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Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks. It is Friday, December nineteenth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. It is the Kennedy Center. No more. Next

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Speaker 1: time you're in DC, take a swing by the Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the

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Speaker 1: Performing Arts Center. With that, welcome to this episode of

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Speaker 1: Amy and TJ. Just tell me how you felt seeing

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Speaker 1: construction workers putting Donald J. Trump's name in front of

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Speaker 1: JFK's on this memorial center.

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Speaker 2: I have to tell you, I felt sick to my stomach,

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Speaker 2: and then I saw the finished product and it just

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Speaker 2: made me feel really uneasy. It feels wrong, it feels disgusting,

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Speaker 2: it feels indulgent. I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: And it also might be illegal. We'll explain that in

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Speaker 1: a second. But folks, this has been a story and

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Speaker 1: a lot of you been following, and President Trump hasn't

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Speaker 1: been shy about trying to no, not wink wink, like

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Speaker 1: he's joking that he wants his name on it. But

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Speaker 1: yes yesterday the board that he put in place of

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Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center, the board of which he is the chairman,

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Speaker 1: voted unanimously. This was yesterday. I actually was trying to

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Speaker 1: check myself this just happened. They voted yesterday to change

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Speaker 1: the name of the center.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and now one day later, on Friday, his name

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Speaker 2: is up on the Kennedy Center.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not great that you can't.

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Speaker 2: I just called it the wrong name. My apologies.

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Speaker 1: No, you got it right. There's no way they could

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Speaker 1: have done this. This was planned way ahead.

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Speaker 2: Clearly, he had the letters, the metal letters already ready

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Speaker 2: to go. You would have had to have ordered that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know how long it takes to get

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Speaker 2: anything custom I know, he's the president of the United States.

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Speaker 2: But he was planning for this. He knew exactly how

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Speaker 2: the board was going to vote, because he put the

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Speaker 2: board in place.

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Speaker 1: And look, folks, yes, So that vote was just just

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Speaker 1: yesterday and today they showed up some construction workers did

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Speaker 1: and began work on it and robes. It took only

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Speaker 1: a matter of hours. But as they were doing this,

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Speaker 1: they had some coverings up, some blue some tarps or something.

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Speaker 1: They kind of covered a lot of the work from

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Speaker 1: what I was seeing as they were doing it. But

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Speaker 1: it took a matter of hours. And his name is

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Speaker 1: in front of JFK's on top of it. It's it's

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Speaker 1: in front of John F.

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Speaker 2: Kennedy's name, and there's a lot of reaction to that,

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Speaker 2: specifically from the Kennedy family. But I know a lot

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Speaker 2: of people feel a certain way, but we are hearing

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Speaker 2: from the Kennedy's about what has taken place.

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Speaker 1: That's that's actually the when we saw that again, Maria

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Speaker 1: Shriver jfk her uncle, the reason we ended up saying, wait,

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Speaker 1: you know what, let's hop on because we saw her

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Speaker 1: statement and yeah, it was I es I struggled to

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Speaker 1: find people who support it, who will publicly come out

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Speaker 1: and say, yeah, this was the right thing to do.

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Speaker 1: I struggled to fine. I would love for somebody to

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Speaker 1: explain that to me, but I struggle to I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to find lotche and I can't. And I don't want

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Speaker 1: to just bash and everybody who's bashing this guy for

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff he's done. This is over

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Speaker 1: the top, it's gross, this is over the and it's

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much more we we stomach. We're

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Speaker 1: scared of them, all of us in the country. Nobody will,

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Speaker 1: the media is can' He's gonna sue, He's gonna win.

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Speaker 1: It's too much of a headache and nobody will speak

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Speaker 1: the Republicans won't speak up and challenge him in a

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Speaker 1: significant way. Who can now lead us through this thing

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Speaker 1: to where this imagine? I want to call it the

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Speaker 1: Obama Lincoln Memorial imagine because I didn't realize I said

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Speaker 1: this to you. Yes, I've been to the Kennedy Center.

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Speaker 1: I know the Kennedy Center. We all know the Kennedy

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Speaker 1: Center for the Performing Arts. The Kennedy Center is actually

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Speaker 1: the equivalent of.

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Speaker 2: The Lincoln Memorial.

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Speaker 1: It is by law designated as the only memorial within

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Speaker 1: Washington d C Allowed for John F. Kennedy. It is

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Speaker 1: specifically a memorial to this one man.

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Speaker 2: It's like the Jefferson Memorial. It is akin to that.

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Speaker 2: Think about that they're on the title basin. It's the

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Speaker 2: same exact designation. So can you imagine if suddenly it's

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Speaker 2: the Trump Jefferson Memorial. I mean, where does this end?

