WEBVTT 00:24.000 --> 00:24.733 align:start Announcer: DONNYBROOK IS MADE 00:25.066 --> 00:25.533 align:start POSSIBLE BY THE MEMBERS OF THE 00:25.633 --> 00:31.500 align:start NINE NETWORK. 00:31.600 --> 00:33.233 align:start HEY, THANKS TO JOINING US FOR 00:33.366 --> 00:35.000 align:start ANOTHER EDITION OF DONNYBROOK. 00:35.100 --> 00:36.300 align:start GOOD TO HAVE YOU ABOARD. 00:36.400 --> 00:40.166 align:start THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS AT THE 00:40.266 --> 00:41.366 align:start GATESWORTH FOR MAKING THIS 00:41.466 --> 00:42.466 align:start PROGRAM POSSIBLE AS YOU DO WEEK 00:42.566 --> 00:45.133 align:start IN AND WEEK OUT AND LET'S SAY 00:45.233 --> 00:46.133 align:start HELLO TO THOSE ASSEMBLED AROUND 00:46.233 --> 00:47.766 align:start THE TABLE FOR THIS EDITION ARE 00:48.066 --> 00:50.066 align:start STARTING WITH THE MEDIA VETERAN 00:50.166 --> 00:52.433 align:start HERSELF, WENDY WIESE OF KTRS AND 00:52.533 --> 00:52.700 align:start BEYOND. 00:52.766 --> 00:54.366 align:start MR. BILL McCLELLAN FROM THE 00:54.466 --> 00:55.066 align:start ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. 00:55.166 --> 00:58.466 align:start ONE OF OUR FOUNDERS, HE'S RAY 00:58.566 --> 00:58.733 align:start HARTMANN. 00:59.066 --> 01:01.466 align:start AND FROM STLMAG.COM AND THE 01:01.600 --> 01:04.100 align:start ST. LOUIS AMERICAN AND BEYOND, 01:04.200 --> 01:05.666 align:start ALVIN REID, AND BEFORE WE BEGIN 01:05.766 --> 01:08.033 align:start THE DISCUSSION TONIGHT, LET'S 01:08.133 --> 01:10.000 align:start REMIND OR MAYBE INFORM OUR 01:10.133 --> 01:11.733 align:start VIEWERS THAT TOMORROW NIGHT, 01:12.033 --> 01:14.233 align:start BETWEEN 5:00 AND 7:00 AT THE 01:14.333 --> 01:15.233 align:start SCHNUCKS RICHMOND HEIGHTS, WE'LL 01:15.333 --> 01:18.400 align:start BE RINGING THE BELLS FOR THE 01:18.500 --> 01:19.400 align:start SALVATION ARMY AND WE HOPE AS 01:19.500 --> 01:21.300 align:start MANY OF YOU AS POSSIBLE CAN COME 01:21.400 --> 01:21.500 align:start BY. 01:21.600 --> 01:22.766 align:start WE REACH OUT TO YOU. 01:23.100 --> 01:26.566 align:start PLEASE COME OUT AND SAY HELLO 01:26.700 --> 01:28.166 align:start AND RAISE SOME MONEY FOR A 01:28.266 --> 01:28.600 align:start WONDERFUL CAUSE. 01:28.700 --> 01:31.700 align:start GIVE ALL THE CHILDREN A MERRY 01:32.000 --> 01:32.200 align:start CHRISTMAS. 01:32.333 --> 01:33.533 align:start ABSOLUTELY. 01:33.633 --> 01:36.300 align:start THAT'S TOMORROW, 5:00 TO 7:00, 01:36.400 --> 01:37.366 align:start SCHNUCKS, RICHMOND HEIGHTS. 01:37.466 --> 01:39.200 align:start ALVIN REID, RAN INTO YOU TODAY 01:39.300 --> 01:40.166 align:start ALONG WITH CONGRESSMAN LACY 01:40.266 --> 01:40.533 align:start CLAY. 01:40.633 --> 01:42.233 align:start THE TWO OF YOU IN DOWNTOWN 01:42.366 --> 01:44.533 align:start ST. LOUIS FOR DIFFERENT THINGS, 01:44.666 --> 01:46.533 align:start SO IT'S COULD IT'S DAYTONA TAL 01:46.633 --> 01:48.366 align:start THAT WE RAN -- COINCIDENTAL THAT 01:48.466 --> 01:51.200 align:start WE RAN INTO EACH, BUT 01:51.300 --> 01:51.766 align:start CONGRESSMAN CLAY WAS DOWNTOWN 01:52.100 --> 01:52.733 align:start BECAUSE THIS WAS THE DAY THAT 01:53.033 --> 01:54.033 align:start THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS 01:54.133 --> 01:55.133 align:start TRANSFERRED THE LAND TO THE 01:55.233 --> 01:57.033 align:start FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR I GUESS 01:57.133 --> 01:59.033 align:start THE TRANSFER OF THE NATIONAL 01:59.166 --> 02:00.133 align:start GEOSPATIAL AGENCY FROM SOUTH 02:00.233 --> 02:01.166 align:start ST. LOUIS TO NORTH ST. LOUIS. 02:01.266 --> 02:03.133 align:start TODAY THE LAND THAT WILL BE THE 02:03.233 --> 02:05.400 align:start NEW SITE FOR THIS FACILITY IS 02:05.500 --> 02:06.333 align:start OFFICIALLY FEDERAL PROPERTY. 02:06.466 --> 02:08.066 align:start AND I THOUGHT I WAS INTERESTING 02:08.166 --> 02:10.533 align:start BECAUSE IT'S BEEN POINTED OUT 02:10.633 --> 02:12.533 align:start THAT THE CITY ACTUALLY HAS SPENT 02:12.633 --> 02:14.600 align:start AT LEAST $120 MILLION, WHICH IT 02:14.700 --> 02:15.766 align:start WILL RECAPTURE THROUGH THE 02:16.100 --> 02:17.700 align:start EARNINGS TAX, TO PREPARE THE 02:18.000 --> 02:19.066 align:start LAND FOR THIS SITE. 02:19.166 --> 02:20.633 align:start $120 MILLION. 02:20.733 --> 02:22.100 align:start MEANWHILE, APPLE ANNOUNCED THAT 02:22.200 --> 02:23.733 align:start IT'S MOVING TO AUSTIN, TEXAS, 02:24.033 --> 02:26.033 align:start GOING TO HAVE A BILLION-DOLLAR 02:26.133 --> 02:29.200 align:start FACILITY AND 5,000 JOBS AND 02:29.300 --> 02:31.233 align:start AUSTIN IS GIVING ZERO DOLLARS, 02:31.333 --> 02:32.566 align:start TAX INCENTIVES TO APPLE. 02:32.666 --> 02:35.333 align:start YOU THINK TIMES WE'RE GIVING 02:35.433 --> 02:35.733 align:start AWAIT CANDY STORE? 02:36.033 --> 02:38.200 align:start WELL, BEFORE WE GO INTO THAT, 02:38.300 --> 02:39.466 align:start I HAVE TO POINT OUT THAT 02:39.600 --> 02:42.500 align:start CONGRESSMAN CLAY WAS THERE TO 02:42.633 --> 02:45.233 align:start SEE CAROL DANIEL AND I WAS ON 02:45.333 --> 02:47.166 align:start DAVE LOVE'S SHOW AND CHARLIE PUT 02:47.266 --> 02:50.266 align:start US BOTH TO WORK FOR HIM A TRUE 02:50.366 --> 02:50.500 align:start STORY. 02:50.633 --> 02:51.466 align:start YOU WEREN'T FORCED. 02:51.566 --> 02:54.133 align:start NO, ALWAYS A PLEASURE. 02:54.233 --> 02:56.666 align:start BUT I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH 02:56.766 --> 03:00.100 align:start IT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS IN 03:00.200 --> 03:01.733 align:start ST. LOUIS AND WE WERE COMPETING 03:02.033 --> 03:03.266 align:start NOT WITH A NATIONAL ENTITY, BUT 03:03.366 --> 03:04.566 align:start OTHER SIGHTS AROUND THE 03:04.666 --> 03:06.200 align:start REGION -- SITES AROUND THE 03:06.300 --> 03:07.600 align:start REGION, SO JUST CLEARING THIS 03:07.700 --> 03:08.400 align:start LAND, ESPECIALLY LAND ON THE 03:08.500 --> 03:09.333 align:start NORTH SIDE OF ST. LOUIS, 03:09.466 --> 03:11.066 align:start $120 MILLION, TO ME THAT'S NOT 03:11.200 --> 03:12.400 align:start THE SAME AS GIVING AWAY THE 03:12.500 --> 03:13.100 align:start CANDY STORE. 03:13.200 --> 03:15.200 align:start THAT'S A SOUND INVESTMENT ON A 03:15.333 --> 03:16.500 align:start GOVERNMENTAL FACILITY WHICH IS 03:16.600 --> 03:17.766 align:start NOT GOING ANYWHERE, WHICH IS NOT 03:18.066 --> 03:20.000 align:start GOING TO CLOSE, AND WHICH IN 03:20.100 --> 03:20.733 align:start THESE DAYS AND TIMES I WOULD 03:21.033 --> 03:22.566 align:start IMAGINE IS ONLY GOING TO GET 03:22.666 --> 03:23.033 align:start BIGGER. 03:23.133 --> 03:24.400 align:start I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS 03:24.500 --> 03:24.600 align:start ONE. 03:24.700 --> 03:25.700 align:start IT'S THE SAME STORY, 03:26.000 --> 03:26.466 align:start DIFFERENT DAY. 03:26.566 --> 03:28.266 align:start I MEAN, WE'RE NOT AUSTIN. 03:28.366 --> 03:29.033 align:start I MEAN -- 03:29.133 --> 03:29.400 align:start EXACTLY. 03:29.533 --> 03:32.033 align:start AND AUSTIN, I BELIEVE, IS ONE 03:32.133 --> 03:32.566 align:start OF THE METROPOLITAN AREAS WAY 03:32.666 --> 03:34.400 align:start SMALLER THAN OURS THAT IF YOU 03:34.500 --> 03:36.466 align:start PROJECT OUT MAYBE A DECADE OR 03:36.566 --> 03:38.500 align:start TWO WILL BE AS LARGE AS 03:38.600 --> 03:39.100 align:start ST. LOUIS. 03:39.200 --> 03:41.033 align:start IT'S GROWING THAT QUICKLY. 03:41.133 --> 03:44.066 align:start AND THE FACT IS, WE ALL AGREE 03:44.200 --> 03:47.033 align:start THAT CORPORATE WELFARE IS NOT A 03:47.133 --> 03:48.400 align:start GREAT THING AND THAT UNTIL 03:48.500 --> 03:49.433 align:start THERE'S SOME NATIONAL -- 03:49.533 --> 03:50.400 align:start THIS IS GOVERNMENT WELFARE. 03:50.500 --> 03:52.000 align:start WELL, I UNDERSTAND THAT AND I 03:52.100 --> 03:53.100 align:start DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOU. 03:53.200 --> 03:54.766 align:start THE TROUBLE IS, THIS IS A CITY 03:55.100 --> 03:56.333 align:start TRYING TO AVOID BANKRUPTCY. 03:56.433 --> 03:57.533 align:start IT'S TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING IT 03:57.633 --> 03:59.700 align:start CAN TO STAY ALIVE, AND IT'S JUST 04:00.000 --> 04:01.500 align:start NOT -- IT'S APPLES AND ORANGES 04:01.600 --> 04:02.700 align:start TO COMPARE IT TO AUSTIN. 04:03.000 --> 04:07.566 align:start BUT WE ARE A BIGGER CITY THAN 04:07.666 --> 04:08.033 align:start AUSTIN. 04:08.133 --> 04:09.500 align:start WE HAVE A BIGGER WORKFORCE. 04:09.600 --> 04:10.666 align:start WE JUST GIVE ANYBODY WHO ASKS 04:10.766 --> 04:12.300 align:start FOR IT, WHETHER IT'S THE ARCH 04:12.433 --> 04:13.166 align:start DOWNTOWN OR THE FEDERAL 04:13.300 --> 04:14.033 align:start GOVERNMENT -- I DON'T KNOW OTHER 04:14.133 --> 04:16.300 align:start CITIES THAT ARE SPENDING TAX 04:16.400 --> 04:18.766 align:start DOLLARS FOR THE FEDERAL 04:19.066 --> 04:19.300 align:start GOVERNMENT! 04:19.400 --> 04:21.366 align:start WELL, ON THIS AUSTIN THING, 04:21.466 --> 04:22.366 align:start CHARLIE, FIRST OF ALL, THE STATE 04:22.466 --> 04:23.666 align:start OF TEXAS HAS GIVEN A BUNCH OF 04:23.766 --> 04:24.233 align:start MONEY -- 04:24.333 --> 04:27.533 align:start NO, NO, NOT A BUNCH, JUST 04:27.633 --> 04:29.733 align:start 25 MILLION, WHICH IS A THIRD 04:30.033 --> 04:33.233 align:start THAT CLAYTON IS GIVING CENTENE. 04:33.333 --> 04:34.133 align:start I DON'T THINK PEOPLE IN 04:34.233 --> 04:35.633 align:start AUSTIN ARE THRILLED WITH THIS. 04:35.733 --> 04:37.200 align:start I HAVE A BROTHER-IN-LAW AND 04:37.300 --> 04:38.366 align:start SISTER-IN-LAW WHO LIVE IN AUSTIN 04:38.466 --> 04:39.500 align:start AND THEY'RE ALWAYS COMPLAINING 04:39.600 --> 04:45.233 align:start ABOUT HOW THE TECH PEOPLE HAVE 04:45.333 --> 04:48.133 align:start DRIVEN UP ALL THE PRICES AND 04:48.233 --> 04:49.733 align:start AUSTIN IS NO LONGER WEIRD. 04:50.066 --> 04:52.600 align:start ED WEIRDNESS IS DRIVEN DOWN TO 04:52.700 --> 04:54.166 align:start SAN MARCOS WHERE MY SON LIVES. 04:54.266 --> 04:55.533 align:start BUT AUSTIN IS CONGESTED AND A 04:55.633 --> 04:56.700 align:start LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY 04:57.000 --> 04:57.400 align:start ABOUT THIS. 04:57.500 --> 04:59.366 align:start WE'D BE THRILLED, BUT THE RIP 04:59.466 --> 05:00.366 align:start GET RICHER. 05:00.466 --> 05:02.766 align:start THAT'S THE WAY IT IS. 05:03.100 --> 05:04.433 align:start AND DEIDRE O'BRIEN WHO MADE 05:04.533 --> 05:06.400 align:start THE ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY IN AUSTIN 05:06.500 --> 05:08.166 align:start SPOKE OF THE EXISTING 05:08.266 --> 05:09.333 align:start RELATIONSHIP THAT APPLE HAS IN 05:09.433 --> 05:10.666 align:start TEXAS AND IN THAT AREA, AND I 05:10.766 --> 05:13.566 align:start THINK -- I MEAN, WE CAN'T -- I 05:13.700 --> 05:14.466 align:start DON'T THINK WE CAN UNDERESTIMATE 05:14.566 --> 05:15.700 align:start THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT EITHER. 05:15.766 --> 05:18.333 align:start THAT WE'RE NOT KNOWN AS A TECH 05:18.433 --> 05:18.733 align:start HUB YET. 05:19.033 --> 05:21.600 align:start I MEAN, MAYBE WE WILL, MAYBE WE 05:21.700 --> 05:23.333 align:start WILL BE -- 05:23.433 --> 05:25.200 align:start BUT I THINK IT'S PRETTY 05:25.333 --> 05:26.566 align:start STRONG, AT LEAST IN THE RANKINGS 05:26.666 --> 05:27.700 align:start BY NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.200 align:start I JUST FEEL OUR LEADERS, WHO 05:30.300 --> 05:31.700 align:start HAVE GIVEN AWAY PROBABLY 05:32.000 --> 05:33.633 align:start $7 BILLION IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, 05:33.766 --> 05:35.400 align:start THEY GIVE IT TO ANYBODY AND 05:35.500 --> 05:37.600 align:start MEANWHILE, WHY LOOK AT OTHER 05:37.700 --> 05:38.066 align:start CITIES. 05:38.166 --> 05:39.600 align:start WHY DON'T WE LEARN FROM THEIR 05:39.700 --> 05:40.200 align:start EXAMPLE? 05:40.300 --> 05:40.533 align:start SAY NO. 05:40.666 --> 05:42.366 align:start IN APRIL 2017, THE VOTERS IN THE 05:42.466 --> 05:44.266 align:start CITY OF ST. LOUIS SAID NO TO MLS 05:44.366 --> 05:45.633 align:start AND MLS CAME BACK. 05:45.733 --> 05:48.133 align:start BUT WE'VE DARN NEAR LOST NGA 05:48.233 --> 05:49.333 align:start TO ST. CLAIR COUNTY AND I 05:49.433 --> 05:50.733 align:start THOUGHT WE WOULD AND THE FACT 05:51.033 --> 05:52.333 align:start THAT WE SOMEHOW MANAGED TO 05:52.433 --> 05:55.100 align:start RETAIN THE NGA WAS A BIG 05:55.200 --> 05:55.400 align:start VICTORY. 05:55.500 --> 05:57.066 align:start RIGHT, AND I THINK EVERYONE 05:57.200 --> 05:58.500 align:start ONE OF THOSE -- 05:58.600 --> 06:00.166 align:start BUT PUT NGA -- 06:00.266 --> 06:01.666 align:start I WAS GOING TO SAY, WE WERE 06:01.766 --> 06:02.600 align:start ALL AGAINST THAT VOTE. 06:02.733 --> 06:09.466 align:start F NGA IS A GOVERNMENT 06:09.566 --> 06:12.600 align:start FACILITY AND COMPARE THAT TO -- 06:12.700 --> 06:13.433 align:start YOU CAN'T DO IT. 06:13.533 --> 06:14.666 align:start THAT'S MY DISTINCTION. 06:14.766 --> 06:17.000 align:start LET'S PUT IT THIS WAY. 06:17.133 --> 06:18.366 align:start IF WE COULD HAVE GOT NECESSARILY 06:18.466 --> 06:20.300 align:start HERE FOR $120 MILLION, WE'D BE 06:20.433 --> 06:21.766 align:start ALL OVER THAT. 06:22.100 --> 06:24.300 align:start IF WE CAN KEEP NGA HERE FOR 06:24.400 --> 06:25.700 align:start $120 MILLION, THAT'S A GOOD 06:26.033 --> 06:26.166 align:start DEAL. 06:26.266 --> 06:27.600 align:start PERHAPS YOU'RE RIGHT, BUT I 06:27.733 --> 06:29.233 align:start DON'T KNOW OF OTHER STATES THAT 06:29.333 --> 06:30.533 align:start SUBSIDIZE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 06:30.633 --> 06:32.500 align:start OR CITIES, AND WE'RE DOING IT 06:32.600 --> 06:32.766 align:start TWICE. 06:33.066 --> 06:36.266 align:start I THINK IF YOU'RE TALKING 06:36.366 --> 06:37.766 align:start ABOUT POLITICIANS, THEY BELIEVE 06:38.100 --> 06:38.733 align:start THAT MORE JOBS EQUAL 06:39.033 --> 06:42.166 align:start RE-ELECTION, AND I THINK ONE OF 06:42.266 --> 06:43.633 align:start THE THINGS THAT CLAIRE WAS 06:43.766 --> 06:45.266 align:start ROUNDLY CRITICIZED FOR WITHIN 06:45.400 --> 06:47.466 align:start THE PROGRESSIVE ARM OF YOUR 06:47.566 --> 06:49.233 align:start PARTY WAS NOT BEING AGGRESSIVE 06:49.333 --> 06:49.500 align:start ENOUGH. 