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[00:00:28] I was reflecting. Reflecting? I was. Thinking, cogitating, pontificating. Now I'm pontificating. I was reflecting. So I listened to the Tom Tillis interview with Jake Tapper last night. Again. This time, with a... tried to see it in a different light. To try to say, because yesterday was... it ended up being roughly half the show that we were talking about what the hell was he thinking?

[00:00:57] Why did he do this? There were... there were so many different questions that came to mind. Callers called in. Those who weren't upset that they weren't getting an instant tax credit or instant money in their pocket from the government. No surprise. But listening to the U.S. Senator Tom Tillis discuss the world with Jake Tapper. So there's a couple things I want to preface this. One, this is an agreed upon interview.

[00:01:25] Tillis, his staff agreed to sit down with the notoriously anti-Trump Jake Tapper. So that was a decision, an executive level decision that he made. He sat down in the interview knowing, knowing that the preponderance of this interview would have a lot of anti-Trumpian, anti-Republican sentiment, while asserting throughout the interview that he's a strong conservative, strong lifelong Republican leader, all of those things.

[00:01:53] And so the observation from 30,000 feet, if you're listening to Tom, to Senator Tillis, one, he was very poised. I mean, he was very, extremely comfortable in how he feels about things. He's extremely comfortable articulating how he feels about things. He also doesn't discuss. So they do talk about the bill. They do talk about the run for Senate. They do talk about his relationship with the president.

[00:02:22] But he doesn't fully articulate why he believes he's a conservative. He was the only Republican. I mean, Rand Paul, the two Republicans that voted against the big, beautiful bill, or as the Democrats call it, the big, ugly bill. He talks about Medicaid, you know, the cuts in Medicaid expansion. He doesn't articulate why. He just says it's bad. He says he told the president it'd be his Obamacare.

[00:02:50] The irony there is that Obamacare was a massive expansion of government. This bill is an attempt to contract government. So Tillis doesn't make that distinction. He never makes the distinction. And he never discusses spending in the 30-plus minute interview. He never discusses a need to curtail government spending. He never juxtaposes rights or anything like that. He's just concerned about Medicaid and, you know, the expansion of Medicaid.

[00:03:13] But beyond that, Tillis wants the audience to know that he's a smart guy. And he does this in a number of ways that are interesting to watch if you're paying attention. He does this by being very intellectual about very little.

[00:03:32] So his main, the main, the couple things you walk away from. One, he's, he plans to expose the amateurs in Trump's circle. The advisors to the president that Tillis believes are bad advisors. And he wouldn't name them. Tapper confronted him a couple times. Hey, who are these people? He says, oh, in due time, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming. I probably, you know, he didn't say I promised, but he said it's coming.

[00:03:56] He also essentially throws all of the GOP senators in the U.S. Senate under the bus because he's the only one that saw the problems with the bill. Now, Rand Paul saw it because, you know, he's worried about adding to the debt, national debt. Tillis is concerned because they just didn't get it right. He doesn't go into a great detail about what that means, but he read it and he pondered on it and he thought about it and he, and he just said, you know, I just, it's just not going to be right.

[00:04:25] He has also, he addressed people that he turned down Trump nominations. He wishes now, even the day, the day after the interview, he wishes he had turned down Pete Hegseth. He thinks Pete Hegseth is not qualified to do the job and is out of his depth. So as you put the pieces of the Tillis interview together, what you realize is he thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. Now he's a smart guy. No one's debating that.

[00:04:49] But he thinks he's smarter than the president, than North Carolinians, than the interviewer, than the people who wrote the bill, the people who altered the bill, the people who voted on the bill. He alone, he alone has the knowledge. He alone is the keeper of great knowledge. He alone is the Oracle. The Oracle, not at Delphi, I guess modern day, the Oracle of DC, the Oracle of the Senate.

[00:05:15] I guess he can be now because he's been removed from being on the whip team in the Senate. That happened very fast. Within 24 hours of him being on Jake Tapper's interview, he's removed from that capacity. Also, and Tapper continually kind of attacks Trump. He can't help it. But there's something about certain journalists that they cannot remove. And he's an experienced guy. I'm aware, if I'm going to interview a Democrat, and I used to do that consistently, Democrats or Republicans, I interviewed them all.

