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Speaker 1 (00:11):
It was a late night for the US Senate, but
it looks like we're another step closer to the government reopening,
and we get a ruling in Kanah County Circuit Court
regarding the National Guards deployment to Washington, d C lots
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Speaker 1 (01:15):
Good morning, Welcome in Metro News Talkline in the in
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Speaker 6 (01:19):
I'm Dave Wilson in Morgantown. TJ. Meadows is in Charleston.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
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Appreciate listening in on one of our great affiliates across
the state of West Virginia, or if you're watching on
the Metro News TV app coming up today. First of all,
Happy Veterans Day. Thanks to all the men and women
out there who make it possible for us to do

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this job. If you want to call it a job,
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That is the phone number. We'll work those in throughout
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Speaker 1 (02:15):
This morning, second hour, Congressman Riley More will stop by.
We'll talk to him as the ball is now in
the House's court. If you will with regard to reopening
the government, we'll talk to the Congressman coming up around
eleven thirty three this morning. Joining us from the course
the Talk Line studios in Charleston, TJ. Meadows Morning, Sir.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Good morning, Dave.

Speaker 7 (02:36):
Hostilities between the Allied Nations and Germany ceased on November
the eleventh, nineteen eighteen, at the eleventh hour of the
eleventh day of the eleventh month. Happy Veterans Day. I'm
with you if you want to call this a job.
My kids tell people my dad talks into the radio,
but he's not one of the cool guys that plays music.
He just talks. But thank you to our veterans. What

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a debt that we owe that will never be able
to repay.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
First of all, kudos to your kids for knowing they
still play music on the radio. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But secondly, you know, I think about I like to
tell the stories of my wife's grandfathers. One fought in
the Pacific, one fought in the European theater, one was arene,
one was a soldier, and you would and both have
passed away since then, lived in their eighties and nineties.
But you would ask them about it and tj with

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it with every time you bring it up, they'd shrug
it off.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
Eh, yeah, man, it's what we had to do. Eh. No,
you were a flamethrower going across the Pacific as a marine.
Eh yeah, we did what we had to do. You
have two purple hearts it, shrug it off.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
It was amazing. That generation was amazing generation. But not
just the World War Two veterans, Vietnam, Korea Desert Storm,
certainly the war on Terror. Thank you to every one
of you to you know, makes our easy way of life.
And it is easy, mind you possible well said. If
you want to share your stories, give us a shout.

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Three or four talk three or four and eight hundred
and seven sixty five talk. Lieutenant General Robert CASLM will join
us a little bit later on. There has been a
court case in Kanawha County Circuit Court regarding the deployment
of West Virginia's National Guard troops to patrol Washington, d C.
After President Trump declared a crime emergency for the District
of Columbia, Governor Morrissey deployed three to four ound of

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members of the West Virginia National Guard for support. There
was a lawsuit found by West Virginia Citizens Actions Group
and backed by the ACLU that all came to a
head yesterday after multiple hearings in Kanawha County Circuit Court.
Metro News statewide correspondent Brad McIlhenny has been covering that

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and he joins us on a Metro News talk line
this morning.

Speaker 8 (04:53):
Brad, good morning, Hello guys, good morning, and yes, thank
you to the veterans, including my father.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
Great. Where did he serve if I know, if i'm
ay prod.

Speaker 8 (05:04):
The conflict in Vietnam?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh well, thank you, mister mckalhenny, the mister macklehenney. You're
just Brad, if that's okay. Yeah, right, So Brad, yesterday
this was the third hearing in this case, and Judge
Lindsay did issue a ruling, so just kind of walk
us through a the hearing and be the ruling.

Speaker 6 (05:25):
So, yeah, you said it right.

Speaker 8 (05:27):
Judge Lindsay did hear three separate hearings on this matter.

Speaker 9 (05:31):
It was.

Speaker 8 (05:33):
Each each one was a continuation of the other, but
finally came to a head yesterday afternoon. And you know
who can blame him? Because Governor Morrissey did dispatch three
hundred to four hundred members of the National Guard to Washington,
d c. Under Title thirty two of the Federal Code.
That means that the governor maintains the authority, but the

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federal government pays, so in that sense, it's a hybrid.
And that made the legal consideration by Judge Lindsay, to
my ear, complicated because he was weighing both state and
federal law. Also, Judge Lindsay made a point yesterday of
saying that he thinks that the deployment to Washington, d C.

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Differs to the deployment of national guards from various states
to other states, that the federal district in Washington, d C.
Makes a difference. In his ruling, he wound up dismissing
the case, denying a preliminary injunction brought by ACU of
West Virginia on behalf of Citizen Action Group. So in all,

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the judge ruled in favor of Governor Morrissey and the
Adjutant General of the West Virginia National Guard. And I
can get into the reasons here if you'd like.

Speaker 7 (06:48):
I would love to, Brad. Let's start with Title thirty
two that played a role in this case. Can you
give us a sense of what that means? Did the
judge see that as specific or ambiguous? What was the
thinking in terms of this Title thirty two?

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (07:02):
My read on what the judge said was that both
the state and the federal laws have just enough gray
area in their wording and definition that he didn't think
he could deny the deployment from the bench. Title thirty
two has typically been used for natural disasters, and the
National Guard remains under the control of the state's governor,

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but they do receive pay and benefits from the federal
government for federal missions. What the judge wound up saying
is that he believes under that area of code, the
president has the authority to call out the National Guard
to Washington, d C. And then he went on to
say that he thinks the judge he thinks the unique

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nature of the District of Columbia, under its federal authority,
gives the president greater latitude to do that kind of
calling out than, for example, in Pennsylvania or Portland. Judge
Lindsay said, I understand that acou of West Virginia wants
to put aside the fact that this happened in DC

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or the fact that the president has the authority when
he's invoking a local statute in DC, meaning the DC
Home Rule. But I think those are important factors. That's
what Judge Lindsay said. He continued by saying that this
case is different. He said, I believe we're not talking
about another state or sovereign area like Pennsylvania or Ohio.

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We're talking about the District of Columbia, which is under
the federal jurisdiction of our Congress and government. I kept
thinking as this was being discussed, all right, the President
did declare an emergency in mid August. The emergency lasted
for thirty days. It allowed the federalization of the District

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of Columbia's own police department, but it lapsed at the
end of the thirty days. It came to a halt.
That declar of an emergency came to a halt September tenth.
So the judge, in essence, was giving the President the
authority to request the West Virginia National Guard for an

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emergency that the President had called. Yet as an official matter,
the emergency is over, and.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
We have very famously documented. None of us are attorneys, obviously,
but the DC aspect of this jumped out to me,
Brad that this was very specifically d C. Had this
been Ohio, had this been Chicago, it would have been
a different situation, and the judge may have considered this differently.

Speaker 8 (09:42):
Yeah, he went out of his way to try to differentiate,
you know, and showed some concern about what's happening, you know,
where the National Guard of Texas has been called to Illinois.
And Judge Lindsay did not want his rule to be
interpreted as as saying that kind of deployment from one

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state to another where the governor of the state that
is receiving the deployment has not asked for it. But
in this case, Judge Lindsay essentially was saying President Trump
under the authority of the Federal District is the authority
figure and so he said, it's it's just different.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
So that wouldn't effect if a governor asks for it.
So if the governor of Ohio asked Governor Morcy to
send the troops, my reading into that would be that's
cool with the judge. But if the President sends them
to Ohio and uses the National Guard, then that's not cool.
If I have that correct, Brad, is there any official

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precedent in that, because that's not what this case dealt with.
The Dave's point, I mean, was that a shot across
the bow from Judge Lindsay or will that hold any
legal water?

Speaker 8 (10:57):
I mean, Judge Lindsay was making the point for anybody
in the courtroom or out about what his intent was.
He was extrapolating about these other situations happening across America.
But I mean, I don't know that necessarily Judge Lindsay's
viewpoint is going to be taken into consideration more broadly

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about Portland or Chicago or whatever.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
By the way, we will have an actual attorney on
the program coming up in the second hour at JB. Mcuskey,
Saty Attorney General will join us. Maybe we can pose
a couple of these questions to him.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
So this settles the case at this point, Brad, Yeah,
can I get into state law?

Speaker 6 (11:36):
Please go?

