Scott Walker - Speech at Western Conservative Summit 2015
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Scott Walker - Speech at Western Conservative Summit 2015
Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker discusses conservative successes in Wisconsin, the Nation's security. And the Governor talks about running for President.
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thank you freed up
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endowed by our Creator
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defined by our Constitution but defended
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each and every day by the men and women who proudly wear the uniform these
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United States
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before we go any further with anyone who serves the millage in the military today
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anyone who served as a better in the past and for that matter
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when anyone who is a family member other service member veteran
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would you please stand at this moment
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thank you
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I appreciate that that that includes all the order includes the senate president
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who just showed up here is a military veteran himself in
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so for me to acknowledge that to talk about freedom which amor talk about
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here quite a bit for the next few minutes it's important river where those
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freedoms come from
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in their doubts about Bob defined by the Constitution
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but we would have without the men and women that you just saw stood stand-up
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in the families that represent the not only here but across this great country
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it's also an honor to be introduced only by the leader the state Senate here in
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Colorado
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with someone from Colorado Springs because on November 2nd 1967
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I was bored whats car called Memorial Hospital Colorado Springs
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but my parents were
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had come out from Northern Illinois
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were where they were raised my dad was a associate pastor for Christian education
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First Baptist Church in downtown
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the downtown Coral Springs where the church is still there today in fact
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few years ago after I was first elected governor the first time
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in 2010 we went to a new governors conference it was at the Broadmoor
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but on Sunday instead of going to the sessions that morning
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we went over First Baptist said my wife got a taste appearing
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all after service from wine
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late 78-year-old woman after another who said
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I still hold your husband and my arms in the nursery
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the so I was gonna find and so we love to keep coming back to colorado my
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birthday
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dollars folks dollar from Colorado but all across the western or across the
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country are
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thank you for coming out and it really is an are also want to say thanks
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because I know for many have you here
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your center Kevin talked about this the but but a few years ago we had a few
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visitors or Scots
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I in fact a so many have you hear that recall election
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help to sell you help to sell many be a set twenty or thirty blocks
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the review made phone calls for for some even travel all the way to Wisconsin we
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appreciate that but most of all
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behalf the turn at nine our family our boys met now
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ox somebody told us you prayed force I just gotta tell you what a difference it
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made us thank you so much for doing that
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Myler crest going forty don't stop because we need the prayers now more
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than ever
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and we appreciate it because is center Kevin mitchen we we had at one point
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over a hundred thousand protesters in our cap
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effective your may not remember this but the Occupy movement
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did not start Wall Street it started in Madison Wisconsin in my state capital
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it was until months later we finally won those battles that
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that they actually went on the wall street around the rest the country so my
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apologies for certain that
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a but but we did what we thought was important you see Wed
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back in 2009 about a year and a half before the election to and I sat down
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and talked about thought about ultimately prayed about
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the state of our state and we saw that a state that had a
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unemployment rate peaked at 9.2 percent state were under the previous government
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lost 233,000 jobs were taxes are going up by over a billion dollars
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by the governor democrats were charged before we saw state it was in trouble on
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behalf of our two signs we said we gotta do something
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and I'm proud to tell you some four-year plus years later
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our state is turned around we couldn't have done it without the support of
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people helping us out as you see when
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when they came in with all those protesters they were trying to
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intimidate us
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that's what they do with the state at the federal at the local level
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they tried to intimidate the big coverage special-interest when I'm proud
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to tell you tonight
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that we were not intimidated charged us with refocusing on why we're electing
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the first place in the people we elected to serve
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and instead of backing down we stood up and took the power
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outta the hands are the big %uh verse special interest to put it firmly
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in the hands of the hardworking taxpayers
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SERR reforms
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now we change unions in our state but but we we were able to change our
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economic status we we went from 9.2 percent unemployment beginning a 2010
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8.1 percent the month before I took office
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were down about four and a half percent last month we took it
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we have a labor participation rate that's well above the national level we
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had a
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3.6 billion dollar budget deficit turned it into a surplus in each in last year's
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belzer budget moving forward
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we have a rainy day fund its a hundred sixty five times bigger we took office
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the pitch pension system the only fully fund in the country
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we've done all the things you would expect economically fiscally the one I'm
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most proud of us
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how we change state local government for example our schools we now can hire
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and fire based america's we got rid of seniority and tenure
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the