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Speaker 2: Or are we just going to do it to democrats

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Speaker 2: or people who he believes he should be in front of.

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Speaker 1: And you give you credit here. You brought this home

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Speaker 1: as you often do, in a way that I was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: that's it. What just took place was you're almost desecrating

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Speaker 1: someone's memorial, their burial place. You compared it to a tombstone.

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Speaker 2: I said, it was like writing your name on someone

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Speaker 2: else's tombstone. That's what it feels like to me. It

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Speaker 2: feels so wrong. And look as if Trump's name isn't

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Speaker 2: everywhere already, we really now have to put it in

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Speaker 2: in front of on top of a memorial designated four

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Speaker 2: and two another president.

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Speaker 1: And again certainly there's folklore around this guy. Yeah. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to debate and don't know it well enough

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Speaker 1: to debate John F. Kennedy's legacy in terms of policies,

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Speaker 1: but I understand and understand the legacy of what he

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Speaker 1: inspired in this country. We all have our in agreement

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Speaker 1: about the greatness of Kennedy, not family, don't let's just

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Speaker 1: talk about jfk right, right, there's a general understanding of

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Speaker 1: his legacy general. Yes, Yes, he was a flawed man

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Speaker 1: like everybody else.

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Speaker 2: Ask not yes, what your country can do for you,

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Speaker 2: Ask what you can do for your country? Yes, think

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Speaker 2: about the orator that he was, and we actually had

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Speaker 2: to look it up just two years in office, and

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Speaker 2: the impact he left. And I know when people obviously

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Speaker 2: are assassinated, they are glorified in many ways and perhaps

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Speaker 2: remembered more than those who are not. But in is

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Speaker 2: two years in office, his was a presidency of service,

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Speaker 2: of helping each other, uniting one another. He had some

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Speaker 2: first he was the first Catholic. You know, he suffered losses,

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Speaker 2: you know it, he he actually he was just such

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Speaker 2: a huge part of our country during those times. And

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Speaker 2: to think that now Donald Trump is putting his name

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Speaker 2: on top of his it feels sacrilegious. I mean, is

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Speaker 2: that going too far? I don't know, but that's how

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Speaker 2: it feels. That's the best way to describe it.

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Speaker 1: There's so much that's taking place, and people shake their

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Speaker 1: done in terms of behavior, but also in terms of policy.

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Speaker 1: You can take all kinds of issues. Where is the

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Speaker 1: line that anybody will draw that he's gone too far?

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Speaker 1: And we all collectively need to look at it and say, no,

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Speaker 1: that's enough. Aware is that in line? I just don't

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Speaker 1: know how big I don't care how big of a

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Speaker 1: vote for him for a third and fourth term. Would

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Speaker 1: you still look at this and say this is proper

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Speaker 1: and this is okay, and this is who we are

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Speaker 1: and this is what should take place. I don't I'm struggling.

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Speaker 1: You cannot justify this.

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Speaker 2: These are the actions of what I feel like. I

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Speaker 2: studied about other countries, dictators dictatorships where they put their

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Speaker 2: faces everywhere, put their names everywhere. It's so eerily similar

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Speaker 2: to that. It's frightening to me.

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Speaker 1: And it's tough. You don't want to make those types

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Speaker 1: of comparisons. But the only ones we have are from

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Speaker 1: other places, from things we've studied in history over time,

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Speaker 1: something like this military being sent into the streets to

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Speaker 1: beat down protesters in cities where your opposition is in power.

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Speaker 1: That's not something we see here, But I've heard about that.

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Speaker 1: I've heard about tanks rolling through streets for parades and

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Speaker 1: display nevn haven't heard about it here. I've heard about

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Speaker 1: some other places putting your name everywhere, putting your image

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Speaker 1: and your likeness all over. Don't know about it here,

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Speaker 1: but I've heard about that stuff before. Rose this when

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Speaker 1: do we finally say no?

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Speaker 2: It's scary? And then I've heard about other countries not

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Speaker 2: allowing certain members of the press who weren't favorably talking

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Speaker 2: our country. That doesn't happen here. No, that would never

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Speaker 2: happen at the Pentagon. That would never happen in the

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Speaker 2: Oval Office, where another leader, another dictator from another country,

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Speaker 2: would prohibit the free press from covering them. That's happening

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Speaker 2: here in this country.

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Speaker 1: We're not talking politics at all here. This is basic decency.

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Speaker 3: This is the basic respect you could give to somebody

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Speaker 3: who meant something to so many and who died in

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Speaker 3: front of all of us.

