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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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Speaker 2: I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. This is special global coverage

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Speaker 2: of the State of the Union addressed tonight in Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. Kaylee Lines, Rick Davis, and Genie Shanzano are

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Speaker 2: with us in our Washington bureau as we try to

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Speaker 2: unpack what we just heard. A laundry list, certainly, but

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Speaker 2: also a tone from this president that was predicted from

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Speaker 2: the White House.

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Speaker 3: High energy umph behind the speech.

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Speaker 2: He did manage to find spontaneous moments, Kaylee, with a

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Speaker 2: back and forth with none other than Marjorie Taylor Green.

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Speaker 2: It was the issue of the border that really seemed

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Speaker 2: to light up Republicans tonight in this room.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely. Marjorie Taylor Green confronting the President from across many

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Speaker 4: rows of seats about Lake and Riley, who we discussed

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Speaker 4: earlier this evening, a college student in Georgia who was

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Speaker 4: killed by a person who was in the country illegally.

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Speaker 4: He did say Lake and Riley's name. He addressed her

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Speaker 4: parents and, leaning on the empathy we have often seen

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Speaker 4: from this president, says he understands what it was like

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Speaker 4: having lost children himself, what they must be experiencing interesting though,

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Speaker 4: that on the actual substantive issue of the border, which

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Speaker 4: we knew was going to likely feature heavily into this speech,

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Speaker 4: he didn't get to it until about forty minutes in.

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Speaker 4: He instead began with the issue of Ukraine, then moving

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Speaker 4: to the issue of democracy. One of the big highlight

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Speaker 4: lines in the first portion of the speech coming from

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Speaker 4: the president, and he was alluding to his predecessor said

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Speaker 4: that you can't love your country only when you win,

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Speaker 4: and Joe he said that line after talking about January sixth,

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Speaker 4: and from there, of course, we saw him touch on

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Speaker 4: many other issues, abortion, the economy, and ending the skeeech

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Speaker 4: this evening, addressing what many see as one of his

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Speaker 4: biggest weaknesses as he campaigns for a second term, his age,

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Speaker 4: he said, I've been around a while, trying to play

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Speaker 4: a joke about it, but then also said, the issue

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Speaker 4: facing our nation is not how old we are, it's

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Speaker 4: how old our ideas are. And it was really toward

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Speaker 4: the end of this speech that you saw Biden in

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Speaker 4: campaign mode, not just addressing the American people in this

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Speaker 4: Congress as president, but as someone who would like to

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Speaker 4: stay president for another four years.

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Speaker 2: Show yeah, kayleie, We heard him use that line on

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Speaker 2: Late Night with Seth Meyers a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: about whether your ideas are old, and he certainly delivered

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Speaker 2: that here with some emphasis as he did the money

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Speaker 2: line of the night. The state of our union, he said,

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Speaker 2: is strong and getting stronger. Not everyone in the room

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Speaker 2: agrees with that, of course, and I will tell you

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Speaker 2: that in this Statuary Hall, all the lawmakers are now

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Speaker 2: emerging from the chamber. Senators and members of the House

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Speaker 2: are streaming bias here, and we're going to have conversations

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Speaker 2: with some of them coming up here on Bloomberg for

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Speaker 2: their impressions, as I mentioned D's and R's who sat

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Speaker 2: through this Kalian. Of course, we're now going to be

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Speaker 2: hearing the official Republican response to this address tonight from

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Speaker 2: the President.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Senator Katie Britt of Alabama. Of course, at forty

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Speaker 4: two years old, the youngest woman Republican ever to be

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Speaker 4: elected to the Chamber, will shortly give the Republican response,

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Speaker 4: and of course we will be bringing you that response

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Speaker 4: live on Bloomberg television and radio. But we also do

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Speaker 4: want to get the response of our political panel who

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Speaker 4: is still with us. Jeanie Shanzeno of Iona University and

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Speaker 4: Rick Davis, partner at Stone Court Capital, are still here

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Speaker 4: with me at the Washington Bureau, and Genie, I would

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Speaker 4: like to just begin with you. This speech was over

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Speaker 4: an hour long. One of the big conversations we were

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Speaker 4: having going into it is not what the President said,

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Speaker 4: but how he said it being important. How would you

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Speaker 4: rate his performance this evening, aside from the policy he outlined, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, I have to say I think the performance itself

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Speaker 5: it was energetic. Joe used the word he had a

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Speaker 5: lot of oomph. I think it was raucous. He was

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Speaker 5: interacting with members of Congress, and I think performance wise,

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Speaker 5: he may have been able to do what he did

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Speaker 5: last year, which was twell some of the doubts about

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Speaker 5: his age and his ability. So I think from a

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Speaker 5: performance perspective, I'm not sure that the White House or

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Speaker 5: the campaign could have expected anything more from this president.

