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Speaker 1: I have to say to all of you that this

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Speaker 1: is one of those weeks where there is so much

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Speaker 1: Let's start with Allaharas. How could anybody who had any

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Speaker 1: sense of competence imagine that rural America can't find a

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Speaker 1: xerox machine. Her comments that, you know the problem with

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Speaker 1: requiring people to have an identity before they vote is

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Speaker 1: in rural America they won't be able to copy their

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Speaker 1: driver's license or whatever. Well, first of all, most of

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Speaker 1: Many of them actually now use GPS, so that they're plowing,

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Speaker 1: for example, is scientifically amazingly accurate. Rural communities have libraries,

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Speaker 1: they have churches, they have many places that have access

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Speaker 1: can't tell with Harris whether she's just a flake, truly ignorant,

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Speaker 1: So that's one two Hunter Biden. We're now told of

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Speaker 1: remarkable capacity to talk with the straight face when saying

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Speaker 1: the dumbest possible things. That Hunter Biden has resumed his

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Speaker 1: profession as an artist. Now, for anybody who watched Hunter

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Speaker 1: Biden try to get money in Ukraine, Romania, Russia, China

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Speaker 1: and now he's an artist, and as an artiste, he's

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Speaker 1: art from anonymous purchasers, who, of course will not be

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Speaker 1: after all, he's an artist of such great renown, a

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Speaker 1: unplanned process of withdrawing from Afghanistan. There are at least

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Speaker 1: It's not like we decided cheerfully to leave one day.

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Speaker 1: Think about the whole reality of an America you live

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Speaker 1: watch The First American, you can do that on Amazon. Prime.

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Speaker 1: there was an op ed by the president of the

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