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Speaker 1: Live from the Heart Band and the Crossroads of America.

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Speaker 1: It's Tony Cats today. So Trump cancels the meeting with China.

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Speaker 1: It's a big deal, kids, It's a big deal. Tony Kats,

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz today. Good to be with You find everything

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Speaker 1: at Tony Katz dot com.

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Speaker 2: You should that's what you should do. Go there immediately.

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Speaker 3: The live stream on YouTube is where you find it.

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Speaker 3: First things first, though, you have President Trump not getting

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Speaker 3: the Nobel Prize. Not getting the Nobel Prize means well,

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Speaker 3: somebody's to blame. Who would get the Nobel Prize if

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Speaker 3: not Trump? You got peace in the Middle East. First,

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Speaker 3: we all understand we don't have peace in the Middle East.

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Speaker 3: We have the opportunity for peace in the Middle East.

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Speaker 3: That's what we have. And I like the opportunity. Don't

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Speaker 3: get me wrong. I think it's fantastic. And when I

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Speaker 3: say opportunity, no, I don't actually believe there's an opportunity

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Speaker 3: to have peace with the mass I believe it is impossible.

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Speaker 3: But you can get the hostages back and dang it,

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Speaker 3: I'll take it. So will all rational people. They will

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Speaker 3: take it. Nobody else was getting this done. Nobody else,

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Speaker 3: even tried to get this done right. It's History of

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Speaker 3: the World Part one. Did you BS this week?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: Did you try to BS this week? Yes?

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Speaker 3: Trump's the guy trying. And I go back to his

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Speaker 3: speech at the United Nations, which this was a great line.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing this, I'm doing that. The issue in Africa here,

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Speaker 3: the issue over here, what I'm trying to do with

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Speaker 3: Ukrain in Russia? What do you people do all day?

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Speaker 3: Not a one of you even called to say, hey,

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Speaker 3: you need any help. You don't care. None of you

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Speaker 3: are in the peace game. You're in the calling Israel

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Speaker 3: genocidal game. You're in the hating Western civilization game.

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Speaker 2: And take it our money.

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Speaker 3: If there was ever a moment in time to say

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Speaker 3: we don't need the United Nations right now, is indeed

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Speaker 3: one of those moments. Good gosh. The Nobel Prize, one

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Speaker 3: would have thought would go to Trump for the work.

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Speaker 2: It did not. It went to a woman in Venezuela.

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Speaker 3: Now be clear, there are people doing good things out

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Speaker 3: there who aren't named Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Maria Corina. It's Maria Carina.

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Speaker 3: Oh God, Makado m accha d O has been fighting

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Speaker 3: the Maduro regime, has been trying to create a valuable venezuela,

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Speaker 3: which is a very difficult thing to do when you've

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Speaker 3: got Nicholas Maduro breathing down your neck and.

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Speaker 2: Trying to rip you apart. She is the woman who

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Speaker 2: got the Nobel Peace Prize. Is she worthy? Is she

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Speaker 2: not worthy? I don't I don't know. It's the Nobel

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Speaker 2: Peace Prize.

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Speaker 3: They gave this thing to Yasir Arafat, Who the bloody

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Speaker 3: heck wants it?

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Speaker 2: Who possibly could want that?

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Speaker 3: Yochser Arafat is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, dear Lord,

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Speaker 3: But the awards do matter.

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Speaker 2: Remember they gave this award to Barack Obama in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and nine. He never did anything.

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Speaker 3: The world is not safer because Barack Obama sat in

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Speaker 3: the Oval Office for eight years. It is not safer.

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Speaker 3: You can't say the same thing about Donald Trump. Their

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Speaker 3: argument is, you know the announcement about Gaza and Israel

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Speaker 3: that came out on a Wednesday, and we made our

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Speaker 3: decision on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Just missed it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, fantastic, terrific. I don't know if this woman

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Speaker 3: is a good person or a bad person. If I

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Speaker 3: had read the information right, she was very appreciative of

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Speaker 3: President Trump and sharing this with him.

