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Speaker 1: So Michael Vari show is.

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Speaker 3: On the air.

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Speaker 1: The United States is the birthplace.

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Speaker 3: The modern birthplace would have to go back to Greece,

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Speaker 3: but the modern birthplace of democracy, self governance, the idea of.

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Speaker 1: Governance by the.

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Speaker 3: People for the people of the people, democratically elected republic.

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Speaker 3: We're not a democracy because otherwise would be voting all

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Speaker 3: the time, we couldn't get our work done. The idea

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Speaker 3: of a nation built on ideals, living out the lofty speeches.

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Speaker 3: So people from around the world, but not to be discounted,

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Speaker 3: people from the United States go to Washington, DC as

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Speaker 3: a tourist to see our nation's capital, to tour the

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Speaker 3: White House. You know, I don't know how many countries

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Speaker 3: you can walk through the house that the leader lives in.

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Speaker 2: You see it all.

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Speaker 1: You walk through in.

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Speaker 3: This this old house. It's not as big as you

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Speaker 3: would imagine considering. It's like when you first go to

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Speaker 3: Graceland and you're an Elvis nut and you figure this

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Speaker 3: is Elvis's house. This thing's got to be, you know, amazing,

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Speaker 3: and then you realize that every suburb in America has

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Speaker 3: a house bigger than that one.

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Speaker 1: Because of the time it was built. Well, that's especially

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Speaker 1: to the White House.

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Speaker 3: Tourists go to see the White House, the Supreme Court,

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Speaker 1: It's incredible. I don't know anywhere else she You can

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Speaker 3: You know, when I was eighteen years old, between my

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Speaker 3: junior and senior year seventeen eighteen yees seventeen, I raised

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Speaker 3: d C. And spend a good part of the summer

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Speaker 3: there and we would have sessions every day on government, governance, leadership, elections.

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Speaker 3: Every politician as a young person did these sorts of things.

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Speaker 3: It's a student by the President kind of thing to do.

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Speaker 3: There are people who are eager to lead from an

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Speaker 3: early age, and there are lots of programs like this.

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Speaker 3: So I went on this program and we would have

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Speaker 3: there's a little subway car. It's like a silly little

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Speaker 3: You'd be on the old timey car, and that's really

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Speaker 1: Well they have.

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Speaker 3: They have that sort of thing down in the that

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Speaker 3: over to your building, and so you don't have to

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Speaker 3: So I figured out that's where the politicians are. So

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Speaker 3: I would go down there and I would just ride

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Speaker 3: This was nineteen eighty eight. Paul Simon had dropped. Is

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Speaker 3: We didn't think of selfies back then, but somebody else

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Speaker 3: And so there was me and John Glenn. Rode my little,

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Speaker 3: Bob Dole, and in fact I got myself invited by

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Speaker 3: Lean font design is just incredible, brilliant design. This has

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Speaker 3: You're not going to see plays, You're not going for

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Speaker 3: the great restaurants. Although there are actually great restaurants. The

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Speaker 1: We ate it. Ukrainian restaurants. Figured out I already paid

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Speaker 3: So anyway, this should be a place of great pride,

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Speaker 1: This is our national capital.

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Speaker 3: This is where our government gathers. We see it on

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Speaker 3: The fact is it's incredibly dangerous. So my brother was

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Speaker 1: To see that, to witness that with my boys, and the.

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Speaker 4: Area where we were as we were walking, it was

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Speaker 4: all officers because all the fallen officers, they have contingents

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Speaker 1: You know over there that should not be the case.

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Speaker 3: This is the sort of stuff that Trump is doing

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Speaker 3: that for the Democrats to criticize, and this was what

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Speaker 3: Smarconish was talking about, how are you criticizing him cleaning

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Speaker 1: And they immediately start arguing.

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Speaker 4: DC's not dangerous, DSE's great, DZ's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: You know, he can't take it over. He can't do that.

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Speaker 3: Not only do you sound still, let you sound evil.

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Speaker 3: You know how dangerous this city is. And the President

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we're gonna do. That's yeah, we're not

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Speaker 4: We're gonna have new studies, We're gonna stakehold and grief.

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Speaker 1: It not just what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 6: Our creative director Jim Mudd notes that President Trump has

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Speaker 6: let his hair go gray ish grayish white, which I

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Speaker 6: had not noted before. He wasn't criticizing or complimenting. It

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Speaker 6: was simply an observation. If you saw his press conference,

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Speaker 4: President is still speaking about making our capital. Say it,

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Speaker 4: you talk about the sort of thing that should make

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Speaker 4: everybody in our country rally behind.

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Speaker 1: This is it right here? Here's what he's saying.

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna have to worry about that now.

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Speaker 5: I think you're gonna do a fantastic job. And everybody

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Speaker 5: in this room, they may not express it, but they all.

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Speaker 2: Want that to happen. You know, they want to be safe.

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Speaker 5: And they have families too, So it's an honor to

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Speaker 5: have such a large group. I've done this for years now.

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Speaker 5: Hard to believe. I've never seen this room so packed.

