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Speaker 1: It' st outside. Richard Arnold, good morning, Hey Mike. So

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Speaker 1: dogget I'd never heard of but he wants them gone.

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Speaker 1: It's all on, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett has become the first in his

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Speaker 2: party to openly call for Joe Biden to step down

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Speaker 2: as president. Other people are muttering things in private, but

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Speaker 2: he has gone public. He says Biden should quote make

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Speaker 2: the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. That is echoed

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Speaker 2: pretty much by Democrat Might Quickly of Illinois, who said

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Speaker 2: this in an interview a short time ago.

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Speaker 3: He has to be honest with himself. This is a

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Speaker 3: decision he's going to have to make. His decision not

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Speaker 3: only impacts who's going to serve in the White House

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Speaker 3: the next four years, but who's going to serve in

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Speaker 3: the Senate, who's going to serve in the House, and

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Speaker 3: or have implications for decades to come.

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Speaker 2: Democratic governors are asking for a meeting at the White

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Speaker 2: House after Biden's disasked for US debate performance. That meeting

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Speaker 2: could happen as soon as tomorrow. A new poll is

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Speaker 2: just out from CNN today. That survey indicates that three

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Speaker 2: quarters of usfotters say the Dems would have a better

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Speaker 2: chance of retaining the presidency this time around with someone

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Speaker 2: other than Biden at the top of the ticket. In

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Speaker 2: a head to head match up, the poll has Trump

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Speaker 2: leading Biden by forty nine percent to forty three When

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Speaker 2: they look at other possible Democratic choices. Vice President Kamala

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Speaker 2: Harris is within the margin of era with forty five

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Speaker 2: percent behind Trump on forty seven. Other leading Democrats, including

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Speaker 2: California Governor Gavin Newsom, Transport Secretary Pete Boodhajege, and Michigan

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Speaker 2: Governor Gritchen Whitmer, a forty five points behind Trump. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: veteran Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein says people close to Biden

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Speaker 2: now say his decline has accelerated since the start of

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Speaker 2: this year. They cite fifteen to twenty occasions in the

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Speaker 2: past year and a half when the President has appeared

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Speaker 2: as confused as he did during the debate. Meantime, there

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Speaker 2: are no signs that Biden is willing to step aside.

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Speaker 2: He just appeared at a climate event where he introduced

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Speaker 2: new rules to protect workers from extreme heat and said

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Speaker 2: of climate change. The event's also posed serious threats to

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Speaker 2: our nation's transportation system, where a power greup foreigns, fisheries

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Speaker 2: and forests. Yeah, things are going on right in our

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Speaker 2: lives being lost to Hurricane Beryl, which is the earliest

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Speaker 2: Category five hurricane ever to rise up in the Gribbean

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Speaker 2: and has top wind speeds of two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: five kilometers an hour two hundred and sixty five k's

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Speaker 2: and it could threaten Texas within the coming days. Biden

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Speaker 2: has just agreed to do an extended media interview with

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Speaker 2: American ABC and host George stephanopolis how much a single

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Speaker 2: interview can change opinions question mark. New York Times opinion

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Speaker 2: writer More Endowed headlined her piece on this political campaign

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Speaker 2: as the ghastly versus the ghostly on the Trump front,

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Speaker 2: the partisan Supreme Court because declared in their latest opinion

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Speaker 2: that a president has immunity from criminal prosecution for official

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Speaker 2: actions that seemed designed to help Trump. If Nixon had

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Speaker 2: this Supreme Court back in his day, at the time

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Speaker 2: of Watergate, he could have stuck around forever, as he

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Speaker 2: told interviewer David Frost back in nineteen seventy seven.

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Speaker 1: So what, in a sense you're saying is that There

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Speaker 1: are certain situations, and the Houston Plan of that part

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Speaker 1: of it was one of them where the president can

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Speaker 1: decide that it's in the best interests in the nation

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Speaker 1: or something and do something illegal. Well, when the president

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Speaker 1: does it, that means that it is not illegal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, King Richard Nixon. Now, the president above the law

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Speaker 2: has a role equivalent to role to you, suggests the

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Speaker 2: dissenting Supreme Court Justice Sonya son Too Mayor, who raised

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Speaker 2: some pretty shocking possibilities in her dissent. If a president

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Speaker 2: now quote orders an Avy Seal Team six to assassinate

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Speaker 2: a political rival, immune, organizes a military coup to hold

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Speaker 2: on to power, immune, takes a bribe in exchange for pardon,

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Speaker 2: immune immune immune immune end quote, that's a dissenting Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court justice writing there. Finally, Trump advisor Steve Bannon was

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Speaker 2: just sent off to jail for four months. Another Trump aide,

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Speaker 2: Peter Navarro, also is in the clink right now. Trump

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Speaker 2: lawyer Rudy Giuliani today was disbarred in you you are

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Speaker 2: for repeatedly lying about Trump's selection losses. So that's some

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Speaker 2: of the gang. While Trump now has escalated his threat

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Speaker 2: to prosecute political opponents calling for the jailing of President Biden,

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Speaker 2: Vice President Harris, Senators Mitch McConnell Republican and Chuck Schumer, Democrat,

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Speaker 2: and his own former deputy, Mike Pence. He also claims

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Speaker 2: that Liz Cheney, the former Republican Party congress member and

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Speaker 2: top Republican Party official, is quote guilty of treason and

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Speaker 2: suggests there should be televised military tribunals. Channey has replied

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Speaker 2: that Trump is quote not a stable ad off is

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Speaker 2: at times a will and the therapist good stuffs.

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