06:49.600 --> 06:52.533 align:start YOU KNOW, WHEN IT CAME TO 06:52.633 --> 06:54.533 align:start BRINGING JOBS OR KEEPING JOBS -- 06:54.633 --> 06:55.233 align:start CLAIRE? 06:55.333 --> 06:57.266 align:start YEAH, CLAIRE WAS. 06:57.366 --> 07:01.466 align:start I NEVER HEARD THAT. 07:01.600 --> 07:03.333 align:start TO HAVE JUST -- I DON'T CONFLATE 07:03.433 --> 07:07.366 align:start THE FACADE OF SPORTS FRANCHISES, 07:07.466 --> 07:08.200 align:start WHICH IS MOSTLY MONEY JUST 07:08.300 --> 07:12.333 align:start CHIPPING AROUND, BUT WHAT ALVIN 07:12.433 --> 07:14.133 align:start IS TALKING ABOUT IS PERMANENT, 07:14.233 --> 07:15.566 align:start SOLID, TAX-PRODUCING JOBS AND IF 07:15.666 --> 07:18.166 align:start WE HAD JUST, WERE WILLING AND 07:18.266 --> 07:21.100 align:start COURAGEOUS ENOUGH TO JUST SAY NO 07:21.200 --> 07:24.433 align:start TO NGA, WE WOULD HAVE JUST SAID 07:24.533 --> 07:24.700 align:start GOODBYE. 07:25.000 --> 07:26.566 align:start RAY, RAY, WE GAVE UP THE 07:26.666 --> 07:27.700 align:start EARNINGS TAX, RIGHT? 07:27.766 --> 07:31.433 align:start SO WHAT DO WE GET OUT OF IT IF 07:31.566 --> 07:32.600 align:start IT -- 07:32.700 --> 07:33.433 align:start [ ALL SPEAKING AT ONCE ] 07:33.533 --> 07:34.700 align:start IF ST. CLAIR COUNTY HAD GOTTEN 07:34.766 --> 07:36.366 align:start IT, WHAT WOULD BE THE DIFFERENCE 07:36.466 --> 07:37.266 align:start FOR OUR AREA? 07:37.366 --> 07:39.233 align:start CHARLIE, HALF OF THE EARNINGS 07:39.333 --> 07:39.466 align:start TAX. 07:39.566 --> 07:40.433 align:start HALF OF THE EARNINGS TAX. 07:40.533 --> 07:41.200 align:start NOT ALL OF IT. 07:41.333 --> 07:42.733 align:start BUT NOW WE HAVE A BIG HOLE IN 07:43.066 --> 07:44.266 align:start SOUTH ST. LOUIS. 07:44.366 --> 07:47.133 align:start OKAY, I'M SURE THERE WILL BE 07:47.233 --> 07:49.100 align:start SOME PHONE CALLS ON THAT ON YOUR 07:49.233 --> 07:51.366 align:start TURN AS WE MOVE TO YOU, WENDY. 07:51.466 --> 07:52.666 align:start THIS IS AN INTERESTING STORY 07:52.766 --> 07:53.566 align:start BECAUSE OUR REPUBLICAN SECRETARY 07:53.666 --> 07:56.133 align:start OF STATE, JAY ASHCROFT, IS NOW 07:56.233 --> 07:58.066 align:start INVESTIGATING THE NEXT U.S. 07:58.166 --> 08:00.100 align:start SENATOR FROM MISSOURI, JOSH 08:00.200 --> 08:00.366 align:start HAWLEY. 08:00.466 --> 08:01.633 align:start THE KANSAS CITY STAR AND OTHERS 08:01.733 --> 08:04.033 align:start HAVE REPORTED THAT IN THE EARLY 08:04.166 --> 08:07.166 align:start DAYS OF HAWLEY'S TENURE AS 08:07.266 --> 08:10.333 align:start ATTORNEY GENERAL, HE HAD HIS 08:10.433 --> 08:12.600 align:start POLITICAL OPERATIVES RUNNING THE 08:12.733 --> 08:14.633 align:start SHOW INSIDE THE OFFICES IN JEFF 08:14.733 --> 08:16.500 align:start CITY, SO JAY ASHCROFT IS 08:16.600 --> 08:21.466 align:start INVESTIGATING IT, AND PICKED ONE 08:21.566 --> 08:24.666 align:start CHRISTINE HEISINGER WHO HAS 08:24.766 --> 08:28.366 align:start GIVEN FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO 08:28.466 --> 08:30.166 align:start HAWLEY'S MOST RECENT OPPONENT 08:30.266 --> 08:30.666 align:start SENATOR CLAIRE McCASKILL. 08:30.766 --> 08:32.500 align:start JUST FOR APPEARANCES SAKE, DON'T 08:32.600 --> 08:33.600 align:start YOU THINK THIS IS A POOR CHOICE? 08:33.700 --> 08:36.733 align:start I DO, AND I'LL GET BACK TO 08:37.033 --> 08:38.300 align:start THAT IN A MOMENT. 08:38.400 --> 08:40.400 align:start JOSH HAWLEY, IF THIS IS PROVEN 08:40.500 --> 08:42.766 align:start TO BE TRUE, I WILL BE STUNNED 08:43.100 --> 08:48.200 align:start BECAUSE JOSH HAWLEY TO ME IS THE 08:48.333 --> 08:48.566 align:start ANTI-GREITENS. 08:48.666 --> 08:49.733 align:start GREITENS, BOTH OF THEM HAVE 08:50.033 --> 08:50.666 align:start LOOKED FOR A SUCCESSFUL 08:50.766 --> 08:51.733 align:start POLITICAL CAREER, APPARENTLY 08:52.033 --> 08:53.133 align:start SINCE THEY WERE IN, YOU KNOW, 08:53.233 --> 08:53.766 align:start SHORT PANTS. 08:54.066 --> 08:57.033 align:start IT LOOKS LIKE A LIFELONG 08:57.133 --> 08:57.333 align:start AMBITION. 08:57.433 --> 08:58.200 align:start GREITENS WAS OBVIOUSLY KIND OF 08:58.300 --> 09:00.500 align:start COMPULSIVE AND HAD A WISH THAT. 09:00.600 --> 09:03.166 align:start TO ME, HAWLEY LOOKS LIKE THE 09:03.266 --> 09:04.666 align:start KIND OF GUY THAT HASN'T HAD A 09:04.766 --> 09:08.166 align:start SINGLE MISSTEP, SO I WILL BE 09:08.266 --> 09:09.533 align:start STUNNED IF THIS IS BORN OUT. 09:09.633 --> 09:15.766 align:start BUT IN TERMS OF CHRISTINE 09:16.066 --> 09:17.233 align:start HEISINGER, WE'VE ENTERED THE ERA 09:17.333 --> 09:18.633 align:start WHERE WE DON'T LIKE THE RESULTS 09:18.733 --> 09:20.500 align:start OF AN ELECTION, WE FIND A WAY TO 09:20.600 --> 09:23.000 align:start OVERTURN THE RESULTS OF THAT 09:23.100 --> 09:23.366 align:start ELECTION. 09:23.500 --> 09:25.033 align:start WE'RE SEEING IT IN WASHINGTON 09:25.133 --> 09:28.066 align:start AND I DON'T -- I MEAN, I AM 09:28.166 --> 09:30.500 align:start SORRY TO SEE THAT HAPPENING. 09:30.600 --> 09:32.766 align:start I THINK THAT IN LIGHT OF THAT 09:33.066 --> 09:34.266 align:start AND THE CURRENT CLIMATE, A 09:34.400 --> 09:37.033 align:start DEMOCRAT WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED 09:37.133 --> 09:37.500 align:start GENEROUSLY TO CLAIRE 09:37.600 --> 09:39.133 align:start McCASKILL -- SEE, I CAME BACK -- 09:39.233 --> 09:42.166 align:start A DEMOCRAT WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED 09:42.300 --> 09:43.200 align:start GENEROUSLY TO CLAIRE McCASKILL'S 09:43.300 --> 09:45.500 align:start CAMPAIGN IS NOT SOMEBODY I WOULD 09:45.600 --> 09:48.066 align:start WANT INVESTIGATING SENATOR-ELECT 09:48.166 --> 09:48.333 align:start HAWLEY. 09:48.433 --> 09:50.566 align:start BUT IT WORKS FOR JAY 09:50.666 --> 09:51.066 align:start ASHCROFT. 09:51.166 --> 09:52.266 align:start FIRST OF ALL, WE ALWAYS TALK 09:52.366 --> 09:55.333 align:start ABOUT BIPARTISANSHIP AND TO 09:55.466 --> 09:57.566 align:start CORRECT YOU, BY THE WAY, WHAT'S 09:57.666 --> 09:59.066 align:start GOING ON IN WASHINGTON IS THE 09:59.166 --> 10:02.633 align:start CRIMINAL PROSECUTION OF 10:02.733 --> 10:03.133 align:start SOMEONE -- 10:03.233 --> 10:04.200 align:start LET'S STAY HERE. 10:04.300 --> 10:06.000 align:start LET'S NOT LET THAT PASS. 10:06.133 --> 10:10.333 align:start BUT THE POINT IS THIS IS JAY 10:10.433 --> 10:11.266 align:start ASHCRO 10:11.400 --> 10:12.066 align:start ASHCROFT, TO HIS CREDIT -- AND 10:12.166 --> 10:12.666 align:start I'M NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF 10:12.766 --> 10:14.166 align:start PRAISING ASHCROFT OVER THE 10:14.300 --> 10:14.433 align:start YEARS. 10:14.533 --> 10:16.400 align:start TO HIS CREDIT AND THE 10:16.500 --> 10:17.633 align:start ASTONISHMENT OF REPUBLICAN 10:17.733 --> 10:21.066 align:start FRIENDS OF MINE, IS HAVING THE 10:21.200 --> 10:22.200 align:start INDEPENDENCE AND -- 10:22.333 --> 10:26.066 align:start IT'S NOT ASHCROFT. 10:26.166 --> 10:28.666 align:start IT'S HEISINGER WHO WORKS FOR 10:28.766 --> 10:29.100 align:start HIM. 10:29.200 --> 10:31.433 align:start SHE'S SUPPOSED TO LEAVE THE 10:31.533 --> 10:31.700 align:start PLANET? 10:32.000 --> 10:33.400 align:start THE OTHER THING HE'S DOING VERY 10:33.500 --> 10:35.766 align:start POSITIVE IS HE BROUGHT IN NICOLE 10:36.100 --> 10:38.000 align:start GALLAWAY WITH HER SUBPOENA 10:38.133 --> 10:40.533 align:start POWER, WHICH WOULD DISPROVE ANY 10:40.666 --> 10:41.433 align:start CONSPIRACY THEORY. 10:41.533 --> 10:43.100 align:start SHE'S A STATE OFFICIAL, 10:43.200 --> 10:43.700 align:start BUT -- 10:44.000 --> 10:45.100 align:start THIS LOOKS LIKE A REAL 10:45.200 --> 10:45.466 align:start INVESTIGATION. 10:45.566 --> 10:46.300 align:start I THINK, FIRST OF ALL, I 10:46.400 --> 10:47.733 align:start DON'T SEE HAWLEY AS THE OPPOSITE 10:48.033 --> 10:49.600 align:start OF GREITENS. 10:49.700 --> 10:51.566 align:start I SEE HAWLEY AS -- 10:51.700 --> 10:53.133 align:start IN THE SAME VEIN. 10:53.233 --> 10:54.466 align:start GREITENS WITHOUT A MILITARY 10:54.600 --> 10:54.733 align:start RESUME. 10:55.066 --> 10:56.600 align:start I THINK THAT YOU'RE WRONG, RAY, 10:56.700 --> 10:58.600 align:start ON THE IDEA THAT THERE'S NOTHING 10:58.700 --> 11:01.233 align:start WONG WITH SOMEBODY WHO GIVES TO 11:01.333 --> 11:02.600 align:start DEMOCRATS INVESTIGATING A 11:02.700 --> 11:03.100 align:start REPUBLICAN. 11:03.233 --> 11:07.000 align:start IF IT WERE VICE VERSA, WE'D BE 11:07.100 --> 11:07.266 align:start UPSET. 11:07.366 --> 11:07.766 align:start [ ALL SPEAKING AT ONCE ] 11:08.066 --> 11:09.666 align:start I THOUGHT IT WAS COMPLETELY 11:09.766 --> 11:11.533 align:start BIZARRE THAT ASHCROFT ANNOUNCED 11:11.633 --> 11:13.266 align:start HE WAS GOING TO GET THE AUDITOR 11:13.366 --> 11:14.066 align:start INVOLVED BECAUSE SHE HAS 11:14.166 --> 11:14.533 align:start SUBPOENA POWERS. 11:14.666 --> 11:16.666 align:start IF I'M A REPUBLICAN, I SAY WE 11:16.766 --> 11:18.000 align:start JUST LOST OUR GOVERNOR AND NOW 11:18.133 --> 11:20.333 align:start YOU'RE GOING TO GET A DEMOCRAT 11:20.433 --> 11:21.533 align:start START SUBPOENAING ON OUR 11:21.633 --> 11:22.033 align:start SENATORS? 11:22.133 --> 11:24.733 align:start WHY IS THAT A BAD THING? 11:25.033 --> 11:27.100 align:start I WOULD RATHER SEE SOMEBODY 11:27.200 --> 11:27.766 align:start INVESTIGATING WHO HADN'T GIVE 11:28.066 --> 11:29.033 align:start HAVEN'T MONEY TO EITHER OF THEM. 11:29.133 --> 11:29.733 align:start WHAT DIFFERENCE -- 11:30.066 --> 11:32.233 align:start IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE. 11:32.333 --> 11:37.100 align:start THE APPEARANCE OF 11:37.233 --> 11:37.433 align:start IMPROPRIETY. 11:37.533 --> 11:38.433 align:start HOW MANY MEMBERS OF THE BAR ARE 11:38.533 --> 11:39.300 align:start THERE IN MISSOURI? 11:39.400 --> 11:41.133 align:start DID YOU HAVE TO FIND ONE TO 11:41.233 --> 11:43.333 align:start INVESTIGATE WHO GAVE $24,000 TO 11:43.433 --> 11:44.066 align:start DEMOCRATS, INCLUDING CLAIRE 11:44.166 --> 11:44.366 align:start McCASKILL? 11:44.466 --> 11:45.333 align:start ARE YOU SAYING THAT ANYONE 11:45.433 --> 11:47.533 align:start WHO GAVE MONEY TO A CANDIDATE 11:47.666 --> 11:48.700 align:start SHOULD BE DISQUALIFIED FOR BEING 11:49.000 --> 11:49.366 align:start AN ATTORNEY -- 11:49.466 --> 11:51.600 align:start NO, WHAT HE'S SAYING OR I'M 11:51.700 --> 11:52.100 align:start SAYING -- 11:52.200 --> 11:53.033 align:start -- FOR THE GOVERNMENT? 11:53.133 --> 11:54.300 align:start IT'S THE APPEARANCE. 11:54.433 --> 11:56.200 align:start LET ALVIN TALK A MINUTE. 11:56.300 --> 11:58.166 align:start IN ALL HONESTY, IF WE FLIPPED 11:58.300 --> 11:59.366 align:start THE PARTY HERE, YOU WOULDN'T 11:59.466 --> 12:01.100 align:start HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT? 12:01.200 --> 12:02.466 align:start NOT IF IT'S A DEMOCRAT -- 12:02.600 --> 12:04.100 align:start EXCUSE ME A DEMOCRAT HIRED A 12:04.200 --> 12:04.733 align:start REPUBLICAN TO INVESTIGATE 12:05.066 --> 12:06.600 align:start ANOTHER DEMOCRAT? 12:06.733 --> 12:09.000 align:start NO, I -- THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE 12:09.100 --> 12:14.633 align:start SHOULD WANT IS TO NOT HAVE PARTY 12:14.766 --> 12:18.233 align:start LINES AND SEE IT AS SOME SCANDAL 12:18.333 --> 12:21.666 align:start THAT SHE GAVE MONEY -- 12:21.766 --> 12:23.266 align:start IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN 12:23.366 --> 12:24.200 align:start INVESTIGATION SUCCEED, YOU DON'T 12:24.300 --> 12:25.666 align:start WANT THE INVESTIGATOR TO BE A 12:25.766 --> 12:27.233 align:start KNOWN ENEMY, GIVING MONEY TO THE 12:27.333 --> 12:29.033 align:start OPPONENT OF THE GUY YOU'RE 12:29.133 --> 12:29.400 align:start INVESTIGATING. 12:29.500 --> 12:30.100 align:start BUT THE REPUBLICANS -- 12:30.200 --> 12:31.766 align:start [ ALL SPEAKING AT ONCE ] 12:32.066 --> 12:33.433 align:start WE KNOW ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 12:33.533 --> 12:34.700 align:start TRYING TO OVERTURN ELECTIONS. 12:35.033 --> 12:36.466 align:start I THINK ONE THING I WOULD HAVE 12:36.600 --> 12:38.766 align:start DONE IF I WAS ASHCROFT, SAY 12:39.066 --> 12:41.033 align:start THERE WAS GOING TO BE AN 12:41.133 --> 12:42.200 align:start INVESTIGATION INTO THIS, BUT BAY 12:42.333 --> 12:43.633 align:start THE WAY, HE'S STILL -- BY THE 12:43.766 --> 12:45.233 align:start WAY, HE'S STILL GOING TO BE THE 12:45.333 --> 12:45.500 align:start SENATOR. 12:45.600 --> 12:46.466 align:start THE WORST THING THAT HAPPENS TO 12:46.566 --> 12:48.733 align:start ME IS HE GETS A FINE. 12:49.033 --> 12:52.200 align:start ANYBODY WHO'S LICKING THEIR 12:52.300 --> 12:53.000 align:start CHOPS, THAT'S OVER. 12:53.133 --> 12:54.700 align:start I'M NOT GOING TO APPOINT A 12:55.000 --> 12:56.433 align:start DEMOCRAT TO INVESTIGATE HIM, BUT 12:56.533 --> 12:57.666 align:start NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN 12:57.766 --> 12:59.400 align:start EXCEPT HIM GETTING SWORN IN IN 12:59.533 --> 12:59.700 align:start JANUARY. 13:00.033 --> 13:01.400 align:start CHARLIE, THE REAL INTRIGUE, 13:01.500 --> 13:03.300 align:start AND I KNOW IT'S MORE FOR 13:03.400 --> 13:05.200 align:start POLITICAL JUNKIES IS THE WHOLE 13:05.300 --> 13:07.166 align:start DYNAMIC BETWEEN ASHCROFT AND 13:07.266 --> 13:08.133 align:start ERIC SCHMIDT AND WHAT WAS 13:08.233 --> 13:09.566 align:start BELIEVED TO BE A RIVALRY FOR THE 13:09.666 --> 13:10.733 align:start ATTORNEY GENERAL SPOT IF HAWLEY 13:11.033 --> 13:12.200 align:start WAS TO WIN THE ELECTION. 13:12.300 --> 13:14.066 align:start THERE'S A LOT OF POLITICAL 13:14.166 --> 13:15.366 align:start INTRIGUE AND THE PEOPLE -- I'M 13:15.466 --> 13:16.600 align:start JUST SHOCKED THAT EVERYBODY IS 13:16.700 --> 13:17.733 align:start LIKE, WE TALK ABOUT 13:18.033 --> 13:18.766 align:start BIPARTISANSHIP AND IT BOTHERS 13:19.066 --> 13:19.766 align:start YOU THAT A REPUBLICAN PICKS 13:20.100 --> 13:21.266 align:start SOMEBODY WHO GAVE TO A DEMOCRAT 13:21.366 --> 13:23.233 align:start TO INVESTIGATE SOMEBODY. 13:23.333 --> 13:24.133 align:start I DON'T THINK THAT'S WRONG AT 13:24.266 --> 13:24.366 align:start ALL. 13:24.466 --> 13:25.400 align:start IF SOMEBODY WAS -- 13:25.533 --> 13:27.100 align:start IF IT WAS IN REVERSE, IT 13:27.200 --> 13:27.466 align:start WOULD BE FINE. 13:27.566 --> 13:28.766 align:start OH, COME ON, RAY. 13:29.066 --> 13:30.133 align:start IT WOULD. 