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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from coast to coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: So this story I had to lead in with you

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Speaker 1: about what happened in South America. Have you been following

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Speaker 1: that story? Yes, tens of millions of people left in

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Speaker 1: the dark. Power was out for fourteen hours. Is I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure exactly what happened. I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 1: what my guess is some nation is experimenting with hacking

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Speaker 1: and shutting down power grids. That's my guess. Fully agree

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Speaker 1: you think so? Absolutely? Yes, yep. It's shape of things

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Speaker 1: to come. And that is another unfortunate part of all

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Speaker 1: of this scenario, the hacking possibilities of just shutting down

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Speaker 1: the power grid by getting into it. I was given

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Speaker 1: the honor two months ago by the FBI to attend

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Speaker 1: to conference down East down by Raleigh at one hundred

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Speaker 1: agents whose primary task is related to cybersecurity issues, and George,

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Speaker 1: I'm actually feeling a little bit of optimism. And times

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Speaker 1: in the past you and I have talked and it's

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Speaker 1: been like, is anybody doing anything? And we would both

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Speaker 1: lamentate no. Right, Well, FBI and others. I got another

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Speaker 1: one I could tell you about later. They've taken it seriously.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the deputy director of the FBI, as she

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Speaker 1: said to the audience, if we do not do our job,

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Speaker 1: read Fortune's book, because you're going to find out how

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Speaker 1: your families are going to be living the day after.

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Speaker 1: Did you wake them up? Maybe hopefully through us, but

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Speaker 1: it was you that did this? But did they finally say,

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Speaker 1: we've heard about William Forstune, We've read his books. This

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Speaker 1: is real stuff. I don't want to wrap you broths

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Speaker 1: around myself and say it was me. It was It's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of people. It's how many people do

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Speaker 1: you reach, you know with your program? And we've been

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Speaker 1: talking about that for a year. Doctor Peter Prye and

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Speaker 1: the Commission, a couple of members of Congress who are

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Speaker 1: on top of things, like Mark Meadows. Well you got

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Speaker 1: Peter Prye on our program, and well he's been on

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Speaker 1: Frinda when I got me into the subject, and I mean,

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Speaker 1: that guy's the godfather. How close are we to legislation?

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Speaker 1: First of all, William, I'm getting this done. Finally, Finally, finally,

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Speaker 1: the former president put out some executive order related to

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Speaker 1: CMME that was to use another acronym pure bs. All right,

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Speaker 1: the current President Trump put out I think you and

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Speaker 1: I even talked about it back in March. He put

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Speaker 1: out a really powerful executive order ordering various branches of

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Speaker 1: government to respond within ninety two hundred twenty days to

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Speaker 1: start setting up initial plans. So I mean, they're not

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Speaker 1: actually out there hard hatting it yet and doing the

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Speaker 1: things that are necessary. But I do know somebody in

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Speaker 1: the administration, and it's the President's taking very seriously. The

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Speaker 1: problem is Congress is gridlocked on everything, on everything. You

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Speaker 1: have the snake chasing its tail, while the real stuff

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Speaker 1: that needs to be taken care of it is being ignored.

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Speaker 1: And this is one of the biggest They need to

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Speaker 1: look at what happened in South America last weekend and

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Speaker 1: say this could be us. Here's our wake up call.

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Speaker 1: Thank god we didn't get hit, but we need to

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Speaker 1: fix this and fix this right now, because this is real.

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Speaker 1: Well now, whether somebody hacked them or something else happened,

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Speaker 1: who knows at this point. But the part is it

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Speaker 1: went down. It looks like a hack. I think too. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's go to American territory. Puerto Rico is American territory,

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Speaker 1: and it's been almost two years there are still parts

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Speaker 1: of Puerto Rico without electricity because of the hurricanes. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the bureaucratic, bureaucratic stupidity, blundering, arrogance. Remember the mayor

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Speaker 1: of San Juan denouncing the president and you know you're

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Speaker 1: not helping us while stacked up behind her. Remember where

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Speaker 1: hundreds of them of boxes. They got most of the

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Speaker 1: if you're going to live in the hurricane zone, build

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Speaker 1: the deal with hurricanes. Puerto Rico got wiped out, they're

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Speaker 1: still not fully functional. Were your fortune with us? His

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Speaker 1: latest book is called forty eight Hours. He's got several

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Speaker 1: others that are all very important on this subject. Welliam,

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Speaker 1: let's start with empt. Explain what that is and how

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Speaker 1: it could be dangerous to the grid. Well, let's go

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Speaker 1: to EMP one oh one, okay, electro magnetic pulse. It

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Speaker 1: is produced by detonating a relatively low yield nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 1: You don't need some megabomb something around fifty to one

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Speaker 1: Hiroshima was about twelve to fifteen k detonate that two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty miles above the Earth's atmosphere. The electrostatic

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Speaker 1: discharge cascades down to the Earth's surface from the detonation

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Speaker 1: of the bomb, intensifying as it's traveling to just be

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Speaker 1: a light hits the Earth's surface and all of the

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Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of miles of wiring out there instantly

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Speaker 1: get hit with an electrical overload. It blows the grid offline.

