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Speaker 2: All right, News round Up and Information Overload Hour. Here's

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Speaker 2: is the second anniversary of October seventh, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: And you know, one of the things I often talk

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Speaker 2: about on this program is we live in the greatest

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Speaker 2: best country God gave man, and we often take for

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Speaker 2: granted the liberties and freedoms that so many fault bled

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Speaker 2: and died for. And it's it's natural. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: don't wake up every day, ah, I live in freedom.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: You wake up every you know, you get the kids dressed,

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Speaker 2: You know, you you drive them to school, or you

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Speaker 2: get them to the bus stop, whatever it happens to be,

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Speaker 2: and then you go off. You put in your twelve, thirteen,

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Speaker 2: fourteen hours whatever you work every day and you come home,

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Speaker 2: you know, put a meal together quick, and then you

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Speaker 2: done and you get up and you know, grind out

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Speaker 2: I live in freedom. However, when you have those quiet moments,

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Speaker 2: those reflective moments, those introspective moments which we all need

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Speaker 2: in life, you realize, Wow, we are blessed. We're blessed

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Speaker 2: beyond measure, blessed beyond what we deserve. And his freedom,

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Speaker 2: whose story is unbelievable, joins us. He wrote a brand

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Speaker 2: new book. We'll put it on Hannity Dot Comments, on

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Speaker 2: Amazon dot comments, and bookstores around the country. It's called

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Speaker 2: in the Name of Freedom, a political dissidence fight for

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Speaker 2: human rights in the NBA and around the world. Here

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Speaker 2: on the anniversary of October seventh, to talk about those atrocities.

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Speaker 2: But it tells the story of ns Kanter. And by

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Speaker 2: the way, he was honored at the Patriot Awards a

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Speaker 2: and I realized just how amazing he is and what

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Speaker 2: a life he's had. But you know, he came here

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Speaker 2: from Turkey and now he is an American citizen, Nobel

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Speaker 2: Peace Prize nominee, a fierce advocate for human rights, and

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Speaker 2: he paid a price for speaking out and refused to

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Speaker 2: this authoritarian dictatorship. He made his opinion known to Erduwan

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Speaker 2: not a good guy in his regime, and they declared

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Speaker 2: him an enemy of the state. His father, still in Turkey,

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Speaker 2: was arrested, declared a terrorist, and his passport was revoked

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Speaker 2: as he you know, was made stateless anyway. And it's

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Speaker 2: great to have you back, sir. How are you?

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Speaker 4: Thank you for having me sewn. I appreciate it. I'm good.

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Speaker 4: How are you well?

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Speaker 3: It's a sad day. I mean, it's a reminder, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're on the brink of maybe a deal

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Speaker 2: ever had in my lifetime, for sure. But why don't

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Speaker 2: we go through your story. Let's talk about your life

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Speaker 2: and how you had a dream, how you made it

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Speaker 2: to the NBA and how you stood up against your country.

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Speaker 4: It was actually like we all started with a promise.

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Speaker 4: I remember I was nine years old. I went balanstairs

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Speaker 4: and my friends, my little friends. They were burning American flags,

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Speaker 4: that's what we see on TV. We should hate America,

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, what's the reason. Well, they said, well

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Speaker 4: I was like, Mom, my friends are telling me they

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Speaker 4: do I do? My mom said, I'm not going to

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Speaker 4: before you meet them. So that day I give a

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Speaker 4: So now I dedicated my whole life to inspire and

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Speaker 4: the world, because especially Middle East is the easiest way

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Speaker 4: to brainwash people to use religion. The problem is not

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Speaker 4: unfortunately they uses that heat to be re elected again.

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Speaker 4: And now I'm just literally dedicated my whole life to

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Speaker 2: But the first time I do see hope, and I

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Speaker 2: really give a lot of credit to President Trump. You know,

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Speaker 2: this twenty point deal that he put together was not

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Speaker 2: an easy deal. There was a lot in there for

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Speaker 2: twelve hundred prisoners and people that they know of they're

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Speaker 2: sworn enemies, and disarming of Hamas and the return of

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Speaker 2: the prisoners. Well know, probably in the next forty eight hours.

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Speaker 2: If this deal is going to come to fruition. I'm hopeful.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we've never had so much hope. But he

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Speaker 2: not necessarily Turkey and Erdawan or although he did lecture

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Speaker 2: thoughts as we as we listen to this, and I

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Speaker 2: want to play for you a pro Palestine pro haamas,

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Speaker 2: you know, as these protesters celebrate these October seventh attacks

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Speaker 5: O resistant storm, legal settling and paraded across colonial organs.

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Speaker 5: Sill be great from the river to the scene palasid

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Speaker 5: well be great. Gory to the murders, to the murders.

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Speaker 3: It was incelerating, it was nager. They were accelerating.

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Speaker 1: By this, this challenge to the monopoly of Paris, by

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Speaker 1: this shooting of the Browns of power.