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Speaker 5: In fact, I'm sure it's a violation of every fire code.

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Speaker 5: But we'll let you say anyway, you take it a chance,

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Speaker 5: and with that will say, maybe if you could, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Well, we could be here all.

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Speaker 5: Day long if you could, if we could, if we

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Speaker 5: could keep the first questions perhaps to this subject, and

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Speaker 5: then we'll go into a few hours.

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Speaker 7: Mister President, thank you so much. We talked about how

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Speaker 7: personal of an issue this is. Who talked about flying

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Speaker 2: Pride of what DC is?

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Speaker 7: Do you believe the status of the city, the cleanliness,

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Speaker 2: Act I do I think the capital. Look, everyone comes here,

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Speaker 2: they all they're all coming, all the leaders, they're all

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Speaker 5: It again, but I'm really just quoting other leaders from NATO,

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Speaker 2: King of Saudi Arabia, Guitar uae I was over there.

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Speaker 5: We brought back five point one trillion dollars of investment

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Speaker 2: We have the hottest country in the world right now.

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Speaker 5: It's given us not only the money it said Vidians,

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Speaker 5: trillions of dollars of money, but it gives us great

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Speaker 5: power over enemies. We saw five wars with Pakistan and Indian. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Russia tried to solve it. They all tried to solve it.

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Speaker 5: hard time? Yeah, they've been killing each other for thirty

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Speaker 5: I've been fighting this war and you got to solve

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Speaker 5: But we did.

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Speaker 2: Many of those.

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Speaker 5: We did in the Congo and Rwanda that's been going

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Speaker 5: on for thirty years, eight to nine million people killed

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Speaker 2: Raging, and we got that solved. We got a lot

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Speaker 2: of them done some great honor.

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Speaker 5: But you want to have when they come, the leaders

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Speaker 5: come to our country to sign documents that the war

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Speaker 5: for trade, and you want them to come through so

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Speaker 5: beautifully you ride down those roads.

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Speaker 2: Everything should be perfect.

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Speaker 5: You shouldn't have medians falling down into the roadway median.

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Speaker 2: You know the metal things that are always.

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Speaker 5: Somebody had a great lobbyist, because I've never seen them

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Speaker 3: President Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin in the historically

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Speaker 3: Don't be shocked. I heard John Bolton saying that the

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Speaker 3: right that that's what's going to happen. What is the

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Speaker 2: M effort.

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Speaker 1: You ain't getting either one. Go back.

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Speaker 4: No, this idea that we owe Ukraine a war with

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Speaker 1: No Trump talked.

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Speaker 5: Then after that meeting, immediately, maybe as I'm flying out,

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Speaker 2: I'm leaving the room, I'll be calling the European leader.

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Speaker 5: So I get along with very well, and you know,

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Speaker 5: But I'll be speaking to Zelenski. The next meeting will

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Speaker 2: Land swapping going on.

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Speaker 5: Russia's occupied a big portion of Ukraine. They've occupied some

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Speaker 1: They do not want peace.

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Speaker 3: not homosexual?

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Speaker 1: Crew was like mess something up or make it is?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, is that like is that acceptable?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: I'm just here a genuine questioning.

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Speaker 3: President Trump has incredible instincts better than anybody I've ever

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Speaker 3: seen with regard to media and messaging. He knew that

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Speaker 3: with the visit with Putin coming up Friday and the

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Speaker 3: weekend talk shows UH focusing on trying to sabotage that meeting,

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Speaker 3: that all the media would want to ask about today

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Speaker 3: was Putin and try to trip him up. And I

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Speaker 3: genuinely believe that all the Democrats who now work for

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Speaker 3: the media that their goal is to god Trump into

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Speaker 3: saying something so aggressive toward Putin that he flares up

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Speaker 3: Putin's You know, you go to the dog park and

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Speaker 3: you see the dogs and you're trying to keep them calm,

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Speaker 3: and anything can set one of them off because they're

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Speaker 3: so defensive and everything is there are I genuinely believe

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Speaker 3: that the media is trying to incite Trump to say

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Speaker 3: something that will destroy any possibility of.

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Speaker 1: The meetings if not call the meetings off altogether. And

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Speaker 1: I think that.

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Speaker 3: They're trying to inflame Zelenski to where he basically says,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what comes out of that meeting, I

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Speaker 3: won't do anything because there are a lot of people

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Speaker 3: who stand to gain from that war continuing, which is

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Speaker 3: really unfortunate because you have the people of two countries

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Speaker 3: who are wasting a lot of money trying to kill

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Speaker 3: each other in a truly existential sense.

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Speaker 1: That is sad. That is sad.

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Speaker 3: You're no better than two low level animals fighting over

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Speaker 3: the same worm in the forest. That is not how

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Speaker 3: great art is produced. That's not how scientific advancements come about, innovation, commerce, transportation, health, medicine, music.