[00:05:45] And one of the ways to get around your bias is to ask, especially if you're doing candidate interviews, ask candidates the same question. Who you are? Why are you running? What do you believe in? Why do you believe you're the best candidate for the job? Do everything you can to not ask conservative liberal questions unless there's an issue that's facing a community and they can express that. Like, for instance, in Charlotte, you would ask people about the transit system. We'll talk a little bit about that later.

[00:06:10] And you can't ask questions about the transit system without discussing the lack of ridership and the way this thing's kind of still going down the tubes. Continues to have to be subsidized. You're getting ready to have a new tax in Charlotte. Again, we'll talk about that. But Tillis does a really good job of just pontificating. And then Tapper, when they talk about the U.S. Senate race next year, which we talked about on this program, we've discussed Roy Cooper. We've discussed Jeff Jackson, who's the attorney general for the state, as Democrats.

[00:06:39] We discussed also a list of potential, Pat Harrigan, Laura Trump. We discussed some people that might be on the right. So what does Jake Tapper do? With all the knowledge that's readily available to him, what name do you think Jake Tapper throws out as the potential nominee for the Republicans? He throws out Mark Robinson. Puts a picture of Mark on the screen and asks, you know, Tillis about Mark Robinson. And Tillis, of course, says, no, I would never endorse. He's not going to be the nominee. I won't endorse him.

[00:07:06] But that was so what you the only two pictures that Jake Tapper showed Tom Tillis about the Senate race were Mark Robinson and Roy Cooper, the shiny Roy Cooper, the the unadulterated Roy Cooper. And then this this horrible human being, you know, in Mark Robinson that that Tillis just hits it out of the park on that one. But the point being that if you want to see a clear bias, that was a good example of it.

[00:07:31] Tillis also went on to point out multiple times, you know, about Trump, how he even was trying to they tried to bait Tillis into saying something negative about the president other than being smarter than the president, is that he would show Trump's tweets. Jake Tapper would to tell us and tell us was just say, hey, we disagree on that issue and gloss over it. But clearly, Tillis knew he was not going to walk through the primary next year.

[00:08:00] And he acted like he did this so he could elevate himself. And the truth of the matter is his vote on the bill sealed his fate. He wasn't going to run for Senate. It was a fait accompli. He did it to himself. Or maybe he knew he wasn't going to win and he just decided to declare war on Trump. I don't know. Nonetheless, it's a very striking interview. If you get a chance to watch it, watch it. Like I said, he's amazingly poised, polished, calm. But the arrogance does come across that he's the smartest Republican in D.C. or maybe ever anywhere.

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[00:09:46] It discussed the interview between Jake Tapper and Senator Tillis, Tillis not running again. It is a very, it's he wants you to know he's a Republican, but he also wants you to know he really doesn't care what you think. He's right. It doesn't matter. And they spent some time trying to make him more ordinary about his background. I mean, moving a lot, having brothers and a big family and the work ethic and stuff like that. But it's a good interview.

[00:10:13] If you listen to it and you're not that astute politically, you know, he comes across as very reasonable and salient. I'm not going to say he doesn't, but that's one of the marks of his traits. His pragmatism is how he became the North Carolina House Speaker. Because it's not, you know, he ran against a hardcore conservative and he defeated that conservative. And he's never been. He wants to tell you he is, but his voting record is not overly conservative. So moving forward, they didn't ask about immigration. They didn't ask about the border. They didn't ask about, you know, NATO.

[00:10:43] They didn't ask about a lot of the big things. It was mainly about the bill, him deciding not to run a little bit. He, you know, him defending himself and attacks on Republicans by Jake Tapper. Now, after this. So I don't know if it was late last night, afternoon. California's in our different time zone. There was a massive ice raid. And it was the name of the place is just still gets me. You know, this look of glass farms.

[00:11:13] Let me see if I get the name. The name of it just caught me off guard when I was reading through the story and all the details. So what happened in California was that ice executed a search warrant on a pot farm out in California. The, you know, and so they went at, I guess it's a legal pot farm. So it's not that, but when through the midst of this, it became like a battleground. You know, and, and there were people that were confronting the ice agents. They were attacking the ice agents. It turned into a four hour standoff.

