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

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Speaker 1: these are some of the stories that you may have

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Speaker 4: Concern about our safety here at home in the wake

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Speaker 6: twenty assassination plots originating in Iran not only toward President Trump,

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Speaker 1: Go back to the list of the individuals that have

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Speaker 7: There is a new classified report that is suggesting that

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Speaker 9: Well, first, Kaylen, it's good to be with you. Look,

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Speaker 7: Yet again, more proof of the propaganda coming from the

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Speaker 7: all because Donald Trump is the one that's said to

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