ofthe economy, and it is very
very clear who they think would dothe better job with the economy. So
here here are these independent voters talkingabout the economy and what a mess Biden
has made of it. And atthe other end, the reaction for the
folks. I'm not numbered on funks. I think he's an absolutely disastrous for
the economy. I agree, it'sraising anything President Trump's policies on the economy

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would be better for your family personally. Raise your hand, all right?
So that is everybody. Is thereanything Joe Biden could do or say between
now and the time you vote thatwould make you feel differently about feeling that
his policies would not be as goodfor your family on the economy, or
if you are you pretty much decidedthat Trump's policies would be better for the

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economy. I mean, I feellike she doesn't even take accountability through us
at all. What's going on inthe accounty and not even accountability, like
he's in denial that it's happening.He's caacilating literally everyone in the process.
Oh my goodness. That was onMSNBC. He's bringing us together. Everybody
agreed on screen, no matter howthey vote, that this economy is bad
for them. President Biden, however, dismissed his voter's concerns and defends his

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economy. Here he goes, wehave dramatically reduced inflation from nine percent down
to close to three percent. We'rein a situation where we're a better situation
than we were when we took office, where we're inflation was skyrocketed. Okay,
that is not true. It wasone point four percent in January of
twenty twenty one. So we startoff with something that's not true and we

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go from there. Right, Well, there's a couple of things that he
has said that are not true,and I've got the numbers. That's what
we did. We did a factchecked at Box Business to look at what
the president said versus the reality whatAmericans are feeling and saying. To your
point, January of twenty twenty one, headline CPI inflation was at one point
four percent. That's when he tookoffice. Yes, it jumped to nine
point one percent, and now it'ssitting at three and a half percent.

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Okay, those are the numbers.Okay, but overall prices, everything that
you're paying for, your shelter,your food, your grocery gas reads,
your groceries and your gas eighteen pointnine percent from what he took office to
now. That is the overall jump. Okay. That's one thing. Wages
have not kept a pace with inflation. That's the other important part I want
to point out. He said thatwages are rising faster than prices barely barely

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true. In fact, since hetook office that in January of twenty twenty
one, average hourly earnings after youfactor in inflation down two point five four
percent. Yeah, here's something elseto consider about this. Here, here
are some prices for you know,grocery items that you and I by,
if not every week, every coupleof weeks at the grocery store January twenty

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twenty one versus March of twenty twentyfour. So just last month, red
is up twenty nine percent, butteris up twenty three percent, Eggs are
up one hundred and four percent,Milk is up twelve point four percent,
Chicken is up twenty five percent.And that's just a few items. So

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you know that that's the life we'reliving as Americans. You know, we
go to the grocery store and westill gasp when we see the final total
that we have to pay for,you know, for the basic necessities to
live your life. In the meantime, you've got this president hosting you know,
Japanese state dinner and having having adonor party with a bunch of elites,
you know, the Roberts and Narrowand you know, the Hollywood actor

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types are all showing up to kisshis ring while Donald Trump shows up at
Chick fil A buying milkshakes and chickenfor people who are in the restaurant.
And you would have thought, youwould have thought that Hollywood celebrity walked in
the door when Trump came into thatChick fil A. And you know what
else was kind of interesting about this. Just about everybody working there is black,

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and most of the customers there wereblack, and they were so happy
to see him. Here's Trump Chickfil A and little comparison to what we
got going on with Trump, youknow, dining with the elites. Hello,
everybody, get ready for a milkshyou got plenty of all right?
What the media tails you miss?Trump? Ok? Give you Trump with

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the working people. Biden hob nobbingwith the elites joining me now, Ohio
Senator JD. Van Senator, Ilove those split screens. It really does
tell the tale. But why areso many of the big name billionaires working
so hard to support Biden? Wellfor the simple reason, Lord that their
policies have benefited the Biden administration policieshave benefited billionaires, whereas Trump's policy has

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benefitted working people. So the contrastis really striking if you think about what
the elites in this country are askingfor. They're asking for more cheap labor
through unlimited immigration. They're asking forthe end to any kind of tariff that
would protect work, working class jobsand manufacturing, and of course the Biden
administration has been giving them that,and the Democratic Party has been giving them

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that for thirty years. Contrasts thatto Donald trumpet Chick fil A yesterday,
obviously in that store disproprassionately black workforce. And if you look at the data
on a legal immigration low, itconsistently shows that Black Americans are the ones
who suffer the most from unchecked migrationbecause they're the ones who face the most
wage competition from illegal immigration. Sothe contrast could not be clear. The

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people's president trying to raise your wagesand deliver prosperity and Joe Biden hobnobbing with
the billionaires because those are the peoplewho've benefit from his policies. Yeah,
it's amazing how the Democrats have completelygotten away from being the party of the
people, the working class, ifyou will, They're no longer the party
of the working class. I thinkthe Republicans really pretty solidly there. Now

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there's some still some union support forDemocrat candidates and for Biden. But I
think a lot of working class peopleunderstand that the policies that the Biden administration
proposes could lead to the elimination oftheir jobs, especially people in the automotive
industry. Now that hits close tohome for me. Haven't been born and
raised in Detroit. A lot ofpeople work for the auto industry. The
auto industry goes under, that's gonnabe that's gonna be depression time in a

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state like Michigan. All Right,it's the weekend. Gorgeous weather coming up.
It's gonna be like you know,Sonny, just like Tomorrow's gonna be
just like today, Sunny about eightydegrees, sunny about eighty four degrees on
Sunday, just beautiful, beautiful weather, Humidity stays low. Get out there,
relax, blow up a little steam, have a little fun, and

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I'll see you Monday morning, rightin early at five am on news radio
seven forty KTRH. We're back hereat four an am, nine fifty KPRC.