Speaker 8 (11:37):
So all right, So let's say that under Title thirty two,
where the federal government pays but the governor remains in charge,
at that point, you've got to follow state law. The
governor's in charge, got to follow state law. And so
what And that was the basic question here, it really,

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I mean, there was a lot of talk about what
is the president's prerogative, but the question really was what
is the governor's prerogative? And so what Judge Lindsay pointed
toward was a section of West Virginia code. If you
got out your state code, everybody, please please turn in
your state code to fifteen dash one dash four and

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then B, and I'm going to read it to you.
This is going to be good radio. The Governor may
order the organized militia or any part thereof, to serve
outside the borders of the state and of the United
States in order to perform military duty and to participate
in parades, review conferences, encampments, maneuvers, and other training, to

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participate in military competitions, and attend service schools. So you know,
that's what I'm saying. When there's just enough latitude in
the language. What Judge Lindsay focused on was the phrase
military duty, and he said the Court believes that the
West Virginia Law allows for the satisfaction of the President's

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requestion this regard in this special circumstance, specifically fifteen dash
one dash four B, which is what I just read
for you, which allows the governor to deploy the National
Guard outside our borders for quote, military duty.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
That's a pretty broad term to me.

Speaker 8 (13:24):
I guess what the National Guard is doing in DC
broadly military duty. It appears to be you know, on patrol,
having a presence. Some of the National Guard in d
C is participating in beautification greeting citizens, establishing a presence
in parks and at the metro. And I guess that's

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I guess it's military duty.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
So fellas, four people were killed in DC over a
six hour period. That was Saturday, Saturday. That was the
third consecutive weekend of heightened violence. Three shootings, one stabbing.
No arrests have been made yet. Not the National Guard's fault,
it's what I'm saying. But if they're there and this

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is no longer effective, should they still be there?

Speaker 6 (14:09):
I don't.

Speaker 7 (14:10):
We can't answer that question necessarily, but you get my point.
If it's no longer a deterrent, why are they there?

Speaker 8 (14:18):
Well, again, the emergency that brought them to DC was
called in mid August, and it officially ended in middle
of September. The National Guard, as of last week, it
had been a deployment maybe until late this month. Now
it's a deployment probably until late February. Again, the Governor

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West Virginia is in charge of that question, So the
governor West Virginia could make his own decision about whether
to keep the West Virginia National Guard there. But we're
looking at late February at this point. This question that
I'm about to raise was outside Judge Lindsay's purview. But
the National Guard is a resource to the state of
West Virginia.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
They are West.

Speaker 8 (15:03):
Virginia citizens with families and homes and jobs and other
things to do in West Virginia. There's been I think
a praiseworthy and significant effort by the National Guard to
help food pantries and food banks over the last couple
of weeks. So you know, to your point is is

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that resource best used in Washington, d C. Or would
it be better used in West Virginia.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Brad has a story about yesterday's court hearing and ruling
over at the website WDV metro News dot com. And
we'll talk to State Attorney General JB. McCuskey coming up
in the second hour. Brad, please warn us when we
need a whiteboard. Okay, okay, thanks, we'll do appreciate. Just
trying to keep up with the state code and the
federal legislation. There felt like I needed the white board today.

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Speaker 1 (17:50):
There's an ongoing conversation here in West Virginia, and boy TJ,
I've only left you a couple of minutes here, maybe
you should wait to bring this up. Well, there's an
all going conversation about the most cost effective.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
Fuel for energy. Is it coal as a natural gas?

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Is it renewables, is it alternatives, whatever the case may be,
This conversation is going back and forth.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
You weighed in on it.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
There was the announcement last week about the new gas
fired power plant, first energy plant up in Harrison County,
and you dove into the data to EJ and.

Speaker 7 (18:25):
The data doesn't lie. That data says that both today
and tomorrow, natural gas is going to be the most
efficient use the least cost source of electricity, Dave. When
you look at that plant, it'll cost about one hundred
and eighty five thousand dollars a megawat to build that
natural gas plant. If First Energy were to use coal,

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that cost would skyrocket to seven hundred forty three thousand
dollars per megawat. That's a twelve hundred megawat plant.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
You do the math on that.

Speaker 7 (18:54):
That's six hundred and seventy one million more dollars to
use coal than gas. From PJM and the independent third
party marketing monitor.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Oh, I ask you this ToJ Yeah, obviously you spent
you know this business very very closely, very very well.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
How do you.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Factor in, if you're First Energy, you're looking at this
plant future cost of natural gas? Because it would stand
to reason if more plants come online, there's a higher demand,
price goes up for natural gas.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
How do you factor that in?

Speaker 7 (19:24):
Yeah, so you use what's called a levelized cost of energy.
It's a modeling technique to look at a twenty year run.
And so the numbers I quoted from PJM, they factor
in that variability not only for natural gas, but they're
available for all the other sources. And right now, the
best data that we have, and that forward looking forecast
based on the known and predicted variables natural gas comes

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out on top, and.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
This is a this is a factor because we're looking
at energy policy. We've got obviously Senator Brian Helton's bill
that is sitting out there wanting plants to operate. Was
it sixty nine percent running it sixty nine percent capacity
or yes, all the time?

Speaker 6 (20:03):
So this is going to be a discussion.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
And there are going to be a lot of numbers
thrown around when we get to the Capitol in January.

Speaker 7 (20:10):
A lot of numbers. And at the end of the day,
as you said, I know this business. And one of
the reasons I've been so passionate about this, I promise you,
if we run cold plants sixty nine percent of the
time if they're economical, run them if they're not, and
we go against that, somebody has to pay for that
difference sixty nine percent of the time. And it's not
going to be PJM. It's not going to be the utilities.

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It's going to be John Q ratepayer, many of whom
in West Virginia can't afford it. Dave, We're blessed, guys
like you and me, We're blessed if our power bill
goes up a little bit, we can figure it out.
People that are already struggling, and you artificially make their
bills higher. That's not West Virginia first. That's picking one
fuel over the other and asking Toby and Edith to

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pay for it. That's not going to do anybody any good.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Thirty seconds here, quickly does the argument? Does the Harrison
the car gas mode comparison? Does that hold true for
coal firepower plants? They're more efficient, You're getting more You're
getting more bang for your buck if they're running all
the time, versus starting them up, shutting them down, starting
them up, shutting them down.

Speaker 7 (21:14):
Yes, but that efficiency still isn't as efficient as a
natural gas plant even when it cycles. That's the difference. Yes,
coal would become more efficient, and a coal plant would
become more efficient, but even the price you would see
from that efficiency would still be more expensive than what
you would pay in using a natural gas plant.

Speaker 6 (21:30):
Read TJ's commentary. Lot of good data in there.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Over at the website wv metro news dot com. When
we return, Barbara County School Superintendent Edie Vincent will join us,
as more schools will be closing. This is talklinel Metro News,
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West Virginia Metro News sign Jeff Jenkins. Governor Patrick Morrissey
says there still needs to be millions of gallons of
water removed from a Nicholas County coal mine to allow
rescue teams to get better access to areas where a
missing coal miner may be located. The efforts continue at
the Rolling thunder mine after that mine flooded on Saturday.
Kenaw County resident boast Willis has taken part in mind

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rescue efforts. He says the water adds another layer of difficulty.

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You're just walking trying to find someone searching for them
in Europe, and to waste deepwater, more than likely you'd
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There's been no contact with that missing minor. Eastern Panhando
educators say they need help. Several spoke out at last
night's public hearing in Martinsburg hosted by the Public Employees
Insurance Agencies Finance Board. The we're considering a three percent
increase in premiums State workers pay for health insurance that
would kick in next July, and Bristokes says it's going
to be difficult to pay more.

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Legislators, please remember this is not just insurance.

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Behind every line in this financial report.

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There are people, families who serve this state with everything
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Premiums and deductibles went up fourteen percent past July. That
meeting will be in Charleston coming up Thursday. Insurance adjuster
is going to be busy in the Kanaal Valley following
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Speaker 3 (24:24):
A decade's old tradition resumes this morning in Charleston with
the annual Veterans Day Parade. Our Bogs, who directs the
Charleston Area Alliance, is also a veteran, and she'll be there.

Speaker 15 (24:33):
The eleventh Day the eleventh hour. We commemorate Veterans Day
every November, and so this is their eighty fourth consecutive
parade and ceremony.

