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We are on the phone with Senator
James Lankfort, and Senator thank you very

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much for visiting with us today.
No glad to be able to visit with

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everybody. We've had a little bit
of a storm damage here, but I

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got to tell you Oklahoma's are resilient. These folks who know what to do

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in a crisis. They know what
to do in the situation, and I

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got to tell you the neighbors are
quite neighborly. Yeah, it is actually

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it's painful that we know so well
what to be able to do in a

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crisis. I spent all day on
Tuesday in Barnsdall, getting a chance to

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be able to tour round, visit
with folks, get a chance to be

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able to pray with first responders and
other folks families that are there, but

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also get some time with a chainsaw
to be able to help clear branches and

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the limbs. And it is remarkable
their homes and communities in sections of Barneshall

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that there's just nothing left. It's
just obliterated, and there are places where

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there are large trees down houses and
they just want to figure out how to

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be able to restart. At this
point in fact, I heard somebody say,

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you get the emotion of I don't
know where to start. And my

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statement to them is start wherever you're
standing at that point, because every direction

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that you look, there's a need, and so the need for people to

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be able to be there, to
be able to walk alongside them, for

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families connected with other families is tremendous. Senator, what's been happening in Washington,

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d C. And folks back home
can kind of catch up here with

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you. Guys. It seems like
every time I try to keep up with

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you, it's like drinking from a
fire hose. There's a lot going on.

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Yeah, there's so much that's happening. Actually right now. Flew into

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a DC late last night. We're
working the rest of this week on the

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FAA and the FAA authorization. For
anybody think it's on a flight or that

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deals with drones or deals with whatever
it may be, deal with aviation,

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This bill is extremely important to a
large bill to be able to walk through

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the authorization of what when you do, it's really important Oklahoma as well,

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because we forget there are only two
FAA centers outside of Washington, D C.

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And one of them is in Oklahoma. It's the Mike Maroney Center actually

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just west of Oklahoma City. That
center does all of the training for air

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traffic controllers. It does a lot
of the research and background work for health

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issues. So there's a lot that
happens at FAA in Oklahoma, and so

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this is an important bill for us
to be able to get done. We'll

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finish it up hopefully this week.
All right. Yeah, a lot of

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other things boiling up too. You
know, we always have the border crisis,

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and it just seems so frustrating that
we get so close and then everybody

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has to step back about you know, two or three steps and reassess and

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start all over again. And nobody
would know that better than you. Oh

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yeah, it's incredibly frustrating to be
able to go through all the issues on

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the border and what continues to be
the major issue. The media has stopped

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talking about it. But let me
give you, for instance, just two

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days ago, with fifty eight hundred
people that were illegally crossing our border.

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That seems to be just a normal
number, between six thousand and fifty seven

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hundred or so. Every single day, day after day after day, the

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numbers are still massive. They have
not slowed down to the media stopped talking

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about it. We still need to
be able to resolve this with DHS leadership

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again the last week to be able
to talk more about how we can stop

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this, including the group I call
special interest aliens, that group that's a

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designation their potential national security risk.
These are people we don't know anything about,

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but they're coming from areas of known
terrorism. They're not on our terror

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watch list, but we just don't
know them, and so they're processed through

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and released into the country like everyone
else. And I'm trying to at a

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minimum, stop that group from being
released in the country. If I can't

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get everybody stopped, I'm trying to
at least get the folks that even at

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the border we see the largest national
security risks from getting stopped. And so

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far I've not been able to get
that done and get a one's attention to

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be able to stop it. So
I'm going to keep hammering away on this

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because I think it's important for our
national security. Senator. One thing that's

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just really troubling a lot of people
is that we don't think that our college

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students know their history very well.
Because we're starting to see a repeat of

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something that popped up about one hundred
years ago, and that's the anty Semitism.

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Yeah, it's any Semitism. And
I just think I can't even believe

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that this is a part of the
national dialogue at this point, but it

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certainly is. This is something that
started several years ago. It didn't just

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pop up since October the seventh,
when Hamas brutally attacked Israel. It didn't

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just pop since then. It's been
going on before that. Senator Jackie Rosen,

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who's a Democrat from Nevada, she
and I have been talking about what's

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happening on college campuses for several years
now and saying we have rising anti Semitism,

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and a lot of people said,
no, no, no, that's

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not really happening. Well now everyone
sees no, that's really happening. This

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is a very big issue now Again
in America, you have the right to

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say something stupid. We have protected
free speech. We can disagree on issues

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and talk about them. But there
is a threshold that you crossed when you

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start intimidating people, when you start
gathering as students. Is what's happening now

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in trying to be able to block
Jewish students from getting on campus or block

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Jewish students from going to class.
They've now done protests to the level that

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they've been able to get graduation ceremony. Is to stop or get universities to

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go online. This is not just
free speech at this point. This is

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intimidation and determined to be able to
block someone else's right to free speech,

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someone else's right to an education.
So this has to stop. We've finally

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seen some universities step up and to
take charge of their own campus and to

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actually be the adults on campus and
to say we're not going to allow individuals

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that are protesters to be able to
block the rights of other students. That's

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a good thing. We've seen that
even last night in Washington, DC at

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George Washington University, they've been completely
out of control of the police actually moved

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in last night and stopped all the
protesting that actually happened because they've grown more

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and more violent and disruptive, and
it's about time. Well, you know,

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we're seeing is a well funded organization. It didn't seem to be organic

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at all. We're starting to see
forty year old people posing as students.

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We're starting to see a lot of
tents that are very uniform, almost corporate

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nature, like a big book purchases
and things like that. This is obviously

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well funded and they're playing a few
people. It appears to me. No,

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it's definitely well fundy and well organized. But I would also tell you

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it's a different topic and issue.
But on TikTok right now, the Chinese

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government, the messaging they're putting out
is fifty to one opposed to Israel on

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TikTok of what they're actually delivering to
people. So anyone who's who has a

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TikTok account, which I discourage people
from having that, anyone who chooses to

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have that, what's coming at them
and their feed is a constant anti Israel

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feed And there's a sense that everyone
thinks this way. And so for those

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college students that live on TikTok all
the time, they're getting this constant feed

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up, you're doing the right thing. Keep attacking Israel, keep attacking Israel

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because that's what the Chinese government is
actually directing towards people. Over and over

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again. Wow, that's incredible.
Any last words you want to pass along,

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just continue to be able to pray
for folks in the area. I

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know everybody in Bartlesville and all that
reagion. We continue to be able to

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do what we can to be able
to help our news. Just don't stop

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assume a long term issue. Everybody
knows it well, so continue to be

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able to find practical ways to be
able to help in gaps that you have.

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Thank you very much, Senator,
appreciate your time with us here on

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K one.