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Speaker 2: Make it all makes sense.

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Speaker 1: He's Mark Simone. Hey, let's talk to the Dean himself,

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Speaker 1: Ed Rollins. Of course, he's run a million campaigns, He's

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Speaker 1: worked in a lot of white houses. Nobody knows this

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Speaker 1: stuff better, Ed Rollins, How you doing good?

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Speaker 2: Mark? The weather being terrible all of us on the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a mess. Hey, Tomorrow night's State of

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Speaker 2: It's a very big speech. There's a lot of things

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Speaker 2: on his plate. He needs to explain to the American public.

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Speaker 2: I was going to bring the government back in the functioning,

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Speaker 2: especially with the weather and what have you in Fiena

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Speaker 2: going to do anything in Iran. This is a chance

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Speaker 2: for him to do that, set the tone and say

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Speaker 2: I want peace and why I want piece If that's

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Speaker 2: the court is his rule that he can't use this

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Speaker 2: ball forward. To a certain extent, it's a terrible time

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Speaker 2: So I think a certain extent, he can't get in

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Speaker 1: When it comes to defying the court, it's done all

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Speaker 1: It's on the beach, all right. And then when it

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Speaker 2: He can't raise expectations. He raised expectations a couple weeks

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Speaker 2: Whatever your plan is, you've got to basically implement it,

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Speaker 2: President to make a speech, President to make a speech

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Speaker 2: Well, the second second terms are hard, and and you

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Speaker 2: He now has more power, actual power than any president

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Speaker 2: you've got to sell it. Yeah, and there's always the

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Speaker 2: traditional change in the midterms, and there's no reason, you know,

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Speaker 2: win a majority of the pot. Yeah, all right, well

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Speaker 2: not too late, just just just he just needs to

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Speaker 1: All right, good stuff, Ed Rollins, great is always. Thanks

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