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Speaker 1: is turnout Volks. The people of this nation have spoken.
Speaker 1: They've delivered us a clear victory, a convincing victory. On Saturday,
Speaker 1: November seven, after days of County, Pennsylvania finally tipped the
Speaker 1: scales for the Biden Harris ticket of victory four, We
Speaker 1: the people We've won with the most votes ever cast
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Speaker 1: You chose hope and unity, decency, science, and yes truth.
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Speaker 1: was a refreshing moment. It was also historic. But while
Speaker 1: I may be the first woman in this office, I
Speaker 1: will not be the last. On Sunday, the day after
Speaker 1: those speeches, I woke up feeling like my old self again,
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Speaker 1: about President Donald Trump. I know him, or at least
Speaker 1: I got to know him during my fifteen years on
Speaker 1: the Today Shows This Is Today with P. D. Curry.
Speaker 1: Part of our job was to promote a reality show
Speaker 1: I had never seen, called The Apprentice. Last night, on
Speaker 1: The Apprentice, I did the unex acted. I didn't even
Speaker 1: give the fiery a chance to fight for her spot.
Speaker 1: His success, in fact, was partially our responsibility. The Donald,
Speaker 1: as he was known to Manhattan Night's, was very nice
Speaker 1: to me. During those years. He supported my colon cancer
Speaker 1: efforts after my husband died, and I even attended his
Speaker 1: wedding to Milania in two thousand five. In two thousand
Speaker 1: and sixteen and the contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton,
Speaker 1: I believed Hillary would have been a far better president,
Speaker 1: and I was disappointed and pretty shocked at the results.
Speaker 1: But Hillary Clinton's gracious concession speech moved me. We have
Speaker 1: seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought.
Speaker 1: But I still believe in America and I always will.
Speaker 1: And if you do, then we must accept this result
Speaker 1: and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going
Speaker 1: to be our president. We owe him an open mind
Speaker 1: and the chance to lead. I tried to keep an
Speaker 1: open mind. I prayed that somehow the awesome and humbling
Speaker 1: job of leading our country would bring out the best
Speaker 1: in Donald Trump, that he would rise to the occasion.
Speaker 1: But instead it was the opposite. As Trump's character sank
Speaker 1: lower and lower, we Americans were like the proverbial frog
Speaker 1: in the water. As that water got hotter and hotter.
Speaker 1: Over the course of his presidency, we became slowly accustomed
Speaker 1: to his norm breaking outrages, until it reached a roiling
Speaker 1: boil I recognized that some people appreciated that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: said it like it was, and that he became a
Speaker 1: vessel for their fears and frustrations. But every day he
Speaker 1: seemed to take his bare hands and rip apart the
Speaker 1: gaping wound that already existed in our country, preventing any
Speaker 1: chance of events will healing. The birther who inexplicably promoted
Speaker 1: the false notion that Barack Obama was not a US citizen,
Speaker 1: gave birth to countless conspiracy theories and the nefarious groups
Speaker 1: that trade in them, And he sewed mistrust in our institutions.
Speaker 1: A reality star who locked his supporters into an alternate
Speaker 1: reality and threw away the key. Donald Trump didn't grow
Speaker 1: bigger in the job. He grew smaller. And now it
Speaker 1: really is mourning in America. We have a president and
Speaker 1: vice president who will conduct themselves with dignity, humility, and decency.
Speaker 1: We must restore the soul of America. Our nation is
Speaker 1: shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and
Speaker 1: our darkest impulstals. Now what presidents say in this battle matters.
Speaker 1: It's time for our better angels revail. They have a
Speaker 1: huge task, of course, making millions of Americans who didn't
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Speaker 1: help them understand that the changing demographics of our country
Speaker 1: isn't something to fear, but to celebrate. And job number
Speaker 1: one is to lead the country out of an out
Speaker 1: of control pandemic that's leaving families grieving over the lives
Speaker 1: and livelihoods lost. I'm an optimist, but I'm not cock eyed.
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Speaker 1: this unprecedented pandemic election is technically behind us, we thought
Speaker 1: it'd be helpful to get a temperature read on our democracy.
Speaker 1: Elections were far better than some of the worst case scenarios.
