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Speaker 1: Former President Donald Trump meeting with the GOP for a luncheon.

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Speaker 1: In my own mind, does it seem different in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four than it did in twenty sixteen. The President

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Speaker 1: coming out to talk to the reporters after meeting with

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Speaker 1: GOP lawmakers, having this lunch, and I want you to

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Speaker 1: hear what he had to say. This is something Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden could not pull off.

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Speaker 2: Great meeting, this tremendous unity in the Republican Party. We

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Speaker 2: want to see borders, we want to see strong military.

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Speaker 2: We want to see money not wasted all over the world.

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Speaker 2: We don't want to see Russian ships right off the

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Speaker 2: coast of Florida, which is what they are right now.

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Speaker 2: That's unthinkable. We want to see just success for our country,

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Speaker 2: and we don't have success right now.

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Speaker 3: We have inflation that's killing everybody.

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Speaker 2: We have levels of inflation that nobody see for They

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Speaker 2: say forty two years, they say fifty three years, and

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Speaker 3: I would say probably all of them are wrong.

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Speaker 2: Probably we've never seen levels like this before.

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Speaker 3: And we're going to end that.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna bring back our jobs, We're gonna bring back

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Speaker 2: common sense to government.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have strong borders, and we're gonna.

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Speaker 2: Have people come into our country, but they're going to

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Speaker 2: come in legally. They're not going to pour in from

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Speaker 2: prisons all over South America and all over the world.

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Speaker 2: And it's not just South America, by the way, it's

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Speaker 2: all over the world. And we're not going to have

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Speaker 2: them pour in from mental institutions, which is where they're

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Speaker 2: coming from. Large numbers, and large numbers are terrorists, and

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Speaker 2: we're not going to have this. So what's happening to

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Speaker 2: our country is of great concern to the group of

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Speaker 2: people standing alongside of me, and I just wanted to

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Speaker 2: say that we have great unity, we have great common sense,

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Speaker 2: a lot of very smart people in this room, and

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Speaker 2: a lot of people that love our country. They love

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Speaker 2: our country beyond just about all else. The only thing

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Speaker 2: that maybe supersedes it is their family and maybe their

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Speaker 2: faith in certain instances, and that's very nice. But they

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Speaker 2: want this country to be great again, and we're going

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Speaker 2: to make it great again. And so I just want

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Speaker 2: to thank the Republican Senate, and I want to thank

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Speaker 2: also the House. We met, as you know, with the

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Speaker 2: full house Republican House today and we had a tremendous

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Speaker 2: meeting with them also, and there's great unity. Very similar

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Speaker 2: different topics actually, but not that different. And there's one

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Speaker 2: thing in common. We want to make America great again.

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Speaker 2: We want to make our country great again. We're a

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Speaker 2: nation that's in decline. We're declining nation. We're a nation

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Speaker 2: that is being left at all over the world. We

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Speaker 2: have a leader that's being left at all over the world,

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Speaker 2: and we're going.

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Speaker 3: To turn it around. We're going to turn it around fast.

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Speaker 2: The polls are looking like they're very strongly for us,

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Speaker 2: and no matter where you look. In fact, a lot

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Speaker 2: of states that people thought weren't in play a very

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Speaker 2: strong in place somewhere actually leading in But we have

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Speaker 2: to get elected.

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Speaker 3: We have to take this.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful place and we have to make it really something

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Speaker 2: very special again. Right now, it's not special right now,

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Speaker 2: it's being scorned and being used as an example of

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Speaker 2: when they look at the crime on the streets, when

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Speaker 2: they look at all of the problems that we have.

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Speaker 2: They're using us as a bad example of democracy and

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Speaker 2: they're getting away with murder, and we're not going to

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Speaker 2: let it happen. So I just want to thank you

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Speaker 2: for coming, and I want to thank everybody here. You're

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Speaker 2: all either elected or you're going to be elected again

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Speaker 2: and re elected, and I'm with every one of you,

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Speaker 2: and you know that I'll be with you always, and

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Speaker 2: thank you very much for inviting me. And we're gonna

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Speaker 2: have great success. I think we're going to have a

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Speaker 2: tremendous election. It's November fifth, is very important, but we

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Speaker 2: really start much earlier than that. You have North Carolina

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Speaker 3: These are things different from the old days.

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Speaker 2: We had election day and you had paper ballots and

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Speaker 2: you had voter ID. Unfortunately, maybe someday we'll get back

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Speaker 2: to that, but you don't have that right now. But

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Speaker 2: this is an outstanding group of people. I'm with them

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Speaker 2: a thousand percent. There was me a thousand percent. We

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Speaker 2: agree just about on everything, and if there isn't, we

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Speaker 3: Thank you all very much. We appreciate you being here.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: You're going to hear the clapping of the senators who

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Speaker 1: just had lunch for them, and you can hear the

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Speaker 1: reporters losing their minds, the reporters behind them yelling at

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Speaker 1: him questions. He's shaking hands with every senator that's there,

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Speaker 1: Republican they just had lunch with. This was obviously a

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Speaker 1: very very very big moment and a different moment for

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party. I want to make that clear. You

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Speaker 1: look at the President of the United States of America

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Speaker 1: and look, he did not have this type of unity

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Speaker 1: they didn't like him. They were Republicans that didn't like him.

