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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm well. Goodness.

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Speaker 1: Anyways, he's not doing well with the courts at the moment,

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Speaker 1: Old Trumpy.

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Speaker 2: Is he No, he's not doing well at all in

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Speaker 2: terms of court victories. And also he's about to return,

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Speaker 2: as you've been saying to the spotlight after what is

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Speaker 2: it six days when he made no public appearances, leading

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Speaker 2: to all sorts of speculation about his health. He posted

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Speaker 2: on social media that he has never felt better, but

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Speaker 2: in recent photos doesn't look at his best. His appearance

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Speaker 2: now also comes after yet another federal judge ruled against

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Speaker 2: his deployment of military troops, specifically to Los Angeles back

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Speaker 2: in June. The judges ruling his blistering opinion, which could

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Speaker 2: have significant implications for the prison's future plans If this

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Speaker 2: holds up. The Trump Justice Department says it will appeal

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Speaker 2: this latest court decision. Hundreds of troops now are on

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Speaker 2: patrol in Washington, d C. About three hundred of main

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Speaker 2: on the streets of LA. Thousands more could be deployed

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Speaker 2: to Chicago, and perhaps into the future, to New York

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Speaker 2: and other democratic run cities. There is a nineteenth century

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Speaker 2: statute that bars US soldiers from applying civilian laws in

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Speaker 2: all but the most extreme circumstances. That's what Trump has

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Speaker 2: been arguing. But the judge, Charles Bryan in this instance

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Speaker 2: is asked, quote, what is a threat today? What are

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Speaker 2: the limits on the use of a federal force under

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Speaker 2: the orders of a president? So this is an ongoing standoff.

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Speaker 1: Yes it is. And then we've got Congress coming back

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Speaker 1: from summer.

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Speaker 2: Yeap recess is over. They're back in town after the

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Speaker 2: holiday break. They have just four weeks to pass the

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Speaker 2: legislation to fund the government and avoid to shut down.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, oh boy, talk about old students. Right, it's

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Speaker 2: the continuing face off. It won't be simple. The Speaker has,

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Speaker 2: as we know, a raise, a thin majority, and the

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Speaker 2: Dems are fired up. Also, this is the break of

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Speaker 2: the speaker. Mike Johnson ordered them to take early because

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Speaker 2: of the uproar on his own Republican Party ranks over

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Speaker 2: the Epstein pedophile pedophile case. If we thought this was over, no,

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Speaker 2: there was a claim of course for the release of

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Speaker 2: information on any Epstein list, in any and all material

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Speaker 2: about this individual who spent so much time with the

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Speaker 2: rich and famous, including Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew

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Speaker 2: and many others, and about his infamous islands nicknamed Augie Island,

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Speaker 2: where young girls, often schoolgirls, were taken. Two congress members,

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Speaker 2: Republican Thomas Massey and Democrat Roe Canna, have been pressing

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Speaker 2: for the release of all this material, while others have

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Speaker 2: been trying to conceal the story. We had Trump's former

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Speaker 2: criminal Lloyd Didn't we Todd Blanche flying off to Florida

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Speaker 2: to speak with Epstein's convicted sex trafficking partner, Selene Maxwell,

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Speaker 2: who was seeking the pardon, and claimed that Trump was

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Speaker 2: a gentleman, never did anything inappropriate. So some of the

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Speaker 2: victims call this an outrage and a cover up and

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Speaker 2: say they have not been heard. So now a number

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Speaker 2: of them have just arrived in Washington, d C. Where

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Speaker 2: Roe Canna says they will take part in a news

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Speaker 2: conference at the US Capital tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: He says, what will be explosive is the press conference

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Speaker 3: that both of us are having with ten Epstein victims,

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Speaker 3: many who have never spoken out before. They're going to

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Speaker 3: be on the steps of the Capitol. They will be

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Speaker 3: telling their story and there'll be saying clearly to the

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Speaker 3: American public that they want the release of the Epstein files.

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Speaker 2: However, Speaker Johnson is trying to block this and is

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Speaker 2: calling for the House Oversight Committee to investigate further. So

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Speaker 2: it is a bid to delay delay, delay, delay. And

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Speaker 2: speaking of delays, we just now have the President speaking

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Speaker 2: that he is talking about his move to shift the

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Speaker 2: US Space Command the Missile Defense Headquarters from Colorado Springs

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Speaker 2: to Huntsville and Alabama. Critics are saying that would create

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Speaker 2: new problems at a point when, as we've been seeing

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Speaker 2: in recent days, foreign adversaries like China, Iran, and Russia

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Speaker 2: are increasingly assertive. It will be interesting to see whether

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Speaker 2: President Trump takes questions as he makes this announcement.

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Speaker 1: Now, I appreciate it. We'll see you in a couple

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Speaker 1: of those, Richard Donald state. So let's just listen the briefly.

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Speaker 4: Importantly, this decision will help America defend and dominate the

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Speaker 4: high Frontier, as.

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Speaker 1: They call it.

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Speaker 4: I want to thank Secretary Pete Hegseth. He's doing a

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Speaker 4: fantastic job. And Secretary of the Air Force make Troy,

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Speaker 4: thank you very much. Great job you're doing, Troy. This

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Speaker 4: is such a big deal. This is one that.

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Speaker 1: Everybody will hear and give a number of topics the

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Speaker 1: takeout so far, he's going to rename Huntsville Rocket City,

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Speaker 1: which I guess is possible. He's surrounded by a large

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Speaker 1: coterie of people. He looks fine for what I count see,

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Speaker 1: and he's bruising his cankles a cupboard, so for now

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Speaker 1: he seems okay.

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