Speaker 1: To do that, we brought back Jesse Littlewood of Common
Speaker 1: Cause and it still had some challenges for voters that
Speaker 1: we think could be improved because democracy works best when
Speaker 1: more people participate, and we think that there's a lot
Speaker 1: of reforms in the elections to build on, but democracy
Speaker 1: needs to keep pushing forward to have a democracy that
Speaker 1: truly works for everyone. During the early voting period and
Speaker 1: on election Day, Common Cause was out there and across
Speaker 1: the country keeping an eye on democracy at work. So
Speaker 1: the Election Protection Coalition that Common Cause is proud to
Speaker 1: be one of the leaders of not Only is deployed
Speaker 1: people in the field into over forty states helping to
Speaker 1: monitor the poll in places. Um you know, many of
Speaker 1: our volunteers were in a car or on a bicycle
Speaker 1: sort of traveling between a couple of polling places to
Speaker 1: make sure that the election was running smoothly. You know,
Speaker 1: our partners, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under law
Speaker 1: Man the eight six six are about hotline which received
Speaker 1: you know, a record number of calls, and that's not
Speaker 1: necessarily because there was a record number of problems, but
Speaker 1: there were people who learned that there was a resource
Speaker 1: for them to answer their question, to find out where
Speaker 1: they're polling place, was to understand what kind of ID
Speaker 1: they needed, and they were able to get their questions
Speaker 1: answered and actually participate. Now that data is actually really
Speaker 1: vital to be able to make a plan to change
Speaker 1: any of the problems that did crop up on election day.
Speaker 1: So that data, the data that comes from our field volunteers,
Speaker 1: the data that we found from our social media monitoring program,
Speaker 1: We're going to turn that into uh usable actionable insights
Speaker 1: for state legislatures and other decision makers to see where
Speaker 1: there were systemic problems and be able to address those
Speaker 1: on their state level. In this country, we administer elections
Speaker 1: on a state by state level, sometimes county by county,
Speaker 1: and so being able to actually be a source of
Speaker 1: information and to help advocate for voters of any party
Speaker 1: to participate and get over some of these hurdles is
Speaker 1: something we're gonna do. You know. I think one thing
Speaker 1: that I found really remarkable was in our social media
Speaker 1: monitoring program. You know, we set that program up to
Speaker 1: not only look for the disinformation that is attacking voters,
Speaker 1: you know, telling people the wrong ways to vote or
Speaker 1: telling them that their vote doesn't count, or trying to
Speaker 1: undercut their belief in the integrity of the system. We
Speaker 1: also set that system up because we know many voters
Speaker 1: don't know the hotline number or don't know who to
Speaker 1: call if they have a problem. And we found just
Speaker 1: a remarkable number of instances of voters tweeting out that
Speaker 1: they had a problem, that they were told they had
Speaker 1: to use a pro national ballot, or that there was
Speaker 1: a long line at their polling place, or they couldn't
Speaker 1: be found in the voter rules. And we were able
Speaker 1: to connect with those voters because we have this network
Speaker 1: of volunteers and tell them, Okay, you can actually get
Speaker 1: your problem solved. You can call eight six six r
Speaker 1: vote Um. If you're being told to use a provisional ballot,
Speaker 1: you should talk to the sire vote volunteer or your
Speaker 1: administrator and find out why, because maybe you're just in
Speaker 1: the wrong polling place and if you go to a
Speaker 1: different polling place, you won't have to vote provisionally. So
Speaker 1: we we saw a lot of folks use these social
Speaker 1: media tools to kind of throw up a flare and
Speaker 1: ask for help, and because we had this network of volunteers,
Speaker 1: we were able to do a little bit of a
Speaker 1: search and rescue mission. We found those folks and we
Speaker 1: were able to get them that information. And because social
Speaker 1: media is a publishing platform, other people saw that too,
Speaker 1: when they saw their friends ask for help and that
Speaker 1: a resource was there. I think that's important on an
Speaker 1: individual level, but also, and I be a little cheesy here,
Speaker 1: it's it's also important on kind of a societal democratic
Speaker 1: participation level. There's so much happening right now in especially
Speaker 1: on social media that is a competing it's a partisan warfare.