[00:11:43] And it, and, you know, it, it, it was really bad. What happened in California is just another example of protesters becoming criminals. And they've been emboldened by members of Congress who compare ice members to Nazis and racists and terrorists. Said Tom Holman, borders are earlier today on Fox News. This is from the New York post. I said months ago, it's going to end with a loss of life. And we had one the other day in Texas and it's not over. He said, referring to the gunman who opened fire on border patrol agents,

[00:12:09] walking into work in McAllen on Monday, immigration agents who descended on glass house farms. And we'll talk about that in a minute. In the city of Camarillo, one of the biggest cannabis farms in Southern California, one of the largest in the nation, by the way, were met by dozens of demonstrators gathered on a road between fields where the uniformed officers stood in a line across from them. A military style helicopter flew overhead as the melee ensued. Protesters shouted, screeched until agents used canisters with an unknown substance

[00:12:38] and fired less than lethal rounds, forcing the protesters to retreat. Several of the protesters threw what appeared to be rocks at the officers. As they retreated, a masked man in black appeared to let off a few actual gun rounds among a crowd of other protesters trying to get away. The FBI has now launched an investigation into the shooter, who was all caught on film, and is offering a ward of $50,000 for information.

[00:13:02] The clash lasted for four hours as U.S. Customs and Border Patrol set up a blockade of military style vehicles in a pastoral region. It was just an unreal as that the left is now between apps and letting people know they're trying to create these massive confrontations. U.S. Border Patrol people are doing their jobs, by the way. They aren't shooting people. They aren't and they're trying to do their jobs. This is where it gets even weirder.

[00:13:30] So five people went to the hospital and a number of folks were picked up. The farm is now under investigation. So what gets interesting is they picked up 10 kids. 10 kids, eight of whom were unaccompanied by an adult, two of whom were working the pot farm. So you have kids, illegal, undocumented folks working a pot farm. The political left is screaming about all this stuff that was horrible.

[00:13:58] But yet we had, by the way, we had 30,000 kids without documentation that came into the country. Had no, no family, no nothing. The Biden administration, while it went on, they've since located that are missing, by the way, 30,000 kids that are missing. They've located 10,000 of those and helped reunite them with their family. Not much of a news story, but Holman has discussed this. But still, 10 kids picked up. So they're working the pot farm. And who's running the pot farm? You know, they insist, oh, we're doing everything legal.

[00:14:28] But you rounded up a bunch of people that weren't supposed to be there, including 10 kids, eight of whom didn't even have an adult with them. Gavin Newsom then went after. So after this, Gavin Newsom goes after the president and said, you know, when she references President Trump's new scum nickname, and he calls the president the real scum for doing this. And then DHS responds to Newsom, who says, why are their children working at a marijuana facility, Governor? Care to answer that?

[00:14:56] But this is, and it's so weird because both sides feel that they're completely justified in the way they're feeling. The Democrats do not want to talk about the kids working in the field. They don't want to talk about illegals that are there working it. They only want to talk about, why are you doing this? It's going to hurt our farms. You had kids working at a pot farm. It's not cool. It's not good at all. We're not even talking about human trafficking, not even talking about the drug cartels,

[00:15:20] not even talking about all the other grift and illegal activities and gang operations, the Shrendagwas and MS-13s and all these others that are present in our society across North Carolina, too. Don't think just because it happened in California. It's an absolute mess that was avoidable. This is a mess created by the folks that were previously in office that didn't seem to care. Still, glass house farms, that's ironic.

[00:15:48] People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks, and yet that's how the protesters did. They threw nothing but rocks at ICE agents. The standoff drew widespread criticism, and it should have, including Governor U.S. Congressman Salud Karajal, who was denied entry when he tried to get past federal agents into the farm, why would a congressman want to, again, the congressman wanted to get in to either feel the effects of the tear gas or whatever was used. He wanted to get shot with a rubber bullet. He wanted to get on video. He wanted to gain attention. He couldn't get it.

[00:16:18] Newsom's office accused President Trump's advisor, Stephen Miller, of sparking terror in local communities. There's a real cost to these inhumane immigration actions on hardworking families and communities. Instead of, that's what Newsom's office said, instead of supporting the businesses and workers that drive our economy away of life, Stephen Miller's tactics evoke chaos, fear, and terror within our communities every turn. Again, Governor Newsom, why are children working at a pot farm?

[00:16:48] Crickets, nothing, no response.

[00:16:54] Crickets, nothing, no response. Miller and Podcast jest.