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member back in 2011 out as protesters at public schools are gonna fall apart we
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did some like that
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one here to tell you four years later graduation rates are up
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third-grade reading scores are up ACT scores are now second best in the
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country
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but states where the kids take the exam protect exam but it's not just in those
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areas you see we did other things as well sometimes people don't know about
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this cuz I hear about the union's
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but we did other things we we read in regulations we
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we got rid a frivolous lawsuits we we did more
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we defunded Planned Parenthood a pass pro-life legislation
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the we pass Castle Doctrine a concealed carry so the people can protect
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themselves
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their family and their loved ones if they're law-abiding citizens
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who would have thought this but we made Wisconsin the twenty first state in the
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country to have the right to work
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the freedom to work without being forced to beat a labor union the in our state
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it's now
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easy to though but hard to cheat if you want about the state wisconsin you gotta
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have a photo ID to vote the next election the
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the
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and so I tell all the view that
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not to brag well maybe not too much
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but rather tell you in a state like wisconsin
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a state that hasn't gone Republican for President since 1984 when ronald reagan
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lasted for reelection
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if a state like that can take ideas that are big
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and bold and have them enacted and then elect a governor not just the first time
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but a second time and a third time in four years
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and now I like the governor but add additional seats in the majority
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going from Democrat to Republican to adding more republicans adding even more
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republicans last fall
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if we can do in wisconsin we can certainly do in washington in all across
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America
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hey let me give you three quick reasons why that's important for our country
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it's all about growth reform and safety
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issue right now I think we've got a lot of politicians in Washington who think
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we grow the economy by growing Washington
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I got a message for we grow the economy in cities
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in towns and villages all across this nation that people create jobs
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not the government's about time to get the government out of the way that means
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raining in frivolous and outta control losses particularly all those new ones
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that the Obama administration put in place
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it means once and for all repealing
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Obama Care outright folio immediately
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and putting patients and families back in charge it means using the abundant so
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what God has given us here this country in on this continent
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when it comes to feel energy supplies with all the above not picking winners
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and losers
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but using all that we have here on the West in all across the country
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starting with approving the Keystone pipeline on day one
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it means not only through kindergarten through twelfth grade but beyond
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helping people get the education and the skills
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and the qualifications they need to succeed in a way that says worker let
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the other side
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worry about how low wages are we're going to get people the skills they need
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to succeed
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with careers they pay two or three or four times
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the minimum wage because we want everyone to be lifted up
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in this economic recovery and finally it means lowering the burden when it comes
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to taxes
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warning the bird and hardworking taxpayers will be individuals
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or a job creator so that we're competitive again in the world today
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so that more american jobs can come back home to put more bark fellow citizens
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back to work
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that addition the growth we need to talk more about reform
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again there's a huge cock dress think about people like the president Hillary
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Clinton
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they tend to measure success in government by how many people are
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dependent on the cover
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right are about you but I think for most service in this country
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we believe the success should be measured by just the opposite
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by how many people are no longer dependent on the government
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that's right you see we understand the true freedom prosperity do not come for
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the body and to the government the company power people live their own
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lives to control their own destinies
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to the dictator is bored at work of work
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when I was a small kid growing up but when I was we had moved the del Avion
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from
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from Colorado Springs the plane to lower pitch with the dollar was Scott's when I
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was in third grade A my first job
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was washing dishes at the countryside rusher later life I moved up in the big
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time in high school I started flipping hamburgers at mcdonald's
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true story I was a dull but Paul Ryan my good friend was about twenty miles down
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the road for me in Janesville
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he was flipping burgers there I was with the burgers in my home the only
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difference is his manager told him
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he had a flip hamburgers in the back because he didn't have the interpersonal
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skills to work the front cash register
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through
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but regardless if that I
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I think about my time as a kid you're a grown up there were killer learning that
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work ethic from those first job sir
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I think about my parents my dad a small-town preacher
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my mom a part-time secretary in a bookkeeper at wonder that businesses in
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town and
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I think about them in my grandparents my Mike my moms parents
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my group in grammar were performers the didn't have indoor plumbing until my
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mother would after junior high school
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my dad's dad my grampa Walker was a machinist