Speaker 1: It's two parties attacking each other, either about policies or
Speaker 1: about the election process. And to see that there was individuals, voters,
Speaker 1: people just like them saying we're here to help you.
Speaker 1: I don't care what party you're part of, I don't
Speaker 1: care who you're voting for. You have a right to vote.
Speaker 1: I'm here to help you. I think that actually matters,
Speaker 1: to push back on the way that, you know, politics
Speaker 1: right now is kind of a blood sport and a
Speaker 1: winner take all contests, and instead we were able to
Speaker 1: have democracy and action of voters helping voters, you know,
Speaker 1: stepping outside of our own partisan bubble and saying there's
Speaker 1: gonna be problems that people have. I don't really care
Speaker 1: where or you know, what party they are, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to step in and try and help them. And
Speaker 1: I think that that goes to the process of rebuilding
Speaker 1: a stronger civic fabric in this country. Jeff he says,
Speaker 1: big picture, there are two major takeaways from election. Number
Speaker 1: one takeaway from me is that when you give people
Speaker 1: opportunities to vote on a day other than the first
Speaker 1: Tuesday in November, they will take you up on the
Speaker 1: offer and it will make your first day in November
Speaker 1: election day run much smoother. Expanding early vote, expanding vote
Speaker 1: by mail, those are huge benefits not just to voters
Speaker 1: but to the people who need to administer the elections
Speaker 1: because it reduces the volume that you have to go
Speaker 1: through on that day. I also think that voters are
Speaker 1: getting the message pretty clearly that UM their vote matters
Speaker 1: when you see that the margin of victory and some
Speaker 1: of these contests is really really narrow. Now, Common Cause
Speaker 1: is not a big proponent of the electoral college. In fact,
Speaker 1: we support the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact because the
Speaker 1: way the electoral College works UM is a real voter
Speaker 1: depression in terms of making folks feel like their vote
Speaker 1: doesn't actually out in the presidential contest in many states,
Speaker 1: but as we saw, there are some very close races
Speaker 1: and some of these key battleground states, and I think
Speaker 1: it sends a message clearly to the voters that every
Speaker 1: vote does matter, and the narrow margin of victory means
Speaker 1: how important is for everyone to turn out and make
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Speaker 1: on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever
Speaker 1: you listen to podcast. I believe that we had a
Speaker 1: higher turnout than almost at any other point in the
Speaker 1: history of the electorate. Again, here's Jesse Littlewood of Common Cause,
Speaker 1: and that is like a testament to the great work
Speaker 1: of elections workers, as well as the changes that we
Speaker 1: made to the election systems in response to the coronavirus pandemic,
Speaker 1: which could have crashed our turnout and instead it actually
Speaker 1: increased it from the last four years, which is a
Speaker 1: remarkable success story. Now, there were very real problems that
Speaker 1: happened to individuals over the course of election day. There's
Speaker 1: far too many barriers to be able to exercise your vote,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to people of color and low
Speaker 1: income communities, or people with disabilities, or other folks like
Speaker 1: students who still have a lot of barriers in their
Speaker 1: way in order to be able to vote, but we
Speaker 1: saw no large scale meltdown of the election process, and
Speaker 1: I think that has a lot to do with the
Speaker 1: fact that the changes that we made in the process
Speaker 1: included expanding the vote by mail system to far more
Speaker 1: voters than ever before. And it also the number of
Speaker 1: early days that voters could participate meant that a very
Speaker 1: large portion of the votes were already in before or
Speaker 1: the singular election day on the first Tuesday in November.
Speaker 1: And because of that, that reduced some of the administrative
Speaker 1: challenges that we've seen in the past. High turnout is
Speaker 1: good news, but Jesse says there were still those familiar
Speaker 1: barriers to the ballot. The thing I don't want to
Speaker 1: do is erase the challenges that some people still have
Speaker 1: and being able to exercise their right to vote. And
Speaker 1: those challenges don't happen just on election day. They come
Speaker 1: through restrictive laws like strict voter ID laws that we
Speaker 1: know disenfranchise individuals, particularly voters of color, more so than others.
Speaker 1: Those barriers still exist, right and the challenges of removing
Speaker 1: people unduly from the voter rolls when they haven't been
Speaker 1: active in the most recent elections, these challenges are still there,
Speaker 1: and yet despite that democracy one people overcame those barriers.
