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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to Bleep with Anon Navarro. I am

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Speaker 1: Ana Navarro. Thank you so much for being here. It's

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Speaker 1: been more than a week now, a little over a

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Speaker 1: week since the White House correspondence did an association attempted shooting,

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Speaker 1: and I want us to reflect on that. I want

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Speaker 1: us to take stock and I want us to think

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Speaker 1: about the events that have happened and what it says

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Speaker 1: about where the country is. Instead of this being a

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Speaker 1: moment of unity for the country, it has divided us

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Speaker 1: even more. A large part of the country thinks it

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Speaker 1: was staged. That is just the truth. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it was staged. I know all of my friends and

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Speaker 1: loved ones who were inside that room were genuinely terrified

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Speaker 1: for their lives and do not think it was staged.

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Speaker 1: But the truth is that a chunk of people, a

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Speaker 1: large chunk of people in America and around the world,

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Speaker 1: think that this is a staged event. And I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about people who don't usually delve in conspiracy theories. I

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Speaker 1: am talking about people who are smart and well read

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Speaker 1: and educated who have come up to me in the

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Speaker 1: last week and said, there is no way that was true.

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Speaker 1: That was Trump being Trump. Oh that was staged, and

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Speaker 1: so let's think about why people are thinking that. Look,

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Speaker 1: I think part of it is just the coincidence of

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Speaker 1: what happened right after six years as president and skipping

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Speaker 1: the dinner for five of those years, a dinner that

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Speaker 1: most other presidents have shown up to, Donald.

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Speaker 2: Trump shows up, and this happens. Also.

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Speaker 1: The truth is, people do not believe Trump. The American people,

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Speaker 1: a large chunk of us, have gotten used to the

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Speaker 1: idea that the president of the United States, this particular

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Speaker 1: president of the United States, lies, and he lies instantly,

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Speaker 1: so we are less likely to believe anything he says.

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Speaker 2: I think there's also a level.

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Speaker 1: Of skepticism and gun violence fatigue in this country. Think

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Speaker 1: about the shock you felt the first time you heard

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Speaker 1: about a school shooting, Think about the shock you felt

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Speaker 1: the first time you heard about an assassination attempt against

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, And think about how you feel now about

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Speaker 1: school shootings or mass shootings anywhere, or a shooting attempt

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Speaker 1: at an event like this one. I just think that, shamefully,

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Speaker 1: there is a level of normalcy that we have come

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Speaker 2: But I also think.

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Speaker 1: One of the reasons people believe this was staged. That

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Speaker 1: this shooting was staged is because of the way Trump

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Speaker 1: and Trump supporters have reacted and what they have done

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Speaker 1: in the aftermath of this attempted shooting. You would think

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Speaker 1: that after not one, not two, but now three assassination attempts,

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Speaker 1: Trump would be reflective, he would be grateful for his life,

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Speaker 1: country to unite, lead by example on tamping down the rhetoric. Instead,

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Speaker 1: just like it happened after the Charlie Kirk assassination, Trump

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Speaker 1: and his ilk are using and exploiting this god awful

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Speaker 1: event that we should all be condemning. They are using

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Speaker 1: this event to push their agenda, to get what they

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Speaker 1: want through, to attack their enemies, to silence their enemies,

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Speaker 2: That is why people.

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Speaker 1: Don't believe this, because instead of self reflection and unity,

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Speaker 1: we are seeing an administration that is self serving, vindictive.

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Speaker 1: So let's go through some of these issues that I

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Speaker 1: am talking about. When I refer to the Trump and

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Speaker 1: Trump administration reaction, it was within an hour or two

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Speaker 1: of the shooting when there were people that were still

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Speaker 1: trying to evacuate the Washington Hilton when there was still

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Speaker 1: chaos and we all still knew little and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, Trump and all of the blue check marks

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Speaker 1: associated as Trump supporters start in mass tweeting out that

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Speaker 1: this is the reason why we need Trump's ballroom.

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Speaker 2: So what has been his pet project? This ballroom?

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Speaker 1: That?

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Speaker 2: Remember, a judge, a federal judge put.

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Speaker 1: An injunction on an injunction on continuing the building, and

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Speaker 1: there's all of this fighting.

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Speaker 2: Going on in court.

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Speaker 1: Trump immediately jumps to use the events at the White

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Speaker 1: That is why people raise an eyebrow and say, hmm,

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Speaker 2: And the days since.

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Speaker 1: Then, Republicans in Congress, people like Lindsey Graham, have been

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Speaker 1: pushing for a bill so that we the taxpayer, pays

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Speaker 1: he said it again last week in court filings, that

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Speaker 1: this was a ballroom that was not going to cost

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Speaker 1: by Donald Trump. Well, if that's the case, then why

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Speaker 1: to pay four hundred million dollars for the building of that.