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Speaker 2: Because he's on the side of peace. You got a

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Speaker 2: whole bunch of people saying that.

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Speaker 3: She's a very very fine choice because pushing against Maduro

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Speaker 3: is a good thing to be doing.

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Speaker 2: This is something that should be happening. I know people

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Speaker 3: Upset about it. Thirty of my money was on Gretaitundberg.

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Speaker 3: Why would I have ever assumed, ever that the Nobel

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Speaker 3: Committee would do something like given award to Trump and

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Speaker 3: engage with him a level of legitimacy. I would never

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Speaker 3: have made that assumption, and I can't believe you would

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Speaker 3: have made that assumption either. But here we are no

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Speaker 3: no bell for Trump. Maybe next year we will see

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Speaker 3: what we will see. What we will see. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: mean that the woman who wont it is necessarily a

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, we have got issues with China that is coming up.

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Speaker 2: Keep it here. I'm Tony Katz. This is Tony Katz. Today.

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Speaker 2: Some very strange things are happening in China.

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Speaker 3: Those the words of President Trump saying on True's social quote.

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Speaker 2: They are becoming very hostile.

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Speaker 3: And sending letters to countries throughout the world that they

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Speaker 3: want to impose export controls on each and every element

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Speaker 3: of production having to do with rare earths and virtually

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Speaker 3: anything else they can think of, even if it's not

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Speaker 3: manufactured in China. And with that, President Trump says, well,

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Speaker 3: we're supposed to meet in South Korea in two weeks.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think there's a he's going to do

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Speaker 2: so now.

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Speaker 3: And the market then dropped five hundred points and the

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Speaker 3: gold price shot up, because well, this is instability, but

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Speaker 3: there is a foreign policy conversation to be had in

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Speaker 3: this instability. Tony Kats, Tony Kats today, Good to be

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Speaker 3: with you. Chuck de Board joins me right now. He

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Speaker 3: is the Chief National Initiatives Officer at the Texas Public

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Speaker 3: Policy Foundation Texas policy dot Com. Served in the California

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Speaker 3: Assembly and served in the Reagan era Pentagon. People are

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Speaker 3: going to look at this as an economic conversation. I'm

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Speaker 3: telling you this is in no way simply an economics conversation.

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Speaker 3: This is all breaking today. You hear this information, Uh, Chuck,

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Speaker 3: what does it say to you?

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Speaker 5: Well, there's a couple of things going on. I mean,

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Speaker 5: first of all, it's very important to understand that the

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Speaker 5: People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party is

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Speaker 5: pursuing a mercantilist, creditory capitalist model, so at the very

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Speaker 5: least from an economics standpoint, what China has methodically done

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Speaker 5: is it has seized certain key portions of the supply chain,

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Speaker 5: without which not only the United States but the entire

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Speaker 5: world can't operate. And the way it does that with

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Speaker 5: rare earth is to make sure that it controls all

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Speaker 5: of the rare earth refining. Rare earths aren't really as

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Speaker 5: rare as the name would imply. They're all over the place.

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Speaker 5: The challenge is it's difficult to dig them out of

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Speaker 5: the ground with economically viable concentrations and then refine it.

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Speaker 5: It's actually the refining, which is very dirty, energy intensive difficult.

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Speaker 5: We don't do much of that in America because China

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Speaker 5: has undercut our prices so that they can control the

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Speaker 5: entire supply chain. These things are important for magnets, they're

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Speaker 5: important for sensors used for high tech military defense articles.

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Speaker 5: You really can't have either a modern economy or a

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Speaker 3: The control aspect, though the adding the controls to that

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Speaker 3: is not specifically to an economic advantage. We have been

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Speaker 3: hearing that this is to a geopolitical advantage. Trying to

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Speaker 3: increase things now so when they do meet, Hey, we

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Speaker 3: can make a trade deal with this. China saying we

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Speaker 3: could do us a favor and stop paying attention to

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Speaker 3: Taiwan so much in their defense. Is a lot of

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Speaker 3: this maneuver to try, as the Wall Street Journal had

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Speaker 3: off defending Taiwan so China can have its reunification policy

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Speaker 3: without question.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they I think China sees an opening right now,

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Speaker 5: and they see an opening for a number of reasons.