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for 42 years a barber Colman I look back in life and for my brother I realize we
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didn't hear it fame or fortune from our family
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we got was the belief that if you work or
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and you play by the rules you can't do and be
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anything you want in america that's the American dream
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and we did to be champions for everyone to live the American dream
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it finally in addition the talking about growth
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in about reform the last thing I want to spend a moment to talk about his safety
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safety you see
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so you might think what is he talking about safety is that public safety is a
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boater safety is a hunter safety now
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safety to me is what many people Washington called national security
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which I caught safety because when I see a video
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other jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage
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when I see Christians from Egypt and elsewhere around the world beheaded
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because their faith
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that's something I feel in my heart and in my soul
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and that makes me worry for the safety of them
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head for others like them it for people all around this world including me and
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my family
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and I gotta tell you I think there's an increasing interest around this country
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and around this world
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for America to start leading again
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this is this may seem odd but even though as a governor I don't deal with
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this every day this has been at the top of my list concerns for the last year so
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because when I see a a president who draws a line in the sand
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and allows people to cross it when I see a president who calls I sis the JV squad
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because Yemen a success story who cause
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Iran Iran a place we can do business with
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watchers troubles me I members a kid back in 79 AD
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my brother David rise to put yellow ribbons around the tree in front of our
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our house our oak tree in the front because for 444 days
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fifty-two Americans were held hostage in iran
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one Evans a friend of mine named Kevin her Manning who is the youngest marine
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held hostage at that time
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he grew up in Oak Creek Wisconsin he lives in Wausau right now
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and I realize watching what happened Kevin back then Iran has not changed
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Iran is not a place we should do business with
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and then I look at this present year earlier this year he literally looked in
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the eyes are the american people and said
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the greatest threat for future generations is climate change
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climate change why got a message for you mister president
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the greatest threat for the american people the greatest threat for the
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people the world
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is not climate change it is radical islamic terrorism and we need leaders
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are willing to stand up
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and do something about it the we need a president
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go under stairs that Israel is actually an ally
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I will start trading your such the
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and we need a president who has the courage
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to look the american people in the eye and tell them something that might not
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be easy to hear
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you see it's not going to take a week or a month
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or maybe even a year but our enemy today is not like the interview at the pass
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it's not like for those of us who grew up in the cold war
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were containment was enough know our enemy today is like a virus
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it's like a virus if you don't take it out it will only come back stronger
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and as I look at the world today on behalf of your children in mind I'd
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rather take the fight to them
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it said to wait until they bring the fight to us
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itself there's a lot at stake is this next election
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and there's a lot of great republicans either thinking about our re: in this
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race but I would just ask who want to quit thinking that I A one in with a
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quick story to bring this all home
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I would ask is you consider you my support for president that you think
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about the fact that there are really
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a great emerging group of republican candidates but they're really kind of
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all the two camps
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there are fighters fighters
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who have yet to win those battles and there are winners
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winners have yet to fight those battles if we were to throw your hat in the ring
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I would contend you that we could do both
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fight those battles and Windows battles on the issues
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that matter to everyday Americans to further our common sense conservative
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reforms
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and so is we and before I spend a few minutes
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sitting down with you Hewitt in in answering some questions for you hear
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the CD eyes when italiana
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I'm an optimist I love America I love the people this country I'm upset with
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the federal government I love american the people this great country and I'm
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optimistic about the future
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I'm optimistic not just because what i've seen in my state but in many other
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states across this country
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were the last 45 years we've seen common sense conservative republican reformers
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take office in our state's and transform those states
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transform those states moving forward but more so than just what we see in the
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last two years I'm an optimist because
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I love the history of america and I know
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the history of america will lead us to better days to come you see
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as a kid I grew up loving history so much
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I thought of our founders as almost bigger than life
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superheroes in my mind and so over the years though we never had a chance to go
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to Philadelphia to
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couple years back to deny my wife and I who's here with me tonight we got a
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chance to go to
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Philadelphia for the first time in as you can imagine is someone who loved
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history loved thinking about those
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remarkable founders we get up early in the morning
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we went over past the Liberty Bell in with the park service we went into