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Speaker 1: Do you all remember the Mexico Wall. Do you all

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Speaker 1: remember when we were told that Mexico would pay for

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Speaker 1: the wall. Well, Mexico did not pay for the wall.

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Speaker 1: There have been a little bit over four hundred and

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Speaker 2: There have been.

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Speaker 1: Over fifteen billion with a B dollars that have been

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Speaker 1: limited edition passports with Trump's mug stamped on them. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: this guy wants his face all over the place. You

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Speaker 1: his face put it over the place. Well he's not

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Speaker 1: Brad Pitt. But I just think it is so so

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Speaker 1: weird these things that Trump does, right, I mean, think

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Speaker 2: The United States. What else do you need?

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Speaker 1: But yeah, he needs to stamp his name everywhere. He's

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Speaker 1: like one of these dogs that needs to pee on

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Speaker 1: I think it comes from his dad. And so it's

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not just the passports. It's the gold coins,

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Speaker 1: the commemorative gold coins. It's the banners on federal agency buildings.

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Speaker 1: It's Trump RX, It's the Trump Class of Battleships. It's

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Speaker 1: the now Trump Kennedy Center. It's the National Park passes

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Speaker 1: and the Trump gold visas, and the stimulus checks that

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Speaker 1: bore his signature, and the so called Institute of Peace

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Speaker 1: for a man who has never met a country he

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Speaker 1: doesn't want to bomb. But you know where you never

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Speaker 1: see the Trump name. And I want you to think

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Speaker 1: about this. We all know very rich people, names of

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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a hospital ward? Have you ever

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Speaker 1: seen a charitable cause? And I'm not talking about his charity,

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Speaker 1: which he got penalized for because it turns out they

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Speaker 1: that his children attended. The only places he wants to

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Speaker 1: put that name is in places that are not charitable,

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Speaker 1: that are for his own ego and stroking of his

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Speaker 1: that is number one, the Trump reaction. And when it

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Speaker 1: comes to the Trump reaction, we are talking about number one,

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Speaker 1: the wanting to push for the ballroom, use the shooting

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Speaker 2: And then what else did he do?

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Speaker 1: Well, he did what he always tries to do after

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Speaker 2: So he went after Jimmy Kimmel yet again. Jimmy Kimmel had.

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Speaker 1: an expectant widow. Jimmy Kimmel has said that it was

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Speaker 1: year age difference between Trump and Millenia. But of course,

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Speaker 1: immediately after the shooting, they took that joke out of

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Speaker 1: he's been obsessed with for months. And Jimmy Kimmel is

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Speaker 1: far from the only comedian he has gone after. He

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Speaker 1: journalists as well. He's gone after Colbert. Of course, his

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Speaker 1: show is coming to an end. CBS put his end

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Speaker 1: So what does this do. This sends a chilling message

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Speaker 1: to people who want to speak up, that you will

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Speaker 2: Get you fired.

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's also something that at a time

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Speaker 2: Journalists have also.

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Speaker 1: Been incredibly attacked by Trump and his administration. And it's

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Speaker 1: And the day after this shooting, the day after this shooting.

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Speaker 2: He was filming.

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Speaker 1: He filmed an interview with Naura O'Donnell from CBS of

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Speaker 1: the attempted shooter had written in his so called manifesto,

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Speaker 1: calling her a disgrace. So a twenty four hours, less

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Speaker 1: And it's just something that it's hard to understand how

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Speaker 1: I think it's part of what leads to people having

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Speaker 1: So what did he do. He tried to get his

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Speaker 1: his opponents, attack comedians, and attack the media. And then,

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Speaker 1: of course, let's not forget one of the other things

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Speaker 1: he did. They ran Todd Blanche, the acting Attorney General,

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Speaker 1: who of course is dying to get the job and

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Speaker 1: is figuring out how best to suck up to Trump

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Speaker 2: Todd Blanche and his DOJ ran to a grand jury.

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Speaker 1: And got an indictment again against Jim Comy, against former

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Speaker 1: FBI director James Comy. Let me tell you this, I

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Speaker 1: have no love lost for Jim Comy. Frankly, I don't

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Speaker 2: This is a guy.

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Speaker 1: Republicans don't like him because he investigated Trump. Democrats don't

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Speaker 1: Because I think he's a show vote, and I think

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Speaker 1: show up for us, that the British did not show

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Speaker 1: up for us, even though they have died for us

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Speaker 1: and fought alongside of us, I think this was an

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Speaker 1: important visit and I think King Charles did a good job.

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Speaker 2: Thumbs up for King Charles, that's all for today.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in, and see you next week on

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Speaker 1: another episode of Bleep with Anna Navarro.

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Speaker 2: Please go ahead and leave me.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts, your replies, your comments. I am reading them

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Speaker 1: and I am taking them in and taking the suggestions

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Speaker 1: as maybe things we should incorporate.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for being with us today.

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Speaker 1: Bleep with Anna Navarro is a High Finite Media group

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