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not doing the job for the people. Not even close, right? And so I look to the news and it's like Democrats say this and Republicans say that. And I say well okay yeah that helps me a little but I don't like either side at the moment. Give me a name. And then you see tweets and Representative Crenshaw saying look at what these Democrats are trying to do. And I look at that and they go okay that's…

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lican, Democrat, independent. They got to go. These are people who are not patriots. They're not servants of the people. They're not even human beings right now. And they need to go and they need to go right away. Now you know we don't need to fire them this week but we need to make a list and we got to make a point.

Like I said a million times, voters have been mad about this thing because you know you didn't get me the tax cuts. I will target you for destruction. And some people care and some people don't and then the incumbent gets elected usually. This isn't like those situations. This is a situation in which we all know we need to be a little bit flexible and that we have to have one goal, which is to keep us alive and keep this economy moving. If you need to feel like you had to add some pork to that bill, well you and your job, because you're not going to have it very long.

Give me the list, press. If you can give me the list I will set these on fire, figuratively speaking. We're not going to hurt anybody but figuratively speaking we are gonna torch these. Do it today. This is not tomorrow business. This is today business. Today if this is not passed we have to go nuts.

All right, find out your representative but first let's get some names. I need a list that we can torch because this is no longer, I'll just say it again, this is not a spectator sport. You all need to contact whoever it is who's holding up the bill and just say look, do the job or you're fired. No doubt about it. Let's remove the question of whether they're fired. You're fired. You're fired if you don't get this done today. And if we can't figure out who it is who can't get it done, well then we got to go after all the incumbents. You know that's harder but you know we've got to take a run at it.

All right, I'm gonna relax the cursing for a moment but I hope you join with me on this. This is not normal business. Your Congress is failing right in front of you and you have to take it to them. You got to take the fight right to them. And not the Democrats and not the Republicans. Give me names. So it's not Democrat and Republican anymore. It's Democrat, Republican, and I like Democrats. I like Republicans. I like anybody who's helping but not.

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tor who had the good results with 350 patients said specifically. So this is what he did. All right, so given the urgency of the situation, this was his guideline. These were his guidelines. Number one, any patient with shortness of breath regardless of age is treated. So in other words he didn't wait for a test. He just said okay those symptoms look dangerous, not going to wait for a test, I'm go…

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