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Speaker 1: Very show is on the air. Where was his father?

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Speaker 2: It starts in the house, It starts in the home,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, well, well my father got locked up?

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Speaker 1: Well where was his father? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends,

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Speaker 3: and they did you know fifteen to twenty five?

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Speaker 1: One did?

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Speaker 4: Twenty eight is and that I was the only one

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Speaker 4: even though my parents were together, but I still had

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Speaker 4: a father who was a gentleman.

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Speaker 5: Too much violent crime being committed by young punks who

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Speaker 5: think that they can get together in games and crews

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Speaker 5: They don't care where they are. They can be in

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Speaker 5: DuPont circle. But they know that we can't touch them.

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Speaker 5: Why because the laws are weak. I can't touch you.

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Speaker 5: If you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old and you

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Speaker 5: have a gun. I convict someone of shooting another person

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Speaker 5: intent to kill.

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Speaker 1: I convict him, and you know what, the.

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Speaker 5: Judge gives him probation, says you should go to college.

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Speaker 5: We need to go after the DC Council and their

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Speaker 5: absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept

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Speaker 5: of no cash fail. We need to recognize that the

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Speaker 5: people who matter are the law abiding citizens.

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Speaker 1: I did a poster of.

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Speaker 5: The young man from Doge who was beaten bloody, with

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Speaker 5: can't arrest them, I can't prosecute them. They go to

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Speaker 2: March first, twenty twelve, we lost a great American, very smart,

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Speaker 2: very influential American named Andrew Breitbart. I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: was closer to Andrew than anyone else, but we spent

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Speaker 2: before he passed, and he got up on a table.

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Speaker 2: We had something called Radio Row. They still do this.

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Speaker 2: I just don't go to him anywhere. I don't like

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Speaker 1: That is not a politically correct.

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Speaker 2: Term as to how you do an interview like this

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Speaker 2: but wouldn't It's probably not it's probably not prudent anyway.

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Speaker 2: But you're all sitting there and the politicians will come

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Speaker 1: You gets you all right there.

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Speaker 2: It's a good way to get a good hit across

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Speaker 2: I had finished that day. We're all kind of wrapping up,

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Speaker 2: breaking big news very soon as you'll be breaking big news.

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Speaker 2: And he would die shortly thereafter. I was at the

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Speaker 1: And he was so young.

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Speaker 2: He was born in sixty nine, So what does that

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Speaker 2: Andrew had a great, great line. It's been attributed to

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Speaker 2: But my grandmother would before she cooked chicken, she'd go

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Speaker 2: President Trump understands that you've got to win the culture

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Speaker 2: We're not leaving culture to these left wing nuts anymore,

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Speaker 2: I think he's actually an Englishman, but he's famous for

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Speaker 2: That's a nod to the cultural or to the high culture,

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you all very much.

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Speaker 6: This is great.

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Speaker 1: These are our friends. We have thousand different.

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Speaker 6: Said I won't fight for you, for your family and

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Speaker 2: Than on the screen has displayed a picture of Bill

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Speaker 2: New little Iceberg Iceberg ice Prector like you do it.

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Speaker 2: When I was eight years old, I had a birthday

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Speaker 2: I screamed and hollered and cried and carried on.

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Speaker 2: The President's influence on the Kennedy Arts Center is being seen.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't really be honored.

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Speaker 2: They've they've taken to honoring people on the basis of

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Speaker 2: Gloria Gaynor is among that group. She will be inducted

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Speaker 1: She was born Gloria Fowls or Foles. I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: But it's a great honor. It's fantastic. President Trump made

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Speaker 2: You start thinking. I call it the stained glass window

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Speaker 2: He's pointing out that these institutions have to change. That's

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Speaker 1: Let's honor him. If you want to honor people, I'll.

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Speaker 1: You got that clip.

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Speaker 2: Here's he recorded her undercover because nobody would have ever

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Speaker 4: on the calendar I printed in your brain. Want send

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Speaker 4: me the information back, saying Congressman, I made sure that

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Speaker 4: the old duncan tell Evan that you gave me for

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Speaker 4: so and so. Date at seven is on.

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Speaker 1: The podcast she Wants Through. She wants through a book

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Speaker 1: at a blind staffer that she had.

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Speaker 2: She was named the worst Congressman out of four hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty four and thirty five.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, don't be naming things after her. They're naming

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Speaker 1: things at robey leagain and good night