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Speaker 2: Half a billion dollars to liberal news outlets by refunding

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Speaker 2: They want to spend twenty four point six million of

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Speaker 1: That, Speaker Johnson saying it clearly, we are not doing that. Now.

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Speaker 1: Democrats must be a part of this No King's rally.

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Speaker 1: It's an organized rally to say that Donald Trump is

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Speaker 1: And they're also making these extreme demands which I just

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Speaker 1: well it's not because Democrats are refusing to lead. Instead,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. And I go back to being

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Speaker 3: Well, look, right now, Schumer is not talking with Republican leadership.

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Speaker 1: Final question on this. The President today at the White

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Speaker 4: That said on the day that he was assassinated. Charlie

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Speaker 3: I can tell you from having been married to him,

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Speaker 3: She said, I don't know that anyone else saw that,

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Speaker 3: his enemies. And President Trump was standing behind her right shoulder,

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Speaker 3: and she said it it was it was lighthearted, but

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Speaker 3: she was kind of she was in many ways responding

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Speaker 3: We should not not give in uh to to to

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Speaker 3: We should be full throat in our argument. But but

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Speaker 3: I also think that the message that Erica was carrying

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Speaker 3: Rika was right that he was able to do so

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Speaker 3: from a position of love. Love does not mean agreement.

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Speaker 3: Love does not mean saying I accept the position you're advocating,

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Speaker 3: But love means not treating your political adversary as the

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Speaker 3: your immediate interlocketur those who are observing it. Charlie was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would encourage everyone that is listening right now,

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Speaker 1: if you did not get to see as specifically Erica's remarks,

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Speaker 1: go listen to them, and go listen to Donald Trump's

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Speaker 1: But there was a lot that was said and it

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Speaker 1: was covered. I'm still in shock that we're a month

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Speaker 1: special day. I'm so thankful that the President did this.

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Speaker 1: I'm thankful that his parents were there, that they got

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Speaker 1: to see how many people he influenced, the most important

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Speaker 1: of America, and just to be able to hear from

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Speaker 1: people like you centered and to love on them and

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Speaker 1: to let them know that their son's life mattered in

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Speaker 3: Amen.

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Speaker 1: Amen, Amen, don't forget Share this podcast please with your

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