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Speaker 1: skyrocketing during COVID, is somehow actually a good thing. That

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Speaker 2: And they didn't have to go to work.

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Speaker 1: And so therefore this is a good thing that maybe

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Speaker 1: make this clear. During these lockdowns right after the just

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Speaker 1: Weeks were up, and then it turned into two months,

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Speaker 1: six months, eight months, eight There was a certain point

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Speaker 1: where they realized this is really about control, Like this

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Speaker 1: is not about anything else but control. Like control here

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Speaker 1: what it is. We know that the control is clearly there,

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Speaker 1: when to lock you down, when to silence you. That's

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Speaker 1: what they're going to do. I'll have more on this

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Speaker 1: story coming up. Back to the other story I wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk to you about. Elon Musk set down for

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Speaker 1: a very interesting interview with Tucker Carlson about shutting jobs

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Speaker 1: when you tweet. I want you to hear part of

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Speaker 1: that conversation it's an important one. And see how just

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Speaker 1: how different Twitter is now and what all he actually found.

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Speaker 3: In his own words, Elon must bought Twitter because he

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Speaker 3: used Twitter. It's as simple as that. And he was

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Speaker 3: That's how strongly he believed in free speech. He paid

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Speaker 3: Twitter famously got a lot of other businesses and a

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Speaker 4: I mean it raised to be seen as to whether

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Speaker 4: No, my timing was terrible for when the offer was

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Speaker 4: But somethings are priceless, and so the whether I lose

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Speaker 4: money or not, that is a secondary issue compared to

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Speaker 5: Yes, and the speech needs to.

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Speaker 4: Be as transparent and truthful as possible. So we've got

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Speaker 4: We've got this community notes feature, which is great. It

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Speaker 4: We put a lot of effort to ensuring that community

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Speaker 4: notes does not get gamed or have biases. It simply

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Speaker 4: sometimes truth can be a little bit elusive, but you

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Speaker 4: And I think the effect of community notes is more

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Speaker 4: they are likely. It's basically it's an encouragement to be

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Speaker 3: When you jumped into this, though, when you bought it,

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Speaker 3: That we used the New York Times of their of

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Speaker 4: I said, it's the Twitter Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. Okay,

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Speaker 4: it's not literally diarrhea, but no, it's a you know,

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Speaker 4: So then I was like, you know what I I'll

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Speaker 5: Yeah, being being fair at all. Why doesn't Facebook do this?

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Speaker 1: That is part of that interview, and I want you

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Speaker 7: what he's saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes

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Speaker 7: it except them his and his good friend Rudi Jielli.

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Speaker 3: You mean the laptop is now another Russia Russia Russia hoax.

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Speaker 6: Hey you that's exactly what this is. Exactly what this

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Speaker 6: is where he's going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were lying to you. Everybody now knows they

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Speaker 1: were lying to you. Those intelligence officials knew they were

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Speaker 1: lying to you. Okay, everybody involved was lying to you.

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Speaker 1: These top Russian officials were covering it up because they

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Speaker 1: wanted to cook the books. Okay, they wanted to cook

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Speaker 1: the books. They wanted to make sure that they got

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Speaker 1: their guy in the White House that they could control.

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Speaker 1: And that's what they've done. They can now control them.

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Speaker 1: They can control them, and it's pretty much perfect. Now

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Speaker 1: Biden touting that group we now know is a lie.

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Speaker 1: We've known it for some time, but now it's been

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Speaker 1: con firmed on a new letter.

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Speaker 2: A new level. I should say.

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Speaker 1: We have congressmen now coming out talking about what this means.

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Speaker 1: I also have to go back and just remind you

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Speaker 1: of something else that happened, and this is this is

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Speaker 1: just another example of the pure arrogance of this administration.

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Speaker 2: This administration has known that the media would.

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Speaker 1: Cover them no matter what they did right, no matter

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Speaker 1: what they did, they were going to do this.

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Speaker 2: They were going to cover and now and now, and

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Speaker 2: now you have.

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Speaker 1: People like CBS News that are being forced to report

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Speaker 1: what really happened with this cover up. CBS Evening News

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Speaker 1: Nora o'donald's had this on last night.

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Speaker 8: My client wants to come forward to Congress. He's ready

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Speaker 8: to be questioned about what he knows and what he

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Speaker 8: experienced under the proper legal protections.

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Speaker 6: Attorney Mark Ladle's client is supervisory special agent at the IRS,

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Speaker 6: who's prepared to tell Congress the investigation he's been working

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Speaker 6: on has been hampered by what he thinks is special treatment.

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Speaker 8: Typical steps that a law enforcement investigator would take were

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Speaker 8: compromised because of political considerations.

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Speaker 6: Lytel wouldn't talk in specifics, declining to identify either his

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Speaker 6: client or the target of the investigation his client helped conduct.

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Speaker 5: Can you identify him? I can't at this stage, Jim.

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Speaker 6: But CBS News has learned the investigation the whistleblower worked

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Speaker 6: on is about Hunter Biden.