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Also a number of other parades in the Mountain State,
including a long standing parade in Welch in McDowell County.
From the Metro News anchor desk, I'm Jeff Jenkins.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
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Says, my father, Ralph Warner was a World War Two
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the text line. If you would like to weigh in
or if you'd like to salute a veteran today. Last night,
Barbara County School Board voted unanimously five to oh for

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a consolidation plan that has the county's middle schools closing down.
The county will now be closing Belington Middle School, Case
Middle School, Phillippy Middle School, moving those students to Philip
Barbara High School. The plan also has Junior Elementary School
closing and sending those students to Belington Elementary School. Enrollment
is down in the county among other issues. Joining us

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on the program is Barbara County School Superintendent Eddie Vincent.

Speaker 6 (26:23):
Eddie, good morning, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 17 (26:26):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
I know this was not an easy decision, but was
this the only option really that was on the table.

Speaker 17 (26:35):
It's really proposed that we made. We really have an
issue in Barbara County. The big issue for us was
the lack of certified teachers, particularly to middle school level.
You know, Barbara Knky doesn't have a levee, but they've
done a great job historically of making sure that you know,
the buildings are solid and you know, so it was
a combination of we had the room at Philip Barbara

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High School to put our middle school student and to
them too. You know, not many school systems our sides
have three middle schools. It's extremely challenging to staff that.
So we decided to consolidate this middle schools and put
them into Philip Barbara High School, which will make it
a six twelve school. Still plenty of room in that building.

(27:17):
Philli Barbara High School is really nice place. It's a
big building as a CTE parts of that building, So
we want those middle school kids to have those opportunities
while they're in middle school and not waiting till they're
in high school. So I think it's a good thing
for that. And then we get the challenge of having
buildings and you know, we're we're over formula and it

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seems like we don't have enough people, but yet we're
over formula because we have seven buildings and a declining enrollment.
So our enrollment steadily is decreasing, s is most places,
and our population in general and Barbara County is getting
less and we were trying to maintain seven buildings and
we just can't sustain that over time, and we're trying

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to get out in front of this. Before some things happened,
like could happened in other counties. So I think this
plan addresses the need for certified teachers and getting our
kids those opportunities. That's the reason behind this. And it
also addresses are building utilization issues.

Speaker 7 (28:16):
You talked about Barbara County not having a levee. Would
that make any difference if it did in this situation
or would you still find yourselves back where you started?

Speaker 17 (28:26):
Yeah, those are hard. It getting less and less. It
looks like, you know, counties around us are losing levees
and that's that's not something that I mean that anytime
you got more tax revenue and more money that helps
your situation. It doesn't solve some of the problems we
have that again, lack of certified teachers. It's very challenging

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right now and to maintain you know, with people leaving
the profession for whatever reason, you know, retirement or whatever,
and there's not a lot of people going into it.
So we're really in a difficult situation getting and our
number my number one job is to get kids educated.
And the best way we can do it, and I
know the best ways to have them in a classroom

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with a qualified, certified school teacher. That's the that's the
way to do it, and we have to develop a
plan that addresses that, and I believe this proposal when
this plan does address that, that's the primary focus of it.

Speaker 18 (29:23):
And then.

Speaker 17 (29:25):
Again, the declining school enrollments and the number of buildings
that we have to maintain is a challenge and it's
hard to get funding when you're not utilizing your buildings.
Even our elementary schools have issues with certified teachers too,
So when we when we look at consolidating them, I
think that gives better opportunity that kids are going to
have that certified instruction. And then it just basically the

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simple way to look at it. It just costs less money
when you have less buildings.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Talking to Eddie Vincent, he's Barbara County School Superintendent. The
board voting last night on a consolidation plan to close
the middle schools and convert Philip Barbara High School into
a K through twelve facility. Eddie, I think i've our
six through twelve. Sorry, that would be a lot of
students in one building. Six through twelve facility. I think
I've counted a half dozen times you've mentioned certified teachers.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
You could have all the budget in the world.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
You could have more than enough money to cover facilities,
but if you don't have anybody to put in the classroom,
you're still at the same point you are today, aren't you.

Speaker 17 (30:27):
That's right, and that's that's gonna be a challenge from
here on out.

Speaker 18 (30:30):
There's no there's no.

Speaker 17 (30:31):
Easy answer for that. And that's just not Barbara County's issue.
That is, if you look at job vacancies across the states,
they're everywhere, even in counties with good population and good
levies and colleges in your town, they're still having issues
with getting fully staffed schools and so that that problem
is not going to go away. And I don't know
what that answer is. So you know, some people think we,

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I mean, you do have a teacher shortage, but it's
also a way to look at it that we have
more big holdings than we need, so it looks like
there's a teacher sports is a bigger issue than what
it is. But we still have a problem in Barber
County and it didn't help us lose an Arson Bross College,
And there's just not that many kids actually in high
school and going into the profession, and that concerns me.

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You know, it's hard to find. It's hard to find teachers.
It's hard to find coaches that are there are teachers
that want to work, and it's a challenge for everybody.

Speaker 6 (31:26):
Eddie.

Speaker 7 (31:26):
I listened to the meeting last night, good portion of it,
not all, but a good portion, and I heard board
members talk about ALEC and different pieces of legislation that
have been brought into West Virginia. I heard comments about
the Hope Scholarship. I'm wondering from your chair, and I
know you don't necessarily speak for the board, but I'm
wondering if you can outline what challenges they're talking about

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when they talk about those two issues and how that's
affected your county.

Speaker 17 (31:52):
Well, I think again, just like everywhere else, we have
issues with the number of kids in homeschool, know, and
I respect everybody's right to educate their children however they
feel his best. So we have a high number of
homeschool We have the Hope Scholarship challenge that has really
cut into everybody's budgets, and you know, we're still so

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we're hanging on with all with getting less money every year,
and then have the same challenge of operating our buildings
and trying to get kids educated, and everything's more expensive.
So if you do have an issue in a building,
like you know, a roof issue, or you know, some
major electrical problem or something, if you don't get some

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kind of funding for that through the SBA or some
kind of grant, and you have to fund that. And
what happened to us is we were we were getting
to the point in the future where we know that
all of our money is going to be just to
pay the personnel and we wouldn't be able to do
anything else for our kids. And that's so this this
plan is I think, get this out in front of

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the problem that we knew was coming before it became
a major issue. We would have probably survived another year
or so doing things the way we did, and then
we're going to get a situation where we can't pay
our bills and we can't pay people, and that's not good.
So we're trying to get out in front of it.
I think this addresses our over formula problems that we

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have because we won't need as many secondary positions that
we couldn't kill anyway. And then the expense of having buildings,
so less buildings obviously means less expense and more cost
of weightings because you don't have to put a roof
and on a building that's getting old, or you replace
the wiring that is outdated.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Eddie evensent joining us Barbara Kenny school superintendent, got about
a minute left here, Eddie. We've heard that the state
code that oversees and governs public schools needs to be updated,
maybe overhauled. The state aid formula may need to be overhauled.
We've heard that tossed out there. If the legislator, we're
asking you, where would you start?

Speaker 17 (34:04):
Well, you know that to my knowledge, the statey formula
the way it exists now has been unchanged for a
long time. I think it need to be taking a
really serious look at and what other options because it's
these small world counties that are going to struggle the most.
It's you know, all fifty five half challenges. But there
are certain counties like Barber County and some of our

(34:26):
surrounding neighbor neighbor counties and some down south it's that
have these issues that it's a low population, not a
lot of financial resources, and then you have to rely
on the stage formula and it seems like we don't
have enough people anyway. But yet we're over formula by

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over twenty people, so we have to you know, we
made cuts last year and we're still going to be
you know, well over a million dollars in negative just
in personnel because we have to staff our buildies. Go ahead,
Fish talk healthy Small County.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Ed events at Barbara County School Superintendent. We appreciate you
coming on this morning.

Speaker 17 (35:08):
All right, thank you, sir.

Speaker 6 (35:09):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Coming up next, we'll talk to Lieutenant General Robert Caaslin.
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We love you.

