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Speaker 1: the greatest conspiracies in American history. It's Friday, February ninth.

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Speaker 1: This is the warning, and there are two hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy days left until America decides who the next president

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Speaker 1: of the United States will be. This election is very

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Speaker 1: simple to understand. The person who the race is focused

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Speaker 1: on is the person losing the election. This was not

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Speaker 1: a good week for President Biden because on Thursday, a

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Speaker 1: special Council report released said the President was an elderly

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Speaker 1: man with a poor memory, and it asserted directly that

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Speaker 1: he's not capable of doing the job of president of

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Speaker 1: the United States. The age issue is now squarely at

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Speaker 1: the center of the presidential campaign. It is an issue

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Speaker 1: of deep worry for the American people. The Democratic Party's

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Speaker 1: leaders talk about this quietly behind the scenes all the time.

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Speaker 1: The news conference in the Oval Office showed a defiant, angry, wounded,

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Speaker 1: hurt president, but it did not show somebody getting on

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Speaker 1: top of the issue. This is the most important issue

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Speaker 1: for the Biden campaign to deal with, and they must

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Speaker 1: deal with it calmly, rationally, and purposely. They cannot hide

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Speaker 1: the president from the American people. They cannot script him.

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Speaker 1: He either has the capacity for the job, which I

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Speaker 1: believe he does, or what we are witnessing is one

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Speaker 1: of the greatest conspiracies in American history, involving the military,

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Speaker 1: the Secret Service, the White House staff, and thousands of

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Speaker 1: people who have taken an oath not to Joe Biden,

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Speaker 1: but to the constitution of the United States. This issue

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Speaker 1: cannot be ignored. It can't be brushed off. This issue

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Speaker 1: wasn't created by Fox News. Donald Trump has assaulted Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden relentlessly for three years, and so have his propaganda outlets.

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Speaker 1: The central line of attack against President Biden by the

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Speaker 1: extremist MAGA movement is that he's crooked and that he's senile.

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Speaker 1: Accusing Joe Biden of crookedness is one of the great

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Speaker 1: acts of political projection ever. Donald Trump is the most

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Speaker 1: corrupt individual who was ever elected president of the United States.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Donald Trump is more corrupt than the accumulation

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Speaker 1: of every corrupt official America has ever had. The theft,

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Speaker 1: the taking, the breaking of the law, the rules, the

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Speaker 1: fraud is beyond description. But on the question of capacity

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Speaker 1: for the job. The only person who can refute this,

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Speaker 1: who can disprove it, is President Biden, and he has

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Speaker 1: to do it every day. He has to be out

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Speaker 1: front every day. He is eighty two years old and

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Speaker 1: he looks every day of his age. This is obvious.

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Speaker 1: It's in front of the American people's eyes. There is

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Speaker 1: no way to hide it. But that doesn't mean that

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Speaker 1: President Biden can't do the job. It doesn't mean that

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Speaker 1: President Biden can't run the rape. It doesn't mean that

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Speaker 1: President Biden can't win the race. What it means is

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Speaker 1: President Biden, through action, through word, through deed, has to

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Speaker 1: campaign hard every day and he has to take the

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Speaker 1: fight to Donald Trump. He has to make the race

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Speaker 1: about Donald Trump. A campaign where the focus is the

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Speaker 1: president's age will end in catastrophe for the United States

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Speaker 1: of America because it will be a campaign where Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump wins. There is no issue in front of the

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Speaker 1: Democratic Party, in front of the Biden White House, in

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Speaker 1: front of the Biden campaign that is more important than this.

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Speaker 1: Their campaign has been hit by a torpedo, and the

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Speaker 1: torpedo has exploded in the middle of the proverbial ship,

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Speaker 1: and it has done great damage that torpedo isn't enough

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Speaker 1: to sink the ship. The Biden campaign has to get

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Speaker 1: real about what its challenges are. Its singular challenge is

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Speaker 1: taking the fight to Trump, and in doing so, it

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Speaker 1: will show that the president has the vigor for four

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Speaker 1: more years. But the Biden campaign and the decision to

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Speaker 1: Corps and a scrum of howling questioners rudely interrupting him

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Speaker 1: prosecuting him was a profound mistake. It made the President

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Speaker 1: look terrible, weak, small, and angry. He can afford to

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Speaker 1: be none of those things in appearance. Ever, The president

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Speaker 1: must show grace, He must show class, he must show strength,

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Speaker 1: attacks with humor, not anger. This week was another good

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Speaker 1: one for Donald Trump. It was an insane week in

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Speaker 1: American politics, and each week, as we get closer from

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