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Speaker 3: This is not how societies. If you want to look

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Speaker 3: at what will drag a society down and prevent development,

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Speaker 3: look at the African tribal wars post mostly British, some Dutch, French,

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Speaker 3: some Belgian for that matter, to Congo imperialism, the throwing

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Speaker 3: off of the yoke of a foreign imperial control has

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Speaker 3: not been for Africa what one would have hoped, maybe

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Speaker 3: would have expected, but what would one would have hoped.

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Speaker 3: And the reason was because it's set off a power grab,

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Speaker 3: and what you've mostly seen, of the few names that

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Speaker 3: are recognized by Americans of African leaders, what you've mostly

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Speaker 3: seen is someone who comes up from the ranks of

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Speaker 3: the military who has no experience or aptitude for governance,

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Speaker 3: for leading, for building. And so you have a continent

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Speaker 3: that most of these countries became independent in the sixties,

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Speaker 3: fifties and sixties, and you've had a complete lack of

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Speaker 3: any real tangible development. And it's breathtaking and it's sad,

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Speaker 3: and it can be partly blamed on constant war. Even Ethiopia,

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Speaker 3: which I think is an advanced culture, maybe not financially,

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Speaker 3: but as an advanced culture in Africa, they had.

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Speaker 1: The Tigrai.

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Speaker 3: Militia within a matter of a few miles of Addis

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Speaker 3: Ababa trying to take over the government. Just a couple

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Speaker 3: of years ago, you had a civil war where hundreds

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Speaker 3: of bodies were washing up in lakes and rivers having

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Speaker 3: been butchered. And that's in a country that if you

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Speaker 3: went there, you wouldn't think this is a warmongering people.

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Speaker 3: But you have such tribal identity, such hatred, such self dealing.

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Speaker 3: I mean, imagine this, imagine you had a nation of

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Speaker 3: Jasmine Crockett, a nation of Nancy Pelosi, Pete Boudagig. You

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Speaker 3: think about how divisive these people are and how tribal

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Speaker 3: they are, self dealing, no sense of integrity, no sense

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Speaker 3: of the common good, no sense of restraint.

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Speaker 1: You think about these people.

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Speaker 3: I mean, imagine you had a nation of Lena Hidalgo

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Speaker 3: with Rodney Ellis running it. They have managed to destroy

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Speaker 3: Harris County government in a matter of just a couple

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Speaker 3: of years, and it's only gonna get worse until hopefully

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Speaker 3: it gets better. But it's why Rodney's so popular in

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Speaker 3: Africa because he can cut deals over there. He knows

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Speaker 3: the mindset. He understands this sense that there is no shame.

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Speaker 3: One thing you notice about democrats, and you see this

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Speaker 3: in Africa, you will notice that democrats have zero shame,

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Speaker 3: none at all. When Joe Biden told the cornpop.

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Speaker 1: Story, that wasn't the first time he's told that.

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Speaker 3: When Joe Biden claimed he was top of his class

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Speaker 3: and he'd won all these honors, and Sam Donaldson exposed

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Speaker 3: him for the fool that he was and that he

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Speaker 3: had lied about all of them. He just lied about everything.

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Speaker 3: That's what we're dealing with, these types of people from

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Speaker 3: a political culture where there is no sense of honor

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Speaker 3: and dignity in doing the right thing, even for people

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Speaker 3: that don't vote for you. These are notions that Republicans hold.

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Speaker 3: These are notions that our founders held. And this is

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Speaker 3: why the left hates our founders. This is why the

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Speaker 3: monuments were torn down. This is why the founders are

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Speaker 3: called slave owners. Is why the Jeffersonian ideals, the words

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Speaker 3: of George Washington, the words of our early founders, this

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Speaker 3: is why they're reduced. They must be reduced. That person

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Speaker 3: is imperfect. He is imperfect. We must never listen to

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Speaker 3: him again. So it's maddening and saddening to see two

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Speaker 3: great nations, which of course were once one. Ukraine has

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Speaker 3: been largely a part of Russia, and by the way,

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Speaker 3: Ukraine was arguably the most important piece of the USSR.

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Speaker 3: I think Khushov was Ukrainian so much, so much the

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Speaker 3: bread basket of the world. To see these two at

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Speaker 3: war constantly, and see what a distraction it is to

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Speaker 3: those people, and such loss of life, Ukrainian people, Ukrainian

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Speaker 3: men being grabbed off the reach and thrown into a

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Speaker 3: van so they can be sent out there as more

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Speaker 3: cannon fodder. Trump is not a warmonger. They can say

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Speaker 3: what they want. Trump has been a president of peace,

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Speaker 3: peace through strength, but peace. And he has done more

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Speaker 3: for peace in seven months than any president I ever

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Speaker 3: recall in the first two years of their presidency. This

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Speaker 3: is amazing what he has accomplished. I don't expect him

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Speaker 3: to get the Nobel Prize. I do think Americans should

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Speaker 3: understand in addition to all the things he's done, he's

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Speaker 3: brought peace to regions of the world where we never

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Speaker 3: expected to see it. I mean, look at Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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Speaker 3: These people have what a waste of energy, and now

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Speaker 3: he's trying to do that for Russia and Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: You'd think he would be praised for that. You'd think