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Speaker 1: This is the schmid storm. You've got questions, I've got answers.

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Speaker 1: Let's get started. First question is from Anna and it's

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Speaker 1: about JB. Pritzker and what he should do if Trump

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Speaker 1: follows through on his orders to deploy militarized ICE and

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Speaker 1: National Guard to Chicago, occupying the city as he's done

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Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. First, thanks for the question. The

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Speaker 1: National Guard is going to Chicago and ICE is going

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Speaker 1: to Chicago. The orders have been issued and it's all underway.

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Speaker 1: What we are witnessing is an obscenity. What we are

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Speaker 1: witnessing is a grotesque abuse of power, the militarization of

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Speaker 1: America's cities on the basis of lies by a political

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Speaker 1: faction that seeks to terrorize the country with the use

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Speaker 1: of force aimed not at lessening crime, but at chilling descent.

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Speaker 1: That's what this is about. Out and you know that

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Speaker 1: is true because America's deadliest cities, the most violent cities,

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Speaker 1: they're not in the Blue states. They're in the Red States.

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Speaker 1: And the one place you won't see any American soldiers

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Speaker 1: carrying weapons ready to fire had American civilians is in

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Speaker 1: a red state. Any person who tells you that using

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Speaker 1: the army as a police force is appropriate in Washington

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Speaker 1: or Chicago is a nitwit of the highest conceivable variety.

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Speaker 1: The entire history of the United States, the leaders of

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Speaker 1: this country have understood the military should not be used

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Speaker 1: to police the population. In fact, we fought a revolution

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Speaker 1: over that very issue in part. Next question is from Amanda,

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Speaker 1: and it's about the RFK hearings in the US Senate.

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Speaker 1: And her question is, what did I see yesterday? What

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Speaker 1: happened was what is the outcome? It's a great question

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Speaker 1: because what happened isn't what occurred in the hearing, it's

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Speaker 1: how the hearing was covered by the propagandas in the Evening,

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Speaker 1: there's an old saying that's helpful in politics and in football, baseball,

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Speaker 1: a lot of different sports, and it's this b where

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Speaker 1: the ball is going to be. And if you apply

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Speaker 1: that to the Democratic senators, that means having an appreciation

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Speaker 1: not for how Robert Kennedy is going to respond to you,

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Speaker 1: but how his response to you will be covered by

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Speaker 1: the propagandas on Fox News, on Newsmax, on News Nation,

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Speaker 1: all of the places where the insanity is soft soaked.

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Speaker 1: And so here's the deal. Anybody who tells you yesterday

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Speaker 1: was a defeat for Robert Kennedy, they don't get it.

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Speaker 1: Anybody who tells you yesterday it was a good day

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Speaker 1: for the Senate Democrats, they don't get it either. Robert

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Speaker 1: Kennedy was not weakened yes esterday. Robert Kennedy was not

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Speaker 1: cut off in any way from other elements of the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration. There was no wedge put between MAGA and Maha.

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Speaker 1: The only thing that happened yesterday was that the zealots

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Speaker 1: of Maha got an injection of grievance into their tank.

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Speaker 1: And it's that grievance that fuels MAGA and now fuels Maha.

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Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy was made to seem a victim yesterday, at

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Speaker 1: least if you watched it on Newsmax, at least if

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Speaker 1: you watched it on Fox. And in the end, there

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Speaker 1: was really only one measurement for success for Democrats, and

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Speaker 1: it was persuasive being able to talk to America's parents

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Speaker 1: in a calmway, in a persuasive way, and make the

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Speaker 1: point that Robert Kennedy, his policies and Trump's they have

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Speaker 1: every potential to kill your child. The statistics suggests that

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Speaker 1: it probably won't be your child killed by his insanity,

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Speaker 1: but it will be somebody's child, and those children will

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Speaker 1: have died for no reason other than Robert Kennedy became

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Speaker 1: the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is an

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Speaker 1: angel of death. He is a messenger of insanity. He

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Speaker 1: is adult, he is sick, likely psychotic, deeply amoral, and

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Speaker 1: he has no business whatsoever in any position of responsibility.

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Speaker 1: But that he does confirms the decay in our society

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Speaker 1: and the sickness in our land. This question is from Jim.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of the change that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: wants to impose from the Defense Department to the Department

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Speaker 1: of War. Well, thanks, Jim, thought. Donald Trump ran as

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Speaker 1: a peace president. Any time of fascist runs say like

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Speaker 1: Mussolini or Hitler promising peace, you can be sure war

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Speaker 1: is coming, because fascism always leads to war. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: will invent one, and then he will ask America's young

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Speaker 1: men to die in one, not for their country, not

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Speaker 1: for liberty, but for Maga. Bet your bottom dollar on it.

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Speaker 1: In Venezuela, we all saw the images of this boat

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Speaker 1: destroyed by what Pete Hagseth claims was an American strike

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Speaker 1: Venezueland minister says the image was artificial intelligence. Who knows.

