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I want to take a listen to this. So

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hundreds of protesters took

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to the Oklahoma state capital on Monday,

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protesting Governor Kevin Stitt

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for taking a stand to protect miners

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in his state. He was giving the State of the

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State addressed where he said this, we

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must protect our most vulnerable,

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our children. After all, miners

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can't vote, can't purchase

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alcohol, can't purchase

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cigarettes. We shouldn't

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allow a minor to get up a permanent

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gender altering surgery in Oklahoma.

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That's why I'm calling him for the legislature to

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send me a bill that advances all

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ginger transition surgeries and hormone

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therapy the ons in the state

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of Oklahoma. We're

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going to talk to Governor Kevin Stitt, who just

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got reelected, about why he's taking a stand

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on this important issue. We'll also

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talk to him. You know, Joe Biden has reached havoc

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on our economy, so how does he

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as a governor fight against those headwinds.

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Will also get his take on the Chinese

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balloon and why Oklahoma

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has banned Chinese nationals

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from purchasing farmlands. All of that

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and more with Oklahoma's Governor Kevin

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Stitt Governor

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stood. First of all, congratulations

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in your reelection. You're doing important

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things in the state of Oklahoma. So I'm

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so glad that you've got more time there. So

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congratulations, Thank you so much.

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I appreciate it. So it's a lot of fun serving your

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state where you grew up and I'm just having a blast.

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Well, and you're you're doing great things, including

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standing up for for young people, you

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know, fighting against this push from

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society to encourage young people to mutilate

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their bodies, to to take hormones

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that could potentially lead to infertility and

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damage them in ways that they're not even

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thinking of right now. But you know, of

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course that's created a reaction. You know, there's hundreds

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of protesters gathered at the Oklahoma

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State Capital on Monday, protesting,

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you know, protesting on what you're doing. Why

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was this an important issue for for you to take a stand

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on. Well, first off, you know, we

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we have an obligation to protect our young people,

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I mean minors. We're talking about minor children

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here. They can't buy alcohol, they can't

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buy cigarettes and in Oklahoma,

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and we think it's preposterous to let them

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have a permanent altering

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surgery that potentially

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could sterilize under your point, and so again

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we're not against any person,

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but listen, hey, if you're gonna have an elective surgery,

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let's wait till you're an adult, to your mind is

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fully developed to go do that,

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because we don't want that to happen in the state

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of Oklahoma. Uh. You know, overwhelmingly

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Oklahoma's agree with me. This

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is just common sense to us. And you're

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always have a few naysayers, but we don't

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let that effect this for doing for you know, continue

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to do what's right. You know, we're saying in society,

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you just culturally really this push

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for for young people saying that this is okay.

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And to your point, you know, you can't buy

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alcohol, and you're a minor, you can't purchase cigarettes.

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So why is it okay to allow a minor

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to mutilate their bodies at such a young age.

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We don't think it is. And last year, when I found

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out there was a there was like a clinic in

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one of our university hospitals, I signed an executive

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order to shut that down and then ask

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the legislature to codify that

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in law this year, and and it's gonna

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be on my desk within the first couple of weeks here

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obsession because Oklahoma's overwhelmingly

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support me on this. And again we're

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talking about kids under the age of eighteen.

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Why we let them do that? There's not another

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procedure in the country. Uh,

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there's no wather procedure. I can think about where you would

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go into the doctor's office self diagnose

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yourself and then also prescribe the surgery.

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Want. Uh, it's just it's nonsense.

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We're not gonna let it happen. Uh. This is this

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is something that's an elective surgery for

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after you're fully developed and you're you're an adult

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and you want to go make some kind of decision. But

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we don't want even taxpayer at all our spend on that. I

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appreciate that. I think you're doing the right thing on that.

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You know, I also want to ask you, of course, you know, at the

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State of the Union this week, Joe Biden

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is going to try to make claims

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that aren't true about the economy. Somehow

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he has created the strong economy. We know that

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it's not. You know, you've got a record number of Americans

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saying they're worse off financially since Biden

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took office. You know, as a governor,

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how do you fight against those headwinds,

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you know, those national headwinds and this economy

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that Joe Biden's created. We talked about in

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Oklahoma. I mean, we are Oklahoma.

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I'm asking for tax cuts. We want to continue

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to be the most business friendly state in the country.

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And if you look, we're tomp top ten

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right now, and net migration people

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move into our state because they're fleeing

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some of the high tax states. They're fleeing

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some of the Democratic led states because

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they're seeing probe business, pro freedom

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policies and states like Oklahoma. But inflation

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before Biden was at one point four percent

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and now it is six point five percent.

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And this was in my State of the State address that I just

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did yesterday. I mean, before the pandemic,

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a gallon of milk is is uh

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is to ninety something like that,

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and now it's four Eggs

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were a dollar fifty, now they're five fifty.

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So there's some real issues

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with inflation right now. Um and

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then, and you can all point it back to the attack

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on oil and gas and not having an honest

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conversation about about a reliable

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energy grid. And an affordable energy

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grid with domestic energy production

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from oil and gas companies as well

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as wind and kind of on all of the above

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approach that we have in Oklahoma. Well, you know, and that's

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the thing, you know, Biden can say whatever he wants.

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You can have pe poota judge go to the Sunday shows,

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which he did over the weekend, you know, trying to

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tell out something that doesn't exist. But we all

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know it's not a strong economy, or

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at least not nationally. You

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know, how bad are Americans

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struggling right now? You know how difficult do you

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think that's going to be for them to try to sell something

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when we all know that we're paying more each

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month because of inflation. You know, you go to the

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gas station, you're paying more. We see it

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with our own eyes, that's right. And then uh, you

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know, obviously, you know, the

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borrowing costs are really really

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starting to affect the average person

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um business barring cost home

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prices. We're starting to see a slump in home prices

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because of raising interest.