13:30.266 --> 13:34.366 align:start IF SOMEBODY WHO GAVE MONEY TO 13:34.466 --> 13:35.433 align:start THE REPUBLICANS WERE 13:35.566 --> 13:37.433 align:start INVESTIGATING OUR NEWLY ELECTED 13:37.533 --> 13:38.433 align:start DEMOCRATIC SENATOR, YOU'D SAY 13:38.566 --> 13:39.033 align:start THAT'S FINE. 13:39.166 --> 13:39.366 align:start I WOULD. 13:39.466 --> 13:40.500 align:start LET'S MOVE ON, BILL. 13:40.600 --> 13:42.200 align:start I WANT TO ASK YOU, SPEAKING OF 13:42.300 --> 13:43.600 align:start GETTING HOT UNDER THE COLLAR, I 13:43.700 --> 13:46.300 align:start WAS THIS WEEK WHEN I SAW ONE OF 13:46.400 --> 13:49.200 align:start YOUR COLLEAGUES IN A PAGE A-2 13:49.300 --> 13:52.233 align:start STORY TAKE A LOOK AT A LADUE 13:52.333 --> 13:54.766 align:start KID, A STUDENT AT LADUE HIGH 13:55.066 --> 13:55.766 align:start SCHOOL, WHO WAS FLASHING THE 13:56.066 --> 13:56.400 align:start OKAY SIGN. 13:56.500 --> 13:58.466 align:start I THINK IT WAS PART OF A RALLY 13:58.566 --> 13:59.433 align:start FOR THE FOOTBALL TEAM. 13:59.533 --> 14:03.166 align:start AS WE KNOW, THE LADUE RAMS 14:03.266 --> 14:05.366 align:start PLAYED IN THE STATE 14:05.466 --> 14:05.700 align:start CHAMPIONSHIP. 14:06.033 --> 14:07.766 align:start AND THE RAMS WON. 14:08.100 --> 14:09.566 align:start THE RAMS WON, YEAH. 14:09.700 --> 14:11.433 align:start IT WAS THE RAMS AGAINST THE 14:11.533 --> 14:11.733 align:start RAMS. 14:12.033 --> 14:13.100 align:start HERE'S THE DEAL. 14:13.200 --> 14:15.500 align:start THE OKAY SIGN AS UBIQUITOUS 14:15.600 --> 14:17.133 align:start SIGN, BUT THE STORY SEEMED TO 14:17.233 --> 14:18.200 align:start INDICATE THAT IT WAS ASSOCIATED 14:18.333 --> 14:19.433 align:start WITH WHITE NATIONALISM, EVEN 14:19.533 --> 14:21.733 align:start THOUGH WE WEREN'T THROUGH THIS 14:22.033 --> 14:24.100 align:start DURING THE KAVANAUGH HEARINGS 14:24.233 --> 14:25.600 align:start WHEN THERE WAS AN ATTORNEY 14:25.700 --> 14:26.500 align:start BEHIND JUDGE KAVANAUGH WHO HAD 14:26.633 --> 14:28.266 align:start SOMETHING SIMILAR, THE OKAY 14:28.366 --> 14:30.700 align:start SIGN, AND THE ANTIDEFAMATION 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 align:start LEAGUE SAID NO, UNLESS YOU SEE 14:33.133 --> 14:35.066 align:start OTHER OVERT SIGNS OF WHITE 14:35.166 --> 14:36.666 align:start NATIONALISM, THAT OKAY SIGN, 14:36.766 --> 14:38.566 align:start WHICH HAS BEEN USED BY BILL 14:38.666 --> 14:39.366 align:start CLINTON AND HILLARY CLINTON AND 14:39.466 --> 14:41.200 align:start BARACK OBAMA, IS NOT A SIGN OF 14:41.300 --> 14:42.166 align:start WHITE NATIONALISM. 14:42.300 --> 14:43.733 align:start DON'T YOU THINK THIS IS A SMEAR 14:44.033 --> 14:44.700 align:start OF THE LADUE HIGH SCHOOL 14:45.033 --> 14:45.166 align:start STUDENT? 14:45.300 --> 14:46.700 align:start NO, I DON'T, AND I SHOULD SAY 14:47.033 --> 14:48.366 align:start ABOUT THESE SIGNS, THE ONLY -- 14:48.466 --> 14:50.700 align:start THE VICTORY SIGN, PEACE SIGN IS 14:50.766 --> 14:52.666 align:start ALL -- THE ONLY ONE I GO, BUT I 14:52.766 --> 14:55.233 align:start HAVE HEARD THAT, YOU KNOW, WHITE 14:55.333 --> 14:57.100 align:start NATIONALISTS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO 14:57.200 --> 14:59.033 align:start USURP THE OKAY SIGN AND I KNEW 14:59.133 --> 15:01.700 align:start NOTHING ABOUT IT BEFOREHAND, BUT 15:02.000 --> 15:03.366 align:start WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE PAPER WAS 15:03.466 --> 15:05.100 align:start SOMEBODY CALLED THE REPORTER, 15:05.200 --> 15:07.133 align:start DAVID HUNT, AND SAID THERE'S A 15:07.266 --> 15:10.233 align:start KID ON THE LADUE WEBSITE 15:10.333 --> 15:12.333 align:start FLASHING THE -- WHAT WHITE 15:12.433 --> 15:15.433 align:start NATIONALISTS ARE USING AS A 15:15.566 --> 15:19.300 align:start SIGN, AND SO HUNDRED HUNT SAID 15:19.433 --> 15:20.333 align:start OKAY AND HE LOOKED UNDER THE 15:20.433 --> 15:22.066 align:start WEBSITE AND IT WAS GONE. 15:22.200 --> 15:24.266 align:start SO HE CALLED AND THE LADUE 15:24.366 --> 15:25.500 align:start PEOPLE SAID WE TOOK THAT DOWN 15:25.600 --> 15:26.500 align:start BECAUSE WE HEARD FROM SOMEBODY 15:26.600 --> 15:28.200 align:start ELSE IN THE MEDIA THAT THIS IS A 15:28.333 --> 15:29.366 align:start WHITE POWER SIGN. 15:29.466 --> 15:35.366 align:start SO IT WASN'T LIKE THE PAPER 15:35.466 --> 15:37.000 align:start GEMMED THIS UP AND NOW THE WAY 15:37.100 --> 15:38.300 align:start IS SHOULD IT HAVE BEEN RUN. 15:38.400 --> 15:39.466 align:start CERTAINLY YOU'RE NOT IDENTIFYING 15:39.566 --> 15:44.433 align:start THE LADUE KID AND IN FACT, HE 15:44.533 --> 15:45.500 align:start WAS NOT IDENTIFIED IN THE 15:45.600 --> 15:45.766 align:start PICTURE. 15:46.066 --> 15:47.433 align:start I'M TOLD HE WASN'T SMILING LIKE, 15:47.533 --> 15:48.666 align:start HEY, EVERYTHING IS OKAY. 15:48.766 --> 15:49.766 align:start HE WAS KIND OF SOMBER AND 15:50.100 --> 15:51.166 align:start FLASHING THAT SIGN. 15:51.266 --> 15:53.333 align:start I HAD NEVER HEAR THAT THE OKAY 15:53.433 --> 15:55.433 align:start SIGN WAS A WHITE SYMBOLISM SIGN, 15:55.533 --> 15:57.400 align:start BUT, YOU KNOW, IN THE KAVANAUGH 15:57.500 --> 16:00.133 align:start HEARING, THERE'S THAT PERSON 16:00.233 --> 16:04.366 align:start LIKE THIS AND MAYBE THEY'RE 16:04.500 --> 16:05.266 align:start TROLLING LIBERALS, I DON'T KNOW 16:05.366 --> 16:06.266 align:start WHAT THEY'RE DOING. 16:06.366 --> 16:08.200 align:start BUT SOMETHING IS GOING ON. 16:08.300 --> 16:14.266 align:start WITH THE TIKI TORCHES TO THOSE 16:14.366 --> 16:19.733 align:start KIDS IN WISCONSIN WITH THE 16:20.033 --> 16:20.200 align:start SIGHEIL. 16:20.300 --> 16:22.666 align:start PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE 16:22.766 --> 16:24.366 align:start CABARET AND THINK SOMETHING IS 16:24.466 --> 16:26.566 align:start GOING ON, MAYBE IT SHOULD BE 16:26.666 --> 16:27.466 align:start REPORTED, I DON'T KNOW. 16:27.566 --> 16:29.700 align:start I THINK ON THE HEELS OF THE 16:29.766 --> 16:31.333 align:start COMPLAINT IN 2016 ON THE SCHOOL 16:31.466 --> 16:36.366 align:start BUS, YOU KNOW, THE KID WHO SAID 16:36.500 --> 16:39.233 align:start THAT SHE WAS BEING VICTIMIZED BY 16:39.333 --> 16:41.066 align:start RACIST -- RACIAL, RACIST 16:41.166 --> 16:43.166 align:start COMMENTS, AND I THINK THAT -- 16:43.266 --> 16:45.266 align:start YOU KNOW, THAT'S RECENT HISTORY. 16:45.400 --> 16:47.600 align:start I'M SURE THERE'S A GREAT DEAL OF 16:47.700 --> 16:48.333 align:start SENSITIVITY HERE. 16:48.433 --> 16:49.633 align:start THERE'S A BACK STORY TO THIS 16:49.733 --> 16:51.000 align:start AND I DON'T KNOW WHO CALLED THE 16:51.133 --> 16:51.400 align:start POST-DISPATCH. 16:51.500 --> 16:56.200 align:start HOWEVER, JUST A MONTH AGO, 16:56.300 --> 16:57.766 align:start MICBS'S FOOTBALL PLAYERS WERE 16:58.100 --> 16:59.700 align:start ACCUSED BY PARKWAY NORTH OF 16:59.766 --> 17:01.300 align:start UNLEASHING A LOT OF N-BOMBS TO 17:01.433 --> 17:02.566 align:start THEM DURING A FOOTBALL GAME. 17:02.666 --> 17:04.266 align:start IT WAS A REALLY BAD SCENE OVER 17:04.366 --> 17:04.500 align:start THERE. 17:04.600 --> 17:06.733 align:start THIS COMES IN THE WAKE OF THAT. 17:07.066 --> 17:10.233 align:start WHO IS LADUE PLAYING BUT MIBCS. 17:10.333 --> 17:11.500 align:start PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES WERE 17:11.600 --> 17:12.300 align:start COMPLAINING ON THAT ONE. 17:12.400 --> 17:14.366 align:start I KNOW THAT, BUT I'M 17:14.466 --> 17:15.766 align:start SAYING -- 17:16.066 --> 17:19.266 align:start WHEN XENA BASH, I THINK 17:19.400 --> 17:20.666 align:start THAT'S HER NAME, THE ATTORNEY 17:20.766 --> 17:21.633 align:start WHO DID THIS DURING THE 17:21.733 --> 17:23.233 align:start KAVANAUGH HEARINGS, IT WAS 17:23.333 --> 17:25.400 align:start INVESTIGATED WIDELY BY THE 17:25.533 --> 17:26.700 align:start WASHINGTON POST AND OTHERS AND 17:27.033 --> 17:30.433 align:start THEY FOUND OUT THAT IT IS TRUE, 17:30.566 --> 17:33.600 align:start THERE WERE A GROUP OF TROLLS WHO 17:33.700 --> 17:35.266 align:start PERSONALLY TRIED ERRONEOUSLY TO 17:35.366 --> 17:37.066 align:start FAKE OUT THE LIBERAL MEDIA BY 17:37.200 --> 17:38.500 align:start FLASHING OKAY SIGNS AND 17:38.600 --> 17:39.400 align:start ASSOCIATING IT WITH WHITE 17:39.500 --> 17:40.200 align:start NATIONALISM WHICH TURNED OUT TO 17:40.300 --> 17:41.066 align:start BE A HOAX. 17:41.166 --> 17:42.200 align:start IT WHAT AS JOKE. 17:42.300 --> 17:44.366 align:start NOW -- IT WAS A JOKE. 17:44.466 --> 17:45.400 align:start NOW, THERE'S SOME WHITE 17:45.500 --> 17:46.600 align:start NATIONALISTS WHO ARE TOO DUMB TO 17:46.700 --> 17:48.500 align:start REALIZE IT WAS A HOAX AND THEY 17:48.600 --> 17:49.633 align:start MIGHTITE, BUT IN THIS PARTICULAR 17:49.733 --> 17:51.533 align:start CASE AS IN SO MANY OTHERS, IT 17:51.633 --> 17:54.766 align:start COULD ALSO JUST BE OKAY, WHICH A 17:55.100 --> 17:55.466 align:start UBIQUITOUS SYMBOL. 17:55.566 --> 17:57.500 align:start NOBODY IS SAYING THEY KNOW 17:57.600 --> 17:58.566 align:start WHAT WAS IN THE MIND THEREFORE 17:58.666 --> 18:00.033 align:start STUDENT FROM LADUE AND HIS PURR 18:00.133 --> 18:02.166 align:start WAS BLACKED OUT, BUT IF -- HIS 18:02.266 --> 18:04.100 align:start PICTURE WAS BLACKED OUT, BUT IF 18:04.200 --> 18:05.300 align:start YOU THINK THAT SOMETHING IS 18:05.400 --> 18:07.100 align:start GOING ON IN THE COUNTRY, 18:07.200 --> 18:07.766 align:start SOMETHING A LITTLE WEIRD -- 18:08.100 --> 18:08.766 align:start I REALIZE THAT THIS IS OFF 18:09.100 --> 18:10.466 align:start THE BEATEN PATH OF DONNYBROOK, 18:10.566 --> 18:13.300 align:start BUT BEYONCE AND JAY Z HAVE BEEN 18:13.400 --> 18:16.033 align:start ACCUSED REPEATEDLY OF BEING 18:16.133 --> 18:18.100 align:start MEMBERS OF THE OF THE 18:18.200 --> 18:19.100 align:start ILLUMINATI, SO AFTER THE WHILE, 18:19.200 --> 18:20.766 align:start THEY STARTED MAKING THE SIGN 18:21.100 --> 18:22.033 align:start EVERY TIME A PHOTOGRAPHER TOOK 18:22.133 --> 18:24.233 align:start THEIR PICTURE JUST TO KIND OF, 18:24.366 --> 18:25.533 align:start YOU KNOW, BAIT THE PRESS -- 18:25.633 --> 18:27.200 align:start THAT DID HAPPEN. 18:27.300 --> 18:28.333 align:start RIGHT. 18:28.433 --> 18:30.133 align:start I'M A LIBERAL -- I'M SORRY. 18:30.233 --> 18:30.500 align:start GO AHEAD. 18:30.600 --> 18:31.133 align:start GO AHEAD. 18:31.266 --> 18:33.500 align:start I'M A LIBERAL WHO'S TIRED OF 18:33.600 --> 18:34.566 align:start THESE ISSUES AND TIRED OF THE 18:34.666 --> 18:38.300 align:start JUST -- YOU KNOW, AS A CIVIL 18:38.400 --> 18:39.300 align:start LIBERTARIAN, I'M JUST TIRED OF 18:39.400 --> 18:41.266 align:start THESE ISSUES, FRANKLY, BUT IF 18:41.366 --> 18:42.766 align:start YOU WORK FOR A NEWSPAPER AND 18:43.100 --> 18:45.600 align:start YOU'RE A REPORTER AND YOU GET A 18:45.700 --> 18:47.700 align:start LEAD AND THEN YOU FIND SOMETHING 18:48.000 --> 18:50.366 align:start THAT WAS TAKEN DOWN, IT'S START 18:50.466 --> 18:52.633 align:start OF NOT -- IT'S NOT THE SORT OF 18:52.766 --> 18:54.333 align:start THING YOU JUST DROP. 18:54.433 --> 18:58.233 align:start BUT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH -- 18:58.333 --> 18:59.433 align:start THAT'S A GOOD POINT. 18:59.533 --> 19:01.266 align:start I DO DISAGREE WITH BILL. 19:01.366 --> 19:02.466 align:start I THINK THE KID CAN BE 19:02.566 --> 19:03.700 align:start IDENTIFIED EVEN THOUGH HIS FACE 19:04.000 --> 19:06.033 align:start WAS BLOCKED OUT, LIKE BY HIS 19:06.133 --> 19:07.366 align:start FRIENDS WHERE I'M SURE IN THE 19:07.466 --> 19:09.133 align:start LADUE AREA, HE IS LIKE, OKAY, WE 19:09.233 --> 19:12.066 align:start KNOW WHO THIS IS AND HE'S BEEN 19:12.166 --> 19:15.133 align:start ASSOCIATED WITH WHITE 19:15.233 --> 19:16.200 align:start NATIONALISM, EVEN THOUGH HE'S 19:16.333 --> 19:18.200 align:start GIVING A UBIQUITOUS SIGN AND I 19:18.333 --> 19:20.366 align:start THINK THE MEDIA IN GENERAL 19:20.466 --> 19:21.366 align:start SHOULD RETHINK ITS INVESTIGATION 19:21.466 --> 19:22.433 align:start OF KIDS AT SCHOOL. 19:22.533 --> 19:23.533 align:start THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE 19:23.633 --> 19:26.166 align:start NEWSPAPERS WERE NOT CONCENTRATED 19:26.266 --> 19:27.333 align:start ON THESE STORIES, BY AND LARGE, 19:27.433 --> 19:28.700 align:start AND NOW I THINK THAT KIDS SHOULD 19:29.000 --> 19:30.300 align:start HAVE A CERTAIN PROTECTION WHEN 19:30.400 --> 19:31.100 align:start THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING WITHIN 19:31.200 --> 19:33.400 align:start THE CONFINES OF A SCHOOL. 19:33.500 --> 19:34.666 align:start THAT'S AN INTERESTING POINT 19:34.766 --> 19:36.266 align:start AND YOU MIGHT RIGHT, BUT WHAT 19:36.366 --> 19:37.400 align:start GOOD THAT RECENT CASE IN 19:37.533 --> 19:37.700 align:start WISCONSIN. 19:38.000 --> 19:41.400 align:start DID YOU SEE THAT PICTURE ALL THE 19:41.500 --> 19:47.300 align:start KIDS ARE GIVING THE SIG HEIL 19:47.400 --> 19:47.766 align:start BEFORE THE PROM? 19:48.066 --> 19:50.333 align:start IT NOT A LOT OF PUBLICITY AND 19:50.433 --> 19:52.200 align:start THOSE KIDS' FACES WERE CLEARLY 19:52.333 --> 19:53.766 align:start IDENTIFIED AND YOU LOOK AT IT 19:54.066 --> 19:56.266 align:start AND YOU GO, GEE, THIS IS REALLY 19:56.366 --> 19:56.566 align:start STRANGE. 19:56.666 --> 19:57.533 align:start I WILL AGREE WITH YOU. 19:57.633 --> 19:59.066 align:start I THOUGHT THE KID WASN'T 19:59.166 --> 19:59.400 align:start IDENTIFIABLE. 19:59.500 --> 20:00.766 align:start IF HE WASN'T, THAT'S A DIFFERENT 20:01.100 --> 20:01.233 align:start STORY. 20:01.333 --> 20:02.233 align:start I DON'T THINK HE SHOULD HAVE 20:02.333 --> 20:02.466 align:start BEEN. 20:02.566 --> 20:05.166 align:start WELL, THAT'S KIND OF LIKE -- 20:05.266 --> 20:09.700 align:start YOU'RE SAYING IF HE WAS 20:10.000 --> 20:10.766 align:start IDENTIFIABLE -- THERE'S NO WAY 20:11.066 --> 20:11.500 align:start HE SHOULD BE. 20:11.600 --> 20:13.300 align:start IT COULD BE THOSE CLOSEST TO 20:13.400 --> 20:14.300 align:start YOU THAT KNOW YOU WERE THE 20:14.400 --> 20:15.633 align:start PERSON THEY'RE TALKING ABOUTS IT 20:15.733 --> 20:17.166 align:start DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE GREATER 20:17.266 --> 20:17.400 align:start GOOD. 20:17.500 --> 20:19.066 align:start I THINK THE STORY COVER 20:19.166 --> 20:20.633 align:start SERVED ITS READERS WELL BY 20:20.733 --> 20:22.733 align:start NOTING THAT THE ANTI-DEFAMATION 20:23.066 --> 20:23.733 align:start LEAGUE OF ALL ORGANIZATIONS -- 20:24.033 --> 20:25.166 align:start I THOUGHT IT DID. 20:25.266 --> 20:26.666 align:start NO, IT DID. 20:26.766 --> 20:28.233 align:start IT LOOKED TO THE SOUTHERN 20:28.333 --> 20:29.633 align:start POVERTY LAW CENTER THAT SAID IT 20:29.733 --> 20:33.300 align:start WAS A HOAX, BUT THE ADL SAID 20:33.400 --> 20:35.500 align:start THIS IS NOT A SIGN OF WHITE 20:35.600 --> 20:36.000 align:start NATIONALISM. 