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Speaker 1: All right, this is Jeffrey Lord filling in for our

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Speaker 1: are going to talk now with a friend of mine

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Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania, a great Pennsylvanian by the name of Jeff Bartos,

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Speaker 1: who was a former Senate and lieutenant governor candidate himself

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Speaker 1: big role in the campaign to get Dave McCormick elected

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Speaker 1: to the United States Senate. Jeff how are you happy

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Speaker 2: Happy to hear to you, Jeffrey, and thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for having me on. And of course I hope

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Speaker 2: you and your family had a joyful and relaxing and

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Speaker 2: just very amazing Christmas holiday. As we wind down, probably

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Speaker 2: you know, not many years in our lives more extraordinary

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Speaker 1: Boy, I think that's the case. You know, as I

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Speaker 1: This was serious, major American history here. So what are

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Speaker 1: your thoughts jeff on Pennsylvania. You know, I thought from

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Speaker 2: Well, President Trump, I mean, Jeffery, you were very you know,

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Speaker 2: you were very involved in twenty sixteen, and you had

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Speaker 2: a first hand view of the remarkable win that President

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Speaker 2: that twenty sixteen campaign, and what President Trump was able

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Speaker 2: to do. At the same time, Senator to me won

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Speaker 2: re election in twenty sixteen. So it was a fascinating

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Speaker 2: study about Pennsylvania's electorate, which I think really is a

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: I grew up in reading, and I know, you know,

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Speaker 2: but I feel much more familiar, if you will, Barks

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Speaker 3: Raised our girls.

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Speaker 2: And it just I think that what President Trump was

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Speaker 2: we had some years where we didn't win elections, and

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Speaker 2: and articles have been written, but I always felt for

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Speaker 2: it more positively, I had an unshakable belief for me

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Speaker 2: and Cheryl, our family and the people that we spent

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Speaker 3: We were going to flip those three flippable.

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Speaker 2: United States House seats. We ended up flipping two of them,

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Speaker 2: and of course Stacy Garrity and Day Sunday and Tim

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Speaker 3: Spot where we've held three row offices.

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Speaker 2: So I think the elector in Pennsylvania microcosm of the country.

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Speaker 2: The message that President Trump led with, you know, that

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Speaker 2: uniting message of cutting through the silos of identity politics

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Speaker 3: He obliterated them with a message.

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Speaker 2: That united all Pennsylvanians and all Americans around economic prosperity,

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm still I mean, you can hear in my voice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, me too. Well, I think it's amazing. And

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Speaker 3: So at, I'll tell you a real quick personal story.

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Speaker 2: We live in Laura Marion and you know, I say,

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Speaker 2: After the election, Charyl and I were going for a

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Speaker 3: So it was you.

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Speaker 2: Had the sense. And so for me looking forward, I

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia and northeas Philadelphia, right, we have a once in

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Speaker 2: once in a generation opportunity to really take this message

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Speaker 2: that JD. Vance is a generational talent. Dave McCormick ran

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Speaker 2: and it's really up to us to deliver. And I'm

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Speaker 2: I am that we're going to deliver.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, delivery is all. And one of the things

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Speaker 1: thing that every United States senator has to do. You know,

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Speaker 1: And when I was there, we were with the Philadelphia

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's I find Pennsylvania having. It's been such

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Speaker 3: But we have the leadership to do it. I think

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Speaker 1: to call us at eight hundred and nine four one seven,

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Speaker 4: President. We're ready to vote for you and give you

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Speaker 4: a room similar at Forbes Library that we gave Calvin Coolidge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you know my dad held Calvin Coolidge's Ward

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Speaker 1: so I high tailed it to Northampton and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: did sightseeing saw some old friends, and uh, it was

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Speaker 1: it was. It was great, you know, great great memories there.

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Speaker 1: Dad was dad and mom very involved in politics, and

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Speaker 1: uh they helped elect one of his friends, uh Durban Wells,

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Speaker 1: who was also a friend of his son was a

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Speaker 1: Teddy was a good friend of mine. And uh so,

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Speaker 1: you know, it was it was good times back then, innocent,

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Speaker 1: I must say. So, okay, all right, well, Bob, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for calling, and on we go here.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to go to Uh oh wow, Frank in Denver,

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Speaker 1: did your family bug you for White House tours when

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Speaker 1: you worked for Reagan? Yes, I'm here. It wasn't it

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Speaker 1: wasn't just it wasn't just my parents and fairness, you know.