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Speaker 1: It overloads particular of your high transmission lines. There's aluminum

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Speaker 1: towers with those big lines. Now they're john they are

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Speaker 1: literally exploding off the pylons were without power. Estimates from

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Speaker 1: within the industry in a DOJ report, excuse me, Dale

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Speaker 1: report indicate eighty percent of a power grid would still

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Speaker 1: be offline after five years. Now five years, and how

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Speaker 1: many people could die after that. I attended a conference

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Speaker 1: some years ago of people who work in the industry,

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Speaker 1: I mean experts on this issue, and there was a

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Speaker 1: team there that was running down what happens to us,

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Speaker 1: and the estimated casualty rate in America would be close

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Speaker 1: on to nine. And just so folks know, you don't

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Speaker 1: die from the direct emp, No, you die from the

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Speaker 1: ancillary of things that happen without having electricity. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: let's go to what I would call high you know

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Speaker 1: Maslow's hierarchy and needs in an EMP. Instantly, your water

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Speaker 1: supply is gone. Any major city, you lose your pumping facilities,

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Speaker 1: You've lost your banking system is down. Everything is down

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Speaker 1: within sanitation is down. These stores, the food stores are down. Ah.

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Speaker 1: I was just looking something up the other day on

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Speaker 1: that that. You know, your major markets all have heavy

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Speaker 1: of time, any food requiring refrigeration or freezing is condemned. Yea,

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Speaker 1: We're talking millions of dollars in just one big supermarket.

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Speaker 1: And the panic in you know, when a local meteorologist

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Speaker 1: in a city says we're going to have a big

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Speaker 1: snowstorm tomorrow, folks, if people hit the stores, the shelves

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Speaker 1: are empty. It's unbelievable because they can't stock it fast enough.

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Speaker 1: And that's just with a weather alert down here in

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Speaker 1: the South, it's two inches of snow. It's it's I

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Speaker 1: actually chuckle over that. But if the game's real, you

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Speaker 1: a supermarkets are going to not just be lines of

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Speaker 1: people buying bread. It's gonna be mobs anything they can grab. First,

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Speaker 1: of course, ago will be bottled water, baby foods, things

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Speaker 1: like that, and then the whole place just exactly And

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Speaker 1: how does the market sell it? They can't. All the

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Speaker 1: market can do at that point would just simply be

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Speaker 1: open the doors. Now, who is capable at this point

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Speaker 1: of launching an imp attack against us? Well, jee, people

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Speaker 1: who know how to blow up oil freighters, m whoever

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Speaker 1: they may be, whoever they may be. George, aren't you

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Speaker 1: appalled that the people in the EU or saying, well,

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Speaker 1: you really haven't proven that Iran did it. We talked

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Speaker 1: there's two fronts on that. One is we don't want

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Speaker 1: another Gulf of Talking episode or a false flag. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are people that want us in a war with Iran,

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Speaker 1: there is no question about it, and they could be

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Speaker 1: players in this situation to speed things up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I'm not so sure I Ran would be this stupid

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Speaker 1: underestimate stupidity. Therefore you'll never be disappointed. But in terms

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Speaker 1: of who could do it today, is South Korea capable

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Speaker 1: of doing something like launching an imp attack? Oh? North

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Speaker 1: Korea has been cable. North Korea ROA is And I

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Speaker 1: remember yet again you and I were talking. Oh, it

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Speaker 1: must have about a year ago when Um North Koreans

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Speaker 1: had put out a video showing the United States being

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Speaker 1: emped and Kim was laughing about it. And they're all

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Speaker 1: what's known as mad mutual assured destruction. Exactly, they launched,

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Speaker 1: we launch just like that. You get us, we get you.

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Speaker 1: You got a nut job in North Korea? I mean this.

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Speaker 1: Did you see what this guy threw some uh some

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Speaker 1: general Um ticked them off, so he threw him into

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Speaker 1: a tank loaded with Piranhas he has done that to

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Speaker 1: people who have fallen asleep at his meetings. The latest,

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Speaker 1: his meeting with President Trump because the meeting didn't go

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Speaker 1: well for either party, he had them executed his staff.

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Speaker 1: Apparently that's not true. But who knows what this guy

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Speaker 1: is capable of doing. Oh he tells people with mortars

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Speaker 1: throwing him the tigers. Now you put a new deal

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Speaker 1: weapon into that person's hands. That's something the warrior about. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because again, you don't know how suicidal these people are.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm convinced the pilot of that missing MH

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Speaker 1: analysis on that incident in Atlantic magazine which can get online,

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Speaker 1: into the mountain. Well, the insanity and Tis family, and

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Speaker 1: not just we're not making this up. We're not making

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Speaker 1: this up. This is in very authoritative reports. The Congressional

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Speaker 1: there's no fingerprints, and ten minutes later, you and I

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