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Sen. Tom Cotton slams Schumer over infrastructure bill spending - YouTube
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let us get senator cotton's perspective
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senator cotton welcome thank you very
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much for coming on we appreciate it and
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just ask you um what you think about
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this whole
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infrastructure gang of 22 story
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as what we know or don't know what are
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you thinking
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well larry what we've learned today is
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that the goal posts have indeed been
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moving it's like when college kids tear
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them down after a big upside
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and carry them outside the stadium
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they've moved so far
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i think a lot of this goes back to chuck
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schumer trying to both uh
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bring home a lot of pork for new york
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city but also blow up the bill
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if he can't get exactly what he wants uh
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one of the main sticking points is
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transit funding for buses and subways
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and
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uh commuter rail now i get that's
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important to chuck schumer but it's not
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important to a lot of the country let me
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just give you one example
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of the kind of massive spending that
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schumer and the democrats are demanding
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we spend about 13 billion dollars a year
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on transit
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in the last 12 months from the start of
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the pandemic we spent an extra
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70 billion dollars more than five times
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what we spend in a single year
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that is more than combined budget of
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every transit agency
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in america that schumer and the
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democrats are coming back for tens of
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billions of dollars more i mean
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what do they plan to do rip out every
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rail
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in the new york city subway and replace
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it with golden rails are they going to
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replace all their buses with buses made
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by lamborghini
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i mean there's 40 billion dollars of
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this money that is not even spent yet
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so this is a last minute play by chuck
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schumer and the democrats
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to waste even more of the taxpayers
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dollars and barring that
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to blow up the bill in the first place
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and try to blame republicans but i think
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most americans will recognize
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that it's the democrats reckless taxing
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and spending schemes
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that cause this bill to fail if it does
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in fact fail
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senator is this a gateway to the five
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trillion dollar
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tax and spend and regulate and green new
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deal entitlement bill
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as some critics are saying
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and president trump has been
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increasingly forceful
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about um opposing the deal is it a
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gateway drug
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is it something that should be avoided
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or is there some good left in it
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well larry i'm afraid it may be you know
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joe biden tipped his hand
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last month when he came out and
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celebrated with republicans and
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democrats alike they had a deal
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and then two hours later he said that he
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would veto the deal which is the
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quickest
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quickest backtrack or flip-flop i've
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seen in my time in washington
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nancy pelosi reiterated the same point
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last week she said that she wouldn't
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even bring up a bipartisan
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infrastructure bill that had passed the
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senate for a vote until
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the senate passes her three and a half
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trillion dollar reckless taxing and
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spending scheme
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if that's your position i can tell you
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there's not going to get a lot of
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republican votes and it's going to put a
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lot of
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vulnerable democrats in congress at risk
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as well
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i mean that's right she said yesterday
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on one of the new shows exactly that
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it's actually more than linking the two
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she's just saying they're not going to
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vote on infrastructure
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until the senate votes on some sort of
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reconciliation package for the entire 5
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trillion
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but we don't have a package yet and i
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don't know when such a package would be
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done
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so i mean i i get i get sort of pissed
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off at that actually excuse my language
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well larry uh a lot of senators and
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congressmen are frustrated as well we
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have an infrastructure bill with no
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legislative tax and we have a three and
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a half trillion dollar spending blowing
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up
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with no bill either uh and look this is
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the wrong
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time to be spending trillions of more
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dollars
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that we don't have everything from gas
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to groceries
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to basic home commodities are
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skyrocketing in price
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people are filling it in their
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pocketbook at the end of every week
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yet the democrats are just going to keep
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fanning the flames keep throwing more
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money
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under the economy at a time when it's
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recovering and keep paying people not to
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work so supply chains are not getting
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back to normal and getting healthy again
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it's the democrats that are responsible
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for these skyrocketing prices and these
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bills are only going to contribute even
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more
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senator cotton what do you think about
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our friend lindsey graham's idea
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that if push comes to shove and it looks
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like the democrats
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you know might get their 50-50 with a
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tiebreaker by
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v paris 51 that
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go for no quorum just walk out of the
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senate
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no quorum means no vote and no vote
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saves america
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that's essentially my interpretation of
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lindsey graham he's a dear friend he's
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the dear friend of yours but what do you
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think of that
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i mean i think it's worth considering
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well
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i know all those texas democrats have
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sconded across state lines for
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washington bringing a bunch of
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coronavirus cases with them the
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difference we have is that
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of course we're within the jurisdiction
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of the united states so i don't know
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maybe lindsay plans to
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go to the virgin islands and swim across
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the channel to the british island so he
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can get outside
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but you're senators your senators they
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they can't arrest the senator or maybe
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they can't i don't know we've never had
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that before
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what i i think i think i think the
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better course of action would be for us
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to battle this out the court of public
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opinion look it's already unpopular to
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pay people not to work to give welfare
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checks to people without even making an
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effort to work or get job training
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and to raise taxes uh these things are
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all unpopular and i think we can win
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that debate by having that debate once
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we get the bill out there once the
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people realize
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exactly what joe biden the democrats are
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doing going for broke
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in this narrow window before they lose
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an election next year trying to spend
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trillions of dollars that we don't have
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spot on senator tom cotton appreciate it
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very much sir hope you come back soon
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