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Speaker 5: I think his experience showed this is Joe Biden in

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Speaker 5: his element. He is, after all, a man of Congress,

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Speaker 5: having served in this body from seventy three to two

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Speaker 5: So I think this was a night where by performance standards.

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Speaker 5: He did exceed a lot of expectations. And that's the

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Speaker 5: way Joe Biden likes it. He feels like he's been

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Speaker 5: underestimated for most of his political and professional career, and

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Speaker 5: at those important moments he has done what he needed

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Speaker 5: to do. And I think tonight was one of those nights.

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Speaker 2: Rick your impressions here of this address, Expectations were so

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Speaker 2: high and made even higher by this White House. It

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Speaker 2: promised and energetic Joe Biden at nine o'clock at night,

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Speaker 2: and it sure seemed like we got one. You might

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Speaker 2: not agree with everything he said, but Ricky had the

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Speaker 2: room palm of his hand for extended periods of times

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Speaker 2: that I'd even achieved some back and forth, some call

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Speaker 2: and response with Republicans. Did he meet his goals?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I think he did.

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Speaker 6: I mean, look at how he started this speech out,

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Speaker 6: extremely strong, high paced, very strong wording around democracy, one

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Speaker 6: of his favorite topics. They went with something that I

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Speaker 6: like he's really embraced it. I think we also saw

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Speaker 6: the makings of the campaign speech. I mean, one of

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Speaker 6: the things I always look at is what's happening in

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Speaker 6: the first fifteen minutes, because with all due respect, not

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Speaker 6: everybody sits through the entire speech like we did tonight,

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Speaker 6: and so you want to get the biggest audience around

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Speaker 6: that key terms, and it was democracy, abortion rights, the pandemic, comeback,

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Speaker 6: the economy, and infrastructure, and I think after that the

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Speaker 6: rest of it was much more of a traditional state

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Speaker 6: of the Union and less campaign.

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Speaker 3: Until the end.

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Speaker 6: He used this opportunity to contrast over a dozen times

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Speaker 6: with his predat assessor, the unnamed man in this speech,

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Speaker 6: Donald Trump, and I think it was very aggressive in

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Speaker 6: that case. So I would say this speech was an

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Speaker 6: offensive speech. It was him taking it to Donald Trump,

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Speaker 6: defending the turf he's created for himself and his presidency

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Speaker 6: and talking to voters tonight. Much more so than Congress,

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Speaker 6: and much more so, frankly, than the foreign policy aspects

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Speaker 6: of this. It was a domestic speech meant for the

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Speaker 6: campaign well.

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Speaker 4: And Rick, as you talk about the idea that he

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Speaker 4: was referencing his predecessor without directly naming him, he also

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Speaker 4: said at one point in the speech that America cannot

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Speaker 4: go back. I'm here tonight to show the way forward.

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Speaker 4: And he went on at the end of the speech

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Speaker 4: Joe Matthew perhaps greeting a senator as they emerge from

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Speaker 4: the chamber and will bring you that conversation shortly. But

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Speaker 4: when he talks about the way forward, something else he

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Speaker 4: mentioned rick was a unity agenda. Is that what this

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Speaker 4: campaign is now going to be about? What is a

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Speaker 4: unity agenda?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I would say it was surprising to me because it

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Speaker 6: as he was wrapping things up, he sort of sprung

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Speaker 6: the unity agenda. He talked about bringing people home from

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Speaker 3: He talked about AI.

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Speaker 6: It didn't seem to have this sort of cohesiveness that

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Speaker 6: the rest of the speech did.

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Speaker 3: And frankly, I didn't take the speech as a unity speech.

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Speaker 6: He wasn't asking Congress to sort of get together and

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Speaker 6: work things out. He was advocating for his views, and

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Speaker 6: he actually went after Republicans in the House a number

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Speaker 6: of times when they rejected conservative plans like the immigration

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Speaker 6: it must have been an afterthought or something that they

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Speaker 6: tacked on to the end of the speech to try

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Speaker 4: All right, and we want to go now back to

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Speaker 4: Joe in Statuary Hall, where he is joined by Senator

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Speaker 4: Dick Durbin, the Senate majority whip. Joe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks Kaylee, Senator, it's great to see you and

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Speaker 2: welcome back to Bloomberg. On this State of the Union night.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you managed to get out of

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Speaker 2: the chamber there. The energy seemed high. We were promised

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Speaker 2: a high energy Joe Biden late at night. Did he

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Speaker 2: pull that through for those who were in the room.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, home run, strong ideas, strong presentation. But to rest

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Speaker 7: this notion is somehow an elderly man, you can't handle

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Speaker 7: the job. He showed real strength to ideas that are

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Speaker 7: important for America's future.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Interesting order in topics.