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Speaker 1: This type of press conference, last statement would have never

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Speaker 1: happened in twenty sixteen. It's happening now. And the reason

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Speaker 1: why is because they're learning, they're understanding, and they're learning

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Speaker 1: that if you're not united and you're not together, you're

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Speaker 1: Republican Party has not been able traditionally to kind of

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Speaker 1: if the president is re elected, we don't have time

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Speaker 1: We've got to have our game together, our plan together,

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Speaker 1: the legislative agenda together. We can't have infighting this time.

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Speaker 1: We can't have people that are sitting on the sidelines.

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Speaker 1: I witnessed in this was very authentic and real center

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Speaker 1: Verdict with Ted Cruz. He was at the luncheon. Has

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Speaker 1: he described it, He said, Ben, this is something I've

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Speaker 1: watching not just that, but the enthusiasm in the room.

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Speaker 1: Like there's a very very different mentality this time from

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Speaker 1: other direction. Names I'm sure if you really want to

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Speaker 1: talk about that, I'll give you example. People like Mitt Romney.

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Speaker 1: Mitt Romney was never a team player. Mitt Romney was

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Speaker 1: somebody that was undermining Donald Trump in twenty sixteen after

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Speaker 1: and so then he wanted his revenge. That's the type

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Speaker 1: United States of America every chance they get. They've lost

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Speaker 1: that power, and that room yesterday was about putting American first,

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Speaker 1: securing our southern border, protecting our kids from this radical

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Speaker 1: and all of this insanity in our classrooms. They're not

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Speaker 1: afraid to say that, Yes, many of those come across

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Speaker 1: are killing our kids with fetanol. That's what's changed as well.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I want you to hear just part of

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Speaker 4: Trump began the day by meeting with the House Republicans.

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Speaker 4: that got into all sorts of topics. But Trump came

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Speaker 4: It started with him talking for about oh, twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: Everyone in the room was focused on winning in November

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Speaker 4: and turning the country around. And Trump was in great spirits.

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Speaker 4: One of the things I asked him after the meeting.

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Speaker 4: I came up and spent a couple of minutes talking

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Speaker 4: with him. I just asked, how are you doing. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's been this BS you're dealing with with these New

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Speaker 1: They're utter garbage.

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Speaker 4: But listen, it's not fun to be convicted of felonies.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's been He's been through hell. And so

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Speaker 4: just as a personal level, I was asking him how

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Speaker 4: and it seemed real and genuine. I mean, he was

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Speaker 4: not he was not down in the dumps. He was

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Speaker 4: not discouraged. In fact, was he was really in good spirits.

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Speaker 4: He was optimistic, and his message to everyone is listen,

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Speaker 4: let's stand together. And he emphasized several things. Number one,

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Speaker 4: he emphasized the border, that we've got to secure the border.

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Speaker 4: That is insane, that we have open borders, that it's

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Speaker 1: This seems different. And even when I say different, there's

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Speaker 1: excites me. It's actually knowing that we have taken our

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Speaker 1: And so that mistake we learned a very tough lesson.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't, then then you have basically an

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Speaker 1: entire government that is working again against you. And that's

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Speaker 1: what Donald Trump experience in twenty sixteen. So this level

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Speaker 1: of focus from the Senate Republicans, from the House Republicans,

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Speaker 1: this partnership. I go back to Speaker Johnson, the point

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Speaker 1: coming over multiple times and meeting with the Senate and

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Speaker 1: he said, this tells you what's wrong with Washington. They're

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Speaker 1: treating it like a news story. When the Speaker of

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Speaker 1: the same party. Well, you have to have one. You

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Speaker 1: speaking all the time. But there was this divide in

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Speaker 1: our government. All Right, you guys in the Senate, you

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Speaker 1: something to look at. That's not how you win. That's

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Speaker 1: not how you run a government successfully. Okay, I like,

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Speaker 1: that's not how this is done successfully. And so you

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Speaker 1: that the Senate this is a great framework for success. Hey,

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Speaker 1: what do you guys need? Well, you know, tell me

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Speaker 1: what you're looking at. What are you thinking? All right, Well, look,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I got the votes to get that done.

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Speaker 1: So let's not waste their time on that, or let's

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Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna you know, you know, jam up

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Speaker 1: Stuff like these are conversations you'd rather have on the

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Speaker 1: Why why not talk on the front end and then

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Speaker 1: want to know why Democrats are gonna do every single

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Speaker 1: and why they're trying to put them in jail, and

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Speaker 1: It's because they understand that everything I just told you

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Speaker 1: the Republicans, learning from their past mistakes and being organized

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Speaker 1: day one terrifies the Democrats because they understand their career

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Speaker 1: now they understand, Okay, the Republicans have figured it out.

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Speaker 1: This is scary. We can't let them win. So if

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Speaker 1: look at how the Democrats are already doing everything they

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