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Independence Hall
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for you ever been there you know it's pretty small
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about a fraction to the stage right up here and so as I get up there early the
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morning as the Sun was coming up
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and I looked into the room and kinda took it all and
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I looked at the desk and I look at the cheers
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and is ready to be blown away but instead it dawned on me
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is ordered people is were ordinary people were done something quite
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extraordinary
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you see these were people who did just risk their political careers
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these were people did just rest their business ventures
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is were patriots
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patriots who risked their lives
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for the freedom we order today ways a gentleman here tonight i would tell you
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that moments like that
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remind me that what makes America
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great what makes us exceptional what makes us the greatest country in the
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history of the world
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is been all throughout our nation's history
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in times of crisis period economic or fiscal
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the military or spiritual what makes
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America amazing has been all throughout there's times
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there had been man and women of courage
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who bid one to think more about the future of their children
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and their grandchildren than they thought about their own futures
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ladies and gentlemen here tonight i would tell you that this
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is one of those times this is one of those moments in history
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this is the opportunity for us to look back and tell future generations
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we were there we stood up we did what was required
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to make America great again. thank you for what you've done
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thank you for what you're going to do thank you for helping to make
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America great again. the
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the
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Scott Walker tough fighter from Wisconsin
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governor
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Scott Walker and now
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rocker arm for a conversation with the governor
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our friend your Hewitt
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always a pleasure you got a buncha young people here the Armstrong
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fellows somewhere out the idea in France
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governor I'm gonna make it quick as we got lot of people wanna go dancin
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other conservatives that for questions I heard you say
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Obamacare will be repealed and replaced there are a lot of Republican senators
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who led the filibuster rick santorum told me you don't need
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to break the filibuster to repeal Obamacare but if it's necessary to do so
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will you urge a republican colleagues to invoke the Harry Reid role that he used
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last year to break the filibuster
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to repeal Obamacare root-and-branch yes
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absolutely the secondly
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we've seen to Supreme Court
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decisions in two days disappoint all judges disappoint David shooter
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disappointed the most
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how will you find original lists how have you found original list
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who will interpret the law and not make it
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was a great question it again it's one of those where I can do more than talk
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about I can point to my record as governor I take that very seriously I'm
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not a lawyer
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up that's worth applause right they're probably right that a
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I'm not a lawyer although there are some good ones that don't take that wrong
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here
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about what I've done as my time is
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governor the great state of Wisconsin I take that very seriously because
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that's a legacy that will far outlast me no matter what the future might hold
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in so I put together group including a number folks were active in the federal
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society in my state across the country
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as well as a number of other legal scholars to help me narrow the group
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with applicants for any circuit court
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Court of Appeals eventually so there's supreme court appointment my state
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they narrow it down they give me a group love
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finalist and I interview them thank you to their involvement in mind as well or
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three simple litmus test
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I want men and women of integrity there were people who are scholars and
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understand the law
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and most importantly only know that people understand with
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absolute certainty throughout a very deliberate backroom process and
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otherwise
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that they understand that the sole role the gesture
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in the states importantly the country is to uphold the Constitution the United
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States
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and those laws duly enacted under it no more
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no less the my third questionnaires to do something I've been talking a lot
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about with their the young Armstrong fellows all week in with everyone in
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this island
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Israel
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Armstrong fellows do I get were Plaza that's a that's pretty good the when it
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comes to religious liberty I asked jeb bush this on my show on Friday ask you
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are you all in and if so what's that mean
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yes nm I said I'm proud to say that
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it's actually written into our Constitution in great detail that i
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member when
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so the other states early this year we're having some challenges with the
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median otherwise I point out
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we've had in our constitution for some time in this work just fine thank you
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I think in our nation's kasagic it may not be as detailed as it is in my States
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Constitution
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but I was just in philadelphia last Saturday your Philadelphia
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William Penn founder that a great commonwealth
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came to America the setup which now Pennsylvania in large part because he
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was a victim
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a religious persecution you think it him people like Roger Williams plenty of
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others who are part of the great founding in this country
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that we call america today they came here in large part because they were
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facing
