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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the demolition crews began tearing down

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Speaker 1: part of the east wing. They're making room for Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's two hundred and fifty million dollar ballroom. Trump previously

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Speaker 1: claimed that construction would not interfere with the existing building,

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Speaker 1: and now that's being contradicted just a little bit. Bacos

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Speaker 1: were there, Secret Service members were observing it from the

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Speaker 1: Now a lot of people are really upset about this,

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Speaker 1: saying that Donald Trump is completely changing the White House?

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Speaker 2: Can he do that? But yes, he can do that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this was my question. The president can just tear

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Speaker 3: down the White House? Or is there some bill that

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Speaker 3: gave him the ability to do that?

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Speaker 1: Well, presidents have been renovating and expanding the White House

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Speaker 1: for more than one hundred years.

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Speaker 2: No, no, okay, I get renovating.

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Speaker 3: But things are getting destroyed like they're not existing, Like

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Speaker 3: they're getting knocked down, right, I mean, unless that video

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Speaker 3: I've seen as artificial intelligence, there are things getting like

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Speaker 3: or we put some new chandeliers in or you know,

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Speaker 3: I didn't like the color scheme.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're going to rebuild it back up. It's just

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Speaker 2: But I mean, isn't there some historical look?

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Speaker 3: And I'm the wrong person to ask about this, because

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm nostalgic about everything, But isn't there some

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Speaker 3: like historical significance to things that happened in those the

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Speaker 3: sense of like those walls, the.

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Speaker 1: Area that it was, Meaning there will be history made

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Speaker 1: in the news space as well.

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Speaker 2: But let me ask you this.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that there was history made in the

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Speaker 2: I don't know there was a pool in the White House?

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Speaker 1: Well there was, and it was turned into the press

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Speaker 1: briefing room. Oh so well, this is why people would

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Speaker 1: say that the briefing room is much more important than

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Speaker 2: This was my question is.

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Speaker 3: Can the president with the White House just do whatever

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Speaker 2: Is there a limit? Is there? Like, no, you can't

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Speaker 2: do that? Is there? This as far as you can

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Speaker 3: Because if you can like knock stuff down and it

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Speaker 3: doesn't take an Act of Congress.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe it does. Because in nineteen thirty three

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Speaker 1: didn't always exist. He just decided to do it, so

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Speaker 1: he relocated the Oval office. Even so we extrapolate this,

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Speaker 1: there has to be a catch to this.

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Speaker 3: You couldn't just have a presence like I'm tearing down

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Speaker 3: the White House, right, I mean, there's got to be

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Speaker 2: There has to be some limit.

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Speaker 1: You can't just level it down to the foundation.

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Speaker 2: Like what if you.

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Speaker 3: Got some Manchurian candidate in there and they wanted to

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Speaker 3: like okay, well the president and where's the money coming from?

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Speaker 1: Well, he said he's getting it from private donors, reportedly

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Speaker 1: companies like Apple, Amazon, a Clockheed, Martin, and also coinbase.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's very concerning because those people are not

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Speaker 3: running soup kitchens. They're giving money same way they sponsored

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Speaker 3: his inauguration because they want something. They're not like, oh,

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Speaker 3: it'd be great for Trump to have a nicer ballroom.

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Speaker 3: What are they getting?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: I know, when uh Jackie Kennedy redid everything, she took

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Speaker 1: to some of its history. Sure the China Room, for example,

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Speaker 3: I get that, But what I'm saying is the people

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Speaker 3: that you're naming. This is not like we had a

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Speaker 3: zoo book.

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Speaker 2: Do they still do zoo books? That still a thing?

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Speaker 2: Did you ever do the zoo?

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Speaker 3: Well, you'd have a zoo where you were at the

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Speaker 3: zoo books where you like, you sell the booklets with

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Speaker 3: all the coupons in them. You know, there's you know,

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Speaker 3: you give, you know, twenty bucks to the organization or

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Speaker 2: You never you don't know what these are.