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eight hundred and seven sixty five Talk. Lieutenant General Robert
Caslin entered the United States Military Academy at West Point
in nineteen seventy one. Fast forward thirty eight years, he
would return to lead West Point as its superintendent. Yesterday,

(37:37):
he was in Lewis County. I was the keynote speaker
for the Army National Guards Fixed Wing Aviation or he
was after being in Lewis County as the keynote speaker,
went to the Army National Guards Fixed Wing Aviation Training
Center in Bridgeport. He's going to be the Grand Marshal
of the Clarksburg Veterans Day Parade in downtown Clarksburg today
and he joins us on Metro News talk Line this morning.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
Good morning, sir, good morning.

Speaker 18 (38:02):
It's great to be with you.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Thank you, appreciate you coming on. What drew you to
military service?

Speaker 18 (38:10):
Oh, I'm in the Army, so I was. I was
troud to be in the army, but I was in
the infantry. You know the grounds, the live infantry on
the ground. So you're right at the tip of the
spear and if I was going to go in the military,
I was going to go all in. So that's what
I That's where I went to the infantry in the Army.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
Okay, tell us about your time in service, your your theater,
where were you stationed, what did you do?

Speaker 18 (38:38):
Oh Man, I was in the Army for forty three years.
I started off at Fort Lewis out in Washington as
a second lieutenant. Also did some company command time there,
went back and forth to West Point, and through all
of that I had seven deployments or combat tours. I

(38:59):
started off for Dosney Shield Desert Storm. Then I came
back and spent about six or seven months and in
Central America and han Buras working with the Al Salvador
and all that down there in the Ol Salvador area.
And then from there, you know, nine to eleven broke out.

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I was in the Pentagon at that time, and within
a couple of months I found myself in Afghanistan. Then
I came home and went to Afghanistan a second time,
came back and went to Iraq, and then I went
back to Iraq another time a second time as well.
During the drawdown the US forces, that's when isis resurrected
itself and created a calfit and then the US forces

(39:44):
had returned. So I was there during the withdrawal US
forces and all of the aftermath after that.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
We're speaking to Lieutenant Gerald Robert Caslin joining us here
on Metro News talk Line, Who'll be the Grand Marshall
of the Clarksburg Veterans' Day Parade in just a little bit.
Also just had his second Bush book published, The Impossible
Mention Mission, a memoir about his time in Iraq. What
stood out to you about your time while serving in Iraq?

Speaker 18 (40:12):
Well, it depends which one you're asking me about, whether
it's des a storm or during the servis I you
know what stood out with me and the surge other
the division you may ever know in Iraq, that's where
you know the radicals. Soon these were in the Kurds
and all the different curdisher of conflicts that were going on.
But I came to realize that, you know, if you're

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going to fight a war, you mats is not going
to fight the war on brute force. You're gonna have
to fight the war intellectually. You're gonna have to know
about the environment. You're gonna have to know about the
people that are in there, both pro and conm You're
going to have to have the skill set to build
relationships and build trust and all. That's tremendously important. And
then you have to fight the war in accordance with
the values of our nation, otherwise you're going to start

(40:54):
losing the trust of the American people. So I just
felt that it was an inherent lean important to understand
what you were doing out there and why, and then
what were your pressure points and how to deal with them,
all doing it in the course with what we stand
for in the values of our country.

Speaker 7 (41:13):
So general, on this day when we honor our veterans,
I know many of them in this country have needs.
How can we best help them? What do our veterans
need from us today other than just to thank you?

Speaker 18 (41:25):
I think that's a great question, you know, in Veterans
Day Memorial Day, I always reflect back to the great
movie Saving Private Ryan. And in that movie, Captain Miller
is mortally wounded and he grabs Private Ryan, whose life
he had to say to send back to his mother

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because his brothers were all killed already, and he says,
earn this, live a good life, earn this. In other words,
men have died for you, now live a life worthy
of their sacrifice. And then, if you remember the movie,
the next scene is fifty years later, we're now an
elderly Ryan returns back to the battlefield, to the Normandy

(42:08):
cemetery with the stick behind him, and he's going through
the graves looking for Captain Miller's grave and he finds it,
runs up to the grave, knee falls on his knees
and with a crying voice, I hope I have earned
what you have done for me. In other words, I
hope I have lived of life worthy of your sacrifice.

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And that's what you know, Veterans that needs to me.
These men and women stood in the gap between the
evil that threatened our nation and what we are all about.
And some gave all, but all gave some. And I
just hope that America lives a lot and understands their service,
the sacrifice. They live a life worthy of that sacrifice.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Lieutenant General Robert Caslin, I know you're getting ready for
the Veterans date parade, and Clark, there's also a book
signing later this afternoon at Salem University. He's actually a
member of the board of trustees at Salem as well.
Lieutenant Gerald, thank you very much for your time. Thank
you very much for your service, and enjoy the visit
to West Virginia.

Speaker 18 (43:16):
All right, David PJ. Thanks you as an honor to
be with you. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 17 (43:19):
I appreciate it as an honor having you.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
Appreciate it very much.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Lieutenant General Robert Caslin again. Book signing coming up four
thirty this afternoon at the at Salem University, and he'll
be leading the parade down downtown Clarksburg in about five
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Speaker 1 (45:05):
Texter says, there's a way of getting around having requirements
to have certified teachers. Just have charter schools teaching requirements.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
There.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
I sense a midgeon of sarcasm in that text, just
a smidgeon three or.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
Four Talks three h four.

Speaker 7 (45:22):
I have mixed feelings on that, if I'm being honest,
I mean my wife teachers.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (45:27):
My wife's a college professor, h has been for years,
has placed I don't know how many kids in the
accounting profession. She wouldn't be allowed to teach at a
West Virginia public school.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
We're probably in the same ballpark on the mixed feelings thing,
because I.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
It does take a certain amount of trade. I think
it does take a certain amount of training to become
a teacher. But I also think there are a lot
of people have a lot of great experience and a
lot of great knowledge that aren't certified who would also
be good.

Speaker 6 (45:58):
Instructors, good teachers. Yeah. I don't know if that's where
you are, but that's kind of where I am.

Speaker 7 (46:04):
That's where I am. I look, beggars can't be choosers,
maybe you know.

Speaker 6 (46:09):
And I wish, I.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Wish there was a simple answer. That was my big
takeaway there from listening to Eddie Vinson talking. Even if
they had levies, even if they had unlimited funds to
keep these buildings open, they didn't have staff to keep
them open. They didn't have certified teachers.

Speaker 7 (46:26):
He's fighting multiple fires, really is.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
And then I mean, think of the problems you have
if at baling To let's pick on Barbara County for
just a minute and a half. Here Belington Middle School,
you have stem opportunities because you have certified instructors there,
but you can't have that over at your other one
of your other middle schools because.

Speaker 6 (46:45):
You don't have.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Now it's out of whack, it's out of balance, right Yeah. Man,
I do not envy the folks in those positions right now.
They're tough, they're tough decisions.

Speaker 7 (46:55):
I mean The comments last night were very passionate. It
must have been hard for him to sit there and
for the board to sit there and hear what parents
had to say. But kudos because Dave, you kick the
can down the road. You heard him say it all.
We could hang on for another year or two, it'll
be even worse than so good for dealing with it now.

Speaker 6 (47:10):
And where do you you end up?

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Where Rome County was going from budget surplus to budget deficit?

Speaker 6 (47:15):
Exactly?

Speaker 17 (47:16):
All right?

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Second hour of Metro News talk Line. Happy Veterans Day.
If there's a veteran you'd like to recognize or just
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us a text three or four Talk three oh four.
You can also call us at eight hundred and seven
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Speaker 6 (47:57):
We've been working those in throughout the first hour.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
I will continue to do that here in the second.
Coming up on Metro News talk Line, Jared Halpern scheduled
to join us. A lot to talk to with him
regarding President Trump. A lot of proposals out there. Second
District Congressman Ronney Moore will join.

Speaker 6 (48:16):
Us bottom of the hour.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
As the House of Representatives, it's now up to them
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Speaker 6 (48:30):
TJ. Meadows resides in the Cove Insurance Studios in Charleston.

Speaker 7 (48:34):
Good morning once again, sir, Good morning. You know both
of my grandfathers served. I'm lucky that I still have
one with me. Papa Meadows has been passed away for
some years now date, but he used to tell me
a story. He was in w W two Korea. He
was on the USS Hornet aircraft carrier. He used to
tell me about a time. He didn't say much, but

(48:57):
they would play monopoly. You know, He'd send enough money
home for Mama and my dad, but they would play
monopoly with real money.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
They did that.