Speaker 1: More people participated as a voter in this election than
Speaker 1: in previous periods, and that was because of the in
Speaker 1: trist in participating in the democracy and the fact that
Speaker 1: elections workers really stood up to the challenge and we're
Speaker 1: able to do more um in terms of actually administering
Speaker 1: this election. Despite not having the resources that they needed
Speaker 1: to have to be able to fully administer it in
Speaker 1: the challenges that we had, they did a lot with
Speaker 1: what they were able to do, so I would call
Speaker 1: it certainly a qualified success. I wouldn't say that it
Speaker 1: was perfect because democracy is a process, it is not
Speaker 1: a destination, and we are still need to eliminate any
Speaker 1: of the barriers two people participating in our democracy, of
Speaker 1: which there's there still exists far too many. This election
Speaker 1: also brought to the surface new potential obstructions to voting
Speaker 1: that organizations like Common Cause are watching and plant to fight.
Speaker 1: While we were expecting a large amount of disinformation about
Speaker 1: the elections, I think I was still surprised by the volume,
Speaker 1: the consistency, and the sort of ferocity of it. And
Speaker 1: I think while we have seen it increase, sort of
Speaker 1: year over year. I am concerned that specifically around the
Speaker 1: disinformation about the participation in democracy will continue to be
Speaker 1: just like a tactic used by partisans in order to
Speaker 1: secure victory for their preferred candidate. UH whether or not
Speaker 1: that becomes really part of the party and the campaign
Speaker 1: apparatus remains to be seen. We know that there were
Speaker 1: a number of legal challenges filed by the Trump campaign
Speaker 1: and the Republican National Committee about certain types of reforms
Speaker 1: that were made to do expansion of the voting process,
Speaker 1: including the vote by mail system and early voting drop
Speaker 1: boxes and how many are allowed per county. That kind
Speaker 1: of legal push to restrict reforms that could give more
Speaker 1: people access to voting, I think is really troubling and
Speaker 1: something that will be really important to pay attention to
Speaker 1: in the future. While it appears that President Trump has
Speaker 1: lost reelection, Republicans across the country did not fare that badly,
Speaker 1: and so it is going to be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party decides
Speaker 1: to steer their course when it comes to deciding what
Speaker 1: are the kinds of voting reforms they they want to encourage.
Speaker 1: We're kind of voting reforms they want to discourage. What
Speaker 1: is troubling about that is that, by and large, states
Speaker 1: and the elections administrators in those states have a pretty
Speaker 1: good idea, especially when they're are in dialogue with voter
Speaker 1: protection groups, what voters need to be successful and to
Speaker 1: be able to participate and to see it become a
Speaker 1: key campaign tactic to try and change the rules of
Speaker 1: the system. I don't think that is beneficial to voters
Speaker 1: or to our democracy. So we're gonna watch dog that
Speaker 1: kind of process UM in the future, as we continue
Speaker 1: to look at how polling places are deployed and other
Speaker 1: kinds of reform UM, we'd like to see a lot
Speaker 1: of the kind of reforms that clearly increased turnout remain
Speaker 1: in place. UM. As we voters are now starting to
Speaker 1: get experienced with more vote by mail options, those are
Speaker 1: positive reforms that will help more voters turn out. So
Speaker 1: we'd like to see what can be done to ensure
Speaker 1: that those are permanent reforms that are available to more
Speaker 1: voters in the future elections. It's great that we saw
Speaker 1: more Republicans, Independence, and Democrats participate in this election than
Speaker 1: any other. That's the bottom line of what a good
Speaker 1: democracy looks like is when there is a robust contest
Speaker 1: between competing ideas and the body politic decides to make
Speaker 1: their voice heard in what that outcome is going to be.
