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Speaker 1: It is Monday, October thirteenth. This is the morning. There

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Speaker 1: was a remarkable moment that played out on Sunday Morning television.

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Speaker 1: George Stephanopholis dismissed the Vice President of the United States JD. Vans.

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Speaker 1: George Stefanopholis is a person of integrity who for many

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Speaker 1: years has laid out for the American people the vital

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Speaker 1: issues of the moment of the hour and asked tough questions.

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Speaker 1: There are very few people who have done this. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's watch the exchange. George.

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Speaker 2: I saw media reports that Tom Holman accepted a bribe.

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Speaker 2: There's no evidence of that. And here's George, why fewer

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Speaker 2: and fewer people watch your program and why you're losing

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Speaker 2: credibility because you're talking for now five minutes with the

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Speaker 2: Vice President of the United States about this story regarding

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Speaker 2: Tom holm and a story that I've read about, but

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Speaker 2: I don't even know the video that you're talking about. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: low income women can't get food because the Democrats and

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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer have shut down the government. Right now, we're

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Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to pay our troops because

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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer has shut down the government. You were focused

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Speaker 2: on a bogus story. You're insinuating criminal wrongdoing against a

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Speaker 2: guy who has done nothing wrong, instead of focusing on

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Speaker 2: the fact that our country is struggling because our government's

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Speaker 2: shut down. Let's talk about the real issues, George. I

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Speaker 2: think the American people would benefit much more from that

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Speaker 2: than from you going down some weird left wing rabbit

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Speaker 2: hole where the facts clearly show that Tom Holman didn't

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Speaker 2: engage in any criminal wrongdoing.

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Speaker 3: It's not a weird left wing rabbit hole. I didn't

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Speaker 3: insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Holman accepted fifty

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars, as was heard on an audio tape recorded

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Speaker 3: by the FBI in September twenty twenty four, and you

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Speaker 3: did not answer the question. Thank you for your time

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Speaker 3: this morning. Noor I said that I don't up next.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Jd. Vance believes that, Hey, no

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Speaker 1: big deal. The man running America's secret police, Hey, he

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Speaker 1: deserves a little extra extra. So when he got a

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Speaker 1: bag with fifty thousand dollars in cash to facilitate contracts

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Speaker 1: so that when his men capture brown people, they can

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Speaker 1: be what's the word for it. I think that's the

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Speaker 1: word sold to a private contractor to a private prison

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Speaker 1: where they're detained before maybe some contractor maybe one that

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Speaker 1: put a little bit of cash into the pile for

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Speaker 1: Tom Homan ships them off to Africa in our name.

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Speaker 1: And make no mistake, this is happening all over the world.

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Speaker 1: And so because Tom Homan is the head of a

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Speaker 1: force of thugs, is a little bit different than the

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Speaker 1: Democratic congressman who got caught with seventy grand in his refrigerator,

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Speaker 1: or even Senator Menendez, who Chuck Schumer called a great

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Speaker 1: public servant, who was caught with goal bars sewn inside

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Speaker 1: of his suit jackets, a center facing another realm of Indians.

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Speaker 1: Is it time for resignment?

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Speaker 4: It's not time to get a look the bottom line.

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Speaker 4: As I've said, the Senate has certain standards that we

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Speaker 4: must live up to. I am very disappointed that Center

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Speaker 4: Menendez has not lived up to those standards. Revision beginning,

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Speaker 4: why are you okay with him serving in your caucus,

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Speaker 4: sitting on committees, attending classified briefings. So he's been charged

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Speaker 4: with bribery, conspiracy, instruction of justice. As I've said, Senate

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Speaker 4: has standards. We should all be living up to those standards.

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Speaker 4: I'm deeply disappointed that Center Menndez has.

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Speaker 1: Not Tom Homan. He's taking the cash to arrange for

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Speaker 1: the capture of Brown people and their effective sale to

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Speaker 1: private prison contractors. See the difference. Bribery and extortion is

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Speaker 1: always bad, but in the case of Tom Homan, well,

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Speaker 1: it's particularly a pregious but jd Vance who is a

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Speaker 1: product of political corruption, the sugar baby of Peter Tiel.

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Speaker 1: Jd Vance whose career was sponsored by a very strange

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Speaker 1: billionaire with a fetish for the Antichrist. Not making this up.

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Speaker 1: Who he thinks may be Greta Thunberg, also not making

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Speaker 1: it up. But in any rate, it's that weirdo who

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Speaker 1: put forty or fifty or sixty million into jd Vance

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Speaker 1: helping make him a senator before Donald Trump Junior, also

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Speaker 1: known as Zude, picked him to be a heartbeat away

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Speaker 1: from the presidency. And so jd Vance, who has no experience,

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Speaker 1: is personally very bizarre. Who is strident, belligerent, unaccomplished Vance, Well,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't think it's right to be asked about out

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Speaker 1: the bribery and corruption of the Trump administration that he's

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Speaker 1: such a part of. That's not a real issue. Not

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Speaker 1: according to JD. Vance the real issue, well, as always,

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Speaker 1: it's something he's pretending. Then someone is doing something to Trump.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember JD. Vance in the Oval Office with Zolanski.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to

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Speaker 2: end the destruction of your country. Yes, but if you President,

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Speaker 2: with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come

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Speaker 2: you have manpower problems. You should be thinking, the president

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Speaker 1: Them into Ukraine, that do you say, what problems we have?