20:36.100 --> 20:37.500 align:start ANYWAY, OKAY, LET'S GO ON TO 20:37.633 --> 20:38.400 align:start YOU, RAY. 20:38.500 --> 20:40.066 align:start I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT A ST. 20:40.166 --> 20:41.266 align:start CHARLES LAWMAKER WHO WANTS TO 20:41.400 --> 20:42.500 align:start END THE EARNINGS TAX IN THE CITY 20:42.600 --> 20:43.166 align:start OF ST. LOUIS. 20:43.266 --> 20:44.433 align:start WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN. 20:44.533 --> 20:46.466 align:start ACTUALLY, THE VOTERS IN THE CITY 20:46.566 --> 20:49.333 align:start OF ST. LOUIS DO VOTE ON THE 20:49.433 --> 20:51.033 align:start EARNINGS TAX EVERY FIVE YEARS BY 20:51.166 --> 20:51.366 align:start STATE LAW. 20:51.466 --> 20:51.733 align:start EXACTLY. 20:52.033 --> 20:52.433 align:start OKAY. 20:52.533 --> 20:53.566 align:start I DON'T THINK THE EARNINGS TAX 20:53.700 --> 20:55.733 align:start IS ACTUALLY ATTRACTING PEOPLE. 20:56.066 --> 20:58.466 align:start WHEN I GOT HERE IN 1988, WE HAD, 20:58.600 --> 21:00.100 align:start WHAT, 400,000 PEOPLE IN THE CITY 21:00.200 --> 21:01.400 align:start OF ST. LOUIS AND NOW WE'RE DOWN 21:01.500 --> 21:02.433 align:start TO 300,000. 21:02.533 --> 21:03.666 align:start WHATEVER IT'S DOING, NOT 21:03.766 --> 21:05.066 align:start ATTRACTING PEOPLE AND JOBS, BUT 21:05.166 --> 21:05.766 align:start WHAT DO YOU THINK? 21:06.066 --> 21:07.400 align:start WHAT I THINK IS THAT THE 21:07.500 --> 21:09.266 align:start VOTERS OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS 21:09.366 --> 21:11.133 align:start AND THE CITY OF KANSAS CITY 21:11.233 --> 21:12.400 align:start VOTED ON THIS TOPIC AND IT'S A 21:12.533 --> 21:13.533 align:start LOT MORE IMPORTANT WHAT THEY 21:13.633 --> 21:15.100 align:start THINK THAN WHAT ANY OF US THINK, 21:15.200 --> 21:16.666 align:start AND THAT GOES FOR WHETHER WE 21:16.766 --> 21:21.266 align:start LIVE IN THE CITY OR NOT. 21:21.366 --> 21:25.300 align:start THEY VOTED BY 80% MARGINS IN 21:25.433 --> 21:27.033 align:start CITY, ROUGHLY IN ST. LOUIS AND 21:27.133 --> 21:28.033 align:start KANSAS CITY, AND LAID THIS ISSUE 21:28.166 --> 21:28.633 align:start TO REST. 21:28.733 --> 21:30.333 align:start IT WAS BROUGHT UPON US, A 21:30.433 --> 21:31.366 align:start HORRIBLE THING AND BROUGHT POP 21:31.466 --> 21:32.466 align:start US BY REX SINQUEFIELD WHO 21:32.566 --> 21:34.633 align:start PERHAPS IS GOING TO FIND A WAY 21:34.733 --> 21:37.133 align:start TO SUPPORT THIS FINE STATE 21:37.233 --> 21:38.033 align:start SENATOR IN ST. CHARLES. 21:38.133 --> 21:41.100 align:start THE BIGGER -- THIS IS PART OF A 21:41.200 --> 21:43.533 align:start BIGGER TREND THAT CONCERNS ME 21:43.633 --> 21:45.366 align:start AND IN 2020, THERE'S GOING TO BE 21:45.466 --> 21:48.100 align:start A MOVEMENT AFOOT FOR A STATEWIDE 21:48.200 --> 21:51.133 align:start VOTE ON A CITY-COUNTY MERGER OF 21:51.233 --> 21:56.100 align:start SOME SORT TO FORCE A MERGER OR 21:56.200 --> 21:57.700 align:start UNI-GOV OR SOMETHING ON THE CITY 21:57.766 --> 21:59.500 align:start AND COUNTY USING THE RURAL VOTE 21:59.600 --> 22:02.366 align:start AGAINST THE CITY AND COUNTY'S 22:02.466 --> 22:02.700 align:start INTEREST. 22:02.766 --> 22:05.200 align:start THE LARGER ISSUE HERE IS 22:05.300 --> 22:05.600 align:start SELF-DETERMINATION. 22:05.733 --> 22:06.733 align:start THE WORST THING ABOUT WHAT REX 22:07.066 --> 22:09.066 align:start SINQUEFIELD DID TO US WITH THE 22:09.166 --> 22:12.000 align:start CITY EARNINGS TAX IS CITIES LIKE 22:12.100 --> 22:13.766 align:start COLUMBIA, SPRINGFIELD, CAPE 22:14.100 --> 22:15.166 align:start GIRARDEAU, HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO 22:15.266 --> 22:16.200 align:start AN EARNINGS TAX NOW BECAUSE OF 22:16.300 --> 22:17.266 align:start THE REST OF THE STATE. 22:17.366 --> 22:17.766 align:start THAT'S CRAZY. 22:18.100 --> 22:20.566 align:start ONE WOULD THINK THAT A 22:20.666 --> 22:21.666 align:start REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE, WHEN THE 22:21.766 --> 22:24.133 align:start REPUBLICANS TRADITIONALLY WERE 22:24.233 --> 22:27.300 align:start ALL ABOUT LOCAL AUTONOMY, WOULD 22:27.433 --> 22:29.366 align:start BE LOATHE TO COME UP WITH AN 22:29.466 --> 22:31.033 align:start IDEA OF THE STATE WILL TELL 22:31.133 --> 22:32.100 align:start LOCALS WHAT TO DO. 22:32.200 --> 22:32.566 align:start EXACTLY. 22:32.700 --> 22:35.533 align:start I MEAN, LIKE YOU SAY, RAY, IF 22:35.633 --> 22:37.566 align:start ST. LOUIS AND KANSAS CITY SAY WE 22:37.666 --> 22:40.066 align:start NEED AN EARNINGS TAX, AND WE 22:40.200 --> 22:41.433 align:start WANT ONE, THAT'S ENOUGH. 22:41.533 --> 22:43.366 align:start BACKING UP WHAT RAY SAID, ON 22:43.466 --> 22:45.100 align:start THE PROGRAM I WAS ON TODAY, 22:45.200 --> 22:47.166 align:start RODNEY BOYD WAS ON WITH ME 22:47.266 --> 22:48.100 align:start TODAY, KIND OF LIKE POLITICAL 22:48.200 --> 22:49.500 align:start INSIDE YES, MODERATE 22:49.600 --> 22:51.700 align:start REPUBLICAN -- NIDEER, 22:52.000 --> 22:54.433 align:start MODERATE -- INSIDER, MODERATE 22:54.533 --> 22:56.533 align:start REPUBLICAN, HE HINTED THAT THE 22:56.666 --> 22:58.333 align:start STORY GOING INTO 19 AND HEADING 22:58.433 --> 22:59.500 align:start INTO 2020 IS GOING TO BE EXACTLY 22:59.600 --> 23:00.300 align:start LIKE YOU SAID. 23:00.400 --> 23:01.500 align:start THERE IS GOING TO BE A MOVE TO 23:01.600 --> 23:02.566 align:start FORCE A VOTE ON THE COUNTY AND 23:02.700 --> 23:03.366 align:start THE CITY. 23:03.466 --> 23:05.233 align:start AND I THINK DEMOCRATS AND 23:05.333 --> 23:07.166 align:start REPUBLICANS WILL LIKE IT, OR AT 23:07.300 --> 23:08.733 align:start LEAST THE REX SINQUEFIELD CROWD 23:09.066 --> 23:09.666 align:start LIKES THAT BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE 23:09.766 --> 23:11.100 align:start IN YOU CHANGE THE CHARTER FOR 23:11.200 --> 23:12.200 align:start THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, WHICH 23:12.300 --> 23:14.100 align:start WOULD CHANGE IF WE HAD THE 23:14.200 --> 23:15.200 align:start MERGER, THE EARNINGS TAX WILL BE 23:15.333 --> 23:15.466 align:start NULL. 23:15.566 --> 23:16.066 align:start BUT THAT'S -- 23:16.200 --> 23:17.300 align:start BUT AGAIN, WE'RE -- 23:17.400 --> 23:18.533 align:start PEOPLE ARE UNDERESTIMATING 23:18.633 --> 23:19.766 align:start WHAT PEOPLE IN MY NECK OF THE 23:20.100 --> 23:20.766 align:start WOODS THINK OF THIS. 23:21.066 --> 23:23.433 align:start BUT AGAIN, AREN'T WE 23:23.533 --> 23:26.333 align:start OVERTURNING OR IGNORING THE WILL 23:26.433 --> 23:27.666 align:start OF THE PEOPLE -- 23:27.766 --> 23:28.600 align:start ABSOLUTELY. 23:28.700 --> 23:30.400 align:start -- AND THIS CONTINUES TO 23:30.500 --> 23:31.300 align:start HAPPEN REPEATLY. 23:31.400 --> 23:33.233 align:start I THINK THE REASON IS THERE 23:33.333 --> 23:34.600 align:start ARE LAWMAKERS LIKE THIS GUY IN 23:34.700 --> 23:36.400 align:start ST. CHARLES WHO THINK THAT THE 23:36.500 --> 23:37.433 align:start EARNINGS TAX THE HURTING THE 23:37.533 --> 23:39.700 align:start CITY AND THE CITY IS INCREDIBLY 23:39.766 --> 23:40.666 align:start IMPORTANT FOR THE REGION, AND WE 23:40.766 --> 23:42.233 align:start WERE TALKING ABOUT AUSTIN. 23:42.333 --> 23:43.333 align:start THE STATE HAS NO -- 23:43.433 --> 23:44.300 align:start BUT THIS IS -- 23:44.400 --> 23:45.666 align:start -- INCOME TAX AND NO EARNINGS 23:45.766 --> 23:47.100 align:start TAX AND THERE'S SOMETHING TO 23:47.200 --> 23:47.333 align:start THAT. 23:47.466 --> 23:48.366 align:start PEOPLE MOVE OUT OF THE CITY 23:48.466 --> 23:50.066 align:start BECAUSE OF THAT EARNINGS TAX. 23:50.200 --> 23:51.766 align:start BUT HOPEFULLY THE COUNTRY -- 23:52.066 --> 23:53.300 align:start BUT PEOPLE TELL ME ALMOST 23:53.400 --> 23:54.700 align:start DAILY THAT THEY COULD CARE LESS 23:55.000 --> 23:56.433 align:start ABOUT THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, SO 23:56.533 --> 23:58.000 align:start WHY ALL OF AN ALL OF A SUDDEN -- 23:58.133 --> 23:59.066 align:start YOU REALLY BELIEVE PEOPLE 23:59.166 --> 24:01.133 align:start MOVE OUT OF CITY OF ST. LOUIS 24:01.233 --> 24:01.766 align:start SOLELY BECAUSE THE EARNINGS TAX. 24:02.100 --> 24:05.533 align:start I KNOW SOME PEOPLE WHO DID. 24:05.633 --> 24:08.233 align:start TOM JACOBSON, HE WASSED HET OF 24:08.333 --> 24:10.433 align:start U.S. BANK -- HE THE HEAD OF U.S. 24:10.566 --> 24:12.366 align:start BANK AT THE TIME, HE MOVED. 24:12.466 --> 24:13.700 align:start LET'S NOT SAY WE'RE ALL LIKE 24:14.033 --> 24:15.733 align:start THE BANK PRESIDENTS. 24:16.033 --> 24:18.733 align:start ONE OF THE OLDEST PRINCIPLES 24:19.033 --> 24:20.200 align:start OF THE COUNTRY IS TO BE 24:20.300 --> 24:21.166 align:start CONCERNED ABOUT TAXATION WITHOUT 24:21.266 --> 24:23.633 align:start REPRESENTATION AND IT WORKS IN 24:23.733 --> 24:24.400 align:start REVERSE TOO. 24:24.500 --> 24:26.300 align:start BUT A WORKER IN THE CITY IS 24:26.400 --> 24:26.566 align:start TAXED. 24:26.666 --> 24:27.633 align:start WELL, AND THE STATE -- 24:27.733 --> 24:29.500 align:start THEY CAN'T VOTE ON IT. 24:29.600 --> 24:31.600 align:start THE POINT OF THAT, WHICH HAS 24:31.700 --> 24:34.200 align:start PERFECT LOGIC TO IT -- AND I 24:34.300 --> 24:35.666 align:start WISH WE COULD GET AWAY WITH THIS 24:35.766 --> 24:37.633 align:start WE IN THE CITY AND THEY IN ST. 24:37.733 --> 24:38.100 align:start CHARLES. 24:38.200 --> 24:39.500 align:start WE TALK ABOUT ST. CLAIR COUNTY. 24:39.600 --> 24:40.366 align:start IT'S ONE REGION. 24:40.466 --> 24:42.566 align:start BUT THE CITY HAS A RIGHT TO -- 24:42.700 --> 24:44.266 align:start LET ME FOCUS ON -- WE HAVE 24:44.366 --> 24:46.033 align:start LESS THAN TWO MINUTES TO GO. 24:46.166 --> 24:46.300 align:start THANKS. 24:46.433 --> 24:47.566 align:start I KNOW THERE ARE GOING TO BE A 24:47.700 --> 24:49.733 align:start LOT OF CALLS ON THIS AND OTHER 24:50.033 --> 24:50.366 align:start ISSUES. 24:50.466 --> 24:52.100 align:start ALVIN, THE RIVERFRONT TIMES HAD 24:52.200 --> 24:53.466 align:start A FRONT PAGE STORY SAYING THERE 24:53.600 --> 24:55.300 align:start ARE RESTAURANTS IN ELLISVILLE 24:55.400 --> 24:57.133 align:start AND ELSEWHERE THAT CAN'T FIND 24:57.233 --> 24:58.300 align:start WORKERS AND THEY SAY IT'S 24:58.400 --> 24:59.000 align:start PROBABLY A TRANSPORTATION 24:59.100 --> 24:59.733 align:start PROBLEM GETTING PEOPLE FROM THE 25:00.033 --> 25:01.033 align:start CITY OUT THERE. 25:01.133 --> 25:02.133 align:start DO YOU THINK THAT'S THE REAL 25:02.233 --> 25:02.400 align:start REASON? 25:02.500 --> 25:03.566 align:start THAT MIGHT BE PART OF THE 25:03.666 --> 25:04.033 align:start PROBLEM. 25:04.133 --> 25:05.633 align:start YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY IF WE HAD A 25:05.766 --> 25:06.666 align:start REAL MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM, THAT 25:06.766 --> 25:08.366 align:start WOULD HELP, BUT QUITE FRANKLY, 25:08.466 --> 25:10.200 align:start AT NO TIME WHEN I WAS GROWING 25:10.300 --> 25:11.766 align:start UP, I'M 58 NOW, A GENERATION 25:12.066 --> 25:13.566 align:start BEHIND ME OR WHATEVER, AT NO 25:13.666 --> 25:14.700 align:start TIME WERE THERE A NEED FOR 25:15.033 --> 25:15.766 align:start PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE CITY TO 25:16.100 --> 25:17.233 align:start COME OUT AND WORK AT RESTAURANTS 25:17.333 --> 25:18.566 align:start IN THE COUNTY. 25:18.666 --> 25:20.433 align:start YOUNGER PEOPLE HUSTLED, GOT A 25:20.533 --> 25:21.100 align:start JOB, GOT BUSY. 25:21.200 --> 25:22.466 align:start THAT'S MISSING RIGHT NOW. 25:22.600 --> 25:24.200 align:start AND THAT IDEA OF WORKING IN A 25:24.300 --> 25:26.266 align:start RESTAURANT AND I'M LIKE 17, 18 25:26.366 --> 25:28.733 align:start YEARS OLD, IT'S NOT THERE. 25:29.066 --> 25:29.600 align:start I DON'T KNOW IF IT GOES BACK TO 25:29.700 --> 25:31.600 align:start THAT WORK ETHIC OR THIS 25:31.700 --> 25:33.000 align:start MILLENNIALS OR WHATEVER, BUT 25:33.100 --> 25:34.066 align:start QUITE FRANKLY, THE PEOPLE ARE 25:34.166 --> 25:35.433 align:start THERE THAT CAN FILL THE JOBS AND 25:35.533 --> 25:37.000 align:start GET PAID. 25:37.100 --> 25:38.700 align:start THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO DO IT. 25:39.000 --> 25:40.100 align:start ONE OF THE REASONS IS YOU 25:40.200 --> 25:41.400 align:start HAVE TO DO COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR 25:41.500 --> 25:42.266 align:start YOUR COLLEGE RESUME OR I DON'T 25:42.366 --> 25:43.133 align:start KNOW WHAT. 25:43.266 --> 25:44.400 align:start HOW DOES THAT SONG GO? 25:44.500 --> 25:47.066 align:start WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KIDS 25:47.166 --> 25:47.666 align:start TODAY? 25:47.766 --> 25:49.700 align:start WHY CAN'T THEY BE LIKE WE WERE 25:50.033 --> 25:50.233 align:start YESTERDAY. 25:50.333 --> 25:52.400 align:start I FOUND LIKE MY GRANDFATHER. 25:52.500 --> 25:55.333 align:start THERE WAS A RESTAURATEUR 25:55.433 --> 25:57.066 align:start WHO'S CLOSING A RESTAURANT, 25:57.166 --> 25:58.066 align:start TALKING TO ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE, 25:58.200 --> 25:59.533 align:start ABOUT THIS VERY POINT AND THAT 25:59.633 --> 26:01.733 align:start PERSON PROBABLY HAS A PRETTY 26:02.066 --> 26:03.700 align:start GOOD IDEA, SAYING -- REGARDLESS 26:04.000 --> 26:05.233 align:start OF WHETHER IT AFFECTED THEIR 26:05.366 --> 26:06.666 align:start RESTAURANT, THAT IDEA THAT THEY 26:06.766 --> 26:09.766 align:start CAN'T FIND PEOPLE IN THEIR AREA 26:10.100 --> 26:11.700 align:start TO WORK WAS PRETTY -- SHE OUGHT 26:12.000 --> 26:13.400 align:start ON KNOW. 26:13.500 --> 26:15.666 align:start YEAH, CLOSING FOR THAT 26:15.766 --> 26:16.133 align:start REASON. 