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Speaker 1: None of these people have credibility above zero, Not Mark Rubio,

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Speaker 1: not Pete Hegseth, not Donald Trump, none of them, not

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Speaker 1: the Venezuelan minister. The ship was not interducted. The ship

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Speaker 1: was destroyed illegally with no congressional authorization. Pete Hegseth and

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Speaker 1: Marco Rubio and Donald Trump lacked the power to kill indiscriminately.

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Speaker 1: It's not lawful. The interdiction of that ship and the

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Speaker 1: arrest of those people is what should have happened. Instead,

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Speaker 1: all we know is that a small boat was sunk

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Speaker 1: off of Venezuela. And Pete Hegseth, the same guy who

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Speaker 1: said the Trump attack on Iran was the greatest military

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Speaker 1: strike in human history. Not d Day claims again, this

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Speaker 1: was another great military strike, maga. And if you believe that,

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Speaker 1: I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn, Trump's

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Speaker 1: lies are growing more extreme and more dangerous. And if

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Speaker 1: you haven't noticed, the lies have crossed the line now

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Speaker 1: involved the killing of human beings, and the killing of

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Speaker 1: those human beings without evidence, without documented fact, without any credibility,

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Speaker 1: is celebrated by the Bible, quoting Marco Rubia, who I

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Speaker 1: like to always point out would have been one of

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Speaker 1: Fidel Castro's top aides if he was walking around in

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Speaker 1: Cuba in nineteen fifty nine. The last question of the day,

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Speaker 1: the schmid Storm, is from Mary, and Mary asks what

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Speaker 1: is going to happen regarding the elections in twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 1: Will we be able to vote? It's an incredible question

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Speaker 1: to hear from an American citizen in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: as if the elections where Americans choose their leaders come

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Speaker 1: at the whim of our politicians. Well, we live in

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Speaker 1: a system, increasingly because of jerrymandering, where the politicians pick

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Speaker 1: their voters, but they don't get to decide in this

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Speaker 1: country if there's elections or not. Donald Trump doesn't get

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Speaker 1: to decree I'm president for life. And I hate to

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Speaker 1: break it to his son Zu Daeth and Kuse, but Eric,

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Speaker 1: who said he may run for president and thinks he

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Speaker 1: could do it, is never going to be president of

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Speaker 1: this country. In fact, this will all be repudiated. Trump

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Speaker 1: will die in absolute disgrace, and Marco Rubio and Pete

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Speaker 1: hag Seth and Carolyn Levitt, all of These people will

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Speaker 1: live for another twenty five thirty thirty five years after

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Speaker 1: Trump's death, for decades after Americans from all walks of

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Speaker 1: life go to wherever they bury him and piss on

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Speaker 1: his grave. This moment will not endure, and any person

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Speaker 1: who has faith in America should appreciate we've been here before,

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Speaker 1: and they should also appreciate that free people will not

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Speaker 1: tolerate the dictats of a tyrant. Abraham Lincoln said something

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Speaker 1: that we should all remember. In America. With public sentiment,

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Speaker 1: anything as possible, and without it nothing is. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: was elected with forty nine and a half percent of

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Speaker 1: the vote. His approval numbers are in the thirties and

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Speaker 1: they are going lower. The American economy is seizing, and

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Speaker 1: Donald has taken the Soviet approach. The real numbers about

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Speaker 1: the jobs will be out next year. Maybe that will

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Speaker 1: be the day hand Veils's five year plan. The economy

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Speaker 1: is seizing. The American people see the unemployment rates ticking up.

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Speaker 1: Young people know they can't get a job. Ordinary people

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Speaker 1: know the prices arising. American soldiers know the Pentagon is

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Speaker 1: in chaos, and if you're in the National Guard, you

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Speaker 1: know that there's no better gardening class in all the world.

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Speaker 1: Look at these guys mulching in Washington. Terrific, very brave, lethal,

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Speaker 1: lethal multures. America is in trouble because the American people

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Speaker 1: elected demand who tried to overthrow the government, because they

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Speaker 1: decided the most prolific liar in American history was the

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Speaker 1: more honest candidate on the economy and immigration and on

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Speaker 1: President Biden's fitness, and that marks one of the great

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Speaker 1: tragedies in American history. And the costs of that decision

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Speaker 1: will be very, very high, and the payment for it, well,

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Speaker 1: it's not even really yet begun, but we will all

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Speaker 1: pay for it. And when we get done paying for it,

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Speaker 1: we'll remember it for a very long time. And one

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Speaker 1: of the things that will come out of all of

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Speaker 1: this is a warning and a lesson that will be

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Speaker 1: handed down for a couple generations until it's forgotten and

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Speaker 1: the next Trump comes along. But there will be a

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Speaker 1: record left behind about how to survive them and how

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Speaker 1: to defeat them, and that will be a good that

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Speaker 1: comes from this that we can hand down to all

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Speaker 1: of our descendants. For now, this is the schmid Storm,

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Speaker 1: this is the warning. Thank you have a good weekend.

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

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Speaker 1: to join this community, where I promise to be honest,

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Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country.

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