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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
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Weekday Afternoons on the Drive. Senator
James Lank for joining us now, so

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much to talk about, Senator,
I know, I guess we need to

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start with Israel and the aid that
the President wants to give both Israel and

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Ukraine. Yeah, it's pretty remarkable
just to be able to walk through what's

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happened in Israel at this point.
Obviously all of us are grieved period on

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that we're going to stand with Israel, that is our ally. And then

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when I saw the President's proposal and
the amount that he wants to do for

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Ukraine, I'm trying to dig through
the details. Much of the money to

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Ukraine is actually to replacing American stock
files to weapons systems we've already sent to

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Ukraine, so we're trying to replenish
those stock files. So I'm trying to

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determine what's the difference between that and
other things. We do need to stand

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against this access of evil that all
of us have talked about. Everybody wants

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to talk about you Kraine as if
it's in isolation. Ukraine is that war

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right now is being carried out by
Russia, funded by China, with weapons

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systems from North Korea and Iran.
That's just the facts. This is Russia,

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China, North Korea, and Iran
all attacking Ukraine. And for US

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to sit by and to say that's
no big deal, that's their war,

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it doesn't affect us is ignoring an
obvious geopolitical problem there. We as the

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United States should not allow Russia,
China, North Korea, and Iran to

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slaughter their neighbors, just like we
would not allow Hamas to be able to

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slaughter their neighbors as well, who's
fully funded by Iran with that crazy terrorist

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mindset that they have. So I
do stand with the people of Ukraine against

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Russia, China, North Korea,
and Iran, but we do need to

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be able to monitor how much money, how we're doing it, where it's

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going. But we also need to
ask the folks to be able to pony

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up that are in the Middle East. Well, my thing is, I

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know that a lot of this is
hardware and it's not cash, but we

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got to pay for it somehow.
And if we're not figuring out how we're

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going to pay for it, is
it not going to eventually affect inflation.

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It will affect inflation because it actually
ends up going all into debt financing.

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All this is currently being financed by
debt. This is the challenge that I've

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spoken to people about for years,
and that is, if you continue to

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run up big debts in that moment
of crisis, we can't support ourselves,

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we can't support something else. If
China we're in to invade Taiwan right now,

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we would have to go to the
Chinese to be able to ask for

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a loan for our debt, to
be able to gear up our own military

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to defend them. That's not going
to happen, obviously. And so all

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the two trillion dollars in debt that
Biden has done this year, the additional

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trillion dollars that they've added on a
new spending that was just a pure partisan

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spendings free from the Inflation Reduction Act
that everybody's so excited saying, well,

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we're getting free money from Washington.
That money now is a trillion dollars and

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just additional debt that was added on
to the trillion dollars already there of deficit

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spending, and that's going to continue
to spiral. We can't continue to do

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this. I mean, it just
can't be more straightforward than that. Will

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Biden's deal make it through the Senate? And then I don't know. The

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House is still a mess, so
we don't know where it's going to go

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there. Yeah, hard to be
able to tell. There's still a lot

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of questions, not as is,
there's no way that his request moves through

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as is. There's also a couple
of things there. He's asked for additional

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dollars for the border. I have
said, why would we give additional dollars

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for the border. He's just going
to use that money to be able to

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facilitate more people coming in. That's
what he did with the last dollars.

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If he wants to talk about border
security, which they've opened up in this,

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I'm glad to talk about border security
because I've got a bunch of proposals

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out there dealing with asylum changes,
how we're handling paroles that actually stopped the

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number of people coming across the border. So if he wants to talk about

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that and to say let's actually do
border security and to shut down what's happening

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at the border, I'm well to
talk about a lot of things that we're

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actually able to control our own border
in this security as well. So there's

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still a lot of unanswered questions and
a lot of things that we're moving through

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right now to say how do we
actually get to a final resolution on these

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issues. But in the meantime,
there's no way that the proposal that he

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sent over that is debt on arrival, that's not going to pass. So

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you just mentioned the border too.
I mean, right now, if you

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are a Hamas or Hezbalah or pif
all you have to do is say I

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want political asylum and you'll get a
ticket further into the United States, that's

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correct. You know, a Daily
Color has actually reported that in the last

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day that CBP has put out a
bulletin to all their folks saying, hey,

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here's what a Hamas patch looks like. Here's what a Hesbela patch and

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logo looks like. The implication there
is these folks are coming across our border

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and we know it. We want
people to identify. But what's amazing is

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in their notification and here's what it
looks like. It doesn't actually include and

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don't let them in. It just
says, here's not a RECOGNI them the

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problem is we need to stop these
folks from coming in. I would give

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an example of this. I was
at the border a couple of months ago.