26:16.233 --> 26:17.400 align:start DON'T FORGET, EVERYBODY, 26:17.533 --> 26:18.633 align:start TOMORROW NIGHT WE'RE AT THE 26:18.733 --> 26:20.300 align:start SCHNUCKS IN RICHMOND HEIGHTS 26:20.400 --> 26:24.566 align:start BETWEEN 5:00 AND 7:00 RINGING 26:24.700 --> 26:26.066 align:start BELLS FOR THE SALVATION ARMY AND 26:26.166 --> 26:28.166 align:start WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN US. 26:28.300 --> 26:29.466 align:start YOU CAN COMMENT ON THE PROGRAM, 26:29.566 --> 26:31.333 align:start SEND A LETTER TO KETC, 3655 26:31.433 --> 26:32.033 align:start OLIVE STREET, ST. LOUIS, 26:32.133 --> 26:32.400 align:start MISSOURI 63108. 26:32.500 --> 26:35.000 align:start HOW ABOUT THE EMAILS, 26:35.100 --> 26:38.200 align:start LETTERS@KETC.ORG AND THE TWEETS, 26:38.300 --> 26:38.566 align:start #DONNYBROOKSTL. 26:38.666 --> 26:39.700 align:start WE WELCOME THOSE BECAUSE RAY AND 26:40.000 --> 26:41.133 align:start WENDY WILL BE READING THOSE AND 26:41.233 --> 26:42.200 align:start TAKING YOUR PHONE CALLS IN JUST 26:42.300 --> 26:43.766 align:start A MOMENT ON YOUR TURN. 26:44.066 --> 26:45.733 align:start DON'T GO AWAY, AND SEE YOU 26:46.033 --> 26:46.766 align:start TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE SCHNUCKS, 26:47.100 --> 26:49.400 align:start RICHMOND HEIGHTS. 26:50.433 --> 26:51.133 align:start Announcer: DONNYBROOK IS MADE 26:51.233 --> 26:51.700 align:start POSSIBLE BY THE MEMBERS OF THE 26:52.000 --> 26:54.500 align:start NINE NETWORK. 30:04.766 --> 30:20.700 align:start * 30:20.766 --> 30:22.300 align:start WELCOME BACK TO DONNYBROOK 30:22.433 --> 30:23.500 align:start YOUR TURN. 30:23.600 --> 30:24.333 align:start IT IS YOUR TURN. 30:24.466 --> 30:25.733 align:start I AM SITTING HERE WITH OUR 30:26.066 --> 30:28.333 align:start FOUNDER AND THE STAR OF OUR 30:28.433 --> 30:30.066 align:start PROGRAM, MR. RAY HARTMANN. 30:30.200 --> 30:33.733 align:start I WILL BE HIS COPILOT AND WE'LL 30:34.033 --> 30:36.366 align:start BE FLYING AT A ALTITUDE OF 30:36.500 --> 30:37.266 align:start 35,000 FEET. 30:37.366 --> 30:39.633 align:start WHO'S UP FIRST? 30:39.733 --> 30:41.533 align:start ELISE FROM HEALTH SPRINGS. 30:41.633 --> 30:43.600 align:start THANKS FOR CALLING AND WELCOME 30:43.700 --> 30:44.466 align:start TO YOUR TURN. 30:44.566 --> 30:45.166 align:start Caller: HI. 30:45.266 --> 30:45.766 align:start THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR TAKING 30:46.066 --> 30:46.433 align:start MY CALL. 30:46.533 --> 30:48.166 align:start THE REASON I'M CALLING IS 30:48.266 --> 30:49.200 align:start BECAUSE I HAVE TO AGREE WITH 30:49.300 --> 30:51.666 align:start SOMETHING THAT YOU SAID, WENDY, 30:51.766 --> 30:53.366 align:start ON THE SHOW MULTIPLE TIMES. 30:53.466 --> 30:56.600 align:start YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE TAXES 30:56.700 --> 30:58.333 align:start AND THE ST. LOUIS CITY AND 30:58.433 --> 31:00.733 align:start KANSAS CITY, AND WHY ARE WE 31:01.066 --> 31:03.233 align:start TRYING TO OVERTURN THE WILL OF 31:03.333 --> 31:04.366 align:start THE PEOPLE. 31:04.466 --> 31:07.266 align:start AND I AGREE WITH YOU, AND NOT 31:07.366 --> 31:10.200 align:start ONLY ARE THEY TRYING TO DO THAT, 31:10.300 --> 31:11.333 align:start BUT THERE ARE TWO OTHER ISSUES 31:11.433 --> 31:14.266 align:start THAT THE VOTERS RECENTLY VOTED 31:14.400 --> 31:16.133 align:start ON, WHICH IS RIGHT TO WORK AND 31:16.266 --> 31:20.066 align:start THEN I BELIEVE IT WAS PROP ONE, 31:20.166 --> 31:21.033 align:start WHICH WAS TRANSPARENCY -- 31:21.133 --> 31:25.033 align:start CLEAN MISSOURI, CLEAN 31:25.166 --> 31:25.433 align:start MISSOURI, RIGHT. 31:25.566 --> 31:26.033 align:start Caller: RIGHT. 31:26.166 --> 31:27.033 align:start AND THEY'RE TRYING TO OVERTURN 31:27.166 --> 31:28.766 align:start THAT NOW, TOO, AND I DON'T 31:29.100 --> 31:31.466 align:start UNDERSTAND WHY LAWMAKERS JUST 31:31.566 --> 31:33.100 align:start CAN'T TAKE WHAT THE PEOPLE OF 31:33.200 --> 31:35.466 align:start THE STATE HAVE VOTED ON AND 31:35.566 --> 31:37.500 align:start ACCEPT THAT. 31:37.600 --> 31:39.666 align:start IT'S VERY DISHEARTENING AND IT 31:39.766 --> 31:42.066 align:start MAKES -- WELL, I VOTE ALL THE 31:42.166 --> 31:43.700 align:start TIME AND I WILL CONTINUE TO DO 31:44.000 --> 31:46.300 align:start SO, BUT I'M SURE THAT IT MAKES A 31:46.400 --> 31:48.600 align:start LOT OF OTHER VOTERS VERY 31:48.700 --> 31:51.166 align:start FRUSTRATED AND FEEL LIKE WHY 31:51.266 --> 31:53.666 align:start VOTE IF THE LAWMAKERS AREN'T 31:53.766 --> 31:56.733 align:start GOING TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION 31:57.033 --> 32:00.200 align:start WHAT WE IN FACT VOTE FOR. 32:00.300 --> 32:01.300 align:start AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. 32:01.400 --> 32:02.700 align:start ELISE, HEAR HEAR. 32:02.766 --> 32:03.766 align:start THEY DO IT BECAUSE THEY CAN AND 32:04.100 --> 32:05.066 align:start IT REALLY IS AMAZING. 32:05.200 --> 32:08.600 align:start I MEAN, IN MISSOURI, THE NUMBER 32:08.700 --> 32:11.066 align:start OF TIMES THAT THAT'S HAPPENED. 32:11.166 --> 32:12.100 align:start BUT DON'T YOU THINK IT'S A 32:12.200 --> 32:14.700 align:start RECENT -- IT'S A FAIRLY RECENT 32:15.000 --> 32:17.533 align:start PHENOMENON THAT WE'RE SEEING AND 32:17.633 --> 32:20.366 align:start IT'S -- 32:20.466 --> 32:22.400 align:start YOU'RE RIGHT. 32:22.500 --> 32:23.766 align:start IT'S ACTUALLY KIND OF OMINOUS 32:24.100 --> 32:28.266 align:start IN MY OPINION, BUT THAUN, ELISE. 32:28.366 --> 32:31.700 align:start AND THE IDEA THAT POLITICIANS 32:32.033 --> 32:33.766 align:start ARE GOING TO ROLL OVER AND CLEAN 32:34.066 --> 32:35.700 align:start UP LOBBYING, GOOD LUCK WITH 32:35.766 --> 32:36.133 align:start THAT. 32:36.233 --> 32:38.166 align:start LET'S GO TO RON FROM SOULARD. 32:38.266 --> 32:40.466 align:start YOU'RE ON DONNYBROOK, YOUR TURN. 32:40.600 --> 32:41.266 align:start Caller: THANK YOU FOR TAKING 32:41.366 --> 32:43.066 align:start MY CALL AND THE LADY, I WAS 32:43.200 --> 32:44.666 align:start GOING TO SAY THE SAME THING. 32:44.766 --> 32:46.166 align:start THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I WANT 32:46.266 --> 32:47.466 align:start TO SAY IS ABOUT EARNINGS TAX. 32:47.566 --> 32:48.700 align:start THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS WILL BE 32:49.000 --> 32:49.500 align:start BANKRUPT WITHOUT THE CITY 32:49.600 --> 32:50.200 align:start EARNINGS TAX. 32:50.300 --> 32:52.466 align:start YOU WANT THE CITY TO FIGHT 32:52.566 --> 32:53.600 align:start CRIME, YOU WANT IT TO BUILD A 32:53.700 --> 32:55.366 align:start STADIUM THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE 32:55.466 --> 32:56.400 align:start VOTED AGAINST, YOU WANT THEM TO 32:56.500 --> 32:58.266 align:start DO A LOT OF THINGS IN THE CITY, 32:58.366 --> 33:01.633 align:start BUT WE CAN'T TAX PEOPLE WHO USE 33:01.733 --> 33:05.100 align:start THE SERVICES, COMING INTO THE 33:05.200 --> 33:07.400 align:start CITY, THROW THEIR TRASH DOWN, 33:07.500 --> 33:08.433 align:start DOUBLE PARK. 33:08.533 --> 33:10.066 align:start WE CHARGING EVERYBODY FOR LIVING 33:10.166 --> 33:11.600 align:start IN THE CITY AND YOU JUST PAY 33:11.700 --> 33:13.200 align:start YOUR SHARE FOR THE CITY TO BE A 33:13.300 --> 33:14.733 align:start BETTER PLACE TO LIVE, IF YOU 33:15.066 --> 33:16.733 align:start WANT TO COME TO A BETTER PLACE. 33:17.066 --> 33:17.700 align:start THANK YOU, RON. 33:18.000 --> 33:19.366 align:start WELL STATED AND WE HEAR FROM 33:19.500 --> 33:20.533 align:start PEOPLE, OH, WE'RE NOT LIVING IN 33:20.633 --> 33:21.766 align:start THE CITY. 33:22.066 --> 33:23.666 align:start WE'RE GOING TO YOU FROM THE CITY 33:23.766 --> 33:26.266 align:start OF ST. LOUIS, BEAUTIFUL CHANNEL 33:26.366 --> 33:27.033 align:start 9 AND GREAT -- 33:27.133 --> 33:28.533 align:start GRAND CENTER, YEAH. 33:28.633 --> 33:30.133 align:start GRAND CENTER AREA, AND IT'S 33:30.266 --> 33:33.100 align:start REALLY -- I MEAN, I HAPPEN TO BE 33:33.200 --> 33:34.533 align:start VERY STRONGLY THINK THAT THERE'S 33:34.633 --> 33:37.166 align:start A PERFECT LOGIC TO THE CITY 33:37.300 --> 33:38.633 align:start EARNINGS TAX AS SOMEONE WHO'S 33:38.733 --> 33:42.100 align:start PAID IT AND PAYS IT, AND THAT IS 33:42.200 --> 33:43.433 align:start THAT PEOPLE WHO COME FOR THE DAY 33:43.533 --> 33:44.633 align:start AND USE THE POLICE AND THE FIRE 33:44.733 --> 33:46.733 align:start AND THE STREETS AND THE OTHER 33:47.033 --> 33:48.600 align:start SERVICES, YOU KNOW, IT'S THEIR 33:48.700 --> 33:50.366 align:start WAY OF CONTRIBUTING AND MANY, 33:50.466 --> 33:52.100 align:start MANY PEOPLE COME TO DOWNTOWN. 33:52.200 --> 33:55.700 align:start NOT AS MANY AS USED TO, BUT -- 33:56.000 --> 33:57.500 align:start SO THERE'S SOME LOGIC TO IT. 33:57.600 --> 33:59.300 align:start BUT THE BIGGER POINT IS THAT THE 33:59.400 --> 34:00.733 align:start FOLKS VOTED 80% TO KEEP IT. 34:01.033 --> 34:01.766 align:start THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT. 34:02.100 --> 34:03.466 align:start IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT U.S. 34:03.566 --> 34:04.300 align:start BANK THINKS. 34:04.400 --> 34:06.400 align:start I MEAN -- 34:06.533 --> 34:07.266 align:start NO. 34:07.400 --> 34:10.066 align:start AND RON, WE THANK YOU BECAUSE 34:10.166 --> 34:11.300 align:start YOU CERTAINLY ARE SPEAKING FOR A 34:11.433 --> 34:12.633 align:start LOT OF PEOPLE. 34:12.733 --> 34:14.700 align:start LET'S GO TO KATHY FROM 34:15.033 --> 34:16.600 align:start ST. LOUIS COUNTY. 34:16.700 --> 34:18.233 align:start HELLO, KATHY. 34:18.333 --> 34:22.200 align:start Caller: OH HI, WENDY, AND HI, 34:22.300 --> 34:22.400 align:start RAY. 34:22.500 --> 34:24.600 align:start NICE TALKING TO YOU. 34:24.700 --> 34:25.566 align:start ON THE JOSH HAWLEY 34:25.666 --> 34:26.366 align:start INVESTIGATION, I DON'T THINK A 34:26.466 --> 34:28.266 align:start MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE STATE 34:28.366 --> 34:30.533 align:start OF MISSOURI REALIZE HE LOST 34:30.633 --> 34:32.466 align:start MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR PEOPLE 34:32.566 --> 34:34.500 align:start IN THIS STATE BECAUSE HE 34:34.600 --> 34:36.733 align:start COULDN'T RUN THAT OFFICE. 34:37.033 --> 34:39.166 align:start THEY HAD TO SUB OUT BECAUSE HE 34:39.266 --> 34:42.666 align:start COULDN'T LITIGATE THE CASES. 34:42.766 --> 34:44.233 align:start THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN RECTIFIED 34:44.333 --> 34:46.066 align:start A VERY LONG TIME AGO BECAUSE I 34:46.166 --> 34:47.600 align:start DON'T THINK ANY OF US, IF WE GO 34:47.700 --> 34:49.433 align:start INTO A JOB AND WE'RE NOT RUNNING 34:49.566 --> 34:51.133 align:start IT PROPERLY FOR THE FIRST COUPLE 34:51.233 --> 34:53.433 align:start WEEKS, THAT WE'RE GOING TO STAY 34:53.533 --> 34:53.666 align:start THERE. 34:53.766 --> 34:56.233 align:start AND I WONDER, ARE THEY GOING TO 34:56.333 --> 34:59.766 align:start BE ABLE TO GET ALL OF THE 35:00.100 --> 35:01.066 align:start INFORMATION FROM THAT OFFICE? 35:01.166 --> 35:03.166 align:start AND IS THE SENATE GOING TO SIT 35:03.266 --> 35:05.233 align:start HIM IF HE'S UNDER INVESTIGATION? 35:05.366 --> 35:06.633 align:start THAT'S AN INTERESTING 35:06.733 --> 35:07.133 align:start QUESTION. 35:07.233 --> 35:10.066 align:start THE ANSWER, I THINK, IS YES TO 35:10.166 --> 35:11.433 align:start THAT BECAUSE OF WHO THE SENATE 35:11.533 --> 35:12.666 align:start IS CONTROLLED BY. 35:12.766 --> 35:15.133 align:start I DON'T THINK THE HOUSE WOULD. 35:15.233 --> 35:16.233 align:start BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS CONTROL 35:16.333 --> 35:17.600 align:start THE HOUSE. 35:17.700 --> 35:19.566 align:start BUT THAT'S AN INTERESTING POINT. 35:19.666 --> 35:21.566 align:start AND AS I SAY, I WAS ALONE ON 35:21.666 --> 35:23.066 align:start THIS ISSUE. 35:23.200 --> 35:25.200 align:start I THINK THIS IS ACTUALLY TO THE 35:25.300 --> 35:27.033 align:start CREDIT OF JAY ASHCROFT -- I 35:27.133 --> 35:28.500 align:start CAN'T BELIEVE I'M SAYING THAT. 35:28.600 --> 35:30.700 align:start I CAN'T EITHER. 35:31.000 --> 35:32.633 align:start YOU KNOW, HIS FATHER WAS 35:32.766 --> 35:35.200 align:start SOMEBODY THAT I JUST DISAGREED 35:35.300 --> 35:37.233 align:start WITH SO MUCH FOR SO LONG 35:37.333 --> 35:37.600 align:start ALTHOUGH -- 35:37.700 --> 35:40.333 align:start BUT YOU HAVE RESPECT FOR HIM. 35:40.433 --> 35:42.500 align:start I ALWAYS RESPECTED HIS 35:42.600 --> 35:44.066 align:start INTEGRITY AND MAYBE JAY ASHCROFT 35:44.166 --> 35:45.066 align:start IS TRYING TO BRAND HIMSELF -- 35:45.166 --> 35:49.233 align:start BUT WHAT CAN HE DO IF HE A 35:49.333 --> 35:50.733 align:start QUESTION HAS BEEN RAISED ABOUT 35:51.033 --> 35:52.333 align:start SENATOR-ELECT HAWLEY, HE HAS TO 35:52.433 --> 35:52.633 align:start FOLLOW -- 35:52.733 --> 35:54.200 align:start WELL, TO HIS CREDIT AND I'LL 35:54.300 --> 35:55.766 align:start STICK TO MY GUNS, THE FACT THAT 35:56.066 --> 35:58.066 align:start HE HAS A DREADED APPOINTEE 35:58.200 --> 35:59.333 align:start WORKING FOR HIM WHO HAPPENS TO 35:59.466 --> 36:00.666 align:start GIVE MONEY FOR A DEMOCRAT, AS IF 36:00.766 --> 36:03.166 align:start THAT WAS A CRIME, AND THE FACT 36:03.266 --> 36:05.033 align:start THAT HE'S BROUGHT IN THE 36:05.133 --> 36:07.100 align:start DEMOCRATIC AUDITOR WITH SUBPOENA 36:07.200 --> 36:09.033 align:start POWER, IT IS THE BEST EXAMPLE OF 36:09.133 --> 36:11.033 align:start BIPARTISANSHIP OUT THERE. 36:11.133 --> 36:13.166 align:start I CAN'T BELIEVE EVERYBODY IS NOT 36:13.266 --> 36:14.300 align:start EMBRACING AND GIVING JAY 36:14.400 --> 36:16.666 align:start ASHCROFT CREDIT FOR WHAT APPEARS 36:16.766 --> 36:17.333 align:start TO BE AN INDEPENDENT 36:17.433 --> 36:18.400 align:start INVESTIGATION OF SOMEBODY IN HIS 36:18.500 --> 36:18.766 align:start OWN PARTY. 