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Speaker 3: If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with

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Speaker 4: Good Thursday morning, nice to have you with us on

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Speaker 4: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got one major

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Speaker 4: story for you. Donald Trump sits down with NBC News

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Speaker 4: in a wide ranging interview, talking about exactly what he's

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Speaker 4: even throwing the media a little bit as well. Why

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Speaker 4: virtually any question. We're going to play some of it

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Speaker 4: for you, and you're here directly from President Donald Trump.

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Speaker 4: Seven Morning Update and it starts right now. Story number one,

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump sitting down with NBC News, having a very

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Speaker 4: blunt and honest conversation, focusing on all of the substance

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Speaker 4: changes that we've had during the Trump administration. He talked

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Speaker 4: Trump said there is quote not much doubt that the

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Speaker 4: This just hours after that anti trust hearing on Netflix.

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Speaker 4: In contrast to his earlier comments, Trump stated he would

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Speaker 4: This shift was framed as respecting the process and reducing

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Speaker 4: we're making great strides when it comes to immigration. Trump

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Speaker 4: saying his administration learned it might be wise to take

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Speaker 4: the present's words in certain immigration enforcement situations, while still

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Speaker 4: emphasizing toughness where needed. This was presented as a sign

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Speaker 4: very concerned. The President also talked about money and the

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Speaker 5: Let's get to the FED.

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Speaker 6: Is there any doubt in your mind that interest rates

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Speaker 5: Why how can you say that?

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Speaker 2: Again. We have debt, but.

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Speaker 2: And we do that anyway. And we did that.

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Speaker 1: You know, we got rid of hundreds of thousands of

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Speaker 6: Does your new FEDI yes, Does your new FED pick.

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Speaker 1: We've had their back, and look, that country is a

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Speaker 2: We went in. We wiped out their nuclear. Peace in

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Speaker 2: We found out about it. So you do that, we're

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Speaker 7: We're going to do very bad things to you.

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Speaker 4: The President not backing down on any of his promises there.

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Speaker 4: The President Trump also asked the of course, obsession question

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Speaker 7: And he had a little fun with it.

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Speaker 5: On January twenty first, twenty twenty nine. Do you see

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It would be interesting, But wouldn't it be terrible if

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Speaker 1: But I only do this for one reason. Make America

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Speaker 2: Greater than ever before.

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Speaker 1: Our country is greater than ever before.

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Speaker 7: Now back to the serious issues at hand.

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Speaker 4: One of the things the President talked about was getting

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Speaker 6: There's been bipartisan suggestions that the criminal investigation to the

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Speaker 6: Some Republican centers say, they're not going to prove him

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Speaker 4: The president was also asked one other fun question at

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Speaker 4: And here's what the President had to say about all

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Speaker 6: You think at one point people will talk about you

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Speaker 5: Is that something you think.

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Speaker 1: they talking about? I hope they're right, not for me,

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Speaker 1: that means the country is doing well.

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Speaker 7: That sums up President Donald Trump perfectly. In a second.

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Speaker 4: If I do a great job, that means the country

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