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Speaker 3: And they would not be your Hey god.

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Speaker 6: Hey, I was P's Okay, that's all that.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I told myself.

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Speaker 2: From the River to the Sea means wiping Israel off

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Speaker 2: the map, you know, glory to the martyrs. You have

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Speaker 2: of global Antifada. That means the elimination of Israel, wiping

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Speaker 3: What's your reaction to that, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, throut all this or throt all this. I still

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Speaker 4: think that, you know, the piece is possible, And I

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Speaker 4: are you know, thousands of pens of thousands of innocent

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Speaker 4: hoping that, you know, peace is possible, but we just

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Speaker 4: need strong leaders. We just need strong leaders that president

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Speaker 4: topic it like black President Trump to step in and

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Speaker 4: says enough is enough, enough killings and we got to

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Speaker 4: stop it. I was listening as President Trump's one of

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Speaker 4: you on? Are you on? You were in no Russia sides,

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Speaker 4: and he gives an amazing answer. He said, you know what,

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Speaker 4: I just want people to stop dying. What an amazing answer.

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Speaker 4: So I just hope with this deal as well. I

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Speaker 4: just hope that, you know, people will stop dying because

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Speaker 4: people behind the table are the ones that given the orders,

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Speaker 4: and innocent people on the streets are the ones that

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Speaker 4: that is? Like you live in America and you're disrespecting

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Speaker 4: this countries right. It just breaks my heart, man. But

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Speaker 4: I just hope that you know, peace, we can bring

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Speaker 4: peace again. I believe. I'm hopeful that it's possible, and

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Speaker 4: I hope the present trumb will step and bring the

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to your personal story. You talked about

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Speaker 4: Oh man, you know. I mean it's been eleven years, John,

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Speaker 4: literally eleven years that I have not seen my mom,

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Speaker 4: my dad, or my sister. People keep talking about me

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Speaker 4: losing my career because I spoke about China's human rights

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Speaker 3: Do you still talk to them?

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Speaker 4: I can't because if I talk to my mom or dad,

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Speaker 4: I cannot even pick up my pick up a phone

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Speaker 4: so I have to call my brother, and my brother

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Speaker 4: You know, I can't even I can barely remember the

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Speaker 4: understand Turkey is a very important ally to America, just

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Speaker 2: I would say important, and they have been more important

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is the country like Turkey, this is

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Speaker 4: can go in and out of European countries. This is

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Speaker 4: the leader that gives you know, trouvelods of weapons to

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Speaker 4: Muslim brotherhood, Like when are we going to stay enough?

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Speaker 4: Easy enough? And we have to take concrete actions against

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Speaker 4: this regime, you know, I understand. You know, we have

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Speaker 2: First of all, you're a very special human being, and

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Speaker 2: It's called in the Name of Freedom, a Political Dissonance

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Speaker 2: It's on Hannity dot com right now, it's on Amazon

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Speaker 3: And it's freedom. Thank you, my friend.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn our number if

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Speaker 1: middle of this mess. And I'd love to get Linda's take.

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Speaker 1: And she's got friends, and she has to go to

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Speaker 2: How so she doesn't She actually doesn't have to go

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Speaker 1: I just thought she may have friends there that she

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Speaker 1: to be full of homeless, and it's inevitable.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's pretty full. Now. There's a lot of homeless. Now,

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Speaker 6: there's a lot of homeless on the subway. There's a

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Speaker 6: you know, Hulkel is already a complete and utter loser,

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Speaker 6: and you know people are getting murdered, stabbed. You just

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Speaker 6: have to have your eyeballs open. Mom, Donnie's just going

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Speaker 6: to make it worse because people are going to feel

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Speaker 6: like they have no accountability because he's you know, going

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Speaker 6: to shut down all the prisons. We're not going to

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Speaker 6: you know, prosecute anything. So that's my bigger fear.

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Speaker 1: Well, I answer your question don that way now, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm just so sorry it's that way now. It's it's

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Speaker 1: that it can only get worse once it's free. Agreed,

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Speaker 1: you get what you vote for, right, And my heart

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Speaker 1: goes out to those folks. But maybe we need this

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Speaker 1: for three or four years before the eyeballs are open.

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Speaker 2: So it's rough, there's no doubt about it. I'm just

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Speaker 2: out of time, though, I appreciate your call. I want

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Speaker 2: Curtis to win to Linda. You know what, it's an

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Speaker 2: uphill battle, but I'm telling people, you got you got

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Speaker 2: to try. We've got to what we've been doing these

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Speaker 2: last three years. All right, that's gonna wrap things up

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Speaker 2: for today. Heated hearings with Pam Bondi. Today we get

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Speaker 2: reaction FBI Director Cash Bettel Todd Blanche Number two at

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Speaker 2: the DOJ, Lindsey Graham Tonight, Senator Kennedy, Tommy larn and

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Speaker 2: Will see in a night back here tomorrow. Thank you

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