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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome,

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and it is time now for our
conversation with US Senator James Langford and

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Senator first of all, Merry Christmas
to you. It's coming up soon.

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It is Merry Christmas to you as
well. We are all ready for that

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holiday to be able to get gives. Got a lot of busyness that's been

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taking place here. Your friend mister
Mayorkas has been getting a little bit of

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a business. You've been in his
here a little bit, and we have

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actually we had a lot of face
to face meetings lately trying to be able

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to work through the issues on border. The administration and Senate Democrats have been

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furious that we're trying to be able
to actually solve the border issues. But

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our focus has been we're going to
work on national security issues, which we

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are dealing with Israel and Ukraine and
other areas. We're going to work on

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American national security issues as well,
and to be able to solve this border

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issue. So yes, we've been
in the thick of a lot of negotiations.

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I've had a lot of face to
face meetings in the past several days

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with the White House and with Senate
Democrats to be able to hash out well,

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what we pray and hope is a
really solid the deal to be able

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to deal with border security. Senator, A lot's been going on, some

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of it's been over there in the
House, and of course you're in the

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Senate. Bet them know that you're
keeping an eye on it. The big

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ieword came up with impeachment inquiry with
the Hunter Biden and possibly Joe Biden.

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Can you give us maybe what you're
seeing from your vantage point. It's not

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in the Senate yet and it won't
be for a while and if it ever

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does get there. Yeah, it
seems to be the month of the eyeword

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at this point, where we've got
immigration, inflation, and now impeachment all

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in conversation. The impeachment dialogue in
the House has been there frustration that the

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administration is not turning over documents for
them to be able to do their investigation.

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And their statement is we don't have
to turn it over until there's some

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formal proceedings dealing with subpoenas and impeachment
inquiry. Otherwise we're not going to turn

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it over. So the House responded
yesterday with all right, we'll open a

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formal impeachment inquiry and we want all
these documents, which means the courts will

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actually compel the White House to start
turning things over. So that's the next

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step they're going to. It doesn't
necessarily mean impeachments will actually occur, but

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it will force the White House to
actually start turning documents over and let them

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get a chance to be able to
complete their work. The way that it

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works is the House does the investigation. If they determine there is enough evidence

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there for impeachment, then they votes
for that and it sends it over to

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the Senate and there's a formal trial. And we've seen those recently to be

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able to know what those look like. Well, there are a lot of

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things going on here too. I
believe the Defense Bill got passed, correct,

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did it did? It got passed
through the Senate. The House is

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scheduled to be able to take up
the National Defense Bill today actually, and

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that's incredibly significant for all of our
bases and posts in Oklahoma and our total

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national security. It's a race for
members of our military. It has one

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of the aspects that I have in
it dealing with not only there's lots of

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individual pieces that I have in there
for Oklahoma bases and the post. But

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then also the issue about the spouses, because a lot of spouses in the

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military, they travel with their spouse
all the time from base to base.

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They're not able to get a career, and so we have special language and

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there to be able to allow the
ways for the spouses to be able to

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get a career and so they can
also develop a career at the same time

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that the member of the military who
serve in the nation can do it as

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well. Senator, you know with
this defense bill, I mean, we're

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doing some great things here with Oklahoma, but on the larger scale, a

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lot of the left it didn't move
on several things abortion and pronouns and a

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few other things. Where are we
with that. Yeah, there's a mix

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on this. So we have pushed
very hard, obviously because the Biden administration

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is doing something no administration's ever done. That they're actually paying members of the

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military and their travel to be able
to go and get an abortion. No

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one's ever done that with federal funds. And we continue to be able to

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push that and are pushing towards litigation
to be able to stop that as well.

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That's something Democrats dug in on on
the during final negotiations. But on

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the flip side of it, we
actually took out a lot of these DEI

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offices and prohibited CRT training in the
military. And this was a big issue

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for us where they lost on it. Where we were pushing back to be

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able to say, hey, we
want the military to end up being moral,

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professional, and lethal, not a
you know, left wing organization.

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That's deal with de I all the
time. We should have no racism,

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we should have no anything else in
the military. But when they're spending all

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their time in training classes on DBI
rather than actually learning how to be able

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to break things, that that's a
bigger issue. Indeed, thanks for kind

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of clearing that up there, because
there were a lot of questions going into

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the boat over that other things.
In Washington, d C. We mentioned

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the I word earlier inflation. Boy, you know you read the headlines today

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and it says Wall Street had a
record breaker. Well good, a handful

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of stocks. He did very very
well. But how does that relate to

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mom and pop and the babies back
home? Yep. It helps a lot

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of folks in their retirement because a
lot of folks have different plans and retirement

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investments and such that will actually help
them long term for their retirement. But

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the inflation continues to be able to
rise here and stay stubbornly high. It

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was the massive overspending in the earliest
days of the Biden administration that really triggered

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this that we continue to be able
to suffer the consequences for it. When

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you do massive amounts of spending like
that on the federal side, it does

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have a real effective economy. Well, everyone's great to have free money all

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the time, prices go up,
wages go up, all those things to

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start to accelerate, and it's really
hard to stop inflation once it gets started.

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So this has been a big issue
and President Biden's travel around the country

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touting his Bidenomics and saying, isn't
the economy great, and the American people

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are saying, no, it's not, it's not great, and so this

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has been a big issue for him
on the election front, but quite frankly,

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it's a bigger issue for the American
people struggling with the cost of everything

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right now and trying to be able
to get some kind of balance back in

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their life. Well as Congress gets
ready for the Christmas break here looking forward

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to twenty twenty four, what do
you have coming up here as far as

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bills that you're presenting. Yeah,
I'm working on the border security bill.

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This is twenty four to seven for
me for weeks and weeks trying to be

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able to push across the finish line
this border security bill. If we can

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get it done, that will happen
in the next ten days basically, so

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I will be here all weekend working
through those issues. If we can get

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to resolution, then the Senate would
vote on it next week. In the

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House would vote on it at the
end of that week, and that would

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be an epic shift. This would
be the largest change in border security policy

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in decades if we're able to get
this thing across the finish line. So

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that's the main project that I'm working
on right now for the end of the

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year. All righty, Well,
Merry Christmas to you and your family and

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to all your staff and everybody that's
working with you. To get a hold

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of you, maybe ask you a
question or just wish you merry Christmas.

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How do they do that, Senator
bet Yeah, they can reach out online.

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You can go to Langford dot Senate
dot gov. It's gov Langford dot

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center dot gov. That side has
gotten my email address, snail mail address,

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phone numbers. You can go to
at Senator Langford at any of the

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social media platforms and get a chance
to be able to see what we're doing.

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We try to post there frequently to
let people know what's going on in

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the latest stats and figures. And
then I would encourage folks in a couple

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of things, not only enjoy time
with your family during this season, remember

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the reason for this season as well, the incarnation of God himself and that

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reminder that He is with us.
But I would also ask just people to

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pray for us. We've got a
lot of really serious work to get done

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and we're just asking God's favor to
be able to finish this up for the

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sake of the nation. Thank you, Senator,