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Speaker 3: I never did a zoo book, keV. Do you know

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Speaker 3: what I'm talking about here? The zoo book. You're old enough.

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Speaker 3: You surely had a zoo book as a kid.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so, really, surely, somebody? No, this is

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Speaker 1: It.

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Speaker 2: They were super prominent.

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Speaker 3: They were these flip books and they called them zoo

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Speaker 3: books because they I think they were They had zoo

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Speaker 3: had extra amount of coupons in them. It was just

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Speaker 2: That was raising it. And then there was a company

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Speaker 2: I think that got the nothing I did that it

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Speaker 2: wasn't called a zoo book. Well what was it called,

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Speaker 2: don't I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: We didn't call it a zoo book though we did

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Speaker 1: it for the Catholic.

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Speaker 3: Schools, okay, but it was a keep on. See people

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Speaker 3: in the YouTube chat are saying they use zoo books.

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Speaker 3: So this I'm not just making this up. No, this

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Speaker 1: But I don't think that President Trump is using zoo

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Speaker 1: books well but to pay for the ball run.

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Speaker 2: But that's my point, right.

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Speaker 3: Like, if you're given twenty dollars to the local football

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Speaker 3: team or whatever, you're not expecting some sweetheart trade deal

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Speaker 3: in exchange. What does Apple want for giving money for

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Speaker 3: Trump to do this? That's what I would be concerned

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Speaker 3: about the project.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be ninety thousand square foot structure, and

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Speaker 1: it's really going to double the White House footprint.

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Speaker 3: I mean, aren't you concerned about this that like these

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Speaker 3: companies are like just giving money.

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Speaker 2: I mean, aren't you like, man, what do they want

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Speaker 2: for this?

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Speaker 1: Right? Like are they going to want to want a

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Speaker 1: ticket to the first ball get in the ballroom?

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be more than that, right,

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Speaker 2: what kind of deals are going to be struck? Well?

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Speaker 2: Remember the ballroom?

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Speaker 3: Remember when because we won't get invited to this anymore.

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Speaker 3: Remember when we got invited to the Republican shindig.

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Speaker 1: Thing, the big bronze ball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever, there was a name for it. Was it

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Speaker 2: inaugural ball, That's what it was called. Yeah, okay, well

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Speaker 2: we're not getting invited to that ever again. So I

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Speaker 2: remember I told you because we were we were on

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Speaker 3: And I said, Casey, we have to go to this

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Speaker 3: because I'm because I think I told you.

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Speaker 2: I said, I'm guessing by.

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Speaker 3: April we will we will be in not in a

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Speaker 3: position never get invited to anything ever again. And I

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Speaker 3: called it exactly right. Remember, like Google was the sponsor.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was up on the projector up on the

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Speaker 1: big screen, and.

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Speaker 3: We were like, why would Google be sponsoring the Republican Party?

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Speaker 2: Nam data centers? Yeah, boowdy and that funny how that

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Speaker 2: So that's my point in all this.

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Speaker 3: Clearly there's some thing these mega corps are trying to

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Speaker 3: get out of this, and that would that would be

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Speaker 3: that is my concern about what have they been promised

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Speaker 3: or what is in the pipeline that they're trying to

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Speaker 3: acquire for their fabulous sponsorship of this ballroom?

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Speaker 2: And wasn't the one we had before? Wasn't it nice enough?

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Speaker 1: The previous ballroom?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Was there one?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, But the White House seems pretty big.

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Speaker 3: I think there's enough stuff there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, did you know that it was Theodore Roosevelt

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Speaker 1: in nineteen oh two who built the West wing? There

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Speaker 1: actually wasn't even a west wing.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is the thing that's been going on

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Speaker 1: for hundreds of years now, that they've been adding and

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Speaker 2: Do you know there's a Lincoln bedroom. Tad's of Ted there.

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Speaker 2: He's Melancholy Depression Act. They call it Melan Gaally