[00:17:22] This is a terrible story. And knew enough people. I guess Steve Scalise got involved and got her out. And you would think that would be a one person that would turn against all this. And she's like, no, she's still 100 percent supports because she knows that there's so many people here that shouldn't be here. She got it. I mean, she had every reason in the world to say, you guys are wrong, screwed things up. but she didn't uh so moving into the subject when i've got friends that are on the other side of

[00:17:51] this issue for me they're in the entirety of their perspective is that all of all and again you hear me use the word all and use the word some they would say all of the people here are innocent people that are just trying to make their lives better they're just trying to make it better they're running our businesses our farms they're running you know and that's kind of an elite attitude first of all let those poor people work all the low entry jobs but that means you're

[00:18:17] also encouraging businesses to hire people that they shouldn't be hiring so there's that but they continue to think all these people are innocent when you remind them say hey in a state of the size of north carolina 10 plus million people how many bad guys do we have we have a lot so in in in a population of 10 million 11 million that have come across the border we don't know who they are at least here we kind of can find out who people are you don't know who these people are you don't know where they're staying and you know that there's some bad people in these very bad murderers rapists human traffickers

[00:18:47] horrible human beings that have been picked up and released multiple times in this country it is it's not an all or some there are some horrible people and that's what the thrust of ice right now is really trying to get at the folks that are not so good and shouldn't be here all right if you're listening to this show you know i try to keep up with all sorts of current events and i know you do too and you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources why well because it's how you

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[00:20:01] supports ground news as they make the media landscape more transparent so the joke over the over the break was you're never too young to work at a weed farm in gavin newsombs california i just thought that was hysterical you're never too young to work at a weed plant in gavin newsombs california they should put that on a billboard you know hey bring your family here your kids can work on a weed farm

[00:20:24] it uh it would be funny at least it would be funny to me because well that's the way i am now a couple things i wanted to get to and this is it's kind of local but i was i was reading it from a national perspective and then as i was doing the research i thought you know this is the typical everywhere you go light rail systems mass transits is boring unsexy topic i know but charlotte you guys

[00:20:50] you're getting ready to have another tax another another penny or something like that to help support your transit system your taxes are going up to give you less service for a product that not as many people use and and this is this isn't just unique to charlotte i think charlotte has envy atlanta envy so the mayor and a bunch of others want to be more like atlanta and look charlotte's a beautiful city doesn't need to have atlanta envy it's a great place could be could be made better if

[00:21:16] it quit trying to chase chase its tail and waste money on frivolous projects that go nowhere there are nearly 3 000 transit systems in the united states four years ago the federal government met it out and gave away 30 billion in pandemic transit aid saving many of them from shutting down completely at the same time operators large and small warned again and again and again that the covid funds would eventually run out before they knew it and send agencies right off the edge of a fiscal cliff again with devastating consequences

[00:21:46] transit officials warnings never change more recently the volume of those warnings have been turned up and ear splitting levels but come the complaints of the riding public deprived of bus subway commuter rail and paratransit rides are drowning them out with federal funding blocked by a right-wing white house in congress transit agencies are calling for state funding to prop up public transportation you see that here in charlotte as well money that is usually in short supply in state capitals across the country that means the conversation is all about either radical austerity or fiscal

[00:22:16] innovation what does that look like so let's look at philadelphia first we'll get to charlotte in a second at the end of june this is this is how bad transit systems get and it's buses pay the price but buses actually if you added bus routes you can move those to where people would ride things the truth of the matter with transit in charlotte and everywhere else it has not returned to pre-pandemic ridership

[00:22:40] in fact that even returned to some of the pre-pandemic pre-pre-pre like years ago ridership levels the southeastern pennsylvania transportation authority the country's sixth largest transit agency unveiled its radical austerity fix for a 213 billion dollar deficit think about that the entire budget for the state of north carolina is 27 billion 30 billion somewhere in that range they have a 213 billion dollar deficit just with their transit system that translates into a series

[00:23:09] of rolling cuts in august september and next january a 45 percent service reduction across all modes a total of 50 bus routes are going to be cut beginning with 32 lines by the end of august subway and regional service would end at 9 p.m every single night forget about free parking at their transit lots managers would see pay freezes no new hire shedding outside consultants in september city transit riders will get hit with a fair increase of almost three dollars a 21 percent hike philly would share honors