36:19.100 --> 36:21.100 align:start I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THERE ARE 36:21.200 --> 36:23.066 align:start REPUBLICANS VERY UPSET ABOUT IT. 36:23.166 --> 36:24.433 align:start THERE ARE REPUBLICANS WHO ARE 36:24.566 --> 36:28.566 align:start VERY UPSET ABOUT IT, BUT I THINK 36:28.666 --> 36:30.200 align:start IN TERMS OF THE DEMOCRAT WHO 36:30.333 --> 36:33.466 align:start HAS -- HEISINGER, I MEAN NO 36:33.600 --> 36:35.066 align:start DISRESPECT, I JUST CAN'T 36:35.200 --> 36:36.366 align:start REMEMBER HER NAME AT THIS 36:36.466 --> 36:37.500 align:start MOMENT, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT 36:37.600 --> 36:39.733 align:start SHE WORKS FOR MR. ASHCROFT, BUT 36:40.033 --> 36:42.200 align:start I JUST THINK IN TERMS OF OPTICS, 36:42.300 --> 36:42.733 align:start WE HAVE TO -- 36:43.033 --> 36:45.233 align:start I THINK IT'S GREAT OPTICS! 36:45.366 --> 36:46.500 align:start THAT A REPUBLICAN PICKS A 36:46.600 --> 36:48.066 align:start DEMOCRAT TO RUN -- TO 36:48.166 --> 36:49.333 align:start INVESTIGATE A FELLOW REPUBLICAN. 36:49.433 --> 36:50.700 align:start I THINK THAT'S PERFECT AND IF IT 36:51.000 --> 36:54.766 align:start WERE FLIPPED, I THINK IT WAS 36:55.100 --> 36:55.266 align:start PERFECT. 36:55.366 --> 36:56.300 align:start I THINK IT IS PERFECT THAT -- 36:56.400 --> 36:58.100 align:start SEVERAL OF OUS THE PANEL 36:58.200 --> 37:00.366 align:start DISAGREE WITH YOU TONIGHT, RAY. 37:00.466 --> 37:02.300 align:start I KNOW YOU DO. 37:02.433 --> 37:04.133 align:start ALL FOUR OF YOU. 37:04.233 --> 37:06.066 align:start AND IF THE SITUATION WAS 37:06.166 --> 37:07.666 align:start REVERSED, BUT KATHY, WE THANK 37:07.766 --> 37:08.066 align:start YOU. 37:08.200 --> 37:10.466 align:start LET'S GO TO BILL, FIRST-TIME 37:10.600 --> 37:12.000 align:start CALLER FROM ROCK HILL. 37:12.100 --> 37:13.133 align:start WHO? 37:13.233 --> 37:14.700 align:start BILL, YOU'RE ON DONNYBROOK 37:15.000 --> 37:15.233 align:start YOU'RE TURN. 37:15.366 --> 37:17.233 align:start BILL FROM ROCK HILL. 37:17.333 --> 37:18.533 align:start Caller: RAY, THIS IS OUR 37:18.633 --> 37:19.533 align:start TURN, NOT YOUR TURN. 37:19.633 --> 37:21.100 align:start NOW THAT WE GOT THAT STRAIGHT, 37:21.200 --> 37:23.533 align:start I'D LIKE TO COMMENT ON THE 37:23.633 --> 37:25.533 align:start SITUATION ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH 37:25.633 --> 37:28.033 align:start OF THE FOOTBALL WITH THE HIGH 37:28.133 --> 37:28.300 align:start SIGN. 37:28.433 --> 37:29.200 align:start HAVE YOU NOTICED THERE SOMES 37:29.300 --> 37:31.133 align:start TUBE KIND OF A SUB CULTURE THAT 37:31.233 --> 37:32.633 align:start HAS DEVELOPED THAT SPENDS ALL 37:32.733 --> 37:35.333 align:start THEIR TIME TRYING TO FIND STUFF 37:35.433 --> 37:37.066 align:start TO GET OFFENDED BY? 37:37.166 --> 37:38.333 align:start IT'S GOT TO BE RIDICULOUS. 37:38.433 --> 37:39.200 align:start THIS PAST WEEK THERE WAS 37:39.333 --> 37:41.166 align:start SOMEBODY WHO HAD A BIG 37:41.266 --> 37:42.200 align:start CONNIPTION BECAUSE THEY CLAIMED 37:42.333 --> 37:44.366 align:start THAT RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED 37:44.466 --> 37:46.266 align:start REINDEER WAS BULLYING AND NOW 37:46.366 --> 37:48.033 align:start THEY'RE ALL UPSET ABOUT IT AND 37:48.133 --> 37:50.533 align:start THIS THING WITH THE HIGH SIGN. 37:50.633 --> 37:52.533 align:start FOLKS, FIRST OF ALL, GET A LIFE. 37:52.633 --> 37:54.033 align:start SECOND OF ALL, LAWYERS STOP 37:54.133 --> 37:55.366 align:start TAKING CASES FOR THESE PEOPLE. 37:55.466 --> 37:56.766 align:start AND THIRD OF ALL, THE 37:57.066 --> 37:58.166 align:start CONSTITUTION -- YOU SHOULD KNOW 37:58.266 --> 38:01.733 align:start THIS, RAY, AS BEING A MEMBER OF 38:02.033 --> 38:03.700 align:start THE ACLU, CONTROVERSIAL SPEECH 38:04.033 --> 38:05.433 align:start IS PROTECTED SPEECH. 38:05.533 --> 38:06.100 align:start THERE'S NOTHING IN THE 38:06.200 --> 38:07.100 align:start CONSTITUTION THAT SAYS YOU HAVE 38:07.200 --> 38:10.166 align:start A RIGHT NOT TO BE OFFENDED. 38:10.266 --> 38:11.033 align:start AMEN. 38:11.133 --> 38:12.300 align:start Caller: AND ALL THE PEOPLE 38:12.400 --> 38:14.166 align:start TRYING TO FIND THESE SAFE SPEECH 38:14.266 --> 38:16.600 align:start ZONES ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND 38:16.700 --> 38:20.100 align:start TRYING TO -- YOU KNOW, THEY'RE 38:20.200 --> 38:21.633 align:start TRYING -- THERE'S NO RIGHT TO BE 38:21.733 --> 38:23.366 align:start NOT OFFENDED IN THE 38:23.466 --> 38:23.700 align:start CONSTITUTION. 38:24.000 --> 38:24.366 align:start IT DOESN'T EXIST. 38:24.500 --> 38:26.266 align:start WE AGREE. 38:26.366 --> 38:28.400 align:start WE AGREE, AND I I HAVE -- I'M 38:28.533 --> 38:30.200 align:start GUILTY OF A LOT OF THINGS, BUT 38:30.300 --> 38:33.400 align:start STICKING UP FOR, YOU KNOW -- 38:33.533 --> 38:34.066 align:start DEFENDING -- 38:34.166 --> 38:35.633 align:start YOU ALWAYS DEFEND FREE 38:35.733 --> 38:36.100 align:start SPEECH. 38:36.200 --> 38:36.566 align:start I AGREE WITH YOU. 38:36.666 --> 38:38.766 align:start THANKS, BILL, THANKS FOR 38:39.066 --> 38:39.233 align:start CALLING. 38:39.333 --> 38:43.200 align:start LET'S GO TO THE TWITTERVERSE. 38:43.300 --> 38:45.333 align:start @CRAIG, MY BUDDY. 38:45.466 --> 38:46.100 align:start THE REPUBLICAN SECRETARY OF 38:46.200 --> 38:47.666 align:start STATE APPOINTED THE LAWYER WHO 38:47.766 --> 38:49.233 align:start WILL INVESTIGATE WHAT MAY OR MAY 38:49.333 --> 38:51.033 align:start NOT HAVE HAPPENED IN JOSH 38:51.133 --> 38:51.766 align:start HAWLEY'S CAMPAIGN. 38:52.066 --> 38:52.633 align:start HAS ANYONE QUESTIONED HIM 38:52.733 --> 38:54.000 align:start DIRECTLY WHY HE CHOSE HER? 38:54.100 --> 38:55.533 align:start THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION, CRAIG. 38:55.633 --> 38:58.733 align:start I THINK THAT'S BECAUSE HE 38:59.033 --> 39:05.533 align:start WANTS TO APPEAR BIPARTISAN. 39:05.666 --> 39:08.200 align:start SISTER VAUR 23, WHEN IT COMES TO 39:08.300 --> 39:10.133 align:start THE OKAY SIGN, I THINK IT'S 39:10.233 --> 39:11.700 align:start ABOUT EDUCATING YOURSELF. 39:11.766 --> 39:14.133 align:start MANY PEOPLE FIND SIGNS WE FIND 39:14.233 --> 39:15.233 align:start HARMLESS AS INSULTING. 39:15.333 --> 39:16.766 align:start BE RESPECTFUL AND THINK OF THE 39:17.066 --> 39:19.466 align:start CONTEXT IT IS USED. 39:19.600 --> 39:20.600 align:start THANK YOU. 39:20.700 --> 39:24.700 align:start @STEVE JACOBOWSKI, I WOULD 39:25.000 --> 39:26.400 align:start RATHER WE DEVELOP THE PERSONAL 39:26.500 --> 39:27.500 align:start PROPERTY TAX INSTEAD OF THE 39:27.600 --> 39:29.100 align:start EARNINGS TAX. 39:29.233 --> 39:31.500 align:start IT'S PART OF THE REASON I BOUGHT 39:31.600 --> 39:32.566 align:start A 2005 CAR. 39:32.666 --> 39:33.100 align:start THANK YOU. 39:33.200 --> 39:36.233 align:start KEEP TWEETING US AT THE 39:36.333 --> 39:36.600 align:start #DONNYBROOKSTL. 39:36.700 --> 39:39.200 align:start AND WE'LL GO TO BRENDA IN 39:39.300 --> 39:39.633 align:start COLLINSVILLE. 39:39.733 --> 39:40.666 align:start HELLO, BRENDA. 39:40.766 --> 39:42.300 align:start HI, BRENDA. 39:42.433 --> 39:42.666 align:start Caller: HI. 39:42.766 --> 39:44.566 align:start I'M CALLING ABOUT THE OKAY SIGN. 39:44.666 --> 39:47.100 align:start I WAS IN THE ARMY AND WHEN WE 39:47.200 --> 39:50.033 align:start WENT TO GERMANY IN 1979, WE WERE 39:50.133 --> 39:52.433 align:start TOLD NOT TO USE THAT SIGN TO THE 39:52.533 --> 39:53.533 align:start GERMANS BECAUSE IT MEANT 39:55.466 --> 39:56.666 align:start MY GOODNESS. 39:56.766 --> 39:57.366 align:start OKAY. 39:57.466 --> 39:59.166 align:start WELL, WE THANK YOU AND WE'RE 39:59.266 --> 40:00.700 align:start HOPING OUR DELAY IS WORKING THIS 40:01.000 --> 40:01.166 align:start EVENING. 40:01.266 --> 40:02.533 align:start IT MAY OR MAY NOT. 40:02.633 --> 40:04.633 align:start THANK YOU, BRENDA. 40:04.766 --> 40:07.500 align:start THAT ONE -- WELL, I THOUGHT WHEN 40:07.600 --> 40:09.766 align:start SHE SAID THEY WERE IN GERMANY, 40:10.100 --> 40:11.333 align:start THAT IF THIS WAS A QUESTION OF A 40:11.433 --> 40:13.233 align:start WHITE -- WOW. 40:13.333 --> 40:14.266 align:start OKAY, BRENDA, THANK YOU SO MUCH 40:14.400 --> 40:14.666 align:start FOR PHONING IN. 40:14.766 --> 40:16.433 align:start I DID NOT SEE THAT ONE 40:16.533 --> 40:16.700 align:start COMING. 40:16.766 --> 40:17.566 align:start I DID NOT EITHER. 40:17.700 --> 40:20.033 align:start LET'S GO TO RON IN AUGUSTA, 40:20.133 --> 40:20.300 align:start MISSOURI. 40:20.433 --> 40:22.166 align:start HI, RON. 40:22.300 --> 40:23.066 align:start WATCH YOUR TONGUE. 40:23.200 --> 40:24.700 align:start Caller: YEAH, BRENDA, GO, 40:24.766 --> 40:25.133 align:start GIRL. 40:25.233 --> 40:26.600 align:start IT'S OKAY WITH ME. 40:26.700 --> 40:28.166 align:start Caller: FIRST OFF, MERRY 40:28.266 --> 40:29.133 align:start CHRISTMAS TO YOU GUYS. 40:29.233 --> 40:31.766 align:start THANK YOU. 40:32.100 --> 40:33.766 align:start SAME TO YOU, BY THE WAY. 40:34.100 --> 40:35.200 align:start Caller: AS FAR AS THIS 40:35.300 --> 40:36.300 align:start ASHCROFT THING, IF I'M GOING TO 40:36.400 --> 40:38.500 align:start BE INVESTIGATED, THE I WANT THE 40:38.633 --> 40:39.733 align:start PERSON THAT'S GOING TO DIG UP 40:40.033 --> 40:40.666 align:start THE WORST STUFF ON ME. 40:40.766 --> 40:42.700 align:start IF HE'S NOT GUILTY, HE'S NOT 40:43.000 --> 40:43.166 align:start GUILTY. 40:43.266 --> 40:44.300 align:start IF HE'S GUILTY, HE'S GUILTY. 40:44.400 --> 40:46.266 align:start I SUPPORTED JOSH, I THINK HE'S A 40:46.400 --> 40:48.200 align:start GOOD GUY, BUT IF WE'RE GOING TO 40:48.300 --> 40:49.533 align:start INVESTIGATE HIM, LET'S DO IT. 40:49.633 --> 40:51.466 align:start I COULDN'T CARE LESS WHO IT DID. 40:51.566 --> 40:53.033 align:start LET'S FIND OUT WHAT'S TWG ON. 40:53.166 --> 40:53.533 align:start I AGREE. 40:53.633 --> 40:55.100 align:start Caller: AND AS FAR AS THIS 40:55.200 --> 40:57.033 align:start SILLY OKAY THING, I'M A KID OF 40:57.133 --> 40:59.600 align:start THE '70s IN HIGH SCHOOL, SO I 40:59.733 --> 41:02.166 align:start HAD TO WATCH MY BLACK FRIENDS 41:02.266 --> 41:04.166 align:start AND I PROBABLY WOULD ADMIT I 41:04.266 --> 41:05.733 align:start MAYBE EVEN IN A WEAK MOMENT 41:06.033 --> 41:08.433 align:start JOINED IN WITH THE CLENCHED FIST 41:08.533 --> 41:11.400 align:start FOR BLACK POWER. 41:11.500 --> 41:15.100 align:start YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WHITE POWER, 41:15.200 --> 41:17.766 align:start WE HAVE BLACK POWER. 41:18.066 --> 41:21.533 align:start WE SHOULDN'T HAVE THAT STUFF. 41:21.633 --> 41:22.333 align:start OKAY. 41:22.433 --> 41:24.433 align:start Caller: WE DON'T LIKE EITHER 41:24.566 --> 41:24.700 align:start ONE. 41:24.766 --> 41:25.233 align:start ALL RIGHT. 41:25.333 --> 41:27.466 align:start Caller: WE'RE JUST ONE 41:27.566 --> 41:27.766 align:start COUNTRY. 41:28.066 --> 41:28.233 align:start OKAY. 41:28.333 --> 41:28.633 align:start APPRECIATE THAT. 41:28.733 --> 41:29.600 align:start THANK YOU, RON. 41:29.700 --> 41:31.466 align:start WE APPRECIATE YOU CALLING. 41:31.600 --> 41:35.466 align:start LET'S GO TO JOHN FROM MAPLE 41:35.566 --> 41:36.333 align:start WOOD. 41:36.466 --> 41:37.066 align:start HI, JOHN. 41:37.200 --> 41:37.766 align:start Caller: HI. 41:38.100 --> 41:39.433 align:start HOW ARE YOU GUYS? 41:39.533 --> 41:40.233 align:start WE'RE GOOD. 41:40.366 --> 41:41.333 align:start Caller: DON'T FIND MYSELF IN 41:41.433 --> 41:42.766 align:start A POSITION TO CONTRADICT ALVIN 41:43.066 --> 41:45.133 align:start TO MANY OCCASIONS, BUT TONIGHT 41:45.233 --> 41:48.266 align:start YOU SAID SOMETHING THAT YOU -- 41:48.366 --> 41:50.133 align:start MY OWN TWO BOYS WHO ARE UNDER 16 41:50.266 --> 41:52.366 align:start ARE BOTH WORKING, ONE OF THEM IS 41:52.466 --> 41:53.433 align:start WORKING IN A RESTAURANT IN 41:53.533 --> 41:54.600 align:start MAPLEWOOD AND THE OTHER ONE IS 41:54.700 --> 41:56.433 align:start CUTTING GRASS AND, YOU KNOW, 41:56.533 --> 41:57.566 align:start HUSTLING TRYING TO MAKE MONEY 41:57.666 --> 42:02.633 align:start ANY WAY HE CAN, AND I THINK THE 42:02.733 --> 42:04.133 align:start SCHOOL DISTRICT REALLY 42:04.233 --> 42:06.433 align:start ENCOURAGES KIDS, YOU KNOW, TO 42:06.533 --> 42:08.433 align:start GET ALL KINDS OF EXPERIENCE, YOU 42:08.533 --> 42:08.666 align:start KNOW. 42:08.766 --> 42:09.166 align:start RIGHT. 42:09.266 --> 42:10.300 align:start Caller: THEY'VE DONE A GREAT 42:10.400 --> 42:10.500 align:start JOB. 42:10.600 --> 42:11.633 align:start THE COMMUNITY HERE HAS DONE A 42:11.733 --> 42:13.600 align:start GREAT JOB EMBRACING THESE KIDS 42:13.700 --> 42:16.033 align:start AND GIVING THEM THAT EXPERIENCE, 42:16.133 --> 42:17.633 align:start AND I THINK IT'S REALLY A SCHOOL 42:17.733 --> 42:19.233 align:start DISTRICT ON THE RISE AND A 42:19.333 --> 42:21.666 align:start COMMUNITY ON THE RISE. 42:21.766 --> 42:22.333 align:start OKAY. 42:22.433 --> 42:23.533 align:start Caller: SO ALVIN IS WRONG. 42:23.666 --> 42:25.266 align:start I'D LIKE TO STICK UP FOR 42:25.400 --> 42:25.533 align:start ALVIN. 42:25.633 --> 42:27.033 align:start I THINK HE WAS MAKING THE POINT 42:27.133 --> 42:28.333 align:start THAT IN CERTAIN PARTS OF 42:28.433 --> 42:30.166 align:start ST. LOUIS N THIS CASE IT WAS -- 42:30.266 --> 42:31.433 align:start WAS IT ELLISVILLE? 42:31.566 --> 42:32.766 align:start IT WAS CHESTERFIELD. 42:33.100 --> 42:33.500 align:start CHESTERFIELD. 42:33.600 --> 42:37.200 align:start THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN PARTS OF 42:37.300 --> 42:40.400 align:start MORE AFFLUENT WEST COUNTY THAT I 42:40.500 --> 42:42.066 align:start THINK HE WAS VERY TACTFULLY AND 42:42.200 --> 42:43.600 align:start PROPERLY MAKING THE POINT THAT A 42:43.733 --> 42:45.066 align:start LOT OF PEOPLE WEREN'T INTERESTED 42:45.166 --> 42:46.100 align:start IN DOING THEIR JOBS. 42:46.200 --> 42:46.633 align:start I DON'T THINK HE WAS TALKING 42:46.766 --> 42:48.600 align:start ABOUT MAPLE WOOD AT ALL, SO I 42:48.700 --> 42:51.200 align:start THINK A WOULD -- THAT WOULD BE 42:51.300 --> 42:53.066 align:start MY GUESS OF WHAT HE WAS SAYING. 42:53.166 --> 42:54.000 align:start WE APPRECIATE THE CALL. 42:54.133 --> 42:56.666 align:start YES, AS A PARENT, WE -- OR AS 42:56.766 --> 42:58.066 align:start PARENTS, I SHOULD SAY, MY 42:58.166 --> 42:59.566 align:start HUSBAND AND I THOUGHT IT WAS 42:59.666 --> 43:01.166 align:start VERY IMPORTANT, BECAUSE HE AND I 43:01.266 --> 43:02.166 align:start HAD BOTH WORKED IN HIGH SCHOOL 43:02.266 --> 43:03.633 align:start AND I KNOW YOU WORKED IN HIGH 43:03.733 --> 43:04.500 align:start SCHOOL AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 43:04.600 --> 43:06.266 align:start AND WE WORKED IN JUNIOR HIGH 43:06.366 --> 43:06.533 align:start SCHOOL. 