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Speaker 2: We started on Ukraine, we heard about the economy, a

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Speaker 2: lot of other issues before we ever got to the border.

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Speaker 3: Senator.

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Speaker 2: That seems to be the issue that lit up the room.

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Speaker 2: It certainly has been driving the debate here with the

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Speaker 3: Did he make any headway there?

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Speaker 2: You're seeing half the room up, half the room down,

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Speaker 2: and it really underscores the division.

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Speaker 7: Two out of three Americans know what's going on there.

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Speaker 7: As a bipartisan bill proposed in the Senate, which the

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Speaker 7: President supported, James Langford of Oklahoma, a Republican senator, was

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Speaker 7: the lead negotiator. We were ready to move forward on

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Speaker 7: a bipartisan solution. Guess what happened. Donald Trump said, stop,

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Speaker 7: we don't want to give Joe Biden a victory. Blame

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Speaker 7: it on me. He said, oh, I am blaming it

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Speaker 7: on him. He stopped any progress on a bipartisan solution.

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Speaker 7: The President tonight said, stop giving your speeches on the

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Speaker 7: Republican side about the border. Do something. Join me in

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Speaker 7: passing the spill.

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Speaker 2: You're the majority whip, and you blame Donald Trump for

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Speaker 2: what happened.

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Speaker 7: I certainly do, he said. He said exactly that, I'm

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Speaker 7: quoting him. Place the blame on me. He's the one

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Speaker 7: who stopped the negotiation, stopped any effort for bipartisanship.

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Speaker 3: So let's ignore him.

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Speaker 7: For a minute and solve the problem on a bipartisan basis.

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Speaker 2: Well, indeed is the majority whip you have a sense

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Speaker 2: of the votes. I wonder if we're going to see

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Speaker 2: a vote in the Senate, maybe even tonight, Senator on

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Speaker 2: this stop gap of budget plan that passed the minibus,

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Speaker 2: if we can call it that that passed the House.

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Speaker 2: Do you have work left tonight or is that tomorrow?

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Speaker 7: Tomorrow?

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Speaker 3: Will it pass?

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Speaker 7: I think it will. I think the strong bipartisan support

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Speaker 7: in the House is an indication of what's going to

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Speaker 7: happen in the Senate.

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Speaker 2: This is the beginning of the general election, as many

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Speaker 2: have called it. This is going to be Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: versus Donald Trump. Americans need to start getting their minds

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Speaker 2: around that.

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Speaker 7: Yes, they should, and it's important that they do, because

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Speaker 7: this is a clear choice between Biden and Trump. We've

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Speaker 7: seen this match before, but we understand the gravity of it.

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Speaker 7: After January sixth insurrection Mob, I mean, the violence that

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Speaker 7: President Trump initiated against this very building and the people

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Speaker 7: who work in it should not be easily forgotten.

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Speaker 2: Senator Dick Durbin, thank you for spending time with us

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Speaker 2: On the State of the Union evening, Kaylee I'll send

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Of course, as we considered the

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Speaker 4: How do you think the President handled that tonight? Did

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Speaker 1: Well, certainly he delivered a very strong and resounding commitment

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Speaker 2: Well, come talk to us again when you get back

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Speaker 2: Rick and Genie. We're talking about this not just members

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Speaker 4: Absolutely as we are now, for all intents and purposes,

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Speaker 3: And he did something that I think.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jill Matthew and Statutory Hall in the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 2: Having just heard from the President and Senator britt were

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Speaker 2: Congressman Style, it's great to see you. Where to begin

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Speaker 8: I think the President really missed the opportunity to speak

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Speaker 2: You know, we talk about inflation a lot when you're

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Speaker 3: Would that not be a sign of success in that fight?

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Speaker 3: You come to a grocery store.

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Speaker 2: Will you be on the trail in this campaign to

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Speaker 8: Wisconsin's going to be front and center in the contrast

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Speaker 2: Congressman Brian's style Republican from Wisconsin. We thank you for

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Speaker 2: the insights, Kayley. That's just a sense of the Republican

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Speaker 3: His big opportunity between now and the convention.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and we want to get final thoughts now with

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Speaker 4: President Biden leave tonight in a better position than he

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, he was able to start the campaign with a

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