Speaker 6 (49:07):
In the lower texts of the ship.

Speaker 7 (49:11):
I was like, why would you be yeah, and he's like, well, Son,
you know, when you're in war, you got other things
going on. You do what you got to do and
take your buend off thigs. I was like, well, okay,
use the real money. They used real money with to
play monopoly. Hey, if you're going to go all in,
go all in, right, go all in.

Speaker 9 (49:27):
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text line first hour. Brad McIlhenny was on our Metro
New state Wide correspondent was keeping an eye on Kanawa
County Circuit Court yesterday, where Judge Richard Lindsley A. Lindsay
denied a preliminary injunction and dismissed a case over whether
the governor has been within his authority to deploy the

(49:50):
West Virginia National Guard to patrol in Washington, d C.
Joining us on Metro News talk Line this morning is
the Attorney General for the State of West Virginia, JB.

Speaker 6 (49:58):
McCuskey, JB.

Speaker 5 (49:59):
Good morning, Good morning, guys, and Happy Veterans Day to
you all and everyone out there who has served our country.
It is the single thing that makes this country different
than other ones, is our willingness as a group to
stand up and defend our constitution and what it means
to be Americans. So I am eternally grateful for everyone

(50:20):
that's out there serving and everyone that's served in the past.

Speaker 6 (50:23):
Well, jab Well said JB.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Appreciate it, and I assume you were pleased with yesterday's decision.
What was the crux of the argument on the part
of the Governor's office and the Attorney General's office.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
Yeah, I mean, I think the simplest and easiest part
of the argument is that the aclj's arguments were frivolous.
And the most sort of damning part of all of
this is that, you know, this is taking up very
necessary resources from both the Governor's office and importantly to me,
from my office as well, to defend what was so

(50:57):
obviously a constitutional action by vote the President as well
as Governor Morrissey. That these kind of cases make it
harder for us to go after things like pharmacy benefit
managers and UH and digital platforms that are harming children,
and so you know, when when when interest groups try
to score political points. It isn't a zero sum game.

Speaker 24 (51:19):
You know.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
We had to take some of our best lawyers off
of those kinds of cases for for a little while, uh,
to to defend what is what was clearly and you
can tell by the speed with which the circuit judge
ruled and the breadth of his order that the a
Clj's arguments didn't hold water from the very beginning.

Speaker 7 (51:39):
Secondarily, so hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Yeah,
I want to ask you. I don't want to put
words you off, but don't want to clarify. So you
think they filed this knowing they would lose just to
score political points. Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
I don't know. I think they obviously hoped that they
would win. But I mean when you read the filing
in and of itself, I mean it is really very
very clear that the president and the governor have the
ability to create these deployments. It would be a very
dangerous president for even a Democrat president going forward to

(52:13):
try to make the arguments that they made. And furthermore,
when you look at the statistics and the date of
what's going on in DC, I mean, they're violent crime
rates according to most studies are down about fifty percent
since it happened. So it is both a legally flawed argument,
which we now know because because we won the case,

(52:34):
but it's also a functionally flawed argument. I mean, if
your argument is you want to make people in DC
more susceptible to violent crime, I would never want to
be on that side of that argument.

Speaker 18 (52:44):
Ever.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Would it had made a difference if this had not
been Washington, d C. If this had been a deployment
to Chicago, Because the judge seemed to focus in on
very specifically the fact that this was Washington, DC and
that the president does have authority there different situation, and say,
you know, Chicago.

Speaker 6 (53:02):
Or Portland, what did that have made any difference? In
your mind?

Speaker 5 (53:06):
It can make a difference, But that wasn't what was
argued today. What was argued today, and the reason why
it is I am so vehement about the strength of
our argument and the weakness of our of the other
side's argument, was that we are talking about d C. Right,
And so in this particular instance, what you have is,

(53:27):
you know, just these kinds of these kinds of arguments
that are really designed for one political headline. At the
very beginning of the filing, and there's really not a
lot behind it on the other end. But the problem
with that is is it takes up the judge's time,
it takes up the lawyers from the Attorney General's time,
and at the end of the day, was arguing to

(53:50):
make the streets of DC less safe, which all of
which sort of coincides into what was I think kind
of an exercise in futility.

Speaker 7 (53:58):
We'll get into some of the safety statistics in just
a minute. But Judge Lindsay in his wisdom, and I
don't think he mentioned this in his order perp.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
Way, just so you know, calling him Judge Lindsley it
shows your northern bias.

Speaker 6 (54:10):
Yes it does.

Speaker 5 (54:12):
I mean that that is that is the most northern
West Virginia mistake one could probably make.

Speaker 6 (54:17):
That was Wilson, not me. For the rerecord, I know
it was.

Speaker 5 (54:20):
You have a Putnam County bias. You would have called
him Judge Hurricane or something.

Speaker 7 (54:26):
Wow, you know you're great at deflection. You try to
knock me off my game with my question. I know
what you're doing every time. All right, So let's get
back to the question. Was the judge and perhaps implied,
but was he in a way telling people that look
to your point, I think the point you're making, the
place to fix this is at the ballot box. If

(54:47):
you don't like what Trump has done, and you don't
like what the governor's done, that's the place to take
it up, not in court.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
Yep. I think that's very well, that's very well said.
And I've known Judge Lindsay for a long time and
he's a fair guy. He's also a smart guy. And
so you know, when you win in front of Judge Lindsay,
you know that you've you've done something because he is
going to be very thoughtful in his rulings, and you
know he is. He's a good judge. And you know,

(55:14):
we don't always agree on politics, Judge Lindsay and I,
but I always agree that that he is a good
person who analyzes these things properly. And you know, it happened.
But I said, I would be remiss if I didn't
also say the lawyers from my team did an awesome job, right.
And I've been wildly blessed, and we've talked about this
before to have been able to recruit really, really first

(55:36):
class lawyers who know how to litigate and are functionally
great attorneys, and so you know, thank you to them
for their hard work in this case. But yeah, I
mean that is exactly what Judge Lindsay was indicating. And
I think a lot of people who are overly litigious
would do well to see that. And we've talked about

(55:58):
this before, right when we won the universal Injunctions case
earlier this year. You remember when we talked about that
it is the same concept, right, and that is district
court judges, and that these be federal district court judges
obviously thinking they're more powerful than the president. And we
were able to stand up and sort of defend the
way that our system is supposed to work, which is

(56:19):
in these cases is that we have elections every two
and four years for this exact purpose. Right, the president
has significant plenary powers, and if you don't like what
the president's doing, find a candidate who can beat that
president and go run against them. But until then, a
lot of these cases both erode the public's confidence in

(56:43):
our legal system, and two use up valuable resources from
government agencies who are doing their best to keep the
public safe and to do their constitutionally function functional duties.

Speaker 6 (56:57):
JB.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Mccoskey is joining us to West Viginia general. Isn't this
the way it's supposed to work?

Speaker 6 (57:04):
Though, JB.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
If if you believe the governor had overstepped his authority,
and you go through the law, and you read the law,
and you go and you believe that, isn't this the
way it's supposed to work? You take it to the courts,
The courts examines the evidence and comes up with the ruling.
Seems to me that this shouldn't erode confidence in the courts.
Cases like this should actually bolster confidence that the checks

(57:26):
and the balances are working. Or am I misinterpreting that I.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
Was discussing the universal injunctions concept when I mentioned that.
But I think the longer, the larger point here is
that lawyers have a very specific ethical duty to bring
cases that are actionable, to bring cases that have the
ability to win. And you know, in this instance, it
this complaint looked to me to be very flimsy on

(57:52):
its face, and it is. It is a difficult thing
to defend your arguments when they are so clearly erroneous.

Speaker 7 (58:00):
In my opinion, I wanted to get into more of
the practical nature of what's happening in DCJB And this
is the statistics are from a Washington Times piece if
anyone wants to look it up. Four people were killed
in d C over a violent six hour period on Saturday.
That was the third consecutive weekend of heightened violence. The
incidents included three shootings, one stabbing. No arrests have yet

(58:25):
been made. Folks can read more about those incidents if
they want. In that piece, does that say that this
is no longer working and practically it's time to take
a look at bringing the guard back? You know, Brad
talked about the thirty days being up. Should we reevaluate?

