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Speaker 1: unhinged things Democrats have been doing. You know, just over

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Speaker 1: more unhinged. I want to move to another fake controversy

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Speaker 1: for a moment, and that is the president units it's

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Speaker 1: destroying the White House. I want to play for you

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Speaker 1: a CNN report from twenty ten. In twenty ten, they

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Speaker 1: to listen to how it was celebrated on CNN. No

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Speaker 2: Sounds like they're building another wing to the White House.

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Speaker 2: But we appreciate you keeping you.

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Speaker 3: You could imagine to you today it's going to happen

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Speaker 1: Three hundred and seventy six million dollars. Now you and

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Speaker 1: Notice how jolly they were excited about it.

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Speaker 4: They were happy that this was going on.

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Speaker 1: No one was complaining about the White House renovations when

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Speaker 1: it is great news. We also know that yes back

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Speaker 1: Obama wrecked the White House, right and he put in

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Speaker 1: That's totally no big deal. Everything, it's totally okay. Teddy Roosevelt,

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Speaker 1: he's doing it with his own money and donor money,

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Speaker 1: which brings us back to the ballroom blues. Sean Hannity

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Speaker 5: Since nineteen oh two, there have been at least fourteen

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Speaker 5: through them, shall we. Teddy Roosevelt built the West Wing

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Speaker 5: It was nineteen twenty seven Calvin Coolidge. He conducted a

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Speaker 5: Nineteen twenty nine Hoover completely remodeled the West Wing, and

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Speaker 1: So if it's not costing your tax dollars, then what

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Speaker 1: You've got to find the controversy somehow in all of this. Well,

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Speaker 6: Well, any executive authority, and more likely, this is part

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Speaker 1: Information about the Insiders sports betting and money laundering case

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Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about what these indictments actually are. The

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Speaker 8: To be clear, we're announcing today indictments in two major cases,

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Speaker 8: Violating the law is a losing proposition, and you can

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Speaker 1: There's also more to this the mafia backed and rigged

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Speaker 4: Here's more about this again from the FBI.

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Speaker 8: But my message to the defendants who've been rounded up

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Speaker 8: basketball gambling case. The defendants in this case are Eric Earn,

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Speaker 8: Now, I would like to turn to the other case,

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Speaker 8: The defendants used a variety of very sophisticated cheating technologies,

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Speaker 8: Defendants who participated in the rig poker scheme are charged

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Speaker 1: It is truly incredible when you find out just how

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