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Speaker 1: Good Saturday morning to you, Ben Ferguson with you, and

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Speaker 1: The President said, it's time for you to go backwards,

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Speaker 2: Right now, story number one.

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Speaker 1: You would think that companies would learn from the fiascos

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Speaker 1: insert cracker barrel aiming to quote modernize. Under the new

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Speaker 1: A lot of great changes. Is how Good Morning America

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Speaker 1: A big story brewing and it involves the House GOP

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 1: Violent crime was fallen considerably compared to last year. Now,

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Speaker 1: They lost their minds. They started picketing, they started screaming,

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Speaker 2: And here his story. Number three.

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Speaker 1: The Biden administration, we're now learning, packed swing states with

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Speaker 1: President Joe Biden's border policies helped welcome more than a

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Speaker 1: back to reality. Why is Donald Trump doing so much

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Speaker 1: And this goes back to what Donald Trump has been

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Speaker 1: understand the plan the Biden administration said, Let's pack the

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