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There were four Russians that came across
the border. One of them was

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identified on our terror watch lists.
They were detained and deported. The other

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three they were traveling with were released
into the country because we had no other

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record. They were on a terror
watch list. So I don't know how

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often terrists travel with Sunday school teachers, but apparently that's the assumption of the

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Biden administration is the three other folks
traveling with the Russian terrorists, they're fine

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because we just don't have them in
our record system. We've got to be

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able to shut this down. There's
been seventy thousand what they call special interest

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aliens that have crossed our border in
the last two years. Those are folks

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from Syria, from Iran, from
Iraq, from Yemen. These are folks

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that are crossing, almost all of
them single males, military age, that

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are coming into our country that the
Biden administration said, we don't have them

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on our terror watch list, so
they must be fine. They literally released

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them into the country no questions.
Asked. They're awaiting an asylum hearing somewhere

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in the next decade, and that's
a real number in the next decade,

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and they're just releasing the country to
travel where they want. This is the

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issue with the Biden administration is they
just don't take bord security seriously. Senator

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James Langford, we could talk all
day for why and how much, and

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you know why it is the way
it is. But there's so much else

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going on here too, including that
you called immediately for refreezing the Iranian assets

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in Qatar. That is said to
have happened, hasn't it. We're waiting

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to get it in writing, okay, saying orally, oh yeah, we've

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got a special deal, but we
haven't seen that actually in writing to be

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able to make sure that it actually
has occurred. The Iranians they're saying that

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has not occurred. So I'm at
this point trying to be able to figure

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out how do we get that in
writing and print. It's kind of like

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the raw nuclear deal. The Might
administration is saying, oh no, no,

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no, we're not for doing that
anymore, really, but they won't

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put that out in writing. They
won't actually say that deal is dead.

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They keep kind of floating it out
there, and so this is a big

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issue. It's same thing with Jack
Lou that's coming through right now as the

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ambassador at Israel. There are lots
of folks saying, hey, in the

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time of crisis, we need to
get an ambassador in Israel. So who

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the Biden administration picks is jacklu former
Treasury secretary who literally did a secret deal

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with Iran behind the scenes to be
able to allow Ron to be able to

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move dollars or move some of the
reals into dollars, when at the time

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Iran was blocked from being any any
kind of access. So literally the Treasury

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secretary was undercutting American policy working with
Iran, trying to persuade them to get

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into the Iran nuclear deal by cutting
them deals and being soft on Iran.

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That we do need an ambassador at
Israel. We don't need someone who's soft

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on Iran. Well, we're continuing
to try to have relief supplies too,

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to the folks of Gaza, and
I my heart goes out to the folks

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of Gaza as well, but I
can help but believe that that's not going

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to the people of Gaza. Yeah, there are two million people that are

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in Gaza. Clearly they have no
access to water, to food, to

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all kinds of things. At this
point, that's desperation for a lot of

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children and such. My first question
is pretty straightforward, what are the Egyptians

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doing in aid? What are the
Saudis, what are the Kataris, what

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are the Imradis? What are they
doing? And the question is nothing.

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They're looking to the United States and
saying you need to provide all this aid

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to Gaza. Literally, the Egyptians
will not allow those folks to cross their

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border. People look at Israel and
say there's a huge fence between Gaza and

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Israel. They also forget there's a
huge fence between Egypt in Gaza as well,

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because the Egyptians don't want those folks
in their country either, and they've

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been pushing back relentlessly saying they cannot
overflow into Egypt. The Egyptians don't want

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them. They're not stepping up to
be able to provide the aid the other

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Gulf nations are not. And so
my simple challenge is why does everyone look

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at America to suddenly to be able
to provide that aid when the Gulf states

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are saying we are the defenders of
the Palestinians, but not only will we

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not let them into our country,
we won't even send them a drop of

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water. I thought fences didn't work, Senator Langford. The Biden administration is

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a recent convert, as you know, into the area of fences. They've

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suddenly started building fences on our southern
border and have discovered they do work.

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While we've got you, what is
the Senate going to be doing here in

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the next couple of days to go
up against some of this. Several things.

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We've got appropriation bills that are actually
coming up this One of the things

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we've been pushing for for weeks is
to get more transparency in the appropriations process

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to avoid a big omnibus at the
end of the year. So we've got

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three appropriation bills that are coming up
this week for amendments in full process,

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with full transparency. That's a positive
thing after weeks to be able to move

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that through. We've got several resolutions
dealing with Israel and our support of Israel

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that is worked its way through.
We're working through any kind of supplemental that

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made the financial support for Israel as
well as border security I've been actively working

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with Democrats, yes, with Democrats, to be able to get an immigration

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proposal through. If we're going to
have policy pieces, I've got to get

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sixty people to be able to vote
for it in the Senate. And while

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a lot of my conservative brethren they
never work with a Democrat on anything,

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I can't get any law made without
actually working with Democrats in the Senate to

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be able to move some things through. So I've been working actively on what

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things will actually make a difference,
not just pretend they'll make a difference,

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but what will actually make a difference
that we can actually get through the Senate.

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So that work will continue on this
week as well. Senatord Langford,

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thank you for carving out some time
because I had a lot of questions and

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I know you've been busy and we've
all been busy, and I thank you

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for joining us. You bet glad
to be able to do it. Go

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take care of keep praying for the
nation, pray for the piece of Israel.

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