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Speaker 5: First of all, they have engaged in an unprecedented military

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Speaker 5: build up, unprecedented in modern history, mostly because if hither

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Speaker 5: had a bigger economy under Germany, perhaps They're build up

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Speaker 5: because China's economy is so giant, their military build up

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Speaker 5: the late nineteen thirties. It is truly unprecedented, and what's

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Speaker 5: important for America, a huge amount of that buildup has

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Speaker 5: been with the Navy, not army or air force strength,

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Speaker 5: number one they have this huge build up. Number two

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Speaker 5: Wars it's now properly been renamed. There is some people

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Speaker 5: around Trump who think that we don't have enough military

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Speaker 5: Taiwan itself is divided, and so you have this feeling

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Speaker 5: So Shishinping thinks, well, you know, maybe maybe I can

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Speaker 5: pry Trump away from any commitment to Taiwan and we

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Speaker 5: can perhaps in air quotes, peacefully reunify with Taiwan because

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Speaker 5: America won't do anything about it.

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Speaker 3: Talking to Chuck to Vore of the Texas Public Policy Foundation,

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Speaker 3: find his work at Texas Policy dot com, I do

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Speaker 3: look at the geopolitical here, and I do think that

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Speaker 3: it that it matters this, this canceling of this, this

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Speaker 3: be to to my bettering condition, I'm not interested in it.

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Speaker 3: How does China respond to this type of cancelation.

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Speaker 5: Well, certainly they're going to see if they can engage

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Speaker 5: in some sort of negotiation, right, They're going to you know,

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Speaker 5: certainly the drop in the stock market today is going

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Speaker 5: People are going to say, gee, you know, this is

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Speaker 5: you make a deal? Can some sort of an arrangement

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Speaker 5: be had. The other thing, of course, is that Trump

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Speaker 5: has been trying to crack down on the Russian ghost

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Speaker 5: have been illegally buying Russian energy, mostly of course India,

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Speaker 5: and then you know, another target being China, because those

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Speaker 5: And so this is a way of fighting back. This

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Speaker 5: is a way of China fighting fire with fire and

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Speaker 5: showing Trump that America isn't the only country that holds

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Speaker 5: significant economic cards. And so they're trying to increase pain

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Speaker 5: to get what they want. And I think what they

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Speaker 5: want isn't merely you know, maybe it is simply more

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Speaker 5: favorable economic terms. But there's something about this round that

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Speaker 5: makes me think that this may be, as you speculate

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Speaker 5: more about Taiwan than merely trying to even the the

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Speaker 5: you know, to shift the the terrain more in China's

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Speaker 5: favor on trade terms. So look, you know, the fact

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Speaker 5: of the matter is that October is one of the

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Speaker 5: best two months for invading time.

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Speaker 3: That conversation he had with the assembled generals and admirals

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Speaker 6: But for those who.

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Speaker 5: which is what my branch was, and for docs for doctors.

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Speaker 3: Chuck DeVore, Texas Public Policy Foundation. I appreciate taking the

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Speaker 3: Tony Katz. This is Tony Katz today. It's shut down

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Speaker 2: No one cares, no one, no one, no one, Tony Katz,

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Speaker 3: Filling in for Jim Garrity over there a National Review.

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Speaker 3: Republicans are getting wobbly on the shutdown. The GOP is

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Speaker 4: Shame all the Democrats for doing that. It is to

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Speaker 4: That's their thought about what this shutdown means. So shame

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Speaker 4: Republicans want our troops to get paid. We want our

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Speaker 3: It was Chuck Schumer who said every day gets better

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Speaker 3: That they can stretch this out to October fifteenth, so

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Speaker 2: And that's when the press.

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Speaker 2: Look what they're doing. Right.

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Speaker 3: The Democrats, their position is that the continuing resolution is

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Speaker 6: We have seen retire heracle movement from Republicans. When actions

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Speaker 2: Of course they didn't.