Speaker 5 (58:41):
I think we should always be reevaluating where our brave
men and women in the armed services are being deployed.
But I think you can also make the opposite argument that,
you know, as violent crime has noticeably declined in DC,
if there are spikes, I mean, you can make the
argument that the government in DC is is getting more

(59:01):
enable to defend its citizens against violent crime. You know,
to say that this isn't working because there was one
spike in violence over a two week period is probably
as an improper of a way to analyze this as
it would be to say, you know, there's always going
to be violent crime and there's no reason for them
to be there, and so it's really a matter of

(59:25):
your perspective. And for us, you know, our defense of
this is that is we are defending their ability to
do it. The policy decision as to whether or not
you should be doing it is up to the governor
and up to the president. I happen to agree with
that policy, but as their lawyers, what we are defending
is their constitutional there there there make ensuring that their

(59:48):
actions which were constitutional, are allowed to continue. Does that
make sense?

Speaker 6 (59:53):
Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, that makes sense. Dat At Certaining
General JB.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
McCuskey joining us here on Metro is talk line the
broader Again, we're kind of getting into the policy to
side of this things, JB. But at some point DC
has to stand on its own two feet. DC has
to be able to take care of DC. The National
Guard can't be their perpetuity.

Speaker 5 (01:00:11):
That's correct. I mean, unless one were to want to
remove d c's charter right, which they are a creation
of the federal government, and so that the District of
Columbia has what's called home rule, which was granted to
them by Congress, which can be removed at any point,

(01:00:33):
which is one of the underlying reasons why the arguments
that were presented in this case are so frivolous, because
it is a place that is inherently governed by the
federal government. It is a creation of the federal government,
and there's nothing else really like that in America. And
the other part of it that I find kind of
interesting is that our proximity to d C makes if

(01:00:57):
this is a problem, the President wants to solve it,
and he wants to work with our governor to do it.
You know, West Virginia's incredible proximity to DC makes this
also functionally as a good candidate for sending folks.

Speaker 7 (01:01:10):
In to help out curveball. But I know you can
handle it. You kind of led me there, and I'll
tell you, I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
Like your buddy. I don't like my back foot.

Speaker 7 (01:01:19):
DC statehood, d C statehood, you're a fan or no.

Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
No, I'm not a fan of DC statehood. I don't
believe that the government in d C has proven that
it has really the ability to be a city. It
would be probably worse if they were asked to prove
that they had the ability to be a state. Also,
you know, just from a you know, just a sort
of higher level view, the fifty stars look perfect. A

(01:01:46):
fifty one would just be too many.

Speaker 6 (01:01:49):
At three rates would get imbalanced.

Speaker 5 (01:01:53):
It would make it imbalance. But and I'm just kidding obviously,
But no.

Speaker 7 (01:01:58):
Though either JB. I mean, the frame wanted it to
be a federal city to represent the nation. It's not
what DC was designed to do. If it ain't broke,
don't force it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
I agree, And I think your argument actually cuts towards
the National Guard making sure that DC is safe, because
remember DC is the meeting space for every single American,
right that is the place where you go to redress
your grievances with the government. And if people don't feel
safe to fly there from Nebraska or Oregon or Michigan

(01:02:30):
or Texas or Florida or West Virginia, then then that
part of our democracy isn't functioning properly. It has to
be a place where every American feels like they can come,
get a hotel room, go to dinner, and go see
their representatives and their government in a safe environment. And
if anything is thwarting that, that is a real detriment
to the people of America's ability to do what is

(01:02:54):
sort of inherently great about our country, which is interact
with your government and ask them to change the things
that you want to change. And I think that is
fundamentally the most important part of what's going on here
is that the President believes that this city, Washington, DC,
should be different and special and cleaner and safer than
any other city in the country for that exact reason.

Speaker 6 (01:03:14):
State Attorney General JB. Mccusky. JB. Always a pleasure, appreciate it, buddy.

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
Hey guys, y'all have a great day and happy Veterans
Day out there at everybody absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:03:22):
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Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Congressman Riley Moore going to join us. Bottom of the hour,
Let's go to Washington, DC. Fox News Radios A Jared
Hauburn Jared. President Trump's floating the idea out there of
a two thousand dollars dividend check from tariff revenue to help,
I guess stimulate the economy. Question Mark, what's this proposal
all about?

Speaker 27 (01:04:59):
Yeah, I don't think it's necessarily about stimulating the economy,
because the President doesn't think that that that's sort of
what's needed. His argument is that there is a lot
of money coming in from tariffs and that he wants
to use it to basically give back to the American
people and in some cases pay down the debt. There

(01:05:20):
are going to be questions. I think if this moves forward.
About how much it costs. There was an analysis done
earlier this week by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Government.
They are a think tank in DC that kind of
deals with the federal budget, and their argument is that

(01:05:41):
two thousand dollars per person would cost about six hundred
billion dollars, assuming that it went to both adults and
children and did not go to upper income individuals. They
based it on kind of those COVID era payments that
were made and kind of following that formula, and that's
where they get that six hundred billion dollar f So far,
these tariffs have generated about one hundred billion dollars in

(01:06:03):
revenue and are projected to raise about three hundred billion
dollars per year. So there would not be enough money
from tariffs alone, at least based on this analysis for
those two thousand dollars dividend checks. Jared, how does this
also the question of whether or not any more money
is collected from tariffs given what we are awaiting from
the US Supreme Court.

Speaker 6 (01:06:23):
Yeah, that was going to be my question.

Speaker 7 (01:06:24):
How does this square with the arguments last week at
the court, Because, as I recall, the US A Solicitor
General talked about the reason we're doing these tariffs are
a defense mechanism. They're not necessarily there for revenue. Well,
you would give this money back. It seems like it
was there for revenue.

Speaker 27 (01:06:38):
Well, listen, I think that there has been a lot
of mixed messaging on that front. The legal argument that
was being made to your point from the Solicitor General
is that this is not a tax, This is not
raising revenue, which is the sole power of Congress. That
this is a foreign affairs power that the president is using,
and the idea being that we have gotten countries to

(01:07:00):
change their behavior, to change their trade policy, to change
their export policy, to change their commitment to cracking down
on drugs, all through the use of tariffs, and that
you know, if no revenue came in, that would be
great because tariffs would be doing their job. President Trump
has said this is generating trillions of dollars in tariffs.

(01:07:21):
He keeps saying trillions of dollars coming into the country. Primarily,
he says because of these commitments from countries to invest
in the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
Jared, how much of this is a reaction to last
Tuesday's election results?

Speaker 27 (01:07:40):
Listen, I think that there's probably some affordability is something
that has gotten a lot of talk. At the same time,
the President has talked about using tariff money before the
elections to either give back to people or to you know,
pay down the debt. I just think it's kind of
formulating how the President would like to see this money used.
And obviously I think part of it is the politics

(01:08:00):
of building public support for these tariffs.

Speaker 7 (01:08:03):
Anything from the White House on inflation worries with this,
you know, too many dollars chasing too few goods. Last
time we pumped money in, we saw high inflation. Could
that happen again as a result of this.

Speaker 27 (01:08:14):
Again, there's not a lot of specific yet with this plan.
This was a proposal that was put out by the
President on Truth's Social yesterday. Kevin Hassett, who chairs the
Economic Council, was asked about it and he said they
were still working through it, but that the idea is
that it would basically just be a way to you know,
give this revenue that has been collected back to the

(01:08:36):
American people. And so I think the argument again is
that we've seen in their view, inflation drop substantially and
that is not a concern as it would have been
perhaps during COVID in these other emergencies where inflation was
much higher.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
Box News Radios Jared Halper and Jared always appreciate it.
Thanks for checking in, Buddy.

Speaker 6 (01:08:56):
Sure thing coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
We'll talk to Congressman Riley Moore. The representatives now in
focus as the funding bill heads there. This is talk
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eleven thirty times to get a news update. Let's check
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happening across the great state of West Virginia.

Speaker 28 (01:09:17):
West Virginia Metro News. I am Chris Lawrence. The Barbara
County school Board has approved plans to consolidate the county schools.
The plan would close all three middle schools, sending those
students to Philip Barbara High where county leaders say there
is enough room because of a steep decline in enrollment.
Richard Doherty is the director of Support Services.