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Speaker 1: And that was it was interesting to me, is that

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Speaker 1: that was part of the assignment of the White House

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Speaker 1: political staff. You know, you have your work day done

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Speaker 1: by you know, six o'clock, seven o'clock or whatever, but

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Speaker 1: then you had to stay and take Reagan supporters who

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Speaker 1: had called in to announce that they were coming to

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Speaker 1: Washington and all this, and give them a tour, a

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Speaker 1: West wing tour, which I did over and over and

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Speaker 1: over and over again every night after work. It seemed,

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Speaker 1: and then also on the weekends, on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Speaker 1: I remember on one occasion we had some a couple

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Speaker 1: and their kids, and they were from Pennsylvania. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know them. Their congressman had called and asked if I

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Speaker 1: would take them around, So so I do this, But

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Speaker 1: it was going to be on a Saturday, and I thought, well, okay,

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Speaker 1: so it's Saturday. Nobody's generally around on a Saturday. So

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Speaker 1: they arrive and I start to take them on the

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Speaker 1: tour and we get stopped suddenly by the Secret Service

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Speaker 1: that said the President's in the Oval Office, so you

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Speaker 1: have to wait outside here. Well, they were pretty agog

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Speaker 1: and I thought, oh my goodness, And sure enough, within

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Speaker 1: a matter of minutes, out came President Reagan, uh nicely

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Speaker 1: attired in a dressed sports coat and tie and all

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Speaker 1: this because he felt that the working in the Oval

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Speaker 1: Office was sank re sank, so he was always well

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Speaker 1: dressed and came out and I introduced them to these

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Speaker 1: people and told him they were Penn State fans, and

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Speaker 1: by chance, Penn State happened to be playing that day,

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Speaker 1: and so he, off the top of his head, goes

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Speaker 1: into all sorts of stuff about Joe Paterno, whom he knew,

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Speaker 1: and what was going on with Penn State and all that.

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Speaker 1: So it was it was quite fun. You never got

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Speaker 1: to know who you were going to meet when you

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Speaker 1: did these tours. So well, Frank, thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for calling. And I want to move on to Jose

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Speaker 1: from Texas, who wants to talk about election integrity being

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Speaker 1: the number one issue facing the country. Yes, sir, can

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Speaker 1: you hear me? I can, Jose, I can merry Christmas

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Speaker 1: and a.

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Speaker 5: Happy New Year, Yes, sir.

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Speaker 4: So I'll keep it.

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Speaker 5: Short because I know we're you're running out of time here,

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Speaker 5: but I just think that you know that if we do,

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Speaker 5: if we don't put voter integritymost important at the top

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Speaker 5: of the list, we're going to lose everything because we

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Speaker 5: will no longer be a government of the people, by

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Speaker 5: the people and for the people.

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Speaker 1: You know, you.

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Speaker 5: Can't you can't buy cigarettes, alcohol, a vehicle and numerous

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Speaker 5: other things without an ID. But yet we have so

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Speaker 5: many states that don't require a voter ID to vote,

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Speaker 5: and that's probably the most important that we have in America.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree with you, Jose. You know, as

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Speaker 1: I was saying, I have lived in Pennsylvania since high school,

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Speaker 1: and I came up through the Pennsylvania political system, you know.

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Speaker 1: I was in the teenage Republicans and the college Republicans

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Speaker 1: and all that kind of thing. And if I learned

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Speaker 1: anything to my sorrow, it is that my home state

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Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania has had a pretty not so good reputation

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Speaker 1: for election integrity. And we had in uh it was

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, there was a special election or state

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Speaker 1: Senate seat in Philadelphia and the next thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was on the front page of the New York Times,

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Speaker 1: of all places, and the deal was that the loser,

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Speaker 1: so called in quotes, was the Republican. But he was

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Speaker 1: somebody I know. He'd worked for Senator Arlen Inspector. He

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Speaker 1: had the presence of mind to challenge the results. He

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Speaker 1: did so, and the federal judge overturned the election and

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Speaker 1: said there was a massive scheme by Democrats to steal

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Speaker 1: it and they had to redo the whole thing. So well,

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Speaker 1: I guess, Jose, I'm just about out of time here,

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Speaker 1: so thank you very much for calling, and thank all

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Speaker 1: of you, and we'll be back in a minute. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome back. I recognize that music from my youth. Wow,

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Speaker 1: the monkeys. This is Jeffrey Lord. I have filled in

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Speaker 1: today for our friend Sean Hannity, and I wish you

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Speaker 1: all a happy new year out there. Twenty twenty four was,

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Speaker 1: to say the least interesting. That is one for the

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Speaker 1: history books that you will be telling. For those of

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Speaker 1: you who are going to be having great grandchildren, You're

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Speaker 1: going to be telling them this for a very long

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Speaker 1: time to come. It was quite remarkable. So now we

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Speaker 1: move on. So now we move on to the second

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Speaker 1: Trump administration, and we've all I've gotten to know him

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Speaker 1: a bit, and doubtless he has all kinds of plans

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Speaker 1: that he is going to go out of his way.

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Speaker 1: He is very focused. I've gotten to know him a bit.

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Speaker 1: He's a very focused guy. He knows what he wants

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Speaker 1: to do. He asks questions, and he says, as I

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Speaker 1: recall the other day in a speech, that he wants

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Speaker 1: to make this America's Golden Age. So with that in mind,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. We've got a lot, a lot

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Speaker 1: to look forward to. This is Jeffrey Lord filling in

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Speaker 1: for Sean Hannity, and on we go to twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year,