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Speaker 6: It was a dirty partisan bill that continues to gut

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Speaker 2: So then they moved off of that.

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Speaker 3: That's not what you mean. Ready to sit down is

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Speaker 3: a really dopey line. Your argument is do what we

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Speaker 6: Unfortunately, what we're dealing with right now in the United

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Speaker 3: But I would give anything to see a Republican member

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Speaker 2: This is what is required.

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Speaker 3: The obscenity of that line, the grossness of this presentation.

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Speaker 2: This is nothing more than the.

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Speaker 3: Rebirth, the resurrection of the throwing Grandma off the cliff line.

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Speaker 3: You're attacking them as people and as Christians, because it's

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Speaker 2: And that requires a nose to knows. Just who the

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Speaker 2: You don't speak about people like that. And if this

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Speaker 2: That's what he was doing yesterday with a finger pointing.

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Speaker 3: That's what a member has to do, right there, No

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Speaker 3: Could you imagine if this is how we handle disputes

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Speaker 2: We couldn't get away with this.

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Speaker 3: We couldn't act like Hakeem Jeffries and get away with this.

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Speaker 2: Not for a.

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Speaker 3: Second you think you could do what he did to

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Speaker 3: Representative Lolad the Austraa. You think he could have that

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Speaker 3: I'm just not going to act like that to begin with.

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Speaker 3: Speaker Mike Johnson.

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Speaker 7: Chuck Schumer is hurting real Americans for his own political survival.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna say that again, Chuck Schumer is hurting real

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Speaker 7: has to appease the Marxist cutting. Simple, this, plain and simple.

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Speaker 7: Shame on you, Chuck. Every Senate Democrat who's going along

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Speaker 7: with this, you lack the moral fortitude to do the

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Speaker 7: clean cr We frankly didn't expect this. We sent over

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Speaker 7: they stopped it because they're afraid of the far left.

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Speaker 2: And that's true, that is true. This is a fear play.

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Speaker 3: What I am noticing is what you're noticing. It's getting personal.

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Speaker 3: is going to appease the Marxists is a very very

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Speaker 3: from this speaker appointed line.

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Speaker 2: The Speaker also said something else, I'm not.

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Speaker 3: Bringing the House back into the sentence of votes on

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Speaker 3: the clean cr.

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Speaker 2: I'm not doing it until you guys open it back up.

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Speaker 3: I'm not bringing back the house. Don't ask nothing else

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Speaker 3: is going on, not happening. This is a politically good

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Speaker 3: idea in that I don't think you want everybody there

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Speaker 3: where they have to answer all these press questions. Make

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Speaker 3: it a little more difficult on them, and you also

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Speaker 3: don't get lulled into a false sense of security that way.

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Speaker 3: It also shows that hey, this is on you. Everything

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Speaker 3: gets back to work once.

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Speaker 2: You do your job. But it is clear that what.

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Speaker 3: Democrats are doing is waiting until the paychecks don't come

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Speaker 3: out and feeling they could put pressure. Then so they're

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Speaker 3: doing That's what they're doing. So this argument that Chuck

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Speaker 3: Schumer is playing with the lives of Americans to benefit

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Speaker 3: himself and to appease the Marxists who are all within

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Speaker 3: his party, I can prove that argument. I think the

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Speaker 3: Speaker has proven that argument as well. But Hakim Jeffries,

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Speaker 3: you pray on Sunday and you pray on the American people.

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Speaker 3: I think it is up to a member of Congress

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Speaker 3: to ask him who the hell he thinks he is.

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Speaker 3: I do now maybe the right answers.

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Speaker 2: You just ignore it.

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Speaker 3: They're losing, they're desperate, ugly, and they're showing it, and

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Speaker 3: you don't engage the confrontation because you don't want to

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Speaker 3: lose that level of control. Republicans getting wobbly. I don't

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Speaker 3: know about that. I don't know about that. And this

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Speaker 3: shouldn't get us into a conversation with Marjorie Taylor Green,

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Speaker 3: which I will sum up quickly. If you find yourself

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Speaker 3: at all times agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Green, chances.