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Speaker 1: This is a weird one. But Maria Shriver, and again

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Speaker 1: she was the one. We saw her statement, and I

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Speaker 1: guess Robes, we certainly need to read this in full

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Speaker 1: because I just I was very impressed with it, and

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Speaker 1: to the point that I said, hey, we should hop

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Speaker 1: on this is a very important story today.

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Speaker 2: She was amazing. So this was Maria Schrever's statement. The

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Speaker 2: Kennedy Center was named after my uncle, President John F. Kennedy.

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Speaker 2: It was named in his honor. He was a man

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Speaker 2: who was interested in the arts, interested in culture, interested

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Speaker 2: in education, language history. He brought the arts into the

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Speaker 2: White House, and he and my aunt Jackie amplified the arts,

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Speaker 2: celebrated the arts, stood up for the arts and artists.

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Speaker 2: It is beyond comprehension that this sitting has sought to

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Speaker 2: rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is

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Speaker 2: beyond wild that he would think adding his name in

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Speaker 2: front of President Kennedy's name is acceptable. It is not

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Speaker 2: next thing. Perhaps he will want to rename JFK. Airport,

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Speaker 2: rename the Lincoln Memorial, the Trump Lincoln Memorial, the Trump

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Speaker 2: Jefferson Memorial, the Trump Smithsonian. The list goes on. Can

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Speaker 2: we not see what is happening here? Come on, my

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Speaker 2: fellow Americans, wake up. This is not dignified, This is

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Speaker 2: not funny. This is way beneath the stature of the job.

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Speaker 2: It's downright weird. It's obsessive in a weird way. Just

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Speaker 2: when you think someone can't stoop any lower down, they go.

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Speaker 1: Obsessive, she said, weird and obsessive in a weird way.

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Speaker 1: If you had anybody in your circle that behaved in

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Speaker 1: You would you would not like them, and you would

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Speaker 1: find it odd that these things are happening. Those plaques

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Speaker 1: that went up at the White House insulting, These are

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Speaker 1: plaques that were ordered, and these things are not normal.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, this is not ever politics. You all

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Speaker 1: to anybody playing folks who voted for him might be listening.

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Speaker 1: And I just wonder, how on this one, let's just

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Speaker 1: stick with this one, how you would go, yes, this

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Speaker 1: should happen, and I believe it should fill that out

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Speaker 1: for me. I haven't seen it anywhere.

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Speaker 2: I haven't heard anyone give any genuine explanation or defense

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Speaker 2: as to why this would be appropriate, why this would

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Speaker 2: be actually good for this country. It serves no one

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Speaker 2: but Trump himself, it serves no one else.

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Speaker 1: And as stunning as it was, I was sitting here

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Speaker 1: with you, and I kept screaming across the table, like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, it's getting worse. Oh my god, it's

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Speaker 1: getting worse. Because you look into the history of the

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Speaker 1: Kennedy Center and you go, oh, damn, this is what's

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Speaker 1: happening to this place. Nineteen fifty five. You have to

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Speaker 1: go to Eisenhower at the time established a commission because

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Speaker 1: they wanted a national cultural stage, if you will, in

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Speaker 1: the Capitol signed a bill in fifty eight establishing the

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Speaker 1: Natural Cultural Center. JFK gets in the office in the

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two, he leads this big thirty million dollar

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Speaker 1: fundraising campaign with Yes Jackie, who was a co chair

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Speaker 1: at the time of that, in raising money. Now he

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Speaker 1: died nineteen sixty three. A couple of months after that,

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Speaker 2: No? Donald J. Trump has now stolen it. He absolutely has.

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Speaker 1: because this is the thing now. It's going everywhere. Wow,

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Speaker 2: I mean he has though as a businessman, okay, you

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Speaker 2: We see his name on buildings every day here in Manhattan. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Where does it end? What I do wonder what Maria

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Speaker 1: You know. I don't know what needs to happen. I

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Speaker 2: And when you say we, you mean both side Americans.

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Speaker 1: Well, folks, this legal experts are telling us this is no.

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Speaker 1: The name hasn't changed, even though there's a new name

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Speaker 2: Well, I wonder how much this is similar to the

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Speaker 1: They knew that. They knew this assignment like two weeks.

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Speaker 1: Oh, folks, I don't even know why I'm laughing. This

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Speaker 1: It's a memorial to a president, and today another president

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Speaker 1: wherever you may be tonight, I hope you are doing well.

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Speaker 1: Hope your Christmas shopping is going well as well well

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Speaker 1: shopping it should be done by now.

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Speaker 2: It should be, but it isn't always all right.

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Speaker 1: Folks, wherever you may be, we always appreciate you spend

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Speaker 1: some time with us. For my dear Amy Robot, I'm TJ. Holmes,

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Speaker 1: talk to you also,