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Speaker 3: We're going to start in Washington because we've got a

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Speaker 3: minute with Royal Oaks, who is so brilliant on legal matters,

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Speaker 3: because the Justice Department has just published documents with sexual

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Speaker 3: assault allegations against the president and these are pretty ugly.

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Speaker 3: I'll get into some of the details with Royal Hi.

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Speaker 4: Royal Oaks, Hey, how you doing.

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Speaker 1: You must have a very We're definition and brilliant, but

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Speaker 1: thank you. Anyway, you know this is provocative, Mark, I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously these allegations have been horrific for decades now. What

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Speaker 1: happened is that about seven years ago, the FBI interviewed

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Speaker 1: a woman who said that back when she was thirteen

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Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen. It's a little vague. She had an

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Speaker 1: encounter with Donald Trump. We don't have any details. We

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Speaker 1: don't know what this involved. But you know, that alone

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Speaker 1: is enough to get people thinking. But the deal is,

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Speaker 1: these documents were just produced today, about a thousand pages,

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Speaker 1: and the DJ has some explain them to do Mark

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Speaker 1: because these interview reports were actually withheld months ago, and

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Speaker 1: the DOJ says, oh, sorry, we mistakenly thought that they

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Speaker 1: were duplicative a few months ago, so we didn't produce them.

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Speaker 1: Then now we realize that we didn't produce them at all,

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Speaker 1: and so here they are. But the allegations are totally uncorroborated,

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Speaker 1: and there are some huge credibility gaps in the allegation.

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Speaker 1: But nonetheless, of course it's not good news for Donald Trump.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting.

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Speaker 3: Just first, before I get into these specific allegations, it

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Speaker 3: would appear and they kind of mentioned the White House

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Speaker 3: you know, these are totally baseless. These accusations also supported

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Speaker 3: by the Abbey's fact that Joe Biden's Department or Justice

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Speaker 3: knew about them for four years did nothing with them

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Speaker 3: because they knew President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong, as

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Speaker 3: we have said countless times.

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Speaker 4: So true, maybe or maybe the Biden.

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Speaker 3: Justice Department was in a sense of following the script

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Speaker 3: that many suggest the Epstein filescript has followed, which is

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Speaker 3: everybody's covering for everybody else. I don't know if there's

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Speaker 3: any How do you rate the weight of that, the

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Speaker 3: fact that Biden had it and did nothing with these allegations.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, to me, that's a pretty powerful thing for Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we know how little love there was between

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Speaker 1: that the Biden Department of Justice, as you say, investigated

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Speaker 1: these specific claims, had them on their desk for four years,

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Speaker 1: and did zippo. That seems like a pretty strong fact

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Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. But there's more. For example, the timeline

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Speaker 1: this young woman described was before Epstein and Trump had

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Speaker 1: any social connection whatsoever, and yet she alleges that she

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Speaker 1: The second problem is that she claims some incidents occurred

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Speaker 1: Plus she was interviewed four times, and she was asked

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Speaker 1: can this be? But you know, the redaction challenge is

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Speaker 1: We're not doing anything that would compromise ongoing investigations. So

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Speaker 3: Away well on the ongoing investigation part. The head of

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Speaker 1: No, you're right, and that's a really important point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: at all. You know, you and I've talked about this before. Mark.

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Speaker 1: I think the lifespan of this case can be chalked up,

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Speaker 1: yet if the folks on the left would love to

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it speaks to the quality of Congress

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Speaker 4: But more on that another time.

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Speaker 3: The last thing I would point to Royle I kind

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Speaker 4: I was going to read them, but man, they give

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Speaker 3: This series of FBI investigative interviews with this woman, whose name,

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Speaker 3: boy girl, meaning a tomboy. The woman said other people

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Speaker 3: And then Trump then unzipped his pants, etc. I'm not

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Speaker 3: of here. And in all of these specifics, Royal, it

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Speaker 1: Well, to me, it doesn't really necessarily give it veracity.

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Speaker 1: It does provide spaceticity and detail, and you're right, and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Royal OAS's so right. I mean, there's they're different

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Speaker 3: to be continued. Thanks for joining my friend. Have a

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Speaker 3: good weekend, Royal Oaks.

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Speaker 1: You bet you too.

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Speaker 3: Thanks all right, Royal Oaks shedding some light on the

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Speaker 3: latest Justice Department move to publish documents with sexual assault

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Speaker 3: allegations against Donald Trump. It was a bad week for

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Speaker 3: I will be talking about California gas prices coming up. Obviously,

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Speaker 8: Have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski, mister Sherman,

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Speaker 8: I am shocked that we're going down and peddling tabloid

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Speaker 6: I'm also forced to defend the apartment's two hundred million

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Speaker 7: Cheaper just to buy a deportation plane in the first place.

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Speaker 3: The relatives saying that Brian Nome appears determined to show

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Speaker 3: so that's the story behind the story, she leaves. I

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Speaker 3: We'll get into that next. Mark Thompson here for John Coblt.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 3: Mark Thompson here for John Cobelt. The Democrats, of course,

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Speaker 3: competing for the California governorship find themselves in this bizarre situation.

