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Speaker 1: On this episode of news World, I'm joined by members

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Speaker 1: We hold these regular video conference calls so that we

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Speaker 1: So I hope you'll find this episode of Newts World informative.

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Speaker 1: And if you'd like to become a member of my

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Speaker 1: membership today, obviously one week out from the election, that's

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Speaker 1: going to be our biggest single topic tonight. I do

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Speaker 1: want to take just a minute to mention Paul Pelosi,

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Speaker 1: who Kliss and I were with in Rome a little

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Speaker 1: our prayers. I hope they'll be in your prayers. That

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Speaker 1: kind of attack shouldn't happen to anybody. There were nine

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Speaker 1: attacks in San Francisco that day, and the person who

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Speaker 1: what's wrong with the system, and furthermore, a guy who

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Speaker 1: apparently was deranged. But nonetheless, I think all of us

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Speaker 1: should have Paul and our prayers. I also, before I

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Speaker 1: get into it, what's actually happening, I want to encourage

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Speaker 1: you to vote, and to make sure that all your

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Speaker 1: better off we're going to be. All of the underlying

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Speaker 1: But if you start in the northeast. In New Hampshire,

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Speaker 1: where Maggie Hassan I've always thought as the Democratic Senator

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Speaker 1: the Inner Circle, mister speaker. It good to be with you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your observations. Now, what role

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Speaker 1: And how can we make the change starting with someone

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Speaker 1: But what you could do is have a more reasonable

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