[00:23:36] with new york for the highest bus and subway fares in the country that's after a seven percent increase last year among the serious problems gnawing in philadelphia is its failure to regain pre-pandemic ridership levels those aren't coming back folks they're just not among commuters how when and where people work as well as how they view coming in and out of city affects their transportation decisions there is also some apparition about personal safety people from the suburbs prior to the pandemic would

[00:24:03] take transit come in do a late night orchestra event or a show and now they're deciding not to do those things they just don't want to do them and if you look at whether it's in philadelphia you're looking at pennsylvania you're looking uh um pittsburgh it's all the same when you look so i was looking at charlotte's what do charlotte's numbers look like now the story ran last february but it's a continual problem for the the city of charlotte the charlotte area transit systems ridership this is from uh news

[00:24:32] reports back then back in february so it's not changed the charlotte area transit systems ridership increased by nearly 11 percent in 2024 compared to the prior year but the number of people riding it is still far lower than it was a decade ago now think about charlotte's grown the number of people riding transit less cats carried 15.7 million passenger trips last year as it worked to bounce

[00:24:56] back from the coronavirus 15.7 million that's not unique riders by the way so if you were to take that the large preponderance that are the people who ride the same every day they're not because they don't want to talk about unique riders if you ever ask them how many unique riders do you have it's dismal so the increase over 2023 is likely due to more people returning to work in the office but overall

[00:25:19] ridership is still 65 percent from pre-pandemic levels in 2019 and it's only a little more than half of what it was in 2013 and again the the story and the way the news media writes it is where more than 29 people wrote it in 2013 no they didn't there were 29 million fares doesn't mean 29 million people came into charlotte and rode the transit they didn't so this is a problem that is haunting

[00:25:48] charlotte into which charlotte will sink an endless amount of money and subsidize and continue doing what all of them are doing they're all losing money people are not riding them there's more stay at home the digital economy the gig economy is changing the way people work it's changing the way people do entertainment it's changing so many things think about your own life how many times do you go out as much and how many of you are willing that are listening to this broadcast are willing to hop on a train or a

[00:26:15] bus to go somewhere you're just not in in survey when we used to do these surveys when i was at the lock foundation what you found was a lot of people love the idea of transit love it great wonderful do it do it do it do it you say well you're going to ride it no no we just want to get all the other cars off the road so we'll have the road it's good for thee not for me it's that sense of humor that people have so charlotte is hoping to pass a one cent sales tax increase that'll expand the bus system

[00:26:42] and build new rate rail transit lines that even more people won't ride so you're gonna so this is funny you're not to pre-pandemic levels you're you're less than half of what you were in 2013 and what do you do you know most people in business would say you know something's going on here we have a problem no that's not what charlotte does charlotte says you know what we don't have as many people riding so we're going to build more we're going to build more stuff that people already are choosing not to be a part of and we're going to raise your taxes to do it yay we're genius what

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[00:28:37] the big beautiful bill is going to destroy the world it's the the unintended consequences they try to say it's direct in fact their their screed lately has been it's just going to kill people you know usa idea if you cut it's going to kill people if you pass the big beautiful bill it's just going to kill people climate change oh my gosh it's going to kill people it's a very simple way to say i guess it's the ultimate way to fear to instill fear that and making you talk in public you know hey the big beautiful bill is going to make all of you give a speech in public that's very

[00:29:05] terrifying so people don't just going to kill people every everything that it's so funny the reaction it should it should be that simple shouldn't it it's just going to kill people it's just don't don't worry everything that trump wants to do is just designed to kill people and i you get tired of hearing it after a while you're like wait a minute it's just not true not not directly not ostensibly it's just not in fact even when they attacked iran they did everything they could to

[00:29:32] not kill people it destroyed the nuclear facilities now on that front and it a couple things one you'll remember it wasn't that long ago remember we were all going to get bird flu that was the the the big threat you know hey you know whatever the bird flu it's a you know bird flu h5 n1 avian influenza you know it's it's gonna it's wiping out bird stock it's look at chicken it's contributing to

[00:29:59] egg prices when you find it your chickens you got to kill all your chickens your ducks your geese whatever you got you got to kill them all they're gonna kill it so spread to humans it's gonna it's gonna be a problem and when's the last time you heard anything about that it's a great story over at real clear science today about it from the onset outside of the trump administration bird flu has flown rather conspicuously under the radar so much so that this week the cdc announced the end of its emergency response to bird flu citing a lack of reported human cases