Speaker 1: But my hope, and this may be something of rose
Speaker 1: colored glasses, but my hope is that it's also people
Speaker 1: determining for themselves that it's important to be an active
Speaker 1: citizen right and to actually decide for themselves that what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do is they're going to participate in one
Speaker 1: of the ways, one of the most important ways, not
Speaker 1: the only way, but one of the ways of making
Speaker 1: their voice heard in shaping the future and the decisions
Speaker 1: of our country. And that means deciding to vote. And
Speaker 1: I hope that everyone, regardless of your political belief, decides
Speaker 1: that that is something you will continue to do throughout
Speaker 1: future elections. And as for President Trump, so far refusal
Speaker 1: to concede, Jesse says, the fact is the process continues,
Speaker 1: whether a losing candidate wants it to or not. The
Speaker 1: will of the people decides. The votes were cast, the
Speaker 1: votes are counted, the process moves forward, and those are
Speaker 1: that's who is the next person elected as president or
Speaker 1: in any other office. So in some sense, it's immaterial.
Speaker 1: The president's decision to not concede the election is immaterial
Speaker 1: to the progress of our electoral system. And that's the
Speaker 1: way it should be, because it's not up to the
Speaker 1: person in the office to decide what the process is.
Speaker 1: It's up to the voters in our democracy and the
Speaker 1: process that's laid out through our laws. But Jesse says
Speaker 1: the president's continued rhetoric is crossing a lie that we've
Speaker 1: never seen before. It is corrosive to our democratic process
Speaker 1: and participation by voters in future elections. When a losing
Speaker 1: candidate doesn't concede the election, that's just the reality because
Speaker 1: then it makes individuals potentially not trust the results of
Speaker 1: the system or the way that the system is set
Speaker 1: up and operates. I don't think that they get well,
Speaker 1: that's not the way that the process plays out. I
Speaker 1: think it is really disappointing, and I think it is
Speaker 1: dispiriting from someone my perspective of someone who wants to
Speaker 1: see a robust democracy not only in but in all
Speaker 1: future elections. To see um, that kind of response coming
Speaker 1: from someone who you know is going to you know,
Speaker 1: leave kicking and screaming instead of reflecting on the process
Speaker 1: played out, and that the if the voters have spoken,
Speaker 1: there the will that they're going to accept. When I
Speaker 1: think about the fact that many top Republicans, although some
Speaker 1: have congratulated, you know, and said we congratulate President elect Biden,
Speaker 1: many have not, I think it's again it ultimately it's
Speaker 1: immaterial to the results of the election, which will play
Speaker 1: out based off of the will of the people, the
Speaker 1: votes that are counted, and the process that goes forward.
Speaker 1: I think it is really disappointing and it is potentially
Speaker 1: a source of additional conflict among voters and our country
Speaker 1: when at the result of a tension filled, highly partisan,
Speaker 1: really intense election that they are unwilling to quickly move
Speaker 1: the country forward when the result is very clear those
Speaker 1: Republican elected officials were elected through a democratic process just
Speaker 1: like the kind we had days ago that clearly has
Speaker 1: resulted in many races being called. I wish that they would, um,
Speaker 1: you know, take the opportunity to stand up for the process,
Speaker 1: even if the candidate that they preferred wasn't the victor,
Speaker 1: and put their country over their party. Jesse reiterates that
Speaker 1: there was plenty of hope in the election process. I
Speaker 1: am really just floored by the response of election workers
Speaker 1: poll workers. Uh, you know, we had a whole wave
Speaker 1: of young people applying to be poll workers, so that
Speaker 1: poll workers who are historically older were able to not
Speaker 1: be at risk of potential coronavirus. Uh. You know at
Speaker 1: the polling place, we saw more volunteers in the election
Speaker 1: protection program than we've seen in any other cycle that
Speaker 1: we've been involved in. They're just to me, it felt
Speaker 1: like there was a wave of civic participation, not just
Speaker 1: in voting, but in putting democrat see into action and
Speaker 1: stepping out of your partisan self and into a democratic
Speaker 1: self and helping to build a stronger civic society and
Speaker 1: a civic fabric where we encourage in each other, even
Speaker 1: if we don't agree on all the issues, encourage each
Speaker 1: other to participate. And speaking of strong civic participation, before
Speaker 1: we go today, there's someone else we wanted to check
Speaker 1: in with. I continued up until October, registerring, going to
Speaker 1: the parole facilities, the state parole facilities. You may remember
Speaker 1: in that Scott, the volunteer for the League of Women Voters.