43:06.633 --> 43:10.466 align:start I WOULDN'T WANT TO SEND A CHILD 43:10.566 --> 43:12.400 align:start INTO A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY 43:12.500 --> 43:13.366 align:start EXPERIENCE WITHOUT HAVING A 43:13.466 --> 43:15.200 align:start LITTLE MORE LIFE EXPERIENCE. 43:15.300 --> 43:17.100 align:start AND YOU CAN'T FIND A BETTER 43:17.200 --> 43:19.266 align:start PLACE TO ACQUIRE THAT LIFE 43:19.366 --> 43:20.733 align:start EXPERIENCE THAN ON THE JOB. 43:21.033 --> 43:22.700 align:start YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE A 43:23.000 --> 43:23.200 align:start TEENAGER. 43:23.300 --> 43:25.100 align:start SO I THINK PARENTS ARE DOING 43:25.200 --> 43:26.400 align:start THEIR CHILDREN A GREAT 43:26.500 --> 43:28.000 align:start DISSERVICE WHEN -- THAT'S JUST 43:28.133 --> 43:34.233 align:start MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION -- WHEN 43:34.333 --> 43:35.700 align:start THEY DON'T ENCOURAGE THEM TO GET 43:35.766 --> 43:36.766 align:start A JOB. 43:37.066 --> 43:38.200 align:start MAYBE THEY'RE IN LIKE FLINT IN 43:38.300 --> 43:39.300 align:start COLLEGE AND THEY DON'T NEED TO 43:39.433 --> 43:41.300 align:start HAVE A JOB, BUT THANKS, JOHN, 43:41.400 --> 43:43.400 align:start FOR ALLOWING ME TO EVENT. 43:43.500 --> 43:45.166 align:start GOOD FOR YOU AND BECAUSE OF 43:45.266 --> 43:46.466 align:start THAT, I GOT TO WORK FOR THE 43:46.600 --> 43:48.166 align:start GREAT MARTIN DUGGAN. 43:48.266 --> 43:50.633 align:start AND THAT DIDN'T WORK OUT FOR 43:50.733 --> 43:51.066 align:start YOU. 43:51.166 --> 43:52.033 align:start IT NEVER SEEMED TO -- 43:52.133 --> 43:55.166 align:start OH, HE WAS SO PROUD OF YOU. 43:55.266 --> 43:56.366 align:start BILL FROM BONNE TERRE. 43:56.500 --> 43:58.366 align:start HOW ARE YOU DOING, BILL? 43:58.500 --> 44:00.500 align:start Caller: WENDY, I ABSOLUTELY 44:00.600 --> 44:03.566 align:start LOVE YOU, BUT I DON'T LIKE WHAT 44:03.666 --> 44:07.300 align:start YOU SAID ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DON'T 44:07.400 --> 44:09.566 align:start LIKE THE RESULTS OF ELECTION 44:09.700 --> 44:15.166 align:start TRYING TOOVER -- TOOVER TURN IT 44:15.266 --> 44:16.033 align:start THROUGH INVESTIGATION. 44:16.166 --> 44:16.633 align:start INVESTIGATION ONLY GET PEOPLE'S 44:16.733 --> 44:18.200 align:start WHO HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES. 44:18.300 --> 44:22.766 align:start IF YOU DON'T CREDIT COMMIT A 44:23.066 --> 44:24.400 align:start CRIME, DON'T BE CONCERNED ABOUT 44:24.500 --> 44:25.333 align:start AN INVESTIGATION. 44:25.433 --> 44:27.066 align:start I THINK ANYBODY IN PUBLIC OFFICE 44:27.166 --> 44:28.500 align:start SHOULD FEAR BEING INVESTIGATED 44:28.600 --> 44:29.233 align:start TO DEATH BECAUSE THAT'S HOW 44:29.333 --> 44:31.033 align:start WE'RE GOING TO KEEP CROOKS OUT 44:31.133 --> 44:32.333 align:start OF PUBLIC OFFICE AND THE 44:32.433 --> 44:34.766 align:start RIDICULOUS NOTION THAT PEOPLE 44:35.100 --> 44:38.166 align:start WERE PUSHING ABOUT A PERJURY 44:38.266 --> 44:39.766 align:start TRAP, YOU KNOW WHAT? 44:40.066 --> 44:41.166 align:start PERJURY TRAPS CATCH LIARS. 44:41.266 --> 44:43.766 align:start YOU DON'T LIE, YOU DON'T GET 44:44.100 --> 44:44.266 align:start CAUGHT. 44:44.366 --> 44:44.566 align:start YEAH. 44:44.666 --> 44:48.033 align:start I AGREE THAT'S TRUE. 44:48.166 --> 44:49.166 align:start AND IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, 44:49.300 --> 44:50.766 align:start I'D LIKE TO EMPHASIZE, THERE IS 44:51.066 --> 44:52.766 align:start THE REAL APPEARANCE -- I DON'T 44:53.066 --> 44:54.100 align:start KNOW CRIMINAL, WE DON'T KNOW 44:54.200 --> 44:55.233 align:start WHERE IT'S GOING TO GO. 44:55.333 --> 44:55.766 align:start RIGHT. 44:56.066 --> 44:59.366 align:start BUT THE APPEARANCE OF THESE 44:59.500 --> 45:01.233 align:start OUTSIDE POLITICAL CONSULTANTS, 45:01.333 --> 45:06.566 align:start YOU KNOW, HAVING ENGAGED, YOU 45:06.666 --> 45:08.500 align:start KNOW, MEMBERS OF THE ATTORNEY 45:08.600 --> 45:10.200 align:start GENERAL'S PUBLICLY PAID STAFF, 45:10.300 --> 45:11.466 align:start IT'S REALLY A TROUBLING THING. 45:11.566 --> 45:13.766 align:start AND I THINK, AGAIN, I'LL 45:14.066 --> 45:14.666 align:start CONGRATULATE JAY ASHCROFT FOR 45:14.766 --> 45:15.600 align:start TAKING IT SERIOUSLY. 45:15.700 --> 45:17.700 align:start I DO THINK IT'S GOOD THAT IT'S 45:17.766 --> 45:20.033 align:start BIPARTISAN IN HOW IT'S BEING 45:20.166 --> 45:22.133 align:start APPROACHED, AND I'LL STICK TO 45:22.233 --> 45:23.433 align:start THAT. 45:23.533 --> 45:24.600 align:start I CAN TELL YOU KIT BOND, THERE 45:24.700 --> 45:25.266 align:start WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY 45:25.366 --> 45:26.133 align:start INVESTIGATION BECAUSE THERE WAS 45:26.233 --> 45:28.600 align:start A VERY -- AND I GET CRITICIZED 45:28.733 --> 45:30.500 align:start FOR POINTING OUT ALL THE TIME, 45:30.600 --> 45:31.600 align:start BUT THERE WAS A VERY FIRM LINE 45:31.700 --> 45:35.100 align:start THAT WASN'T CROSSED IN THE 45:35.200 --> 45:36.366 align:start GOVERNOR'S OFFICE IN -- WHEN KIT 45:36.466 --> 45:37.100 align:start BOND WAS GOVERNOR. 45:37.233 --> 45:38.666 align:start AND BILL, I THANK YOU FOR THE 45:38.766 --> 45:39.200 align:start LOVE. 45:39.300 --> 45:45.633 align:start I'M JUST SAYING THAT IN THESE 45:45.733 --> 45:50.433 align:start PARTISAN, I MEAN IN THESE HIGHLY 45:50.566 --> 45:53.166 align:start CHARGED TIMES, FOR CHRISTINE 45:53.300 --> 45:56.166 align:start HEISINGER TO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO 45:56.300 --> 45:58.166 align:start CLAIRE McCASKILL -- IF SHE WERE 45:58.266 --> 46:00.066 align:start JUST A DEMOCRAT, I WOULD SAY THE 46:00.200 --> 46:01.400 align:start OPTICS DON'T MATTER, BUT DOWN 46:01.500 --> 46:03.733 align:start THE ROAD, YOU DON'T WANT 46:04.033 --> 46:05.233 align:start ANYTHING TO JEOPARDIZE OR 46:05.333 --> 46:06.133 align:start DISCREDIT OR CALL INTO QUESTION 46:06.233 --> 46:08.366 align:start THE RESULTS OF WHAT SHE 46:08.500 --> 46:08.666 align:start UNEARTHS. 46:08.766 --> 46:09.633 align:start IT WON'T BE. 46:09.733 --> 46:11.333 align:start SHE REPORTS TO HER BOSS, THE 46:11.433 --> 46:11.633 align:start REPUBLICAN. 46:11.766 --> 46:12.633 align:start THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. 46:12.766 --> 46:14.166 align:start IT'S BEAUTIFUL THAT BOTH PARTIES 46:14.266 --> 46:15.666 align:start ARE INVOLVED TOGETHER IN THIS 46:15.766 --> 46:16.700 align:start INVESTIGATION. 46:17.000 --> 46:18.066 align:start THAT'S WHAT WE NEED. 46:18.166 --> 46:21.033 align:start SHE REPORTS TO JAY ASHCROFT. 46:21.133 --> 46:23.133 align:start ALL RIGHT, I GIVE UP, I CAN'T 46:23.233 --> 46:23.766 align:start WIN THE ARGUMENT. 46:24.100 --> 46:24.500 align:start WHO'S NEXT? 46:24.600 --> 46:25.766 align:start I GIVE UP. 46:26.066 --> 46:28.200 align:start LARRY IN SOUTH COUNTY. 46:28.300 --> 46:35.366 align:start HI, LARRY, WELCOME TO DONNYBROOK 46:35.466 --> 46:35.766 align:start YOUR TURN. 46:36.066 --> 46:37.433 align:start Caller: HI, GUYS. 46:37.533 --> 46:39.133 align:start MERRY CHRISTMAS TO BOTH OF YOU. 46:39.233 --> 46:40.500 align:start ON THIS CITY EARNINGS TAX THING, 46:40.600 --> 46:41.500 align:start YEARS AGO WE MOVED FROM THE CITY 46:41.633 --> 46:43.366 align:start TO THE COUNTY AND IT HAD MORE TO 46:43.466 --> 46:44.700 align:start DO WITH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. 46:45.000 --> 46:47.200 align:start WE THOUGHT THAT THE SCHOOLS WERE 46:47.300 --> 46:49.366 align:start BECOMING SUBPAR AND A LOT OF 46:49.466 --> 46:51.266 align:start PEOPLE WILL MOVE FOR THAT, BUT 46:51.366 --> 46:52.466 align:start THE CITY EARNINGS TAX WAS PART 46:52.566 --> 46:54.766 align:start OF IT, TOO. 46:55.100 --> 46:57.166 align:start WE MOVED TO SHREWSBURY AND, OF 46:57.266 --> 46:59.166 align:start COURSE, WE DIDN'T HAVE A CITY 46:59.300 --> 46:59.666 align:start EARNINGS TAX THERE. 46:59.766 --> 47:00.166 align:start RIGHT. 47:00.266 --> 47:00.566 align:start RIGHT. 47:00.700 --> 47:04.300 align:start I THINK THAT'S A FAIR POINT. 47:04.400 --> 47:05.733 align:start I THINK THERE'S DEFINITELY PROS 47:06.066 --> 47:06.300 align:start AND CONS. 47:06.400 --> 47:08.000 align:start YOU AGREE, LARRY, THAT THE FOLKS 47:08.100 --> 47:10.066 align:start IN THE CITY AT LEAST, VOTED 47:10.166 --> 47:11.100 align:start FAIRLY OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOR 47:11.200 --> 47:12.566 align:start OF IT AND YOU MAY HAVE VOTED 47:12.666 --> 47:15.333 align:start WITH YOUR FEET, I GET THAT, BUT 47:15.433 --> 47:16.333 align:start I'M JUST SAYING -- WHICH YOU 47:16.433 --> 47:18.366 align:start HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO, BUT IT WAS 47:18.466 --> 47:20.000 align:start A PRETTY CLEAR-CUT VOTE IN THE 47:20.133 --> 47:21.133 align:start CITY AND IN KANSAS CITY. 47:21.233 --> 47:23.266 align:start AND WE'VE BEEN DEBATING THIS 47:23.366 --> 47:29.466 align:start ISSUE FOR DECADES, HAVEN'T WE? 47:29.566 --> 47:30.600 align:start AND THIS WHOLE QUESTION COULDN'T 47:30.700 --> 47:34.566 align:start COME, I THINK, AT A WORST TIME 47:34.700 --> 47:38.633 align:start FOR THE CITY BECAUSE THE GAP 47:38.733 --> 47:42.066 align:start THAT WOULD BE LEFT IF WE HAD 47:42.166 --> 47:43.633 align:start THAT VACUUM WOULD BE -- WE'D BE 47:43.733 --> 47:45.200 align:start IN REAL TROUBLE. 47:45.333 --> 47:46.233 align:start LARRY, THANK YOU. 47:46.366 --> 47:47.733 align:start THANK YOU FOR THE CALL. 47:48.033 --> 47:49.733 align:start LET'S GO TO TOM IN JEFFERSON 47:50.033 --> 47:50.233 align:start COUNTY. 47:50.366 --> 47:52.300 align:start HI, TOM, YOU'RE ON DONNYBROOK, 47:52.400 --> 47:52.733 align:start YOUR TURN. 47:53.033 --> 47:54.266 align:start ARE YOU THERE, TOM? 47:54.400 --> 47:56.500 align:start SPEAK INTO THE PHONE AND NOT 47:56.600 --> 47:56.766 align:start THE -- 47:57.066 --> 47:57.533 align:start Caller: GOOD EVENING AND 47:57.633 --> 47:59.633 align:start MERRY CHRISTMAS. 47:59.733 --> 48:00.533 align:start YEAH, I'M HERE. 48:00.666 --> 48:01.700 align:start GOOD EVENING AND MERRY 48:02.033 --> 48:02.233 align:start CHRISTMAS. 48:02.333 --> 48:02.666 align:start MERRY CHRISTMAS. 48:02.766 --> 48:04.700 align:start WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND? 48:05.033 --> 48:06.300 align:start Caller: I'D LIKE TO CLARIFY 48:06.400 --> 48:07.300 align:start SOMETHING ON THE EARNINGS TAX. 48:07.433 --> 48:07.633 align:start GO AHEAD. 48:07.733 --> 48:11.600 align:start OKAY. 48:11.700 --> 48:14.600 align:start Caller: YOU DON'T HAVE TO -- 48:14.733 --> 48:16.600 align:start I DIDN'T LIVE IN THE CITY AND 48:16.733 --> 48:18.766 align:start WHEN I WORKED ON CONSTRUCTION OR 48:19.100 --> 48:20.600 align:start FOR AN OFFICE IN ST. LOUIS, WE 48:20.700 --> 48:23.100 align:start HAD TO PAY THE EARNINGS TAX AND 48:23.200 --> 48:25.233 align:start THERE'S NO WAY TO FILE TO GET 48:25.333 --> 48:26.333 align:start THAT MONEY BACK. 48:26.433 --> 48:28.400 align:start IT'S A LOT OF MONEY GOING TO THE 48:28.533 --> 48:28.700 align:start CITY. 48:29.000 --> 48:31.066 align:start THAT WAS THE IDEA, THAT WHILE 48:31.166 --> 48:32.100 align:start YOU WERE WORKING IN CONSTRUCTION 48:32.200 --> 48:34.566 align:start IN THE CITY, IF YOU NEEDED A 48:34.666 --> 48:35.500 align:start POLICEMAN OR A -- 48:35.600 --> 48:36.766 align:start OR A FIREFIGHTER. 48:37.100 --> 48:39.466 align:start OR A FIREFIGHTER OR A MEDIC 48:39.566 --> 48:42.700 align:start OR YOU NEEDED THE STREETS TO NOT 48:43.033 --> 48:44.666 align:start HAVE POTHOLES, YOU WERE -- THE 48:44.766 --> 48:46.466 align:start CITY WAS COVERING THAT COST FOR 48:46.600 --> 48:48.733 align:start YOU AS THEY DO FOR US WHEN WE 48:49.066 --> 48:51.400 align:start COME TO THE COUNTY TO CHANNEL 9. 48:51.500 --> 48:53.333 align:start THAT'S THE THEORY AT LEAST. 48:53.433 --> 48:55.400 align:start THAT MAKE SENSE? 48:55.500 --> 48:56.533 align:start Caller: HOW MUCH -- I DON'T 48:56.633 --> 48:57.033 align:start KNOW. 48:57.133 --> 48:58.600 align:start I'M ASKING A QUESTION. 48:58.700 --> 48:59.766 align:start HOW MUCH REVENUE DOES THAT BRING 49:00.066 --> 49:01.266 align:start INTO THE CITY EACH YEAR? 49:01.366 --> 49:03.333 align:start I SHOULD KNOW THAT AND I 49:03.433 --> 49:03.766 align:start DON'T REMEMBER THAT. 49:04.100 --> 49:05.633 align:start 100 -- IT'S AT LEAST -- 49:05.733 --> 49:08.033 align:start IT'S A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER. 49:08.133 --> 49:10.666 align:start IT'S 100-PLUS MILLION. 49:10.766 --> 49:11.366 align:start 100-PLUS MILLION DOLLARS. 49:11.466 --> 49:12.466 align:start A SIGNIFICANT SOURCE OF 49:12.566 --> 49:13.133 align:start REVENUE FOR THE CITY. 49:13.233 --> 49:15.366 align:start I THINK IT'S A THIRD OF THE 49:15.466 --> 49:17.600 align:start OPERATING -- 30%, I APOLOGIZE, I 49:17.700 --> 49:20.400 align:start THINK IT'S ROUGHLY 30% OF THE 49:20.500 --> 49:21.400 align:start OPERATING BUDGET. 49:21.500 --> 49:22.666 align:start AND IT FOLLOWS CITY RESIDENTS 49:22.766 --> 49:24.066 align:start IF THEY WORK IN THE COUNTY AND 49:24.166 --> 49:25.700 align:start THAT'S THE -- IN A PERFECT 49:26.000 --> 49:30.133 align:start WORLD, MAYBE EVERYBODY WOULD 49:30.233 --> 49:33.633 align:start HAVE THE EARNINGS TACT AND IT 49:33.766 --> 49:36.400 align:start WOULDN'T IMPEDIMENT TO THE CITY, 49:36.533 --> 49:38.500 align:start BUT WE HAD AN ELECTION AND THE 49:38.600 --> 49:40.400 align:start POINT IS EVERY FIVE YEARS, 49:40.500 --> 49:41.400 align:start UNFORTUNATELY, THE VOTERS HAVE 49:41.533 --> 49:44.766 align:start TO REDECIDE THIS POINT AND FOR A 49:45.066 --> 49:47.433 align:start STATE SENATOR FROM ANYWHERE 49:47.533 --> 49:49.033 align:start OUTSIDE OF THE CITY TO BE TRYING 49:49.166 --> 49:52.600 align:start TO FOIST THIS ON PEOPLE IS JUST 49:52.700 --> 49:53.300 align:start AWFUL. 49:53.400 --> 49:54.733 align:start WE'VE ALREADY HAD THE VOTE. 49:55.066 --> 49:56.633 align:start TO ALVIN'S SUGGESTION THAT 49:56.733 --> 50:01.633 align:start THIS HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH A 50:01.766 --> 50:02.633 align:start BETTER TOGETHER TYPE OF SCENARIO 50:02.766 --> 50:03.566 align:start AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE 50:03.666 --> 50:05.233 align:start CITY AND THE COUNTY, THAT'S 50:05.366 --> 50:06.366 align:start GOING TO BE REALLY INTERESTING 50:06.500 --> 50:08.033 align:start TO WATCH. 