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religious persecution to me it is not freedom from religion
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a are it is freedom of religion which ultimately means we have the right to
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practice our religious beliefs
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and not happy and others interfere we we certainly wish respect
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the the opinions of others in America but that a return is anyone respect
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their opinions
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they respect but is written into the Constitution
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the very first thing that the founder said should be amended the constitution
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was guaranteeing the freedom
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of religion we need a president who's going to stand up and defend
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each and every day
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and then finally
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and this is a two part question we suffered a data breach
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two weeks ago the opium data breach the worst that a breach in American history
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probably worse in snow
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millions of records a people's detailed lives mine
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people that worked with for years about the ZFS 86 the chinese have it all
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they can get to the witness protection program they can investigate
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nuclear scientists they can't find anyone who's got any blackmailed
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and issue at the same time that happened missus clinton was revealed to have a
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private server
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home the indifference at the national level
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indifference at the personal level to the national security is shocking
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do you think it's disqualifying and what does it say
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about the Obama administration and will you make hillary server and issue
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in the 2016 election and if so how we open the big door for me there
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gotta first I just got to say and I this is funny but I just wish it wasn't
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fighting
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it's probably too today that China and maybe even Russia
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probably no more about what was hilar on hillary clinton's server
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they do the members the United States Senate are united states congress I
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should say
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I don't think that's a far off either not because anyone who thinks if they
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could hack into
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agencies at the federal government for someone who had a private server that
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was clearly not secured
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in what's just assume for the moment I've for the sake of argument that you
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didn't have confidential information on
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although we don't know because she is clearly not been fully transparent with
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what was on there
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at a minimum was sensitive information and so i think the american people got a
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look at a pair I think there's a
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a larger issue the gym this alone would be a serious offence
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in terms of a political issue but I think it's part of a larger patter
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when you look at this when you look at parallel to this the idea that
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that the clintons could believe that while one other was secretary the state
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the other could be doing speeches and we have a foreign governments being paid
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millions of dollars for that I think any any high school freshman taking an
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ethics course could tell you that's a conflict of interest
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when you look at this pattern what it tells to me is the clinton's think there
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is a different set the rules for them
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there is for the rest of america and I think that goes to a larger issue that
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says
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Hillary Clinton is Bowl flea out of touch with main street america it's
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about time we stand up and pointed out
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even if the main street meat is not going to do it
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everybody says Scott lockers a winner he stood up against everything the left
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could throw at him not once not twice but three times
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but hillary was in the ring in the clinton machine is big
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they get the money they got much to the media they got the map
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they've got a machine so tell us all tell everyone I think that the key thing
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I'm gonna be looking for when I asked to take questions this fall
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shoes the Republican best position to take on and beat Hillary Clinton why's
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that Scott Walker
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it's a at three quick reasons up and I'm not a declared unit but if I were to
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declare your dick a
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I'll give you three good reasons why that why that would be a good argument
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about as the clerk at one
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ever gonna be a name from the past we need a name for the future
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not a name for the best to
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the if we're going to beat someone who embodies Washington
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and Hillary Clinton bodies washing not just cuz she's worked there for most her
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professional life
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but because of things like this evening on the cover up a scandal that's what we
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expect at a Washington
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we need someone who is the anti-washington and I think if you look
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at us taking on the big cover special which is most of whom
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came out a washing spend 109 dollars more to take us out
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we took on wash did not once not twice but three times in the last four years
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and we won so where the anti-washington
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and three and
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to and three I've been accessed here that
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I'm good and actually answer the query that the gentleman asked me so that's
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where I get to it i'm used the protesters so this is not a common
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probably exported in from Wisconsin to but the third reason
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the third compelling argument is
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is that I like hillary Clinton who even when you ask her supporters
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shit they can identify anything that she's accomplished have substance
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other than traveling around the world the contrast with that is that
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we've actually done something we've actually got something done
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as I mentioned there's a lot of great republicans were fighters
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there's a lot of republicans are winners we fought wide
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we could do that if we were to write gonna ask you
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this must be like
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bball for you in San they would we have had a hundred thousand protesting a
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death threat to bring your house
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water to go shower that's like style of a big deal Scott Walker graduated drugs
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the
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