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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold from the United States of America. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, sir.

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Speaker 2: What are you, Andrew?

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Speaker 1: So the House is back and there's lots of closed

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Speaker 1: door meetings for the Democrats. Gee, what are they talking about?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's House divided as they talk about what Joe

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Speaker 2: Biden should be doing in terms of running for the presidency. Again,

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Speaker 2: they met for two hours on the House side. When

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Speaker 2: they came out of that session, Democrats Steve Cohen was

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Speaker 2: asked if there is part of unity on Biden's apparent

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Speaker 2: bid to stay in the race, What do you mean

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Speaker 2: You're not on the same page, not even in the

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Speaker 2: same not even the same book. Senate Democrats are holding

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Speaker 2: a similar session. To this point, President Biden is showing

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Speaker 2: increasing insistence that he will remain as the presumptive nominee,

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Speaker 2: and he has challenged any rivals.

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Speaker 1: I'm frustrated by the leaf if these guys, I don't

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Speaker 1: think I should want some run against me.

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Speaker 2: Still, many of the Democrats emerging from the House session

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Speaker 2: are describing a feeling of deep sadness in their ranks,

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Speaker 2: says Sewn easton.

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Speaker 1: Great sadness that we are not having a conversation about

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Speaker 1: the fact that we have two people.

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Speaker 3: Learnning for president. One of them has a record that

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Speaker 3: anybody would be proud to have, and the other one

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Speaker 3: is an adjudicated rapist or twice in beached convicted felony.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're not voicing a lot of enthusiasm, says congress

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Speaker 2: Member Richie Torres.

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Speaker 3: It's the president declines to the voluntarily, then he's going

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Speaker 3: to be our nominee and we have to make the

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Speaker 3: best of a complicated situation.

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Speaker 2: And Democrat Diana Priestley.

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Speaker 3: There are.

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Speaker 2: Changes that people need to see to continue to feel

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Speaker 2: comfortable again. Not rousing support is it. Two groups are

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Speaker 2: giving stronger backing to Biden. The Hispanic Caucus any Bike Coucus,

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Speaker 2: who's member greet Meeks, says.

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Speaker 3: I just met with the Prime Minister of New Zealand

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Speaker 3: and Australia. So the whole democratic world, those of us

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Speaker 3: who share the same values. Joe Biden has led that

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Speaker 3: and brought us together.

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Speaker 2: Where reslux is getting into American politics behind you, he

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Speaker 2: said non Zi by that his aim is to work

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Speaker 2: with whoever winds up in the White House. But this

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Speaker 2: is another crunch day for Biden, who has a lot

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Speaker 2: on his plate this day and is well. He is

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Speaker 2: facing a full agenda here with a news conference on Friday,

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Speaker 2: his first in eight months, and.

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Speaker 1: He's got the seventy fifth anniversary of NATO to get through.

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Speaker 2: That's right. World leaders will be making their own assessment

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Speaker 2: of Biden's strengths as he starts hosting this event in Washington.

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Speaker 2: Biden has become the strongest support of NATO's since Bush Senior,

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Speaker 2: but the shadow of his dismal debate performance is hanging

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Speaker 2: over this meeting as well. So the NATO events are

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Speaker 2: likely to delay a lot of open politicking here, and

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Speaker 2: the NATO gathering also will focus lightly on Ukraine. Biden

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Speaker 2: condemning today's Ussian attack on that children's hospital in Kiev,

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Speaker 2: which he calls a quote horrific reminder of Russia's brutality.

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Speaker 2: The Russians are claiming without evidence that it was a

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Speaker 2: Western supplied missile that went a Ryan hit the place

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Speaker 2: are Ukraine's president Zelenski will deliver a major speech in

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Speaker 2: Washington sidelines of the summit. Zelenski says thirty eight people

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Speaker 2: are killed in today's daylight Russian rocket attack, with four

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Speaker 2: children among the dead. The NATO summit is occurring not

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Speaker 2: only with Biden Democrats in disarray, but amid NATO concerns

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Speaker 2: about it possible Trump returns. Since Trump has shown little

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Speaker 2: interest in Ukraine or NATO, that is very much in

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Speaker 2: the mind of world readers as Ukraine seeks assurance of

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Speaker 2: continuing banking, even as US analytics are saying now Russia

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Speaker 2: is unlikely to take much more Ukrainian territory. This shocking

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Speaker 2: war has devastated parts of Ukraine, as we know, with

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Speaker 2: more Ukrainians killed and all the Allies who died in

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Speaker 2: either Vietnam or Afghanistan, and with Russian casualties now estimated

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Speaker 2: at around one hundred and twenty thousand killed and perhaps

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Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty thousand more wounded.

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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold for the Utter of States of America, I

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Speaker 1: thank you for your timing.

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