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Speaker 5: What we're doing is is being completely cooperative. That was Biden.

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Speaker 6: Two years ago, after the DOJ opened an investigation into

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Speaker 6: his finances. The FBI collected what it believed was sufficient

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Speaker 6: evidence to charge Biden with tax crimes, and last year

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Speaker 6: sent its findings to the US attorney in Delaware. Since then, silence,

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Speaker 6: Why can't your client talk to us directly?

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Speaker 8: At this point, there are laws that provide protection to whistleblowers,

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Speaker 8: and he has to navigate that.

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Speaker 6: Today, Leytel sent this letter to Congress claiming his client

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Speaker 6: could provide information that would contradict sworn testimony by a

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Speaker 6: senior political appointee.

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Speaker 8: I promise to ensure that he's able to carry out

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Speaker 8: his investigation.

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Speaker 6: CBS News has learned that was Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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Speaker 1: That was Attorney General Merit Garland. Oh okay, well that's

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Speaker 1: kind of important information, right, I mean, that's kind of important. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's just how we roll, That's just what we do.

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Speaker 1: That's how all this is gonna happen. The media will

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Speaker 1: cover for us, because the media always covers for us.

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Speaker 1: There's also something else they said in this report from

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Speaker 1: NBC News last night that this IRS agent who's seeking

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Speaker 1: whistleblower status in the Hunter Biden case. Here's what NBC

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Speaker 1: News had to say.

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Speaker 9: Listen carefully, two senior law enforcement officials describing to NBC.

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Speaker 6: News growing frustration.

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Speaker 9: Inside the FBI because federal investigators finished the bulk of

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Speaker 9: their work about a year ago, and suspect political interference

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Speaker 9: is delaying the process.

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Speaker 1: So now a growing frustration is happening inside the FBI

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Speaker 1: because federal investigators finished the bulk or their work about

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Speaker 1: a year ago, and the Hunter Byden investigation m suspect

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Speaker 1: quote political interference is delaying the process.

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Speaker 9: Oho.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's go back to ABC News. What are

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Speaker 1: they saying over at ABC News. Now, that's the first

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Speaker 1: time they've all recovered this in the same night.

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Speaker 10: The attorney four one hundred bodies says the agent is

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Speaker 10: committing a crime by discussing an ongoing tax investigation and

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Speaker 10: a tempt to harm the president's son. But the whistleblowers

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Speaker 10: attorney just told me such claims.

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Speaker 1: Are baseless, baseless. I tell you they're baseless, right, baseless.

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Speaker 1: These are baseless claims, baseless. I think we all know

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Speaker 1: that to lie. Now we all know there's nothing even

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Speaker 1: close to that. We know it's real, we know what's

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Speaker 1: going on with it. We understand what's happening with it.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: This is the media for the first time I've ever

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Speaker 2: seen them cover it this way.

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Speaker 1: That's something that people really need to understand. I also

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Speaker 1: want you to hear from Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan had

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Speaker 1: this to say on Fox about what's happening with the

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Speaker 1: Attorney General Garland.

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Speaker 2: Here's what he said on Fox. Listen.

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Speaker 9: This has been political from the get go, clear back

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Speaker 9: to the moral situation. When the story came out on

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Speaker 9: October fourteenth, twenty twenty, about the Biden business operation and

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Speaker 9: was then Vice President Joe Biden involved, there was some

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Speaker 9: concern that he was. And then quickly it turns in

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Speaker 9: this political operation that that letter that became the basis

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Speaker 9: for suppressing the story and keeping it from the American

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Speaker 9: people just days before the most important election we have

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Speaker 9: election for president of United States. So understand what happened, Laura.

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Speaker 9: The fourteenth post as a story.

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Speaker 5: The seventeenth.

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Speaker 9: Tony Blaken, senior advisor to the Biden campaign, current Secretary

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Speaker 9: of State, contacts Mike gets him interested in this. Mike

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Speaker 9: Morell looks at it the next day, organizes on the

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Speaker 9: eighteenth all these other people to sign the letter. The nineteenth,

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Speaker 9: the letter goes out, and then on the twenty second,

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Speaker 9: And the reason Mike Morrell said he did the letter

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Speaker 9: was he thought President Trump would bring the issue up

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Speaker 9: during that debate on the twenty second of October, and

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Speaker 9: of course he did. And they wanted some statement that

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Speaker 9: Joe Biden could use because, as mister Morrell said, they

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Speaker 9: wanted him to win. Now what happens on the twenty second,

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Speaker 9: Joe Biden brings it up, and then after that debate,

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Speaker 9: here's the kicker. Steve Roschetti, chair of the Biden campaign,

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Speaker 9: calls up Mike Morell and thanks him for doing it all.

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Speaker 9: It was a total political operation. And the most important

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Speaker 9: fact is, Laura, it was false. It wasn't Russian. This information,

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Speaker 9: the laptop story looks to be true.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't false information. The laptop story is true. Share

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