Okay, it sounds like we are ready to go.

So thank you all for being here.

Governor, great to see you again.

Thank you.

Nice to be here. This is the great governor of the state of Ohio.

Let me start, let's just get right into this.

So one of the big political things

that's happened over the last five or six or seven years

is that we have this crop of Midwestern Republican governors yourself and in my home state of

Illinois where we've got Bruce Rauner and Mike Pence in Indiana and Michigan and Pennsylvania.

And it appears to me as I look at the evidence

that there's a Midwest comeback in this country

that we used to consider states like Ohio

the kind of brush belt of America.

Flyover country. So tell me what's going on in Ohio. kind of a kind of rust belt of America. Fly over.

So tell me what's going on in Ohio, I mean, is this something, do you, are you bullish on not just

your state, but the whole region of the Midwest?

And what's happening?

I don't know enough about all the other states, but as far as Ohio, you know, it's interesting.

I was in Washington.

I was the Budget Committee Chairman when we balanced the budget and when we did that I was the chief

architect of the one of the chief architects of that one of the things we did is we cut the

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