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Speaker 1: I have been to well come one.

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Speaker 2: I've actually I've actually watched and seen the stories, and

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Speaker 2: I know what happens is you bring people, you bring

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Speaker 2: them on a propaganda tour. Mister President, are do you

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Speaker 2: disagree that you've had problems bringing people in your military?

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Speaker 2: Do you think that this respectful allots to come to

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Speaker 2: the Oval Office of the United States of America and

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Speaker 1: That was a performance He's trying to impress Trump's the

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Speaker 1: daddy he never had JD. He's the type of hillbilly

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Speaker 1: who is nurturing on his memaw's hit till he was

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Speaker 1: eight or nine years old, if you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: But at any rate, he has found a psychological comfort

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Speaker 1: as a ex officio member of the Trump family from

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Speaker 1: their Appalachian wing and as a family member, JD. Vance

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Speaker 1: has to lie with the best of them. And so

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Speaker 1: that's the setup for what you see. And George Stephanopolis

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Speaker 1: just lays it out there, doesn't He in the moment

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Speaker 1: makes clear I did nothing of this sort. It would

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Speaker 1: have been great if he headed you, Jackass. I asked

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Speaker 1: you the question, you didn't answer the question. Good day

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Speaker 1: to you. It's a clinic on how it should be done.

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Speaker 1: And so let's watch the full exchange.

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Speaker 3: The White House borders are. Tom Homan was recorded on

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Speaker 3: an FBI surveillance tape in September twenty twenty four accepting

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Speaker 3: fifty thousand dollars in cash. Did he keep that money

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Speaker 2: George, you've covered the story ad nauseum. Tom Holman did

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Speaker 2: not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear and the

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Speaker 2: is because he's doing the job of enforcing the law.

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Speaker 2: I think it's really preposterous. I know Tom, I think

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Speaker 2: I think that it would be a much more interesting

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Speaker 2: We could agree to disagree on that question.

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Speaker 3: Well, you said he didn't take a bribe, but I'm

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Speaker 3: not sure you answered the question. Are you saying that

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Speaker 3: he did not accept the fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: George, This story has been covered ad nauseum. He did

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Speaker 2: not take a bribe? Did he accept fifty thousand dollars?

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that in the course of Tom Holman's life

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Speaker 2: The question is did he do something illegal? And there's

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Speaker 2: absolutely no evidence to Tom Holmans taking different questions. I'm

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Speaker 3: I'm asking you did he accept the fifty thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: George, I don't know what you're talking about. Did he

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Speaker 2: accept fifty thousand dollars for what.

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Speaker 3: He was recorded on an audio tape in September twenty

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Speaker 2: Accepting fifty thousand dollars for doing what? George, I'm not

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Speaker 2: even sure I understand the question. Is it a crime?

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Speaker 2: Even the far left media like yourself. So I'm actually

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Speaker 2: not sure what the precise question is. Did he accept

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Speaker 3: So what was caught on the tape? You're saying right now,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what tape you're referring to. George. I

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Speaker 2: saw media reports that Tom Holman accepted a bribe. There's

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Speaker 2: no evidence of that. And here's George, why fewer and

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Speaker 2: because you're talking for now five minutes with the Vice

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Speaker 2: holm and a story that I've read about, but I

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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer has shut down the government. You were focused

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Speaker 3: It's not a weird left wing rabbit hole. I didn't

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Speaker 1: Appreciate that this is not something that's overly exceptional, but man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, is it rare? The lack of tolerance for

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Speaker 1: being lied to, for being abused. And what George Stephanoflos

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Speaker 1: seems to understand in this instant is that he's a cakekeeper.

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Speaker 1: Behind him is his audience. And on Sunday morning, they

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Speaker 1: watch a Sunday morning show. But on this Sunday morning

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Speaker 1: on ABC, George Steffanopholis did at old school. He asked

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Speaker 1: belligerently saying go f yourself, And George Stefanopfholis said, no, thanks,

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Speaker 1: not today now here's the question, what's Bob Iger going

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Speaker 1: to do when the White House calls and threatens him today?

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Speaker 1: Is it the end times for George Stefanopholis. Will we

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Speaker 1: have a repeat of the flirtation with cowardice that we

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Speaker 1: ABC for George stephanophilis daring to ask a question and

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Speaker 1: daring to say you didn't answer it. Well, we'll find

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Speaker 1: George Stephanopholis and ABC News for doing what they ought

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Speaker 1: to be doing seven days a week and twice on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning.

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Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community where I promise

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Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening

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Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe

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Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. Thank you