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Speaker 1: To America. Richard Arnold, good morning. What do you make

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Speaker 1: So the House is closing August, Well, it was supposed

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Speaker 1: to be August, but the closing a bit early.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, nothing for US politicians to be doing

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Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. Apparently so. Yeah, House Speaker Mike

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Speaker 2: Johnson is sending him home early for their summer holidays here.

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Speaker 2: That means they will avoid any vote on releasing the

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Speaker 2: full files over the Jeffrey Epstein pedophilia case. As President

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Speaker 2: Trump is still seething, it appears, over the growing mega

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Speaker 2: backlash concerning the case. Republican Thomas Massey said he would

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Speaker 2: join with Democrats of force a vote on releasing those

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Speaker 2: files dealing with the crimes of Epstein, whom Trump one

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Speaker 2: labeled they quote unquote terrific person. Trump and Epstein because

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Speaker 2: took part in the early nineties in a so called

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Speaker 2: Calendar girl party for young women hosted at Marilago. They

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Speaker 2: were the only males at the event. It seems Epstein's

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Speaker 2: ex girlfriend, Stacy Williams, says Epstein and Trump were quote

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Speaker 2: unquote best friends and again quote up to no good.

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Speaker 2: The White House denies her accusations, including her claim that

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Speaker 2: she was physically abused by Trump at the White House

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Speaker 2: a short tobago, Trump was questioned about the Epstein files

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Speaker 2: once more, and about a new move to have a

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Speaker 2: former Trump lawyer interview Jelaine Maxwell, the former Epstein associate

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Speaker 2: now serving a twenty year jail term. Over all of

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Speaker 2: this Epstein Epstein, I don't know anything about any of that,

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Speaker 2: says the President. Here's how he responded when he was

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Speaker 2: pressed about this Sydney the Oval Office. I don't know

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Speaker 2: about it, but I think it's something that would be

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Speaker 2: sounds appropriate to do.

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Speaker 1: You generalist your former attorney.

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Speaker 2: No, I have no concern that he's very he's a

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Speaker 2: very talented person.

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Speaker 1: He's very smart.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that they were going to do it.

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Speaker 2: I don't really follow that too much. Yeah, don't follow

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Speaker 2: that stuff, says trub who has been notably signed for

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Speaker 2: the past couple of days. As the White House floods

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Speaker 2: the zone, as they like to put it, they called

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Speaker 2: for release of the files, not the Epstein files, but

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Speaker 2: the Martin Luther king Or files, and then some more files,

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Speaker 2: not the Epstein files, but the Hillary Clinton email service files.

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Speaker 2: Trump suggested he might intervene over the renaming of the

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Speaker 2: Washington Redskins as the commanders to do away with the

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Speaker 2: old racist team name more diversions. Speaker Johnson says the

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Speaker 2: whole issue should be allowed to cool down.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to play political games with this. We've

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Speaker 1: all been very clear and transparent.

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Speaker 2: That is not the view of most of the Mega faithful,

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Speaker 2: of course. Republican active ast Mantrie Taylor Green says, quote,

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Speaker 2: if there is no justice and no accountability, people are

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Speaker 2: going to get sick of it. That's where people largely

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Speaker 2: are end quote. Trump also accused former President Obama of

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Speaker 2: treason during his over off's appearance this day, without giving

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Speaker 2: any details. Seem to be referring to a move years

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Speaker 2: ago by Obama to okay an inquiry into an intelligence

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Speaker 2: assessment of Russia's election interference, and so flooding the zone again,

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Speaker 2: putting up so many issues at fuel the mega base

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Speaker 2: in hopes that mega supporters of Trump will reach their own,

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Speaker 2: well his own stance. Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 1: Epstein, who then we come to well related matters. Colbert

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Speaker 1: was back for Monday.

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Speaker 2: That's right. In just about every US televis comedian and

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Speaker 2: many others turned up on the CBS Late Show set

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Speaker 2: with Stephen Colber last night. This was his first show

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Speaker 2: since CBS announced they were ending Late Night after decades.

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Speaker 2: They say the reason was financial, had nothing to do

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Speaker 2: with the way Coldber had been slamming his own network

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Speaker 2: for agreen to pay sixteen million dollars us to Trump

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Speaker 2: to settle that lawsuit with the network's legendary sixty minutes

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Speaker 2: news show. Trump had sued them, claiming they misleadingly edited

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Speaker 2: an interview with Kamala Harris during the elections. Most analysts

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Speaker 2: say they saw the lawsuit as bogus. The CBS parents

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Speaker 2: Paramount is in merger talks with sky Dance, and Paramount's

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Speaker 2: boss favored the Trump payout in order to overcome Trump

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Speaker 2: administration regulatory hurdles. Colbert called the payout a quote big

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Speaker 2: fat bribe. That's the backdrop to last night, where Colbert

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Speaker 2: Colbert was back in the spotlight saying this, I can.

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Speaker 1: Finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I

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Speaker 1: really think about Donald Trump, starting right now.

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Speaker 2: I don't care for him. Comedians Jimmy Kibble, Jimmy Fallon,

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Speaker 2: John Stewart, along with musicians in Manuel Miranda and others

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Speaker 2: including Anderson, Cooper and he Cohen many others did cameos

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Speaker 2: for the show last night, which continues till May of

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Speaker 2: next year. Stuart, who used to work with Colbert on

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Speaker 2: The Daily Show, did a profanity lton rant on his

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Speaker 2: program last night. Here is just a little part of

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Speaker 2: that institutions that have chosen not to fight the vengeful

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Speaker 2: and vidictive actions of our pubic hair doodling Commander and ship.

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Speaker 2: This is not the moment to give in.

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Speaker 1: I'm not giving in. I'm not going anywhere.

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Speaker 2: I think there was lots of abusive language. Can't run

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Speaker 2: most of it, Mike, but cannot recall anything like this

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Speaker 2: on American television in the modern era.

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Speaker 1: Might seen a couple of days Richard on Steatetside. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, they booted the Willswich Journal because of

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Speaker 1: the Epstein slash Rupert Murdoch lawsuit. They booted the Wall

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Speaker 1: Street Journal off the press pool when it comes to

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Speaker 1: the upcoming trip to Scotland for Trump. So it was

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Speaker 1: who was the first run account, who was an AP

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Speaker 1: or ruters? Whoever it was, it's now the Wall Street Journal.

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