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Right, so all that stuff goes into effect.

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We've got to let the free market flourish.

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And when government and these type of policies

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continue to clamp down and over

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regulate things and try to pick winners and

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losers. Who's harmed. It's actually

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the American people are harmed paying

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higher at the gas pump hype

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because the same the

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same people that they say that they're trying to protect, they're

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actually harming with the cost of

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everyday items right now in the in the in

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the state and also in the country. You know, I also wanted

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to get your take. We all saw as the

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Chinese balloon, which was a spying

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balloon, you know, violated our aerospace flying

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over nuclear silos, air force

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spaces, and you know they were going to withhold

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it from us. The by administration took a week

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to shoot down. You were taking

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a stand in Oklahoma by making

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illegal for you know, the Communist Party of

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China to purchase farm land in

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the state of Oklahoma. Why do you think that's

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important to to not allow that

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to fight that, and like you said, we made it illegal

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for Chinese nationals to purchase

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farmland in the state of Oklahoma. We're cracking

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down on that. I banned TikTok from all

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of our state devices. Um,

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you know there they're an adversary

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of ours and they share information from these

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companies, so we're not gonna let that happen in our state.

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Uh. The Chinese balloon is a real

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head scratcher. Myself and all the Republican

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governors across the country just

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could not understand. We got briefed.

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We called the d O D what's happening.

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I called my National Guard to find out what our

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options were if it came into the state of Oklahoma.

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But this is something that is really

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the American people should be asking ourselves. Why

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was it not shot down before it came over? Why

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would we allow that to happen? And those

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are things that uh, I mean, elections

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matter, and you can look at the different leadership

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between what's happening right now with what we happened

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four years ago or several years

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ago with the President Trump and and

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hopefully we take back the White House. I

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joked sadly, but it's true. You know, it might

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as well have been shaped as a middle finger, because that was

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essentially the message China was setting

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us. You know, they did it because they could because

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we have a weak president. I wanted to ask you, I

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even wondering this, what authority

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does it? Would you be able to do as governor instruct

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the National Guard to shoot it down or how

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would that that work? Well? Obviously,

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as as the commander in chief of our our national

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Guard, we've got a you know,

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f sixteens at our air base, at

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our National Guard base in Tulsa,

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and that's something that's it's a huge question

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that we would have to obviously be in consultation with

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the big army in the in the Department of Offense.

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But um, you know, I

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don't I don't have a direct answer for you. Thankfully

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did not come into the state of Oklahoma and I didn't

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have to make that decision. Um.

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But it's something that I'm actually

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checking on as we speak

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and talking to our to our our generals.

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But the big question is why is our president not

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taking care of it before it came into Montana.

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I mean, I think for a lot of Americans, and I

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talked to people, you know, when I was at the airport at

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a restaurant, you know, waiting my flight,

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and everyone has been paying attention to this

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thing, and there's just this sentiment that we're

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not as strong as we used to be. You

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know, that this is a sign of weakness for America.

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And I think it's understood for all Americans, whether

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you know, regardless how much attention they pay to the

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to the media, or to politics. And I think

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we all kind of shared the same sentiment

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of just feeling like we're not America

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anymore. You know, we're not this strong country we used

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to be. I mean, that's exactly right, you know, the

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Afghanistan exit, mean we kind of forget

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about that, but think about how

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disheartening that was as we withdrew

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everything from Afghanistan and we

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saw these people hanging onto airplanes.

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We just left our friends and allies behind,

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and people that fought for us and broke our word,

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and they were holding onto airplanes because

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they knew they were losing their chance for freedom. We saw

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moms handing their their child

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over to a serviceman just hoping

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that they could get them to freedom. So very

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very disappointing, not counting the billions

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and billions of dollars worth of assets that we

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left there. Uh So again, all

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these kind of things are just head scratchers

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to us, um and what's

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going on? But you're right, And then to

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let the Chinese fly a

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spy balloon a balloon and

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just kind of track it slowly over

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the U S. We're

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like, why why would we

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allow that? Why would we allow that? Do you

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think they would allow that allow us to fly

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a balloon over their country? Well? And I think it really

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just comes down to, you know, showing America is

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how important leadership is. You know, it's important

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to have a strong President's important to

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how strong governors like you. Leadership

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matters? Does leadership

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does matter? Um? That's why it's

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so important. These elections are so important

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for us to think about. And do you believe

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in freedoms? Do you believe in a free market

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system? Do you believe in personal responsibilities?

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Or do you want a government uh

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telling everybody how to live their lives what

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to do? Uh? No, we don't

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want that. And that's why you see people flooding

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to states like Oklahoma and Texas

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and Tennessee and Florida and

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in these states that were free. I was one of the only

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governors in the country that refused to do a mask

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mandate when I saw this overreach

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from Washington d C. Trying to tell everybody

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how to live their lives. And and we're

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gonna push back against that. The Washington

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d C bureaucrat. Governor Kevin staid, I know you've

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got a tight schedule today. We appreciate you making

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time for the show, and we appreciate you

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taking a stand in the state of Oklahoma. So

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thank you for what you do. Hey, thank you so much, Lisa,

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and thanks for sharing truth

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with with Americans. We standing behind

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you. That

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was Governor and Kevin Stick. He's doing a lot of

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really great things out of the state of Oklahoma.

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He just got reelected and thank God

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for that. We need strong governors like

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him, like Governor to Stantas, Governor

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Kim Reynolds out of Iowa, who we've had on the

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show. We need people like them standing

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up for freedoms here in America and in

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their estates. I want to thank you at home for

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listening as well my day and Thursday,

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but you can listen throughout the week. I want to thank

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John Cassu, my producer, for putting the show

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together. Until next time,