Speaker 7 (01:09:35):
Population continues to decline and our student enrollment continues to
drop down the road and to live with other options to.

Speaker 10 (01:09:42):
Barbara County because we just can't.

Speaker 9 (01:09:44):
You know, we've got to be able to staff buildings.
We've got to be for them.

Speaker 28 (01:09:48):
Mother Mariah Hammer worried though, about the safety of younger
children going with the school with the high schoolers.

Speaker 9 (01:09:54):
I worry for my children's safety once they get to
this level, the impressions they're going to pick up on
a that are not of their own, and it will
happen so easily, and you can't promise me their protection.

Speaker 28 (01:10:07):
Student enrollment in the county has been down twenty years
since twenty sixteen. It's forced the district to operate with
less and less state money. Ikonock Any judge rules that
the governor does in fact have the authority to dispatch
troops to Washington, d c. At the request of President
Donald Trump for a role in helping with public safety.
Judge Richard Lindsay denied a preliminary injunction saw by West

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Speaker 28 (01:11:45):
It is Veterans Day, set aside to honor all who served.
To Mark Boggs as a combat veteran who says West
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Speaker 15 (01:11:52):
West Virginia, it seems to me that every day is
Veterans Day. Every day. If you aren't a veteran, you're
related to a veteran, you know veteran, you love a
veteran and it's just who we are as West.

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Virginia eighty fourth Veterans Day Parades sponger. But the John
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many of you texting in about veterans you'd like to recognize.
Let me get to a couple of these, then we'll
get to Congressman More. Texter says, McDowell County has many issues.
Shortage of patriotism is not one. The names many past
of my blood relatives on this list demands respect, and
the texter sends a screenshot of a list of veterans

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who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Speaker 6 (01:14:07):
There three or four talk three oh four.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Dave Simmons Senior served in Korea during Vietnam, recognizing him.
My dad and three uncles served in the military in
the Korean War era, though none of it was combat.
My mother's brother was in the army in Europe in
World War Two. He was in combat at the Battle
of the Bulge. My kid's dad was in the Navy
for twenty years beginning in nineteen seventy seven. One of

(01:14:33):
my nephews was in the Marines. The mid two thousands,
my nephew was in the National Guard. I want to
salute all of them and their sacrifices for our country
in the world. Thank you for sharing this, says the Texter.
We get some more of your text again, taking text
honoring veterans today at three or four talk three to
four you can give us a called eight hundred and
seven to sixty five talk as well. Joining us on

(01:14:56):
the program is Second District Congressman Riley Moore. The Senates
has finally done its job, passed a funding bill to
get the government reopen. That now kicks over to the
House of Representatives. Congressman more, good morning.

Speaker 12 (01:15:09):
Good morning, and Happy Veterans Day to all of our
great veterans here in the state of West Virginia. Thank
you for your service.

Speaker 6 (01:15:16):
Absolutely have you made your way back to DC yet.

Speaker 24 (01:15:20):
I'm not.

Speaker 12 (01:15:21):
I'm going to head down tomorrow morning. But the bat
signal went out here just after the bill passed in
the Senate. You know, getting four hundred and thirty five
people back. Given the situation on their travel right now
in a short period of time is not easy. So
that's why he had a forty eight hour notice go out.

(01:15:43):
Everyone's been traveling back to DC. Obviously I can drive,
but folks who are in Alaska, why or you know,
all the four corners of the great country of ours,
it takes a little while for them to get there.
But yeah, we're going to vote tomorrow at around four
and we'll get this government back open. Which it's very interesting.

(01:16:06):
We basically ended exactly where we started, exactly where we started,
and it actually ended up better than where we started,
I think for the country, for the House. Speaking as
an appropriator and member of the Republican Conference, I mean,
not only do we get the cr that gets us

(01:16:28):
to middle of January, we're getting three appropriations bills done Agriculture, Military,
Construction of Veterans' Affairs, and then also the Ledge Branch
bill as well. And now the Democrats, at least part
of this coalition that helped reopen this government, thank you
very much for being patriots. Is we're looking at doing

(01:16:51):
another four appropriations bills. So I think the good news
in all of this is one, the government's opened back up.
But two, we are actually going to have a semblance
of regular order, regular order being we're actually going through
and passing appropriations bills, which is what the American people want.
They're tired of these omnibuses and crs and all this.

(01:17:13):
So I think this is good news in totality in
terms of the process there on the Hill that's really
been pretty stagnant over the years, you know, just been
CR and omnibus and CR and omnibus. Well, we're actually
going to have real budget bills passed, which I think
is great.

Speaker 7 (01:17:34):
So right, let's go hard and fast a little bit
on this series of questions here. One will you vote
for it too? Do you think Johnson has the votes
to get it through? And three will you support a
vote on ACA extensions if the Senate has a vote
and send something over.

Speaker 12 (01:17:50):
Yeah. On one, yes, I will vote for it too. Yes,
we have the votes, and don't be surprised when you
see a few Democrats in the House actually vote for
this as well. As Spiger. Johnson has said, we have
a plan to take care of lowering premium costs in
this country, and we didn't need to need to You

(01:18:12):
know the Senate is I'm sure you watched there was
an amendment on ACA COVID subsidies. That's what we're talking
about here, the COVID subsidies that were in place that
we're set to expire here at the end of the year,
which the Democrats put that target date in that. And

(01:18:32):
so we do have a proposal and the Senate Republicans
have a proposal of how to lower healthcare costs in
this country. It doesn't have to be just giveaways to
insurance companies in terms of subsidies. So we do have
a plan in this and once we unveil it, everybody's going.

Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
To be able to see it.

Speaker 12 (01:18:50):
But the good news is, you know, we keep on winning,
and we're going to keep on winning for the American people.
We're getting this government back open, and you know, thank
you to those eight Kratz that did the right thing
over there in the Senate and will continue to work
with them to work for the American people and get
things back on track.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
Congressman Riley Moore joining US Congressman, is there time to
get that plan you're talking about that Speaker Johnson has mentioned?
Is there time to get that through before these extended
subsidies run out at the end of the year in January,
and then people are going to be hit hard on
these premiums.

Speaker 12 (01:19:26):
Yeah, I think what you're going to see come up
here is an adjusted calendar. We're going to have late night,
five day work weeks all that. If you got to
go into the weekend, we'll see if that's part of
that as well. But you're going to see an adjusted
calendar starting next week. I think the leadership Leader Scalise

(01:19:50):
and Speaker Johnson have been very clear is that we
are going to put the pedal to metal on this
and get all of these things done that we need
to get done with the government back open.

Speaker 7 (01:20:03):
Now that the House is back rightly, there's a piece
in Politico today talking about that there are members of
both parties, so it's bipartisan pushing the Speaker to advance
what some are calling a contentious bill that would ban
lawmakers from trading individual stocks. This coming as a piece
over the weekend noted Nancy Pelosi's return in Congress over

(01:20:25):
her tenure with something like sixteen thousand percent. I don't
think Warren Buffett could do that.

Speaker 6 (01:20:29):
Would you support?

Speaker 7 (01:20:31):
Yeah, she's beating Buffett, Okay. Would you support that bill though,
to say lawmakers cannot trade individual stocks.

Speaker 24 (01:20:39):
Yeah, I don't have.

Speaker 17 (01:20:40):
Any objections to that at all.

Speaker 12 (01:20:42):
I don't own any myself, I'm sure, as you all remember,
I was the state treasurer of West Virginia, and I
thought it was the right thing to do to just
divest out of any privately held securities that I had
at that time. Of course, I have a retirement account,
but I don't manage that myself. But yeah, I mean,
I don't own any at all. I don't have any

(01:21:04):
issue with that at all. I think, you know, you've
got to craft it in a manner though. That allows
people to invest passively, right, so they can put their
money into passive investments and things like that, you know,
say like a S and P five hundred something like that.
But the day trading stuff, yeah, I mean, I hear

(01:21:24):
the American people on that. You know, I'm fine voting
for that. I don't have any issue.

Speaker 24 (01:21:28):
With it at all.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
Congressman Riley Moore joining us. As soon as you all
get back to DC, inevitably the Epstein files will come
up again. So will they be released? Do you support
releasing them?

