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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome here

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news time now for our community connection. We're talking with Josh Rakeen, US

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representative right here in Congressional District Too. Big weekend, big week. First

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of all, let's get into,
first of all, with the unfortunate news

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the attempted assassination of former President Donald
Trump. Your reaction, Well, Tom,

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I'm on Homeland Security Committee in the
House, and that's a committee that

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is of next Monday, will be
a part of the investigation arm for the

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House Oversights also looking at doing some
hearings to uncover what happened but Homeland As

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of next Monday, we will be
doing that. I've already been on a

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number of different briefs, one including
our chairman, who relates some information as

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he's gathering it. We will have
the Director of the Secret Service in front

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of us next week, and our
committee is going to be prepared to dive

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in tough questions. How is it
that this could even happen? I mean,

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the lack of communication, the communication
breakdown, the perimeter one hundred and

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fifty yards that well, that's not
our area of jurisdiction, that's not ours.

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Well, you know this lack of
breakdown that close to the President of

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the United States. I've got to
build that. My team we've just introduced

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that's going to make sure that no
longer, if this thing can get passed,

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that we allow different standards physical fitness
standards from one sex to another.

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You've got a director who wants diversity
hires. The DEI mentality is invating her

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entity that she has supervision over.
She was the secret Service agent for Vice

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President at the time Biden got promoted
to this position. She said, by

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twenty thirty she wants thirty percent of
the for their workforce to be women hires.

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You need to have somebody that can
complete the skills, can dead lift

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a certain weight in case something happens, is able to stand up and protect

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the President of the United States,
hot consideration important, can host to their

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weapon with muscle skill, habit,
motor skill, habit, not be searching

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for it. Now we've got the
other end of the spectrum. You've got

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a president, former President Trump,
who's now in Milwaukee, and he's simply

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wearing a bandage on the ear and
the man is moving forward. Didn't miss

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a step. What are you seeing
at the convention so far? Yeah,

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just projection of strength, which is
just such a contrast on the other side.

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It was a moment. I'm sure
you know many felt the emotion when

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the fist pump went up. You
know, that is a moment. We'll

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just cheat generations in the future watched. You can't you can't prepare for that

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moment that has to be within you. And what's in him is someone that

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is strong, is focused on the
vision of turning the country, that's going

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left back right, the presentation or
or just his him walking into the r

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n C. And you know,
Lee Greenwood, Man, what an electric

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moment, what an amazing time.
People are excited, they're ready for Trump

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forty forty seven. Now, recently, Josh Keen, our congressman here,

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you had a telephone town hall.
How did that go with the constituents.

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Yeah, well we do those about
every quarter. But we also you know,

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as you know, Tom, we
do a lot of lives in the

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community town halls. Well we will
as of August. We'll have a series

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in August and we will have done
one hundred different live town halls across the

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second congressional district. I don't know
that there's another congressional district in the country

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that's done as many. We are
doing that to make ourselves accessible and it's

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a chance for people if you disagree
with us and we get a chance to

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hear from you. We want to
be teachable, We want to listen to

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people's concerns. I've made it very
plain my position on a number of issues.

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But if you can tell me constitutionally, while I'm wrong, I welcome

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that. If you can tell me
that I'm doing something that's not constitutional,

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that's not in aligned with what our
founder's thoughts that the federal government should be

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doing. But you've got my attention
immediately. But if what I'm saying resounds

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with you and go, wait a
minute, what maybe we're not following a

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blueprint that was left us by our
founders, who on a keeping in mind.

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In our found years there was different
opinions, but there was solidarity when

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they put the Constitution and they said, here's the role for the Fed,

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here's the role for the states.
So many of our problems are just a

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missing the mark, not staying in
our lane, not staying between the mayonnaise

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and the mustard on the highway of
what is the federal role versus the boundary

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that says no, you're getting into
the ditch. That's a state role,

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that's a self governance role, keeping
the lines defined and working together at the

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same time. It can be a
tricky process. Indeed, what you got

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to say for everybody these days is
we get into the really dog days of

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summer and what can we look forward
from. Josh Burking, Look, we

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are in a fiddle time in our
country. It's the right thing to do

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for everyone to be communicating your neighbors
if in a way that's civil right.

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We can have strong disagreement, but
you need to be crazy, you need

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to be bold, but you also
need to be able to do things where

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you don't lose your message for your
way of delivery. You know, a

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lot of times years mature people and
you know, you know, we love

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energy, we love excitement, we
love positions. But you offend somebody,

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you make them mad, they're gonna
tune you out. And I'm gonna hear

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a word that you say. And
so all of us just be encouraging our

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friends and neighbors. Let's keep the
lines of communication open. My hope is

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that people don't see things the way
that I see it. That if I

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can tell the number one, I
care about you as human being. You're

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made in the image of God.
I do believe these things. Let's reason

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together. My hope is I have
a chance to influence them, not that

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I've offended them where they just close
off their ears and they won't receive anything

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from me. And so we have
to have a society that yes, believes

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strongly. Yes it's crazy, Yes
it's bold, but also speaks in a

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way that we don't lose our message
for our delivery and making a message and

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communication. How can folks message and
communicate back and forth with you and your

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staff. Yeah, well the top
the town hall specifically, you know,

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as a way to one on one
you can get to. Our town halls

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will be on our website at for
Keing, dot house, dot go.

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We will the list those fall I
read the comments that come into the office,

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whether it's coming too our Clamoor office
or d C. I read those.

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You see our field reps that we've
got a number of field reps that

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are out in the communities. If
you tell them something, they passed that

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along. I read that comment.
If you call in to DC and on

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an issue specific I read those comments. Email us if you have a casework

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issue like Medicare or social Security,
or legal immigration, passport issues, veterans

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affairs, call our Claremore office Jonny
Williams, who was on staff with me

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when we both work for Tom Cober, and do you incredible at her a

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job. She can help you with
casework and then you know, there's so

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many different things typical of congressional offices
that we can help you with. Contact

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their office. Then you'll be directed
the right direction. Josh Brighin has always

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and we appreciate you dropping by and
visiting with us here at K one