50:08.133 --> 50:09.500 align:start THE CONCEPT IS VERY 50:09.600 --> 50:10.033 align:start TROUBLESOME. 50:10.133 --> 50:10.666 align:start YES, TOM, THANK YOU. 50:10.766 --> 50:13.200 align:start LET'S GO TO CAROLYN FROM 50:13.300 --> 50:13.700 align:start BELLEVILLE. 50:14.000 --> 50:16.200 align:start HI, CAROLYN. 50:16.300 --> 50:17.266 align:start Caller: HI. 50:17.366 --> 50:18.333 align:start HOW ARE YOU? 50:18.433 --> 50:22.400 align:start Caller: I'M FINE, THANK YOU. 50:22.500 --> 50:24.533 align:start I'M CALLING REGARDING THE LADUE 50:24.633 --> 50:27.600 align:start STUDENT MAKING THE SIGN. 50:27.733 --> 50:28.733 align:start I DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS IN HIS 50:29.066 --> 50:29.200 align:start HEART. 50:29.300 --> 50:31.233 align:start MAYBE IT WAS HARMLESS OR MAYBE 50:31.333 --> 50:32.500 align:start IT'S A PART OF A SUBCULTURE 50:32.633 --> 50:36.666 align:start THAT'S A RESULT OF THE PRESIDENT 50:36.766 --> 50:37.500 align:start THAT WE HAVE. 50:37.633 --> 50:39.133 align:start THE PRESIDENT CALLED HIMSELF A 50:39.233 --> 50:39.466 align:start NATIONALIST. 50:39.566 --> 50:40.600 align:start HE'S A WHITE NATIONALIST. 50:40.700 --> 50:42.400 align:start AS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN, WHEN I 50:42.500 --> 50:43.733 align:start HEAR WHITE NATIONALIST, I THINK 50:44.033 --> 50:47.500 align:start OF KKK AND NEO NAZI. 50:47.600 --> 50:50.600 align:start I THINK THE CLIMATE HAS BECOME 50:50.700 --> 50:53.100 align:start UNHEALTHY, ESPECIALLY SINCE HE 50:53.200 --> 50:54.233 align:start BECAME PRESIDENT. 50:54.333 --> 50:56.166 align:start I THINK THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP 50:56.266 --> 50:58.700 align:start APPEALS TO PEOPLE'S FEAR AND 50:58.766 --> 50:59.733 align:start IGNORANCE, AND I THINK THAT'S 51:00.033 --> 51:00.566 align:start WHAT'S GOING ON. 51:00.666 --> 51:02.600 align:start THAT'S THE WAY I FEEL ABOUT IT. 51:02.733 --> 51:03.466 align:start THANK YOU. 51:03.600 --> 51:05.433 align:start OKAY. 51:05.533 --> 51:06.166 align:start THANK YOU. 51:06.266 --> 51:09.100 align:start IT IS REALLY HARD FOR ME TO 51:09.233 --> 51:10.766 align:start BELIEVE, BECAUSE THIS PRESIDENT 51:11.066 --> 51:13.166 align:start LITERALLY SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE 51:13.266 --> 51:15.600 align:start FOOT ON AN HOURLY BASIS, IT'S 51:15.700 --> 51:18.233 align:start VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO BELIEVE 51:18.333 --> 51:20.166 align:start THAT WHEN HE SAID THAT HE WAS -- 51:20.266 --> 51:23.566 align:start WHEN HE CALLED HIMSELF A 51:23.700 --> 51:25.433 align:start NATIONALIST, THAT HE UNDERSTOOD 51:25.533 --> 51:27.200 align:start THE IMPLICATIONS OF THAT ANY 51:27.300 --> 51:31.066 align:start MORE THAN HE UNDERSTANDS THE 51:31.166 --> 51:34.233 align:start IMPLICATIONS OF 10 OUT OF 20 OF 51:34.333 --> 51:36.333 align:start HIS TWEETS DURING THE DAY. 51:36.433 --> 51:38.466 align:start BUT I -- AND I RESPECT WHAT 51:38.566 --> 51:42.233 align:start YOU'RE SAYING, CAROLYN, AND -- 51:42.333 --> 51:44.200 align:start WE'LL KEEP IT LOW CUT. 51:44.300 --> 51:46.100 align:start I DO AGREE WITH CAROLYN, BUT I 51:46.200 --> 51:47.533 align:start WILL SAY IN THE CASE OF THIS, 51:47.633 --> 51:48.733 align:start I'M NOT CONVINCED THAT THIS 51:49.033 --> 51:50.733 align:start PARTICULAR INSTANCE IN LADUE WAS 51:51.033 --> 51:53.266 align:start A CASE OF THE KID DOING A 51:53.366 --> 51:53.666 align:start NATIONALIST SIGN. 51:53.766 --> 51:55.066 align:start I DON'T KNOW. 51:55.166 --> 51:57.666 align:start AND AS I SAY, I -- IT WAS AN 51:57.766 --> 51:59.166 align:start INTERESTING CONVERSATION WITH 51:59.300 --> 52:01.266 align:start BILL AND CHARLIE ABOUT HOW IT 52:01.366 --> 52:02.166 align:start SHOULD BE COVERED AND THAT'S 52:02.300 --> 52:03.300 align:start REALLY WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT, BUT 52:03.433 --> 52:04.666 align:start I AGREE WITH CAROLYN IN GENERAL 52:04.766 --> 52:07.000 align:start ABOUT THE SENTIMENT ABOUT THE 52:07.100 --> 52:08.166 align:start PRESIDENT, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT 52:08.266 --> 52:10.666 align:start IT'S FAIR TO NECESSARILY -- I 52:10.766 --> 52:12.300 align:start JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AT 52:12.400 --> 52:13.300 align:start LADUE, IF ANYTHING. 52:13.400 --> 52:13.633 align:start WE'LL SEE. 52:13.766 --> 52:15.566 align:start THANK YOU FOR CALLING, 52:15.666 --> 52:16.066 align:start CAROLYN. 52:16.166 --> 52:18.233 align:start THANK YOU FOR THE CALL. 52:18.333 --> 52:22.200 align:start LET'S GO TO TERRY FROM O'FALLON, 52:22.300 --> 52:22.700 align:start ILLINOIS. 52:23.000 --> 52:23.466 align:start HI, TERRY. 52:23.566 --> 52:24.166 align:start Caller: HELLO. 52:24.266 --> 52:24.766 align:start YOU'RE ON THE AIR. 52:25.100 --> 52:25.666 align:start Caller: GOOD. 52:25.766 --> 52:27.300 align:start I HAVE TWO THINGS THAT I'D LIKE 52:27.400 --> 52:30.266 align:start TO DISCUSS A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT. 52:30.366 --> 52:37.133 align:start THE FIRST ONE IS THE GSA SITE, I 52:37.233 --> 52:38.700 align:start BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, THE 52:38.766 --> 52:40.466 align:start GEOSPATIAL -- I THINK THAT'S 52:40.600 --> 52:42.466 align:start PROBABLY THE BIGGEST WASTE OF 52:42.600 --> 52:45.433 align:start TAXPAYER MONEY THAT THE 52:45.533 --> 52:48.166 align:start ST. LOUIS REGION HAS SEEN SINCE 52:48.266 --> 52:50.000 align:start PRUITT IGO. 52:50.100 --> 52:53.066 align:start THEY COULD HAVE BUILT THAT ON 52:53.166 --> 52:54.766 align:start THE SITE FREE OF CHARGE FOR THE 52:55.066 --> 52:55.766 align:start LAND AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN 52:56.100 --> 52:57.166 align:start RIGHT THERE WHERE A VAST 52:57.266 --> 52:59.266 align:start MAJORITY OF THEIR WORK CAME FROM 52:59.400 --> 53:00.600 align:start WITHOUT HAVING TO RUN NEW 53:00.700 --> 53:02.266 align:start COMMUNICATIONS LINES ACROSS THE 53:02.366 --> 53:02.500 align:start RIVER. 53:02.600 --> 53:05.433 align:start OKAY, RIGHT. 53:05.566 --> 53:06.533 align:start Caller: THAT'S ABOUT ALL I 53:06.633 --> 53:08.500 align:start WANT TO SAY ABOUT THAT ONE. 53:08.600 --> 53:11.066 align:start HOWEVER, ON THE KID WITH THE 53:11.166 --> 53:17.400 align:start OKAY SIGN SUPPOSEDLY, MAYBE A 53:17.500 --> 53:20.566 align:start LITTLE HUMOR HERE. 53:20.666 --> 53:24.000 align:start IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE SHOW 53:24.100 --> 53:27.133 align:start SEINFELD, THERE WAS AN EPISODE 53:27.233 --> 53:28.466 align:start WHERE KRAMER GOT MIXED UP WITH 53:28.566 --> 53:30.266 align:start THE VAN BUREN GANG AND THEY HAD 53:30.400 --> 53:33.200 align:start A SIGN VERY SIMILAR TO THAT. 53:33.300 --> 53:36.666 align:start MAYBE THAT'S WHAT HE WAS GIVING. 53:36.766 --> 53:38.033 align:start I DON'T KNOW. 53:38.133 --> 53:40.400 align:start KRAMER HAD HIS OWN PROBLEMS. 53:40.500 --> 53:41.533 align:start I GET YOUR POINT. 53:41.633 --> 53:44.200 align:start YOU'RE IN ST. CLAIR COUNTY, 53:44.300 --> 53:44.466 align:start CORRECT? 53:44.566 --> 53:47.266 align:start Caller: CORRECT. 53:47.366 --> 53:49.466 align:start AND LET ME ASK YOU THIS. 53:49.566 --> 53:51.266 align:start IF YOU'RE OUT OF TOWN AND 53:51.366 --> 53:52.600 align:start SOMEBODY SAYS WHERE ARE YOU 53:52.700 --> 53:55.433 align:start FROM, WHAT'S YOUR ANSWER? 53:55.533 --> 53:57.366 align:start Caller: I'M FROM O'FALLON? 53:57.466 --> 53:59.166 align:start YOU DON'T SAY ST. LOUIS? 53:59.266 --> 54:00.566 align:start THAT WAS THE POINT I WAS 54:00.666 --> 54:01.033 align:start MAKING. 54:01.133 --> 54:03.333 align:start I THINK THE CITY WAS 54:03.433 --> 54:03.666 align:start PERFECTLY -- 54:03.766 --> 54:05.133 align:start WITHIN ITS RIGHTS. 54:05.233 --> 54:06.733 align:start DID THE RIGHT THING TO KEEP 54:07.033 --> 54:09.766 align:start THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE 54:10.100 --> 54:12.333 align:start LARGE OPERATION HERE, AND HAVING 54:12.433 --> 54:13.433 align:start SAID THAT, I ALSO TRY TO MAKE 54:13.566 --> 54:15.066 align:start THE POINT THAT I THINK YOU'RE AS 54:15.166 --> 54:16.300 align:start MUCH A PART OF ST. LOUIS AS 54:16.400 --> 54:18.333 align:start ST. LOUIS IS, BUT APPARENTLY YOU 54:18.433 --> 54:19.766 align:start DON'T REALLY LOOK AT -- YOU LOOK 54:20.066 --> 54:21.166 align:start AT YOURSELF AS NOT FROM 54:21.266 --> 54:24.133 align:start ST. LOUIS, IS THAT CORRECT? 54:24.233 --> 54:25.200 align:start Caller: WELL, I HAVE FAMILY 54:25.333 --> 54:27.266 align:start ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER AND 54:27.366 --> 54:29.500 align:start WE'VE HAD FAMILY ON BOTH SIDES 54:29.600 --> 54:32.333 align:start OF THE RIVER FOR MANY YEARS. 54:32.433 --> 54:34.400 align:start BUT IF THE CARDINALS -- 54:34.533 --> 54:36.066 align:start IN THE CARDINALS WERE IN THE 54:36.166 --> 54:40.166 align:start WORLD SERIES, WHERE ARE YOU 54:40.266 --> 54:40.400 align:start FROM? 54:40.533 --> 54:42.333 align:start ST. LOUIS! 54:42.433 --> 54:45.166 align:start Caller: OH, I'M MORE OR LESS 54:45.266 --> 54:46.433 align:start A RACING ENTHUSIAST. 54:46.533 --> 54:48.100 align:start HOWEVER, I PAY ATTENTION TO THE 54:48.200 --> 54:48.633 align:start CARDINALS IN THE PLAYOFFS. 54:48.733 --> 54:49.666 align:start OF COURSE, YOU DO. 54:49.766 --> 54:51.200 align:start THAT'S FINE, WE'RE ALL ONE 54:51.300 --> 54:52.200 align:start COMMUNITY HERE, BUT THANKS FOR 54:52.300 --> 54:53.333 align:start THE CALL, TERRY. 54:53.433 --> 54:54.633 align:start THANK YOU, TERRY. 54:54.733 --> 54:56.200 align:start THANKS TO ALL OUR VIEWERS ON 54:56.300 --> 54:58.033 align:start BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER. 54:58.133 --> 54:59.700 align:start LET'S GO TO BRIAN WHO'S IN SOUTH 55:00.000 --> 55:01.233 align:start COUNTY, WHICH I THINK IS PART OF 55:01.366 --> 55:01.566 align:start ST. LOUIS. 55:01.666 --> 55:03.300 align:start I THINK IT IS, UNLESS THERE'S 55:03.400 --> 55:05.366 align:start BEEN AN EARTHQUAKE. 55:05.466 --> 55:06.366 align:start HI, BRIAN. 55:06.500 --> 55:09.400 align:start Caller: IT IS A PART OF 55:09.500 --> 55:11.300 align:start ST. LOUIS AND AS A COUNTY 55:11.400 --> 55:12.666 align:start RESIDENT, THERE'S A LOT OF 55:12.766 --> 55:14.700 align:start REASONS WHY I DON'T LIVE IN THE 55:15.033 --> 55:18.566 align:start CITY, BUT I SUPPORT THE CITY 55:18.700 --> 55:21.166 align:start 100% AND YOU -- I'M FOR THE 55:21.300 --> 55:21.533 align:start EARNINGS TAX. 55:21.633 --> 55:25.100 align:start I WORK TWO PART-TIME JOBS IN THE 55:25.200 --> 55:27.066 align:start CITY AND I'M SURPRISED NO ONE 55:27.200 --> 55:28.300 align:start HAS USED THIS TERM. 55:28.400 --> 55:30.066 align:start IT'S A NECESSARY EVIL. 55:30.166 --> 55:32.733 align:start IT'S A THIRD OF THE CITY'S 55:33.033 --> 55:37.100 align:start BUDGET AND IF YOU SLASH A THIRD 55:37.233 --> 55:41.366 align:start OF THE CITY'S BUDGET, THE CITY 55:41.466 --> 55:43.233 align:start IS GOING TO GO DOWN THE TUBES 55:43.333 --> 55:44.533 align:start AND WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE CITY IS 55:44.666 --> 55:45.700 align:start GOOD FOR THE REGION AS A WHOLE. 55:46.000 --> 55:46.366 align:start THANK YOU. 55:46.466 --> 55:47.500 align:start Caller: I LIVE IN SOUTH 55:47.600 --> 55:49.366 align:start COUNTY AND IT'S NOT EXACTLY 55:49.466 --> 55:49.666 align:start THRIVING. 55:49.766 --> 55:51.300 align:start IF THE CITY WERE THRIVING MORE, 55:51.400 --> 55:52.533 align:start THE REGION WOULD BE THRIVING 55:52.633 --> 55:52.766 align:start MORE. 55:53.066 --> 55:58.266 align:start THE CITY IS THE HEART OF THE 55:58.366 --> 55:59.333 align:start REGION WHETHER YOU WANT TO 55:59.466 --> 56:00.700 align:start ACKNOWLEDGE IT OR NOT AND THE 56:01.000 --> 56:01.733 align:start ONE PERCENT EARNINGS TAX, WHILE 56:02.066 --> 56:04.066 align:start I DON'T LIKE IT COMING OUT OF MY 56:04.166 --> 56:04.700 align:start PAYCHECK, IT IS A NECESSARY 56:05.000 --> 56:05.133 align:start EVIL. 56:05.233 --> 56:06.666 align:start WELL SAID. 56:06.766 --> 56:08.366 align:start WELL SAID, BRIAN. 56:08.466 --> 56:10.466 align:start DO WE HAVE TIME FOR ONE MORE 56:10.566 --> 56:10.733 align:start CALLER? 56:11.033 --> 56:13.066 align:start WE HAVE TO BE REALLY QUICK, BOB 56:13.166 --> 56:13.633 align:start FROM ST. LOUIS. 56:13.766 --> 56:15.200 align:start YOU HAVE ABOUT 15 SECONDS. 56:15.300 --> 56:17.266 align:start Caller: HEY, THIS IS BOB. 56:17.400 --> 56:18.666 align:start HOW YOU GUYS DOING? 56:18.766 --> 56:19.566 align:start YOU LOOK UP THERE. 56:19.666 --> 56:23.600 align:start I NECESSITY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 56:23.700 --> 56:25.266 align:start TSH NOTICE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 56:25.366 --> 56:25.700 align:start THE TAX. 56:25.766 --> 56:27.033 align:start REALLY QUICK, BOB. 56:27.133 --> 56:29.300 align:start WE'RE ABOUT OUT OF TIME. 56:29.433 --> 56:30.666 align:start Caller: MY THING WAS, OKAY, 56:30.766 --> 56:32.400 align:start IF YOU'RE GOING TO TAX, FINE. 56:32.500 --> 56:33.400 align:start YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT 56:33.500 --> 56:34.300 align:start POTHOLES AND EVERYTHING. 56:34.400 --> 56:35.700 align:start I HAVEN'T LIVED HERE THIS LORNG, 56:36.000 --> 56:37.233 align:start BUT I NOTICE WHEN IT RAINS, YOU 56:37.333 --> 56:38.466 align:start CAN'T SEE THE ROADS. 56:38.600 --> 56:40.133 align:start MAYBE THEY COULD THROW SOME OF 56:40.233 --> 56:41.433 align:start THAT INTO PAINT. 56:41.533 --> 56:45.733 align:start YOU CAN'T SEE LINES AND THEN THE 56:46.033 --> 56:48.600 align:start POTHOLES ARE THERE. 56:48.700 --> 56:50.000 align:start WE'RE OUT OF TIME. 56:50.133 --> 56:51.666 align:start WE WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU 56:51.766 --> 56:53.400 align:start ACROSS OUR REGION FOR SUPPORTING 56:53.500 --> 56:55.500 align:start CHANNEL 9 AND WATCHING US AND 56:55.600 --> 56:56.766 align:start WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT 56:57.100 --> 56:57.466 align:start THURSDAY NIGHT. 56:57.566 --> 56:58.600 align:start YES, WE WILL. 56:58.700 --> 57:01.033 align:start HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.