Speaker 1: She helps register return citizens in New Jersey for the
Speaker 1: first time in a hundred and seventy six years when
Speaker 1: the law the law it went in effect March seventeenth
Speaker 1: that those on parole O privation could vote. She's featured
Speaker 1: in episode two of this series. I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure they were all registering well. Of course, she's also
Speaker 1: a long time poll worker. I'm what they call a
Speaker 1: permanent worker. And what we what we had to do
Speaker 1: is we had to go before we could the election day,
Speaker 1: you had to go to a refresher course, and they
Speaker 1: had set up quite a few of them in different areas.
Speaker 1: And I went to the refresher course. And what they
Speaker 1: do was they combine those like myself who have been
Speaker 1: pro worker for years, senior pro workers, and also all
Speaker 1: the new ones. And they had like old hundred new ones.
Speaker 1: And there were various ages, but mostly younger because the
Speaker 1: majority of pro workers are seniors, because most people don't
Speaker 1: want to take off the day, even though we're paid
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars for the day, but a lot of them.
Speaker 1: You have to be there five fifteen in the morning
Speaker 1: because the law says you must have the voting machines
Speaker 1: ready by six am, so you have to get there
Speaker 1: early enough to set up the machine, do the paperwork,
Speaker 1: all that you have to do so that if someone
Speaker 1: comes in at six am, you have to have that
Speaker 1: ready to vote, got machooting ready for them, and then
Speaker 1: eight o'clock is the last time. So it's a very
Speaker 1: very long day and a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 1: you have children, whatnot. From five fifteen the morning to
Speaker 1: eight to night. How could you do it? But for
Speaker 1: for college students, for other people, they've been begging for
Speaker 1: some time to try to get a younger audience, a
Speaker 1: younger participants in so that we would be able to
Speaker 1: accommodate because as more and more of the sears retire
Speaker 1: or you know, they pass, or they're not able to anymore,
Speaker 1: there's not enough people to replace them. And that's already
Speaker 1: looking beyond and the changes in her state that she
Speaker 1: hopes will continue to expand voting access. Yes, there's still
Speaker 1: things that need to be changed and need to be
Speaker 1: you know, worked long and whatnot, but hopefully we will
Speaker 1: continue to see change. And what I know that they're
Speaker 1: working on in New Jersey, but you know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: have the priority of course compared to COVID, but those
Speaker 1: who are incarcerated in New Jersey, they want to eliminate
Speaker 1: that as a barrier because two states Maine in Vermont
Speaker 1: never had it, so if you're incarcerated parolea probation you
Speaker 1: could always vote. And they were hoping that New Jersey
Speaker 1: would have been the third, but it didn't get the
Speaker 1: support that it needed, so I didn't do it, and
Speaker 1: she is already organizing to help more return citizens register
Speaker 1: for future elections. I was asked by the assistant director
Speaker 1: of the State Parole Board, Okay, to please return to
Speaker 1: the facilities where I had registered people on parolea probation,
Speaker 1: and he added more to it. He gave me. He
Speaker 1: emailed me. He asked me to visit this facility and
Speaker 1: I said, oh, I'm sorry, I don't know where it's.
Speaker 1: You know the address. I don't know of this place.
Speaker 1: He said, oh, so he sent it to me and
Speaker 1: on it about six more places. So right now in
Speaker 1: New Jersey there's over eighty three thousand people off roll
Speaker 1: A probation and if we only registered three thousand, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of people we missed. Huh. So hopefully going
Speaker 1: back to these facilities, I've I've emailed all the people
Speaker 1: who said they wanted to help me. I've emailed them all,
Speaker 1: and I'm waiting for them to respond because I'm hoping
Speaker 1: to do it the first of December to go start
Speaker 1: visiting facility that Thank you and that for all your
Speaker 1: hard work. That does it For this week's episode of Turnout,
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Speaker 1: of I Heart Media and Katie Couric Media. The executive
Speaker 1: producers are Katie Couric and Courtney Littz. Supervising producers Lauren Hansen.
Speaker 1: Associate producers Derek Clements, Eliza Coostus and Emily Pento. Editing
Speaker 1: by Derrick Clements and Lauren Hansen, Mixing by Derrick Clements.
Speaker 1: Our researcher is Gabriel Loser and special thanks to my
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