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Speaker 1: Richard iald Good morning, Good what do you want? I said,

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Speaker 1: fair well to mister Cheney.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the memorial service is just concluding. But as it

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Speaker 2: was getting underway at the National Cathedral in Washington, one

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Speaker 2: Democrat quipped, whoever would have thought that in the mega

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Speaker 2: Republican divorce the Dems would get Dick Cheney. That speaks

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Speaker 2: to how much politics has changed since Cheney was in office.

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Speaker 2: In his day, cheney be course was viewed as polarizing, strident.

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Speaker 2: Darth Vega's son called him that. In twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: the one time vice presidents of George W. Bush and

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Speaker 2: one time Defense chief Congressman youngestev presidential chief of staff,

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Speaker 2: all of that declared he would be voting not for

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump but for Kamala Harris. The reason, he said,

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Speaker 2: was his devotion to the US Constitution. And so it

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Speaker 2: is that at this service, attended by the living former

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Speaker 2: presidents Biden, Clinton and Bush and Vice Presidents al Gord

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Speaker 2: dan Quayle and Mike Pence, Trump did not take part.

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Speaker 2: He was not invited. A markedly older George W. Bush

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Speaker 2: has spoken he's seventy nine now, and he talked of

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Speaker 2: cherishing his partnership and friendship with Chaney. Some might say

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Speaker 2: it's rob Bush of some of his independents at the time.

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Speaker 2: George W. Also described the notorious moment when Cheney was

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Speaker 2: head of the vice presidential search committee and came up

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Speaker 2: with his own name as the person best qualified for

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Speaker 2: the job. There was a little more to it, I

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Speaker 2: said Bush.

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Speaker 3: Before I made my decision, he insisted on giving me

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Speaker 3: a complete rundown of all the reasons I should not

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Speaker 3: choose him. He also heard one of my top advisors

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Speaker 3: was against the choice, so Dick invited him to make

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Speaker 3: the case.

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Speaker 2: Also speaking was Pete Williams, his former aide former Pentagon spokesman,

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Speaker 2: who related a story he says Cheney loved. At a

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Speaker 2: time when he was out in his home state of

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Speaker 2: Wyoming campaigning for another term in the US House, He.

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Speaker 4: Said he walked up to one old rancher, stuck out

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Speaker 4: his hand and said, I'm Dick Cheney. I'm running for Congress.

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Speaker 1: And I'd like to have your vote, and the rancher replied, you.

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Speaker 4: Got that guy?

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Speaker 1: We got in there.

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Speaker 4: Now is no damn good.

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Speaker 2: Cheney's longtime cardiologist also has spoken, doctor John and Rymer,

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Speaker 2: who downplayed his talent for eulogy, saying, no.

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Speaker 4: One wants a doctor who's great at funerals.

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Speaker 2: Good point. Cheney had his first heart attack at age

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Speaker 2: thirty seven, then four more heart attacks, and then he

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Speaker 2: underwent a heart transplant, passing away at age eighty four.

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Speaker 2: His daughter Liz Cheney, has concluded the memorial service with

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Speaker 2: what politics aciet now becomes? I guess the man's central theme?

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Speaker 4: Though he was inspired to service by President Kennedy, Dick

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Speaker 4: Cheney became a Republican, but he knew that bonds of

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Speaker 4: party must always yield to the single bond we share

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Speaker 4: as Americans. For him, a choice between defense of the

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Speaker 4: Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice

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Speaker 4: at all.

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Speaker 2: Words that are far too rare today.

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Speaker 1: So what are we doing? We wipe for the dejoe?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: Is that what's happened?

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Speaker 4: I guess?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What next?

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Speaker 2: In the Epstein scandal, Trump has signed into effect the

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Speaker 2: far release of just he works so furiously to kill.

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Speaker 2: If Trump wanted the files out in the open, he

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Speaker 2: could release them at any time immediately. Instead, this bill

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Speaker 2: gives the Gustus Department thirty days to responded it off

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Speaker 2: as a loophole, saying they can block anything that could

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Speaker 2: affect an ongoing investigation. Well, Trump just surprised opened an

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Speaker 2: investigation into the involvement with Epstein of Democrats alone, so

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Speaker 2: they could be used to block much of the files.

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Speaker 2: Senate Democratic leader Schumann says.

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Speaker 4: This is not an invitation for Donald Trump to pick

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Speaker 4: and choose his version of the truth.

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Speaker 2: Still, many think this is what will happen. And Trump's

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Speaker 2: Attenney General Pam Bondi was asked, what changed since stent

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Speaker 2: that you liked this investigation?

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Speaker 4: Information that has come for information, there's information that new information.

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Speaker 2: How convincing is that.

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Speaker 1: Richard Donald State's side pull out from Fox He's underwater Trump.

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Speaker 1: Seventy six percent of voters via the economy negatively. They

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Speaker 1: blame both the President and Biden for the current state

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Speaker 1: of the economy the shut down. Once again, they blame

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Speaker 1: both science. Overall, forty one percent approve of the job

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Speaker 1: Trump is doing. Fifty eight percent disapproved. That's the underwater bit.

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Speaker 1: Forty percent of Americans say the personal finances are excellent

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Speaker 1: or good, but sixty percent say they're fair or poor.

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Speaker 1: Job ratings on foreign policies underwater they're as well. Forty

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Speaker 1: three percent approve fifty five percent disapprove.

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