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Speaker 4: Of course, you know Knews.

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Speaker 3: Him out and you know he's term limited, right, So

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Speaker 3: you have eight candidates, and in the eight candidates, you

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Speaker 3: Eric Swalwell, former Controller Betty Ye, State Schools Chief, Tony Thurman,

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Speaker 3: the mayor of San Jose is running, Matt Mahan, former

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Speaker 3: congress Person Katie Porter, former LA Mayor Antonio Villa Ragosa,

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Speaker 3: Tom Steyer. You've seen his commercials. You've seen the commercials

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Speaker 3: from all these people, roughly, and for HHS Secretary Javier Basseira,

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Speaker 3: So you've no doubt heard about this, and you no

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Speaker 3: doubt are aware of it on some level, but now

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Speaker 3: you are living it as we all are.

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Speaker 4: In a state.

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Speaker 3: Forty five percent of the voters are Democrats, just twenty

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Speaker 3: five percent are Republicans. Now you may be a Republican,

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Speaker 3: go hey, I don't even talking about ninety percent of

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Speaker 3: my friends are a Republican. I don't understand where where

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Speaker 3: all live in our own ecosystem right when it comes

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Speaker 3: forty five percent of California voters or Democrats and twenty

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Speaker 3: five percent of Republicans. But polling is saying that more

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Speaker 3: Democratic candidates are splitting this liberal share of the state's

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Speaker 3: and that so the two Republicans could easily carry the

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Speaker 3: situation where you're voting for a Republican for governor. Whether

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Speaker 3: you like it or not, it's a real spot that

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Speaker 3: the Democrats find themselves in splitting the vote, and the

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Speaker 3: general even in a heavily democratic state. So this large

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Speaker 3: California is really flying in the face of a plea

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Speaker 3: in effect by democratic leadership. To guys, you can't see

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Speaker 3: what's happening here, We're going to lose control of the

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Speaker 3: governorship of California. But when you feel as though you

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Speaker 3: are the most qualified leader, the most capable leader, you

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Speaker 3: end up not wanting to bow out of the race.

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Speaker 3: And all of these people feel as though they fall

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Speaker 3: into that category. So I watched this with great interest,

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Speaker 3: and there there is a lot of pressure. The state

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Speaker 3: party chair Rusty Hicks an open letter calling for Democrats

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Speaker 3: quote without a path to victory, to bow out. But

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Speaker 3: the reality is that there isn't much in the way

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Speaker 3: of movement. The candidates who filed paperwork to appear on

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Speaker 3: the ballot can still suspend their campaigns after is the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is today. Yeah, So they.

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Speaker 3: Can still suspend their campaigns after today, but the names

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Speaker 3: risk dividing the votes right. Candidates who appear on the

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Speaker 3: ballot after dropping out oftentimes continue to win votes Leland Yee,

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Speaker 3: for example, State Center state Senator Democratic State Center won

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Speaker 3: almost ten percent of the vote in the primary race

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Speaker 3: for Secretary of State twenty fourteen. That was despite the

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Speaker 3: fact they've been indicted on federal corruption and weapons trafficking

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Speaker 3: conspiracy charges dropped out of the race in March of

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Speaker 3: that year. So it's not uncommon for this to happen,

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Speaker 3: screw up the whole race. Newsome will not endorse, but

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Speaker 3: he talks about this situation that we find ourselves in

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Speaker 3: in California, so many Democrats running and a public that

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Speaker 3: isn't really wedded to anyone. Gavin Newsom said, quote, when

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Speaker 3: I'm out in the community, people aren't talking to me

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Speaker 3: about this, which is interesting this late, just weeks before

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Speaker 3: early voting. As a consequence, I'm not directly as engaged

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Speaker 3: as perhaps I might need to be.

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Speaker 4: What an excuse.

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Speaker 3: The public doesn't seem to be engaged, So I don't

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Speaker 3: really see the need to be engaged either. Falls last

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Speaker 3: month from Emerson College and from the Public Policy Institute

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Speaker 3: of California found that Republican Riverside sheriff Chad Bianco and

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Speaker 3: former Fox News personality Steve Hilton, and the Democrats Swallwell

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Speaker 3: Porter and billionaire Tom Steyer are leading the overall field

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Speaker 3: with nine percent or higher. You may suggest that nine

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Speaker 3: when you have this many horses running nine percent, all

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Speaker 3: a serious situation developing here. And California could very easily

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Speaker 3: end up with republican governor and a conservative agenda, and

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Speaker 3: how will that square with so many Democrats who control

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Speaker 3: the state House. A wild, wild political field and political

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Speaker 3: narrative playing out in California. They're tech layoffs in Silicon

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Speaker 3: Valley that in the next hour, gas prices are rising.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that, and of course we will check

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Speaker 3: in on the war. All of it's still to come.

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