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Speaker 2: Are you doing it wrong.

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Speaker 3: And if you want to know why I'm not a populist,

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Speaker 3: you can start with Marjorie Taylor Green and you can

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Speaker 3: end with Josh Hawley that in conservatism.

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Speaker 2: Kids, I'll die on that hill. Keep it here.

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Speaker 3: I'm Tony Katz, and this is Tony Katz today. So

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Speaker 3: Barack Obama, you've seen pictures. He was President of the

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Speaker 3: United States, and he has thoughts.

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Speaker 2: About the deal. He has thoughts about peace.

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Speaker 3: That's what That's what Barack Obama has, Tony Katz, Tony

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Speaker 3: Kats today.

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Speaker 2: Good to be with you.

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Speaker 3: Writing after two years of unimaginable loss had suffered for

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Speaker 3: Israeli families and the people of Gaza.

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Speaker 2: We should all be encouraged and relieved that at an

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Speaker 2: end to the conflict is within.

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Speaker 3: Sight, that those hostages are still being held will be

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Speaker 3: reunited with their families, and that vital aid can start

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Speaker 3: reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. More

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Speaker 3: than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians,

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Speaker 3: with the support of the United States and the entire

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Speaker 3: world's community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza

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Speaker 3: and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the

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Speaker 3: common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve

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Speaker 3: a lasting peace.

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Speaker 2: No mention of Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: Just Steve Woodcough, Jared Kushner, None, no, well done, No addaboy?

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Speaker 2: Now what did this just happen? Magically? This is? This

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Speaker 2: is Barack Obama.

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Speaker 3: Could not even say well done, could not say we

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Speaker 3: disagree on a great number of things, but well done,

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Speaker 3: mister President. Couldn't bring himself to do it, could not

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Speaker 3: say the words this is who these people are. Every

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Speaker 3: day they show you, every day they put forth to

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Speaker 3: you the kind of people they are. You have thousands

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Speaker 3: of people marching towards northern gazas the ceasefire has a

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Speaker 3: taken effect. And while all of this is happening, you've

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Speaker 3: got the First Lady of the United States.

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Speaker 8: Good morning. A child's soul knows no borders, no flex

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Speaker 8: We must foster a future for our children which is

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Speaker 8: rich with potential security and complete with free will. Our

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Speaker 8: world where dreams will be realized rather than faded by war.

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Speaker 3: That's Melania Trump following up on her letter to Zelenski

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Speaker 3: and to Putin about the war in Ukraine and discussing

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Speaker 3: how she is continuing to try and reach President Putin

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Speaker 3: to reunite children.

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Speaker 2: Displaced by the war.

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Speaker 3: You can find Takim Jeffrey is as I do, reprehensible

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Speaker 3: and loathsome. You can find Chuck Schumer to be the

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Speaker 3: opportunist that he has always been. You can find the

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Speaker 3: Nobel Committee wrong for their decision on the Nobel Prize.

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Speaker 3: And I haven't heard anybody say that the woman who

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Speaker 3: won it, the Nobel Peace Prize, isn't actually worthy of it.

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Speaker 3: You can be angered by these things and disappointed by

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Speaker 3: these things. You can allow these things to absolutely corrupt

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Speaker 3: you and let you seethe and the only thing you

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Speaker 3: focus on, or.

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Speaker 2: You could focus on the good work that needs to

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Speaker 2: be done.

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Speaker 3: Really interesting, the Democrats should say Barack Obama because many

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Speaker 3: Democrats CNN's and MSNBC's and others, have given Trump as

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Speaker 3: due for making this happen, which if it just returns

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Speaker 3: the hostages Diana, it's enough. But there's Melania Trump not

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Speaker 3: saying why didn't you give my husband a Nobel Prize, saying, Hey,

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Speaker 3: these kids out there, I'm still thinking about them, and

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Speaker 3: I'm still pushing for this. Who wins the uplifting message

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Speaker 3: of the day, Barack Obama or Millennia Trump?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought so. It's Tony Kats Today,