[00:30:28] remember even my sister had written me about this at the end of 2024 infections in the unite u.s were surging from ohio to california diagnoses were being made in growing numbers of farm workers who came into contact with infected cattle and poultry low-grade fever muscle aches inflammation as cases swelled an older man in louisiana fell critically ill he would eventually become the first person in the u.s to die from the virus since initial human cases were reported in 1997

[00:30:55] we seem then for a moment to be on the tipping point bound to unleash then it's going to be the next pandemic and yet none of it happened since february the cdc which still monitors everything has not recorded a single new case in the u.s stuck at 70 rationalizing the lull in infections has been puzzling researchers have tried have tied the wild birds the virus's largest reservoir and their spring and fall migrations to periods of great spread cuts to staff who monitor the virus that the

[00:31:24] department of agriculture and the center for veterinary medicine might also be playing a role but these ideas dismiss the deeper and more fundamental problem around our grasp of bird flu as an infectious disease physicians who work primarily with immigrant populations it you know hit the author's perspective often sits at the nexus between the people of a novel disease and how it affects them and the apparatuses that exist to control it but they say maybe we're missing things maybe it's flying under

[00:31:50] the radar but the truth of the matter is it's not that bad but here's i want to step from that to another thing because we do have 11 million undocumented people best estimate even even your ai searches will tell you that in the country we do know that we've had a massive surge of measles in canada and mexico now in fact we have a couple deaths in mexico or yeah and now we have a surge in the u.s

[00:32:16] so there are unintended consequences people say there are numerous stories that are trying to say no that's not true didn't come from but those are populations that are largely unimmunized against measles and now they're mixing with our population measles cases in the united states have reached their highest number in more than 30 years according to new federal data there have been

[00:32:41] 1 288 confirmed cases of measles across 38 states in the country according to the cdc by comparison the re the u.s only recorded 285 cases all last year that's the highest number since 92 i think it's unfortunately just the beginning said dr hotez professor of pediatrics molecular virology at baylor university in texas i think things are going to continue to get worse in terms of childhood

[00:33:06] illnesses and i'm quite worried that we're seeing in the u.s it's not going to stay in the u.s but by the way you do have cases in other countries in fact the cnn even cnn has reported this in mexico and canada looking at the pan-american organization so you think canada mexico over 1500 cases there and again when you don't have immigration you when you don't have control of what's happening in your

[00:33:31] country you have trouble understanding what's happening in your populations you don't know there could be a much deadlier virus i'm not saying there is don't don't say chad saying the migrants are bringing the next ebola into the country not the point being if you did have that you wouldn't know that's one of the things when one of the horrible things about the aids pandemic that by the way is still ongoing was in the beginning no one knew about the the hiv they never didn't know about it human

[00:34:01] immunodeficiency virus they didn't know about it and so the beauty of that virus from a scientific standpoint is that it had a latency period that could be six months to a year so by the time you had spread the virus to multiple people was long before you showed in symptoms or anyone knew you had it so that's why it spreads so rapidly a virus like ebola spreads extremely rapidly it spreads in a given community once if you were to get in a supermarket everybody would get sick and be close

[00:34:27] to death within 72 hours it'd be very rapid uh these horrible fevers we have one in this country called the hantavirus which is in the desert southwest these viruses spread so quickly that it's hard to get into a large population that's why you see it contained to these small african villages but nonetheless i'm not trying to get deep in the weeds on virology it's just a fascination i have among the nationally confirmed cases the cdc said 92 percent are among people who are unvaccinated whose vaccination status is unknown

[00:34:54] we're talking about the measles four percent of cases are among those who received just one dose of the mmr vaccine and four percent of those who receive two doses so texas this is interesting texas the number one state where you're most likely to get measles over 700 cases in texas if it's followed by new mexico kansas colorado oklahoma california again states that have a large influx of hispanics

[00:35:20] and excuse me that sounds terrible a large influx of illegals from other countries that came across the mexican border and so to think is it possible that it came across the border and that's the nexus of the spread a lot of people on the left want to downplay that they don't want because that would be yet another problem for them as they defended an open border and now we have a population that's not really doing so well with it all right that'll do it for this episode thank you so much for listening

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