Speaker 24 (01:21:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:21:41):
I support releasing them. If it comes back up, they
get the bill on the floor, just like we voted
for the one few months ago that we had in
the House, and the Oversight Committee has continued to put
out information on the Epstein files and everything else that
they're able to get a hold of. Yeah, I mean
it comes up, vote for it again. I don't have

(01:22:01):
any reservations or issues about that at all. So yeah,
we'll vote for him. I'm going to, you know, give
you a little cut to the chase here.

Speaker 24 (01:22:12):
We'll get to the.

Speaker 12 (01:22:13):
Finale of it. We'll vote for this, and it'll likely
look like it does right now because the actual files
that people want to see, the stuff that would really
I think make a difference in trying to investigate this
whole thing is currently under seal by a federal judge
down in Florida who has said he will not release

(01:22:36):
those files. So the problem is separation of powers here.
We can't compel some court to unseal some documents. So
I'll vote for it again. But I don't think there's
going to be any new information that's going to be
coming out.

Speaker 7 (01:22:58):
Can you give us just a bit on what's going
to happen with the ACA. And the reason I go
back to that all the talk of affordability since last
week's election. MGT, who you know well, has been out
in front and this said she's ashamed of her party
on this issue. Give us a little something on ACA.
What's going to come if Johnson has this plan.

Speaker 12 (01:23:19):
Well, I don't think it's going to deal with ACA specifically.
I think it's going to be dealing with and now
it's in two parts because he had the President go
out there rightfully and say, why are we just giving
this money to these insurance companies when we could just
give it to the people directly and do it like
an HSA hel savings account and have them decide how
they want to spend this money in the insurance marketplace themselves.

(01:23:42):
I mean, just a reminder, the ACA stands for the
Affordable Air Act. It is literally quite the opposite. It
is the Unaffordable Care Act. So Obamacare is really the
reason that we are where we are right now in
the skyrocketing cost of health care. So we're trying to

(01:24:05):
get to the root cause of it, not just continue
to put band aids on it, because every time it's like,
you know, the insurance companies which ensures, you know, are
not federally regulated regulated state level decide to say we're
going to raise premiums if you don't give us more money.
Do you think this will be like the last hostage
situation we're going to be involved in with them. I

(01:24:26):
doubt it, And so trying to get to the root
cause of that. And if you go back and look
at that one big beautiful bill, the Reconciliation Bill, we
actually had something in there that was addressing that root
cause of the skyrocketing price of healthcare in this country,
which NTG is right, It is ridiculous how expensive this

(01:24:48):
is going, and we have to do something about it
getting to those root causes around this. But the issue is,
you know, we're going to get held hostage here again
on this at some point by insurance companies and we'll
just keep biling on and giving them more money, and
they'll keep raising premiums and maximizing returns obviously for their
shareholders and everything else. This is a dangerous cycle that

(01:25:12):
we're in that we've got to break here.

Speaker 1 (01:25:14):
Second District Congressman Riley Moore, there'll be a vote tomorrow
on the funding bill that came out of the side.

Speaker 12 (01:25:20):
What time, so four o'clock PM tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (01:25:24):
All right, got it right, it's in my calendar. I'll
put it in my calendar. Turn on the popcorn, ready, Riley,
get the popcorn.

Speaker 12 (01:25:32):
Yeah, well there'll be some speeches for sure. Don't worry
about that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
Second District Congressman, Riley Moore. Always appreciate the time. Thank
you very much.

Speaker 6 (01:25:39):
Riley.

Speaker 12 (01:25:41):
Hey, good talking to y'all.

Speaker 6 (01:25:42):
Absolutely, Riley Moore, second District Congressman. Rest of the show
belongs to you. Got a bunch of texts to get to.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
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To learn more, shoot us a text at three or
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(01:28:12):
two five five. Ninetta has been very patiently waiting and
she joins us on Metro News talk line Ninetta.

Speaker 17 (01:28:18):
Good morning, good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:28:22):
Go ahead, what do you what's on your mind today?

Speaker 4 (01:28:27):
I came from a family that lived in the little
town of one hundred in Wetchel County, and at the time,
my oldest brother, the government had a program that if
you applied and was accepted, then that exempted you from

(01:28:49):
going to service, going to the war, being drafted. And
he was located, I think in Baltimore, and after a
while he wrote home and told my parents he said,
I'm quitting my job. I can't stand the thoughts of

(01:29:13):
my high school buddies being drafted into the war and
I'm not So he quit his job, came home and
was drafted into the army, and as he went along

(01:29:35):
into the different aspects of the war. He ended up
in the going through the Belgium Bulge, and he had
a winning at p X. I guess it was to

(01:30:00):
pick up whatever they had available. And when he came
out there was a soldier met him and said, I'll
trade you that carton of cigarettes for this box of dominoes,
And of course my brother said okay. And the dominoes

(01:30:20):
were ivory dominoes with the black spots, and they were
in a little box and they were unique. And as
he went along, when he was in the Belgian volved,
that box of dominoes was under his head and under

(01:30:45):
it in the sleeping by, and it came piece of
shrapnel hit back box and shivered a corner of it.
And that's how close he came, having been exempted and
couldn't stand the thoughts of his high school buddies going

(01:31:08):
to war, and then he ended up in through the
Belgian Bulge. And that's my story, and I'm so proud
of what he did, and the whole family was proud
and just wanted to share how close he came when

(01:31:30):
he could have been exempted and he gave that up,
and then how close.

Speaker 18 (01:31:36):
He came to now Ada.

Speaker 6 (01:31:38):
Thank you so much for sharing the story. Thank you
very much. We appreciate it. Let's go, Bill, keep it tight.
I got to hit a break as usual. Bill.

Speaker 24 (01:31:46):
Okay. Everybody that goes into the military, as I did, Okay,
takes an oath of office to protect the Constitution with
foreign and domestic enemies as well as and obey the
President of the United States. Every veteran does that. You
can't name me any other career in America that does

(01:32:08):
that takes that oath. So when the President the United States,
the commander in chief makes orders and that are lawful
under the Constitution, remember that everybody who volunteered and as
a veteran took that oath.

Speaker 1 (01:32:25):
Bill, appreciate it and thank you for your service as well.
Eight one hundred and seven and six five talk three
or four talk three four Lightning round.

Speaker 6 (01:32:32):
When't we return to cadule here at the Health Day.

Speaker 10 (01:32:41):
We are here.

Speaker 26 (01:32:44):
From all of us, here at the Health Plan. We
want to make your season bright. Whether you're wrapping gifts
are planning next year's goals, we're here for you. Happy
holidays and merry Christmas from our family to yours.

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
Here.

Speaker 22 (01:33:05):
Some say he's a man of mystery. Others say he's
the holiday hit maker.

Speaker 6 (01:33:09):
No one saw coming. It's showtime.

Speaker 22 (01:33:11):
The holiday hit maker walks the office halls with West
Virginia Lottery holiday scratch offs and an unstoppable spirit.

Speaker 23 (01:33:18):
What are you doing.

Speaker 6 (01:33:20):
Bringing the holiday high here? Enjoy scratch off?

Speaker 9 (01:33:23):
It's on me.

Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
Whoa ticket?

Speaker 6 (01:33:25):
My work here is done?

Speaker 22 (01:33:26):
Be the surprise hit maker West Virginia Lottery games fun,
festive and full of flair.

Speaker 6 (01:33:32):
Please play responsibly. All right, I've got about sixty seconds.
Let's see how many I can get through.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
I'd like to recognize two women veterans, my lovely wife,
Captain Margaret Philios US Public Health Service and Captain Anna Hickey,
US Coast Guard. Thank you both for your sir of
us to our country. Three oh four talk threeh four.
This texter sends a picture an old newspaper clipping of

(01:34:12):
Ralph C. Jenkins, twenty miles north of Seoul, Korea, says
that's Jeff Jenkins's dad. Thanks to all the veterans. My
dad Decoder in the Navy and my father in law
Pow in Germany, both World War Two veterans, both have
passed away. Texter sends a picture of his mother, a
World War Two veteran, as well. Happy Veterans Day to

(01:34:35):
all who have served, and thank you for from TJ
and me for your service to the country. It's Metro
News talk Line on Metro News, the voice of West Virginia.

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